Lewis meant that finding pleasure with your senses, such as seeing sunlight through tree limbs and foliage of the canopy in a shaded forest with your eyes, feeling the sunlight on your face and the cool breeze on your hand, and sensing the aroma of wildflowers is no different than finding pleasure with your spirit in an aesthetic manner when you meditate about God. But why should I? The line is almost impossible to draw and what use would it be if one succeeded in drawing it? You notice that I am drawing no distinction between sensuous and aesthetic pleasures. But its flash upon our senses and mood is pleasure. As it impinges on our will or our understanding, we give it different names–goodness or truth or the like. I was learning the far more secret doctrine that pleasures are shafts of the glory as it strikes our sensibility. Lewis already answered this question sufficiently when he wrote in letter number 17 in Letters to Malcolm: We’re talking about taking pleasure in nothing else but God. He means to ask, "Why don’t you get it? We aren’t talking about taking pleasure in the ordinary things of this world like sunsets, beaches, lakes, and Autumn leaves. The "question" above is often stated as a comment but everyone knows precisely what the author intends. Why don’t you folks at website get it? It’s not ordinary hedonism, it’s hedonistic pleasure "in God".
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