Top 80 Laurence Galian Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “This is Gnosis: the casting off of all that is inauthentic and entering in all your nakedness into the waters of the Real Authenticity.”

— Laurence Galian

52. “God is Infinite, and as a person partakes in this Infinite Reality, he or she is also partaking in the infinite variation of this Reality. There’s no solid reality as people commonly think of it.”

— Laurence Galian

53. “Our DNA has a galactic history. True writers, composers, fine artists writers, who go deep within themselves, bring forth galactic information. We are soul-libraries of the galaxy.”

— Laurence Galian

54. “Time, Space and Causality – study these three.”

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55. “It is said that 70,000 veils separate the human being from Perfect Freedom. These veils are not evil, below us or filthy. They are complexes that need to be dissolved, beliefs that need changing and doorways to existential core issues. God has said, ‘There are seventy thousand veils between you and Me, but there are no veils between Me and you.’ This is why we so greatly stress the importance of the Murid involving him or her self in some kind of psychological and body work.”

— Laurence Galian

56. “Do not imagine the Aeons in a human form, for they are whirling energy vortices. Some Gnostics speak of them in terms of numbers and sounds.”

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57. “Just as it was not necessary for Beethoven to know the science of the physical manufacture of the instruments in his orchestra in order for him to compose, it is not necessary for you to understand vortex based mathematics, fractal field theory, dodecahedrons, geometric solids, calculus, Fibonacci series, centripetal force, and quantum physics in order to become enlightened.”

— Laurence Galian

58. “You need clear thinking to prevent an invasion of Alien Parasites, and to battle them. The ‘reality’ of Las Vegas, Hollywood, Haute Couture, politics, pornography, advertising, supermarket tabloids, are all false realities designed to deceive and confuse you with what is truly authentic. They also weaken your mind, because these false realities hypnotize you. You mind becomes weak and passive, and so therefore you have no mental defenses against the mind parasites.”

— Laurence Galian

59. “Christianity did not begin as a monolithic revelation. In other words, it did not begin as a single teaching directly coming from the mouth of Jesus. After Jesus’ death, there were many different and opposing viewpoints concerning who he was and what he taught. There were many different groups competing for converts. Each of these diverse groups traced their teaching back to the individual apostles and each had books to support their points of view.”

— Laurence Galian

60. “Where duality divides things into black or white, polarity includes the full spectrum, it is all-inclusive. Duality takes the spectrum and draws a line somewhere cutting it in half. Duality really only exists in the mind; it does not directly relate to the physical realm.”

— Laurence Galian

61. “The Initiate is the spiritual son of Krishna, or rather of Vishnu, of whom Krishna is the main avatar. The world INRI is a modification of development of the Word of Krishna, AUM, a formula of major antiquity.”

— Laurence Galian

62. “The body is nothing more than a coalesced soul. The soul is nothing more than the mystical body.”

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63. “The Gnostic has always been free to express his or her Gnosis in the manner he or she wishes. The Gnostics of the Nag Hammadi Library perhaps could be considered free thought, free spirited seekers of Gnosis, who reject authority and dogma.”

— Laurence Galian

64. “Sophia is an artist, making this visible underworld an image of the glorious Archetype.”

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65. “Many people have replaced religion with scientism in Western culture. Scientists are the new priests.”

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66. “Gnosticism is the purest and most direct way of knowing God and the Universe.”

— Laurence Galian

67. “We ourselves are part of the nature we seek to describe.”

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68. “Sufis acknowledge that in each generation there is a being known as the Qutub, or Axial Centrality, the Spiritual ‘Pole’ of the Age.”

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69. “Dare to live the truth of your myth.”

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70. “We who are living look in the direction of death and imagine it to be a state of bodilessness, in which we are pure spirit. Yet, the dead stare back and image life to be a state of enslavement in matter.”

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71. “Within our very cells we carry genetic memories of ancestral incarnations. If we awaken these atavisms to conscious life, we can take on their attributes and qualities. These atavistic powers have been known for millennia as: animal totems, helping spirits, maybe even the Gods and Goddesses themselves!”

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72. “Humanity is under siege.”

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73. “Know that birth and death are the crests and trough of One Wave.”

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74. “It is essential to realize that while religion may provide a comforting and enjoyable weekly experience, as you attend church every Sunday with your family, religion is no substitute for immediate consciousness of the ultimate reality.”

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75. “There are many other beings that you will discover in the Gnostic Galaxy if you choose to delve more deeply into Gnosticism. For instance, there is Barbelo, who speaks of Herself in the Trimorphic Protennoia. While She appears in certain Gnostic texts such as The Three Steles of Seth and the above Trimorphic Protennoia, Barbelo is a very complex being, often portrayed as androgynous.”

— Laurence Galian

76. “There is a witness who does not rest who is inseparable from your life. This witness watches everything that occurs in your waking state as though it were a dream.”

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77. “A Way is needed which contains a concept of Absolute Existence that includes both the Light and the Dark, and Life and Death. If, for instance, Christianity might see Lucifer as the complement and not the enemy, it might take a valuable step on the road to becoming more holistic and respectful of the human reality. If the Divine cannot partake of the Shadow, it cannot be the Divine, for the Divine cannot truly nourish humanity if it only feeds one pole of the human being.”

— Laurence Galian

78. “It is not your job in life to instruct everyone as to what his or her proper opinion or conduct should be.”

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79. “Beware of becoming too sure of your beliefs, because you run the risk of dissociation, or losing touch with parts of yourself. That is why the irrational and spontaneous are so precious to the Sufi. The ‘irrational’ circumnavigates the rational mind and by that allows the unconscious to manifest. The spontaneous and flexible person, who is not afraid of non-rational impulses, unorthodox behaviors, poetry, and dreams, in other words, the totality of being, acquires a unitive nature.”

— Laurence Galian

80. “Gnostics want humanity to know that there is a God behind the traditional god of religions. Another way of putting this concept is to state that there is a sun at midnight.”

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81. “While conspiracies have been well-documented as taking place throughout history, in every epoch and location, immediately when you begin to speak about the conspiracies that are happening now, you are labelled a ‘lunatic.’ This is because there exist very powerful, super-wealthy families with strong connections to the Demiurge who want to hide the fact that he is covertly taking control of Planet Earth.”

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82. “Hermes Trismegistus is the most famous Gnostic. He was the founder of the pre-Christian lineage of Greek Gnosticism.”

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83. “Our society needs a functional mythology of the Dark. We need a spirituality that reminds us that we have to share one half of our existence with the Dark. We can do this willing or unwillingly. The paradox must be lived in our lives in order for us to be truly enlightened.”

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84. “Water never stops and says, ‘Here I am. This is me.’ It is forever in motion and twisting and turning into new forms every moment.”

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85. “We fear what is uncontrollable. This ‘control’ attitude results in an ‘order fetish.’ People become obsessed with mowing and grooming their lawns and obsessed with neatness. People living in contemporary society are split beings divided against themselves. Our Eurocentric society is wounded. Society does not want to feel pain. Therefore, society denies history, and hides its collective head in the sand. We must reintegrate what we have taken apart and love the thing we fear.”

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86. “Leading scientists and philosophers such as Nick Bostrom, contend that if an advanced civilization created us, most probably this ‘advanced civilization’ is also a creation of an even more advance civilization.”

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87. “Do not let perfection and order become your masters! These are the two most dangerous traps set for the spiritual Murid. True spirituality proceeds from an honoring and awareness of chaos and imperfection. Who would dare untangle a rainforest?”

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88. “Yet, there is another robe that wisdom yet clothes Herself, and of which we must, in most persuasive language induce Her to remove for us. As Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton wrote in Zanoni ‘What is it that conceals itself behind this veil?’ The fabric is not as coarse as silk but morphic instead; Her diaphanous robe is woven of pure energy.”

— Laurence Galian

89. “The creation of artificial realities is not much different from how people enjoy today’s movies depicting life in Ancient Egypt, life during the Middle Ages, depiction of various wars, or life during the Renaissance.”

— Laurence Galian