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I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it.”

This theme seems prevalent. Here's the flip-side, in the Screwtape Letters, Wormwood is advised to sidetrack his client after he leaves his books: "Your business is to fix his attention on the stream. Teach him to call it "real life" and don't let him ask what he means by "real". Remind him real life, a newsboy, a bus.

[cornelis]

Here's the theme in a philosophical context: Long before Descartes philosophers told us all that glitters is not gold. They began to understand that reality is more than meets the eye. So they talked about the eye of the mind. Cartesian skepticism, however, doubts what meets the eye.