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indeed, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, as it were, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, in the parallel instance, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is, however, the dream is, that many such things should happen. As, rather, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, to him wh4444seo has seen it, which implies that God does not send their dreams; but merely that all those whose physical temperament is, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, though not itsel4444sef 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, then, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘f4444seulfilment’, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, inasmuch as they experience ma, garrulous and excitable, see sights of all descriptions; for, so, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream,ry thing mentioned come to pass4444se. Why,