The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. Originally published: 1678 Author: John Bunyan Original language: English Country: England Genres: Allegory, Novel, Travel literature, Christian Fiction, Christian literature, Religious Fiction Adaptations: Pilgrim's Progress: Journey to Heaven (2008), Pilgrim's Progress (1979)

1. Part I: The Eighth
Stage,
the Ninth Stage
and the Tenth Stage

2. Christian and Hopeful reach the Delectable
Mountains on the outskirts of the Celestial City.
• Delectable – delightful,
attractive, delicious!
• They find here orchards
belong to Lord Emmanuel.
A View of Immanuel's Land
God with
us

3. Emmanuel (Hebrew name) is also an Old
Testament name for the Messiah.
Jesus
Christ
Saviour
Leader
A king sent
by God to
save the
Jewish
people

4. They meet some kind shepherds who
welcome them and say that the Lord
gave them the charge of offering
protection to good pilgrims.
• Name of the Shepherds –
Knowledge
Experience
Watchful
Sincere

5. •These 4 shepherds are the last group of
characters who provide Christian (and Hopeful)
with support and education before they arrive at
the Celestial City.
•The shepherds warn Christian and Hopeful of the
nearby hills called Error and Caution, which lead
some travelers to disaster.

6. A Hill called Error Caution Hill

7. • The remains of pilgrims, who could not hold to the truth, litter the
ground beneath Error.
• Similarly, on the hill of Caution, blind travelers wander among tombs
and get stuck there.
• The shepherds inform Christian and Hopeful that those who tried to
take a shortcut to the Mountains, were led to the Doubting Castle,
where Giant Despair imprisoned them, put out their eyes, and left
them to wander on the grounds of his estate.

8. • The shepherds allow Christian and Hopeful to
look through a telescope at the
Celestial City.
• The Shepherds warn them not
to sleep on the Enchanted Ground
and to beware of someone
named Flatterer.

9. • The Enchanted
Ground, an area
where the air makes
the pilgrims want to
stop to sleep.
If one goes to sleep in
this place,
that pilgrim
never wakes up.

10. The shepherds bid them
farewell and Christian
and Hopeful
continue their journey.
Then they
meet
Ignorance

11. • Ignorance goes through life hoping for
the best.
• He believes a good life is enough to enter
heaven and
tells that the path to the
Celestial City is long and difficult.
• Christian whispers to Hopeful that
Ignorance a fool.
They outpace Ignorance but he was
following them at a distance.

12. Christian and Hopeful then
see a man leading by devils
•That man was
Turn-Away.
•Seeing Turn-Away, Christian
remembers another person
called, Little-Faith.

14. • Turn-away represents those
who have fallen away from
the faith.
• Though they once professed
to be followers of Christ, now
they have turned away.
Turn-away did not even
listen to Evangelist

15. Little-Faith lacks –
courage, has doubt in trust and
is full of shame and guilt [inside]
Little-faith represents those who
are weak in faith and spiritually
unprepared to face the trials and
temptations of this world.
He follows Christ, but lacks
courage, confidence and comfort

16. Met by Flatterer
Flatterer - a deceitful
man in a white robe
who speaks beautifully
but ensnares Christian
and Hopeful in a net.

17. A Shining One arrives and cuts them loose.

18. The Shining One chastises them and told
them not to follow any false guide.
Christian and
Hopeful
repent for their
mistakes.

19. Christian and Hopeful resume their journey
and meet a man named Atheist
• Atheist claims not to have
found the Celestial City
in twenty years of
searching.
• The pilgrims affirm they
have seen it.
• Atheist laughs at them .

20. On the Enchanted Ground
Hopeful wants to lie down and
sleep but suddenly Christian
reminds him of the Shepherds’
warnings.
In order to prevent sleepiness,
Christian and Hopeful engage in
a long discussion.
They keep talking about Jesus
Christ and His sacrifices.

21. Hopeful looks back and sees Ignorance
coming at them.
• Here Christian tries to give Ignorance advices on God, soul,
heaven, devils and other religious matters. Christian says to
Ignorance that he (Ignorance) is still in the abyss of darkness
and he needs to wake up and seek the favour of Lord Jesus.
• Ignorance gets irritated and tells them to go ahead and takes
another route to move on.

22. The country of Beulah
• The country of Beulah - a lush
garden area just this side of
the River of Death.
• In the Bible Beulah is a name
symbolic of the heavenly Zion.

23. Beulah Land represents -
•times of comfort and
rest after divine
procedures.
•times of peace after
conflict with sin.

24. River of Death!
• Christian and Hopeful find a river
without any bridge over it.
• However, they both start to cross
it and Christian feels himself start to
sink but Hopeful mentions Jesus
Christ.
• Christian then has visions of Jesus
Christ and it gives him new hope.
• They emerge from the water.

25. Almost
there!

26. The Shining Ones lead them up to the gate of the
City on a tall hill, where trumpeters greet them.

27. Christian and Hopeful enter the Celestial City and
are clothed in garments of gold.

28. Ignorance, sent to Hell
• As Bunyan is still dreaming, he sees Ignorance coming up to the river-
side.
• Ignorance gets a ferryman, Vain-Hope, to ferry him across the River of
Death rather than cross it on foot as one is supposed to do.
When he gets to the gates of the Celestial City, he is asked for a
"certificate" needed for entry, which he does not have.
• The King upon hearing this, then, orders that he be bound and cast
into Hell.

29. End of the
Dream!

30. Significance of Dream
• Since it was first published in 1678, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress has encouraged
believers and pointed them to the Scriptures. C.H. Spurgeon said of this work:
“Next to the Bible, the book that I value most is John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress." I believe I have
read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the
secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures. It is really Biblical
teaching put into the form of a simple yet very striking allegory.”
• Bunyan wrote his allegory during the time he spent in the Bedford jail, referred to in his day as
"the den." After the Restoration in 1660, Bunyan was arrested for preaching the gospel in a non-
conformist church and spent most of the next twelve years in prison. During this imprisonment
Bunyan wrote an autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, which told how God
had graciously brought him from death unto life. He then began to shape his experiences of
coming to faith in Christ and suffering for the gospel into an allegory which he entitled The
Pilgrim's Progress.

31. • In 1672 Charles II granted a Declaration of Indulgence for Dissenters and Bunyan was
released. He began pastoring a group of believers meeting in Bedford. His freedom
did not last long, however. In 1675 the king was pressured to recant his declaration.
Bunyan was again arrested and thrown in the "den" where he was able to complete
his book. The Pilgrim's Progress was finally published in 1678 after Bunyan was again
released.
• Bunyan understands the challenge of writing about such glorious themes and he
readily owns his limitations as an author. He encourages his readers to cast away any
dross they find, “but yet preserve the gold.” As we have seen, in Bunyan’s dream all
the characters and events have meaning. Some are easy to interpret; others take
more thought and consideration. Bunyan concludes The Pilgrim’s Progress with a
poem inviting his readers to “put by the curtains, look within my veil” and challenging
them to use discernment. His story is endearing and enjoyable, but his substance is
weighty. He speaks of matters of eternal consequence and he wants he readers to
sense the gravity of his message.

32. Moral of the book [Part 1]
• One of the morals of this religious allegory is that there is no short cut or easier
route to heaven or deliverance from one's sins. On his way to the Wicket Gate,
Christian meets Mr. Worldly Wiseman, who tries to get Christian to take a
different path to deliverance through the village of Morality (instead of through
a belief in and love for Jesus Christ), but Evangelist compels Christian to turn
back to the path toward the Wicket Gate. It's a harder road, but it's the only one
that actually leads to the Celestial City (or heaven).
• Another moral centers around the importance of one's Christian church
congregation via the symbol of the Palace [House] Beautiful. After Christian
spends a few days there, he acquires armor and weapons that help him win his
battle with the monster, Apollyon. Without the support of the congregation,
Christian might have faltered.