Quotes from Laurence Galian

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.

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.

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

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.

The blackness of night is an essential quality of the Divine Feminine. The "black cloak" of Muhammad is very famous. The Sûfîs sing about kali kamaliya vala (the one wrapped in the black blanket) in their qawwalis (spiritual songs). Muhammad's prayer rug was also black, as was the first flag of Islam.

Sûfîsm, or as some would define it "mystical Islam" has always honored the Divine Feminine. Of course, Allâh has both masculine and feminine qualities, but to the Sûfî, Allâh has always been the Beloved and the Sûfî has always been the Lover. The Qur'an, referring to the final Day, perhaps divulges a portion of this teaching: "And there is manifest to them of God what they had not expected to see.

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.

The maxim 'Know thyself,' can be a sharp and painful sword, but it must be endured in order to be a True Human Being.

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.

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

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.

Most people do not live from a deep place within themselves, but instead float around on the waves at the surface of the ocean of life. The magickian dives deep into the ocean, swimming below the surface commotion, and traveling deeper and deeper into the stillness, until he or she reaches the bottom, the ground of his or her being. In your ultimate truth, you are one with this stillness.

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.

We humans are a strange mixture of dirt and divinity.

The physical universe is sacred and just as 'spiritual' as any 'soul' that priest and theologians might think up.

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

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.

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.

The fully actualized human being is a person who maximizes his or her potential. This activation process attempts to move consciousness from one reality to another, including the incorporation of being aware of multiple realities existing simultaneously. The objective of the actualized integral human being is to unite with the One, the Source, to achieve unity (from the Greek henosis) and to perfect oneself.

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.

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.

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.

Planet Earth is a materialization of Sophia's body.

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.