'You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion of his own talents and character. Fix in his mind the idea that humility consists in trying to believe those to be. The great thing is to make him value an opinion for some quality other than truth, thus introducing an element of dishonesty and make-believe into the heart of what otherwise threatens to becomea virtue. By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the impossible.To anticipate the Enemy's strategy, we must consider His aims. The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mindin which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more ( or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him to be so free from any bias in his talents that he can rejoice in his own talents and gratefully as in his neighbours talents.
His whole effort, therefore, will be to get the man's mind off the subject of his own value altogether. He would rather the man thought himself a great architect or a great poet and then forget about it., than that he should spend much time and pains trying to think himself a bad one.



The lines of religion and science tend to cross regularly but the human brain always agree to both sides without really thinking about it.Would you rather believe blind faith or blind theory? Adam and Eve or The Big Bang? If you were to ask me i'd say that Adam and Eve had a Big Bang. There. Happy now?