Screwtape letter #7
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 cannot sense. There is always hope that, in time, their science can be manipulated to support belief in devils while remaining closed to belief in the Enemy. The ideal is to produce a "Materialist Magician" who believes in life forces in the wor...
