Celestial Realms
A History of Heaven since before the Dawn of Time
$44.99
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2026
Summary
An investigation into ideas and experiences of Heaven across religious and cultural traditions throughout history
Comprehensively explores the meanings, history, ideas, and experience of Heaven throughout the world’s exoteric and esoteric traditions
Explores the heavens of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, the Abrahamic traditions, Far Eastern mythologies, and Indigenous nations
Considers questions about our “need” for Heaven, furt…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798888502112 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Tobias Churton |
| Publisher: | Inner Traditions Bear and Company |
| Imprint: | Inner Traditions Bear and Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 798g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 168mm x 241mm |
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Critics Review
“Tobias Churton is a meticulous researcher who combines a detective’s eye with a poet’s heart. This latest book of his is an exhilarating examination of a topic that has fired the imaginations of people of every culture throughout the ages. Thorough, insightful, and groundbreaking in its scope, Celestial Realms is nothing less than a true tour de force.” * Rev. Jeffrey J. Bütz, author of The Secret Legacy of Jesus and The Brother of Jesus and the Los *
“Renowned esoteric scholar Tobias Churton’s diverse spiritual interests converge in this comprehensive study of a subject central to human experience since the dawn of consciousness. Filled with profound philosophical observations worthy of Eco, Barthes, and Blake, this captivating appreciation of Heaven, as represented in religious, mystical, shamanic, cultural, and popular traditions worldwide, is no dry historical study—Churton has woven a beautifully poetic adventure bursting with mind-bending insights and intimate personal anecdotes. With exciting revelations on every page, this magical compendium is yet another masterpiece from one of the world’s foremost spiritual archaeologists.” * John Zorn, American composer *
“This is an ambitious title, and I think that the author has succeeded in his aim of giving an overview of the history of heaven across cultures and different historical eras. It is a book of remarkable scope, and beautifully illustrated, about both ideas and experiences of heaven, beginning in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, then moving to Persia, India, Buddhism, China, Japan, Israel and Greece.” * Paradigm Explorer Journal *
Tobias Churton
Tobias Churton is Britain’s leading scholar of Western Esotericism and a world authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Rosicrucianism. Holding a master’s degree in theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, he was appointed honorary fellow of Exeter University in 2005. Author of many books, including Gnostic Philosophy, The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians, The Books of Enoch Revealed, and Aleister Crowley in America, he lives in England.
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