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Quotes About Mystery

Apparently, a tribe of Fuegian Indians had used the place to bury their dead in warm weather, and then vanished
~ Laurence Bergreen
San Antonio, and all her crew, had vanished.
~ Laurence Bergreen
which almost nothing was known in Europe.
~ Laurence Bergreen
the next day, bearing precious guanacos, and received still more gifts in trade, but then he was not seen or heard from again.
~ Laurence Bergreen
It is to be supposed that the other giants killed him because he had come to us.
~ Laurence Bergreen
We humans are a strange mixture of dirt and divinity.
~ Laurence Galian
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.
~ Laurence Galian
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.
~ Laurence Galian
A cadaver does not yield the secret to the human experience.
~ Laurence Galian
The Secret of a Human Being is Allah. The Secret of Allah is the Human Being.
~ Laurence Galian
giant egg of light,
~ Laurence Galian
It is not an easy thing for certain men and women to remain hidden. However, they accomplish this in a variety of ways. Remember the story of the Sufi Master who deliberately passed wind to rid himself of students who were not there out of a love of Essence? Many stories such as this have been told.
~ Laurence Galian
It' doesn't care whether you go to church or not. 'It' doesn't care whether you join a religion of not. 'It' is a mystery that comes and goes as 'It' wishes, and when 'It' wishes.
~ Laurence Galian
There is great hazard in assuming one knows what 'It' is. The more you try to identify 'It' the more one confuses the issue. Beware of those who say they've bottled 'It' and sell so-called 'It'. 'It' is not for sale.
~ Laurence Galian
And if we continue our journey back into our unconscious we will discover our alien and inter-stellar origins.
~ Laurence Galian
Magick then is the ultimate apotheosis of shape-shifting. Magick is the means to shift oneself from the state of the common everyday Homo sapiens sapiens to the transfigured state of Deum hominem or Divinum hominem, the Divine human.
~ Laurence Galian
Therefore, in this seemingly patriarchal mystery tradition (Sûfîsm), we see that woman is the Hidden Initiatrix, the Shadow Guide, the Blackness that births the Light. 'Da tariki, tariqat' - "In the darkness, the Path," is a Sufic maxim. The void has been described as a dark cave, a shadowy mihrab, the Concealed or Secret Radiance, the Black Stone of the Ka'ba, Ghayb ul-Ghaib ( Mystery of Mysteries ), Amma (Darkness), and returning to the Womb of Fatima ('Alaiha Assalam) the Mother.
~ Laurence Galian
From out of the spirit worlds matter is continuously being spewed forth. This mystery is like a great ejaculation; the divine convulses in a state of ecstasy and produces matter...and then matter answers as humankind has sex and in the moment of sexual orgasm calls out to God.
~ Laurence Galian
The Divine would be unknown if it wasn't for us. It would still be a Great Unknown Mystery. We make it come alive as we enter into relationship with it. Our bodies are the expression of the Divine.
~ Laurence Galian
unrevealable, unmarked, ageless, unproclaimable Father
~ Laurence Galian
Gnosticism, as we refer to it here, is not primarily a system of beliefs based on the set of writings found at Nag Hammadi or on the teachings of various groups during the early centuries of Christianity. They are the secret teachings of wisdom passed down through the ages.
~ Laurence Galian
To God, through God, Beyond God.
~ Laurence Galian
The force that we invoke in The Way of Power IS the energy behind all manifestation. Another name for this energy is the 'Ontos' or the Essence of essences. The Ontos is the essential nature of anything. Plotinus, a Roman philosopher born in Egypt in 205 C.E., called this energy the First Hypostasis (literally, to cause to stand). What stands? The erection (the Point). What causes the erection? The Triangle (The Source of Mystery - Woman - that which causes to stand).
~ Laurence Galian
Everyone who dies out there dies of confusion.
~ Laurence Gonzales