I’ve already died, went to Heaven and returned to this body. I know where Home is and that I am welcome there.
I’d sooner be there than on earth.
(from the article linked above)
The Toxic Brew
We can now examine the toxic brew which Lewis serves up in the last eight chapters of the book.
One of the main ideas in these chapters is that the universe is suffused by an invisible spiritual energy. In an earlier part of the book he has already made a distinction between two life energies – Bios, the animating force in living creatures, and Zoe, the eternal spiritual force.
“The Spiritual life which is in God from all eternity, and which made the whole natural universe, is Zoe.” (p.159)
This is developed later into the notion that both Christ and the Holy Spirit are expressions of this Zoe: “…we must think of the Son always, so to speak, streaming forth from the Father, like light from a lamp, or heat from a fire, or thoughts from a mind. He is the self-expression of the Father – what the Father has to say.” (p.173-174).
This is not Christianity, but Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism.
Practitioners of witchcraft call Zoe by another name – The Force. This is the same concept that is eulogised in the Star Wars series of movies (Hollywood is passionately dedicated to the spread of witchcraft and the destruction of Bible-based Christianity).
This energy, he says, pulsates and evolves into more profound expressions of itself: “…in Christianity God is not a static thing – not even a person – but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.”
(p.175) This dance is akin to the dance of Shiva, a key concept in Hinduism.”