Symbolism: The Four Houses of Hogwarts and Liberation

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 76745

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ivan Vablatsky 
<ibotsjfvxfst at y...> wrote:
> In previous messages I have expounded my theory that HP is the 
timeless
> story of human liberation.               
> 

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> In the Bible the story of the rich young man can give us a 
beautiful clue.
> Matthew chapter 19 verses 16-24 tells us the story of a young man 
who came
> to Jesus asking how he could go the Path of Liberation. The young 
man had
> obeyed all the commandments but when Jesus told him he also had to 
sell all
> he had, he turned away sadly, "for he had great possessions."  Many 
people
> interpret this to mean that people who have a lot of money have 
trouble
> earning eternal life, but in my theory the Bible is more subtle 
than that.

Actually, the young man came to Jesus and asked what he needed to do 
to gain eternal life, which I so not condsider equates with the four 
sections of your Path of Liberation. The young man did say to Jesus 
that he had kept the commandments which Jesus had listed but Jesus 
did then say that he needed to go and sell his possessions. It has 
been pointed out that in the list of commandments which Jesus cited, 
he left out "you shall no covet". This was possibly the young man's 
failing. Jesus in other places summarised the commandments as two - 
love your God and love your neighbour as you would love yourself. The 
crux of Christian teaching came be summed up in John 3:16 and not by 
looking at the four paths which are not founded in the teaching of 
Christ.

Geoff