# Surpass Humanity

> Thus, unless you make yourself equal to god, you cannot understand
> god; like is understood by like. Make yourself grow to immeasurable
> immensity, outleap all body, outstrip all time, become eternity
> and you will understand god. Having conceived that nothing is
> impossible to you, consider yourself immortal and able to understand
> everything, all art, all learning, the temper of every living
> thing.
>
> [...]
>
> But if you shut your soul up in the body and abase it and say,
> 'I understand nothing, I can do nothing; I fear the sea, I cannot
> go up to heaven; I do not know what I was, I do not know what I
> will be,' then what have you to do with god? While you are evil
> and a lover of the body, you can understand none of the things
> that are beautiful and good.
>
> Corpus Hermeticum XI, 20-21


You are a human only because you believe it. There are biological
limits (nature). But other than that you don't have to be limited
by humanity.

Surpass humanity. Do not believe that you are a human.