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Well, we've got quite a serious subject on the podcast today.

Satan and the powers of evil.

What was that famous line from C.S. Lewis about, I think it begins the screw tape letters about the extent to which we

should and shouldn't believe in. Yeah, he is treading a fine line and he said it seems that Christians

go one way or the other. Either, oh, this is a lot of old mythology, or we get rather obsessively interested.

And Lewis, of course, had friends who were into different types of magic.

Charles Williams was into sort of white magic.

And Lewis distinguished white and black magic.

And that comes out in some of his novels as well.

And there's a sense that Lewis and some of his friends were more keenly aware of powers

other than our own powers, shall we say, than many in the 60s and 70s and 80s would have

been.

I think that quote finishes with something like the devil is equally pleased by both the materialist and who denies his existence and the magician who invoes.

Yes, yes.

Something like that, that's very good.

And that sounds like Lewis, the alliteration of the two M's.

Yes, yes.

I saw a wonderful adaptation of the screw tape letters a couple of years ago in London.

Max McLean, who I know is a great fan of yours as well. A very good actor out in the States and does these one-man C.S. Lewis shows.

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