Top 80 Laurence Galian Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Continue to focus on what is beautiful and good, even while the whole world appears to be falling apart all around you.”

— Laurence Galian

2. “The body is the unconscious mind.”

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3. “The wisdom of the Gnostics is called Gnosis. Gnosis cannot be understood through doctrine or dogma. The Gnostics believe that you can have a direct experience with the Infinite Spirit.”

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4. “Marcion, in his two brilliant books, explained how the God of the Jews was not the God of whom Jesus spoke. He provided many examples that show that the Jewish god is only a jealous tribal deity. The Old Testament contains some genuine wisdom. However, it is very clear that the Hebrew prophets and rabbis gradually destroyed all trace of the Divine Feminine and worshiped the Demiurge. The same applies to the other main patriarchal religions: Islam and Christianity.”

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5. “The maxim ‘Know thyself,’ can be a sharp and painful sword, but it must be endured in order to be a True Human Being.”

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6. “We are becoming universal humans.”

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7. “It is important to note that the imitation of Yaldabaoth’s Earth is a thought in his mind. Yaldabaoth’s Earth is not real. The point for the reader to remember is that when a person feels an thinks that the world, in which he or she is living, is a horrible and loveless place, he or she has entered Yaldabaoth’s mind.”

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8. “The uncertainty, the void, is the perfect place from which to create. It is the place where you can re-invent yourself.”

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9. “Archons live mainly in Saturn’s Rings. Rome was known by the “Romans” as Saturnia, not as Rome and Saturn was one of the Roman gods. However, the Archons do not respect the limits of their living space, nor do they respect the limits of the purposes for which they were created.”

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10. “Sound is the secret. The great Qabbalists taught that a prayer sung is one thousand times more efficacious than a prayer simply recited. This is because a human being instantaneously goes into a state of trance when he or she begins singing, or someone starts to sing at them.”

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11. “What happened to the Divine Feminine? Why has She apparently disappeared from Judaism, Christianity and Islam? In the Gnostic Gospels, we learn that Mary Magdalene was probably the closest disciple of the Christos, the one whom the Master taught the most arcane esoteric wisdom. She was and is the representation of all wisdom. The male apostles of the Christos demonstrated both their jealousy and respect for the wisdom and position of Mary Magdalene.”

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12. “The Supreme Reality, also known as the Uncreated of the First Being, manifested its own fullness. For reasons which will become increasingly clear, Gnostics have always been reserved when it comes to naming this Absolute Reality. Another way of looking at the Supreme Reality is that there is a Reality behind everyday reality.”

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13. “You are the crowing glory. Remember your splendor.”

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14. “Alien Parasites. These beings literally feed off your negative energy: anger guilt, jealousy, depression, frustration, sadness and fear; for these intense and often harmful emotions are a gourmet dinner for these evil beings.”

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15. “Here is the beginning of integrity. A human being who deeply looks into himself or herself and asks: Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? Why is anything here? Why are other people here? Where is here? and so forth, begins to find within himself or herself their authentic beliefs.”

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16. “In the Galactic Nucleus, in the place known as the Pleroma are located a group of glorious beings named the Aeons. They are emanations of the Absolute Reality. They may also be considered divisions within the Godhead, as well as the various aspects of dimensions of the Infinitely Pre-Existent and in some spiritual traditions, the Names of God.”

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17. “You must give the aggressive and hostile aspects of yourself constructive ways of expression through assertiveness, determination, self-assuredness, boldness, mental toughness, decisiveness, learning how to articulate one’s feelings, speaking directly, forcefulness, and sport.”

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18. “The physical universe is sacred and just as ‘spiritual’ as any ‘soul’ that priest and theologians might think up.”

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19. “You do not need to have faith that oxygen is in the air. You simply breathe normally. The oxygen is in you and around you. You cannot see it, but you can breathe it. You know it exists. You do not need faith in oxygen to breathe. In this exact way, you have a direct connection to Ultimate Reality.”

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20. “When you allow your self to travel freely, the self will unerringly move and bring to you exactly those experiences, people and things that you need. A New World will be born from out of your Unicity.”

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21. “We humans are a strange mixture of dirt and divinity.”

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22. “You are an epiphany.”

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23. “To think about our bodies as horses to be ridden or even temples to be occupied, is to create a duality between our thinking and our body. It is like a tourist who arrives in a wild forest in his or her Recreation Vehicle. We have all see those campers with their televisions, and so on. Are they experiencing the nature around them? They have an insular experience, that is, camping without getting their hands dirty.”

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24. “We need to embrace our anger. By that I mean, we want to recognize the sacredness of anger. Many deities from all around the world depict ‘anger’ in a sacred way. Kali, The Morrigan, Hades, Set, Mars, Minerva, Lugh, Thor, Vulcan, Odin, and Fion Mac Cumhail are all deities that express a divine kind of anger. They are the avengers, hunters, protectors, and warriors; Gods and Goddesses of death and slaughter.”

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25. “Gnosticism means “Direct Spiritual Knowing”, being in direct experience with the Creative Source. Gnosticism has been called “forbidden self-discovery” by the Church, for it is a form of illumination. In other words, Gnosticism does not need the structure of a church to function. It is therefore, a threat to the existence of many churches.”

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26. “What makes dreams so fascinating to this discussion is that when a person is dreaming, he or she believes that the dream is real.”

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27. “In the ancient Sufi oral tradition, Divine Reality says: I was a Hidden Treasure and then I desired to be known, so I created a creation to which I made Myself known; then they knew Me.”

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28. “Oh, our brothers and sisters of the Way, Sufism is the most delicate and dangerous of paths, for the dervish dares to storm the gates of heaven itself.”

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29. “You do not need belief in God, because you will gradually come to know that the Absolute Reality is closer to you than the air you breathe.”

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30. “Female humans are the only primates with permanently enlarged buttocks. Enlarged female breasts evolved as a copy of the female posterior.”

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31. “At first, you must be willing to enter a state of liminality. In other words, you must be willing to enter a state in which you stand on the threshold and are no longer grasping the worldviews and sense of yourself that you held in the past, nor yet completely ready to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You stand on the threshold, the doorsill, neither in one world nor another. This can be a frightening place to be.”

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32. “The inner power of life within you is the divine and the divine has all power.”

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33. “As above; so below. As the Sun represents the most exalted planetary body in our solar system, the Orgasm represents the most exalted human experience.”

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34. “The Pleroma plays a central role the Gnostic cosmology. The Pleroma has a physical location in the astronomical mythology of Gnosticism; it is situated in the center of the Milky Way galaxy.”

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35. “Religion is an inherited form. Sufism on the other hand existed before religion. Do not make a religion out of your experience. Rather, focus on what gave birth to religion, and the rest will flow naturally.”

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36. “The English language has such terms as: dawn, dusk, first light, daybreak, twilight, crepuscule and evenfall. Yet, not one of these terms outlines an absolute demarcation point between dark and light.”

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37. “This demotion of the exalted role of the Divine Feminine and the role of women in spirituality is nothing less than a horrible nightmare that Western Society has been experiencing for a very long time. It is the wound that will not heal, as spoken of in the Arthurian Romances.”

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38. “Your mythology can and will change as you grow older and you learn more about life and the spiritual worlds. You are free to abrogate as many verses of your gospel as you wish, and even to be your own heretic.”

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39. “It is best to live in a state of perplexity and fluidity, like water, than to live in a hardened and doctrinal state of believing one knows everything.”

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40. “You are your own prophet.”

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41. “Instead of worrying about evil, worry about losing the power to do good!”

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42. “If you want to make something in your own image, you must sacrifice a part of yourself.”

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43. “A psychic attack of any kind, always begins with the evil being or person looking for your Achilles’ heel. This phrase refers to a weakness in spite of overall strength, which can lead to a downfall. Almost everyone, no matter how accomplished in life, has their Achilles’ heel, some weakness, some fault, that can be exploited by a black magician.”

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44. “You live an insular existence, going from your soundproofed cars to your air-conditioned, insulated houses. People would not say God is dead if they only looked up at the spectacular panorama of the night sky, or had an unobstructed view of the sunset.”

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45. “The Way does not consist of gather more knowledge. Abu Madyan Shu’ayb Ibn al-Husayn al Ansari said: ‘Worship saves you from the tyranny of formal knowledge.”

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46. “The word Gnosis was used by the Greeks for ‘knowledge’ – not everyday common knowledge, but deep knowledge that can only be gained through direct individual revelation. In other words, it is ‘Divine Knowledge.”

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47. “Beware of the urge to suffer. For many think that suffering is a way to pay God ‘bribes to a corrupt God,’ as Crowley put it, to gain His approval.”

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48. “When Sophia became one with her Creation, this was more than a simple unification, she became the physical planet along with the very beings who inhabit it.”

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49. “Planet Earth is a materialization of Sophia’s body.”

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50. “This is Gnosis: the casting off of all that is inauthentic and entering in all your nakedness into the waters of the Real Authenticity.”

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