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   From: EMAILSeekingHarryPotter@rocketmail.comHERE   
      
   On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 18:15:57 +0000 (UTC), Robert Scott Martin wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   > "'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."   
      
   Hello Robert, thanks for the comments but I would disagree in your   
   interpretation of Gnosis as I used the term.   
      
   Gnosis, the knowledge of God, is a force that can communicate directly   
   to each person, regardless of religious systems and traditions.   
      
   I mostly rely upon two sources: the teachings of Rijckenborgh and of   
   Vimala Thakar, whom I had the opportunity to meet during my trip to   
   India in 1995 while visiting Krishnamurti schools. Both set a clear   
   and precise separation between ordinary consciousness, cosmic   
   consciousness, and spiritual consciousness.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Again, we would disagree. The seeker doesn't seek to return but to   
   advance his life to other, higher planes and states of consciousness.   
      
   >>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.   
      
   Ah, agreement ;)   
      
   >>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.   
      
   Along with mugwort and mescaline?   
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