(Symbols)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

I am kept away from my m-lists for a measley three weeks (my job
consumed more time than usual) and all this activity took place!

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Randy Estes <estesrandy at y...> wrote:
> As I think about the story of Nicholas Flamel and the
> Priory of Sion, I cannot help but rethink the 7 tasks
> in the ending of the Philosopher's stone.

(snip)

> I am positive that JKR knows the story of the Priory
> of Sion and the Knights Templar and the quest for the
> Sacred Feminine.  This story is related to Harry
> Potter since Nicholas Flamel is connected to both.

You missed the posts on the main list connecting HP to 'The Alchymical
Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz", which I think would interest you.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/70310
This one lists the similarities between each of the seven days of the
Alchymical Wedding to each of the seven years of HP, including the end
of the first day:
<< CRC is presented with seven `challenges'; six inside the dungeon,
and one at the entrance above it, and during the final challenge
inside the dungeon receives a wound to the head from the stone, but
is rescued by his mentor, a wise old man >>
<< The seven HP challenges: Fluffy (entrance above the dungeon); the
Devil's Snare; the Keys; the Chess Game; the Troll; the Potions; the
Mirror (inside the dungeon) >>



http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/70287
<< In post 56254 I compared HP to the "Alchemical Wedding of Christian
Rosencreutz", published in 1616. William Truderung was kind enough to
reply in great detail and he gave a website where the AW can be read
in modern English.

That was before OOP. I've only just begun to recover from the impact
of OOP and so it's very early to dig deeply into the symbolism of it
all. However I've just woken up to an extremely striking parallel
between HP and the AW which gave me quite a shock which was at the
same time a thrill of breathtaking possibilities.

In year 5 Harry comes across a room that is always locked. He is told
that this room contains "a force that is at once more wonderful and
more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the forces of
nature." This force is never named, but it is obvious to us that this
is love.

On day 5 Christian Rosencreutz comes across a room that is always
locked. He is told that this room contains the sleeping "Lady Venus".
Sound familiar? You don't have to have an IQ of 200 to work out what
Venus symbolizes. >>

Another post from "Mongo"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/65101

Ivan Vablatsky (Hans in Holland): "see my previous posts, incl. 55907,
56071, 56254, 56477, 67775, 68623, 69086, 70287, 70318, 70963, 71831,
72782, 73252, etc."