Character Discussion - Harry (7)

[Hans Andréa]

No: HPFGUIDX 121873

Leaving the unconscious Ron behind, Harry and Hermione
enter a room where they are trapped by fire and can go
neither forwards nor backwards until they solve a
logic puzzle. Obviously it is Hermione who solves the
puzzle, as she personifies the renewed mind.

My interpretation of this symbolism is that an
apprentice alchemist must act with intelligence if
progress is to be made. Although the heart, the centre
of the new soul, always takes the initiative on the
Path, the head must ensure the candidate takes logical
and intelligent actions. Together they succeed.

I just want to digress slightly and ask you all a
question. This is a short extract from the book:
'Hermione's lip trembled, and she suddenly dashed at
Harry and threw her arms around him.
"Hermione!"
"Harry -- you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very
embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are
more important things -- friendship and bravery and --
oh Harry -- be careful!"'

As you can see above, Hermione says, "Friendship and
bravery and --" And what? Ever since the first time I
read this I've thought that she was going to say,
"love", but was too embarrassed to say it. I thought
it was obvious, in fact, that everyone else would
think the same. After some years now I've found that
no one else has this thought at all. My question to
you is, what do you think is the missing word?

Back to Harry. There is only one draft of the magic
potion to get into the next room, so Harry goes in
alone. The new soul has to face this trial alone.
Whenever the soul is facing a be all and end all
situation, it has to act on its own inner strength.

When Harry enters the next room he meets a man with
two faces - one in front and one behind. I believe
this is to indicate that the higher self (microcosmic
self) is both good and evil. This is why the man says,
"There is no good and evil, there is only power, and
those too weak to seek it...." As I said in my
discussion of Voldemort, the microcosmic self is
impersonal and knows no good or evil, just power. 
Morality is not in its dictionary. It's not programmed 
that way.

Harry is able to take the stone out of the Mirror of
Erised because he doesn't want to use the stone. I
believe this symbolises the liberation of the soul
from ATTACHMENT to the physical plane. The stone can
make gold and the elixir of life. In other words, the
owner of the stone can live an unending life in
perfect health, with all the luxury he wants.

I have written the word "attachment" in capital
letters because there could be some misunderstanding
about what I said. I didn't say there was anything
wrong with the physical plane. I said that Harry
overcomes his ATTACHMENT to it. In other words, he is
not its slave, but has become its master. He is not
subject to desires that shackle him to the physical
world.

The seventh cosmic plane in its present state has
fallen below the vibration rate of the original
sevenfold House of God, due to the Fall (or, if you
like, the descent) of man. This whole universe is
therefore "kindled in wrath" as Jacob Boehme puts it.
This whole universe, including the physical, the
etheric, the astral, the mental, and the three planes
of the consciousness are all situated outside of the
Divine Plan. Tao is not in them. Nirvana is outside of
them. The Kingdom of Heaven is not in here. Our
purpose is to LEAVE all the seven sub-planes of the
seventh cosmic plane and re-enter the Divine Universe,
the Sixth Cosmic Plane. That, in my humble opinion, is
what Harry Potter is telling us. This is what I've
been trying to tell the world and I haven't finished
yet.

As I have said several times in earlier posts, the
human being is bound to this universe with seven
chains. One chain is to the physical plane, one to the
etheric plane, one to the astral, and so on. I have
been saying that each book successively
shows Harry's liberation from one of the seven chains.
In my series of posts on Harry I will show how Harry
liberates himself from another chain each time.

Hans

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





	
	
		
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