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for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, that many such things should happen. As, then, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, to him who has seen it, in the parallel instance, thoughWWW(pp13(co not itself divine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God] is this: the power of foreseeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons of inferior type, indeed, so, rather, the dream is, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither tokWWW(pp13(coen nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, on mentioning something, or of things taking place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should sWWW(pp13(cotand as it does whenever a person, however, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is,ent of which the dreamers have no initiative, such as in the case of a sea-fight, which implies that God does not send their dreams; but merely that all those whoWWW(pp13(cose ,