Khizr (meaning green in Arabic) is mysterious being on the borders of reality - part plant, part djinn, part angel. Asked by his companions about Khizr, the Prophet Muhammad explained that when Khizr steps on barren land, the ground turns green with vegetation. Khizr represents the rejuvenation of nature. He is stunningly alive, creative, and wild.
Khizr is the patron saint of dreams, in which he appears to guide those without a teacher. In one Quranic story, Moses meets him in the wilderness and tries to follow him but cannot bear it when Khizr sinks a ship and kills a young man. As they part, Khizr tells Moses the secret meanings of his strange actions.
Khizr is the patron saint of alchemists, mutation and transformation. His green emblem is the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. In the Romance of Alexander the Great, it is Khizr who travels into the land of darkness to find the fountain of eternal life.
Khizr is the patron saint of dreams, in which he appears to guide those without a teacher. In one Quranic story, Moses meets him in the wilderness and tries to follow him but cannot bear it when Khizr sinks a ship and kills a young man. As they part, Khizr tells Moses the secret meanings of his strange actions.
Khizr is the patron saint of alchemists, mutation and transformation. His green emblem is the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. In the Romance of Alexander the Great, it is Khizr who travels into the land of darkness to find the fountain of eternal life.
“The story teaches us to find the elixir of life and wisdom in our own shadow. The places that we initially cannot see in our inner journey, can impart creative, volatile, and valuable energy that we can transmute and thereby bear spiritual fruit.”
“Nowadays Khezr might well be induced to reappear as the patron saint of militant eco-environmentalism, since he represents the fulcrum or nexus between wild(er)ness and the human/humane. Rather than attempt to moralize Nature (which never works because Nature is amoral), Khadirian Environmentalism would rejoice simulaneously both in its utter wildness and its “meaningfulness” – Nature as tajalli (the “shining through” of the divine into creation; the manifestation of each thing as divine light), Nature as an aesthetic of realization.”
- C. J. Jung
“Nowadays Khezr might well be induced to reappear as the patron saint of militant eco-environmentalism, since he represents the fulcrum or nexus between wild(er)ness and the human/humane. Rather than attempt to moralize Nature (which never works because Nature is amoral), Khadirian Environmentalism would rejoice simulaneously both in its utter wildness and its “meaningfulness” – Nature as tajalli (the “shining through” of the divine into creation; the manifestation of each thing as divine light), Nature as an aesthetic of realization.”
- Peter Lamborn Wilson
