Dear Friends,
I am preparing for the Alchemy Conference in October, and one thing I am doing is recommending some reading to the people intending to attend my lecture. I have written a recommendation which can now be seen on the Landing Page of the website: http://www.harrypot terforseekers. com/alchemy- conference- 2009.php.
I'll paste the reccomendation here for your convenience. You may very well be interested in this book yourself!
Warm regards from Hans
The Alchemical Wedding of Christian RosycrossFor a brilliant explanation of The Chymical Wedding read Jan van Rijckenborgh' s The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross Part 1 and Part 2 available from Amazon. We will try to have copies on sale at the conference.
There is a mysterious link between The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosycross and Harry Potter. Some of the superficial similarities are clear and obvious. There are many more subtle ones which I will explain in my lecture.
But so what? What if there are similarities between Harry Potter and the Chymical Wedding? What does that prove?
It proves that Harry Potter is a book which can change the spiritual future of humanity! I can say that with so much certainty because the Chymical Wedding is one of the most sublime and intensely powerful spiritual works written in modern times!
However its language is symbolic and deeply veiled. And so is Harry Potter.
Jan van Rijckenborgh has lifted the veil to a large extent and explained the symbolism clearly, so that when we read The Chymical Wedding its message can pierce our heart and soul. The same symbolism is used in Harry Potter and so its message turns out to be exactly the same!
What exactly is that message?
The absolute, indissoluble marriage of the Spirit of God with the human Soul and the transfigured personality, which is the perfect instrument of the Soul.
That is the purpose of life on earth; that is the Divine Plan at the foundation of this universe; that is the message of The Chymical Wedding, Harry Potter, the Bible, The Divine Comedy and many of the world's scriptures, myths and epics.
That is Alchemy; that is making the Philosopher' s Stone; that is the Opus Magnum.
Reading Jan van Rijckenborgh' s The Alchemical Wedding with an open heart and a humble mind will take you on a path that begins where you are now and leads upwards, through all the processes of transmutation, into the abstract regions of the Spirit, where our mind cannot as yet follow.
It will enable you to see that alchemy is in fact not mysterious or difficult to understand. For those who hear the call of God to return to the Fatherland it's simple and straightforward - but it does take courage, determination, and the willingness to sacrifice: to give up one's whole earthly, biological being, including the I-centred consciousness. In other words, to go on the hero's journey that Harry Potter went; the journey to defeat the evil within, to defeat our inner Voldemort.
Here is a short list of stages in the journey:
This whole journey is the journey that not only Christian Rosycross makes, but also Harry Potter, Dante, Jesus, and all others who have died as to self, and been reborn in the Holy Spirit.
Here follow a few quotes which sum up what the book is about.
Who was, or rather, who is Christian Rosycross? He is the prototype of the true, original man, the new man who is truly Christian; who has freed the Christ within him by walking the path of the cross in the power of the rose.
The path of liberation that dialectical man must follow is the path of the fivefold Gnosis. And that is the way of the cross. In a cross two lines of force meet which are diametrically opposed. It means a total change, a conversion of forces, an alchemical transmutation. The rose within man must be linked with its true life-field, the field of immortality. The rose must be freed through the way of the cross of transfiguration. That is why we speak of the Rosycross. This work has to be done in the power of Christ, the electromagnetic power of the universal life. That is why the person who truly follows and fulfils this path is a Christian Rosycross. This book is meant to be a key to the path. Whoever realises he has received a key also knows there will be a door into which it fits, and if there is a door there is also a house. And we would like to make you aware of the fact that this is the house of mankind that Christ called "my Father's House", in which there are many mansions.
Only a great modesty and self-knowledge make CRC victorious. When, having reached the end of his ordeal, he must wrote his name in a small chapel, he writes: Summa Scientia Nihil Scire - The highest knowledge is to know that we know nothing. |
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