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In is book The Great Divorce C S Lewis depicted people in this world as walking ghosts in a ghostly world where nothing was solid and real. He depicted the foothills of heaven as solid and real so much so that for the ghosts of this world heaven was full of sharp painful things. The grass in heaven's foothills hurt our feet because it was solid and unyielding cutting into the souls of our feet. Heavenly water, rain, wind, all caused hardship for our ghostly selves. Lewis saw something that might be missed in day to day life. He saw that reality is not the ghostly existence of created beings apart from God. It is so real that for us it is painful.
His story ends with sunrise in the foothills of heaven. The beams of light were like stones and spears hitting the unprotected ghostly flesh of people who had not transitioned to heavenly reality.
His story ends with sunrise in the foothills of heaven. The beams of light were like stones and spears hitting the unprotected ghostly flesh of people who had not transitioned to heavenly reality.
