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1/9/06 See "Printable" button below for "easy to print" format. The Narnia Chronicles - A Witches' Brew! by David J. Meyer
On December 9th, 2005, a major Disney movie, based on the first book of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, opened in theaters across the country. The movie was such a hit that it took in nearly 24,000,000 dollars on opening day. One of the reasons for its success is because “Christian” churches of all denominations filled the theaters in droves as they arrived by the busload to view the movie based on the first chronicle of Narnia, known as The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Many church pastors and church leaders are declaring that the movie is Christian and contains Christian themes and has a type of Christ in it. Many churches are also using The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as Sunday school material for teaching the young people of their congregations. In short, the story is about a little girl named Lucy, who hides in a wardrobe while playing a game. As she looks into the mirror of the wardrobe, she enters through the mirror into a strange new land called Narnia. Soon she is having tea with a faun, which is a mythological creature that has the body of a man but the horns, legs and tail of a goat. There are also talking animals and other creatures in the seven Chronicles of Narnia, such as Bacchus, the god of wine and drunken revelry; the Maenads, which were orgiastic wild and frenzied women; a witch who casts a spell to cause perpetual winter; and a lion named Aslan. When Aslan roars and shows his teeth, winter immediately turns to spring. Aslan also faces the rising sun in the East, and as he shakes his mane, bright rays of light are sent forth from him. The controversy in the movie is between the lion and the witch. Church leaders have become so caught up in this movie that in some cases they have turned their sanctuaries into the land of Narnia. One example is the Bellaire United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. Those who arrive for Sunday church must walk through a wardrobe and brush past coats to emerge into Narnia, where pastor Valerie Hudson gives them a Narnia sermon. Pastor Robert Creech of University Baptist Church in Houston is basing all of his December sermons on Narnia themes. We also know that Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family organization is promoting these works of C.S. Lewis for a suggested donation. Are the Chronicles of Narnia a Christian work, and was C.S. Lewis a true Christian? Is Aslan, the roaring lion, really a type of Christ? The Bible does call our Lord Jesus Christ “the lion of the tribe of Judah”, but Jesus is never presented as a roaring lion. We do, however, read in I Peter 5:8 as follows: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” The witches know that if they present witchcraft as having two sides, they can claim to be on the good side fighting the bad side and thus pull people into the craft, or at least be influenced positively by it. That is the mistake “Christians” make, and it is a big mistake. They pick out the hero in a witches’ fable and make a type of Christ out of it, but it is all really witchcraft and an abomination of the first magnitude. Clive Staples Lewis, who was born in Belfast, Nothern Ireland, was not a Christian. His so-called “Christian” books can be found in “Christian” bookstores and occult bookstores as well. The works of Lewis are required reading for neophyte witches, because these books firmly root the concepts and mindset of witchcraft in the beginner or neophyte members of the craft. The writings of C.S. Lewis are so clearly antichrist that only spiritual blindness could prevent one from seeing it. Let us now look at some of the words of Lewis from his so-called Christian books. In the C.S. Lewis book The World’s Last Night and Other Essays on pages 98-99, Lewis said, “Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place…certainly the most embarrassing verse in the Bible. The one exhibition of error and the one confession of ignorance grew side by side. That they stood thus in the mouth of Jesus himself and were not merely placed thus by the reporter, we surely need not doubt…the facts, then, are these: that Jesus professed himself (in some sense) ignorant, and within a moment showed that he really was so.” What rank blasphemy from this pseudo-Christian, who was actually a witch and an illuminist, and a member of the coven known as the Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn! How can he get away with calling our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ignorant? In his book Reflections on the Psalms on page 129, C.S. Lewis said, “…as I believe, Christ…fulfilled both paganism and Judaism.” In a biography of Lewis, he was quoted as saying, “I had some ado to prevent joy and myself from relapsing into paganism in Attica! At Daphni it was hard not to pray to Apollo the Healer. But somehow one didn’t feel it would have been very wrong – would have only been addressing Christ sub-species Apollinis.” For those who would like to know more about this subject, I have written a powerful tract entitled “The Witchcraft of the Narnia Chronicles.” This tract is available, free of charge, and in quantities for the asking, but please help us with postage if you can. The tract is also available in camera-ready form on our website. Please help us to get the word out. We must help people to break free of gross deception.
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