Introduction

With the individual it is the same: every man needs to be contained psychologically in a living stream. Call this stream, if you will, tradition; essentially it is the continuity of general psychic life in which the individual psyche is contained, and by which it is nourished. Often the stream 0-tradition seems to lose itself in still pools, as, for example, when the family, the clan or the church stagnates in ancient custom, forgetting to cherish the new forms which a living myth begets.