Dear Wormwood,
Great job undermining the Enemy’s kingdom in the United States. I see you have trained your patients to equate learning about themselves with learning about the Enemy. And it was an excellent bit of deception to do so all the while they are on guard against it.
As you know, the Enemy has written in His Book that His children are changed to become more like Him as they look upon the light of His Glory. Make it your first aim to keep them from that vision. It doesn’t matter what they look at, so long as it isn’t Him. Use whatever is most agreeable to the situation at hand. Keep them concerned with what they can see. We are not so inclined as they are by their physical nature, but I can assure you by many centuries of experience that patients are never more blinded to the Enemy and to us than when their eyes are open to all the world in front of them.
I congratulate you on the stagnation you have wrought upon the Enemy’s people, but you must still be very cautious. Our cause is never so perilous as when our Enemy’s cause seems lost. He takes pleasure in weakness, a failing our father below did not have. But if your work remains so exemplary as this you need not fear.
Your very affectionate uncle,
Screwtape
