John the Baptist again

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 124746


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Hans Andréa <ibotsjfvxfst at y...> 
wrote:
> Hans: 

<post snipped in several places>

> Let me emphasise that I'm not asking anyone to believe the Path of
> Alchemical Liberation is true. I'm saying Jo is writing a book 
> which is a symbolic representation of that process, and it so 
> happens that the writers of the Bible did the same thing. My series 
> of posts is meant to show everyone that. 

> I know a lot of members are having trouble understanding this, but 
> this is what both Harry Potter and the Bible are doing. Harry 
> Potter is not a human being but a force WITHIN a person who goes 
> the Path. Jesus is not a real person, but a force within a person  
> who goes the Path.

> Geoff has stated that I'm contradicting myself when I say that Harry
> symbolises both everyman and the Christ. Well I hope now everyone 
> will see that if we regard Harry as personifying a force that is 
> born in a seeker for liberation, and NOT as a human being, Harry 
> can be both everyman and Christ. Harry PERSONIFIES a divine force 
> that can turn everyman into a Son of God.
 
Geoff:
You have on a number of occasions referred to "my theory of 
liberation". Now you are saying that the path of liberation is not 
true. That seems to be a paradoxical statement. A theory remains a 
theory until it is proved to be correct; first you aroused this and 
now you are saying that the path of liberation is not true. This is 
questioning the faith of millions of folk worldwide who, like myself, 
believe that Jesus took human form, died as a human for our salvation 
and is now back in heaven.

I may not agree with people who are adherents of Islam, Buddhism etc. 
but I would not question the fact that Mohammed and Buddha and the 
other founders of faiths actually existed. It has been said that 
there is more evidence for the existence of Jesus than there was for 
Julius Caesar.

If you are not a Christian, you may say that Harry can be both 
everyman and Christ; if you are a Christian, having experienced a 
meeting with God through Jesus and are being supported in your daily 
life by the presence of the Holy Spirit, this is just not on. Jesus, 
to a Christian is our link to God, is God. We can only be followers 
of Christ, attempting to seek the will of God and to do it. Unlike 
the people of the Bible, Harry Potter is not a real person but 
someone created for the story with whom we can identify strongly and 
in whom we can see ourselves; with the same sweep of mixed emotions 
which we have to deal with our life here on earth, wherever we may 
have found ourselves.