1920
TO LEO BAKER, an actor, a teacher of acting, and a friend Lewis made in Oxford in 1919, who introduced Lewis to Owen Barfield, a fellow anthroposophist: On Lewis’s growing sense of God.
5 SEPTEMBER 1920
You will be interested to hear that in the course of my philosophy—on the existence of matter—I have had to postulate some sort of God as the least objectionable theory: but of course we know nothing. At any rate we don’t know what the real Good is, and consequently I have stopped defying heaven: it can’t know less than I, so perhaps things really are alright. This, to you, will be old news but perhaps you will see it in me as a sign of grace. Don’t mistake the position: its no cry of ‘all’s well with the world’: it’s only a sense that I have no business to object to the universe as long as I have nothing to offer myself—and in that respect we are all bankrupt.