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Lilith is a strange book, a complex book, a rich book, and I think, a wonderful book. I read it in college and was shocked by it then and it has stayed with me for 35 years.
I think Lilith is the grown-up version of At the Back of the North Wind. What I initially took from Lilith and ATBOTNW was that death wasn’t to be feared for those who are saved by Jesus, if it is time to die. I knew this already. When I read this truth in the Bible, it was and is encouraging. When I read it in Lilith and ATBOTNW, it was jarring initially.
In the beginning of Lilith, Vane is avoiding death/dying to self, and continues to, through the whole book. He is in a sort of dream world and when I read it the first time, I was cheering the avoidance of death. He repeatedly does things he should not do, messes things up, but it does not thwart the sovereignty of the end. It changes circumstances, but does not destroy the end result. When he finally gives in, dies to self, true life is beginning. It was good to read it again, knowing the end.
“The images Vane encounters in the realm of seven dimensions depict various spiritual states: the skeletons, the people of Bulika with their babies, the Little Ones, and the Giants. The skeleton lord and lady ‘without faces’ suggest the spiritually perverse among the higher classes. Their disintegration is checked and they begin to acquire substance the moment they start exercising altruistic attitudes towards each other. C. S. Lewis takes the title of his masterpiece, Till We Have Faces, from this scene.”
Rolland Hein in Christian Mythmakers
If you read it, you will find many things that Lewis uses in his fiction books.
• Eve’s house reminds me of Merlin’s burial place in That Hideous Strength.
• “— farthest up, higher up than the seven dimensions, the ten senses: I think I was where I am- in the heart of God.”
Lewis’s “further up, further in” in The Last Battle.
• Lilith, definitely the White Witch.
There is probably more to find.
Some quotes from Lilith:
“Every creature must one night yield himself and lie down,” answered Adam: “he was made for liberty, and must not be left a slave.”
Man dreams and desires; God broods and wills and quickens.
When a man dreams his own dream, he is sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfill it.
“Those, alas, are not tears of repentance!” she said “The true tears gather in the eyes. Those are far more bitter, and not so good. Self loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the Father’s arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account. It will be so with her.”
I think Lilith is the grown-up version of At the Back of the North Wind. What I initially took from Lilith and ATBOTNW was that death wasn’t to be feared for those who are saved by Jesus, if it is time to die. I knew this already. When I read this truth in the Bible, it was and is encouraging. When I read it in Lilith and ATBOTNW, it was jarring initially.
In the beginning of Lilith, Vane is avoiding death/dying to self, and continues to, through the whole book. He is in a sort of dream world and when I read it the first time, I was cheering the avoidance of death. He repeatedly does things he should not do, messes things up, but it does not thwart the sovereignty of the end. It changes circumstances, but does not destroy the end result. When he finally gives in, dies to self, true life is beginning. It was good to read it again, knowing the end.
“The images Vane encounters in the realm of seven dimensions depict various spiritual states: the skeletons, the people of Bulika with their babies, the Little Ones, and the Giants. The skeleton lord and lady ‘without faces’ suggest the spiritually perverse among the higher classes. Their disintegration is checked and they begin to acquire substance the moment they start exercising altruistic attitudes towards each other. C. S. Lewis takes the title of his masterpiece, Till We Have Faces, from this scene.”
Rolland Hein in Christian Mythmakers
If you read it, you will find many things that Lewis uses in his fiction books.
• Eve’s house reminds me of Merlin’s burial place in That Hideous Strength.
• “— farthest up, higher up than the seven dimensions, the ten senses: I think I was where I am- in the heart of God.”
Lewis’s “further up, further in” in The Last Battle.
• Lilith, definitely the White Witch.
There is probably more to find.
Some quotes from Lilith:
“Every creature must one night yield himself and lie down,” answered Adam: “he was made for liberty, and must not be left a slave.”
Man dreams and desires; God broods and wills and quickens.
When a man dreams his own dream, he is sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfill it.
“Those, alas, are not tears of repentance!” she said “The true tears gather in the eyes. Those are far more bitter, and not so good. Self loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the Father’s arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account. It will be so with her.”