Basic Information:
Author: CS Lewis
Edition: Paperback, 1996 edition
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 0062023179 (ISBN13: 9780062023179)
Start Date: April 25, 2020
Read Date: May 1, 2020 (Read many times before)
228 pages
Genre: Fiction, Christianity
Language Warning: None
Rated Overall: 5 out of 5
Religion: Christianity
Religious Quality: 5 out of 5
Christianity-Teaching Quality: 5 out of 5
Fiction-Tells a good story: 4 out of 5
Fiction-Character development: 3 out of 5
Synopsis:
Fictional correspondence between an upper echelon tempter uncle and his nephew on how to bring a soul to Hell. From these lessons a human can learn how even small things can lead into Hell’s schemes.
Also there is an appendix called Screwtape Proposes a Toast.Screwtape is toasting a graduating class of tempters.
Cast of Characters:
Screwtape - upper echelon devil, uncle to Wormwood, tempter
Wormwood - nephew of Screwtape, tempter
The Patient - Starts as an non-Christian and converts to Christianity
The Girl - Christian, girlfriend to The Patient. In Screwtapes words: Not only a Christian but such a Christian--a vile sneaking, simpering, demure, monosyllabic, mouselike, watery, insignificant, virginal, bread-and-butter miss!
Toadpipe - Screwtape’s secretary
Slumtrimpet - The tempter assigned to the Girl
Glubose - The tempter assigned to the person’s mother
Dr. Slubgob - Principal of the Tempter’s Training College
Thoughts:
Definition of a screwtape: To mess things up, to corrupt, to be devilish.
Note: Lewis dedicates the book to JRR Tolkein. Tolkein was not fond of the book.
Note: When reading this book, realize it is a perspective from Hell, not Heaven. So you have to look backwards at it, words in a mirror, reversed.
The patient’s mother was probably the mother of a fallen World War I commrade who could be very overbearing. Mental Floss
Preface(1961)
Love this: In Scripture, the visitation of an angel is always alarming, it has to begin by saying “Fear no.” The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, “There, there.”
Preface (Original)
Lewis goes into there are two errors we make about devils. The first is to disbelieve in their existence. The second is an unhealthy interest in them.
I
Lewis notes how tatics change over time. At one point, when people argued by logic, Christians lost. But during Lewis’ time, people were losing the capacity for rational thought. Lewis does not address what has replaced logic. Instead, he hints that we now think in terms of labels rather than trueness.
Humans are not pure spirit, but material and spirit. This is a theme throughout the book.
II
Being a Christian is a life full of ups and downs.
Even when we do good, we can sin. We can get the conceit that we are allowing God to use us rather than viewing it as a privilege to be used. This can be from day one of our life in Christ.
III
Lewis points out it is the daily pinpricks which cause tension and falling out. He points out that there are several useful methods
Keep the inner life separate from real life. Real life has agitations, the inner life is idyllic. So there is a disconnect and ones Christianity does not look real.
Prayers being spiritual rather than on earthly things.
Each of us has things which drive someone living close to us bananas. Allow the thinking to be only the other person has these things.
Play the game of I mean what I say but you do not.
IV
Humor in Lewis, but not in Hell. Uncle Screwtape scolds his nephew, Wormwood when Wormwood wants to shift blame.
A tempter should try to keep his charge away from serious intention to pray.
V
World War II has started and Wormwood has gotten drunk on the delights of the people fighting.
Screwtape wants to know if the patient responded to the images of terror? To self-pity? All of these the tempter wants to instill in the patient. I suspect that what our Lord really wants is to be reliant on Him. We are in the middle of a pandemic when I read this. While not as bad as WWII, still the principle is the same. How do I respond? Every person for himself? Fear that I may get it? Self-pity that I cannot go out? Intolerance?
VI
Here is the key words of advice which Lewis gives for times of crisis: He[God] wants men to be concerned with what they do; our [tempters] business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
Lewis also points out that we are a mixture of benevolence and malice. This is the pull we feel. We want to love our enemies and we want to kill them.
VII
Screwtape talks about the problem with being completely rational and scientific vs the belief in the supernatural. What Screwtape hopes to have is a Materialist Magician-those who have an unknowing faith in science.
VIII
Humans are amphibians-half spirit and half animal. I do not think Lewis is right here. Sounds like we can be divided. I think of us as having been blended in as both. He does say we are more of a hybrid, which I would agree with.
Lewis talks about God’s purpose for us vs Satan’s use of us. He is full and overflowing, while the tempters want to eat to be filled.
He cannot ravish. He can only woo. That is love.
I love this: Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. Encouraging to know that this type of experience is done by others. Encouraging to continue on.
IX
Pleasure-that is a creation of God, not of the devil. Corruption of pleasure is the devil’s work
X
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. So the trick is to pretend to be good so that we will turn into things good. Or better yet, we should pretend to be children of God so that we can become more like our Father. In the book Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin notes that before going to the Badlands for two years Roosevelt was despondent and felt that he was a weakling. While there he pretended to be a cowboy and eventually became a cowboy. Coming out of there, he became the emblem of the West.
XI
Lewis talks about laughter. He notes that most types of laughter have its origins in Heaven. It is flippancy where Hell comes through and corrupts Joy and Fun.
XII
A small change in the course of a Christian life can affect a large miss in our target. Such as a spaceship just needs to be fractions of a degree off to miss the moon. Screwtape’s advice is to go slow and do not let the Christian know that he is missing the mark until it is too late.
Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
XIII
To experience pleasure draws us closer to heaven. And not the pleasure of doing wrong, but to really enjoy something for itself. Lewis talks about reading a book or taking a walk for no other purpose than doing it. The tempter is instructed to make the person look for the use of something rather than just enjoying it.
XIV
When you are aware of a virtue, pride sets in. Humility especially does not work when attention is brought to it. God wants us to urn our attention away from ourselves and to Him. So even examining ourselves if we humble leads us away from Him.
The tempters do not understand that God really loves us.
XV
Lewis pictures that concerning time, we should be concentrated on two things: eternity and the present. Not in the future or past.
XVI
The Church brings together all levels of people. By trying to find the “best church for me”, it becomes a club.
Also, do I really know what the Church teaches? Or do I mouth what I think it does?
Paul teaches us that those who are stronger should yield to those who are weaker, as in the eating of food put before idols. In what ways do we see this d\today? Where I am stronger and should be yielding? Where am I weaker?
XVII
Lewis seems to indicate that sensuality is not so much enjoyment of the sensual, but more thinking about the sensual. In this gase, the Christian’s mother makes a fuss about things. The tea not being just right, the portions much too big for her. Not even the seeking after of what is considered sensual pleasures. Lewis goes on and talks about gluttony. Not just in the case of eating too much, but needing just the right thing cooked in the right way at the right place.
XVIII
I am glad Lewis puts in his example of the whole philosophy of Hell … is one thing is not another than… To clarify he says that My good is my good, and your good is yours. This seems to be the politics of our day. And now having said that, I recognize our politics are straight out of Hell and that is where we are being led to.
In contrast, Screwtape talks about the way of Heaven. Things are to be many, yet somehow also one. The good of oneself is to be the good of another. Simply Love allows for the uplifting of all, Hate pushes down all but one.
Lewis goes on with one flesh having happened when a person marries, or merely has intercourse. He makes no differentiation on if they are happily married or not. Wonder what he would do today with divorce being prevalent and sex being giving away with just liking another person.
XIX
XX
While we are let to be tempted, there is an end to the temptation. In particular, Lewis talks about chastity. So of 1 Cor 10:13 about all temptation is common to man but we will not be tempted above what we are able to endure.
XXI
We like to think that seual tempation is the point of temptations, but Screwtape notes that it may be just a foil to get the main thrust of attitude, what Lewis calls peevishness in.
Time is a gift to us.
Lewis points out that the word mine is a joke for humans. They cannot truly own anything.\, not like God or Satan.
XXII
I have always loved how Screwtape sees the girl Christian falls in love with. This is Lewis at his descriptive best. We’d have had her to the arena in the old days...A two-faced little cheat...who looks as if she’d faint at the sight of blood, and then dies with a smile. … Looks as if butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, and yet has a satirical wit. The sort of creature who’d find ME funny!...
Lewis notes that God is a hedonist at heart. Screwtape lists off the ordinary everyday pleasures as gifts to humans. He says that everything has to be twisted for Hell to use.
XXIII
When we try to figure out the historical Jesus, we try to place Jesus inside of a particular system of thought we espouse. It changes us from looking at Who He Is and What He Did to something else.
Lewis notes that God will not be used as a convenience for us to do something which we want to do. We cannot use God to advance society or some other thing, even if there is good in it. God wants us for Himself.
XXIV
There is something wonderful about the excitement and view of a new Christian. It is similar to taking a person who has not been to Yosemite before. Seeing the Valley through their eyes gives fresh wonder to older eyes. It is the same seeing Christ anew. On the other hand, there is the exaggerations of the new which needs to be channeled to maturity. Not stamped out or even brought down, but focused on what Christ wants from us. One thing to watch for whether a old or new Christian is the “right” thing. I am not associating with the “right” people, the “right” church, or I now have the “right” doctrine. Sins of the youth and the old.
XXV
Lewis now takes up Wormwood’s problem. The group of Christians which the guy has taken up with is not “Christ and ….” but mere Christianity. Not a Christianity with a difference. This is where we can have Christian unity.
He then talks about the need for humans to change. But it is pointed out that we both have a love of change, but also a love of premance. These balance out. So if we have equilibrium we will no more want change than to over-eat.
What Lewis thinks God wants us to ask is, Is it righteous? Is it prudent? Is it possible? What the world and Satan wants us to ask is : Is it in accordance with the movement of our time? Is it progressive or reactionary? Is this the way History is going?
XXVI
There is a difference between groups-Lewis says male and female, but I suspect it is broader than that-about meanings of words. Lewis uses the word Unselfish. He says that a female will mean that they are willing to give for others while a man may mean not bothering someone. The main point for Screwtape, you can use this discrepancy to cause friction.
Another point of friction is when each party thinks they are doing what the other wants while sacrificing for themselves. Rather than having a good discussion about each wants, not what you perceive the other wants. More friction.
XXVII
Distractions drives us from God. But it can be a means of bringing us closer. Lewis seems to indicate that if we try to overcome through will-power, that is not where we want to be. But if we lay it before God and let him deal with it, then we will draw closer to Him. He makes a statement, from Screwtape’s perspective that ...even a sin, which has the total effect of moving him close up to the Enemy makes against us in the long run.
Who is Boethius? And what secret did he let out? a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born about a year after Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman Emperor and declared himself King of Italy. Boethius entered public service under Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great, who later imprisoned and executed him in 524 on charges of conspiracy to overthrow him.[4] While jailed, Boethius composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death, and other issues, which became one of the most popular and influential works of the Middle Ages. As the author of numerous handbooks and translator of Aristotle, he became the main intermediary between Classical antiquity and following centuries. From Wikipedia Also see Stanford’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
XXVIII
Prosperity knits a man to the World. So true. I feel much more stagnated than I did after college.
XXIX
Virtue can only come from God. It cannot be manufactured. On the other hand fear breeds hatred.
XXX
Justice in Hell rests on one thing: bring back food or be food yourself. In some ways this is capitalism. Be part of the machinery or get crushed.
As the war goes on, the Christian is getting tired. Screwtape think that fatigue is better at creating peevishness than exhausting.
XXXI
Christian is killed in a bombing and Wormwood is exposed for his role in creating life difficult for him. Screwtape takes glee in the demise of Wormwood.
Screwtape Proposes A Toast
Preface
Lewis says that this chapter is not about the tempter, but about education. He wonders hould education be democratic or something else. By democratic he means to the most common denominator. He says that it should be available regardless of sex, colour,l class, race or religion. But then he qualifies it as being available to those who can and will accept it.This is different than what we see. In American schools where we try to educate the middle or lowest common denominator.
Toast
Screwtape notes the lack of meaty humans to feast on. But he also notes that God must be having an awful time as well as Christians are not robust either. Points to what Lewis thinks God wants from us-full bodied and full spirited people in His image.
Lewis points out that the word Democracy is now used rather loosely. It is no longer a concrete word. To Lewis, it is a political system, a system of voting. What is democratic behavior? What does it mean that all are created equal? Is this the same as all are to be given equal opportunity?
Lewis thinks that democracy commonly means to reduce all people to the same level, rather than giving all an equal chance to rise. Lewis quotes an English politician that A democracy does not want great men. Lewis does not say who this person is and I cannot find the quote.
Evaluation:
I am a CS Lewis fan. So take that into account when looking at my rating and words. I have also read this book several times.
The Screwtape Letters is a fictional correspondence from an uncle, that is Screwtape who is the Undersecretary to his nephew, Wormwood. Wormwood has the charge of a person to bring him into Hell. Screwtape gives him advice about how to accomplish this. Apparently Wormwood is not very proficient and loses the patient both to Christianity and in a bombing.
But the main point of these series of letters is the little irritations in life which takes us away from doing good. Screwtape advises his nephew about how to create these irritations and then exploits them. It is here where Lewis is great. If he just came out and said these things, the book would be over in ten minutes, but he brings us in and then you realize that this irritation is what you are feeling. So you understand the road you are going down is not where you want to go.
My book comes with Screwtape Proposes A Toast. If any part of this book is of lesser quality, it is here. The chapter has little of the easy and gracefulness of the Letters. Lewis main point here is that the Democratization of education has led to the dumbing down of education. It no longer points students up, but it creates and outputs students all the same.
If you have not read Lewis this is a good place to start, particularly if you are young in the faith.
Notes from my book group:
What is the one thing which stood out for you in this book?
Lewis is an author of his times. Sometimes he will slip into a female will do this or male that. Does this detract from your reading of the book?
Where do you think Lewis stands out in his Letters? Where is the message not clear, wrong or trite?
In the first chapter, Lewis opens with the thought that people no longer pay attention to the trueness of an argument but more by the labels attached to an arguement or an action. How do we see this today? How has it affected our life today
Lewis talks about the law of undulation-ups and downs of our lives. He says that God, whom he calls the enemy allows this. Why do you think God allows this instead of being a straight line upwards to heaven?
When World War II started, Wormwood gets drunk on the raw emotions humans have. What do you think Lewis would put into Screwtape’s writing concerning the current pandemic? What kinds of emotions have you experienced? (V)
Lewis points out that we are creatures with benevolent natures and malice in our beings. How accurate is this description? How does this fit with what you feel towards your enemies? Lewis talks about wanting to kill the Germans and then inviting a shot-down German pilot in for tea. (VI)
In chapter VII, Lewis talks about the Materialist Magician. What is this? Are we there?
Explain what a human amphibian is? What are the implications of being a human amphibian? Why is this important? (VIII) What place is time in this? Lewis talks about we should be concerned with Eternity and the Present, not the Past and Future. Is this something which we can do? Or are we going to be concerned about what we did or what we will do? (XV)
One of the more famous lines from the book is, He cannot ravish. He can only woo. Have you experienced this? What kinds of implications does this statements have? (VIII)
Lewis says that All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. How is this good teaching on his part? What are you pretending to be like? (X)
Lewis is a fan of laughter. He divides this into Joy, Fun, Joke Proper and Flippancy. How does laughter turn from being a gift of Heaven to the weight of Hell? (XI)
Reading a book to enjoy it, walking to walk through an area for no purpose. What things do you enjoy for themselves? Do you find that sometimes you are doing things for other purposes? Maybe reading this book for this book group and not for the book? (XIII)
Lewis pictures the Church as a place where people of different classes and psychologies [come] together in a kind of unity. But when you select a church, you are making it into a social club. How do you picture the Church-not just First Pres? Do you view First Pres as a club or something which will attract people outside of our normal relations? (XVI)
The humans without scruples should always give in to the human with scruples. This is taken from Romans. Where should we be seeing this in the Church today? At First Pres? (XVI)
What do you consider sensuality? Does Lewis’ description of it with the patient’s mother match yours? Have you thought about sensuality in terms of not being satisfied with what you got-too not right, too much food, …? (XVII)
Lewis has a chapter on Love in which he contrasts how Hell is only looking for my own good while Heaven is focused on the good of oneself is to be the good of another. How is selfishness the doorway to Hell while caring for others is the entrance to Heaven? (XVIII)
Do you think Lewis would rewrite his sentences on marriage for today: The Enemy described a married couple as “one flesh”. He did not say “a happy married couple” or “a couple who married because they were in love”, … Mere copulation, for him [Paul] makes “one flesh”. (XVIII)
What does Lewis mean that The man can neither make nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift... ? What implications does that statement have for us? (XIX)
After looking at chapter XIX, will you ever be able to call anything mine? (XIX)
Bring up the girl. I have no clue what to ask about her. (XXII)
God is a hedonist. This is one of Lewis’ themes. What does Lewis list as being the pleasures which God gives us? Have you thought about them as pleasures? (XXII)
When change presents itself what questions do you ask yourself? Lewis talks about: Is it righteous? Is it prudent? Is it possible? What the world and Satan wants us to ask is : Is it in accordance with the movement of our time? Is it progressive or reactionary? Is this the way History is going? (XXV)
Is prosperity bad for a Christian? Lewis notes that Prosperity knits a man to the World. (XXVIII)
In several places Lewis has Screwtape encouraging peevishness in the Christian. What is peevishness? Why is Screwtape encouraging this trait?
Let us try a word game. When the word Democracy is said, what definition do you give? To Lewis this means a political system, a system of voting. What connotations of this word do you hear? What does it mean that all are created equal?
There was a CS Lewis class around 1986 taught by Hilary and Jeff where we spent three weeks going through the The Screwtape Letters. The questions are on my Google Drive.
Many of these questions are either from or adapted from LitLovers.
Why the title of Screwtape Letters?
Does this story work as an allegory?
Does the presentation seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?
Every story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?
In what context was religion talked about in this book?
Why do you think the author wrote this book?
What would you ask the author if you had a chance?
What “take aways” did you have from this book?
What central ideas does the author present?
Are they personal, sociological, global, political, economic, spiritual, medical, or scientific
What implications for you do these ideas have?
Are these idea’s controversial?
To whom and why?
Are there solutions which the author presents?
Do they seem workable? Practicable?
How would you implement them?
How did this book affect your view of the world?
Of how God is viewed?
What questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?
Talk about specific passages that struck you as significant—or interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?
What was memorable?
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From Reading Groups:
1. Much of the appeal The Screwtape Letters derives from Lewis's startlingly original reversal: telling a story about Christian faith not from a Christian point-of-view but from the perspective of a devil trying to secure the damnation of one's man's soul. Why is this strategy so effective? What does it allow Lewis to accomplish that would have been impossible in a more straightforward approach?
2. In the first of Screwtape's letters, he instructs Wormwood not to attempt to win the patient's soul through argument, but rather by fixing his attention on "the stream of immediate sense experiences" (p. 2). Why is immersion in the particulars of "real life" fertile ground for temptation? Why is argument a risky strategy for devils to employ? Where else do you find this opposition between the particular and the universal-between materialism and spiritual faith-in The Screwtape Letters?
3. While Screwtape allows that war is "entertaining" and provides "legitimate and pleasing refreshment for our myriads of toiling workers," (p. 18) he fears that "if we are not careful, we shall see thousands turning in this tribulation to the Enemy, while tens of thousands who do not go so far will nevertheless have their attentions diverted from themselves to causes which they believe to be higher than the self" (p. 19). Why would war have this effect? How does war alter human consciousness in a way unfavorable to temptation? How would you relate Lewis's own experience in WWI, which apparently confirmed his youthful atheism, to his position in The Screwtape Letters?
4. In describing the differences in how God and the Devil view men, Screwtape says: "We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons" (p. 30). What is it about God's relationship to man that Screwtape finds so unfathomable?
5. Why is Screwtape so pleased when the patient becomes friends with a group of people who are "rich, smart, superficially intellectual, and brightly skeptical about everything in the world"? (p. 37). What influence does Screwtape hope they will have on him? Why should their "flippancy" build up an "armor-plating" against God? In what ways does Lewis merge theology and social satire in this and other passages throughout The Screwtape Letters?
6. Screwtape assures Wormwood that although some ancient writers, such as Boethius, might reveal powerful secrets to humans, they have been rendered powerless by "the Historical Point of View," which regards such writers not as sources of truth but merely as objects of scholarly speculation. "To regard the ancient writer as a possible source of knowledge-to anticipate that what he said could possibly modify your thoughts or your behavior-this would be regarded as unutterably simple-minded" (p. 108). Why would Screwtape delight in this situation? How would he turn it to his advantage? How does this view of reading parallel post-modern approaches to literature? Where else does Screwtape encourage Wormwood to persuade humans that truth is irrelevant?
7. Lewis exhibits throughout his writings an uncanny sense of human nature and a style capable of brilliant aphorism: "Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury" (p. 81); ; "Gratitude looks toward the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead" (p. 58), to cite just two examples. Where else in The Screwtape Letters do you find universal statements about human nature? Do these statements accurately reflect not just a Christian ethos but the workings of human psychology more generally?
8. The sub-plot of The Screwtape Letters turns on Screwtape's relationship with his nephew Wormwood, the apprentice tempter and demonic understudy in charge of carrying out Screwtape's instructions. How do Screwtape and Wormwood regard each other? How does their relationship change over the course of the book? In what ways does their relationship offer an inverted reflection of God's relationship to man? What is Lewis suggesting by having the story end with Screwtape preparing to devour a member of his own family?
9. In discussing time, change, and pleasure, Screwtape asserts that "just as we pick out and exaggerate the pleasure of eating to produce gluttony, so we pick out this natural pleasantness of change and twist it into a demand for absolute novelty" (p. 98). Why is the demand for novelty necessarily destructive? What natural balance does such a demand disrupt? In what areas do you find this insistence on change, or overvaluation of the new, operating today?
10. Love is an important theme in The Screwtape Letters. Describing the human idea of love and marriage, Screwtape tells Wormwood: "They regard the intention of loyalty to a partnership for mutual help, for the preservation of chastity, and for the transmission of life as something lower than a storm of emotion" (p. 72). Screwtape is also confounded by God's love for man, which he grants as real but irrational. What is Lewis saying, in the book as a whole, about human and divine love?
11. Over the course of The Screwtape Letters, the state of the patient's soul fluctuates as he experiences a conversion, doubt, dangerous friendships, war, love, and finally, in death, oneness with God. What major strategies does Screwtape use to tempt the patient into the Devil's camp? Why do these temptations fail? In what ways can the patient be seen as an everyman?
12. In spite the patient's triumph over temptation, his glorious entrance to Heaven-"the degradation of it!-that this thing of earth and slime could stand upright and converse with spirits" (p.122)-Screwtape does not lose faith in his own cause. Why do you think Lewis chose to end the book in this ambiguous light? Why is Screwtape sustained by "the conviction that our Realism, our rejection (in the face of all temptations) of all silly nonsense and claptrap, must win in the end"? (p. 124). What warning is implied in the book's ending? In what ways does The Screwtape Letters speak to contemporary moral and spiritual issues both within and outside of the Christian Church?
Book References:
The Confessions of a Well-Meaning Woman by Stephen McKenna
Stories from the Odyssey by Homer
Good Quotes:
First Line: I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands.
Last Line: Your Imminence, your Disgraces, my Thorns, Shadies, and Gentledevils: I give you the toast – Principal Slubgob and the College!
He[God] wants men to be concerned with what they do; our [tempters] business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them. Chp VI
He cannot ravish. He can only woo. Chp VIII
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.. Chp X
Prosperity knits a man to the World. Chp XXVIII
Experience is the mother of illusion. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, I: Transcendental Doctrine of Elements, 2.2.1, Section 1, paragraph 7
References:
Publisher's Web Site for Book
Wikipedia-Book
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Amazon-Book
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GoodReads-Book
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YouTube 3+ hour reading by John Cleese
Christianity Today - March 26, 2020 article written in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
Arend Smilde’s C. S. LEWIS pages - Quotations and Allusions in C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Mental Floss - 12 things you did not know about Scewtape
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