Dear Friends,

 

I have received some e-mails from a visitor to the website harrypotterforseekers.com. She has been asking the type of questions that many people no doubt wonder about, and so I've asked her if I may post them and my answers to this group. She is quite happy about that, and I may also give you her name. This will be useful if she joins the group. She is already a member of Harry Potter for Seekers.

 

I hope these questions and answers will help you, and will provoke some discussion in this group.

 

Deborah Schmidt asks:

 

No, I'm not liberated. Hopefully I'm in the process of getting there, yes. I don't think a liberated person would admit to it though. These people are the epitome of modesty and simplicity. So I think you would never get a 'yes' answer to this question.

 

Just imagine if a person did say (in truth) that he is liberated. Ignoring the lack of modesty, what would be the result? People would hero worship him/her. They would immediately bring him all their problems, and expect miracle cures for everything. They would expect him to solve all their earthly problems which they themselves have caused. Our Liberated One wouldn't be allowed to solve their problems, because the lessons to be learned from them haven't been learned.

 

As Hagrid says in Part 1 when Harry asks him why muggles aren't allowed to know about magic: Blimey, Harry, everyone'd be wantin' magic solutions to their problems. Nah, we're best left alone.

 

The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosycross also issues a strong warning.

 

During Day 3, all those present are given a final meal before the sentences are read out. Those who are to be sentenced are sitting separately from those who have passed the test of the weights. The latter are sitting at a high table with wonderful food, and are feeling a bit sorry for the others.

 

As our entertainment was exceedingly stately, we asked one of the pages whether we might not have leave to give a modest part to our friends and acquaintances. When this was permitted without any objection, each of us had plenty of food sent to his friends by the attendants. As they could not see them [the servants are invisible H.A.] and so did not know where it came from, I wanted to take something to one of them myself. But as soon as I was risen, one of the servants barred my way, saying that he wished me to take friendly warning, for in case one of the pages had seen it, it would have come to the King's ear, which would have cost me dearly.

 

Jan van Rijckenborgh explains this symbolism as follows (A.W. Vol 1 p. 171):

 

All sincerely striving and toiling souls are friends, and there is not a moment in time when they do not receive the help they need. And neither has this help been withheld from you; nor will it be, especially not in the moments when you most need it. However, there is one fundamental precondition for the giving of this help by the Order, and that is, that it will never be personal. Nature-born human beings long for a master, an adept, an authority who, by giving help, is used as a pillar of support, an assistant to help clean one's dirty karmic washing. If that happens, there is no question of rising above one's nature-born state, for then one's I-centrality remains. That is why those who are capable of giving genuine help never enter into contact in a personal way. That is also why C.R.C. is admonished by the page when he spontaneously tries to do so. The only important thing is that help is given. This help, then, is given in such a way that when the pupil feels the strengthening, impersonal force, he is able to take the only right decision as to the correct way of life. He who wishes to rise from the grave of the nature of death receives all this is necessary, but he himself must fulfil the work of salvation.

 

2. If you are liberated, How long did it take you? Was it forty days? (It seems to me it has taken me forty years!!! J).

 

Theoretically a person should be able to reach Liberation in one life time, however I think at the moment the suction force exerted by this world is so great I don't think very many people would be able to do it, unless of course they started in a previous incarnation. But that's not important. The thing is that once the New Soul is born, and you have placed the centre of gravity in your life in the Path, you are in principle liberated from the wheel of reincarnation.

 

3. How is your life in terms of every day endeavors? Is it fairly normal? Do you have to deal with regular activities like going to the bank, pick up groceries, etc?

Whether one is liberated or not, the biological life of the personality has to be carried on as normally as possible. However the more you progress on the Path, the less your heart is in it, and so you do these chores without emotion, without attachment, just because they have to be done. And you know things constantly go wrong in this world, so you shrug your shoulders and don't worry about that.

 

4. These are some questions I’ve had for a while. JK Rowling doesn’t talk in detail about how Harry’s life looks after Voldemort’s death. It would be nice to know just to have a guide to where the path leads.

 

I think it's important to understand just exactly what liberation is. My answer may be very disappointing to you, but only the Truth can set us free.

 

You see, it's not a question of the earthly, biological personality being liberated. What is liberated is the God who is asleep within us. We have to bring Him back to life, and this can be done only by the self sacrifice of the personality. But the Bible says, Whoever gives up his life for My sake shall find it. If the personality is willing to give everything up for the sake of the Inner Christ, he dies, but then partakes in the resurrection of the Inner Christ. He merges into him, as it were, and his consciousness is absorbed into the New Consciousness like a candle flame is absorbed into the sun.

 

The New Testament is an old version of Harry Potter, and we see John and Jesus in the symbolic story. John experiences his life as one who is living in the desert. Life to him is flat, dry, infertile, devoid of life except for a few scrubby dry plants, and featureless. He says, 'After me comes one who is greater than I'. He prepares the Path for his Inner Lord, and after a certain preparation, he meets Jesus, the New Soul. John disappears out of the story, and later we hear that he has been decapitated. This decapitation symbolises that his ordinary consciousness no longer rules his head.

 

I want to emphasise that when the alchemist begins the Path, he is confronted with the mess in his microcosm and in the world. Man has lived in a fallen state for millions of years, and in that time we have created a truly infernal world, both inside us and around us. When the revealing Light of Truth enters us, we become very dismayed and begin to experience our imprisonment in a very painful way indeed. I hope you have read yesterday's post to Harry Potter for Seekers. In The Chymical Wedding Christian Rosycross is also horrified at what he sees and what he does when the Light falls into the pit.

 

However the good news is that this experience of being a prisoner in a self created hell really makes you thirst for liberation. And when you do, there is always an answer. The thirst for liberation (symbolised by the stag in Harry Potter) is actually a magnetic radiation from Child of God in the heart, and this is always answered. There is always a sweet rain in the desert, so to speak. In fact that in itself is the key to liberation: yearning for God.

Love from Hans