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Aslan (Divine)

Aslan

The Chronicles of Narnia

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Hesperus
Hesperus 1 mo 14 d
Aslan (Divine)
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Aslan, serves as a Christ-like figure or author describes it thus. He is God manifestation of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea (God ). according to the words of C. S. Lewis, says that Aslan was not meant as an allegorical representation of Christ, but rather a "suppositional incarnation" - what Christ may have been like if he incarnated in the world of Narnia instead of our world.

C. S. Lewis replied: If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however, he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, "What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?" This is not allegory at all. In one of his last letters, Lewis wrote, "Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He [Christ] would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here. I pictured Him becoming a lion there because (a) the lion is supposed to be the king of beasts; (b) Christ is called "The Lion of Judah" in the Bible; (c) I'd been having strange dreams about lions when I began writing the work." However, the cosmology extends even beyond what is directly described in the books. As the scholar Michael Ward explained Lewis structured each of the seven Narnia books to correspond with one of the seven medieval heavens and their respective classical planets. This suggests Narnia is just one layer within a much grander celestial scheme that was common in medieval times.


in my opinion, aslan is most truly a character that fits the Tier 0 Definition well because, given that the Onion Layer used by C.S. Lewis to describe the different levels of reality in The Chronicles of Narnia. Each Narnia story takes place in its own fictional world, but they are implied to be "nested realities" - worlds within worlds.

The onion layer suggests that each subsequent layer of reality is more "real" than the one within it. The innermost layers are more symbolic or allegorical. In The Last Battle, when the characters enter Aslan's country, Lucy says that it is "more real and more beautiful" than Narnia. Tumnus compares it to peeling an onion, each circle larger than the last. This relates to Plato's allegory of the cave, where the shadows on the cave wall represent a lower level of reality compared to the real world outside. In Narnia, each new layer revealed approaches the ultimate reality.

Sources:
1. EMPIRE STATE TRIBUNE
2. PLANET NARNIA
3. Restless Pilgrim
4. THE CLASSICAL ANTHOLOGY
5. all novel
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Hesperus
Hesperus 1 mo 14 d
Aslan (Divine)
30 months member
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there is simply no absolute and clear proof that aslan is a 5D Low Complex Multiversal Level (Low 1-C) Nor an Infinite-Dimensional/Hilbert Being (High 1-B)
yes
yes 1 mo 15 d
Aslan (Divine)
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@Tigerking2020 @MoNsTeR can I put him at tier 9 ?