Alchemy revisited: OOP prediction confirmed

[Ivan Vablatsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 67775




On April 21 I posted message 55793. In this message I said that the epic of Harry Potter is an alchemical formula symbolic of the path of human liberation. From what? From all limitations; from death, from disease and from suffering; from this time-spatial universe. 

I received three beautiful responses from people who took this seriously. However the vast majority of members totally ignored this message. I’d expected a few positive responses and possibly lots of howlers. I did not expect my theory to be totally ignored by 99% of members. So could I ask all you please to let me know what you think of my theory? Please don’t be afraid to hurt my feelings; great things are issue and my feelings are not one of them. Please tell me whether I’m a loony Lucy, a raving idiot or whether this is all Double Dutch. Is this theory above your head or beneath contempt? 

My theory was at any rate proved correct for book 5 and so I hope I’ll get a few more responses.

I pointed out that in the first book Harry is liberated from the desires for physical things and physical life; in the second book he achieves etheric liberation, in the third book astral (emotional) liberation, and in the fourth book his will is liberated from domination by the power of this world (Voldemort). I quote from message 55793 what I said about Book 5, 6, and 7:

“Awaiting Harry in the next three books are liberation of the consciousness in its three aspects: the mental ego, the emotional ego and the consciousness ego.

The Path of Liberation can also be divided into five steps, described by the names of five Gods and planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Harry has achieved the step of Mercury through his alliance with Hermione. Hermione is the female form of Hermes, the Greek equivalent of Mercury. He has also achieved Mars: the triumph of his will against that of Lucifer. To come in the next three books are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Venus of course represents love. Harry will come to know divine Love, symbolized probably by a demonstration or sacrifice of great love. To win Jupiter, Harry will have to become the leader of the Gods; in other words he will become a great leader. To achieve the Saturn initiation Harry will have to go through the Gate of Saturn - a Death followed by an implicit or explicit resurrection in an indestructible body.”

When I read book 5 I was very excited to see that my prediction was totally true. I don’t say this to pat myself on the back, but to point out to you all that this epic is indeed the way of liberation. 

As I said, step 5 on the Path of Liberation is freeing the mental ego. I’m sure everyone will agree that Harry’s ego plays a big part in book 5. But the main point of book 5 is to show how Harry shakes off Voldemort’s mental domination. Voldemort is able to enter Harry’s mind and so he receives occlumency lessons to prevent this, but in the end he proves he does not need occlumency. There is a far greater power in Harry with which he can liberate his mental ego: Love! 

As I said in message 55793, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn will start to play a role in Books 5-7. It’s obvious that Venus is the answer to Harry’s liberation of the mental ego. Seeing book 6 is about the liberation of the emotional ego, seated in the heart, this will enable the story of Harry to continue seamlessly to his next stage on the Path. How J.K. Rowling will turn Harry’s liberation of the heart into a ripping yarn is impossible to say, but to me it’s certain that she will expand on the love in Harry’s heart and that this will liberate his emotional consciousness. Perhaps Voldemort will try to attack Harry through his heart to destroy the Love there. Who knows? But I’m 100% sure the climax will be about Harry’s triumph over Voldemort because of the Love he has, which will liberate him from this world.

It was also very gratifying to see the Jupiter aspect coming to the fore in Harry’s leadership of Dumbledore’s Army. I hope this will be further developed in books 6 and 7. On the Path of Liberation Jupiter places the candidate before great sacrifices, but it’s purpose is to enable him to help others achieve liberation. In HP language: defense against the dark arts.

And of course book 7 must finish with the total Liberation of the consciousness ego. In real life this means a total merging of the old, egocentric consciousness into the great universal consciousness. It’s like a candle flame merging into the sun. I’m waiting with bated breath to see how J.K. Rowling achieves this in her epic. My theory is that this consciousness liberation is the very purpose of human existence; the very point of life on earth. This liberation will coincide with the Saturn Initiation as mentioned above. The merging of the egocentric consciousness into the universal consciousness is called going through the Gate of Saturn. This means Harry will die: yet he will not die. It’s a fictional death; a symbolic death only. How can the death of the limited, time-spatial consciousness be sad when it’s replaced by something that is eternal, immortal and totally selfless? Harry’s death will be the great triumph of eternity over temporality. And it’s not the end of anything.
 Does a candle flame die when it merges into the sun? Of course not; it’s still there, but not as an individual flame.

If I may I’d like to discuss the consequences of this theory when looking at J.K. Rowling’s writing. Most people assume that she has total freedom in writing the books. They think she has created everything out of her imagination, using a mishmash of traditional symbols and legends. My theory is that she was inspired by forces that connected her mind temporarily to the Universal Consciousness. She herself admits that she doesn’t know where the original inspiration came from. She says it was fully formed and all she had to do was ask questions and the answers formed in her mind.

My theory is that as long as she sticks to her basic archetypal story as it was given to her in June 1990, she does not have total freedom to do what she likes. In one of my previous postings I compared it to building a house. The original inspiration is the foundations. These determine very much what the house is going to look like, yet there is also a great amount of freedom. The number of rooms and the purpose of certain types of rooms are fully determined, but there is freedom of choice in things like the materials used and of course the furnishings and decorations. I don’t know where the original archetype ends and J.K. Rowling’s own imagination begins, but that this archetype is there is clear to anyone who can see the patterns. The Chamber of Secrets with the basilisk is obviously archetypical and memos flying around as paper jets is not.

Naturally if anyone else had had this same inspiration probably nothing would have happened. It takes a genius to combine inspiration with a narrative that has people just about committing murder to get hold of the next volume! The point I want to make is that the archetype comes first and the story second. I see many postings which criticize J.K. Rowling for doing certain things with the characters and the narrative. They criticize things like what Ron does, what Hermione’s character is, whether or not Harry did the right thing, etc. My answer is that J.K. Rowling has no choice in many things (i.e. if she wants to stick to the archetype). 

Take for example Ron and Hermione. My theory is that they’re not actually two different people, but aspects of the same person, namely us! We, the reader, have in us Harry, Ron and Hermione. Harry is our renewed heart, Hermione our opened mind and Ron our physical personality. Harry is the motivating aspect, i.e. the reborn soul of the person who goes the Path of Liberation. When that power is born in the heart, a new consciousness is born in the head. This consciousness is not the universal one I’ve mentioned but one that opens the head to direct communication with the Divine Plan (Hermione – Hermes – the messenger of the Gods). Ron is the earthly personality that must surrender itself to the heart. That’s why he was willing to sacrifice himself for Harry in the chess game. It is the heart, guided by the wisdom of the head, that must lead the human being on the path of liberation.

In the past I’ve seen postings criticizing Harry for being self-willed and taking the law into his own hands when for example he went to get the Philosopher’s Stone. Well the whole point of the book is to show that the new soul (Harry) has to liberate itself from the desire for physical health and wealth. The Philosopher’s Stone was able to produce gold (i.e. money) and everlasting healthy physical life. Harry was able to get the stone out of the mirror because he didn’t want those things! That’s the point of the book – liberation from desires which fetter us to the earth. The narrative was written AROUND that. Of course the narrative also has to work, and it usually does, because of J.K. Rowling’s genius, but there are limits and somewhere along the line it’s going to break down if we analyze the story too much.

I feel that if people look at HP this way they’ll understand why some things have to happen the way they do.

I notice that some people think that Harry’s occlumency lessons will have to continue in his sixth year. Well my theory is that the whole point of book 5 is that Harry doesn’t need occlumency! He can defeat Voldemort with the power of his heart. He is liberated from mental overshadowing. Love is the greatest power in the universe. Nothing is stronger. It is “a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the forces of nature.”

Hans in Holland



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