Do You Know Aslan?

…said Eustace, “But who is Aslan? Do you know him?”

“Well- he knows me,” said Edmund…

-The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Why does Edmund say that Aslan knows him but he doesn’t know Aslan? The Chronicles of Narnia are an allegory for parts of the Bible, and it is most pronounced in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Aslan represents Jesus, the stone table represents the cross where Jesus/Aslan died. You

get the point. Eustace meets Aslan when he is a dragon, and Aslan helps him turn back into a boy.

I think I can make a comparison with the Bible in what Edmund says. Edmund says that Aslan knows him, but he doesn't say that he knows Aslan. God knows everyone. He created everyone, but the lines get fuzzy when it come to you knowing God.

For instance, I believe that there is a God, that there is only one God, but I wouldn’t say that I know God. I would say that I know there is a god, but do I know God as a person, as a being? Not really. God has no beginning and no end, God is eternal, God is creator of Heaven and Earth, and humans don’t really have the ability to comprehend that. I think this is what C. S. Lewis is getting at in this piece of the story. That’s why Edmund says that Aslan knows him, but Edmund doesn't really know Aslan.

By Aurora J. A. Pass