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."Ransom had expected the King to relate his decision, but when the King's voice died away intothoughtful silence he had not the assurance to question him."Yes." said the King, musing."Though a man were to be torn in two halves.though half of himturned into earth.The living half must still follow Maleldil.For if it also lay down and became earth,what hope would there be for the whole? But while one half lived, through it He might send life backinto the other." Here he paused for a long time, and then spoke again somewhat quickly."He gave me noassurance.No fixed land.Always one must throw oneself into the wave." Then he cleared his brow andturned to the eldila and spoke in a new voice."Certainly, oh foster mother," he said."We have much need of counsel for already we feel that growingup within our bodies which our young wisdom can hardly overtake.They will not always be bodiesfile:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry%20kruis.spaar/C.%20S.%20Lewis%20-%20Voyage%20to%20Venus.txt (108 of 115)19-2-2006 4:46:18 file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry%20kruiswijk/Mijn%20documenten/spaar/C.%20S.%20Lewis%20-%20Voyage%20to%20Venus.txtbound to the low worlds.Hear the second word that I speak as Tor-Oyarsa-Perelendri.While this Worldgoes about Arbol ten thousand times, we shall judge and hearten our people from this throne.Its name isTai Harendrunar, The Hill of Life.""Its name is Tai Harendrimar," said the eldila."On the Fixed Land which once was forbidden," said Torthe King, "we will make a great place to the splendour of Maleldil.Our sons shall bend the pillars ofrock' into arches--""What are arches?" said Tinidril the Queen."Arches," said Tor the King, "are when pillars of stonethrow out branches like trees and knit their branches together and bear up a great dome as of leafage, butthe leaves shall be shaped stones.And there our sons will make images." "What are images?" saidTinidril."Splendour of Deep Heaven!" cried the King with a great laugh."It seems there are too manynew words in the air.I had thought these things were coming out of your mind into mine, and lo! youhave not thought them at all.Yet I think Maleldil passed them to me through you, none the less.I willshow you images, I will show you houses.It may be that in this matter our natures are reversed and it isyou who beget and I who beget and I who bear.But let us speak of plainer matters.We will fill thisworld with our children.We will know this world to the centre.We will make the nobler of the beasts sowise that they will become hnau and speak: their lives shall awake to a new life in us as we awake inMaleldil.When the time is ripe for it and the ten thousand circlings are nearly at an end, we will tear thesky curtain and Deep Heaven shall become familiar to the eyes of our sons as the trees and the waves toours.""And what after this, Tor-Oyarsa?" said Malacandra."Then it is Maleldil's purpose to make us free ofDeep Heaven.Our bodies will be changed, but not all changed.We shall be as the eldila, but not all asthe eldila.And so will all our sons and daughters be changed in the time of their ripeness, until thenumber is made up which Maleldil read in His Father's mind before times flowed.""And that," said Ransom, "will be the end?" Tor the King stared at him."The end?" he said."Who spokeof an end?" "The end of your world, I mean," said Ransom."Splendour of Heaven!" said Tor."Yourthoughts are unlike ours.About that time we shall be not far from the beginning of all things.But therewill be one matter to settle before the beginning rightly begins." "What is that?" asked Ransom."Your own world," said Tor, "Thulcandra.The siege of your world shall be raised, the black spot clearedaway, before the real beginning.In those days Maleldil will go to war-in us, and in many who once werehnau on your world, and in many from far off and in many eldila, and, last of all, in Himself unveiled,He will go down to Thulcandra.Some of us will go before
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