A contemporary of his, C. S. Lewis, in his already-quoted work of satire on spirituality, had the older, wiser demon say this of the “Enemy” (Jesus): The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity…. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present…or else obeying the present voice of conscience,
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