The Hermetic Writings

When I read the opening to this passage, I thought I'd agree with most of what was said, yet while I found that I agreed with a lot of it, most of it I had to think really hard before I agreed. For instance, the opening phrase "If you don't make yourself equal to God, you can't perceive him." I don't believe any of us can really make ourselves equal to the all-perfect God, nor can we ever fully perceive all that is God. But when I looked further at this phrase I realized that he could mean that we should strive to be more like him, or admire him and desire what he has, then we can know a little bit more about God.
I do like the phrase "step beyond all time and become eternal; then you will perceive God."It had me look at life more closely. If we all looked at the world as if it were eternal wouldn't we treat everything differently and with more respect? We think of everything as here and now, in the moment, our generation=our time. If we had an eternal mindset wouldn't it change the world as we know it. Plus God is eternal, looking at the world with his perception should help us in understanding him more clearly. Could our "here and now" concept be largely separating us from God's mindset?
"Wanting to know God is the road that leads to God, and it is an easy road to travel." I do agree with this for the most part. God just wants us to want to know him. Plain and simple. He loves us unconditionally, wanting to know him is the first step to loving him back. "God will come to meet you everywhere, he will appear to you everywhere, at times and places when you don't expect it... for there is nothing in which God does not exist." I truly believe this, that God doesn't want to hide himself from us, and if we can look really close we can see him in everything. He wants that relationship with us, so why would he hide? We just need to find him. That's our task, and shouldn't it be easy since you can find God in almost anything?
"don't think that God is invisible." I think if we do that, we don't see him as a person whom we can have a relationship with, we see him as an object or a thing. Invisible things usually get ignored, and we need to bring him to life by seeing him through everything.