Chapter Twelve: The Telescope

[1] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: 1 Corinthians 13:12, KJV.

[2] Do you ever notice Venus . . . almost better than Jupiter: C. S. Lewis, Letter to Laurence Harwood, December 31, 1946, in Collected Letters, Vol. 2, 751.

[3] When you come to knowing God . . . cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one: C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 164.

[4] While in other sciences . . . like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope: Ibid., 164–165.

[5] The one really adequate instrument . . . everyone has forgotten all about him, but the real science is still going on: Ibid., 165.

[6] If in some twilit hour . . . a harmless wraith and means nothing but good: C. S. Lewis, Letter to the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College, October 25, 1963, in Collected Letters, Vol. 3, 1471.

[7] The perfect never say anything of themselves. . . . They only say what the Spirit suffers them to say: Archimandrite Sophrony, The Monk of Mount Athos, trans. Rosemary Edmonds (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1973), 40.

[8] winter passed / And guilt forgiven: C. S. Lewis, “The Planets,” in Poems, 14.