Occult/mystical ranting, inspired by main list
Hans
ibotsjfvxfst at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Apr 27 10:28:02 UTC 2003
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince
Winston)" wrote:
> In http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/55793
> Hans Ibot Bracchae-Breves wrote about the mystical sympbolism in
the
> Harry Potter series.
>
> Hans, I was interested in your explanation of the Seven books as
> depicting Seven liberations necessary to (to what? escape from the
> Wheel of Rebirth? go to a pleasant heaven beyond the stars for an
> eternal afterlife after death?), because Seven is a big-time
> traditional magic number. It correlates with the Seven visible
> planets (which includes Sun and Moon but not Earth) which named our
> Seven days of the week, and with the Seven major chakras.
Rita,
Many thanks for your long message in reply to mine. I appreciate the
time you've put into this.
I'm afraid I have absolutely no knowledge of the Mithraic Mysteries,
and I will have to read your email many many times to be able to
comprehend it and possibly react to it.
There is one question which I think I can answer right away. You
ask, "liberation from what?" I have been deliberately vague on this
so that it will provoke people to ask just that sort of question.
Yes, liberation from the wheel of reincarnation, of course. That's
too obvious. No not a pleasant eternal life after death. I think I
have made that clear in a new posting to HPFGU yesterday. Heaven
forbid! I think I'd die of boredom.
By liberation I mean liberation from ourselves! Liberation from the
three dimensional consciousness, from our prejudices, our sympathies
and antipathies, our lack of compassion, our cowardice, our
selfishness. By liberation I mean the liberation of the Harry Potter
who is dormant as a living Philosopher's Stone deep within the red
blood of our hearts. Liberation is Ron (us) sacrificing himself so
that heir of Godric can develop, step by step, from a totally
helpless infant, to an eternal Son of the Potter of the Universe,
totally free, with a multidimensional consciousness, to be
compassionate, radiating love, working relentlessly for the
liberation of the whole of humanity.
Just a minor comment about Harry's liberation from fear in Book 3.
Yes, fear is mentioned in all the books, but the clue is that Lupin
says to Harry that what he fears is fear itself. The whole point of
the book is Harry's unremitting struggle to overcome his fear of
fear. At the end Harry wins the battle. To accentuate Harry's growth
in the astral plane Dr Rowling has Harry blowing up his aunt at the
beginning of the book. In other words Harry has very little control
over his emotions. At the end of the book Harry has achieved mastery
over his astral body - he has triumphed over the most powerful
emotion of all: He has overcome fear of fear itself!
Another minor comment on etheric beings: yes in Dr Rowling's books
elves, gnomes, mermaids etc are physical. However my theory is that
they really do exist in the real world and that they are etheric.
They are invisible to our muggle eyes. I love Stan's contemptuous
description of us: 'Don' listen properly, do they? Don' look properly
either. Never notice nuffink, they don'.' Yes ok in the magical world
they dig up earth. I don't think we should take the books too
literally though. It has to be credible to us muggles!
I have read somewhere that salamanders are etheric creatures that
live in fire. Dr Rowling hasn't dreamed that up. The same with
mermaids, undines, nymphs etc. living in water.
In my opinion your message is extremely valuable and I thank you
sincerely. I need time to absorb it and possibly do some research.
All I can say is how wonderful it is that HPFGU provides people of so
many backgrounds and pursuations the opportunity to pool their their
ideas and enrich everyone.
Thanks, Rita!
Hans
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