Posted on 06/01/2017 11:20:42 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
A Maia or an Eldil would be the Tolkien or Lewis equivalent of a Power or Authority, a non-corporeal personal intelligence, known in from the Greek "messenger" as an Angel, near the middle of the nine choirs in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's De Coelesti Hierarchia, On the Celestial Hierarchy.
Eru as God is properly called Eru Iluvatar in Tolkien's Silmarillioin.
In Tolkien's Silmarillion and Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet, these intelligences worked to heal the deliberate destruction of the populated worlds by the very powerful, corrupted intellect, which Tolkien names Melkor/Morgoth, and Lewis seems not to name. That latter, evil being is somewhat roughly equivalent to Q in Star Trek, the Next Generation.
The Maiar remade Middle Earth, and the eldil Oyarsa remade Malacandra, Mars, after diabolic attacks to ruin the worlds.
Oyarsa was described as a winged flame; this image somewhat departs from that description.
This issue, care for the world by God's servants, relates to the irrational belief in climate change as the initial wedge of the emerging Gaia religion.
We once kept devotion to the idea of Divine Providence, that God would keep the world well for our benefit, through his blessed spirits.
Gaia belief is the opposite of Divine Providence, in that humanity are accidents, a plague and cancer harmful to the world of creation which Adam was commanded to steward.
The Image shows an interaction between Ransom and a Sorn,
an intelligent being “Hnau” but not an “Eldil” such as Oyarsa
Thanks, it’s a good likeness of a sorn.
Nor does the image bear much likeness to Lewis’ description of a Sorn.
Anyway... Isn’t it Provenance???
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