This website is to help you see that Harry Potter is not just children's fantasy literature. It is in reality a profound and deeply spiritual alchemical work, saturated with alchemical symbols, themes and ideas. There are some remarkable similarities to The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosycross, published in 1616.

When Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in 1997 it heralded a new worldwide interest in alchemy. This interest has been quickly increasing and intensifying, as is witnessed by all the alchemy conferences this decade. I am therefore confident in making the following

Prediction:

I predict that a new world spiritual movement will begin. This will last for centuries and will be known under the name of:

ALCHEMY.

This alchemy will have two distinguishing hallmarks:

its deepest essence will be esoteric

CHRISTIANITY;

its modern teachings, symbols and terminology will be

ROSICRUCIAN.

This prediction is contained in the magic formula:

The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross.

The new spiritual movement will be a marriage of alchemy, esoteric Christianity and Rosicrucianism.

In this modern alchemy, Christianity will be freed of its historic fetters and returned to what it was originally: symbolic teachings of an alchemical process that can transmute man from a biological creature subject to evil, suffering and death, to an immortal and divine child of God, living in a universe of infinite goodness and glory. This is what the gospels originally meant, this is what Harry Potter symbolises, and this is what alchemy really aimed at when it talked about changing lead into gold and making the elixir of life.

On the Alchemy Page I discuss some of the obvious alchemical elements in Harry Potter.

On the Symbols Pages I discuss what the various characters symbolise, in addition to the magical creatures and the other symbols.

To understand what I mean by Harry Potter symbolising transmutation please read my article The Great Conspiracy in Harry Potter.

What I mean by esoteric Christianity is explained in the article The Two Greatest Conspiracies of the Last Two Millennia.

The Home Page will help you orient yourself on the website and find out all that's there.

Alchemy will bring to humanity a time of spiritual freedom and advancement. It will free us from the shackles of indoctrination by authorities, from the belief in the historical existence of one man who can save the whole world, and from the literal interpretation of symbolic teachings that have been handed down through the centuries. Instead it will bring to people the understanding that within them sleeps the inner Christ who is their sole access to the Godhead, to eternal life, and to absolute goodness, truth and justice.

In my lecture to the Alchemy Conference I will reveal many of the alchemical symbols in Harry Potter, and especially the similarities to The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosycross. In the second part I will explain what liberating alchemy is about, and how this is symbolised in the story of Harry Potter.

I look forward to meeting you in October 23-25, 2009.

Hans Andréa

Note:

1. For a brilliant explanation of The Chymical Wedding read Jan van Rijckenborgh's The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, available from Amazon.
2. My prediction is supported by Rudolf Steiner in his statement: From the twentieth century onwards all religions will come to be reconciled in the mystery of Rosicrucianism. And in the course of the next three thousand years this will become possible because it will no longer be necessary to teach from records or documents; for through beholding Christ, human beings will themselves learn to understand the experience Paul had on the way to Damascus. Humankind itself will pass through the experience of Paul.