Perhaps there is another kind of inner crisis, not recognised as such, when a "soul" (person) needs but blocks out contact with reality. When CS Lewis as fictional character involuntarily enters the mental landscape of a former student's fiancee, he hears a soft but heavy knocking and:
"...a voice at whose sound my bones turned to water, 'Child, child, let me in before the night comes.'"
-CS Lewis, "The Shoddy Lands" IN Lewis, The Dark Tower and other stories (London, 1983), p. 110.
The speaker wants to start a dialogue. This single sentence has affected me more than any other passage in Lewis' works. Lewis personified reality and wrote this story from within his own Christian belief.
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Kaor, Paul!
I never did find the Ythrian New Faith very plausible, however. And, in strictly intellectual ways, we see more about what Ivanhoans thought about theological issues in "The Three-Cornered Wheel" and "The Season of Forgiveness." Compared to Ivanhoans the Ythrians struck me as rather shallow and superficial.
Ad astra! Sean
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