The lion witch and the wardrobe has occult elements.
Witchcraft is occult based, do you not understand that. Screwtape letters was about demons, worse, putting words in the mouths of demons. Strange thing is he made it cutesy sounding, or rather the illustrations did give the impression.
I read cs lewis was influenced by the occult. One of his teachers was a lady in the spell of it, who took on the teachings of theosophy. Thats why you get a lot of reference to 'the christ' like its a symbol instead of Jesus himself in the Bible.
1: Also he seemed to copy the idea of lion, witch and the wardrobe from E. nesbits tales.
1: Please give me the name of this Theosophist lady who influenced him? I have no idea what you are talking about and based on your previous responses, it is highly probable you might be mistaken.
2: The Magician's Nephew was loosely based on a tale of Edith Nesbit. This was purposefully done by Lewis as an homage to her children's books which he himself had read as a child and is a fact he readily admitted and gave her credit for. He even mentioned her characters, the Bastables, at the beginning of the story to say roughly when it was set. There is no 'he copied the work' about it and besides, it is
Not the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that was influenced by her, but a later part of the Narnia cycle, well after the idea of Narnia as a supposition had been established.
The double life with his land lady continued on after his conversion. He would lie about his relationship with her, that much is clear. Im not being pharisee about it, this is what one of the daughters of the landlady tried to tell people. When she died, he was free, but its suggested that he was in some kind of sexual bondage to her.
When he married at the age of 60, it was a marriage of convenience. He himself said as much. He did not consider marrying a divorcee to be adultery, as its said in the. Bible, probably because he felt he was marrying her ao she could stay in the country, not for other reasons. This was kind of pity and he was taken by her. Cs lewis seemed to be vulnerable to witchcraft.
The character of the witch in narnia to edmund i think it was pretty much sums up cs lewis susceptibility to manipulation.
3: There is no conclusive evidence of any untoward relationship with Mrs Moore at all, only conjecture made by biographers and even then, they tend to stress that his relationship with her was probably only when he was younger, ie before his conversion.
He was in 'bondage' to her as he had promised her son, a close friend of his in WWI, to look after his mother if he died (which he did until she passed away). He treated Mrs Moore's daughter as his sister and she inherited his property, not his stepsons (they inherited the rights to his written works). Where you get this weird soap opera view of strife with Mrs. Moore's daughter I don't know, as they were actually very close. The biographers base the view of a relationship with Mrs. Moore on some of his letters from his younger days and some comments made by his brother, father and Mrs. Moore's daughter, but there was no scandal at the time, nor any sort of story that this was happening. It was only later after his death, that biographers started talking about his 'untoward relationship' with Mrs. Moore.
4: He married Joy for convenience, but then later had a real Christian marriage with her. There is no shame in any of this. There is Christian Charity in the former and Love in the latter. As to the rest you wrote on A Grief Observed, I think Good Heart explained it very nicely.
5: As to Edmund, he betrayed Narnia but was redeemed and went on to be one of the revered Four Kings of Cair Paravel. If Lewis based the character on himself, it just shows a man being saved by the Grace of the Lord, not on account of his own foolish actions and going on to become a good man. I think it would be better to see Edmund as an example of us all - stupid and vain sinners.
Im sorry if it makes out like im trying to pick holes in everything cs lewis wrote but some things just dont add up for me about him. Maybe I just leave it at that and not argue or question it anymore. after all, its not like he has that big an influence on my faith journey.
But I do feel odd now about having narnia books in the church library..someone donated them. I can just put them in the bin, i dont think anyone would notice that much. In acts they burned occult books. I just think they wouldnt be suitable for children particularly if they read them first without knowing the bible.
When they had the narnia movies going on I dont know if they focused more on the occult side of the story rather than the inserted christian elements, but I do know that nobody really sees it as a particularly christian movie, unless they want to squint really hard to make it so. Like the movie frozen, really popular with children, and some of the messages you can take from it maybe be feelgood, but its still not the truth and mixes a lot of occult in it.
Wizard of oz is also one of those books and movies that was very deceptive to children. Frank l baum was a theosophist and inocorporated occult ideas into his oz books.
I think you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Narnia is not the same as the Wizard of Oz or Frozen or whatever. Each person's work should be judged on its own, not some vast condemnation bandied about of all fantasy. I think you are searching for occult elements where none exist, like people looking for Satanic messages in branding or kids cartoons.
Don't destroy Church property please, make your case with your minister and the church management and if they agree then you can remove them. If they do not, then maybe they can enlighten you on why you are mistaken. Perhaps you'll listen to them, as you seem to be ignoring the rest of us.
