Tobias Churton

Tobias Churton is Britain’s leading scholar of Western Esotericism, a world authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Rosicrucianism. He is a filmmaker and the founding editor of the magazine Freemasonry Today. An Honorary Fellow of Exeter University, where he is faculty lecturer in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, he holds a master’s degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, and created the award-winning documentary series and accompanying book The Gnostics, as well as several other films on Christian doctrine, mysticism, and magical folklore. The author of many books, including Gnostic Philosophy, The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians, and Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin, he lives in England.

Books By Tobias Churton

Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin
Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin
By Tobias Churton
$29.95
Aleister Crowley arrived in Berlin in 1930 at a time when the city played host to many of the world’s outstanding artists, philosophers, and scientists, including Einstein, Brecht, Huxley, and Isherwood. Drawing on unpublished material, Tobias Churton examines Crowley’s years in Weimar Berlin, revealing “The Beast” to be a man of art and thought, a Crowley long hidden from the historical record.
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$13.99
Gnostic Philosophy
Gnostic Philosophy
By Tobias Churton
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Gnosticism was a contemporary of early Christianity, and its demise can be traced to Christianity's efforts to silence its teachings. Its influence extended from the Middle Ages to the Sufis, Carl Jung, Rudolf Steiner, and the Rosicrucians and Freemasons. Today's heirs to Gnosticism continue to strive to create a Temple of new cosmic understanding.
Aleister Crowley in India
Aleister Crowley in India
By Tobias Churton
$40.00
Sharing excerpts from Crowley’s unpublished diaries, Tobias Churton tells the true story of Crowley’s mystical adventures in India from 1901 to 1906. He explores Crowley’s encounters with jnana yoga, Vedantist and Advaitist philosophies, Hindu religious practices, and Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism and reveals how he incorporated what he learned into his own magical system, Thelema.
Aleister Crowley in England
Aleister Crowley in England
By Tobias Churton
$35.00
A detailed examination of the last 15 years of Crowley’s life

After an extraordinary life of magical workings and occult fame, Aleister Crowley was forced to spend the last fifteen years of his life in his native England, nearly penniless. Churton’s book examines this final period of the Beast’s life, which was just as filled with sex magick, espionage, romance, and extreme behavior as his early years.
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$8.00
Aleister Crowley in Paris
Aleister Crowley in Paris
By Tobias Churton
Special Price $32.00 Regular Price $40.00
Examines Aleister Crowley’s 30-year-long intimate association with Paris

Using previously unpublished letters and diaries, Tobias Churton explores Aleister Crowley’s activities in the City of Light, including his work with the Golden Dawn’s Inner Order in 1900, his involvement in the Belle Époque with Rodin and other artists, and his five years of living full time in Paris from 1924 until 1929.
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The First Alchemists
The First Alchemists
By Tobias Churton
Special Price $21.59 Regular Price $26.99
Explores the origins and practices of early alchemy

Investigating the historical roots of alchemy and the legend of the Philosopher’s Stone, Tobias Churton explores the oldest surviving alchemical texts, the original purpose of the “Royal Art,” and the first alchemists themselves. He reveals the theories and philosophies behind the art and how early apparatus and methods were employed by alchemists through the ages.

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