Like CS Lewis, I am Christian and I don't rule out The Multiverse. I do wonder, though, why Lewis has brought to his allegories this particular vision of The Multiverse.
The Magician's Nephew has an End and a Beginning: Charn and Narnia. The one is a sheol, the next a gan-'eden. They do not exist together. The Space Trilogy also presents mortal Malacandra, then foetal Perelandra. 'Tis possible that, for Lewis - them's the rules.
TMN's Wood is like that Trilogy's interplanetary æther. The viewpoint characters are interlopers into these worlds, not - as in mainline Narnia - guests. Digory and Polly could have gone anywhere. If not to a Dantean hell: never mind that these books are for kids, Lewis at base doesn't believe in hell, just in Charn, per Great Divorce.
In this genre, all we can expect from interdimensional commerce is damage, the sort of damage Digory inflicts from Charn upon Narnia. At best we get cautionary tales. Digory and Polly are no better than Jadis herself.
Lewis by TMN wrote a fan-fiction in his own universe. Moreover, Charn's sorry end opened up if that must be the Eschaton for all worlds, including Narnia. This forced the writing of The Last Battle.
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