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What are the Shadow-Lands?
The word "Shadow-Lands" comes from C.S. Lewis' novel, The Last Battle. At the end of the novel, the children tearfully part from the "old Narnia" and enter through a door into a new world. The doorway is opened by Aslan, the Creator-Redeemer-Consummator Christ figure of Lewis' fictional world.
"Listen, Peter. When Aslan said you could never go back to Narnia, he meant the Narnia you were thinking of. But that was not the real Narnia. That had a beginning and an end. It was only a shadow or a copy of the real Narnia, which has always been here and always will be here: just as our own world, England and all, is only a shadow or copy of something in Aslan's real world."
"It was the Unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling. He stamped his right fore-hoof on the ground and neighed and then cried:
'I have come home at last! This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this. Bree-hee-hee! Come further up, come further in!'"
"Listen, Peter. When Aslan said you could never go back to Narnia, he meant the Narnia you were thinking of. But that was not the real Narnia. That had a beginning and an end. It was only a shadow or a copy of the real Narnia, which has always been here and always will be here: just as our own world, England and all, is only a shadow or copy of something in Aslan's real world."
"It was the Unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling. He stamped his right fore-hoof on the ground and neighed and then cried:
'I have come home at last! This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this. Bree-hee-hee! Come further up, come further in!'"
About Me
- David J. Lee
- San Jose, California
- I am the husband of a woman of amazing beauty and grace, the father of three adventurous and precocious children, and Pastor to the growing community of people of New Life Mission Church Fremont. Yet, more than anything else, I am an absolute wreck who has been rescued out of the Shadow-Lands by Divine Grace through faith in Jesus Christ to begin the "Great Story...which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
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