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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