What is The Republic of Heaven?
The Republic of Heaven is an idea first promoted by John Parry in The Amber Spyglass. It combines ideals of Lord Asriel\’s Republic with the universal truth that there is no elsewhere for a person. Lord Asriel\’s republic was an organisation advocating freedom from oppression for humanity across the worlds. However, his republic fails because he gathers people from different worlds into a single world. Persons living outside their home world grow ill over time and die before their natural life. Heaven, as a concept, is an ideal of living or the way in which people wish to live. The Republic of Heaven then is an idea where each person, in each of their own worlds must strive to do their best, as Lyra describes: We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we\’ve got to study and thing and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we\’ll build…\’ […] \’And then what?\’ said her dæmon sleepily. \’Build what?\’ \’The Rep
