Rare Druze Gnosis About Not Putting Limits on God
“To seek God without knowing ‘El-Hdoud’ (The Sacred Limits) means falling into the net of he who refused to bow down before the Wisdom of God’s Appearance in the Adamic Limits, and hence, proposed to set his own limits of what God is. This is what otherwise known as the most original form of evil that is deeply embedded in the Soul’s method of seeing Reality.”
— Druze Wisdom, from an old Druze website that talks about the gnostic scriptures: https://web.archive.org/web/20071006031123/http://www.druzenet.org/dnenglish.html
Commentary
I believe what this is saying is: do not have a limited approach to God and perceiving Reality. Do not limit God by bringing God down to our level of existence. God, by definition, is Limitless, Formless, Infinite, and Timeless. Therefore, to approach the Supreme Being, not with open-mindedness, awe, wonder, curiosity, and flexibility about experiencing Reality in whole new ways quite differently from the familiar earthly existence with the five senses, we just end up filtering these Divine Unknowns through our limited temporal bias and do not benefit. Conventional religions have it backwards for the most part. Rather than building minuscule temples of wood and stone for the Supreme Being to squeeze into in an attempt to bring heaven to earth, it is we that need to go There. The soul must ascend and go to the Divine Level, to transcend temporal existence via another kind of consciousness. As Meister Eckhart once said, “If the soul is to see God, then it must see no temporal thing, for as long as the soul is conscious of time or space, or of an idea, it cannot know God.” So yes: stillness; so yes: rising above body-consciousness, rising above thoughts and ideas, beliefs, theologies, earthly understandings. So yes: meditation. — James
