In folklore and mythology, witches are often portrayed as eccentric, mysterious figures with magical abilities. While their enchantments and spells are well-known, there is a hidden facet to the witch archetype that is seldom explored – their concealed wisdom. **The noiseless witch**, in particular, possesses a unique form of wisdom that is not readily apparent. Unlike the stereotypical cackling and spellcasting witches often depicted in popular culture, the noiseless witch operates in silence, allowing her wisdom to manifest in subtle ways. This form of wisdom, found within the depths of quiet observation and careful contemplation, is an ancient and profound source of knowledge. The noiseless witch understands that true wisdom is acquired through listening rather than speaking, observing rather than reacting.
“He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present—either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself, or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them. If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.
The noiseless witch understands that true wisdom is acquired through listening rather than speaking, observing rather than reacting. She recognizes that understanding the world around us requires a receptive mind, free from the distractions of noise. The noiseless witch embodies a serene and peaceful state of being, allowing her to connect with the natural rhythms and energies of the world.
C.S. Lewis > Quotes
“The Devil and his angels have. persuad[ed]. humans that a curious, and usually short-lived, experience which they call "being in love" is the only respectable ground for marriage; that marriage can, and ought to, render this excitement permanent; and that a marriage which does not do so is no longer binding. This idea [comes from their] parody of an idea that came from [God]. Things are to be many, yet somehow also one. The good of one self is to be the good of another. This. He calls Love, and this. can be detected under all He does and even all He is. He introduces into matter. the organism, in which the parts are [set at odds with] their natural destiny of competition and made to cooperate. In. humans [God] has. associated affection between the parties with sexual desire. He has also made the offspring dependent on the parents and given the parents an impulse to support it-thus producing the Family, which is like the organism, [but] the members are more distinct, yet also united in a more conscious and responsible way. [Heavenly Father] described a married couple as "one flesh." He did not say "a happily married couple" or "a couple who married because they were in love". ”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“Though he was theoretically a materialist, he had all his life believed quite inconsistently, and even carelessly, in the freedom of his own will. He had seldom made a moral resolution, and when he had resolved some hours ago to trust the Belbury crew no further, he had taken it for granted that he would be able to do what he resolved. He knew, to be sure, that he might “change his mind”; but till he did so, of course he would carry out his plan. It had never occurred to him that his mind could thus be changed for him, all in an instant of time, changed beyond recognition. If that sort of thing could happen. . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
“Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct.”
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“We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“The first demand any work of any art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.)”
― C.S. Lewis, The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others’ Eyes
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
“and of course, the more enchanted you get, the more you feel that you are not enchanted at all”
― C.S. Lewis
“When Logres really dominates Britain, when the goddess Reason, the divine clearness, is really enthroned in France, when the order of Heaven is really followed in China—why, then it will be spring. But meantime, our concern is with Logres.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
“They were astonished at what he had to tell them of human history—of war, slavery and prostitution. “It is because they have no Oyarsa,” said one of the pupils. “It is because every one of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,” said Augray.”
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
“Conversion requires an alteration of the will, and an alteration which, in the last resort, does not occur without the intervention of the supernatural.”
― C.S. Lewis
“the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.”
― C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms
“We have been trying, like Lear, to have it both ways: to lay down our human prerogative and yet at the same time to retain it. It is impossible. Either we are rational spirit obliged for ever to obey the absolute values of the Tao, or else we are mere nature to be kneaded and cut into new shapes for the pleasures of masters who must, by hypothesis, have no motive but their own ‘natural’ impulses. Only the Tao provides a common human law of action which can over-arch rulers and ruled alike. A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
“Long Live King Peter! Long Live Queen Susan! Long Live King Edmund! Long Live Queen Lucy!”
“Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen. Bear it well, Sons of Adam! Bear it well, Daughters of Eve!” said Aslan.
And through the eastern door, which was wide open, came the voices of the mermen and the mermaids swimming close to the castle steps and singing in honor of their new Kings and Queens.
So the children sat in their thrones and scepters were put into their hands and they gave rewards and honors to all their friends, to Tumnus the Faun, and to the Beavers, and Giant Rumblebuffin, to the leopards, and the good centaurs and the good dwarfs, and to the lion. And that night there was a great feast in Cair Paravel, and revelry and dancing, and gold flashed and wine flowed, and answering to the music inside, but stranger, sweeter, and more piercing, came the music of the sea-people.
But amid all these rejoicings Aslan himself quietly slipped away. And when the Kings and Queens noticed that he wasn’t there, they said nothing about it. For Mr. Beaver had warned them. “He’ll be coming and going,” he had said. “One day you’ll see him and another you won’t. He doesn’t like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It’s quite all right. He’ll often drop in. Only you mustn’t press him. He’s wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words — to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it”
― C. S. Lewis
“the new King of Narnia helped both the children up: that is, he gave Digory a rough heave and set Polly as gently and daintily on the horse’s back as if she were made of china and might break.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
“Revenge loses sight of the end in the means, but it's end is not wholly bad - it wants the evil of the bad man to be to him what it is to everyone else. This is proved by the fact that the avenger wants the guilty party not merely to suffer, but to suffer at his hands, and to know it, and to know why. Hence the impulse to taunt the guilty man with his crime at the moment of taking vengeance: hence, too, such natural expressions as 'I wonder how he'd like it if the same thing were done to him' or 'I'll teach him'. For the same reason when we are going to abuse a man in words we say we are going to 'let him know what we think of him'.”
― C.S. Lewis
“I suppose every one knows this fear of getting “drawn in”—the moment at which a man realises that what had seemed mere speculations are on the point of landing him in the Communist Party or the Christian Church—the sense that a door has just slammed and left him on the inside.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
“Milton was right,’ said my Teacher. ‘The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
“Predestination and freedom were apparently identical. He could no longer see any meaning in the many arguments he had heard on this subject.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
“Todos los días son «ahora» para Dios. Dios no recuerda que hicierais nada ayer; sencillamente os ve hacerlo, porque, aunque vosotros hayáis perdido el ayer, Él no. Él no os «prevé» haciendo cosas mañana; sencillamente os ve hacerlas, porque, aunque mañana aún no ha llegado para vosotros, para Él sí. Nunca suponéis que vuestras acciones en este momento serían menos libres porque Dios ve lo que estáis haciendo. Pues bien; Él ve vuestras acciones de mañana del mismo modo, porque Él ya está en el mañana, sencillamente mirándoos. En un sentido, Él no ve vuestra acción hasta que la habéis hecho; pero claro, el momento en que la habéis hecho es ya el «ahora» para Él.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Men like me, who possess hidden wisdom, are freed from common rules just as we are cut off from common pleasures. Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
“I might be asked, ‘Do you equally reject the approach which begins with the question “What do modern children need?” — in other words, with the moral or didactic approach?’ I think the answer is Yes. Not because I don’t like stories to have a moral: certainly not because I think children dislike a moral. Rather because I feel sure that the question ‘What do modern children need?’ will not lead you to a good moral. If we ask that question we are assuming too superior an attitude. It would be better to ask ‘What moral do I need?’ for I think we can be sure that what does not concern us deeply will not deeply interest our readers, whatever their age. But it is better not to ask the question at all. Let the pictures tell you their own moral. For the moral inherent in them will rise from whatever spiritual roots you have succeeded in striking during the whole course of your life. But if they don’t show you any moral, don’t put one in.”
― C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
“We are all trying to let our mind and heart go their own way—centred on money or pleasure or ambition—and hoping, in spite of this, to behave honestly and chastely and humbly. And that is exactly what Christ warned us you could not do. As He said, a thistle cannot produce figs. If I am a field that contains nothing but grass-seed, I cannot produce wheat. Cutting the grass may keep it short: but I shall still produce grass and no wheat. If I want to produce wheat, the change must go deeper than the surface. I must be ploughed up and re-sown.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Have courage, dear heart, for there is nothing to be afraid of and never has been.”
― C.S Lewis, The Weight of Glory
“If I may trust my own experience, the sight of adult misery and adult terror has an effect on children which is merely paralyzing and alienating.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“If so, it is inaccurate to say that the majority ‘enjoy bad pictures’. They enjoy the ideas suggested to them by bad pictures. They do not really see the pictures as they are. If they did, they could not live with them. There is a sense in which bad work never is nor can be enjoyed by anyone. The people do not like the bad picture because the faces in them are like those of puppets and there is no real mobility in the lines that are meant to be moving and no energy or grace in the whole design. These faults are simply invisible to them; as the actual face of the Teddy-bear is invisible to an imaginative and warm-hearted child when it is absorbed in its play. It no longer notices that the eyes are only beads.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
“The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.”
― C.S. Lewis, Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays
“Dicen que los cobardes mueren muchas veces: eso les pasa a los seres amados.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“Men like me, who possess hidden wisdom, are freed from common rules just as we are cut off from common pleasures. Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
In her stillness, she can perceive hidden truths, tapping into the underlying wisdom that permeates the universe. While others may be consumed by noise – both literal and metaphorical – the noiseless witch remains untouched, able to access a deeper understanding of the world. Through her quiet observations, the noiseless witch becomes attuned to the interconnectedness of all things. She understands that knowledge and wisdom can be found in the smallest details, the subtlest nuances of life. This awareness allows her to see patterns where others see chaos, to discern meaning where others only see randomness. The noiseless witch's concealed wisdom extends beyond her own understanding. Through her presence and example, she inspires others to cultivate stillness and inner reflection. She serves as a reminder that wisdom does not always come from overt displays of power or knowledge but can also be found in the depths of silence and introspection. In a world filled with noise, the noiseless witch offers a glimpse into a different way of being. Her concealed wisdom challenges us to reconsider our values and priorities, encouraging us to embrace quiet contemplation and introspection. By heeding the lessons of the noiseless witch, we may uncover a wealth of wisdom that has long been hidden in plain sight. We have much to learn from her, if only we are willing to listen..
Reviews for "The Art of Silent Sorcery: Tapping into the Hidden Knowledge of the Noiseless Witch"
- John Doe - 1 star
I found "Concealed Wisdom of the Noiseless Witch" to be incredibly boring and tedious. The plot was confusing and poorly developed, and I struggled to connect with any of the characters. Moreover, the writing style was dry and lacked any kind of excitement or emotion. Overall, I was very disappointed with this book and cannot recommend it to others.
- Michelle Smith - 2 stars
"Concealed Wisdom of the Noiseless Witch" had an interesting premise, but it failed to deliver. The pacing of the story was incredibly slow, and it dragged on without any real sense of direction. Additionally, the main characters felt flat and underdeveloped, making it difficult to feel invested in their journey. While there were a few moments of intrigue, they were quickly overshadowed by the dullness of the overall narrative. Unfortunately, this book missed the mark for me.
- Robert Johnson - 1 star
I couldn't get past the first few chapters of "Concealed Wisdom of the Noiseless Witch". The writing style was pretentious and overly complicated, making it difficult to follow the story. The characters were uninteresting and lacked depth, and the dialogue felt forced and unrealistic. I was hoping for an engaging and immersive reading experience, but this book fell far short of my expectations. I would not recommend it to anyone looking for a captivating fantasy novel.