Quotes About God

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.

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.

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.

God is PURE, ORIGINAL MIND.

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.

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.

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.

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

On the other hand, Christos descended from the realm of Light and brought humanity the light of true knowledge in the simple principles of love. Marcion de Sinope (85 – 160 C.E.) was an important leader in early Christianity. 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.

What is a word? It is a sound vibration! And what is the intelligence behind this vibration that "thinks" the Word? The answer is MIND (or what some call consciousness, intention or god). In short, there is a mind behind matter. Our holy and sacred minds are part of the Divine Consciousness.

What is a word? It is a sound vibration! And what is the intelligence behind this vibration that 'thinks' the Word? The answer is MIND (or what some call consciousness, intention or god).

The Sufi is a trumpet blast of Truth, a clarion call to all Lovers of God to gather to chant 'Hu,' the name of the Divine Essence.

Dualistic, patriarchal religion cuts humanity off from an entire pole of being, calling it evil and devilish. This type of religion tells people that exploring this pole of the human being is sinful and will eventually lead to being completely cut off from God, the Lord of the other pole. What a terribly destructive image this is. It leads people to shun and cut themselves off from one half of their beings!

All humanity is an aspect of Divinity, having its existence within the Omniconscious Unicity known as God.

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.

So many people will debate and argue about the nature of God, but all the philosophy books in the world are no substitute for genuine personal experience with the Real. The Real is the Radiance of Your Existence and the Expression of Everything. For Allah emanates through all Creation in Divine Resplendence and with Divine Grace.

During the Illumination process, some will see what is called "The Otherness of God," or the non-human aspect. This is quite terrifying. However, the terror goes away when one knows it is as much God as Her human form. Still, this Way is not for the timid.

Because Western religion has created this image of the 'God of Good in Whom there is no Darkness,' a grand enantiodrama is occurring around the globe. The 'Light' has been overemphasized in religion, and they have sentenced its opposite characteristic to the dungeon of society's collective unconscious. Sometimes the repressed characteristic bursts forth wildly into daylight with a lethal force.

Gnostic manuscripts lead people to an understanding of themselves as sons and daughters of God, sharing God's Divinity.

The Human is part angel, part animal; part God and part Cosmos.

God is Infinite, and as we partake in this Infinite Reality, we are also partaking in the infinite variations of this Reality.

Do not let anyone intimidate you with their academic credentials; just because someone has a Ph.D. in Theology does not mean they know more about God than you!

Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere Mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. (Ibid., 11. 77–80)