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The Harry Potter Magical Rosicrucian Coincidence

Thursday, April 28, 2016 16:33

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About four years ago, I wrote about the similarities between the Harry Potter stories and the Rosicrucian work, from 1616, The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. “Is this where JK Rowling got her ideas from?”, I wondered, “or is it simply coincidence.”

JK Rowling does know her magic. In an interview she said:

“I’ve never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that’s a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I’ve learnt a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I’ll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories’ internal logic.”

Okay, lets take a look at the ‘coincidences’ between Harry Potter and The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz:

~ Harry Potter goes to an ancient castle for seven years; in the Chemical Wedding Christian Rosenkreutz (CR) goes to a castle for seven days.

~ Harry Potter and CR are given a letter of invitation during a violent storm.

~ To reach the castle, Harry travels across a lake with mermaids in it. To reach the Tower of Olympus CR travels across a sea with mermaids.

~ Harry is faced with being sorted into one of four houses; CR faces four paths to choose from at the beginning of his journey to the castle.

~ Both books mention Paracelsus.

~ A number of mystery animals are mentioned in both books e.g. the phoenix, the unicorn and the griffin.

~ In both the Tower of Olympus and Harry’s castle lives a very ancient man who is in control of the whole proceedings.

~ In both books the meals are served up by invisible servants in a hall lightened by floating candles.

~ In both books there is a funeral where a phoenix appears.

… and so on.

There is a free English version, in a pdf format, of The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz here.

So there we have it … though there is one more similarity / coincidence:

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix we are told that, “There is a room … that … contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the forces of nature … It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldermort has not at all.”

This force is called love … but is called Venus in the 1616 book.

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