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Michael Ward: Planet Narnia

Socrates in the City

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The Kinglyness of Jupiter

Lewis was interested in reacquainting people specifically with Jupiter's qualities quotation four on your sheet gives you his poetic treatment of Jupiter we don't have time to to read it I'm afraid but again have a look at that afterwards what are Jupiter's qualities kinglyness principally. In the same book when Jupiter comes down bodily as a planet he um he overmatches the unendurable cold of Saturn in that planet's poem passage you'll see a phrase winter past and guilt forgiven  Jupiter is the great divine antifreeze, says Lewis.

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