The Meaning of Being Illuminati Quotes

“Many esotericists are, indeed, familiar with the story – translated by the distinguished philologist and Orientalist Sir Friedrich Max Müller in the nineteenth century – in which the ancient Indo-Aryan Gods decided where best to hide divinity from humankind. After discussing the options of concealing the Great Secret atop the summit of the highest mountain, burying it in the further recesses of the earth, or sinking it at the bottom of the widest ocean, the Gods came to the conclusion that, irrespective of where they would conceal the Great Secret, humans would eventually discover it due to the human nature‘s inquisitiveness and restlessness. However, ultimately, the oldest and wisest Gods suggested that they should wrap divinity within the human being itself, because that is the last place in which humans would ever look; this was and is actually the case.”
― Nicolas Laos, The Meaning of Being Illuminati

“And of all illumination of which humanity can partake, none is comparable to the discovery of the potential divinity of the human being, the awareness that the human being is a god-in-the making.”
― Nicolas Laos, The Meaning of Being Illuminati

“It is time for Light to triumph over Darkness. It is time for the Illuminati to return.”
― Nicolas Laos, The Meaning of Being Illuminati

“According to the “consciousness model“ of magic, thoughts can be objectivated and become reality. In simpler terms, both the outer life and the inner life of the human being is a reflection of one‘s intentional thoughts, and, thus, a “magician“ is a person who actively does things instead of just thinking or talking about them. Not only has quantum physics proved that, at the quantum level, matter reacts to the “observer“, namely, to one‘s thoughts, but also everyone can easily confirm that one‘s immediate environment (for instance, one‘s home, the activities that one performs, one‘s profession, etc.) is an expression of the fundamental significations and the major driving forces of one‘s inner life. Hence, from an elevated perspective, “magic“ means wisdom put into action with faith and focused thought in order to produce history according to one‘s will.

This notion of magic is explicitly referred to in the Bible, specifically, in Matthew 2:11 – 12, where we read that three Magi visited and worshiped Jesus Christ, the Messiah, after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. In principle, magic is the traditional science of the secrets of nature and of the human being. It is the old name of the subject-matter of the ancient occult initiates and intellectuals of India, Chaldea, Persia, Egypt, and Homeric Greece.”
― Nicolas Laos, The Meaning of Being Illuminati

“At the level of spirituality, the intentionality of human consciousness is expressed through contemplative or ecstatic illumination, which transcends the levels of instinct, sensory experience, and intellect. In particular, at the level of spirituality, which Plato calls „noesis“ (intelligence), not only has a conscious being achieved to distinguish appearance from reality, to impose the government of reason on one‘s emotions, and to develop a scientific consciousness, but one has also cleansed and cured one‘s soul, thus being psychologically „open“ to a mystical, intuitive communication with the „absolute“, or the good-in-itself. (p. xvi)”
― Nicolas Laos, The Meaning of Being Illuminati