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

[Ivan Vablatsky]

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IAmLordCassandra at aol.com wrote:
 
>"Then you will find yourself easy prey for the Dark Lord!" said Snape savagely. "Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words - they stand no chance against his powers!..."  

>"I am not weak," said Harry

>"Then prove it! Master yourself!" spat Snape... 

>Did anyone else get the feeling Snape was speaking for experience here?  That it was once he who had been weak and had to Master himself? 

Hans:
 
I think you're quite right. To be able to speak with such passion indicates deep, bitter experience. An important clue.
 
>Then there is Snape's challenge.  "Prove it! Master yourself!"  I don't think he meant simply in occlumency.  Snape himself has said he sees Harry as nothing more than a weak child with an inflated head who considers rules beneath him. He is firm in this hatred and loathing and opinion towards Harry, no matter how irrational the reasons.  Now, in his own way, I think he is asking Harry to prove him wrong.  
Hans
Yes I think you're right again, at least as far as the challenge is concerned. I doubt that Snape thinks Harry is weak. I think Snape wants to defeat Voldemort and is calling Harry weak as a challenge to prove him wrong. I suspects he knows Harry is the Messiah chosen to defeat Voldemort, and his whole treatment of Harry is to steel him against the last battle. I can't prove it; it's just my intuition. We'll have to wait and see.

But I want to make an important point in my endeavour to present my theory that HP is an alchemical guide to the Path of human Liberation.

There are two paths of liberation. Firstly there is the Royal Path (HRH - His Royal Highness), the straight and narrow Path, the Path of Alchemy, the Path of the seven trials that Harry Potter faces. It is the Path in which the heart leads the head (Harry leads Hermione). This Path is one in which heart is filled with love.

One of the greatest trials on this Path is to defeat the basilisk - i.e. the kundalini force in the plexus sacralis at the bottom of the spinal column. That is not done by great strength or bravery, but simply by compassion and by surrender and loyalty to the Spirit of Liberation (Dumbledore). The result of killing the basilisk is: liberation from karma with all its consequences.

Then there is the other path. That's the path of occultism. This is the path where the head rules the heart. The mind is trained to control the whole person; it's a question of total control over all emotions. The mind develops an unbelievable strength.

The greatest trial in this is to learn to control the basilisk. By pure will-power and occult exercises it is possible to force the kundalini to uncoil and rise out of the plexus sacralis, up along the spinal column, and into the pineal gland. A person who achieves this develops tremendous occult powers, such as legilimens and occlumency to name a few. The result of this is to "petrify" the karma, i.e. it is not destroyed but suspended. Needless to say it is Voldemort who goes this path. It leads to liberation only in a sense. It is accomplished through the horrendous suffering of others. It is not permanent.

Harry's quest for liberation will lead him to unification with the all-consciousness, the Kingdom of Love. He will not stay there, though, because his compassion will make him return to the muggle world to help others find platform 9 and 3 quarters.

To return to Snape's challenge: he is in fact telling Harry to develop the strength of mind required to go the path of occultism. The whole point of OOP is to show that Harry doesn't need strength of mind. His heart is linked to the Kingdom of Love and so he will triumph over Voldemort. Voldemort does not acknowledge the existence of the Kingdom of Love and so cannot understand why Harry keeps defeating him.

Every time I think about it it takes my breath away. These books are the greatest teachings to humanity since the New Testament. Millions and millions of people are learning here that Love is stronger than the strongest mind! Perhaps unconsciously for most people, but it's there. Why are the books so popular? Because they teach the truth about human liberation and its antithesis; the path of occultism.

The quote you have given here is an extremely strong point in making the difference between the two paths. 

As far as Snape's concerned; he has joined Dumbledore and so he's rejecting the false path. But he'll have to learn not to use Voldemort's method to defeat Voldemort. Love is the only weapon we need!

I know the reaction of many members to my ravings is "huh?" Some of you may think this is all my fantasy, but if you will do some reading in occult literature you will come across the above concepts. The things Rowling tells in HP have in the past always belonged to secret occult societies and Mystery Schools of Liberation going back many millennia. Now they are being made public in a symbolic form for the first time in world history. Truly an apocalypse.

Hans in Holland


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