Character Discussion (5)

[Hans Andréa]

No: HPFGUIDX 121207

The seven trials

The seven trials in book 1 sum up what the person who has a nascent immortal
soul has to go through to be able to perform his first liberating act -
detachment from the physical plane.

First he encounters Cerberus (Fluffy), the three-headed dog. Cerberus
personifies the forces of the past which tie us to the universe of time and
space. The river Styx symbolises the border between the fallen universe and
the original pure universe of God. To cross the border, we first have to
pass Cerberus. He is the mirror of the past, in actual fact: delusion.

Why is he three-headed? It reminds us of the three temptations of Jesus in
the wilderness. He too was at that moment ready to cross the border between
earth and heaven, i.e. the seventh and the sixth cosmic plane - Nirvana.

One of the great forces tying us to this universe is fear. The person who
wants to be liberated from fear has to have the right motivation. Harry was
motivated by a great purity. He wanted to save the world from Voldemort.
Unselfishness is the only way to overcome fear. It cannot be overcome by
courage alone. Armed with only courage, Harry would have been devoured by
Fluffy. Harry was able to make "fear" go to sleep by playing the flute. The
music played by Harry symbolises the vibrations of his purity, his pure
motives.

Another force tying us to this universe is dogma. "Give up learning, and put
an end to your troubles," says Lao Tzu in his "Tao Teh Ching" (Chapter 20).
Yes, to live in this world, we have to study. We need a certain amount of
learning to live a meaningful life. And so we think we can "learn" our way
into Nirvana. Bad mistake! Lao Tzu adds: "Other men are sharp and clever,
but I alone am dull and stupid." But!! "I am different. I am nourished by
the great mother." Who is the great mother? Why, Lily, of course.

No learning, no study, no knowledge contained within the brain can prepare
us for the overwhelming beauty of the Kingdom of Heaven. It lies in another
universe, in another plane, in a dimension where time and space do not
exist. There is nothing in our universe that we can compare with that. No
words can describe it; no pictures can give us even the vaguest idea. Not
even the most heavenly music can give us a slight hint of what it's like.

But we DO have a little piece of heaven inside us. That's the great mother,
the Lily inside the heart. We must give up dogma and turn to the voice of
Tao within.

When Harry turned eleven he received a letter of invitation to attend
Hogwarts. In Harry (2) (Post 120781) I explained that the candidate for
liberation has a letter in his heart. The apprentice alchemist has the
instructions in his heart. They have been in our heart for millions of years
but we've been too busy to read them. Then James married Lily and Harry was
born. We can now read the letter in the heart and carry out the alchemical
processes with great joy. We can throw away dogma. We live from the
instructions in the heart given to us by the great mother.

The third head is false idols. This is a very big, dangerous head, because
in our past lie many idols we have worshipped through hundreds of
incarnations. When we go the path of liberation we'll be confronted by
this aspect of the past, and we'll discover that some of those idols are a
long way from being dead.

We are all surrounded by thought forms we have accumulated in the past.
These are our personal idols and must be given up, one by one. How? By
turning to the great mother. She will give us Harry, the new soul, and our
heart will be so filled with love for him that all the accumulated idols in
our aura will fade away and die.

The big word for defeating Cerberus is: self-surrender. If we surrender to
the inner Christ He will drive out fear, attachment to dogma and false
idols. He will give us the magic flute of purity and put ol' Cerberus to
sleep. It's a cinch!

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Hans Rieuwers 
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