Tiago F

“Gnosis is the root of Christianity, the living flame of Buddhism, the foundation of the Koran... The secret Science of the Sufis and the whirling Dervishes... The secret Doctrine of Buddhism and Taoism... The secret Magic of the Nordics... The Wisdom of Hermes, Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed, Quetzalcoatl, etc., is within Gnosis. The Doctrine of the Christ is Gnosis.” “Within Gnosis is found all of Ancient Wisdom.”
― Samael Aun Weor

“She had begun penning these ideas in a series of journalistic pieces in the Spectator. ‘These questions depend on another’, she explained, ‘what sort of creature are we trying to train? What is he capable of?’ ‘Man is at least a spiritual animal.’ In human life, eating and drinking are transformed into fellowship; sex into love; the herd into society. And inquisitiveness ‘has carried the human mind into the heart of the atom and along the flaming ramparts of the universe beyond the Milky Way’!”
― Sandie Lindsay

“The world" is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call them passions. The passions are the following: love of riches, desire for possessions, bodily pleasure from which comes sexual passion, love of honor which gives rise to envy, lust for power, arrogance and pride of position, the craving to adorn oneself with luxurious clothes and vain ornaments, the itch for human glory which is a source of rancor and resentment, and physical fear. Where these passions cease to be active, there the world is dead…. Someone has said of the Saints that while alive they were dead; for though living in the flesh, they did not live for the flesh. See for which of these passions you are alive. Then you will know how far you are alive to the world, and how far you are dead to it.”
― Isaac the Syrian

“There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God”.”
― Bertrand Russell