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209 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1942
“Keep his mind on the inner life. He thinks his conversion is something inside him and his attention is therefore chiefly turned at present to the states of his own mind – or rather to that very expurgated version of them which is all you should allow him to see. Encourage this. Keep his mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones. Aggravate that most useful human characteristic, the horror and neglect of the obvious. You must bring him to a condition in which he can practice self-examination for an hour without discovering any of those facts about himself which are perfectly clear to anyone who has ever lived in the same house with him or worked in the same office.”
”How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell — though longer ago than human reckoning in light years, could express — no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces…”