The Final Battle (C.S. Lewis) and the end times - Nancy Pelosi?

[RobSS]

In The Final Battle, the last instalment of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, the kingdom of Narnia faces the end times and final battle between good and evil, when the lion, Aslan (Jesus Christ), comes to the world world for the last Judgement.

 

One of the scenes in the book, reminds me of how Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are loosing the power of speech.

 

Excerpt:

 

"Look, look!" said the voice of the Bear. "It can't talk. It has forgotten how to talk! It has gone back to being a dumb beast. Look at its face." Everyone saw that it was true. And then the greatest terror of all fell upon those Narnians. For every one of them had been taught - when it was only a chick or a puppy or a cub - how Aslan at the beginning of the world had turned the beasts of Narnia into Talking Beasts and warned them that if they weren't good they might one day be turned back again and be like the poor witless animals one meets in other countries. "And now it is coming upon us," they moaned.

 

 

Edited November 14, 2021 by RobSS

[RobSS]

When I read The Last Battle, from The Chronicles of Narnia, and read about how some of the animals in the kingdom, who followed the false god, Tash, lost the power of speech, I went online and did some research about it and came across C.S. Lewis - On the Christ of a Religious Economy, 3.2 - II. Knowing Salvation by P.H. Brazier. Here's an excerpt from the book:

 

The apocalypse devours Narnia and all the creatures, and the battle of good and evil focuses on a stable in woodland, atop a hill....

 

[...]

 

Ginger the Cat reveals to us our plight that is, Western secular liberal humanist intellectuals, thinkers who rule and set the ideas that are tacitly absorbed into society and culture, and represent the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the age. If speech and reason are used progressively to deny God, and God’s revelation (the Aslan-Christ), then we will gradually lose the power of speech and reason? Will not confusion and relativity ensue? Colin Gunton commented that, “Our language can't tell the truth, it is made meaningful by God. God must commandeer our language; it must be taken over by God if it is going to be true about God.”

Speech, reason and sense are all intimately intertwined, once we flirt with evil and withdraw into a world of relativity regarding all 'gods” as equal, and equally non-existent (as Ginger the Cat analogically does), once we begin to define the divine in our own image we misuse the gift of language, we abuse the gift of Logos — Word and Reason — and we begin to lose the sense of meaning in language (avoid wrangling over words, which does no good but only ruins those who are listening, 2 Timothy 2:16J1). This is in effect what Lewis realized would happen. None of this is of any surprise given our post-lapsarian (occurring or existing after the Fall of Man) fallen state: what is shocking is how humanity fails to realize this, we continue on in our wilful delusions.

 

 

Edited November 14, 2021 by RobSS

[RobSS]

The loss of the power of speech also happens in The Water Babies... In Charles Kinsley's children's novel, the main character, Tom, encounters the Doasyoulikes, a race of idle humans who have grown "so stupid ... they have almost forgotten how to talk ... [and] will all be apes very soon".

 

 

[RobSS]

To clarify... in this thread, the term, "the end times", does not, in any way, shape or form, mean the end of the world. It simply means the end of a system of things controlled by a false god.

 

Right at the end of The Last Battle, the narrator explains how our world is not the real world, and that after the preface, that's when the real world begins...

 

"And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."

 

 

Edited November 14, 2021 by RobSS

[numnuts]

It dawned on me some years ago how metaphorical both Lewis's and Tolkien's, who were friends, most famous works were. Folks have certainly lost the power to think, which is effectively mental speech. In fact, nowadays, when I see some PTB journo scouring the streets for some sheeple to randomly interview, I cringe. The second after they are asked a question, when they begin to answer by saying 'I think...', I feel like leaping in to my TV screen and intervening.

 

'Please put the microphone down and step away from the video camera!'

 

Most of the time they have a hazy look in their eyes and you can just tell that they have invented an 'opinion' on the spot. Very depressing to see. I haven't read any of the Narnia books in quite a while. I will probably reread them on the bog this week, so as to see whether I can gain any other insights. Most of my thoughts have revolved around Tolkien in recent years.

Edited November 14, 2021 by numnuts