Lewis was pastorally and pedagogically hesitant about mysticism for two reasons. The first is that the more difficult task for us human beings is the humbler and more regular one: being consistent, being faithful, acting with fortitude, and acting out obedience with alacrity, or as Lewis puts it, “Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning.”10 The second reason for hesitance is Lewis’s fear that mysticism—explained at length in Miracles, as we will see—could lead to a vague “spirituality,” a misty belief in a “divine principle.” By rendering God into a life
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