Episode 347: Tobias Churton: "Celestial Realms: A History of Heaven"

A world authority on Gnostic spirituality, Tobias Churton is Britian's leading scholar in the field of Western Esotericism.  Holding a Masters degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford University, England, he was appointed Honorary Fellow and Faculty Lecturer in Western Esotericism at Exeter University in 2005.  Michigan University professor Gabriele Boccaccini's invitation in 2019 to participate in The Enoch Seminar in Florence, was followed by Churton's The Lost Pillars of Enoch, published in 2020 and The Books of Enoch Revealed (2025).  Tobias is also a filmmaker, poet, composer of songs and orchestral works, and author of acclaimed biographies of William Blake, Aleister Crowley, Elias Ashmole and G.I. Gurdjieff.  His twenty-eight published titles include The Gnostics, The History of the Rosicrucians, Freemasonry:  The Reality, The Spiritual Meaning of the Sixties, Occult Paris and Celestial Realms:  A History of Heaven (which is the subject of this podcast).  He has lectured widely and his academic papers on Crowley, The Yezidis, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, the French Occult Revival, the Enochic tradition, and on Alchemy have appeared in prestigious anthologies published across the western world. For more information about Tobias, please see: https://tobiaschurton.com/1_home.html This podcast is availabe on your favorite podcast feed, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-347-tobias-churton-celestial-realms-a-history-of-heaven Have a blessed weekend!