The Occult in Narnia, Part 7 - C.S. Lewis Promotes the Occult in His Books

The Occult in Narnia, Part 7 - C.S. Lewis Promotes the Occult in His Books

C.S. Lewis claimed to be a Christian, but does his fruit show it? What themes and beliefs do Lewis' Narnia books promote? In this article, we will look at a few excerpts from some of his Narnia stories. What messages do they tell us, and what are they teaching children?

The "Deep Magic"

We start with a scene from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. After Edmund betrays his family and friends to the White Witch, he felt bad about what he did. Aslan, the lion, sends a rescue party to snatch Edmund out of the witch's hands. Aslan then confronts the witch over her right to hold Edmund under her power. C.S. Lewis writes:

[The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]

"Have you forgotten the Deep Magic?" asked the Witch.

"Let us say I have forgotten it," answered Aslan gravely. "Tell us of this Deep Magic."

"Tell you?" said the Witch, her voice growing suddenly shriller. "Tell you what is written on that very Table of Stone which stands beside us? Tell you what is written in letters deep as a spear is long on the trunk of the World Ash Tree? Tell you what is engraved on the sceptre of the Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea? You at least know the magic which the Emperor put into Narnia at the very beginning. You know that every traitor belongs to me as my lawful prey and that for every treachery I have a right to a kill." [A.]

Notice that this law set up by the "Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea" (who is supposed to be God the Father) is called "magic"? In Prince Caspian, we learn that Aslan is the son of the Emperor-over-Sea. Lewis writes: "And if Aslan himself comes, ... he is the son of the great Emperor-over-Sea, ...." [B.]. C.S. Lewis said that Aslan was a type of Christ [C.]. For this "Father God" character to use magic goes against God's own holy Word, the Bible. Deuteronomy 18 says...

Deuteronomy 18:9-11 (underlining added)

"[9] When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. [10] There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, [11] Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

The Magic Spell Book

But, Aslan promotes occult magic to the children reading the Narnia books. From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, we have this short dialogue between Aslan and Lucy. Lucy had just used a magic spell book to cast a spell to turn everything that is invisible visible. As you read, pay attention to how Lewis describes the spell book to his young audience (i.e. curious children). C.S. Lewis writes:

The C.S. Lewis Deception: The Author of The Chronicles of Narnia and His Pagan Beliefs

The C.S. Lewis Deception

C.S. Lewis, one of the most popular “Christian” authors and intellectuals to exist, has had a big impact on many Evangelical Christians. Several Hollywood movies have been made recently based on Lewis’s Narnia novels.

Many people have referenced him as a “patron saint” of modern Christianity.
Christianity Today calls C.S. Lewis "our patron saint" ("Still Surprised by Lewis").

But, what does C.S. Lewis really believe about Christianity?

Lewis said this while traveling through Greece with his wife in 1960:

 “I had some ado to prevent Joy (and myself) from lapsing 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” (C.S. Lewis to Chad Walsh, May 23, 1960, cited from George Sayer, Jack: A Life of C.S. Lewis, 1994, p. 378) (Emphasis added).

Lewis is calling Apollo (a Greek sun-god) a type of Christ. This is blasphemy. Jesus Christ is the name of God’s only begotten Son. (See 1 Peter 1:3, Matthew 3:17, etc.).

1 Timothy 2:5 says:
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”

Acts 4:12 says:
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

Apollo was a pagan god worshipped by the ancient Romans and Greeks.

C.S. Lewis’s Catholic Beliefs

A Catholic Church in Poland.
Notice the All Seeing Eye of Freemasonry?

C.S. Lewis was not ashamed of confessing his sins to a Catholic priest. And, on his deathbed, a Catholic priest gave Lewis his last rites on July 16, 1963 (Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper, C.S. Lewis: A Biography, 1974, pp. 198, 301).


Other Catholic (and pagan) beliefs Lewis held included purgatory and prayers for the dead. These both are pagan practices going back to ancient Babylon and ancient Egypt (See The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop).

C.S. Lewis said: “I believe in Purgatory ... Our souls demand Purgatory, don’t they?” (Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper, C.S. Lewis: A Biography, 1974, pp. 110-111).

C.S. Lewis wrote in Letters to Malcolm: “Of course I pray for the dead. The action is so spontaneous, so all but inevitable, that only the most compulsive theological case against it would deter men. And I hardly know how the rest of my prayers would survive if those for the dead were forbidden” (p. 109).

These are pagan and Catholic practices.

An ancient Egyptian Priest.
They also gave
the last rites.

‘In Egypt the exactions of the priests for funeral dues and masses for the dead were far from being trifling. "The priests," says Wilkinson, "induced the people to expend large sums on the celebration of funeral rites; […] and a prayer was sometimes read, the relations and friends being present as mourners. They even joined their prayers to those of the priest.’ (Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, pg. 140).

In his preface to Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis writes:

'The reader should be warned that I offer no help to anyone who is hesitating between two Christian "denominations." You will not learn from me whether you ought to become an Anglican, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, or a Roman Catholic.'

Here, he is saying that Catholicism is a denomination of Christianity. As we have shown in Mystery Babylon – The Great Harlot…, Catholicism is not anything but paganism with pseudo-Christian labels.


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Lewis also wrote: