“Whoever knows himself, knows his Lord.”

  

1. “And be not like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves…” (Qur’an 59:19)
   • Suggests that forgetting God leads a person to lose touch with their true self—an implicit link between divine remembrance and self-awareness. 

2. On the earth are signs for those with certainty, and in yourselves. Do you not then perceive? Quran 51:20–21

3. “…We will show them Our signs in the horizons and in themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth…” (Qur’an 41:53). The self (نَفْس, nafs) and the cosmos are mirrors of divine truth. Observing the inner self is integral to recognizing God’s sovereignty.

• Qur’an 41:53: “We will show them Our signs... within themselves.”
• Hermeticum I.12: “He who knows himself goes toward divinity.”

Qur'an 51:20–21
“And on the earth are signs for those of assured faith, and in yourselves. Then will you not see?”

Asclepius 6-8
“A great miracle, Asclepius, is man... who is conscious of his own divinity and rises to the divine.”

Corpus Hermeticum XIII.3–4
“If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like. Leap clear of all that is corporeal... Know yourself as consisting of Light and Life.”

Corpus Hermeticum I.18–19 (Poimandres)
“If then you have seen in mind what truly is... then what is that which has no birth that you should fear? For it is through self-knowledge that we ascend to the Knowledge of the Most High.”

Corpus Hermeticum I.12 (Poimandres)
“He who knows himself goes toward divinity.”