THE PROBLEM 



or Is allowed to override the others and 

 dominate them, the resulting Imbalance 

 may work disaster. And so It Is that in 

 order to diagnose such organic dishar- 

 monies we need to know these guardian 

 spirits, or daemons, and something of their 

 ways of working. 



The sisters are very unlike and they 

 may combine among themselves to form 

 little cliques or coteries or larger conspi- 

 racies which in the parlance of the day 

 we call complexes. These complexes in 

 ordinary normal life serve very useful pur- 

 poses as organized and automatized units 

 of experience and behavior, but sometimes 

 they get out of hand and may mismanage 

 and distort the whole subsequent course 

 of life. These malevolent demoniacal 

 possessions do not come in from the out- 

 side and capture the living body; they 

 are fabricated within the personal experi- 

 ence and to exorcise them it Is In many 

 cases necessary only to turn on the light 

 and expose their origins and mechanisms. 



Clotho presides at the birth of every 

 human child. Whence come the fibers 

 which she spins Into the thread of life? 

 What determines whether that thread be 

 promptly snipped or spun out to a ripe 



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