Character Discussion: Voldemort - further explanation

[Hans Andréa]

No: HPFGUIDX 123716

Before I continue I want to make a point of clarification and provide some
background thoughts about the Voldemort-Harry-Sirius situation.

I want to repeat that my aim in this series is to show you that Jo is
writing an allegory of what I call the Path of Alchemical Liberation. From
comments in the group and privately I see that some people think I'm trying
to persuade people to accept the Path of Liberation as true. That is NOT so.
What I AM saying is the JO believes in this Path, and my aim is to prove
that. I am presenting the teachings of the Path to you to the best of my
ability and giving you the opportunity to compare Harry Potter and the Path.
When Geoff says he rejects the Path of Liberation utterly this proves he's
missed the point. It's not a matter of accepting or rejecting the Path. It's
a matter of us discovering together what is the arch-matrix on which Jo is
basing her story. People who really want to know that, will consider any
theory which shows a remarkable number of coincidences, even if they don't
believe in the basic principles which form the arch-matrix.

Just to make this really clear: say I discover a totally unknown book from
the 18th century. This book holds all sorts of crazy theories about martians
landing and secretly setting up a magic world with a secret coach station,
underground headquarters, communication by owls, etc. Now OK none of us may
believe this theory, but if I could prove that everything in Harry Potter
has its parallels in this book, surely you'd want to know about it? Then
you'd say, "Aha! So that's where Jo gets it all!" 

Now of course it is pretty obvious that I personally am going the Path of
Alchemical Liberation. That is obviously the reason why I know so much about
it. You wouldn't want to hear it from someone who doesn't know what they're
talking about. But I repeat: I am NOT trying to persuade people of the truth
of the Path, except that it exists, and that Jo and I both believe in it. In
any case, the absolute basic requirement of the Path is that unless one
fervently, even desperately, yearns for liberation one cannot even take the
first step. James has to woo and marry Lily first!

Now for some background information before I post message "Sirius (2)".

You need to have a good visual image of a human microcosm. 
To give you this visual picture, the microcosm is
spherical in shape. Imagine yourself standing in a
glass sphere, several metres in diameter. I'm not too
good on remembering figures. Anyway it extends beyond
your body quite a bit. The very centre of the sphere
is in your heart. If you are a seeker we may presume
it is radiating a certain amount of weak force into
your astral body, making you seek. That centre is not
spirit, but was created BY the spirit. That's why it's
called a spirit-spark. It contains the plan or
conception of the perfect, only begotten son. This
spirit-spark has no connection with the higher self at
all. Only in seekers does this spark send weak signals to the
lower self. In millions of people this spark is
totally dormant and so has no connection with the
person in whose heart it's situated.

The higher self is situated all around you at a slight
distance from your body, and right up to the shell of
the microcosm, usually called the "ring". In the ring
of the microcosm there are numerous magnetic
concentrations. Imagine them as lights shining inwards
at you. They can be roughly divided into twelve groups
and as they look like stars in the sky they could be
called your microcosmic zodiac. These "stars" send
magnetic lines of force into your head and heart. As these lines
are full of light and movement they resemble flames
dancing around your head. Each star is an astral
concentration of force that causes you to experience
an astral sensation, i.e. an emotion or desire. You're
interested in literature? OK there's a bright star
which stimulates you to read. You used to collect
butterflies but have lost interest? Well then, there's
a little star fading away into oblivion.

While you are alive in the physical world, you can and
do change your microcosmic zodiac. When you die your
physical body drops away, but your etheric, astral and
mental bodies go on. After a while your etheric body
also drops away, followed by your astral and mental
bodies. The threefold consciousness is left over,
which then also dissipates. The higher self, however,
stays just as it is, and some time later it adopts a
foetus. It connects itself to the foetus and this new
person will be just like the previous one, except that
he will be influenced by the blood of his ancestors
and by his new environment. As he has a new brain he
obviously won't be able to remember the previous life.
However the higher self also concentrates a tremendous
power centre into the spine, as I said in a previous
post, and this is connected to the subconscious mind.
It is therefore possible to "remember" previous lives
by going deep into the subconscious mind.

The higher self is personified by Voldemort or
Lucifer, as I have stated in my theory. Please
remember that the higher self is not a person but an
astral concentration of forces which we have
accumulated during hundreds of lives. Astral
concentrations have the property of developing
consciousness. In fact the magical world of Harry
Potter is very much like how the astral world really is.
There, talking pictures or walking suits of armour are
nothing special. Such a consciousness is not like
ours, though. I can only describe it as automatic. If
we think about something very intensely and for a long
time, and we connect it with emotions, and desire it
strongly, our brain will create a thought form. This
looks like a little cloud of light, and its most
striking characteristic is its eyes, which are focused
on our eyes. Such a thought form has a very strong
urge to survive and it will fix its little eyes on us,
to hypnotise us as it were to make us feed it. And we
feed it by thinking about the original subject. If this
is a particular fear of something happening, or a
depressing thought, or the idea of suicide, such a
thought form can merge from obsession into possession,
and can end in horrendous suffering, as we all know.

Voldemort, our higher self, is the sum total of all
our thoughts, actions, desires and feelings. One of
his manifestations is the figure of a human being,
huge and fiery. Stories of Satan and hellfire refer to
this. However I emphasise again that Voldemort/Lucifer
is not evil in essence. He is the sum total of all our
lives and he is evil to the extent that we have done
evil in the past, and good to the extent we've been
good. And in the present we and our higher self are in
perfect harmony until we go the path of liberation.

Perhaps some of you can remember being obsessed by
some thought that wouldn't leave you. I'm talking
about something very powerful that doesn't normally
occur. Something fanatical or causing extreme emotions
for a long time. If you haven't had this you may have
heard how political extremists or religious terrorists
feel. Their thought form has become so strong they are
possessed by it. The thought form is extremely dynamic
and demands all their attention and energy. It doesn't
give a damn about its enslaved human being; all it
wants is more food, i.e. thoughts and emotions. It can
quite easily lead to the death of the slave, as in
terrorism. This thought form has a consciousness, but
it extends only to ways to get more food. It doesn't
reason in any way, its consciousness is "automatic" in
the sense of just wanting more for itself.

Well our higher self could be compared to this in some
ways. It just wants to prompt us to feed it, and in
return we get the satisfaction of pursuing our desires
etc. Not that we have any choice. Everything we call
our character is the result of what our higher self
has poured into us. That's what I mean by
"projection".

Although our lives may be very noble and spiritual,
they are still what the higher self has projected into us.
And the whole higher self, of every single human being
in this fallen universe, is outside the divine plan.
And anything that exists outside of the divine plan is
called "sin". Seen in this light, sin takes on a
totally different meaning. We live in the universe of
sin. This is not shocking; it just explains why things
are always going wrong, why there are terrorists
killing people right now, why there are always
wars and diseases and natural disasters. This whole
universe is a vast prison where the divine plan does
not operate.

That is, until Harry is born. As soon as the inner
Rose or Lily or Lotus opens up, an astral force of a
MUCH HIGHER VIBRATION that the higher self can master,
enters our microcosm. This force is inimical to the
higher self, because it's like a fire that burns the
higher self. It cannot control it; it's outside of its
jurisdiction so to speak. This is why Voldemort hates
Harry. Harry personifies a new force in the microcosm
that will burn up the higher self. If you can imagine
how powerful one single thought form can be, just
imagine all the thoughts and desires you've had over
hundreds of incarnations, all bundled up into one
mighty concentration that will fight to the death to
preserve itself. That's Voldemort/Lucifer. From the point of view of
the divine plan Voldemort is "evil", because he is the
sum total of all our actions in the past millennia
that have been outside of the divine plan. I
personally prefer the word "erroneous".

Opposite to everything in our universe is the Spirit. The
Spirit is the omnipresent "mind" (I can't think of a
better word) of God. It is the opposite of matter. It
is everywhere at once and has absolutely no
restrictions whatsoever. It's imperceptible and
totally unlike anything we can perceive. It's what Lao
Tzu calls "Tao". If you can see it, it's not spirit.
If you can feel it, it's not spirit. If it's had a
beginning it's not spirit. I guess only negatives can
describe it, which doesn't help a lot. But I want to
tell you something wonderful and miraculous and
marvellous: Harry can perceive the Spirit. Why?
Because the Spirit created Harry, the new soul. Harry
is the "spark" of the Spirit. Harry's glorious future,
when all his tribulations are finished, is to be
reunited with the spirit. Whenever he wants to, Harry
will be able to raise himself up into the Plane of the
Spirit and open himself up to it. And the Spirit will
enter him, and he will know the ultimate, total, utter
Truth. He will know his purpose, and he will enter
into the absolute, mind-blowing, blissfully ecstatic
Peace that surpasses all understanding. That is what
Jo Rowling is telling us with her consciousness that
reaches beyond what we can imagine. And that is our
future if we allow Harry to be born in us. Thanks Jo!

To get back to the microcosm: the microcosm has seven planes. Remember my
original visual picture: imagine the microcosm again
as a glass sphere, but this time imagine seven
spheres, one inside the other. Stretch your
imagination beyond its limits and imagine that these
spheres are all the same size. Each glass sphere is
the same size, and takes up the same space.
Impossible? Well imagine that each sphere is made of a
different type of glass that vibrates at a different
rate, and can interpenetrate with the other spheres. Imagine that you're in
the glass sphere and by
taking a lift you can go to another sphere. Only the
lift doesn't physically go upwards, but increases in
vibration rate, so you're actually within the same
location. What I'm saying is that different spheres of
life can exist in the same location without touching
each other.

Each of these spheres in turn has seven planes of
density: physical, etheric, astral, mental, and the
three levels of consciousness. The ultimate aim of the
human being is to become conscious in all these 49
planes at once.

The path to liberation is not part of the divine plan.
It's the way to get BACK to the divine plan. The
"sinful" creation (don't take that the wrong way) has
to be replaced by the new lower self (Harry) and the
new higher self (Sirius). This is what's meant by, "He
who gives up his life for my sake shall keep it."

The path of liberation leads to the SIXTH sphere, out
of the seventh. This is all very cryptic, but please
be patient, I will explain everything to the best of
my ability in my future posts.

The lower self has seven vehicles: physical, etheric,
astral, mental, and the three planes of consciousness.
As far as I know the higher self is purely astral.
And it's immortal. That's why
Voldemort is said to be immortal. He cannot be
killed... except by Harry. He has the power to
vanquish the dark lord.

The spirit withdrew from the microcosm during the
fall. That's why things gradually got worse. Once the
spirit leaves you, you're in the dark. Really
liberation could be summed up as the re-entry of the
spirit into the microcosm. The thought-spark of the
spirit began to stop glowing during the fall. The
lily withdrew into its petals. The soul became mortal
then.

In my next post we'll get back to Sirius, but I feel it wouldn't have made
sense unless I'd given you this background information.

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Hans Andra 
see you at Harry Potter for Seekers 
http://www.harrypotterforseekers.com/
 




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