Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis

This episode examines C.S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces, a retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth that serves as a profound theological study of human perception. The text explains how the protagonist, Orual, suffers from a distorted self-love that blinds her to both her own selfishness and the reality of the divine. Through a breakdown of the story’s structure, the source highlights how divine silence acts as a pedagogical tool, forcing a painful but necessary transformation of the self before one can truly encounter God. Ultimately, the work is presented as a meditation on how grace and honesty allow a person to shed their false masks, suggesting that we cannot see the Divine face-to-face until we have first discovered our own authentic identity.