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 1 42|                            XLII. SLEEP, THE MIRROR OF DEATH, AS
 2 42|         the same principle, even sleep, which is the very mirror
 3 43|                           XLIII. SLEEP A NATURAL FUNCTION AS SHOWN
 4 43|          discuss the question of sleep, and afterwards in what
 5 43|       soul encounters death. Now sleep is certainly not a supernatural
 6 43|        nature. The Stoics affirm sleep to be "a temporary suspension
 7 43|     cannot possibly believe that sleep is a weariness; it is rather
 8 43|         a person is refreshed by sleep instead of being fatigued.
 9 43|         being fatigued. Besides, sleep is not always the result
10 43|     longer. Nor can I allow that sleep is a cooling or decaying
11 43|        bodies derive warmth from sleep in such a way that the regular
12 43|          of the food by means of sleep could not so easily go on
13 43|         or cold to retard it, if sleep had the alleged refrigerating
14 43|        belief in the theory that sleep is an intermission of the
15 43|        end to its operation; but sleep is an end of operation.
16 43|          on the body alone, that sleep graciously bestows a cessation
17 43|          who shall doubt whether sleep is a natural function, has
18 43|         Now reason presides over sleep; for sleep is so fit for
19 43|         presides over sleep; for sleep is so fit for man, so useful,
20 43|        very colour. Since, then, sleep is indispensable to our
21 43| determined as its corollary that sleep is perfectly natural. Moreover,
22 43|           when they declare that sleep is not natural in the lethargic
23 43|      lies the chief incentive to sleep. It is certain that, from
24 43|         with these instincts (of sleep). If you receive your instruction
25 43|      Order that men may see that sleep is a natural feature and
26 43|       then the image of death in sleep. For as Adam was a figure
27 43|         figure of Christ, Adam's sleep shadowed out the death of
28 43|      death of Christ, who was to sleep a mortal slumber, that from
29 43|          the living. This is why sleep is so salutary, so rational,
30 43|    confine to the still hours of sleep the nature of its immortality.
31 43|         the reasonable nature of sleep. If you only regard it as
32 43|     watchfulness, even while you sleep.~
33 44|      deprived of his soul in his sleep, as if it wandered away
34 44|          belief so readily holds sleep to be the separation of
35 44|        of actual idleness during sleep, and a positive separation
36 45|          dreams, as incidents of sleep, and as no slight or trifling
37 45|       Thus in the very beginning sleep was inaugurated by ecstasy: "
38 45|         Adam, and he slept." The sleep came on his body to cause
39 45|         nature of the case) that sleep is combined with ecstasy.
40 46|          Jupiter. So likewise in sleep revelations are made of
41 46|       through intimations in his sleep from Ajax himself, saves
42 47|        best he may in their very sleep, if unable to assault them
43 48|          soul emerges, and heavy sleep departs. As to the seasons
44 48|    position of one's body during sleep, one ought not to lie on
45 48|         as mean to submit to the sleep which is necessary for receiving
46 49|        and bright smiles as they sleep, and from such facts understand
47 49|        night in a deep lethargic sleep, brings down on them the
48 50|      this time said enough about sleep, the mirror and image of
49 50|         about the occupations of sleep, even dreams. Let us now
50 53|         as one who awakes out of sleep passes from images to verities.
51 55|    opened. Shall we then have to sleep high up in ether, with the
52 58|          that interval? Shall we sleep? But souls do not sleep
53 58|          sleep? But souls do not sleep even when men are alive:
54 58|        the business of bodies to sleep, to which also belongs death
55 58|       its mirror and counterfeit sleep. Or will you have it, that