Screwtape Letters 3

The chapters are small, and the book is not thick. Here is chapter 3, after having done Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. In this third chapter, Screwtape writes to Wormhood on how his patient needs to related with his mother. The patient apparently does not have good relation with his mother. So Screwtape encourages Wormwood to work on this matter so that the relationship between mother and son remains sour. 

So Screwtape advises that Wormwood should continue keeping his patient focussed on his inner life such that the patient will talk and focus on spiritual things while keeping obvious facts of life neglected. 

Screwtape also advises that Wormwood should make his patient concentrate on soulish things while praying for his mother. So the trick should be not to let the patient pray for her health, for example, but concentrate on the state of her soul after death. 

Wormwood is also to work that his patient dislikes more and more of certain habits of his mother. 

Glubose is the imp working on the mother, while Wormwood is the one working on the son, the patient. So Screwtape advises that they work together to make the relationship sour even more between mother and son.