Character Discussion: Harry (15)

[Hans Andréa]

No: HPFGUIDX 123101

Before discussing Book 5 I want to talk about
sequence. My understanding of Harry Potter is that it
does not necessarily follow the sequence of the
Alchemical Path of Liberation.

For example Harry's descent into the Chamber of
Secrets is a cameo of the whole Path. In fact when an
apprentice alchemist faces the serpent of the
kundalini, he faces the three temptations which Jesus
faced in the desert. The serpent is the representative
of the higher self (this comes out clearly in CoS) and
before an alchemist can kill this serpent he is tested
three times. If he succeeds, the new soul-force ascends
the spinal column and reverses the rotation of the
chakras. When this force reaches the crown chakra it
opens it up to the Original Spirit and the Alchemical
Wedding commences. This is the wedding of the Immortal
Soul and the Original Spirit.

Jo has not mentioned the three temptations at this
stage because obviously that would finish the series
at the end of book 2. The events in the Chamber of
Secrets are more like a summary of what is to come. My
understanding is that the three temptations are the
climaxes in books 5, 6 and 7. We'll discuss that later
in this post.

The five "initiations" mentioned in my essay also
appear to be in the wrong order in Harry Potter. That
may be due to my misinterpretation, of course.

The reader of this post should throw any ideas of
initiations by Masters or adepts overboard. By
initiation I mean self-initiation. When the new soul
is born one does not need a Master or guru. The new
soul itself becomes the Master, assisted by the new
mentality as personified by Hermione.

On the Path of Liberation the five initiations, which
are part of a set of seven, follow the order of the
planets as they exist in the solar system: Mercury,
Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. It is possible that
Uranus and Neptune will come up later.

In my essay I have described Harry's victory over
Voldemort in the graveyard at the end of book 4 as
symbolising the Mars initiation. I have also said
there that I strongly suspect the ever locked room in
the Department of Mysteries in book 5 will lead to the
Venus initiation. However that would mean Mars comes
before Venus, which is contrary to the divine laws
governing the process of alchemical liberation. Venus
has to come before Mars! Divine Love has to come
before the new Omnipotent Will. Why? The New Will is
so incredibly powerful that it needs a strong guiding
force to keep it under close control. This Will is
like the High Priest in the reborn human being. It
carries out all the orders of the new consciousness
without any restrictions. If it is not guided by the
Divine Love in the heart it can easily escape control
and then we would have the same conditions as caused
the Fall. The new Will must by controlled by the
Divine Love in the heart of the alchemist. In other
words, the Will must be subject to the Divine Plan, or
deviation will occur again. This is what caused the
Fall in the first place.

Just as an aside, the unicorn is the symbol of the new
Will. Its horn symbolises the power that radiates from
the forehead of the human being who has this
omnipotent tool.

The conclusion I draw from all this is that it is
possible that Harry's victory over Voldemort in book 4
does not symbolise the new Mars but foreshadows an
event to come after Harry enters the Room of Venus.

However the election of Harry as leader of
Dumbledore's Army is so completely identical to the
way leaders on the Path of Liberation are chosen it
seems almost impossible for it not to be the Jupiter
Initiation.

Similarly the ancient archway through which Sirius
passes in book 5 is so unmistakably the Gate of Saturn
that I just can't believe it to be anything else. And
the same thing with the locked room in the Department
of Mysteries. It is so similar to the Sepulchre of
(sleeping) Venus in "The Alchemical Wedding of
Christian Rosycross" that it would take Jo herself to
swear on her mother's grave with a signed 
testimony by the Queen, the Pope and Harry Potter before 
I'd believe that these three aforementioned things are 
not Jupiter, Saturn and Venus respectively. It just 
bothers me that they're not in the right order, and I 
can't explain why.

I'm telling you all this because I want to be totally
honest with you. I'm absolutely certain Harry Potter
describes the alchemical process of liberation, but I
can't explain everything down to the last detail.

Perhaps when this series of posts is finished we can
discuss the 5 initiations in more detail, but for now
let's continue looking at Harry's triumphal march
through the 7 planes of the time-spatial universe.

The plane of life above the mental plane is the plane
of the mental I. The human consciousness is a trinity:
the mental I, the emotional I and the consciousness I.
Obviously the highest of these is the consciousness I,
the central consciousness governing both the head and
the heart. However this consciousness is constantly
addressed by two voices: the head and the heart. The
mental I is what I mean by the voice of the head. It's
the voice of reason, the Minister of Cranial Affairs
under the Prime Minister. The emotional I is the
Minister of Cordial Affairs. He provides the voice of
the emotions.

Obviously the mental I works closely with the
mentality in the brain. I guess we could say the
Minister of Cranial Affairs is the head of the
Department, while the Department itself is the actual
workings of the mind.

Similarly the Minister of Cordial Affairs is the head
of the Department of everything that happens on the
emotional, i.e. astral plane.

By extrapolation we can work out that the Prime
Minister's department is also in charge of Etheric
Affairs. To put it simply:
The mental I governs the mental body,
the emotional I governs the astral body,
the consciousness I governs the etheric body (as well
as being in charge of the other two ministers).

I hope the somewhat banal comparison above helps you
understand how the very top of the human organism
works. There are undoubtedly very many people to whom
this is all new, and I think it's wonderful to be able
to put this on Internet.

To get back to Harry: In book 5 Voldemort attempts to
gain control over Harry's mental I. Dumbledore knows
this and tells Snape to give Harry occlumency lessons.
(occlud- Latin: to shut up, ment- Latin: mind). As we
know, this doesn't work. However when Voldemort makes
the effort to possess Harry's mental I, Harry is able
to expel Voldemort through the love he feels for his
God-Father, Sirius.

Why does Dumbledore choose Snape of all people? Snape
represent our shadow side, our "black" side (he always
wears black). This is the apprentice alchemist's past
experience of the "dark arts", which we call
occultism. Every candidate on the Path of Liberation
has first attempted to reach the goal by means of
occult experiments. It is inherent in the human being
to learn by making mistakes, and this is what Snape
personifies. He therefore tries to teach Harry to shut
his mind to Voldemort by using the will. Harry has to
shut out all emotions and concentrate all his mind on
closing it off. But Harry fails. What can this teach
us about liberation?

That the new soul cannot reach liberation by using the
will. Using the will to achieve liberation is occult,
and this takes us back to the the causes of the Fall.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" teaches us
that occult methods do not work on the Path of
Liberation. We must not be guided by the voice of our
dark past, the voice of experimentation. The only
guide on the Path is the New Soul itself. The Soul is
linked to the God-Father, and its love for what this
represents will always triumph against the old fallen
Higher Self, personified by Voldemort.

This how Jo says it: "'There is a room in the
Department of Mysteries,' interrupted Dumbledore,
'that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force
that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than
death, than human intelligence, than the forces of
nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of
the many subjects for study that reside there. It is
the power held within that room that you possess in
such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all.
That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power
also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because
he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the
force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you
could not close your mind. It was your heart that
saved you.'"

I'm surprised some of you haven't asked why I compare
the three attempts by Voldemort to take over Harry's
three-fold I, to Jesus' three temptations in the
desert. In book 5 Voldemort's attempt to possess
Harry's mental I doesn't seem much like a temptation.

I'll have to admit that I can't really answer that. We
are taught by the Masters of Compassion that before he
can enter total liberation, the apprentice alchemist
is faced by three attempts by the old higher self,
Lucifer or Voldemort, to take control of the new human
being, of which the new soul is the leading principle.


The story of liberation is very abstract and we can
understand it only by the use of symbols and
personification. These have their limits, because
comparisons with symbols or persons never match
perfectly. A story told in symbols can never deal with
the process in its entirety but just highlights
certain aspects. I guess the best way to see the three
events we're talking about is as three final tests,
three ordeals, the apprentice alchemist has to pass in
order to prove his allegiance to God and his total
rejection of Lucifer. Seen in that light, both Jesus'
and Harry's first trial make sense. In "The Alchemical
Wedding of Christian Rosycross" the three trials are
represented as three men trying to pull down the scale
which contains the seven weights testing Christian's
suitability as an alchemist. In "The Angel of the West
Window" by Gustav Meyrink the three trials are woven
into one and John Dee is tempted by Queen Elizabeth to
come to him to unite with her for ever. After he
passes the test he sees that if he had taken one
single step forward he would have stepped over the
edge of a precipice. I'm sure these tests are
described in many works of literature.

My theory is that book 6 will describe Harry's victory
over Voldemort's attempt to take possession of Harry's
heart, i.e. his emotional I. Jo has already said that
Harry will have to learn to control his temper and I
think that's a clue. As I said in my essay I suspect
the room of Venus will come into this. This room is
the innermost part of the heart. It is in fact Lily,
but this time the symbol is not just a flower of great
purity and beauty. It is the Inner God, TAO, the Holy
Temple of the Spirit, asleep in the heart of every
seeker. In "The Alchemical Wedding" this is symbolised
by a sepulchre in which Venus has lain asleep for
aeons, just like "Briar Rose" (It's always a woman,
isn't it?). Perhaps Jo will somehow connect this room
with Lily. Like all of you I just can't wait to see
how Jo is going to describe Harry's victory over
Voldemort this time. All I can do is raise questions.
What is in the Room? How will Voldemort try to take
possession of Harry's heart? Will it be a race between
Voldemort and Harry to see who can get into the Room
first? Will Lily be connected with that Room? Has the
Department of Mysteries put her body in there because
it was her love that defeated Voldemort in the first
place, and they want to study this force? Does 
Voldemort think perhaps that if he removes Lily's body 
from the Room he can defeat Harry? Is Lily's body 
preserved just like Venus' body in "The Alchemical 
Wedding"? The mind boggles. Is James in there too? 
Why do we never hear of Lily's and James' grave? Is 
it because Lily's body is in the Room of Love? It 
certainly fits the pattern! Lily - Briar Rose - 
Venus - the Great Mother as mentioned in the "Tao Te
Ching". This is what I wrote in my post, "Harry (5)":
'"I am different. I am nourished
by the great mother." Who is the great mother? Why,
Lily, of course.'

Some of you may have thought it far-fetched to say
that the great mother mentioned by Lao Tzu could be
Lily, but when you realise that the Inner God, the
Kingdom of Heaven asleep in the heart, the absolute
Divine Plan for the eternal growth and development of
the Immortal and Eternal Child of God who will live
for ever in unimaginable and mind-blowing splendour
and glory, with 12 ineffable faculties which defy
description, we can understand that the symbol for its
potential is a mother. Friends, it is my theory that
Harry Potter is telling us that in our heart sleeps
the Mother of God. When this God is born it is in a
manger surrounded by animals, and he will live in a
cupboard under the stairs, but he will grow up to
defeat the Dark Lord in our being and take us on a
journey that leads to so much goodness, so much love,
so much wisdom, and so many other Godlike gifts that
we can scarcely believe it.

Do you find the above fantastic? The figments of a
deranged mind? Yet this is what the legends and the
gospels tell us. There is a Temple in our heart where
the Great Mother lies asleep for a hundred years,
until the Temple is opened. It is this same Temple
that contains Briar Rose (sometimes called Sleeping
Beauty), or the princess in "The Glass Coffin", or
Venus in "The Alchemical Wedding". And this Temple
"contains a Force that is at once more wonderful and
more terrible than death, than human intelligence,
than the forces of nature." Whether this force is
connected to Lily in Harry Potter I do not know, but
it doesn't seem far-fetched to me.

Friends, if just ONE person in the whole world reading
these posts understood what Harry Potter is really
about, I would feel my effort in sending these long
posts would all be worthwhile.

Just before I finish this long rant, let me just
speculate on book 7. The passing of the last ordeal on
the Path of Liberation is called, by the Masters of
Compassion, "passing through the Gate of Saturn". Will
Harry pass through the archway in the Department of
Mysteries to find Sirius, as I said in my essay?
Whatever happens, Voldemort will try to take
possession of Harry's consciousness. Voldemort will
know that if he doesn't get Harry this time, he'll be
finished. He will therefore make a final desperate
effort to make Harry join his side. This time I think
it WILL clearly be a temptation. Voldemort will "take
him to a very high mountain and show him all the
kingdoms of the world and the glory of them." And he
will say to Harry: "All these I will give you, if you
will fall down and worship me*." But Harry will choose
Sirius instead.

That's enough predictions. You can read post 229, "My
predictions" if you want to know more.

Finally one last issue. Sometimes I wonder whether it
is my place to reveal these intensely powerful
spiritual values to the world. But then Jo has put in
so many clues that shout out to be revealed! Every
time I make a discovery I see that all clues come in
pairs. If I come to a discovery from one direction
there is always a clue from another direction to
confirm the correctness of my discovery. I'll explain
that when I discuss the other characters, starting
with Sirius, in my coming posts. What I do want to say
for now is that the presence of so many obvious clues
convince me that Jo WANTS people to find the clues and
draw the conclusions. That's right, isn't it Jo? I do
so with caution, but until Jo tells me otherwise I'll
tell the world about what the clues are screaming to
announce!
Hans

*Matthew 4: 8 & 9


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