Letter 9....How the enemy uses our trough times

In this letter Screwtape instructs his nephew how to properly exploit his patient's trough time. He outlines 3 ways to exploit the patient:
1. Use the trough times to tempt him into perversions of pleasure and also to make the pleasures less pleasurable.
2. The second method is to keep the patient ignorant of the natural ups and downs of life. Convince him that the highs may not return and that the present state must be accepted.
3. Another method is to directly attack his faith by convincing him that the time period of faith was just a passing phase.

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