People get into Narnia via Aslan's choice.

=========================== Holy Christian symbolism, Batman! =========================== TCoN, written by C.S. Lewis is the portrayal of Lewis' personal theological discourse. Aimed at a primarily younger audience they can be seen to be in essence a teaching guide for readers into what he views as the correct forms of existence in relation to a personal God. On an amusing aside, Tolkien, his mentor rebuked him for being far too obvious. =========================== I am God, hear me roar. =========================== The basest analogy between the Bible and TCoN - Aslan represents the trinity (3 as 1 Lewis style - important later). Though more commonly portrayed as redemption (Christ figure - the point of the series after all) he also represents God the creator (namely in the Magicians Nephew) and the "spirit of Aslan" is referred to throughout the series to complete the trifecta. Aslan's creation of Narnia is a copy of his own land - "Aslan's Country" (as is Earth and all other worlds). The sole purpose of this duplication is it is the form through which those who would be awarded salvation shall be picked (see The Last Battle). Only those Aslan could trust and respect into his own world. The rest are well..made to suffer; Narnia is destroyed after all by dragons and giant lizards and there is the land of Tash (the devil). =========================== Don't play poker with Aslan. =========================== Why he holds all the cards. (1)Fulfilment of Golden age prophecy: Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we will have spring again, When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone, Sits at Cair Paravel in throne, The evil time will be over and done. The prophecy tells of Aslan defeating the White Witch (Jadis) and the arrival of the 4 siblings from LWW...keep this in mind. (2)Aslan's actions with the Witch led to his death. However, when the Witch executed him, he was resurrected, proving he was the Narnian saviour - eventually killing her personally (prophecy!). (3)Aslan judged every creature who had died in Narnia. (TLB). (4)When meeting Aslan the Pevensies (4 children from LWW) are told that they will rule over Narnia when Jadis is destroyed. So we have the clear understanding of Aslan knowledge of the prophecy and its fulfilment. Aslan knew of Jadis - indeed he required her in Narnia as a counterfoil for the Penvises and forms part of the standard from which to judge those whom are worthy to enter true Narnia (see Edmund in LWW). Similarly with the pirates, for Prince Caspian to rule he must be descended from a "son of Adam" i.e. they are needed for Caspian X to reign in Narnia. The kingdom and lineage derived from those pirates allows him to establish the more virtuous kingdom - an important aspect for the judging those who are worthy. Free will is dominant in the series - the more negative inhabitants are generally discussed in this manner - and it's an important concept through which Aslan is either seen/felt or not and the ultimate judgement that occurs. Prince Caspian was a believer in Aslan without firsthand experience - this virtue is a common theme (faith) and it's this form of faith that enabled Lucy to enter the wardrobe (she alone of the Penvises had unending faith in Aslan). =========================== Time is like water...become the cup. =========================== He is everywhere all the time. ""Narnian time flows differently from ours. If you spent a hundred years in Narnia, you would still come back to our world at the very same hour of the very same day on which you left."" ""Please, Aslan," said Lucy, "what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon," said Aslan." Aslan exists in all time references (see Lewis' own writings on belief of time oddities -"Almost certainly God is not in Time." - Mere Christianity). Aslan has meta control - is omnipotent "an all powerful roar" (removed from free will of individuals - see below). ""You see," said Aslan. "They will not let us help them. They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out."" ""There are *no accidents.* Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this."" Aslan to Jill: "... You have done the work for which *I sent you* into Narnia." Aslan has control of his domain. Its creation was for his sole purpose.