He meets a host of supernatural beings far removed from his expectations, and comes to some significant realizations about the nature of good and evil. Lewis's classic vision of the Afterworld, the narrator boards a bus on a drizzly English afternoon and embarks on an incredible voyage through Heaven and Hell.

Here, MacDonald seems to acknowledge this by suggesting that the opinions of those on Earth are not necessarily important in regard to how one is judged in Heaven. Lewis book that I have read over and over again. The Great Divorce presents a complex and nuanced vision of how choice impacts the afterlife. You will be profoundly affected by this book and it will shape the eternal choices that you make. In a dream, the narrator boards a bus on a drizzly afternoon in Hell and embarks on an incredible voyage to Heaven. This book is not a metaphysical treatise on heaven and hell, it is a clever and insightful look into our free will and why we choose ourselves over God, why we keep our misery when we are offered joy. Lewis dazzling allegory about Heaven and Hell - and the chasm fixed between them - is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, where we discover that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside.

Lewis witnesses the choice itself being made in various manisfestations, and given a tour by George MacDonald - Lewis's own spiritual guru in real life. Each is met by someone and given the oppurtunity to walk freely into heaven, although most choose rather to rule in Hell than reside in heaven.

Lewis takes a visionary bus ride from hell to heaven with his fellow dammed souls. Lewiss The Great Divorce, first published in serial form in 1945 and as a novel the following year, explores an unnamed narrators experiences in Heaven.

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