For instance, Maleldil has forbidden the Lady and her King (the only other being of her kind) from dwelling on Perelandra’s sole Fixed Land. In fact, she has no notion of desiring anything other than what Maleldil sends-everything he gives is good, and she walks with him continually, their wills in perfect harmony. The Lady even knows that Maleldil took a human form on Earth, but because she has no concept of evil, sin, or death, she doesn’t understand that Maleldil came to Earth to redeem human beings from their sin. Both he and the Lady, for example, know Maleldil, or God, but God’s purposes on Earth have been different from his purposes on Perelandra. He and the Green Lady spend the next days discussing their different worlds. On his second day there, he meets a beautiful woman who looks human in every way, except that she’s green. When Ransom lands on Perelandra, he finds it to be an oceanic world of rich, muted colors floating islands delicious fruits and tame, delightful creatures. Lewis does as Ransom asks, and Ransom returns from space a little more than a year later. It’s Lewis’s job to pack Ransom into his space capsule for the journey and then await his return. Earth’s wicked eldila are planning some sort of attack on Perelandra, and Ransom is being sent to intervene, though he doesn’t know how exactly. That night Ransom explains to Lewis that he’s being sent to Perelandra, or Venus. On his way to Ransom’s cottage, Lewis feels an almost tangible sense of resistance and fear, but he perseveres for his friend’s sake. Ransom has explained that Earth is under siege by hostile eldila and that the good eldila of Deep Space have taken notice. Lewis is uneasy about the eldila and isn’t sure he wants to be drawn in to their business, but Ransom has requested his help.
He knows that Ransom has visited Mars, where he met creatures called eldila, angelic beings that live in Deep Heaven, or space.
Lewis, an Oxford scholar, sets out one autumn afternoon to the home of his good friend Ransom, a Cambridge philologist.
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