“He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess” — I don’t quite follow this. Isn’t this veering into Mormonism?
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Some information on the issue here:
“Lupus Occultus: The Paganised Christianity of C. S. Lewis”
https://www.jamesjpn.net/religion/lupus-occultus-the-paganised-christianity-of-c-s-lewis/
Article by Jeremy James quotes:
“The C S Lewis version of Christ “
“What most Christians don’t seem to realise is that this ‘Christ’ – the C S Lewis version of Christ – is not the Messiah Redeemer, but an archetypal figure revered by pagans since ancient times, the perfected man or god-man, the pinnacle of human evolution.
In light of the evidence that I present in this paper, I submit that Lewis chose Christ, rather than Apollo, say, as his god-man archetype because he wished to draw a great many others into his system of belief. While the small circle of committed pagans whom he knew and with whom he met regularly – known as the Inklings – were already in step with his philosophy, there was enormous potential for spreading his ideas by linking them directly to just one ‘mythology,’ that of Judeo-Christianity.
This is why I was surprised to learn that millions of Bible-believing Christians in the US were looking to Lewis for guidance and edification. Most members of the New Age, especially those who have read widely and met with representatives of its various branches, know that C S Lewis is simply a vehicle for drawing new converts into paganism and the New Age movement. He does this by the time-honoured method – pretend to be a friend, use the right terminology, and slowly draw your audience in another direction.. .”
also a Person.”
(p.175) :Anyone familiar with oriental philosophy and eastern mysticism will immediately recognise the pagan origin of Lewis’s completely non-Biblical definition of the Holy Trinity. All of these ideas – Zoe, spiritual light and heat, the divine cosmic dance, pulsating union, evolution and projection – are fundamental to occult philosophy and pervade both New Age thinking and Gnosticism, as well as such paths as Theosophy, Anthroposophy and the higher degrees of Freemasonry. . .”
If you’ve read any amount of C.S. Lewis’ Christian writings, you’d know this is totally ridiculous, and very sophomoric analysis.
You use words as tools to twist the perception of Truth to appear as darkness. The warmth of the Fire that kindles in the heart can discern Truth from non-truth.
This is why the Pharisees prayers were just words falling upon deaf ears. You can fool the thinking mind, but not the heart.