# “I will bring you where you can taste truth like honey and be embraced by it as by a bridegroom” by C.S. Lewis

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“‘Well, this is extremely interesting,’ said the Episcopal Ghost. ‘It’s a point 
of view. Certainly, it’s a point of view. In the meantime …’

‘There is no meantime,’ replied the other. ‘All that is over. We are not playing
now. I have been talking of the past (your past and mine) only in order that you
may turn from it forever. One wrench and the tooth will be out. You can begin as
if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow. It’s all true, you know. He is in
me, for you, with that power. And—I have come a long journey to meet you. You have
seen Hell: you are in sight of Heaven. Will you, even now, repent and believe?’

‘I’m not sure that I’ve got the exact point you are trying to make,’ said the Ghost.

‘I am not trying to make any point,’ said the Spirit. ‘I am telling you to repent
and believe.’

‘But my dear boy, I believe already. We may not be perfectly agreed, but you have
completely misjudged me if you do not realize that my religion is a very real and
a very precious thing to me.’

‘Very well,’ said the other, as if changing his plan. ‘Will you believe in me?’

‘In what sense?’

‘Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet 
are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?’

‘Well, that is a plan. I am perfectly ready to consider it. Of course I should require
some assurances … I should want a guarantee that you are taking me to a place where
I shall find a wider sphere of usefulness—and scope for the talents that God has
given me—and an atmosphere of free inquiry—in short, all that one means by civilization
and—er—the spiritual life.’

‘No,’ said the other. ‘I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness:
you are not needed there at all. No scope for your talents: only forgiveness for
having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land
not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God.’

‘Ah, but we must all interpret those beautiful words in our own way! For me there
is no such thing as a final answer. The free wind of inquiry must always continue
to blow through the mind, must it not? “Prove all things” … to travel hopefully 
is better than to arrive.’

‘If that were true, and known to be true, how could anyone travel hopefully? There
would be nothing to hope for.’

‘But you must feel yourself that there is something stifling about the idea of finality?
Stagnation, my dear boy, what is more soul-destroying than stagnation?’

‘You think that, because hitherto you have experienced truth only with the abstract
intellect. I will bring you where you can taste it like honey and be embraced by
it as by a bridegroom. Your thirst shall be quenched.’”

–C.S. Lewis, [_The Great Divorce: A Dream_ ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060652950?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
New York: HarperOne, 2001), 38–40.

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