druze star

五色星

A multicoloured pentagram that symbolize the five colours ("Five Limits" خمس حدود khams ḥudūd) of Druze esoteric ethnoreligious group, despite the faith avoids iconography. The usage is as popular as the five-coloured flag with horizontal stripes.

Each of the colors representing the five limits pertains to a metaphysical power called ḥadd, literally "a limit", as in the distinctions that separate humans from animals, or the powers that make humans the animalistic body. Each ḥadd is color-coded in the following manner:

  • Green for ʻAql "the Universal Mind/Intelligence/Nous",
  • Red for Nafs "the Universal Soul/Anima mundi",
  • Yellow for Kalima "the Word/Logos",
  • Blue for Sābiq (السابق) "the anterior/potentiality/cause/precedent", the first intellect.
  • White for al-llahiq (اللاحق) "the posterior/future/effect/Immanence".

The five-pointed star embodies the golden ratio, phi, as a symbol of temperance and a life of moderation.
This looks similar with the Imperial Chinese Beiyang Army symbol, but one side is green instead of black.

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