Quotes from Laurence Galian

When the two thoughts are thus balanced, both thoughts accelerate together (like opposite poles of two magnets attracting one another) and are immediately annihilated and destroyed, creating a magickal THIRD POINT OF TRANSCENDENCE (or Point of Infinite Possibility) at the top point of the triangle.

The Dragon is the gatekeeper to the Divine Court who lets pass only those who have stripped off all the garments of religiosity and custom, and who are ready and willing to give up their very lives. For beyond this desert, the Sufi loses him or herself and gains Allah. That is why they call it a dessert. That is why it is such a frightening place, for the ego cannot pass by the Gatekeeper!

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 one with this stillness.

Journey to the Heart of Beauty; do not be obsessed with mental and egoic ideas of form and perfection. Get your hands and feet dirty, dance in the rain, and rejoice in the Life that is Living Itself through the Uniqueness of You!

Nuada of the Silver Hand brought Claiomh Solais (The Sword of Light), from Gorias the flame-bright city that is in the south of the Tuatha De Danaan world. He was the leader of the Tuatha De Danann and King of Ireland. In legend, the sword glowed with a bright light, hence its name. It was irresistible in battle.

Each Name can be thought of as a bi-unity: first, an uncreated Lord and second, a created vassal or servant. The uncreated Lord may be thought of as the Angel of the Eternal Hexeity of the Eternal Individuality of a given individual's being. The created individual or servant is seen as an epiphanized form of the uncreated Lord. As the Murid follows the way of Truth Without Form, he or she becomes aware of his or her own eternal individuality ('ayn thabita).

Allâh as the Beloved in Sûfî literature, the ma'shûq, is always depicted with female iconography.

If you are to accept that embracing the Sacred Dark is as necessary as embracing the Sacred Light, does that mean that it does not matter if you live or die, heal or hurt, love or hate?

Remember: do not think of the opposite...think of the contradiction inherent in the force that you want to draw into your life.

When one begins to notice that this world has reflections of the Real and contemplates on that idea or uses that reality map often, it seems to create an attraction where the sacred becomes more apparent. Noticing the Sacred makes the Sacred more noticeable as it were. It even influences the content of the other dream world.

The multiplicity of the mirrors does not affect the oneness of reflection in the numerous mirrors.

The Dragon is the gatekeeper to the Divine Court who lets pass only those who have stripped off all the garments of religiosity and custom, and who are ready and willing to give up their very lives. For beyond this desert, the Sufi loses him or herself and gains Allah. That is why they call it a desert. That is why it is such a frightening place, for the ego cannot pass by the Gatekeeper!

The concept of transcending duality, that is, of going beyond the notions of pleasing and distasteful, should be applied to the realm of rhetoric. When you are listening to someone expound on his or her ideas (or if you are reading them as a letter, e-mail or news story) endeavor to stop yourself from forming any opinion of the speaker's views. The goal is neither to agree nor to disagree.

The Murid dances on his or her grave.

Today, the Qutubs are the guardians of the message of Divine Revelations.

Prose is subject to the polemic. The academicians can endlessly debate, defend, advance and argue over little facts. However, a tale is not so subject to debate. A story simply is. It conveys experience.

Our ship of dreams must be anchored, or else it will float away!

The roles of Muhammad's daughter Fatima and Mary are similar. The true line of the Prophet 'Isa (Jesus) and his real teaching passing through Mary and into Europe mirrors the true line of the Imams (who propagated the real teachings of the Prophet Muhammad) who issued from the womb of Fatima. Fatima is regarded by some Sûfîs and theologians as the first spiritual head (qutb) of the Sûfî fellowship.

Academicians of the arcane fall prey to the illusion that they can label and control that which will always be partially Unknowable, Fluid and Chaotic. To approach spirituality from an academic point of view may yield valuable information about the framework of the spiritual way, but never about the Alchemical Mysteries themselves.

The physical world is like an exquisite Persian Carpet, and Spirit is like the threads that make up the carpet. Spirit then is the ground of our being.

Humanity's form is drawn from twenty-eight letters comprise the Arabic alphabet. Each section of the human form is represented by one of these letters. When the Murid becomes the Complete Human Being, he or she becomes the eternal mother source of the Qur'an revealed to Muhammad (Peace be upon him). The inner pilgrimage to Macca (al-Mukarramah) is accomplished when the Murid becomes the Complete Human Being.

An image resists explanation. You relate to it or you do not. You cannot disagree with an image. Through identification with an image you comprehend a totality, rather than learn particular facts.

This is because Spirit is as much the Irrational as it is the Rational. Academicians need to show some humility in the face of what will always be Irrational. They only see half the picture.

Nature is a perfect hologram of the higher worlds. We cannot gaze directly into the sun because its powerful rays will damage our physical eyes. We can gaze at any other planetary body, or earthly object, and it will not affect our vision. The sun is a hologram of the divinity within all existence.