Sad to say, Aslan is not on the move.

This morning I've been reflecting on how inappropriate it would be to have a /stone/ Aslan. And how unthinkable it would be that, in the books, Aslan would be turned to stone. Unimaginable, right? He must die—absolutely!—but he must die by the fire and the knife. Why? (Thread)

We need to consider the Biblical typology informing Lewis. To be turned to stone is to be dust hardened (by dark magic). It is to be confirmed in your dustness and to sink down. But there is another kind of death, shown by the Great High Priest.

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On Yom Kippur he reveals a death that results in a rising up.
He made sacrifices by fire & knife. Not curses, Sacrifices where blood is shed (IOW life is liberally poured out). Thru the curtain (embroidered w a fiery knife), the Priest ascends to God. A very different death.

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Notice what he carries on his heart as he does so? /Precious/ stones, representing the people (Ex. 28). There's a way to be glorified dust rather than being cursed as hardened dust. It involves a life-giving sacrifice and being carried by your Priest. But this is a good death.
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Everyone must die. Even the great Sacrifice (the great Aslan). But he'd never die the cursed, hardened, bloodless, sinking-down death. He dies the blessed, gushing, life-giving, rising-up death. Then he carries us with him into glorified life. But it's life-from-the-dead life.>

Normally we sink like a stone from life to death. We are cursed to die a death-from-our-life death. In Christ, though, we rise from death to life. We are offered a life-from-the-dead life.

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We all must die. But don't die the grasping death and be hardened. Get carried by the Great High Priest. Then, in him, die the gushing death and be glorified.

Or, as the Scriptures (sorta) say hundreds of times:

Do not be petrified.

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