[HPforGrownups] More insight into Snape/Snape's challenge

[Ivan Vablatsky]

MarEphraim wrote to HPforGrownups:
 
Hey Hans, from where do you get your knowledge of alchemy? What are the sources for info on it?

My reaction: 
 
There isn't a quick answer to that.
 
I have been a lifelong student of this subject. If you're really interested in something you automatically pick up clues. You look up books, websites, you listen to conversations, you meet people, and so on.
 
To become interested in liberation you have to experience this world as a prison first. You have to feel there's more to life than being born, growing, flowering, reproducing and dying. You have to long to find the purpose of life. 
You begin to suspect there's more to life than this perceptible three dimensional world. You reach the insight that this planet is one great lunatic asylum. And who are the guards? We ourselves are. If this is a lunatic asylum it means there must also be a place that isn't. You begin to search. Books are the obvious place to begin.
I read books by theologians, spiritualists, yogis, Theosophists, Anthroposophists, Rosicrucians, you name it. I attended Revival Crusades, Seances, Yoga sessions, public lectures by Tom, Dick and Harry. 
It's a painful journey at first, as you discover many groups are out to further imprison you in their own little cell. But after a while you learn to listen with your heart. There's a magic tuning fork in there that helps you tell whether the song you hear is Lorelei's evil but seductive strain, or the truth. Well, at least a shard of the truth, as the full truth can never be contained.
You discover that there's a secret escape hatch in the prison. It's where you've never thought of looking before: upwards. When you discover that escape hatch it's like the first smell of freesias in spring. Your heart nearly jumps out of your chest. You begin to yearn for the way out with all your heart. And that's the key: As soon as your heart emits the call for freedom an answer comes. It's as if someone's been waiting all that time for you to turn upwards and ask to come back up. When that magic moment has come, you receive the letter of invitation to Hogwarts. 
On the letter are listed seven books. 
 
I hope some of this makes sense. Our heart is like a magnet. If we really want something, then it will be attracted to us by the power of desire. Then we will automatically find the right books and people to help us. We all have access to the Room of Requirement if we really and deeply desire it.
 
I'm not trying to tease you; the point is that with this subject the only way to go is to have the longing for liberation. Without it you'll get nowhere; with it you'll find the Way. That's the flying key in PS/SS!
 
However, I will give you the names of some authors and books that helped me in my quest for spiritual alchemy.
 
Mme Blavatsky's "Isis Unveiled" was a real eye-opener. She also wrote "The Secret Doctrine".
 
Max Heindel wrote some wonderful books, and Rudolf Steiner I found fascinating, if a bit dry.
 
One of the most powerful books on the subject of alchemy is "The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross, (esoteric analysis of the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreuzt anno 1459)" by Jan van Rijckenborgh (ISBN 90 6732 058 7).
 
Feel free to email me privately if you need any more clues.
 
Good luck with your quest.
 
Hans
 

 
 



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