Alchemy of J.K. Rowling v2 PDF
Alchemy of J.K. Rowling v2 PDF
Alchemy of J.K. Rowling v2 PDF
Rowling
the alchemy
Is there a secret message hidden in the tekst of the
most popular children’s story ever written? Let the
author take you on a journey through the alchemical
symbolism in Harry Potter, where you will be shown an
amazing discovery he has made. What does the author
claim to have discovered? That under all the magic and
excitement there is a message that is at once modern
and very ancient: alchemy is the awakening of the Inner
OF J.K. ROWLING
God, asleep in the heart of every seeker.
the alchemy
‘Your book invited me to allow the text to have an intensive
affect om me. It helped me a lot and has given me ever
deeper insights. I am convinced that this will never end,
especially with the list of recommended books you have
selected to go exactly with the appropriate subjects.’
Stance van der Plas, The Netherlands
Thank you for writing this wonderful book! I’ve been IN THE LIGHT OF THE ALCHEMICAL
reading and re-reading it so I can recall my wizard core and
understand my journey. I also use it as a Patronus charm
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to help me dispel the Dementors of this world when they
approach. A beautiful and inspired work!
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J.K. Rowling
Foreword 8
Introduction 9
1 The Spiritual Power Hidden in Harry Potter 11
2 Lily 14
3 James 17
4 Voldemort 21
5 Harry (1) 25
6 Harry (2) 26
7 Harry (3) 30
8 Harry (4) 32
9 Harry (5) The Seven Trials (1) 34
10 Harry (6) The Seven Trials (2) 36
11 Harry (7) The Seven Trials (3) 38
12 Harry (8) The Seven Trials (4) 39
13 Harry (9) The Chamber of Secrets (1) 41
14 Harry (10) The Chamber of Secrets (2) 43
15 Harry (11) The Prisoner of Azkaban (1) 46
16 Harry (12) The Prisoner of Azkaban (2) 48
17 Harry (13) The Prisoner of Azkaban (3) 55
18 Harry (14) The Goblet of Fire 59
19 Parts 5, 6 and 7 – Introduction 62
20 Harry (15) The Order of the Phoenix 65
21 Harry (16) The Half-Blood Prince 67
22 Harry (17) The Deathly Hallows 68
23 Sirius (1) 70
24 Peter Pettigrew 74
25 Sirius (2) 79
26 Sirius (3) 82
27 Harry and Sirius 86
28 Hedwig 87
29 Hagrid 88
30 Ron 92
31 Hermione 95
32 Snape 97
33 Remus John Lupin 102
34 Dumbledore 105
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Epilogue 201
Glossary 203
Alchemy 212
Suggested Further Reading 226
Bibliography 228
What was once given to those few in the ancient Mystery Schools in
Greece and the Middle East is now being made public to everyone
who has ears to hear and eyes to see. This is a realisation which has
begun to dawn on me in the last decade as I’ve read Harry Potter
again and again, and as I’ve read what others have said. The joy of
this discovery keeps hitting me again and again, sometimes literally
taking my breath away. Sometimes I even wonder whether I’m
dreaming all this, but when I think of the powerful symbols in the
books and examine my own spiritual discoveries, I keep coming to
the same conclusions: Harry Potter is a story of such tremendous
spiritual beauty and power that it will change the world.
There have been many other works of great beauty and power,
such as the story of King Arthur and the legend of the Holy Grail,
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The story of the hero who enters the world of the dead and then
comes back to save the world is universal. It’s the story of Orpheus,
Bacchus, Attis, Osiris, Dionysus, and many others, going back
thousands of years.
This archetypal story resonates in the collective unconscious of so
many millions because humanity has incessantly been confronted by
the symbolism of the Inner God asleep in the human heart, like the
bud of a pure, dazzlingly white lily. We can awaken the inner Prince
of Peace by answering God’s call to return to Him. That answer is to
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If readers can see through the superficial aspects of the story, and
ignore the elements that make the story seem like a children’s book,
often banal and sometimes even offensive (swearing, lying, fighting),
an immensely deep, rich and powerful spiritual symbolism rises to
the surface.
Lily symbolizes the dormant divine spark in the heart, while James
personifies the longing to return to God. Harry himself personifies
the new Divine Soul that is born when the bud of the Lily (the white
Rose, as the Rosicrucians call it, or the Lotus as the Buddhists call it)
opens. As soon as this birth occurs, a bright star appears in the outer
boundary or ‘firmament’ of the microcosm* (the seeker’s personal
force field). This star is a radiant inner source of power that connects
the alchemist to the Cosmic Christ.
* Glossary p 208
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The lily, the rose, and the lotus are traditional symbols for our
deepest spiritual self, our only true and immortal self, our inner God.
The imagery speaks clearly. A seed falls into the dark, slimy, rotting
earth. A plant rises up and one day produces a breathtakingly
beautiful and dazzlingly pure white flower that is in such complete
contrast to the environment the seed was planted in.
This is not very flattering for us personally, but the idea is that we
are the rotting earth and the flower is the potential Inner God in the
heart. That’s Lily Potter - Harry’s mother.
The divine flower in the heart has been symbolised in many other
ways in stories through the centuries. For example a familiar one
is the Philosopher’s Stone. The legend about this stone is that it
can produce the elixir of life and can turn all other metals into
gold. Here the symbolism is clear too. The elixir of life alludes to
the property of the spiritual bud in the heart to give the bearer
eternal life - if he uses the stone properly. Turning other metals into
gold symbolises the same thing as the flower above, i.e. turning
something worthless into something very beautiful. Gold is a very
powerful symbol because it doesn’t oxidise and so doesn’t tarnish.
There is an additional meaning to gold, because advanced seekers
on the path of liberation have told us that when the flower in the
heart has opened up fully and its heavenly fragrance has spread
throughout the body, the aura of the seeker takes on an exquisite
golden radiance. This is especially so around the head, and this
is where the idea of the aureole or halo began. We can see this
depicted in medieval paintings.
In my opinion J.K. Rowling uses the symbol of the Philosopher’s
Stone in quite a different way than the above, though. She uses it to
make the very opposite point! She uses it as occult symbolism and
the elixir of life here means life in the physical body, and gold means
wealth on earth. This is quite an unexpected use of symbolism, but
extremely effective.
Another effective symbol for the immortal life in the heart is the
seed. I quote from Meister Eckhart: The seed of God is in us. Now the
seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree; and a hazel seed grows into
a hazel tree; a seed of God grows into God. What an effective symbol
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What turns the passive voice into an active one? It’s the end product
of many incarnations full of disappointment, disillusionment and
suffering. It’s the subconscious realisation that nothing in this world
can really satisfy the inner core of our being. That all our endeavours
are just mad rides on the merry go round at Vanity Fair. That’s James.
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The Water of Life is the symbol for the original, pure immortal life-
force which enters the heart of those who have this longing for it.
I’ll come back to that later.
First I want to briefly discuss Grimm’s fairy tale, The Glass Coffin.
In this fairy tale the hero wakes up one morning to the sound of a
stag and a black bull fighting. The stag wins and lifts our hero up
with its antlers and takes him to a desert (John the Baptist!). The
stag puts the hero down and he finds a cave with a glass coffin and
a miniature castle. The princess (Lily) wakes up and tells the hero
what to do. They kiss, everything comes back to life, and they live
happily ever after.
The symbolism here is extremely clear. The black bull symbolises
the force that imprisons us in this universe and the stag our longing
for liberation from it. The fight between the two symbolises the
many experiences we have through innumerable incarnations until
the stag wins. In this fairy tale the stag is the brother of the princess
while in Harry Potter they’re husband and wife.
Lily and James marry and settle in Godric’s Hollow. A hollow is a
small valley or dell (as in Rivendell). Godric is a legendary figure who
had a pet. It won’t surprise you to know it was a stag!
Harry is born from the union of the lily and the stag. When the heart
actively thirsts for the Living Water, its cry is answered and, like a
quickening shower after years of drought, an inflow of imperishable
life-force touches the heart. This enters the blood and commences
its journey through the whole body. Harry is the new, immortal soul,
our personal Messiah promised to us since the time of the Fall.
The forces which keep us imprisoned in this universe know what
happens when a child is born to the lily and the stag, and they
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The hills symbolise the spiritual height the seeker attains to and the
help is the spiritual power which drives all opposing forces away.
What gives the stag the power to drive all evil and opposing forces
away? All forces in the astral plane, i.e. all desires and emotions,
have a certain frequency of vibration. Selfish and evil feelings have
a lower vibration while unselfish, noble ones have a higher one.
However the longing for the life-force from the Real World outside
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That is the message of Harry Potter. Drink the Living Water and you
shall return to your Divine Origins.
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* Glossary p 205
A new soul is born in the person and this is destined to drive Lucifer
from his throne. At the birth of the Boy the ancient, long extinguished
morning star begins to glimmer in the sixth microcosmic shell. Sirius,
the bright new morning star, is visible again for the first time in
innumerable millennia.
Voldemort knows that a power greater than he has been born in his
realm and he sets out to kill it before it can grow beyond his control.
Like Herod he attempts to kill the power not of this world, but, like
Herod, he fails. He has become Satan, the ‘adversary’, and will fight
Harry to the last breath.
This same story appears in The Chymical Wedding of Christian
Rosycross. On the fourth day a play is performed and begins thus:
A very ancient King came on, with some servants; before his
throne was brought a little chest, with mention being made
that it was found upon the water. Now it being opened, there
appeared in it a lovely baby, together with some jewels, and
a small letter of parchment sealed and superscribed to the
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The King of the Moors here is Voldemort. There was no worry about
racial discrimination in those days and with apologies to any black
people reading this, black was used as a symbol of the power of
darkness.
Voldemort is also discussed in eastern spiritual traditions; for
example in Buddhism he is called Mara, bitterness.
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And at his birth a new star shines in the east. The baby is given a
God-Father, Sirius.
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Paul says:
You are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but
with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but
on tablets of human hearts. (2 Cor: 3)
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Genesis 3:4:
The serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not die. For God knows
that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be
like God, knowing good and evil.’
All of us own a ‘tree.’ The spinal column with the spinal cord and
the two strings of the sympathetic nervous system is called ‘the
tree of life.’ The force that runs along these 3 channels, esotericists
call the ‘serpent fire’. The crown of the tree is the brain, and what
lives in the brain? That is the human intellect! That is the serpent
that tempted Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Good
and Evil.
In my theory that Harry Potter is the oft repeated universal message
of liberation, I have told you that Harry is the new soul-force that is
born in the heart of the seeker. This force enters the blood stream
and thence spreads throughout the body.
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The third trial is to open a locked door. The key is present, but it’s
got wings and is flying high up near the ceiling among hundreds of
other keys.
It’s important to see in each trial which of the three children solves
the problem. If it’s Hermione, it’s the mind of the candidate which
solves the problem. If it’s Ron, it’s the old, earthly personality, and if
it’s Harry it’s the New, Immortal Soul.
In the case of Cerberus, it was Harry, and therefore the New Soul,
who played the flute - the harmonious vibrations of the pure Soul.
In the case of Devil’s Snare it was Hermione, and therefore the
mind, but she was helped by Ron.
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As you can see above, Hermione says, Friendship and bravery and –
And what? Ever since the first time I read this I’ve thought that she
was going to say, ‘love’, but was too embarrassed to say it. I thought
it was obvious, in fact, that everyone else would think the same.
After some years now I’ve found that no one else has this thought at
all. My question is, what do you think is the missing word?
Back to Harry. There is only one draft of the magic potion to be able
to get into the next room, so Harry goes in alone. The new soul has
to face this trial alone. Whenever the soul is facing a be all and end
all situation, it has to act on its own inner strength.
When Harry enters the next room he meets a man with two
faces – one in front and one behind. I believe this is to indicate
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We are discussing the astral plane, the plane of desires and emotions.
Every desire results in the attraction of astral forces of a certain
vibration. We as creatures of the universe of Lucifer can attract only
the forces from this universe. However as soon as Harry is born,
there is a living being within us who is not from this universe. Tao
has brought forth Te. Jesus is born in the heart. The Prince of Peace
has arrived to reclaim His Kingdom. This means that in the astral
body of the seeker there is a New Soul which can desire something
that is not obtainable anywhere in this universe: the Living Water.
This is a symbol for the life-force of the Kingdom of Heaven. It is the
astral substance of the Sixth Cosmic Plane.
Among those who read this there will be those who know this
experience, but they will not be able to explain or describe it to
those who don’t. When Harry is born in your heart you have a new
sense organ. You are no longer a Muggle and a new world opens
up to you. Trying to explain this deep yearning, this hankering for
manna, is like trying to explain the view of a mountain range to a
blind person or a symphony to a deaf one. The nearest we can get
to describing this longing is to compare it to the intense craving for
air one feels when one’s head is being held under water for a few
minutes. Imagine almost suffocating and then suddenly being able
to breathe fresh, fragrant, oxygen rich air. Only the relief isn’t felt by
the lungs but by the heart. When the little Tao in the heart meets
the big universal Tao there is an intense joy, a spiritual ecstasy.
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[Later, after time travelling back three hours sees the scene again
from across the lake]
There was a bush at the very edge of the water. Harry threw
himself behind it, peering desperately through the leaves.
On the opposite bank, the glimmers of silver were suddenly
extinguished. A terrified excitement shot through him – any
moment now –
‘Come on!’ he muttered, staring about. ‘Where are you? Dad,
come on –’ But no one came. Harry raised his head to look
at the circle of Dementors across the lake. One of them was
lowering its hood. It was time for the rescuer to appear -- but
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When the sons and daughters of the Potter descended into matter
millions of years ago they started a process of severance from the
Original Spirit which lived as the king in the microcosm, next to
the Soul as queen, with the personality as their precious child. The
Original Spirit never forsakes His children, and so right from the
beginning there was a plan to enable the human being to return the
way he had come.
It is not possible just simply to open oneself to the Original Spirit
again. The unimaginably high vibrations of the Spirit would destroy
the human being instantly. There has to be an intermediary between
the fallen human being and the Spirit. There has to be a guardian
of God’s compassion who can descend to the earth, even to hell if
necessary, to answer the cry of the seeker when he realises there
is no point in life in the fallen universe and his heart longs for the
return to the Spirit. This intermediary we call the Christ. His rays
of hope and comfort can reach right down to us and give us the
strength and desire to turn around and go the long, long way back
to where we once came from. He will lift us up onto his back and
carry us upwards, ever upwards towards the heights of the Spirit,
for the reunion with the Father.
That is the griffin. In Harry Potter the Hippogriff rather than the
griffin has been chosen as the symbol of Christ, but in my opinion
this doesn’t make any difference whatsoever. The Griffin is, of
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It is natural for the human being to seek liberation for the natural
self, or the ‘Self of matter’ as The Voice of the Silence calls it. But that
is impossible. Nevertheless many people do try. Draco in my opinion
symbolises such a person. At Hogwarts he belongs to Slytherin, the
House of Lucifer. He approaches the Body of Christ with irreverence
and disdain. He says, I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you,
you great ugly brute? As we know, Malfoy gets slashed by the sharp
claws. The body of Christ is a force-field of intensely high spiritual
energy and beneficial only when it is approached by the immortal
soul, but when the egocentric seeker for liberation for the self
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The New Immortal Soul defies the powers of this world and enters
the Body of Christ with great respect. He surrenders himself to it and
the Christ-force lifts him up and enables him to liberate Sirius. Harry
has completed another phase in the Divine Plan of Redemption. He
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The microcosmic self wants to kill the New Soul as it’s not under
the control of the microcosmic self, but the New Soul is able to
resist the microcosmic self. The latter can neither control nor kill the
New Soul. It has won the victory on the mental plane, fortified by
the power of the resurrection. It has broken the fourth chain to the
universe of time and space.
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Thanks to Jan van Rijckenborgh we can work out the next three
planes in which our lives operate, even though we have no
knowledge or perception of them. Together the seven planes form
our total universe, our total sphere of operation. All our different
incarnations in the past have taken place there, and unless a New
Soul is born in our heart, we are imprisoned for ever in the seven
planes of this dualistic universe.
For the sake of brevity and ease I will henceforth refer to the last three
levels as: ‘the mental I’, ‘the emotional I’, and ‘the consciousness-I’.
If my theory is correct, this means that:
Order of the Phoenix deals with the liberation of the mental I,
Half-Blood Prince with that of the emotional I,
and Deathly Hallows with that of the consciousness-I.
To help us in making some sort of mental image of these three
aspects of the human consciousness I will make an analogy.
Imagine that the human being is a country ruled by three ministers.
There is a Prime Minister and two ministers to advise him and help
him make decisions. However the Prime Minister has all the power
and what advice he takes is his choice.
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If we now look at Harry Potter we know that Lily gave birth to Harry.
Harry personifies the original soul that emanates from the divine
Thought-spark. But there is also energy, and a plan that is to be
followed. In a physical seed the plan is in the chromosomes. In a
divine thought spark there are no chromosomes, but there definitely
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The microcosm has seven planes of existence, just like the universe.
The original human being was active in the SIXTH plane of the
microcosm. Both the microcosmic self and the personality originally
vibrated with an intense life in the Sixth Cosmic Plane of the
microcosm. This means the sixth ring or shell of the microcosm was
active, and the rays of sustaining energy entered the microcosm
through this shell.
To understand this, imagine that you’re in a glass sphere. By means
of an electronic instrument you are able to change the colour of the
glass to one of seven colours. You can imagine that if you change
the colour of the glass to red, the glass will only permit red light rays
to enter the sphere. As soon as you change the colour to green, only
green rays enter, and so on.
When the human being manifested himself in the Sixth Cosmic
Plane, the sixth shell was open to the rays of energy of that plane.
This plane we call the Kingdom of Heaven, Nirvana, etc. The human
being existed in great glory and happiness. However, a large group
of the human entities started to make their abode in the Seventh
Cosmic Plane, which was not intended for that purpose. This meant
that the seventh shell of the microcosm started to open itself to the
energy of the Seventh Cosmic Plane, while the sixth ring started
closing up. That was the birth of Voldemort and the death of the
previous microcosmic self. This process took many millions of years
of our time reckoning.
The position today is that our microcosm still has those seven
rings, but the sixth one (and Nos. 1-5) is totally dormant, while the
seventh one vibrates and allows energy from the fallen universe to
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This new influence is a new soul that will grow within us and spread
its influence throughout our four bodies. However, as we know,
there are also influences within us which resist the new soul. Harry
has powerful enemies! The most powerful one of all is Voldemort,
the microcosmic (or ‘higher’) self. He personifies the power of our
past incarnations and especially the fallen state of our microcosm.
He is situated around our aura and we don’t feel his influence until
Harry is born in God’s little valley, the heart.
There is another influence that initially co-operates with Lily and
James, but is actually a close ally of Voldemort
What really happens to the seeker is that the ego starts to play along
with the activities of the seeker. It begins to surround the mental
image of the Eternal Son of God with delusions, with unfounded
speculations, with absolute lies. Prometheus is put in chains. The
image of the Imperishable One is isolated, or linked to occultism or
religious movements which reinforce the ego. In other words: Sirius
is imprisoned!
This may be hard to understand. However what this simply means is
that before a person can go the Path of Liberation, his ego will urge
him to go into directions which seemingly lead to the truth but in
fact imprison the seeker in occult practices, or at any rate practices
which boost the ego. Just ask yourself if you’re a seeker: would you
rather listen to a movement that promises you all sorts of wonderful
things for yourself, or to a movement that says, ‘give up your self-
interest if you want to be liberated?’ or ‘He who gives up his life
for My sake shall find It?’ What about this simple but true example
from a magazine advertisement: ‘Thoughts can influence others’?
Or would you choose, ‘Purify your thoughts of self-interest?’. It is a
fact that every seeker has to go through the occult or ego-religious
phase before he can find the true Path. That’s why J.K. Rowling
makes such a point of it. She’s written a whole book about it!
So there we are. Sirius is in prison. James and Lily are dead, but
they both live on in Harry. Snape hates Harry because Harry is the
Light while Snape is the black aspect of the seeker’s past. Remus
John looks upon Harry almost as a son because Remus is good,
and knows Harry is absolute goodness. Peter can now rest easily as
Scabbers (the dirty little scab) on Ron’s body.
However Harry grows older. He is no longer an infant but can act
independently. He has defeated Voldemort several times. And a
strange event takes place. Ron and Scabbers go to Egypt. Sirius
sees a photo of the two of them in front of a pyramid. While the
star Sirius, the Bright Morning Star of Egypt, looks upon Ron, the
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When we think, we form small astral clouds around our head, and
these thought-forms drift around our body in an anticlockwise
circulation, from the head down to the upper abdomen, through
the spleen and liver, and out the other side, up again.
This is the normal state of affairs in every human being. In addition
to these thought-forms there is an influence in many people which
turns them into a seeker. That is the Thought-spark or seed of the
original spirit. It is symbolised by Lily in Harry Potter. If the lily is
closed up in its petals there’s no influence to change our way of
thinking. However through various causes, the lily in the heart
can begin to open one petal, so to speak. Such a person begins to
suspect that the purpose of life is not just eating, sleeping, sex and
entertainment. He/she begins to search for the purpose of life. The
seeker is born.
Obviously this influences the seeker’s thoughts. And equally
obviously a new thought-form is produced that corresponds
with the seeking pattern. In the beginning this thought-form is
very vague and indistinct and hence powerless. But after a lot of
experimentation the seeker will discover that liberation is the
purpose of life, and that this can be achieved only by giving up the
self-interest. The thought-form now begins to take on a clear shape
and begins to radiate power. Sirius Black is born.
This thought-form does not circulate, however! It stands still in front
of the seeker, shining like a bright morning star. And, as I mentioned
last time, there is a corresponding light in the sixth auric ring of the
microcosm.
Paul was aware of this and mentions it in the First Letter to the
Corinthians. Chapter 15 verse 49: Just as we have borne the image
of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
Sirius is the personification of the thought-image of the heavenly
human being.
I mentioned previously that a seed contains a germ, energy, and a
plan. When the divine spark in the heart begins to vibrate, or catches
fire as we say mystically, the ‘plan’ which the Divine Spirit created all
those millions of years ago begins to project itself in the aura of the
human being. Initially this projection of the plan is lifeless, but as the
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Have a look at such a person’s situation. The lily has begun to open.
A bright silvery stag stands next to the lily and hopes fervently for
a child. Sirius is in the seeker’s firmament and gives bright solace
and hope. The microcosmic self is the boss and Scabbers is his
servant, though Lily and James don’t know it. Then Lily gives birth
to a beautiful baby. This is the baby that has been prophesied to
kill the overlord, Voldemort. Sirius is immediately made God-Father
because he is Harry’s pattern, his example, his mentor and loving
guide.
Voldemort feels the pain of Harry’s presence and tries to rid his
world of the trouble makers. He kills James and Lily, but the love in
Lily is so great that Harry is unharmed. However the microcosmic self
is greatly reduced in power. Harry has to live in the cold, unmagical
world that does not recognise his greatness. The new soul has to
learn to live in the everyday world removed from God. As explained
in Chapter 23, the ego has deceived the seeker into imprisoning the
thought-form of the heavenly man. Sirius is imprisoned in all sorts
of egocentric spiritual and religious pursuits. He grows weaker and
weaker.
But the new soul grows and Sirius manages to escape. He is able
to expel the ego which escapes to its creator, the microcosmic self.
Just like a normal thought-form he circulates through the solar
plexus, but instead of boosting the ego, which normal thoughts do,
he drives it out.
However Dementors, or rulers of the eons as Pistis Sophia calls them,
try to suck the life out of both the new soul and the thought-form.
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Before the big battle at the Ministry of Magic in Part 5 the state
of play is as follows: Sirius is now the brightest star in Harry’s sky
- literally. Both the new soul and the mental conception of the
immortal man are filled with divine power, and the microcosm of
the alchemist is rapidly becoming God’s Only Begotten Son again.
The former glory of God’s only and dearly beloved child is rapidly
returning.
The time has come for Sirius to pass through the Gate of Saturn. The
spiritual concept behind this event is so utterly and totally rapturous
and indescribably beautiful that there are absolutely no words in
any language on earth to convey this.
As I’ve said a number of times, it was God’s plan that the human
being reside in the Sixth Cosmic Plane, and work in the alchemical
laboratory of the Seventh. Both these planes were divine, but it was
not the intention that the human life-wave connect itself with the
seventh. The Sixth Cosmic Plane is traditionally called the Kingdom
of Heaven in Christian language, and the Seventh, in its original
condition, Paradise. The human life-wave decided to live in Paradise
and leave the Kingdom of Heaven behind. However when this
happened Paradise was kindled in wrath. That’s Jacob Boehme’s
way of saying that part of the universe of the Seventh Cosmic Plane
changed in key vibration and started deviating from the Divine Plan.
This took eons and eons of time, but here we are today with the
mess we’ve made of it. Everything that happens on earth today is
the direct result of our past actions as a collective group of entities.
Let’s just go back and look at the original microcosm again. Firstly
there’s God Himself. Secondly there’s the archetype, directly linked
to God and supplying the microcosm with God’s energy. The
teachings of liberation call this archetype Christ. This archetype,
situated outside the microcosm, projects its plan and its energy
INTO the microcosm. This projection is called Lucifer, the light-
bearer. This light-bearer is the microcosmic self. And then there’s the
personality with its four vehicles and three foci of consciousness.
The personality and the microcosmic self are united. The personality
has an immortal soul and the Spirit is ‘married’ to the soul, i.e. united.
They are the King and Queen in ‘The Chemical Wedding’, and the
Spirit and the Bride in Revelation 22:17.
I have also mentioned the twelve bright stars that shine in the
microcosmic ring. These are twelve bright powers that bestow great
faculties on the microcosm.
But, as we know, a large group of microcosms deviated from the
Divine Plan. This was very gradual, but the consequences were
tremendous. The most important thing is that the spirit withdrew
from its union with the soul, and the Christ was stopped from
projecting himself into the microcosm. The microcosm started
wandering in darkness. However, just because the archetype no
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It’s fairly easy to see what Hagrid stands for. What are the clues?
1. He brings the letter of invitation to Harry.
2. He opens the door to the magical world for Harry.
3. He is the ‘ferryman’ for the first-years.
4. He is the ‘Keeper of the Keys’ at Hogwarts.
5. He loves dragons.
6. He is especially fond of a Hippogriff.
7. He was given his position because of a ‘punishment’.
There are people in this universe who have made great progress
on the Path of Liberation, but who are so filled with compassion
for humanity that they’re willing to sacrifice their own immediate
advancement on the Path and stay behind to help their wandering
brothers and sisters find the Path.
This is beautifully described in The Voice of the Silence.
Verse 145:
To don Nirmanakaya’s humble robe [the robe of compassion –
H.A.] is to forego eternal bliss for Self, to help on man’s salvation.
To reach Nirvana’s bliss, but to renounce it, is the supreme, the
final step - the highest on Renunciation’s Path.
Verse 146:
Know, O Disciple, this is the Secret Path, selected by the Buddhas
of Perfection, who sacrificed The SELF to weaker Selves.
Verse 300:
[...] Compassion is no attribute. It is the Law of LAWS – eternal
Harmony, Alaya’s* SELF; a shoreless universal essence, the light
of everlasting Right, and fitness of all things, the law of love
eternal.
Verse 301:
The more thou dost become at one with it, thy being melted in
its BEING, the more thy Soul unites with that which IS, the more
thou wilt become COMPASSION ABSOLUTE.
Verse 307:
Now bend thy head and listen well, O Bodhisattva - Compassion
speaks and saith: ‘Can there be bliss when all that lives must
suffer? Shalt thou be saved and hear the whole world cry?’
* Alaya: the Universal Soul or Atman, each human being having a ray of it
in him and being supposed to be able to identify himself with it and to
merge himself in it.
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Harry Potter and The New Testament tell the same story: they are
both road maps to total human liberation. In The New Testament
the New Soul is personified by Jesus, in Harry Potter by Harry. In
the former, the old, earthly personality is symbolised by John the
Baptist, in the latter by Harry’s friend, Ron.
Jesus and Harry personify a new, immortal soul that is born in a
seeker whose lily has opened in God’s hollow place (Godric’s
Hollow). This is not something that just happens by chance. There is
quite some preparation needed.
The story begins with a microcosm that is completely shut off to
the calling Light of the Brotherhood of the Lords of Compassion.
The Light is calling, but the auric ring (Voldemort) of the microcosm
shuts it out. However there is also a latent ring that aeons ago shone
in refulgent glory in God’s Immovable Kingdom.
When eventually a person begins to realise that life is an endless
repetition of things without any real progress, one of the twelve original
lights in the latent ring, the sixth ring, gradually begins to resume its
work of letting in the Divine Light. Such a person realises that what
has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and
there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9) A new sun is born
in the firmament of the person. This new sun is only a small star at first,
but a tiny ray of light falls on the divine spark of the spirit in the heart
of the person. The seeker has been born! He has become a seeker
because the divine seed has begun thirsting for the Living Water.
As I have explained in previous chapters, the new sun we call Sirius,
and the thirst for God we call James. Ron/John is the earthly seeker
who is reacting to the calling power of the Brotherhood of the
Masters of Compassion. This is the person who has found the Path
of Liberation and is willing to dedicate his whole life to it. He realises
that the only way he can reach liberation is to give up the earthly
self. Very soon after John the Baptist is born, Jesus is born. In Harry
Potter Ron is a few months older than Harry.
Ron and Harry are best friends, and Ron tacitly accepts Harry as his
leader. One of Ron’s greatest talents is chess. Chess is mentioned
in The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosycross and it is the symbol
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Chapters 9-12 explain the seven trials in Part 1. In the fifth trial Ron
conducts a chess game of gigantic and dangerous chess pieces in
which the three children take the place of certain chess pieces.
Their first real shock came when their other knight was taken.
The white queen smashed him to the floor and dragged him off
the board, where he lay quite still, face down.
‘Had to let that happen,’ said Ron, looking shaken.
‘Leaves you free to take that bishop, Hermione, go on.’
Every time one of their men was lost, the white pieces showed
no mercy. Soon there was a huddle of limp black players
slumped along the wall. Twice, Ron only just noticed in time
that Harry and Hermione were in danger. He himself darted
around the board, taking almost as many white pieces as they
had lost black ones.
‘We’re nearly there,’ he muttered suddenly. ‘Let me think, let me
think...’
The white queen turned her blank face toward him.
‘Yes...’ said Ron softly, ‘It’s the only way... I’ve got to be taken.’
‘NO!’ Harry and Hermione shouted.
‘That’s chess!’ snapped Ron. ‘You’ve got to make some
sacrifices! I take one step forward and she’ll take me – that
leaves you free to checkmate the king, Harry!’
‘But –’
‘Do you want to stop Snape or not?’
‘Ron –’
‘Look, if you don’t hurry up, he’ll already have the
Stone!’
There was no alternative.
‘Ready?’ Ron called, his face pale but determined.
‘Here I go – now, don’t hang around once you’ve won.’
He stepped forward, and the white queen pounced. She struck
Ron hard across the head with her stone arm, and he crashed
to the floor - Hermione screamed but stayed on her square –
the white queen dragged Ron to one side. He looked as if he’d
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Yes, that’s the purpose of Harry Potter and all the other road maps
to Liberation: to return to the Kingdom of Heaven, to live in union
with the original spirit, proceeding from a living soul to a Life-giving
Spirit. That’s Harry Potter.
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Snape always wears black. He is the black king and therefore the
voice of our shadow side, our black side, and our sinful aspect. He
also symbolises the accumulated bad experiences we’ve had. He
is the cup of bitterness we’ve had to drink throughout hundreds
of incarnations. How many times have we committed intensely evil
actions, how many times have we given in to the evil around us, how
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It is obvious why Snape hates Sirius Black, James Potter and Remus
John Lupin.
– Sirius: the archetype of liberation.
– James: the longing for liberation.
– Remus John: the striving for goodness.
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In Part 7 Harry honours Snape by naming his second son after him.
‘You were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them
was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew,’
he tells his son.
From: The Deathly Hallows Chapter Nineteen Years Later
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Most of us really like Remus John Lupin. He’s a very good teacher,
and he’s kind to Harry and Neville. He teaches Harry a charm that
saves his life several times: the Patronus. He is extremely flawed,
which makes us sympathise with him, but at the same time fills us
with revulsion: he’s a werewolf.
Have you ever noticed how often J.K. Rowling mentions his greying
hair? It’s five times, actually, plus once when she mentions his ‘grey
face’. This is what gave me the clue that he’s the equivalent to the
grey king in The Chymical Wedding. This king is described as ‘a very
old king with a grey beard’. There, the grey king personifies the
opposite force to the black king. That’s Snape, whom I discussed
in the previous chapter. If Snape personifies our shadow side, it’s
obvious that Lupin personifies the opposite.
Why is he grey? Grey is the symbol of ripeness of experience. The
microcosm of a person going the Path of Liberation has an extremely
long journey behind it. It’s ‘old’ in terms of having been through
every possible kind of experience and having learned a great deal
from that.
Grey is also the opposite of black here. In this time-spatial universe
nothing is pure white, i.e. good in the absolute sense. Everything
here, no matter how good, is flawed. We know that Lupin is
extremely flawed. Through no fault of his own he was bitten by a
werewolf as a child. I will explain the meaning of lycanthropy in a
later chapter. Suffice to say for now that he is not in control of his
biological self. He cannot control his animal nature. This is the flaw
in every human being, no matter how good.
Once a month Lupin turns into a wolf, and this works extremely
effectively in plot terms. James was a stag, Peter a rat, and Sirius a
dog. The symbolism is quite ingenious. James had the ability to turn
into a stag, which is the symbol for the longing for liberation. Peter
being able to transform into a rat was extremely effective, as his
physical presence on Ron’s body really emphasised his attachment to
the old earthly personality. Making Sirius a dog was very suitable for
allowing him to escape from prison and to sneak around Hogwarts,
and the dog is obvious from Sirius’ nickname as the ‘dog star’.
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In The Chymical 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.
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 Lucifer/Voldemort to a perfect Child of the Holy Creator, and is
therefore Holy. Dumbledore symbolises the sanctifying, healing Spirit
of God. He personifies the Holy Plan of Redemption of humanity. In
other words, he is the Force of Liberation, the Christ-force.
This is what Jan van Rijckenborgh says of the Very Ancient One:
He is the Supreme Watchman, the original spirit-man, the Holy Spirit,
the divine Son. He is the great, fundamental power of the spirit
expressing itself in a twofold ray; he is the divine trinity in abstract,
which must become concrete in the candidate. As Old Atlas, he
takes form in the pineal centre. One could compare this spirit-man
or divine Son with a second microcosm, in which a high, superb life
radiates, only able to express itself in the solar macrocosm.
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From the esoteric point of view the personality of the human being
consists of seven bodies or vehicles.
1. The physical body
2. The etheric or vital body
3. The astral or desire body
4. The mental body
5. The Mental I
6. The Emotional I
7. The consciousness-I
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Draco personifies the spinal cord with the fiery serpent-force that
rules the cerebro-spinal system.
The new soul, Harry, is born. This is a new vital force that spreads
through the blood to the head. From there it descends down the
right string of the sympathetic nervous system. It defeats the
kundalini as symbolised in Part 2, and then climbs up the left string
of the sympathetic nervous system. Meanwhile the old serpent-fire
in the spinal cord just carries on supporting the government of the
physical body and carrying the commands of the old consciousness,
which is a creature of Lucifer.
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By the above I’m saying that this knowledge was known to the
ancient Greeks and Romans and taught in their Mystery Schools,
and they received it from the ancient Egyptians.
As we know Harry and Ron creep into Crabbe’s and Goyle’s skins,
in a manner of speaking, because they take Polyjuice Potion to
substitute for them to get information out of Draco about the
Chamber of Secrets.
I want to stress the fact that in liberating alchemy, the whole
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All this is related to the Gate of Saturn. The Gate of Saturn symbolises
the alchemist going through the last stage of transmutation. His old
consciousness dies and the new one is born. The new consciousness
has complete power over the new serpent-fire.
Let no one think this is painful or full of suffering. Although Harry
Potter paints a rather painful picture, as does the New Testament,
there is no pain, but sheer, unadulterated joy, as the prodigal son
returns to the loving arms of the father to be united with him for
ever. To lose the old, imperfect earthly personality is like losing an
old ragged coat that is so worn out and smelly it feels like a relief to
throw it off for ever.
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The lion, the eagle and the griffin also occur in Harry Potter.
The phoenix in Harry Potter is called Fawkes and belongs to
Dumbledore. He is the symbol of the Order of the Phoenix. As I
said in my discussion of Dumbledore, he is the Sanctifying Spirit
which heals the human being from his fallen state. His phoenix has
the same healing power. Several times Fawkes’ tears heal Harry’s
wounds. What can we learn from this?
Harry, the new soul, proves his loyalty to Dumbledore in Part 2 and
Fawkes then helps Harry kill the Basilisk. When Harry is wounded
Fawkes drops tears on the wound. In Part 4 Fawkes drops tears on
Harry’s leg after it is wounded by the giant spider in the labyrinth.
In both cases Harry is healed immediately, and in the former case, is
actually saved from death.
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The body with all its organs is a kind of three dimensional blueprint
for a four dimensional Temple, just as a two dimensional blueprint on
paper contains all the plans for a three dimensional building. Hence
all the major organs, especially those in the head, have a function in
rebuilding the new temple in three days (stages). The physical body
is essential for liberation, otherwise we wouldn’t have one!
N e vi ll e longbo ttom
M e du ll a oblong ata
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Firstly there is the calling ray. The ancient Gnostics called this ray the
Pistis. The Rosicrucians call it ‘The Father’. It is the ray which knocks
on all human hearts and appeals to the conscience to awaken it. It
is the small, still voice which makes man ask himself, ‘What is the
meaning of life? Why am I here? What is my true destiny?’
People who are sure that this physical life is all there is and are
happy to accept it do not hear this voice. But those who have a Lily
in their heart and have suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune can open their heart to the first ray and accept the stranger
knocking at the door. It is the medulla oblongata which allows the
first ray to enter the heart. This organ is the spiritual guardian of the
heart, and determines what forces can enter it. At the moment that
the medulla oblongata allows the first ray to enter the heart, the
seeker is born. This is the birth of James.
Secondly there is the more powerful ray, the Sophia, as the ancient
Gnostics called it. The Rosicrucians call it ‘the Son.’ This ray is not
experienced by all human beings, but only by those seekers who
have sought long and hard for the meaning of life and finally realise
that the meaning of life doesn’t lie in this dualistic universe at all, but
in the four dimensional universe of God. They realise that nothing
on earth can satisfy the deep yearning for spiritual fulfilment, until
they find Lily. They know their fulfilment lies in her. They cease
their frenetic seeking and enter a period of inner quiet. The effect
of this is that the medulla oblongata once again gives entry to a ray,
namely the second ray, the Son. When this ray of intense and pure
vibration enters the heart, the second birth takes place: the birth
of the New Soul. This is the true Son of God, the immortal divine
and original human being ‘in God’s image and likeness.’ In The New
Testament this is symbolised by the birth of Jesus. In Harry Potter
this is symbolised by the birth of Harry.
Thirdly there is the most powerful ray of all, called by the
Rosicrucians the Holy Spirit, or the Lord of Life and Death. This ray
is so powerful it can be accepted only by the New Soul when it has
fully grown and matured, and achieved the victory over evil within
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The birth of the seeker is shown by the events which lead Harry
(literally) to become a seeker. In Chapter 9 of Part 1 the children
come to their first flying lesson. Flying itself is a symbol of searching
for spiritual heights.
Neville Longbottom brings to the lesson a sphere called a Remembrall.
This symbolises an unconscious force within the human being. It is a
pre-memory or pre-remembrance which gives the person a feeling
that long ago he came from a kingdom; that he is of royal blood and
is special. It is the unconscious memory of the descent from David,
the Divine Human Being, the Son of the Lord of Hosts.
Neville unknowingly drops the Remembrall and it is picked up by
Draco Malfoy, the old serpent-fire in the spinal column which is
opposed to the birth of the Seeker. He flies away with it, intending
to get rid of it. But Harry, although never having flown before,
jumps on to his broom and to his amazement finds out that he has a
natural talent for flying. Draco throws the sphere high up in the air
and to everyone’s amazement, including Harry’s, Harry catches the
sphere and brings it back to Neville.
The result of this is that instead of being expelled by Professor
McGonagall, who sees Harry catching the little sphere, he is made a
Seeker in the Quidditch team.
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The root chakra is bright orange red, just like Ginny’s hair. This chakra
is connected to the sacral plexus and the gonads. It is obviously
linked to the sexual force. Chapter 13 explains that the kundalini
force resides in the sacral plexus. In addition the sacral plexus is the
mirror of the subconscious mind. Quite a responsibility for a little
girl! This area is traditionally regarded as feminine, which is why the
youngest Weasley is a girl.
The progress of the process of liberation is reflected in the nervous
system, the endocrine glands and the chakras. The soul force born
from the Lily in the heart gradually enters the head, from where it
travels down the right string of the sympathetic nerve. As it goes
down we can imagine it perhaps like an electric current, causing the
wire to glow and remain glowing behind it as it moves downward.
The plexuses are linked to the sympathetic nervous system and we
can imagine the glow gradually entering the plexuses one by one
on the downward course of the soul-force. This force causes great
changes in the nervous system, which alter the person completely.
His perception of the world is totally renewed and his body is made
ready for the great alchemical changes leading to liberation.
In addition to the plexuses being changed, the rotation of the
chakras is slowed down as the soul-force goes down on its journey
through ‘the pipes of Hogwarts’. The chakras suck in energy from
the world around us. The purpose of liberation is to stop the body
taking in the energy from this fallen universe and to start absorbing
the energy of the Sixth Cosmic Plane, the Kingdom of God. This will
be obvious to those who’ve read the previous posts in this series.
The effect of slowing down the chakras is gradually to release the
alchemist from the shackles with which he is chained to this world.
This process takes many years. Harry manages to liberate himself
in seven years; but these are definitely not years made of twelve
months but stages in the process.
When the soul-force reaches the sacral plexus it bends the sexual
force upwards so that the alchemist is no longer the slave of his
sexual desires. Instead the energy becomes creative energy at the
alchemist’s disposal.
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Who are the two mischief makers who get on so well with Harry?
If the Weasleys symbolise the endocrine glands which are so
important in the process of alchemy, Fred and George must surely
personify the adrenal glands. There they sit, grinning on top of the
kidneys, producing adrenalin. No wonder they’re connected on
two separate occasions with toilet seats. For aren’t they sitting on
top of the body’s toilets?
Their function is vital to the body as they regulate metabolism and water
and salt balance. If they were to stop working we’d be dead in a couple
of days. Their most important function is to maintain the body’s energy
level. If a sudden emergency arises they can enable the body to perform
almost incredible feats of physical effort that are normally not possible.
What has all this to do with Liberating Alchemy? It has everything
to do with it, because it is essential to have our energy system in
perfect balance. The question is: what do we do with our energy?
Do we spend it on pointless things which please the ego or do
we use it to help the new soul grow in us? In other words, are we
supporting Harry or Voldemort? No wonder Revelation 2:23 says:
I am he who searches heart and kidneys. And Psalm 26 says: Test my
heart and my kidneys. This is to draw our attention to our adrenal
glands and the need to spend our energy wisely. When the new
soul force, the Divine Prana, reaches the part of the body where
the adrenal glands are situated, these come under the control of the
new soul-force, personified by Harry. This is why Harry gives them
a thousand Galleons. The new soul-force is a golden colour and so
when Harry gives gold we can be sure he is giving his power away,
this time to the part of the body controlling energy.
A person with a new soul will always spend his energy unselfishly,
helping others in some way on the Path or to the Path.
Harry has made friends with Ginny, and so the sexual force is under
control. This is bent upwards and turned into creative energy. Fred
and George are also great supporters of Harry and they help him
keep his energy in perfect balance.
As the navel chakra, the twins are a flower with ten petals, alternately
red and green. The energy which this chakra is associated with is
emotional energy.
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The pharyngeal plexus forms the rim, the pulmonary (lung) plexus
forms the chalice and its base stands on the cardiac plexus. I hope
it is clear from this that every seeker has the Holy Grail potentially
present and all he has to do is commence the quest for this Holy
Grail. Making the Holy Grail or finding it after a quest is a long,
arduous process of intense purification. The Blood of Christ is the
etheric substance of the Kingdom of God that is extended to the
seeker by the Brotherhood of Christ once the seeker has finished
making the Grail in his heart-sanctuary. Should any selfish desire
enter the Grail it will crack and the seeker will have to start again.
This is similar to the legend of Hiram Abiff. His aim was to make a
Glass Sea, or Crystal Lake. This symbolises the astral body, which
has its focus in the heart. The astral body of the earthly human
being is full of desires and cravings, giving the astral body all sorts
of murky and muddy colours. The seeker has to cleanse and purify
his astral body of earthly desires so that it becomes crystal clear, like
a crystal lake of pure, clear water. No wonder Percy was pursuing a
girl called Penelope Clearwater.
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Notice that Percy turns his back on Harry in Part 5. He even tells
Ron not to associate with Harry. This symbolises the fact that when
a seeker has worldly ambitions he turns his back on the New Soul,
and so he won’t find the Holy Grail. But Percy turns back to Harry in
total loyalty before the end, and helps him in the final battle against
Voldemort.
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Bill personifies the crown chakra. This is a ‘flower’ with 960 petals
which are predominantly violet. In addition it has a sort of subsidiary
central whirlpool of gleaming white flushed with gold in its heart.
In liberated people this inner whirlpool reverses itself and sticks
out the top, resembling a crown. You will often see this crown on
statues of the Buddha. It looks like a knot of hair on the crown of the
head. Perhaps Bill’s ponytail is a clue to his identity.
However, there’s a much more sublime and powerful way of
symbolising this crown or inner flower in Harry Potter: Fleur, the
flower of the court. When Bill and Fleur marry this symbolises the
reversal of the rotation of the crown chakra and the rising up of
the 12 petalled flower within the larger flower. This is called the
Wondrous Golden Flower by alchemists.
This event happens when the alchemist attains enlightenment, as
the Buddhists call it. This means the alchemist’s mind has opened to
Divine inspiration, and he knows the Divine Plan. He does God’s will.
At that stage the crown chakra is no longer a centre for absorbing
spiritual energy, but of radiating it to other people to help them in
their spiritual progress.
The endocrine gland connected to this chakra is the pineal gland.
That has a separate chapter.
There is a picture of the Wondrous Golden Flower on the head of
the figure in the front of Jan van Rijckenborgh’s The Egyptian Arch-
Gnosis, Vol. 1.
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The people who are able to travel by this path are called emperors
in The Chymical Wedding. It’s not impossible, but we ordinary
mortals are advised to travel the much easier path by joining a group
of people who are able to form a mystery school.
A microcosm has the same basic structure as a cosmos, which is
spherical, like an atom. What a group of alchemists can do is together
form a cosmos which surrounds the members with a force-field. The
processes of alchemy, which I have described in quite a lot of detail
in previous chapters, need intense concentration and dedication 24
hours a day. However when people have a group force-field around
them, they can share this concentration and dedication and spread
it amongst each other so that some members can do their daily
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At the end of Part 5 the statues come back into the story. Harry and
Voldemort meet again, in the atrium of the Ministry. First there’s a
battle between Harry and Bellatrix, and then between Dumbledore,
Voldemort and Harry. During the fighting the Wizard’s head is blown
off, then the centaur’s arm, and finally one of the goblin’s ears.
When Voldemort turns up he wants to finish Harry off quickly.
‘I have nothing more to say to you, Potter,’ he said quietly. ‘You
have irked me too often, for too long. AVADA KEDAVRA!’ Harry
had not even opened his mouth to resist; his mind was blank, his
wand pointing uselessly at the floor. But the headless golden
statue of the wizard in the fountain had sprung alive, leaping
from its plinth to land with a crash on the floor between Harry
and Voldemort. The spell merely glanced off its chest as the
statue flung out its arms to protect Harry.
From: The Order of the Phoenix Chapter 36
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Here is a small quote from ‘Hagrid’s Tale’ in Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix’:
Anyway, that firs’ day we gave ‘im a branch o’ Gubraithian fire.’
Hermione said, ‘Wow!’ softly, but Harry and Ron both frowned
in puzzlement.
‘A branch of — ?’
‘Everlasting fire’, said Hermione irritably, ‘you ought to know
that by now. Professor Flitwick’s mentioned it at least twice in
class!’
‘Well, anyway,’ said Hagrid quickly, intervening before Ron
could answer back, ‘Dumbledore’d bewitched this branch to
burn fer evermore, which isn’ somethin’ any wizard could do,
an’ so I lies it down in the snow by Karkuss feet and says, ‘A gift
to the Gurg of the giants from Albus Dumbledore, who sends
his respectful greetings.’’
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However this new human being lives in the old physical body, with
part of the old microcosm still functioning. This is what the teachings
of liberation call, the old house. The new human being has a new,
heavenly, indestructible physical body with which he can enter ‘The
Kingdom of Heaven’, i.e. the Sixth Cosmic Plane. But he also has the
‘old cloak’, or ‘old house’. He could easily abandon this old physical
body, of course, and leave this vale of tears for ever. But this is what
a liberated human being, a Bodhisattva, does not do. Like Hagrid, he
stays on earth in the old physical body, because people can see him
in that body. He can tell people about liberation and teach alchemy.
This is only a temporary affair, because the old body is usually frail
by this time. This is symbolised in the Bible by the ‘three years’ of
Jesus’ ministry. Jesus was a New Man who lived in an ‘old house’.
One day this old physical body dies. It drops down like a dead leaf.
In Harry Potter ‘the old house’ is symbolised by 12, Grimmauld Place.
The 12 refers to the 12 old fading magnetic focal points, or 12
aeons. This grim old house is very full of dark magical objects, as
you know. When J.K. Rowling calls anything dark she’s referring to
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Jan van Rijckenborgh also mentions the story told in Luke 7:11-15.
Here a dead man in Nain was restored to his mother, who was a
widow.
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1. Voldemort
Voldemort himself symbolises a mighty concentration of astral
(‘emotional’) energy in our aura. It is bigger than the mortal
personality and keeps on living after we die. It radiates part of itself
into a new baby after our death, and so we can say that Voldemort
is truly immortal - until Harry is born in the heart of the personality.
2. Tom Riddle’s diary
One of the most powerful ways the microcosmic self controls the
personality is through the subconscious mind. CG Jung said that the
subconscious mind is more powerful in its effect on our lives than the
conscious mind. In fact the subconscious mind is a record of all the
previous lives we have lived under Voldemort’s domination - hence
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4. Slytherin’s Locket
We feel our emotions and desires in our heart. That’s because we
have a centre of consciousness there, called the emotional ego. A
person’s heart can be a cesspool, a murderer’s den or a fire of love,
depending on our desires. That emotional ego is put into the heart
at our birth by our microcosmic self. At the same time our heart also
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5. Hufflepuff’s Cup
This cup was stolen by Tom Riddle from Hepzibah Smith, as we
know. Dumbledore thinks Voldemort turned this golden cup into
a Horcrux. This immediately brings into mind the Grail. Part of
the process of alchemical transmutation that the candidate for
liberation has to put into practice is to make the Holy Grail for
himself. This means that he has to purify the whole region around
the heart. All the organs in the chest, especially the 21 plexi in the
throat and chest region, and the thyroid and thymus glands, must
be purified by the soul-fire born from the Lily in the heart. This soul-
fire is personified by Harry, and so in effect Harry has to remove
Voldemort’s soul from the golden cup, which turns it into a Grail. It
is then worthy to receive the Blood of Christ. This Blood is the holy
astral fire which will accomplish the process of transmutation and
transfiguration, turning lead into gold.
6. Ravenclaw’s tiara
The tiara symbolises the head. We know that Rowena Ravenclaw
was very fond of clever students, emphasising the head again.
The head of the normal human being is filled with a fiery etheric/
astral light which is concentrated in seven areas around the brain.
This light is a force that belongs to the fallen universe, and is given
to a foetus by the microcosmic consciousness (Voldemort) before
birth.
In Part 7 the tiara is destroyed by a great alchemical fire. This
symbolises the extinguishing of the 7 lights around the brain. They
are replaced by the divine light of the new consciousness.
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8. Nagini
In the spinal cord there is a fiery force known as the serpent-fire.
It is clearly shaped like a snake. This fiery force is the column on
which the I-consciousness rests. We’re not conscious of having it,
but without it we could not be conscious. If we were to strip the
human being to his absolutely basic core, we could visualise the
serpent fire as the essential soul nucleus, and the I-consciousness
as the snake’s head.
This is the first thing that the microcosmic consciousness thrusts
into the foetus it’s adopting for a new incarnation. As soon as that
happens, the foetus is alive. In Harry Potter this is symbolised by
the snake, Nagini. As it’s the first, most basic force put into the
personality, it is also the last Horcrux to be destroyed. In true life
it is the Holy Spirit who enters the personality through the medulla
oblongata, and then destroys the old serpent fire, replacing it with
the fire of God. The medulla oblongata is symbolised by Neville
Longbottom. His head is covered with the burning hat of Godric
Gryffindor, giving us the same image as that of the apostles having
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Sirius is the light from Nirvana that enters the microcosm when the
new soul, symbolised by Harry, is born. It is like a small but bright hole
in the dark dank prison wall of the House of Black through which the
refulgent light of God’s glorious Kingdom of Love shines inward.
Regulus is Latin for little king. Who is the little Black King in our
microcosm? No, not Snape. He’s the black king in our personality.
We’re talking about the microcosm, which extends several meters
around the personality.
There is a star in space named Regulus. It is the brightest star in the
constellation Leo and is one of the brightest stars in the sky. Sirius,
of course is the brightest star of all, at night.
Regulus symbolises one of the 12 lights in the ring or spherical
boundary of the fallen microcosm. These are part of the microcosmic
force field, and hence are aspects of Voldemort. That’s why Regulus
was a Death Eater. Voldemort symbolises the consciousness of this
force field, which is immortal and survives in between incarnations.
12 of the Death Eaters symbolise the 12 groups of magnetic points
in our microcosmic ring, the outer boundary of our force field.
Everyone has one strong magnetic point which in esoteric teachings
is called Neptune. This magnetic force gives us the illusion that we
are kings. Neptune in Roman mythology was the King of the Sea,
which symbolises the astral world. All of us think, consciously or
unconsciously, that we are the kings of our microcosm, and often
extending far beyond that. Regulus and Sirius are brothers in the
sense they both live in the microcosm, and they are both stars seen
from inside the walls of the microcosm. Sirius however is the deadly
enemy of Voldemort while Regulus is Voldemort’s vassal; he is in
fact part of him.
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When Jesus is born, the Star of Bethlehem shines in the east. When
Horus is born in ancient Egypt, Sirius announces his birth. When
Harry is born, Sirius becomes his God-Father and Regulus dies. What
exquisite symbolism! The seeker realises for the first time that he
must direct his gaze upwards, out of this universe, towards Tao. The
Light of Tao breaks into his microcosmic firmament and a thirteenth
star appears, brighter than all the others, and offering eternal Hope
and Fulfilment. The seeker realises that he must sacrifice his illusion
of kingship and bow in devotion and self-surrender before the
newly born child. He knows and understands that the Inner Christ is
the King in his life. This results in the old Neptunian star leaving the
service of Voldemort. It can no longer feed the thoughts and desires
of the seeker to be the ruler of his own destiny, as he has made the
New Soul, Harry, guided by Sirius, his leader and his goal in life. In
the Old Testament this inner state of defeated kingship is referred
to as having a ‘broken heart’.
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Before Regulus dies he enters the cave of the heart and steals the
locket containing a piece of Voldemort’s soul. The seeker’s heart is
symbolically broken: it is emptied of the thirst for life in this fallen
universe, just as the bowl is emptied by 12 draughts of liquid.
Voldemort is weakened.
And about seventeen years later Dumbledore and Harry enter the
cave and take a locket. Harry discovers that Regulus has long ago
taken the locket, intending to destroy it. The seeker’s heart was
already pure, as Harry has proved many times.
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In Harry Potter this union of the divine with the earthly is symbolised
by the bewitching of Tom Riddle Sr by Merope. The result was the
burden of sin - Tom Marvolo Riddle. He was born in an orphanage, as
we know, and this is described as a grim, square building surrounded
by high railings. The inside of the building is starkly black and white.
A very apt description of the fallen Seventh Cosmic Plane. Tom, as
we saw earlier, is a Godless orphan. In actual fact he does have a
biological father, but in practice he’s an orphan. And so I think that
this is a description of the Fall in a very brief but accurate way, using
the universal symbols that have always been used by the Mysteries.
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The human race that we are, lives in a fallen universe. There is a root
force which keeps the human race incarnated, but at the same time
it keeps it incarcerated in this universe. This root force is the energy
of life itself, and is the strongest of all forces working in the human
being, as we’ve probably all experienced.
In fact this force is very similar to Voldemort, and is closely related.
Each one of us has our personal Voldemort, and as long as we don’t
go the Path of Liberation he is our friend and he doesn’t bother us.
As soon as we look up to the hills and begin to long for reunion with
God, i.e. the Absolute God of Perfect Creation, and not the god of
this fallen universe, our Voldemort becomes our mortal enemy and
tries to kill the New Soul that is born from the Divine Lily in the
heart.
It’s the same with sexuality. When a person applies the alchemical
practice of self-dissolution, he has to give up his sexuality eventually.
This is not possible until liberation is achieved, and so we can see
that even in part 6 of the Septology, lycanthropy, i.e. sexuality, plays
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Later on Harry learns that Dementors can even suck out a person’s
soul completely, which leaves them alive, but without a soul.
It is then that living astral forces in and around the seeker pounce
on him and deprive him of as much Light-Power as they can. This
also happens at night, when the seeker is unconscious.
All of us are surrounded by conscious astral fields which we and
other people have created in the past. Some of them are extremely
powerful, and in Pistis Sophia they are called archons, which means
rulers. Our Light-Power is of use to them in two ways. Firstly they
absorb it for their own use, but secondly it is to their advantage to
deprive seekers of Light-Power, because that stops their progress
in the process of alchemical transmutation from lead to gold.
The archons or Dementors see the New Soul as a threat to their
existence – which it is. So does Voldemort, and this is why they
team up in Part 5 of Harry Potter.
It is even possible that Dementors of archons can kill a New Soul
Completely. This will happen if the seeker allows himself to be
ruled by his own selfish will instead of surrendering to the light. The
Dementors will then ‘suck out his soul’. This nearly happens to both
Harry and Pistis Sophia.
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Dear Reader,
How well have I succeeded in bringing across to you my message?
Do you understand that the real hero in Harry Potter is YOU? That it
is YOUR heart that is Godric’s Hollow muscle, where Lily lives, and
where Harry, Son of the Potter of the Universe, must be born?
Can you imagine that this Child of the Creator comes from and
wants to return to a universe that is completely filled with Love,
and is devoid of any form of hatred, of suffering, of exploitation, of
death?
Are you able to visualise that in your own being there are extremely
powerful forces that fiercely oppose the birth, the growth and the
triumph of this force of utter beauty and purity that sleeps in your
heart? That in your own being there is a Voldemort who is the
accumulation of all your actions of the past?
Can you see that if the Son of the Potter is born in your heart as a
tiny baby in a stable full of animal passions, he will immediately have
a mighty enemy who will seek every opportunity to kill him?
Do you realise that if the longing in your heart for the Prince of
Peace grows, your life will become a violent battleground? That two
irreconcilable voices will demand your total commitment: the loud,
piercing shriek of your inner Voldemort, and the quiet whisper of
your conscience that emanates from Godric’s Hollow?
Have I succeeded in bringing across the message that nearly all the
characters in Harry Potter are aspects of your own personality? Can
you see Hermione as the voice of your intellect which is there to
serve the Harry when he has been born in your heart? Can you see
Ron as the voice of your biological self, with its pet rat as the voice
of your instinct to survive? Can you see Voldemort as the great
force in your microcosm, which is immortal, as it is always there,
even between incarnations of the mortal personality?
Can you now see the parallels between Harry Potter and other
great stories that have changed the course of human history? Is it
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Astral (p 46)
Astral literally means ‘starry’, from the Latin word astrum,
but we use it to mean the desire world. The astral plane is
here, all around us, but we can’t see it or perceive it with
our senses. We can sense it with our emotions though.
That’s because we have an astral body.
Astral substance is made of astral atoms. In the physical
world we’re used to atoms staying where they are in
our body, but astral atoms move around with extremely
great speed. They are like brightly coloured sparks
constantly on the move.
Another film that can give us a good idea of life in the astral plane is
‘What Dreams May Come’ with Robin Williams.
When we die our astral body usually takes on the shape of our
deceased physical body, because this is what we think we look like.
For further reference see The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception by Max
Heindel, Chapter 1, the section, The Desire World.
I especially recommend The Astral Body by Arthur E. Powell.
Chakras (p 13)
The chakras are subtle sense organs in the human body which
channel psychic energies and vital force, and are related to the
glandular and nervous systems. They are a series of wheel-like
vortices situated in the surface of the etheric body. They are points
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Etheric (p 41)
The Etheric Plane is actually part of the Physical Plane,
but it is too light and elusive to be detected by our
senses. Its primary function is to give life to physical
bodies. Our physical body is alive when there is an
etheric body penetrating it. As soon as the etheric
body leaves the physical body, death sets in. This is
why there is a very tiny loss of weight upon death.
The etheric body also keeps the body functioning and
healthy. If our etheric body doesn’t function properly,
our physical body will get sick.
There are four states of ether: chemical ether, life
ether, light ether and reflecting ether.
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Gnosis (p 44)
This word is used to indicate the divine force that comes into our
world to liberate the sleeping Child of God in the heart of every
seeker. This force is like a sweet rain that drops on the parched desert
soil to germinate a seed that has been buried there for thousands
of years. It is sent into the world by ‘The Masters of Compassion’, a
brotherhood of Children of God who have succeeded in turning the
lead of their earthly selves into the Gold of the Holy Spirit. These
liberated people radiate into the world the Divine Light which has
been transmuted to a vibration rate that can be felt by seekers and
calls them to return to God, but is totally imperceptible to ‘Muggles’,
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M e du ll a oblong ata
Microcosm (p 12)
The human microcosm is basically an invisible force field. It’s called
a microcosm because it’s really a micro-cosmos – a cosmos or world
in miniature.
physical body
etheric body
astral body
mental body
In the above diagram you can see that it’s spherical in shape. We all
have this force field around us. Its centre is in the heart. When we die,
this force field continues to exist. It has a separate consciousness,
which is personified in Harry Potter by Voldemort.
You can see that the perimeter or ‘ring’ has 7 layers. Six of them are
represented by lines, while the inner one is represented by a circle
of stars. This symbolises the fact that we live in ‘the seventh plane’
of our microcosm. Just like the cosmos, our microcosm has seven
planes or levels of existence, in increasing vibration rate. The top six
planes are latent, and our microcosm is active only in the seventh
plane.
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In Harry Potter the conscious force field is called Voldemort and the
new human being is called Harry, son of the Potter of the Universe.
The potential new force field that is to replace the old one is called
Sirius. Every character in the Septology is an aspect or a component
of the process of alchemy.
When the soul of the new human being is first born in the heart of
the mortal one, the nucleus begins to radiate a dazzling, supernal
light into the force field. This means that the darkness in the
centre of the old force field is driven to its outer boundaries. This
is symbolised as Voldemort being driven out of his body and going
to Albania.
During many years the alchemist has to struggle against the old
force field continually trying to reassert itself and to kill the new
soul, which will kill the old force field if it doesn’t take action. The
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What is Alchemy?
Alchemy is not a boring study of musty old books and manuscripts full
of mysterious diagrams and indecipherable texts as you might think.
The living Alchemy we’re talking about here is a method of changing
a human being from a mortal, biological phenomenon of nature into
an immortal Child of the Divine Spirit. This is symbolically referred
to as ‘turning lead into gold’. To do this you need a Philosopher’s
Stone. Where can you obtain this? You have to make it!
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Symbols
To help us understand alchemy, symbols are used. However Alchemy
itself is not symbolic. It’s a real process happening in the physical
body, as well as in the invisible ones: the etheric, astral and mental
bodies. J.K. Rowling uses symbols to describe the whole alchemical
process. She hides them in the story, but to those familiar with
alchemical symbols, they stand out like familiar faces in a crowd.
Here is a list of some symbols in Harry Potter and what they stand for:
Symbol Meaning
Harry Potter the new, immortal Soul
Hermione Granger the new mind of the alchemist
Ron Weasley the earthly, biological personality
Albus Dumbledore the radiation from God: the Gnosis, the Divine
Spirit
Rubeus Hagrid the Bodhisattva, the Gatekeeper bringing seekers
to the Path
Lily Potter the Divine spark in the heart
James Potter the longing for God
Voldemort the immortal but sinful consciousness of the
human microcosm
Sirius Black the living Plan of God
the Weasley family the seven chakras and their associated endocrine
glands
Neville Longbottom the medulla oblongata
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All these similarities are not surprising in view of what J.K. Rowling
said in 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.
Liberation
How does Harry Potter show liberation
from death, suffering and evil? Each
Part of Harry Potter shows Harry
involved in a liberating act, and also the
7 Horcruxes are chains to this universe,
which Harry and his friends break.
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The Titles
An interesting clue to what Harry Potter is really about is the hidden
symbolism in the title of each book.
A spiritual teacher called Hermes Trismegistus, living in ancient
Egypt, said the universe is made up of 7 elements. He placed them in
a certain order, and we have discovered that each element relates to
the title of a part, in the same order. This is not surprising, because
J.K. has told us the four houses of Hogwarts symbolise the first 4
elements! Here is a table showing the relationships.
Element No. / Part Element Title
1 Earth STONE
2 Air CHAMBER
3 Water AZKABAN (island)
4 Fire FIRE
5 Quintessence PHOENIX
6 Soul BLOOD
7 Spirit HALLOW (Holy)
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Unmasking
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the alchemy
Is there a secret message hidden in the text of the
most popular children’s story ever written? Let the
author take you on a journey through the alchemical
symbolism in Harry Potter, where you will be shown an
amazing discovery he has made. What does the author
claim to have discovered? That under all the magic and
excitement there is a message that is at once modern
and very ancient: alchemy is the awakening of the Inner
OF J.K. ROWLING
God, asleep in the heart of every seeker.
the alchemy
‘Your book invited me to allow the text to have an intensive
affect om me. It helped me a lot and has given me ever
deeper insights. I am convinced that this will never end,
especially with the list of recommended books you have
selected to go exactly with the appropriate subjects.’
Stance van der Plas, The Netherlands
Thank you for writing this wonderful book! I’ve been IN THE LIGHT OF THE ALCHEMICAL
reading and re-reading it so I can recall my wizard core and
understand my journey. I also use it as a Patronus charm
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to help me dispel the Dementors of this world when they
approach. A beautiful and inspired work!
Cora Weekes, United Kingdom
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