Spiritual purpose of HP

[Ivan Vablatsky]

In April I sent emails to the main group postulating my theory that the story of Harry Potter is a deeply spiritual, but symbolic, guide for human liberation.
 
Several people responded to this, some privately. Some questions were raised which I would now like to answer. One person asked me about my views on the Bible because I seemed to be saying that both the Bible and Harry Potter were preaching liberation.
 
"Do you not believe that the bible is the inspired word of God?"
My theory is that there are two parallel universes exisiting in the same space. One is the universe we know. This is the three dimensional universe governed by pairs of opposites and by time. Everything in our universe is subject, in time, to birth, growth, decline and death. Our lives move within the narrow confines of pairs of opposites such as good and evil, light and dark, love and hate, health and illness. In this universe the eternal Plan of the Creator is not being carried out.

The other universe is the original creation of the Potter of the Universe. Everything there is totally in accordance with his plan and time is fiction there. There is no birth and death; only an eternal development from glory to glory and from power to power. There are no opposites; there are only absolutes. The motivating power there is love. A supreme energy, which we call "spirit", resides in all creatures and guides them. This parallel universe has been known about in our world for many millennia. The Buddhists call it Nirvana, the Taoists call it Tao, Christians call it the Kingdom of Heaven.

Originally there was only one universe. Within this universe lived the Sons of the Potter who had created them in his own image. However the Creator gave his children a free will. In a process commonly called "The Fall" original humanity used its free will experimentally and thus deviated from the Plan.  The result of deviating from the Plan is like swimming against the stream: you get nowhere and you end up going in circles. Through a process taking billions of years (seen in our time) humanity lost touch with the spirit of the creator totally and, without going into detail, gradually descended into a state of lower vibration which, in accordance with divine laws, resulted in the creation of a time-spatial universe in which we are "imprisoned" so to speak. The "falling" human beings gradually lost their inperishable bodies and had to enter states of life in which death operated. The final result is that the original sons of the creator fell into a state of latency or dormancy while the bodies they inhabit have developed a powerful consciousness and a very efficient brain for coping with the time-spatial universe. Millions of people have this dormant rudiment of the original human being in their heart.

As I said, love is the main motivating force in the creator's universe, and not all his creatures participated in the fall. Those who did not I will refer to as the Sons (and Daughters) of Fire. These Sons of Fire had an inexhaustible compassion for those who were falling and they formed an alliance to work for the return of the "prodigal sons". Throughout the fall there were those who realised the consequences and took up the help offered by the Sons of Fire. As soon as they became liberated they also joined the Sons of Fire.

In accordance with the creator's law that the will must be free, the Sons of Fire work only for those who truly yearn to return to the original universe and who are willing to make every necessary sacrifice. 

The way the Sons of Fire generally work is to inspire people who are pure and open to inspiration and who have some sort of talent with words (or art). These people are able to tell the rest of humanity about the process of reversing the fall, or liberation. As the original universe is multi-dimensional and in every way diferent to ours, there is no material in this universe to make comparisons with the original one, and so the only way to describe the path of liberation and the end of it is to communicate in parables, in symbols, in archetypes. People in whom the original divine human rudiment is showing signs of activity recognise these symbols and stories and become disquieted by them. They feel there must be a purpose to life and they begin to seek for it. If they persist long enough they discover that the purpose of life is not in this universe but in the parallel one.

The call for liberation from the Sons of Fire  comes in many tunes and tones, and some are short and weak, and others are extremely powerful, having effects for thousands of years. For example the New Testament of the Christians is such a one. Also many chapters of the Old Testament have great power, although this is fading now. We also have the Gospel of the Buddha, the Gospel of Mani, the Tao Teh Ching, and many others. There are also weaker calls which have a short-term effect. For example the many fairy tales, myths and legends often contain the call. For example the Twelve Labours of Hercules are acts of liberation. And who doesn't know the story of Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose)? This is the great liberating story of how the inner "princess" (the original divine human being) must be awakened and returned to her "Kingdom". We also have the story of King Arthur and the Holy Grail, Parsival, etc. 

Many poets and great writers have also referred to the Fall and the Return, for example Dante's Divine Comedy, some of Shakespeare's plays etc. And of course there's J.K. Rowling's story of Harry Potter, in which the author outlines the path of liberation in a very veiled, symbolical way.

So the answer to this questions is: yes, the Bible is the inspied word of God, but it should be kept in mind that everything, no matter how pure and divine, on entering this world of opposies, is immediately sullied and degraded. In fact there is an almost irresistible compulsion by the majority of people of this universe to pollute, to trivialise, to drag through the mud everything that is pure and radiant. In my theory it is a mistake to take the Bible as the pure and literal Word of God. The oldest copy of the New Testament we have is dated 300 years after the events described happened, and in those days manuscripts were copied by hand - providing plenty of opportunities for people to make mistakes, or change the wording to suit their opinions about the purpose of the Bible. The only way to ensure that a text is kept intact in this world is to write in an extrenely veiled and symbolical way.

Just as a comment on the above: I'm not denying the existence of great Sons of Fire who have come to live among us and set the example to show that liberation is possible. We have the great liberating messengers such as Jesus, Gautama, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Mani, etc. However the only way to achieve liberation is to go the Path completely by our own efforts. No one, no matter how close to the creator, can take a step for us. We have to take every step ourselves.

To be continued.

Hans






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