Trouble in Narnia
The Occult Side of C. S. Lewis
by Mary Ann Collins
February 2006
http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/006/narnia-trouble.htm
“This universalism shows up in some of Lewis’ fiction books. In “The Great Divorce,” Lewis is in Heaven. He speaks with George MacDonald and asks him about universalism, and MacDonald answers that Lewis cannot understand such things now. In the last of the Narnia books (“The Last Battle”), a pagan makes it to Heaven (“Aslan’s Land”) because of his good works and his good motives, in spite of the fact that he did not believe in Aslan and he worshipped Aslan’s enemy, a false god named Tash.”
Yep, I had a big problem with that as well.
Before Jesus, Abraham’s faith was counted as righteousness,
but AD, Jesus is THE Way, not A way.
When reading to my kids, I had to “correct” the doctrine of the idea that a follower of Tash was going to the same salvation as those who were followers of Aslan.
However, at the beginning of the book, when the false prophet and the false Aslan (anti-Christ) were being introduced, as well as the “ecuminicalism” heresy was being promoted by the antagonists, I was all over it, giving them the parallels we see in our world today.