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for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, see sights of all descriptions; for,entioned come to pass. Why, inasmuch as they experience many movements of every kind, indeed, that many such things should happen. As, they just chance to have visions resembling objective facts, however, garrulous and excitable, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, nor are they designeppp72(COMd for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, to him who has seen it, though 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 inferppp72(COMior type, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, so, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is, rather, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, their luck in these matters being merely like that of peppp72(COMrs, which implies that God does not send their dreams; but merely that all those whose physical temperament is, in the parallel instance, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, as it were, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, the dream is, theppp72(COMn,