Jo's Alchemy

[Hans Andréa]

No: HPFGUIDX 165869

Deborah Hunt in post 2603 to Harry Potter for Seekers gave us a quote from an interview with Jo dating from 1998:
   
  "I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic."
   
  I've been thinking about this quite a lot lately, and I've come to the conclusion that this explains a great deal!
   
  Jo was sitting in a train in June 1990 when Harry unexpectedly walked into her mind. She worked out the main story of the septology in her thoughts. When she got home she wrote down what she could remember, in an exercise book. She then spent SEVEN years doing research and learning all she had to know to be able to write her Opus Magnum. Now we know what occupied her mind so much of the time: ALCHEMY! In those days she didn't have a computer, but it's clear she was very busy in libraries. And when you study alchemy for seven years, surely it's almost impossible NOT to come across Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz published in 1616? No wonder so many things there also happen in Harry Potter! (Jo has a degree in French and can read German and Portuguese as well)
   
  And what book explains the story of Christian Rosycross so clearly and so wondrously beautifully? The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross by Jan van Rijckenborgh! Once she had read that, and been transfixed by the sublimity in the writing, wouldn't Jo have started searching for other books he's written? For example his The Call of the Brotherhood of the Rosycross, which explains Fama Fraternitatis published in 1614? And wouldn't she then have read the words Then you will discover that a pure white flower will begin to reveal itself in your being - the mystic lily, the lotus of the Eastern seers? No wonder Harry's mother is called Lily!
   
  And wouldn't she have read Chapter 15 of the same book? Obviously yes, because here we see the description of the human being as a sleeping giant tied to the cross, which is used in EXACTLY the same way in Chapter 30 of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to describe Hagrid's brother.
   
  Would she have stopped reading Jan van Rijckenborgh's books there? Hardly likely, as Hermes Trismegistus is known as "the father of Alchemy". And who's written four wonderful books about the works of Hermes? Of course: Jan van Rijckenborgh again! No wonder that when you read his Egyptian Arch-Gnosis with a thorough knowledge of Harry Potter, and vice versa, you keep coming across things that are very similar. For example Harry's scar, as I've pointed out in my essay: Harry Potter: The Road Map to Liberating Alchemy
   
  Once Jo had seen the majestic message of liberation in the books of Jan van Rijckenborgh, the same massage which she saw in her hours of inspiration, would she have stopped reading them then? Of course not. She would have read The Coming New Man and used the chapters dealing with the mental conception of the Immortal Man as a basis for the life of Sirius. It's just not possible otherwise!
   
  She has read The Gnosis in Present-Day Manifestation because that deals with the defeat of the basilisk symbolising the kundalini at the bottom of the spine. 
   
  How often does Jan van Rijckenborgh not quote Psalm 42 to compare the longing for God with the thirst of a stag? Certainly he does so in The Coming New Man. Is it a wonder that Harry's father is an animagus who can change into a stag? For Harry is the child of a lily and a stag - the white flower which pants for the Living Water - from which the New Soul is born.
   
  There are hundreds of other examples! 
   
  What does all this mean? It means that God is reaching the hearts of many millions of people, especially children. It means that the basis of a new religion is being laid. This is not a traditional religion, based on a literal interpretation of divinely inspired symbolic instructions, and on the authority of a church run by fallible humans, but on the understanding that Jesus Christ can be born in the heart of every person who has a Lily there, and who thirsts for the pure, unsullied spiritual power which can bring Him back to life. That is the true message of Harry, son of the primeval Potter of Creation.
   
  Hans


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