Character Discussion: James

[Hans Andréa]

No: HPFGUIDX 120597

Alla wrote:
Do you think that James was always searching for the meaning of life 
or younger James is not really concerned with the meaning of life?

Hans:
I believe that Jo is personifying forces that a person who wants to return
to God encounters. James is not a real person but the personification of a
longing that drives a person to seek. So I think the answer is yes. That
doesn't mean James was necessarily a nice person. We know he did some
horrible things to Snape. To have the longing to return to the Potter of the
Universe you don't have to be a nice person. But you do have to have a Lily
and a James.

Alla:
Since I am of the opinion that younger James took quite an active 
stance against the Dark Arts, although we don't know much about it, 
I wonder what you think.

Hans:
I think Jo is personifying the seeking for Light in James. Please note that
Snape is also a seeker, but he personifies the aspect in the seeker which
hopes to find liberation through occultism, which is symbolised in Harry
Potter by the Dark Arts. So to me it is obvious that James and Severus
symbolise opposite forces. James is the seeker for Divine Light, Snape is
the seeker for liberation of the earthly self, which is impossible. If you
can be patient you can wait till I post my thoughts on Snape. If you can't,
got to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harrypotterforseekers/message/365 and
read my post about Snape.

Alla:
Could you please educate me a little bit, since although I am 
fascinated with this kind of imaginary, I am not really familiar 
with it? Is stag a biblical symbol for the Water of life and "stag" 
and "hart" are the same thing?

Hans:
Geoff has answered this question beautifully, for which I thank him.

He is also right, in my humble opinion, about Christ being the one to give
the Living Water. We might just disagree ever so slightly about who or what
Christ is.

To be able to understand what I mean you have to have a new vision of the
structure of the universe. This is all my opinion, of course. I'm not saying
it's a fact, Amanda Geist. :)

I'll try to keep it as simple as possible. There are TWO universes. One is
the Universe of the Potter. That universe is totally perfect and life there
is of the utmost happiness. The other universe is the one we live in. It is
finite, temporary and full of suffering, sorrow and death. It wasn't part of
the Divine Plan but is a degenerated part of the original universe.

Logically, assuming the above is correct, there are also two types of human
beings: the perfect, imperishable only begotten Sons of the Potter, and the
fallen human beings who are subject to death and reincarnation, but who
nevertheless have the chance to return to the other universe by means of a
process of alchemical transformation, described as "turning lead into gold".

This process of turning lead into gold requires a force that cannot be found
in this universe, but has to come from the other universe. That force is
called "The Living Water". What you have to understand is that the Potter of
the Universe provides a sustaining power to all creatures in the divine
universe. This is sometimes called the River of God. Life in the original
universe is not physical and is totally unlike earth, so the only way to
describe it is to use symbols. The River of God is a stream of astral
substance that is omnipresent and comes directly from the Original Spirit.

If a person wants to return to the original universe, called "The Kingdom of
Heaven" in the New Testament, he must start drinking the Living Water from
the River of God. His "James" must thirst for the Living Water. However the
pure water from the River of God is a force of an extremely high vibration.
If we drank that we would be destroyed by the intensity of the power. It
would be like trying to drink molten lava. However the Potter of the
Universe loves his creatures and he will never forsake them. He has
therefore created a mighty Spirit who can reduce the vibration and power of
the Living Water so that a mortal human being can tolerate it and drink it,
provided his Lily is awake and his James thirsts for it. That mighty Spirit,
in the teachings of liberating alchemy, is called Christ. He is obviously
the son of God, because God created him for the benefit of redeeming
humanity. Geoff is right in saying He gives us the Living Water. 

When we drink this, i.e. when it enters our heart thirsting for God, it
gives birth to a new soul, called Jesus, or Harry, or Briar Rose, and this
starts a process of alchemical transfiguration, where the old earthly
personality sacrifices himself (which Paul calls "dying daily") and the new
human being rises up like a phoenix, eternal, immortal, and perfect. The
process is described in minute detail, but symbolically, in "The Alchemical
Wedding of Christian Rosycross", published in 1616. It is my deeply held
belief that Harry Potter is a new version of the same story.

I will explain all this in more detail in future posts. Next week I will
start on Voldemort. I warn you: it's not pretty!

Thanks for your questions and feel free to keep asking until everything is
as clear as crystal.

Hans

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