Character Discussion: Albus Dumbledore

Tue Mar 8 17:06:42 UTC 2005

No: HPFGUIDX 125705

Albus Dumbledore is the most abstract and therefore
the most difficult character to define.

Many people see him as personifying God. I disagree on
the principle that God can't be personified. He is not
a force and not a living being; He is in my opinion
not part of creation and therefore there is nothing we
can say about Him, because everything we could
possibly imagine is part of creation. God is
essentially transcendent and therefore in the ultimate
sense is unknowable.

However we can get to know God in a second hand way,
so to speak, for He projects into creation the
Sevenfold Spirit, and as such is immanent. And we can
experience the Spirit personally when Harry is born in
us. However I do not think Dumbledore personifies the
Holy Sevenfold Spirit either. If God, the Causeless
Cause, is incomprehensible, then the Sevenfold Spirit
is not far from being incomprehensible until we have
experienced Him personally. He can certainly not be
described in words!

Let's try to work it out. In Harry Potter, Dumbledore
is a very ancient man who lives in a tower and is in
complete charge of Harry's spiritual (i.e. "magic")
development. He knows exactly what trials Harry will
face each year and organises a lot of them, for
example the Mirror of Erised and the seven trial in
book 1. He lives in a room which is reached by a
moving spiral stairway. The room contains many
instruments of observation.

In "The Alchemical Wedding" there is also a very
ancient man who lives in a tower. He is in complete
charge of the alchemical wedding which brings back to
life the dead King and Queen. He has a representative
who is in a room that is reached by a spiral
staircase. This representative is also very old and is
called Atlas. To simplify things we could see them as
one person, or as the personification of one force.

I think the idea of the Very Ancient One being in
charge of the Alchemical Wedding is the clue as to who
Dumbledore is. What is the purpose of the alchemical
wedding? It is the complete restoration of the Divine
Human Being as he was before the Fall. In other words,
it is the complete healing of the child of the
Sevenfold Spirit. What is healing? Being healed means
being restored to health, being restored to what God
intended us to be. When we are healed, we are whole,
we are HOLY. A person who has achieved the alchemical
wedding has been transfigured from an imperfect child
of Lucimort to a Perfect Child of the Holy Creator,
and is therefore Holy. Hence there is only one
conclusion I can reach when contemplating Dumbledore:
He personifies the Holy Spirit! He is the sanctifying,
healing Spirit of God. He therefore also personifies
the Holy Plan of Redemption of humanity. In other
words, he is the Force of Liberation.

And so I believe we will see an alchemical
transfiguration leading to total Liberation taking
place in Book 7 of Harry Potter. I may be be up the
creek in my understanding, and there are many things I
haven't figured out yet, but I think we will see some
form of alchemical wedding similar to the one in the
1616 version. If I'm correct, Hermione symbolises the
original human spirit - the young king in "The
Alchemical Wedding"; Harry symbolises the Divine Soul
- the young queen in "The Alchemical Wedding", and Ron
symbolises the human personality - Christian Rosycross
in "The Alchemical Wedding". If this is correct it
probably means Harry and Hermione will marry, but Ron
will be with them always. Sirius will be their Guide
and Inspiration. Dumbledore will be the one to be in
charge of things and will be the healing, sanctifying
force in the process. I guess we could call him the
Master of Ceremonies.

To help us understand the force that Dumbledore
personifies we could look at the Bible.

For example in Revelation, chapter 1, John meets a
very ancient man who reminds me of Dumbledore:
"I saw one [...] like a son of man, clothed with a
long robe and with a golden girdle round his breast;
his head and his hair were white as white wool, white
as snow; his eyes were like flames of fire, his feet
like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and
his voice was like the sound of many waters; in his
right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth issued
a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun
shining in full strength."

The above is what I believe to be the equivalent of
Dumbledore. The "son of man" described there is the
symbolic description of the divine aspects of the
resurrected original divine human being. John here
symbolises the new soul, who has to perform seven
tasks: Harry and his seven years of learning. John is
told to write seven letters; Harry has to perform a
liberating task in each of his seven years. Perhaps
one day we could have a look at the seven letters to
see how they compare with the seven liberating tasks
of Harry.

I believe that this principle is called "The Ancient
of Days" in the Kaballah. Perhaps a Kaballist could shed
some light on this?

"The Ancient of Days" is also mentioned in the Book of
Daniel, chapter 7. The description there is very
similar to the one in Revelation.

Finally, I want to tell you briefly why Dumbledore and
Atlas live in a room at the top of a spiral staircase.
I will explain this in more detail when I do my series
on the symbolism in Harry Potter. For now let me say
that this room symbolises the supreme spiritual centre
in the head of the alchemist. This is the place where
the crown chakra is situated, represented in the
physical body by the pineal gland.

You may remember from my discussion of occultism that
occultists try to drive the serpent of the kundalini
upwards, through the spine, to the pineal gland. This
is where people often get confused between occultism
and liberating alchemy. In both occultism and alchemy
a force rises up the spine and enters the pineal gland
and the crown chakra. In both cases there is a
tremendous change in the person. But in occultism it
is the Basilisk that rises upwards and enters the
Temple of the Holy Spirit to defile it with its evil
eyes and poisonous fangs. It's called the Light-birth
of Lucifer. In Alchemy it is the New, Pure and Divine
Soul, personified in Harry, that rises up to the
Temple where it will celebrate the wedding with the
Spirit. This is called the Light-birth of Christ.

The occultist will earn great powers and stop the
wheel of reincarnation for a long period. He will
become one of the great rulers of the Fallen Universe.
He will become a death eater and serve Lucimort.

Harry will enter the Temple of the Holy Spirit and
humbly serve the Potter of the Universe with an
intense compassion for humanity. He will be free of
the wheel of reincarnation, and hence will not be
compelled to come to earth again, but he will do so as
an unimaginable sacrifice, driven by the Love burning
in his heart.

"if I talk too freely about [if I believe in God] I think the intelligent reader, whether 10 or 60, will be able to guess what's coming in the books." JK Rowling

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