The Witchcraft of The Chronicles of Narnia

The Witchcraft of The Chronicles of Narnia

(Photo: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
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Centaurs, dryads, nymphs, fauns, and mythical creatures fill the world of Narnia. C.S. Lewis, the author of the popular book series, was fascinated with Greek mythology, paganism, and ancient England. His stories have had wide acclaim by many around the world and the recent Disney “Narnia” movies have brought in over $1.5 billion at the box office worldwide (1, see Works Cited below).

This article will look at The Chronicles of Narnia’s powerful occult presentation and will reveal truth about its author that most people do not know. We will see that Narnia presents real witchcraft to kids as something “appealing.”

C.S. Lewis and Magic

Narnia’s author, C.S. Lewis is a man with two faces. He was born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland (2). In the mid-1920s, Lewis joined a group of “intellectuals” called the “Inklings” of which J.R.R. Tolkien was a member. Lewis and Tolkien became good friends (2). During this time, Tolkien got Lewis interested in Catholicism and Lewis began to call himself a “Christian”.

As an alleged “Christian”, Lewis studied and embraced paganism. C.S. Lewis went on a trip to Greece with his wife, Joy. C.S. Lewis wrote:

"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 specie Apollonius. We witnessed a beautiful Christian village ceremony in Rhodes and hardly felt a discrepancy." (3 and 4 in Works Cited) (bold / underline added)

Apollo and Jesus Christ are not similar in any way. Lewis was treating them as if they were identical or similar. Apollo was the pagan sun-god of Greece. He was said to ride a fiery chariot through the heavens. Sun-worship has been a part of pagan cultures for thousands of years and it is an abomination to God.

Exodus 20:1-3

1 And God spake all these words, saying,

2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Worship of anything (or anyone) other than God is idolatry and God hates it. God must be the focus of a true Christian. Sports, hobbies, work, family, etc. should never be the first thing on a true Christian’s mind when he / she wakes up or the last thing when he / she goes to bed. Jesus Christ should be a Christian’s focus.

C.S. Lewis and the Occult

(Photo: Pan is a pagan god of drunkenness and immorality. Source.)

Sadly, many Christians do not understand the danger of how a book series of a “Christian” author could be bad. That is why I feel the need to write this article. I am not trying to attack C.S. Lewis. This article is to encourage Christians to seek God and to seek to know what God shows them about C.S. Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia.

The Chronicles of Narnia begins in WW2 during the bombing of London. Four Pevensie kids, Lucy, Edmund, Peter, and Susan are sent to stay with Professor Digory Kirke during the war. In this first book, Lucy steps through a magic wardrobe and arrives in a mystical world called “Narnia”. She meets a faun (half man-half goat) called Mr. Tumnus. 

(A dryad from one of the Narnia movies. Source.)

In this magical world, animals can talk, pagan deities called river gods, nymphs, and dryads live in the rivers and in the trees. Mythical creatures including satyrs (similar to fauns), centaurs, merpeople (mermaid), minotaurs, ogres, unicorns, gouls, a phoenix, half-breed (half man-half driad), naiads, etc. populated Narnia (7). All these creatures come from paganism.

(Photo: A phoenix rising. Source.)

One of these mythical creatures, the phoenix (which can be found in an apple orchard in The Magician's Nephew) is a mythical bird which Freemasonry and occultists use as a universal symbol. Manly P. Hall, who was an occultist and a 33^rd degree Freemason, wrote: