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   From: glass@panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
   VD   wrote:   
      
   >I fall to some degree in this group. I do not see how anyone, Ms.   
   >Rowling inclusive, could produce such vibrant alchemical and elaborate   
   >Christian symbology without there being a path of influence with   
   >Gnosis.   
      
   Suggest reversing the syllogism to hold off the circular saw (z-z-z):   
      
   "'Gnosis' is here defined as the essential seed of patterns that inform   
   otherwise superficially divergent works like the Harry Potter saga,   
   Christian symbology or the alchemical corpus."   
      
   From here, as we say, the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where   
   we started, but to actually know the place for once.   
      
   >That path would be through her opened heart, her lily or rosebud,   
      
   I am not personally intimate with the state of JKR's "rosebud," but now   
   that you mention it, I imagine it is indeed fairly open.   
      
   >So if Ms. Rowling was inspired, and I firmly believe she was   
   >gnostically, or if she was not, or if she was inspired by nicotine and   
   >caffeine ;), it matters.   
      
   Caffeine is after all one of the alchemical sacraments.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)