Path of Liberation

Tue Jul 8 15:26:10 UTC 2003

No: HPFGUIDX 68370

Hans Said: 

>Harry will come to know divine Love, symbolized probably by a 

demonstration or sacrifice of great love. 

and further said:   

> 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. > 

Talisman inquires:

>Do you think Sirius's death could be this sacrifice? 

Hans’ now:

I just don’t know. I had imagined something right at the end of book 7. 

Something that would require Harry to make a choice. He didn’t really have 

much choice in Sirius’ death, did he? 

Talisman said:

>We are told that Sirius cares more for Harry than anyone (OoP 831), and that 

Sirius is the one person Harry would go to any lengths to save (OoP 

831). In the mutual effort to save each other, Sirius is slain (I 

say sacrificed, and yes I say by Dumbledore, see my #66983 and #67142)

Hans now:

Yes I agree Harry’s effort to save Sirius ended up as a sacrifice. But it wasn’t a 

conscious act of sacrifice. I feel that Harry will be confronted by a total “all or 

nothing” choice, where he will be conscious of the consequences beforehand. 

I’ve been wondering for months and months what exactly Sirius symbolizes. I 

can’t help being struck by the words, “god” and “father”. I just don’t know. 

All I can say is I keep hearing the words in my head: “It is to your advantage that 

I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counsellor will not come to you; but if I 

go, I will send him to you.” (Jn 16:7)

Will Sirius send a Counsellor to comfort Harry and teach him concerning sin, 

righteousness and judgment? 

Talisman said:

>I don't have the cite, but I believe there is a divination class 

scene in PoA where Trelawney sees the Grim in the tea leaves (can we 

agree that the Grim is really big black Sirius from 12 Grimmauld 

Place?) and Ron sees a Sheep (sacrificial lamb?)

Hans now:

Yessss! The lamb! Spot on. Hmm. The Alchemical Wedding of Christian 

Rosencreutz starts off with the Pascal Lamb. Interesting. The name “black” is 

obviously the reverse. An innocent man who is imprisoned for 13 years. All 

clues, clues! Who else was imprisoned falsely? What is the greatest prison in the

universe? Why, our earth obviously. Who made the tremendous sacrifice of 

leaving the Kingdom of Love to come to our prison? Jesus of Nazareth. Albus 

the white and Sirius Black. Albus sacrificed Black, you say? The Father 

sacrificed the Son? My brain isn’t big enough for these macrocosmic concepts. 

Help! I’ll have to ponder on this.

What about the number thirteen? The Thirteenth Aeon of course! The ancient 

Gnostics referred to the way back to God as the Thirteenth Aeon. The twelve 

aeons are the forces of this world. We know them as the signs of the Zodiac. 

Together they form the guards of our prison. Thirteen is the code number for 

liberation! Black was freed in his thirteenth year. That’s why the platform to the 

wizarding world is nine and three quarters! That’s the hidden reference to 

thirteen, because 9 and 3 quarters are exactly three quarters of thirteen.

Talisman said:

>Sirius's death clearly leads to a heightened level of emotional 

consciousness for Harry. (OoP 816) As both of us have noted in our 

various posts, it unleashes "The Power the Dark Lord knows not of." 

Hans now:

Thank you, thank you! Of course. It is Sirius’ death that unleashes Harry’s love. 

If Sirius hadn’t died perhaps Voldemort wouldn’t have been driven out.

Hans Said: 

> And of course book 7 must finish with the total Liberation of the 

consciousness ego. My theory is that this consciousness 

liberation is the very purpose of human existence; the very point of 

life on earth. 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.

Talisman responded: 

>Yes. This is the raison d'etre for the transforming hero's journey.  This is the 

object of the quest for the Holy Grail. This is bringing authentic life to the 

Waste Land.  

This is the meaning of "He who would save his life must lose it."

Hans now:

Exactly! To be able to triumph over Voldemort, we have to be prepared to die. 

Only then will our death be our total liberation. That’s what the prediction means.

Hans said:

> 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.

Talisman responded:

>I totally agree that HRH are three in one. And, as I said in #67142 

we can (and should) all take this journey (though perhaps not many 

do).  

Hans now:

But that means we all have Voldemort inside us too! If we undertake Harry’s 

journey to Platform 9 and 3 quarters and join the Thirteenth Aeon we will have 

to face Voldemort seven times, and at the end, make the supreme and total 

sacrifice – to be welcomed by the father who has waited for us to return from 

our imprisonment.

Hans in Holland

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