Origen

“ But if the soul of birds is to be esteemed divine because future events are predicted by them, why should we not rather maintain, that when omens [1] are accepted by men, the souls of those are divine through which the omens are heard? ”

“ Observe, now, as the birds are possessed of a divine soul, and are capable of perceiving God, or, as Celsus says, the gods, it is clear that when we men also sneeze, we do so in consequence of a kind of divinity that is within us, and which imparts a prophetic power to our soul. ”