Wormwood has asked if it is essential to keep his existence hidden from the patient. Screwtape replies that it is policy to conceal this fact from humans. Otherwise, they cannot be turned into materialists and skeptics who do not believe in anything they

Wormwood has informed Screwtape that his patient could be called up for military service. This is good news, especially as there is an element of uncertainty. This will fill the patient with hope and fear as he imagines what could happen to him. The suspe

Screwtape has received a deliriously joyful letter from Wormwood. The European humans have started another war. The patient has been sleepless with anxiety. Screwtape acknowledges the headiness of war, with all its potential "anguish and bewilderment of a

This letter is on the topic of prayer. Screwtape writes that it is best to keep the Patient from praying at all. But, if the Patient does pray, Wormwood should see to it that he invents his own prayers. His prayers should be more like a general mood than

Wormwood has informed Screwtape of family difficulties between the patient and his mother. Screwtape advises him to waste no time in taking advantage of the situation. The Enemy will be busy working on the patient's behavior, bringing it in line with Chri

Screwtape reprimands Wormwood for allowing the Patient to become a Christian still on and Wormwoods side. The members of the Patients church will also help them. The Patient expects an ideal spiritual Church, not oily grocers and parishioners who sing o

In the preface, C.S. Lewis writes that he will not explain how he came across the correspondence between two devilsScrewtape and his nephew, Wormwood. He reminds the reader that devils are liars, so Screwtape’s reports might not be accurate. In the first

A tortured soul in an isolated monastery pens a letter written in a cryptic language that would remain a mystery for over three-hundred years. Credit: buzzfeed.com

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