The Labyrinth of the World and The Paradise of the Heart

If you loved Pilgrim’s Progress, you need to discover what inspired it. Labyrinth of the World is the original pilgrim allegory. Penned 400 years ago, today it is virtually unknown in English. The author lived and ministered most of his life in exile after losing his entire family to the Plague. Both in life and allegory John Amos Comenius illustrates the teachings of Christ and Paul – the kingdom of God amongst the kingdoms of men – in ways religious institutionalism has seemingly all but forgotten. No other allegory in literary history depicts what Comenius gives us in this tale.