**Note: To understand all quotes from The Screwtape Letters, one must know that this book describes a fictional written correspondence between an experienced tempter, to his novice nephew in the art of damning souls. The correspondence is of course fiction, the techniques are anything but. They are included in Brian Candy as a sneak peak of sorts into Satan's playbook, because knowing the enemy's battle plan can prepare us for his attacks. ***This explanation will proceed each quote from The Screwtape Letters as we have new members joining us :)
The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart--an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, infidelity in marriage, and inconstancy in friendship. The humans live in time, and experience reality successively. To experience much of it, therefore, they must experience many different things; in other words, they must experience change. And since they need change [God] has made change pleasurable to them, just as He has made eating pleasurable. But since He does not wish them to make change, any more than eating, and end in itself, He has balanced the love of change in them by a love of permanence. He has contrived to gratify both tastes together in the very worlds He has made, by the union of change and permanence which we call Rhythm He gives them the seasons, each season different yet every year the same, so that spring is always felt as a novelty yet always as the recurrence of an immemorial theme...Now just as we pick out and exaggerate the pleasure of eating to produce gluttony, so we pick out this natural pleasantness of change and twist it into a demand for absolute novelty.
C.S.Lewis
The Screwtape Letters pp100-101
