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Author:   Tobias Churton
Publisher:   Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Imprint:   Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.798kg
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9798888502112

Pages:   384
Publication Date:   07 May 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Foreword by Reverend Canon Paul Greenwell INTRODUCTION Innocent Experience: Or Heaven and Me ONE As Below, So Above Ancient Mesopotamia TWO Heaven as Moral Reward: Ancient Egypt The Weighing of Souls THREE Across the East Persia India Buddhism China Japan FOUR Israel The Essene View According to Josephus FIVE Greece Plato and the Bliss of Ideas The Myth of Er SIX A New Heaven: The Books of Enoch Holy Guardian Angels—Whose Idea? The Parables of Enoch 2 Enoch and Ten Heavens 3 Enoch SEVEN Jesus and the Kingdom of Heaven Heaven on Earth The Kingdom of the Heavens The Child The Kingdom of Heaven Is Nigh and Within Us Natural Beauty, a Mirror of Heaven EIGHT Heaven among the Gnostics Valentinian Sex and Heaven Heaven in the Gospel of Judas The Hermetic Ascent NINE Romans, Celts, and Some Unconquered Peoples The Celts Teutonic and Other Peoples Slavonic Heaven Finno-Ugric Heaven TEN Heaven in the Qur’an ELEVEN After the Diaspora: Jewish Ideas of Heaven Rabbinic Traditions Heaven in Early Kabbalah TWELVE Heaven in the Americas North America THIRTEEN Heaven and Health: Ficino and Paracelsus Paracelsus (1493/94–1541) Paracelsus and the Heavens FOURTEEN Jacob Böhme, Paracelsus, and Heaven What Heaven Is FIFTEEN Oceania SIXTEEN Swedenborg and Blake Other Swedenborgian Doctrines on Heaven SEVENTEEN Africa EIGHTEEN Allan Kardec and Spiritism NINETEEN Communist Heaven versus Catholic Heaven TWENTY Psychedelia TWENTY-ONE Heaven at the Movies TWENTY-TWO Do We Need Heaven? Notes Bibliography Index

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“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 *

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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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