Status Updates From Perelandra (Space Trilogy #2)

“The external and, as it were, dramatic conception of the self was the enemy’s true aim. He was making her mind a theater in which that phantom self should hold the stage. He had already written the play.

“They always reach out their hands for the new and unexpected good, and see that it is good long before the men understand it. Their minds run ahead of what Maleldil has told them. They do not need to wait for him to tell them what is good, but know it for themselves as he does.” - the allegorical snake