CHISM. I must say he certainly knows his business.

I was de- pressed before he took over but when he was done I was really quite at ease with myself, almost elated you might say. And look at these welts on my back, didn't he do a proper job though?" And GUILT rather proudly twisted around so that the Administrat- or could get a better view of his back.

The Administrator, walked back and forth silently for a bit, stroking his beard in deep concentration, trying to arrange his thoughts so he could put these three erring ASPECTS of LIFE back into their proper place in the order of things. Finally he stopped and faced them.

"My Children," he said, "all three of you have explained where you have been and why you were not out enjoying life in the meadow with the rest of the Aspects. And you have all given some explanation for your peculiar behaviour. Doubt less the explanation you have given makes sense to you, else you would not have done as you did, but they do not make sense to me and I doubt they would make sense to the rest of the ASPECTS. Each of you has referred to the GREAT BOOK of the ORDER of THINGS as the source of your behaviour. FEAR is afraid of his inability to live up to the expectations others have about him; SHAME has felt "different" from the rest because he has had ideas and feel- ings that he feels are not in accord with the teachings of the GREAT BOOK; GUILT has undertaken to be the prosecuting att- orney, the judge and the jury in convicting himself of imagined violations and then punishing himself accordingly. He now feels so virtuous as a result of his self inflicted punishment that he is on the verge of an even worse condition brought on by his con- tract with the EVIL SPIRIT, wherein he will continue to have ideas and desires which he feels he should not have in order that he can be punished for them so that he can feel even more virt- uous for having "taken his medicine." This is the side of the contract with the EVIL SPIRIT known as Masochism which he has not considered. Remember, all of you, that when you make a contract with one of the EVIL SPIRITS there is always some fine print--usually written in invisible ink--whereby the EVIL SPIRIT

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