Letter #20
More bad news
– for Wormwood.
My dear Wormwood,
I note with great displeasure that the Enemy has, for the time being, put a forcible end to your direct attacks on the patient’s chastity. You ought to have known that He always does in the end, … I suppose you’ve tried persuading him that chastity is unhealthy?
I haven’t yet got a report from you on young women in the neighbourhood. … which he should be encouraged to fall in love with if ‘falling in love’ is the best we can manage.
20.1) It seems that all parties have now figured out that the attacks won’t continue – that The Enemy will put an end to them at some point – at least that what Screwtape tell Wormwood. But is that what really happened? Have the attacks really stopped – or is it just the impact? What’s the difference? What’s the importance of us (the patients) realizing this?
In a rough and ready way, of course, this question is decided for us by spirits far deeper down in the Lowerarchy than you and I. It is the business of these great masters to produce in every age a general misdirection of what may be called sexual ‘taste’. … It is all a fake, of course; … What follows you can easily forecast!
20.2) Since the attacks aren’t going to stop – a discussion on their background is forthcoming.
It’s all fake, of course. There’s a simple little one word question that might help to make this more obvious: “why?”
Jesus says we should be like children. Here are just 3 examples:
Mt 11:25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.”
Mt 18:2 He called a little child and had him stand among them. 3 And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
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