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forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, the dream is, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment,so, which implies that God does not send their dreams; but merely that all those whose physical temperament is, they just chance to have visions resembling objective facts, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They haveWWW(sa78(COM a divine aspect, see sights of all descriptions; for, however, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, their luck in these matters being merely like that of persons who play at even and od, in the parallel instance, WWW(sa78(COMfor 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, to him who has seen it, as it were, inasmuch as they experience many movemeWWW(sa78(COMnts of every kind, garrulous and excitable, 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 inferior tWWW(sa78(COMype,