The Sufi Path: Approaching the Qur'an (1)

Question: What is the best way to approach the Qur’an? The Rose Crescent has always taught that the key to understanding the Qur’an is within each individual. Each verse of the Holy Qur'an has 18,000 meanings, depending on three factors: (a) what level of the cosmos you are in (e.g. earth, paradise, heaven, hell, etc); (b) who you are (e.g. angel, jinn, human, etc.); and – intertwined with the above two factors - what your spiritual/psychological disposition is. If your station is Ego (Maqam an-Nafs) then one will surely find war, judgment, intolerance, exclusion and hell fire reflected back to you. But if you have moved to the next station, the station of the Heart (Maqam-al-Qalb), then you will find love, peace and compassion reflected back to you. . Imagine what one, such as Rabia, Rumi or Hallaj, would find at even higher stations when meditating upon the Holy Kitab?