Gnosticism Quotes

“In its mythology, Mithra, the Persian god of light and wisdom, was born of a virgin in a cave on the 25th December and later, as an adult, undertook long voyages for the purposes of illuminating mankind. His disciples were twelve; he was betrayed, sentenced to death, and after his death, he was buried in a tomb from which he rose from the dead. The Mithrian religion also states that at the end of all time, Mithra will come again to judge the living and the dead. In this religious cult, Mithra was called the Saviour and he was sometimes illustrated as a lamb. Its doctrine included baptism, the sacramental meal (the Eucharist), and the belief in a saviour god that died and rose from the dead to be the mediator between God and mankind. The adherents of this religion believed in the resurrection of the body, universal judgement, and therefore in heaven and hell.”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“Mari [Mary Magdalene] possessed a remarkably coherent understanding of what following The Way [Rahasya] meant. She believed that this spiritual philosophy taught that the world represented Man's mystic school from whence each person ultimately graduated by reaching the Enlightened State. Therefore, according to this spiritual discipline, human suffering is very subjective and manifested itself according to every person's personal karma or attitude to life. This meant that every life a person experienced imparted a certain number of spiritual lessons that may not have been experienced before in other lives. Ultimately, every experience could be relived and bring about spiritual growth, assisting the individual to move continually closer to the Enlightened State.”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“At the time that she came to live with Jesus's mother, Mari [Mary Magdalene] had no inkling about how she would be greeted by her since their cultures were radically different from each other. The pleasure of her surprise was therefore boundless when Jesus's mother heartily welcomed her with open arms, despite the cultural difference in their religious beliefs. In all fairness, Mari did not make it difficult for Mary to accept her; if anything, she invited Mary to teach her the social habits and local traditions of her people down to the most minor detail especially since she would find them very useful later on in her public life with Jesus.”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“One of the main reasons Jesus wanted Mari [Mary Magdalene] to start her own following of female disciples was because in those times, Jewish women had no probative value in society and were therefore not even given a basic education. Their intellect was considered decidedly inferior to men's and apart from this, women's far superior intuition was interpreted as a characteristic that associated them to the devil since the men could not quite understand this inner knowledge or find a plausible explanation for it...”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“This is why Jesus would urge Mari [Mary Magdalene] to look after the women noting, ''Cultivate their regard for you because those women who are naturally drawn to you are exceptional people, sensitive women who are very close to spiritual freedom. However, before they can achieve this ultimate goal, you must first tend to their psychological wounds, the visible and the invisible lesions they have experienced at the hands of men, just as we once did in your homeland. It is only if these existential traumas are healed properly that these women can finally reach equanimity of spirit and heart.”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“And so Jesus continued to preach in those lands and one day, when he was in the city of Pataliputra or modern-day Patna, close to the River Ganges, Jesus met a beautiful young woman whose name was Mari, better known today as Mary Magdalene: an attractive woman who was some ten-years younger than Jesus was.”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“Then it happened that whenever he began to see Mari's [Mary Magdalene] passionate enthusiasm, her eyes emanating a light that amply showed how contended she was aiding so many people, Jesus could not help but be proud of his most-beloved disciple. Mari, likewise, felt indebted and grateful to Jesus as she saw her fellow sisters gradually being saved on all counts, some even going on to become some of Jesus's staunchest disciples...”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“What happened to Jesus after he was crucified?

A historical reconstruction

It is an undeniable fact that the New Testament Gospels present the crucifixion and the resurrection as the pivot upon which Christianity is based. However, this notion is most surprising when we take into consideration that this postulation was never part of Jesus's teaching. Certainly the evangelists 'Mark' and 'Matthew' do hint at these strange happenings, but it is a noted fact amongst the majority of the biblical scholars that these sequences were added several centuries after the original Gospels were written, and this was done so that the political editors of these Gospels could adapt the writings according to their political and theological needs...”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“The Emperor Constantine the Great (272 - 337) and his Pauline bishops decided that all the Gospels that went against the politics of the emperor and the Hellenistic Christianity that was created by St Paul, were to be excluded from the New Testament. Proof of this can be found in the fact that the 27 books of The New Testament are but a very small fraction of the Christian literature that was produced in the first three centuries after Jesus lived. These documents are known as the Apocryphal Gospels (Greek, Apocrypha: ' hidden' or 'secret writings') and some of them retained quite a following and were highly respected in the communities of the earliest times...”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“This medicinal potion was additionally consumed as part of a sacred ritual known as Sōmayajña where the Yogis that Jesus himself had taught were helped to reach an enlightened trance.

In effect, Jesus had developed the Nirvanalaksanayoga Tantra specifically for women, to heal them from the psychological damage and abuse they had to endure at the hands of men. He wanted to enable them to rise above patriarchal dominance, realise their highest potential, and then he would guide them towards an enlightened state. The first person to benefit from this privilege was Mari [Mary Magdalene] herself. Jesus began teaching this discipline in every place that he visited: from Kashmir in the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent, to Uttar Pradesh, and Mari would accompany him on every journey he embarked on, from east of the Indus to Nepal.”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“At this crucial point, for the Roman Church to reach a compromise between this myth of Mithra and the Hellenistic Christianity of St. Paul, it was necessary to have a sudden change of events or an altered version of Jesus's life, and it was here that the Roman Church began to implement a psychological process known today as Cognitive Dissonance. In a few words, this happens when a group of people produce a false reconstruction of an event they want to continue to believe in, a literary strategy also known as the Reconstructive Hypothesis. This theological notion is equally known as Apotheosis or the glorification of a subject to divine level such as a human becoming a god. In the case of Jesus, this process was copied in its entirety from the religion of Mithra where their 'divinisations' were practically the same.”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“Anytime you see dichotomies that ignore the human experiment’s infinite nuances, you can be certain you are encountering the Archontic mind.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“When one studies the history of terrestrial religions, it soon becomes clear that so-called primitive peoples everywhere shared a belief in the divinity of the earth. In other words, Goddess worship was universal—until the dawn of the monotheistic, paternalistic religions.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“Religions that began worshipping a single male ‘God’ were an Archontic construct holographically inserted into history in order to separate humanity from its spiritual roots in the earth.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“How then can men describe the universe, except by their inscribing of themselves upon the fields of space? To describe the universe as it is they must become the universe, and then they will describe themselves; and to describe themselves they will be able to discover no better way than that in which the universe gives utterance to itself. It speaks perpetually the Language of the Gods, the Universal Tongue, for it is God for ever giving utterance unto Himself.”
― G.R.S. Mead, Gnosis of the Mind

“The world is magic and your job in this world is to find the magician behind the magic.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“The devil and hell are mental whips created by the Archons to keep humanity enslaved to their system.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“We all exist in a state of doubt even when we do not realize it.”
― William Irwin, God Is a Question, Not an Answer: Finding Common Ground in Our Uncertainty

“Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, it is a wonder. But if spirit came into being because of the body, it is a wonder of wonders. Indeed, I am amazed at how this great wealth has made its home in this poverty.”
― Thomas the Apostle

“Alienation from nature and the loss of the experience of being part of the living creation is the greatest tragedy of our materialistic era. It is the causative reason for ecological devastation and climate change. Therefore, I attribute absolute highest importance to consciousness-change. I regard psychedelics as catalyzers for this. They are tools which are guiding our perception toward other, deeper, areas of human existence, so that we, again, become aware of our spiritual essence. Psychedelic experiences in a safe setting can help our consciousness open up to this sensation of connection and of being one with nature. LSD and related substances are not "drugs" in the usual sense, but are part of the sacred substances which have been used for thousands of years in ritual settings.”
― Albert Hoffmann

“You will probably never fully understand God with your mind, but through your heart, you can glimpse Him partially.”
― Brother Pedro

“When the truth gets revealed to a human then he won't care about anything now,
When the soul shares its secret then he won't care about the body now,
When his heart becomes the court of God then he won't care about any other court now,
When he identified himself then he won't care about identifying anything else now,
When he and the beloved is in conversation then he won't care about conversing with others now,
When he got to know he and the beloved is together then he seeks not anyone else's togetherness now,
When love is ascendant on oneself then he won't care about the faith now,
When seeker through master sought the one which was once sought then he won't care about heaven now,
When the game between my Ego and Love ends than about the ego he won't care about now,
When Ego's head is slain then he won't care about the afterlife now,
When upon whose call I was here became his now belonging to someone else he won't care now,
When beloved thought becomes a part of life than thinking about someone else he won't care now,
Aiyaz, After one dies perform his last rights by burying, burning, or drowning in the water he won't care now,
When someone reaches in presence of God then he won't care about himself now.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“Why be human when you can be a god?”
― Dan Desmarques

“The final phrases of Eureka aspire to an era when humanity will collectively merge in union with God. And as we saw before the final phrases of Poe’s works always aspire to this return to the original source, whereas man is faced before the truth, and not yet the universal truth of oneness, but a conclusion that aspires to this call to emergence within the divine. This pantheistic notion that he called to in his works became a multi-universal realization in Eureka. Poe reflected everything on God and God to everything but also celebrated that individuality of Man and he saw it as the reflection of God. In this view, each becomes his own God with unlimited powers of creativity through which he too builds his own universe within another universe, and potentially many other universes. What happens afterward, is something we have to find ourselves. But what Poe displayed in his works to us was the perfect example of Jungian Individuation, of gnostic solar consciousness, mystical experience and cosmological unity all condensed in a short lifetime of Poe’s most metaphysical and divine works.”
― Benarrioua Aniss

“I" as a person doesn't really exist but "I" as an identity exists because of my self/ego. Take out the person's identity then I don't exist!
I am an experience, witness, and observer from within that is my own light and darkness.
I am an assembled universe in human form.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“In the beginning,
The truth is,
No one is Hindu,
No one is Muslim,
No one is Christian,
No one is Jew,
Every human is made out of clay,
In which the soul is from God,
I don't have any name of my own,
I don't have any sign of my own,
Then why I (ego) make a noise,
Then why a human is egoistic?”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Is God the ultimate mystery (non-answer), or the ultimate answer? If you can’t understand God, why would you worship him? You have, by your admission, no idea what you are worshiping. In fact, it’s clear from the history of Abrahamism that billions of people have worshiped the Devil and called him God. They would of course not have made this fatal error if they had understood God.”
― Rob Armstrong, Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis

“God isn't a competition to be won but a destination to be reached,
Within humans, this truth must be realized.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“The Enochian Jews believed that humans could become angels. This conversion process was known as “resurrection”. When Enoch was transformed into an angel without dying, that was his transfiguration, that was his “resurrection.” The first Christians imagined that resurrection took place before their physical death and involved being taken up into the presence of God, i.e. becoming angels. Is that not the true meaning of the Rapture? Resurrection was a mystical experience, an enlightenment, an epiphany, an ascent to the throne of God and thus to the presence of the divine, and a transmutation into a son or daughter of God. So, resurrection did not originally mean reanimation after death. It meant being born again, being entered by the Spirit and raised up to an indestructible life ... during life.”
― James Axel

“If God can become man, man can become God. Jesus Christ proved it. As the Bible tells us, “Behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” And if the kingdom of God is inside you, God is inside you too.”
― James Axel, The Christian Detective: A Project Proving the Christian Truth