I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!

These lines occur near the close of C. S. Lewis’s final Narnia chronicle, where the surviving friends of Narnia pass through the “stable door” and discover that it opens not into darkness but into a more real, more beautiful country. The exclamation is spoken as the characters realize they have entered “Aslan’s country,” a transformed, ultimate Narnia that fulfills and surpasses all their earlier experiences. Written late in Lewis’s life and published in 1956, the scene draws on his long-standing Christian Platonism and his theme of Sehnsucht (a deep longing for an unattained homeland) that runs through his fiction and autobiography.

The passage dramatizes Lewis’s idea that our deepest longings point beyond the visible world toward a truer reality. “Real country” suggests a Platonic hierarchy in which earthly goods are shadows of a more substantial realm; “I have been looking for all my life” frames that realm as the object of an inarticulate yearning only recognized when finally encountered. The repeated invitation—“Come further up, come further in!”—turns salvation into an ever-deepening journey rather than a static reward, emphasizing growth, discovery, and joy. In Lewis’s Christian imagination, heaven is not escape from creation but its fulfillment: more solid, more vivid, and more itself.