Nymphaea lotus (Nymphaea lotus) the nymph
A flower known in ancient Egypt. Egypt, the origin of the Druze faith, the Druze philosophy was formed in Egypt and was influenced by the special nature, the flow of the Nile which signified life, the arid desert signified death. The lotus flower open to sunlight symbolizes the highest spiritual level. The path that the plant went through until the stage of light symbolizes the stages that humans go through on their way to divine knowledge. We start low in muddy physical material soil that describes the hard life of matter, then we pass through the water of the Nile lake and receive life, with the water symbolizing the reduction of the spirit of life in the physical matter, finally the plant emerges from the water into the air and opens to the divine light of the sun, the light is the internalization of the divine supremacy , the light the antithesis of the darkness corresponding to the water, the life the antithesis of the desert death. Since the Druze belief is based on duality and claims that everything in the world is a pair except for the one and only God.
Man is born according to the dual belief of good and bad being equal, the journey of life is influenced by the environment and the education given to the born.
That is why the lotus symbolizes the intellect, symbolizes the founder of monastic faith, the alpha, the door through which the trainers must go to internalize God, to internalize peace, to internalize the intellect, integrity, the values of goodness. and suppressing the bad values in our physical world.
The lotus in its popular name is an important symbol in Buddhism and Brahmin mythology, where it symbolizes divine power, beauty, purity and eternal life, because of the beauty of the plant and being a water plant

The species Ziziphus lotus (Ziziphus lotus) is from the Ascharia family.
A large bush, extremely tangled, its fruits are edible.
This discourse symbolizes the continuation of the faith, the history of the religion, founded in Egypt, persecuted to the Middle East, suffered from oppression and wars with the other faiths in the region. The tangled and thorny bush simulates her condition.
The meaning of the name Lotus is a symbol of purity, enlightenment, self-renewal and rebirth.
Rebirth and the intention of reincarnation is one of the foundations of religion and belief, so that the soul is eternal and the body envelops through it the soul is expressed in life and through which the soul is tested and judged in countless incarnations in the physical world.
The meaning of the word lotus in the Latin language is washed, being washed cleans itself, thus the lotus plant has the property that it repels water and does not get wet and is not contaminated by the water and everything that contains the water.
And this is the important metaphor for those of faith so that they must be clean and not let materiality stick to their souls and stick to the material evil of life.

The flowers of the nymph and the flowers of Sisyphus are similar in their external form.


Dr. Kamal Sharaf