Walk a Sacred Path #5 of 8 Walking between the Worlds

4th Nov 2024

“Fear, even the smallest fear, is a hacking at the chords of faith…”

Five years after C.S. Lewis wrote the ‘Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe’ he wrote a prequel called ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ and in that book we get to find out how the link to the magical world of Narnia began.

The two main characters in the book are Polly and Digory who meet whilst playing in the adjacent gardens of a row of terrace houses. They decide to explore the attic that links their houses together but get lost and find themselves in Digory’s Uncle’s study. The Uncle, Andrew, is a dabbler in magic and has created four magical rings – two yellow and two green - from a box of magic dust left to him by his godmother. He’s too cowardly to try them himself and is a rather immoral person who tricks Polly into putting one of the rings on – causing her to vanish. Not done with his cowardly acts he then blackmails Digory into putting on another ring and following Polly to wherever she has gone. So begins their journey into other Worlds.

First they find themselves in a World between Worlds where there are multiple ponds that lead to multiple worlds. They go to the dying land of Charn where they inadvertently awaken the witch queen named Jadis. Managing to escape they accidentally bring her back to their own world where she wreaks havoc before clutching onto a lamppost as Digory and Polly manage to send her back to the world between the worlds.

Finally they enter the empty world that is soon to be Narnia and the battle between good and evil begins – as Jadis becomes the white witch. At the end Digory brings a magic apple back to his world which heals his dying mother, the apple core is planted in the garden and grows into a tree which is latter felled in a storm. The wood from the tree is then used to make the wardrobe in ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe’ creating the gateway back to Narnia.

Why am I telling you this??

The Past has momentum that affects us in the present in a myriad of ways. If we are stuck in the Past our thinking about the Present is limited but if we fail to learn from the Past we risk creating the same lessons and challenges all over again.

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