if you know CS Lewis best from his
fantasy The Chronicles of Narnia or his
non-fiction books some of my favorite
books that he wrote is his sci-fi trilogy
the space trilogy right now I'm gonna
review book number two have you read
this trilogy let's talk in the comments
welcome to Durbania I'm Durban and this
is my book review for the second book in
CS Lewis's space trilogy Perelandra and
I'm excited to dive into this one
because of the space trilogy this the
second book in that trilogy has got to
be my favorite book and it's because of
the subject matter that it's my favorite
book now when you get into out of the
silent planet which if you haven't seen
my review for that you could click the
link and check out my review for that
but one of the things I said about that
as that book was very very slow-paced
but it was incredibly interesting to me
because it was a look at the idea of
life existing on other planets from a
Christian perspective and it was really
cool to take a look at that and it
explores how would God relate to them
how do they relate to God they call God
Maledil and you know it's just this
really interesting book to dive into now
what makes the second one Perelandra
my favorite book is the question that
this one explores yeah it looks at a
different planet with different life and
how God interacts with that but this is
an Adam and Eve Garden of Eden story and
it really explores the idea of what did
we lose by them eating that fruit off
the tree so it's really interesting the
way it dives into that so this really is
that story it's an origin story of a
brand-new race there's so many
interesting things that I've been to
like my head is just like cluttered with
it so first off venus is a planet
covered in water it's called Perelandra by the inhabitants and it's got
like islands that float around like
boats they just float but there's one
island that is a fixed land so they have
one rule don't spend the night on the
fixed-length that's the only rule that
they have to follow the Adam and Eve of
this world they're human except that
they're green what's interesting about
that is because of the resurrection of
Jesus it changed everything and this is
the first world
after the resurrection so because Jesus
came in a body then there's no better
form and so he creates these human
creatures on this other planet and it's
interesting that that to me was just a
very interesting philosophy to dive into
about how great the redemption on our
world is that it spilled over into this
brand-new world and that the rewards we
get from the cross they already get
spilled out into their creation and at
their birth and it's just an incredibly
interesting thing to dive into and
ransom gets sent to this world with a
mission and right after he arrives this
other dude Weston arrives what's
interesting about Weston he is the
serpent in the garden and basically the
devil the demons they can't leave the
earth they are bound and imprisoned
inside the air of the earth but if a
human invites them in for possession and
that human possessed by the devil goes
to another world then it takes that
devil with it to that other world and as
long as it has that flesh-and-blood
tether that it can possess then it can
be there
so Weston literally becomes the serpent
and the devil inside is there trying to
tempt this lady into sin and tempt her
to fall but ransom is redeemed we have
the devil on the one shoulder and the
angel on the other shoulder so that's
the other way that the redemption of man
affects new creation because because now
there can be a representative of the
body of Christ there to try to lead her
away from where the enemies trying to
take her and so that's kind of what this
becomes it's a very interesting story as
the devil goes back and forth trying to
tempt her while ransom is going back and
forth saying no you want to follow malla
dil which is their name for God you want
to follow malla dil you don't want to do
what this guy is saying now this guy
he's interesting as Weston is trying to
tempt the girl it's interesting the
modes and ways that he tries to get into
it because I find it interesting how CS
Lewis explores how the devil tries to
hit our thoughts how he tries to accuse
us in our thoughts the types of things
that he injects in our mind that we
think is really just us but it's
condemnation coming from him it's
deception coming from him he tells this
girl he's like don't you think Maleldil
doesn't want you stuck in this childlike
for
don't you think he wants you to grow up
well one way you grow up is he tells you
a rule don't sleep on the fixed island
you go that's the dumbest thing I've
ever heard
which means you're mature enough to
recognize that so you go spend the night
on the island then he honors you and so
he tries to throw at her this simple
logic that sounds good but then he
throws out this incredibly crazy
high-minded philosophical junk but he
has a method in the madness of that
because the philosophical high-minded
junk is making her brain go then he
tells her this simple thing that just
kind of tugs and pulls at her and really
what he's doing is he's trying to break
her down and make her exhausted at the
same time he's trying to make ransom
exhausted he's trying to torment ransom
as well so ransom is trying to fight
this guy's theology and sometimes that's
a hard thing to fight it's hard to have
the right argument or the right words
especially since this is a devil that is
an ancient being that is a master of
taking all that is good and twisting it
expertly but during the day when he's
tempting Eve this is another interesting
aspect that CS Lewis has put to the devil
he's using all this high-minded thought
and intellect and reason and then as
soon as she goes to sleep he like throws
away intellect and reason because it's
just a tool and he is done for the day
he doesn't ever want to pick that up if
he doesn't have to and so he sits down
and as ransom is trying to sleep this
double guy sits next to ransom and just
goes ransom ransom maximum ransom ransom
ransom and taunts ransom like a freaking
immature child and tries to break him
down and exhaust him that way so it's an
interesting look at the temptation of
the devil the methods of the devil and
it's an interesting look at him trying
to break down the good and and get her
to sin by breaking her down and making
her tired and the other thing that's
really cool about it is what makes it
even more intense is how CS Lewis
immerses you in what a sinless world is
like so really he takes innocence and
makes innocence a character and it's a
character that you don't want to die and
it's so fascinating how when Weston is
in the world what he does in the fact
that he's just this tormentor and now
he's in a world that is innocent and
free of torment he stands out like a
filthy stain on a clean shirt
it's it's so hard to get your mind off
of it it's so hard it's like come on let
this place be good
let it be innocent so it's really cool
how CS Lewis makes innocence a character
that you care about and you want to live
and I don't really want to spoil the
ending does the eve of this world spend
the night on the fixed island and break
the command of mal Adel like I don't
want to blow that much for you but what
I will say is the way seus Lewis dives
into this philosophy of what would have
happened or wouldn't have happened in
our Garden of Eden is just so incredibly
smart it's smart how he breaks down the
idea of yeah we made a huge mistake in
the Garden of Eden but God brought a
greater dimension of glory out of our
fallenness and out of our brokenness but
we miss something good
over here we missed it but when we
missed it his grace abounded and he made
something great out of it and so it's
interesting the way these ideas get
explored without being sermonizing or
preachy and diving into these characters
and diving into this world there's some
places where you get into a lot of
philosophy so it moves kind of Slow and it's
like okay can we pick this up a little
bit
but its overall so extremely interesting
and it's my favorite book I'm giving it
an A+ my favorite and the trilogy have
you read this trilogy what did you think
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