irrevocably attached either to God or to itself

[soso]

On The Fall

[The doctrine of the Fall] (both of man and of some “gods,” “eldils” or “angels”) is the only satisfactory explanation.

Evil begins, in a universe //where all was good, from free will,

which was permitted /because it makes [possible] [the greatest good of all].

* it makes [the greatest good of all] [possible]. 

[The corruption of the first sinner] consists not in choosing some evil thing

(there are no evil things for him to choose)

but in preferring a lesser good (himself) /before a greater (God).

아담의 타락은 더 좋은 것 앞서서 덜 좋은 것을 선호하는 걸로 구성되었다

The Fall is, in fact, Pride.

[The possibility of this wrong preference] is inherent in the very fact of having, or being, a self at all.

But though freedom is real  it is not infinite.

Every choice reduces a little one’s freedom /to choose the next time.

There therefore comes a time //when the creature is fully built,

irrevocably attached either to God or to itself.

This irrevocableness is [what we call Heaven or Hell].

Every conscious agent is finally committed in the long run:

i.e., it rises above freedom into willed, but henceforth unalterable, union with God,

or else sinks below freedom into the black fire of self-imprisonment.

That is why the universe (as even the physicists now admit) has a real history,

a fifth act with a finale //in which the good characters “live happily ever after” and the bad ones are cast out.

At least that is [how I see it].

From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II
Compiled in Words to Live By