The Myth of Satan’s Tear

The Myth of Satan’s Tear Chapter One - Bad Dreams Part One - In which we meet the young novice Christian, who has bad dreams and a troubled past. Hail Horrors, hail Infernal World, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time. The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n. ⎯ John Milton, Paradise Lost Turning, tossing, sweating, falling asleep only to reawaken, talking in his sleep, sometimes shouting, and when light sleep finally finds him, so do the bad dreams, nightmarish images of a strange hellish landscape. This is how we meet the young novice Christian, the hero of this stor...View all