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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I nominate Lilith by George MacDonald.
MacDonald was a Christian Universalist who believed that all people would ultimately be saved, and although his theology was far removed from the theology of C.S. Lewis, his writings had a profound influence on the historian. In this fantasy, the protagonist, Mr. Vane, after following a mysterious librarian through a mirror to a parallel dimension, has many adventures in that strange realm and meets Adam's first wife, Lilith.
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Lewis was indeed very influenced by the spirituality of MacDonald; so much so that he edited a book,
George MacDonald: An Anthology which contained daily aphorisms found in the works of MacDonald. In a thirty-four page preface Lewis has this to say of him:
"The quality which had enchanted me in his imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical, terrifying, and ecstatic reality in which we all live."