Tim Freke > Quotes

“The past has departed and no longer is. The future has not arrived and is yet to be. Even the present does not last, so how can it be said to exist, when it doesn't stay still for a moment?”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“The Pagans have made known all of this. They have discovered the art of healing the body, they have also made known the art of healing the soul; they have filled the earth with settled forms of government and with wisdom which is the highest good. Without Paganism the world would be empty and miserable.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“The traditional version of history bequeathed to us by the authorities of the Roman Church is that Christianity developed from the teachings of a Jewish Messiah and that Gnosticism was a later deviation. What would happen, we wondered, if the picture were reversed and Gnosticism viewed as the authentic Christianity, just as the Gnostics themselves claimed? Could it be that orthodox Christianity was a later deviation from Gnosticism and that Gnosticism was a synthesis of Judaism and the Pagan Mystery religion?”
― Timothy Freke, The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?

“He is by nature a musician who composes the harmony of the Cosmos and transmits to each individual the rhythm of their own music. If the music becomes discordant, don't blame the musician, but the lyre-string he plays, that has become loose and sounds flat, marring the perfect beauty of the melody.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“We are the heirs and propagators of Paganism. Happy is he who for the sake of Paganism bears the burden of persecution with firm hope. Who else have civilised the world and built cities if not the nobles and kings of Paganism? Who else have set in order the harbours and the rivers? And who else have taught the hidden wisdom? To whom else has the Deity revealed itself, given oracles, and told about the future, if not the famous men amongst the Pagans? The Pagans have made known all of this. They have discovered the art of healing the body, they have also made known the art of healing the soul; they have filled the earth with settled forms of government and with wisdom which is the highest good. Without Paganism the world would be empty and miserable. Thabbit Ibn Qurra”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Words lead us to the doorway of Truth, but only by contemplating their meaning can we pass through.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“It is a man's lot to live the life prescribed for him by his fate. Very few human beings are capable of escaping from the determining influence of the Zodiac. Man's earthly life is controlled by the power of Destiny, through the physical limitations of the mortal human body. However, if a man's mind is illuminated by the Light of God, he becomes free from these celestial influences — for even the gods are powerless before God. Hermes teaches that it is our duty not simply to acquiesce in our fate, but rather, through intense contemplation of God, to rise above our merely mortal nature and awaken our immortal soul.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Birth is not the beginning of life — only of an individual awareness. Change into another state is not death — only the ending of this awareness.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Our possessions possess us. We were not born with possessions, but acquired them later.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“The Hermetic philosophy places man at the very centre of God's creation. Hermes declares that 'man is a marvel'. With his mind he may not only understand the universe, but even come to know God. He is not a mortal body which will live and die. He is an immortal soul which, through the experience of a spiritual rebirth, may become a god.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Science helps us explore the objective mysteries of life. Spirituality helps us explore the subjective mysteries of life. Science is essentially a collective enterprise through which we come to understand how the universe works. Spirituality is essentially an individual enterprise though which we come to understand the meaning of life.”
― Tim Freke, The Mystery Experience: A Revolutionary Approach to Spiritual Awakening

“Time creates Change.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Ignorance floods the land. Its currents sweep you away. Don't be borne downstream. Make use of the backflow. Seek the safe haven of liberation.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“For man, time is a destroyer, but for the Cosmos it is an ever-turning wheel. These earthly forms that come and go are illusions.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the kingdom of God, who founded the kingdom of heaven upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence. This image has not been destroyed from without, it has fallen to pieces, cleft and disintegrated by the concrete historical problems which came to the surface one after another.[1] Albert Schweitzer”
― Tim Freke, The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?

“The God proclaimed by the law and the prophets is not the God of Jesus Christ. The God of the Old Testament is known, but the God of Jesus Christ is the Unknowable.”
― Tim Freke, The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom

“In Hermes' eyes Mankind's greatest error is that he has the power to know God and yet does not use it.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Eusebius was employed by the Roman Emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the state religion of the Empire and gave Literalist Christianity the power it needed to begin the final eradication of Paganism and Gnosticism. Constantine wanted 'one God, one religion' to consolidate his claim of 'one Empire, one Emperor'. He oversaw the creation of the Nicene creed — the article of faith repeated in churches to this day — and Christians who refused to assent to this creed were banished from the Empire or otherwise silenced.”
― Tim Freke, The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?

“It is equally silly of these Christians to suppose that when their god applies the fire (like a common cook!) all the rest of mankind will be thoroughly roasted, and that they alone will escape unscorched — not just those alive at the time, mind you, but they say those long since dead will rise up from the earth possessing the same bodies as they did before. I ask you: Is this not the hope of worms? For what sort of human soul is it that has any use for a rotted corpse of a body? The very fact that some Jews and even some Christians reject this teaching about rising corpses shows just how repulsive it is; it is nothing less than nauseating and impossible. I mean, what sort of body is it that could return to its original nature or become the same as it was before it rotted away? And of course they have no reply for this one, and as in most cases where there is no reply they take cover by saying 'Nothing is impossible with God.'[”
― Tim Freke, The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?

“The Christians say that God has hands, a mouth, and a voice; they are always proclaiming that 'God said this' or 'God spoke'. 'The heavens declare the work of his hands,' they say. I can only comment that such a God is no God at all, for God has neither hands, mouth nor voice, nor any characteristics of which we know. Their absurd doctrines even contain reference to God walking about in the garden he created for man; and they speak of him being angry, jealous, moved to repentance, sorry, sleepy — in short as being in every respect more a man than a God.[112] Further, for all their exclusiveness about the highest God, do not the Jews also worship angels?[”
― Tim Freke, The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?

“Taking the Jesus myth as history led Literalists to abandon the Gnostic doctrine of reincarnation. Because Literalists believed that the godman had died and resurrected once only in time, they also conceived of a human life as a once-only event. Afterlife reward or punishment was, therefore, for all time, not a temporary precursor to another human life. This left them with what the Pagan Celsus calls the 'offensive doctrine' that a good God could countenance abandoning those who didn't make the grade to an eternity of suffering.[15]”
― Tim Freke, The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?

“CHAPTER 1. THE GOSPEL OF GNOSIS   I will reveal to you what no eye can see, what no ear can hear, what no hand can touch, what cannot be conceived by the human mind. Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas”
― Timothy Freke, Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians

“We have kept the form, but lost the meaning.”
― Tim Freke, The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?

“Like countless scholars who have made this quest before us, we have found that looking for an historical Jesus is futile.”
― Tim Freke, The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?

“The Apocalypse of Peter, the risen Jesus calls Literalist Christianity an 'imitation church' in place of the true Christian brotherhood of the Gnostics. From the Gnostics' point of view, it was the Literalists who had distorted true Christianity.”
― Tim Freke, The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?

“For the man of vision, all things are good, even if they appear evil to others. When men devise mischief against him, he sees it in the light of his knowledge of Atum, and he — and only he — transforms evil into Goodness.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“An enlightened being no longer believes he is a body. The body belongs to Nature, not to him, and so its fate is of no importance. He is One with everything. He sees Goodness everywhere. He is bathed in divine Light. He has become All-Mind.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“actually my chair is glued by gravity to a spinning ball that’s hurtling around the Sun at a speed of 67,000 miles per hour. So I’m not in the same place at all. I’m 67,000 miles away from where I was sitting an hour ago! Or am I?”
― Tim Freke, The Mystery Experience: A Revolutionary Approach to Spiritual Awakening

“The fundamental motif at the heart of many ancient myths is that the primal oneness of being is manifesting as the multiplicity of life, so that it can come to know itself. As the Gnostic sage Simon Magus says in ‘The Great Announcement’: There is one power… begetting itself, increasing itself, seeking itself, finding itself… One root of the All.”
― Tim Freke, The Mystery Experience: A Revolutionary Approach to Spiritual Awakening

“Of course this will never be accepted by fundamentalists, but if Christianity bows to reactionary pressure to return to its authoritarian past it will be consigning itself to the dustbin of history. The modern world is simply too sophisticated to fall for the 'it must be true because it says so in the Bible' routine.”
― Tim Freke, The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?