Character Discussion: Harry (9)

[Hans Andréa]

No: HPFGUIDX 121967

Sorry, my previous post should have been called Harry (8).

Harry's second year illustrates the new soul's
liberation from the etheric plane of the time-spatial
universe.

The etheric plane is next to the physical plane, and
is in a sense part of it, for it gives life to
physical bodies. All living organisms have an etheric
field or aura, and some people can see this. Our
etheric body penetrates our physical body and is
slightly larger. It regulates our health and
facilitates things like metabolism, sexual
reproduction, sensory perception, and the working of
the nervous system and the brain. The etheric body is
made up of etheric atoms which actually fit inside the
physical atoms. It therefore follows our physical body
wherever it goes, and in a sense is the "slave" of the
physical body.

There are many organisms which have an etheric body
but not a physical body, and so are invisible to most
people. However very young children and some animals
can see them. Their existence was known long ago and
many legends and myths name them. These include
fairies, elves, gnomes, undines, salamanders, nymphs,
sylphs etc. These creatures often work with nature in
developing growth of trees etc.

We are introduced to one of these creatures right at
the beginning of book 2. Dobby is a "house elf" who
warns Harry that some one is about to wreak havoc at
school. Whenever liberating stories contain mention of
etheric creatures, the author is drawing our attention
to the etheric plane. So right away we know "Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" takes place on that
plane. When Harry stays at the Weasleys' house he
meets another type of etheric creature - the garden
gnome. Harry's first lesson in Defence against the
Dark Arts is to learn to control a group of etheric
creatures, this time pixies. As we know Hermione is
the one who is able to do this.

Harry meets Dobby throughout the book and near the end
learns that he is the slave of a servant of Voldemort,
namely Lucius Malfoy. If we look at the symbolism as I
have explained it so far, we know that Harry is the
new soul born in the seeker in whom the lily and the
stag have united, while Voldemort is the higher self,
which I have also called the microcosmic or permanent
self. When the soul is born, this permanent self is
weakened considerably. If Jo tells us that Lucius
Malfoy is a servant of Voldemort, we can deduce from
this that Malfoy is a force within the human being
which represents the higher self. In other words, it's
the lower self, the physical self. In my opinion Dobby
personifies the etheric body of the alchemist who is
undergoing the process of liberation. I don't know if
it's a coincidence, but if we reverse the consonants
in "Dobby" we get "Bbody". As I said above, the
etheric body is the "slave" of the physical body. It
follows it wherever it goes, looks after it, and helps
it in all its functions. This is exactly what Dobby
does for Malfoy - until Harry changes things. By a
brilliant act of quick witted intelligence and
compassion for Dobby, Harry frees Dobby (how I love
Harry). This, friends, believe it or not, is exactly
what the new soul does for the etheric body at a
certain stage of the alchemical transmutation. The new
soul actually lives in the etheric body and at a
certain point the etheric body is freed from the
physical body. It is no longer its "slave" as it were
but can move independently. And just as Dobby does
some very useful things in the later books, so the
etheric body is extremely helpful to the new soul.

You may have heard mention of wonderful vestures worn
by heroes in some fairy tales and legends. We hear
especially about golden wedding vestures, and in the
"Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross" the
candidates for the wedding are constantly putting on
new raiments. These clothes usually refer to the
various invisible bodies. When the alchemist has a new
soul that has been able to take the Philosopher's
Stone out of the mirror, his etheric vesture or aura
will begin to radiate a brilliant golden light - hence
the term golden wedding vesture. I wonder if this will
be mentioned in book 7 in some way.


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Hans Andra 
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