Ransom has become a "little Christ" as all Christians (since Antioch!) are called to be. Granted Ransom is a spectacular example, but it is precisely because he did "imitate" Christ that Perelandra was saved from the Fall. Satan had attacked via Weston's physical presence on Perelandra and calling the Fallen One into that world, which the previous ban on Earth had forbidden.
As by one man evil is entered into to Perelandra, so it is opposed by the Incarnate One who dwells in Ransom and enables him physically, mentally, and spiritually to do battle and defeat the enemy. Ransom is thus one who bears the same name as He who was the ransom for many AND the one who makes present in the here-and-now Christ Jesus. Ransom is thus an image of the Second Adam at work in Mankind and of the Church, as well as an individual. Ransom's true home is NOT Perelandra, but with Christ. He is a partaker of the spiritual realm in mysterious ways that are scarcely to be borne while in the body, yet he does so in obedience and as a conduit of grace and power (anyone else thinking saint right now?). The stigmata of the bruised heel identifies him as one with Christ, though separate from Him, AND is another indicator of the on-going nature of the Incarnation in the Church, both individually and corporately.
Ransom is not timeless. He is a physical being encountering and enduring and educating others in the spiritual realms of what has happened on earth ("Even the angels wish to get a glimpse of these things," as Paul observed.) The consequences of that reality render him relatively "timeless" by comparison, but his true home is eternity - neither Earth nor Perelandra. When Earth and Perelandra have ceased to be, Ransom (and all Christ-ians, indeed!) will still be, living in the life of the Trinity! When the Universe has run down its appointed duration and matter ceases, Ransom will still be in God and living (as will we!).
Ransom therefore works on a literal level, an allegorical level, a moral level, and an anogogical level (like Dante in THE DIVINE COMEDY, in fact). To borrow and particularize Dante's explanation in his letter on reading the COMMEDIA to his patron Can Grande della Scala:
"For the meaning of this work is not simple...for we obtain one meaning from the letter of it, and another from that which the letter signifies... . For if we regard
the letter alone what is set before us is (the story); if the
allegory ... redemption wrought by Christ (through Ransom); if the
moral sense, we are shown the conversion of the soul from grief and wretchedness of sin to the state of grace; if the
anagogical, we are shown the departure of the holy soul from the thralldom of this corruption to the liberty of eternal glory.
"The subject of the whole work then, taken merely in the
literal sense is ('what happened to Ransom on Perelandra and afterwards on Earth'), for the development of the whole work hinges on and about that. But if, indeed, the work is taken (
allegorical or mystical), its subject is "Man, as by good or ill deserts, in the exercise of his free choice, he becomes liable to (manifesting or refusing Christ)." <cf. Dorothy L. Sayers "Introduction" to her translation of HELL, pp. 14 -15>
Ransom is modelled on JRR Tolkien per CS Lewis. Thus we see a particular instance of Christ at work in Tolkien converting Lewis. Christ in Lewis then goes on to do the same (as Tolkien continued to do) with Lewis' apologetics, and we have the redemptions of the subcreations of Narnia and Middle Earth - though not in precisely the same modes (just as Perelandra differs from Narnia and both from Middle Earth).
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