Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis on Becoming Real

Source: A letter to Dorothea Conybeare on *Till We Have Faces*

How can they (i.e. the gods) meet us face to face till we have faces?

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How can they (i.e. the gods) meet us face to face till we have faces? The idea was that a human being must become real before it can expect to receive any message from the superhuman; that is, it must be speaking with its own voice (not one of its borrowed voices), expressing its actual desires (not what it imagines that it desires), being for good or ill itself, not any mask, veil, or persona.

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From *The Return of the King* (1955), Book III of *The Lord of the Rings*

From *Till We Have Faces* (1956)

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