Gerald Massey Quotes

The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood

I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.

They must find it difficult … those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

When man to man shall be friend and brother.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.

I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell’d night. New floods of passionate life swirl’d at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!

In this dim world of clouding cares, We rarely know, till wildered eyes See white wings lessening up the skies, The angels with us unawares.

The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro’ the dust of ages living shoots O’ the old immortal seed start in the furrows; And, where Love looked on with glorious eye, These quicken’d germs of everlastingness Flower lusty, as of old in Paradise!