Here's my post 76732 of Aug 12, 2003.

Continuing my theory that HP is an allegory for the
universal Path of Liberation, I would like to examine
quidditch to see what message it contains.

It appears that the wand originated in ancient Egypt.
The early wand was actually a caduceus. That’s a stick
with a serpent wound around it.

I’d like to discuss especially the caduceus carried by
Hermes or Mercury. View a straight rod held
vertically, with a sphere at the top and a smaller
sphere at the bottom. The top sphere has two wings
extending from it. Around the rod are two serpents
intertwined around each other and the stick three
times.

In liberating symbology this wand or staff symbolises
the liberated human being. The top sphere symbolises
the consciousness. It has wings to symbolise the
heights to which it can rise and the speed with which
it can move. The rod is the spinal column, the two
serpents (among many levels of meaning) symbolise the
two strings of the sympathetic nervous system on the
right and left of the spinal cord. The lower sphere is
the unconscious mind, and its mirror in the plexus
sacralis (the sacred plexus!). The basilisk
(kundalini) which normally sleeps there has been
killed. Conscious and unconscious are united. There is
total harmony.

Of course the golden snitch is the top part of the
caduceus: the new consciousness! Quidditch is an
allegory within an allegory, to press the point home
as it were.

Harry is the reborn soul. He is the seeker for the new
consciousness. He flies among players who belong to
two opposite teams. Quidditch is a game of two
opposing forces. “Yes, obviously, so what”, I hear you
say.

Well my theory is that there are two universes: the
universe of opposites and the universe of Love. We all
know the bi-polar universe. All of us continuously
make our way between two poles, between dark and
light, between hatred and love, war and peace, life
and death. I have a theory that HP is the road map to
a parallel universe which is not bi-polar. I believe
it is our original home and our destination.

I read a very recent post, in which the writer said,
“no love without hate”. That is true in our universe.
We define everything by comparing it to its
opposite. However in the Universe of Love things are
not defined at all. There is the original spirit (God,
Adonaï, Jehovah, Allah, Tao, call it what you
like) and there is the original living creation,
living in eternal growth to ever greater divinity and
glory, according to a Divine Plan.

There is no such thing as sin. What we call sin is the
deviation from the Divine Plan, which results in
immediate ejection from the Universe of Love, not by
an arbitrary act of an angry God but by a natural law.
It’s like a swimmer in an extremely fast moving
current. You swim with the current: you get places.
Swim against it and you end up in big trouble.

What has all this to do with quidditch? Well, what
happens when the seeker catches the snitch? The game
ends! It’s the end of the interplay of opposites! The
consciousness is at harmony.

There are people who want JK Rowling to have the Nobel
Prize for Literature. I’d say wholeheartedly YES! But
give her the Peace Prize as well. For she is
showing us the way to ETERNAL PEACE.

Hans

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