* Aslan stating to Emeth that it doesn't matter who he worships, only his honor and actions. Despite the fact that Emeth was a devout worshipper of Tash, Aslan's opposite, Aslan accepts him with open arms not because he is devout, but because he is an honorable man who found honest enlightenment.
** Indeed, Emeth worshipped Tash because he thought Tash was holy and righteous and it would be worth a thousand deaths merely to see the Face of Tash clearly. Tash is actually hideous, revolting and cruel and could never have found Emeth's devotion remotely acceptable -- but it was just the kind of devotion Aslan looks for (and probably meant that Emeth ignored a lot of what the holy men of Calormen ''taught'' about Tash, too). The moment Emeth saw Aslan clearly, he realized that he had been mistaken all his life and it was really the Lion he should have been worshipping, and when Aslan spoke to him, Emeth was too honest to deny his mistake, as well as guessing that it was a waste of time to try to deny his fault before Aslan. Equally, during their conversation Emeth innocently asked whether it was true, as he had been hearing, that Aslan and Tash were the same. Aslan growled angrily to hear such heresy -- but it was the teachers of the heresy he was angry with, not their innocent pupil.
* Seeing every heroic character who fell in the Last Battle alive again in Aslan's Country. In particular:
** The good Bear's last appearance before that is a tear-jerking moment when he lies dying with feeble LastWords of "I don't... understand...", and then, after he is resurrected and goes into the Stable, he mumbles at first that he still doesn't understand but soon sees the fruit trees and, the narrator assures us, finds something there that he understands very well.
* Emeth meets High King Peter and straight away recognises that it would be a joy to have him as a noble friend (the best blessing) or a noble enemy (the next best, as a Calormene poet has declared). Peter says for his part that he certainly knows no reason why they should be enemies -- and they are straight away friends from then until the end of Eternity itself.
* The sorrow of the Narnian characters turning to utter joy as they realize they have come at last to the true Narnia, and that they loved the old, destroyed Narnia only because it sometimes looked like this. Similarly, on the last page, the children worrying that they're going to be sent back to England and learning, ''to their delight'', that they are dead in that world and that Aslan's country is now their home, forever.
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