Where are the death, the resurrection, the transfiguration and the ascent to Heaven in Harry Potter, you ask?
The death is where Harry walks into the middle of the Forbidden Forest to face Voldemort. The forest symbolises the nucleus of the astral plane, as I have made clear in my post on the spiders. He descends into hell, in other words, just like Jesus. There he dies at the hands of Voldemort. He leaves his body and has the choice of "going on" at King's Cross into a world of peace, or going back into the conflict and violence. As usual his love gives him no option, and he returns of his own free will.
There is no transfiguration strictly speaking, because the septology only goes to the end of the process of transmutation, i.e. the purification and the process to turn Harry into gold. The loss of the consciousness-I, symbolised by the scar in the forehead, signifies the end of transmutation and the beginning of transfiguration. The story of Harry's transmutation is already the most exciting, moving and eventful story of modern times. Why add transfiguration which is a process so abstract even Jan van Rijckenborgh only summarises it very briefly?
There are however many hints about the process of Transfiguration. There are things like Bill and Fleur's wedding, which is the process of the opening up of the Crown Chakra. In fact Harry's association with the Weasleys has many symbols about the reversal of the rotation of the chakras, a prelude to Transfiguration.
Where's the ascent to Heaven? Harry is a Bodhisattva who forsakes going to Heaven. He could have done that at King's Cross, but his compassion told him to go back and finish the job.
There is certainly a very powerful symbol of ascent though. When the dragon escapes from Gringotts he carries Harry, Ron and Hermione on his back. The dragon is the symbol for the human being (as Jan van Rijckenborgh said), and the trio symbolises respectively the heart, the personality and the head. Its escape from deep under the ground is a beautiful symbol of the liberation of the human being.
Many readers were disappointed by the last chapter. However one member of Harry Potter for Seekers pointed out that the spiritual process of Liberation is an internal process. The external world goes on as normal. And I hope you haven't missed the clue about Albus and Rose: the white rose. The story is starting again from the beginning. Albus and Rose are beaming at each other: a very happy combination. A new generation is going the Path of Liberation. And the "nineteen years" in my opinion indicate the 9¾, which is approximately half of 19.
To be continued |
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