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some coaching advice as to how to exploit the insecurities and temptations of humans. “Everything has to be twisted before it is any use to us.” The enemy’s (God’s) methods are put to every possible corruption, tempting the human through sickness and health.
The two places, Lewis insists, could never coexist. Evil was evil, and could never be altered, and one could never keep even a small “souvenir” of hell and expect to see heaven. Only by backpedaling and returning to the path of good could one shirk evil and be rid of it. This, of course, involved full confrontation with one’s own flaws. The two eternities were mutually exclusive, a very different notion from the marriage of them as written by Blake.
The Great Divorce,
The heaven of which he wrote was beyond the capacity of facts to ever explain.
Imagination was the only way to know what was beyond the measurability of the senses, and of science.
False gods were another theme Lewis gave much consideration, in that they can take so many forms. A determinedly old-fashioned man who refused to learn to use a typewriter and wrote everything by hand, Lewis was suspicious even of progress itself.
