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That the real effectiveness of incubation was not the work of a departed spirit but of Nature in the sleep state combined with the sufferer's faith, was shown by the custom which still prevails in Greece. Here sleep in a temple of Aesculapius was simply replaced by sleep in the church associated with a Christian saint.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 2 : The Universal Life Force > # 17