Narnia is Lewis’ own afterthought on that debate - a vision of Heaven so stunningly daring in its conception and execution it had to be disguised as a children’s book - a book also wondrously enlivened by the December-of-his-life romance with his soon-to-be wife, Joy Davidman.Īnd it is an Afterlife in which we ALL will play a part. Narnia, Lewis’ later view of the Afterlife, had its genesis in the deep gloom and self-doubt that shrouded Lewis’ soul when he was roundly humiliated in a university debate over the existence of God, by Ludwig Wittgenstein’s similarly fiercely competitive and agnostic friend, Elizabeth Anscombe. Totally alive mythological creatures roaming freely and happily through Eternal Glades.Ī place of departure - for the final Great Pilgrimage: across rugged mountainous peaks, to your ultimate Heart’s Desire - a sacred grove of Deep Eternal Peace.īut The Great Divorce, of course, is only Narnia in embryo, just as Eliot’s Ash Wednesday is only the drawing board for the radiant Apocalypse of Four Quartets. Hard, solid but fast-moving blue waves of an Eternal Sea. Lewis‘ Magical Mystical Tour will show you a weird ‘n wonderful kind of paradise - a BRIGHT, ZANY, and very HARD and SOLID place of eternal ‘rest’ your current mindset may not be ready for! We are being given a second chance - to board a tour bus to Heaven.Īnd if we like it.
That, says Lewis, is where most of us will start our Journey (and his friend and fellow Inkling Charles Williams agreed). Our worldly and blasé attitude while living has decreed it. You wait and wait, not knowing for what earthly reason you are there, among a crowd of obnoxious and surly rivals for the front of the line. to find yourself joining a long queue that is forming in a dark, gloomy side street. You meander past endless shuttered and decrepit storefronts advertising nothing anyone would ever possibly want or need.
Imagine that you awoke one morning to find yourself wandering the streets of a grimy, gritty little twilit city in the middle of Nowhere. Wait till you see the rest of his REMARKABLY REAL HEAVEN! If you think that the plain, humble folks whom Lewis brazenly shows us have been re-united with their BODIES in Heaven are scary.
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