Чёртон, Тобиас

Тобиас Чёртон

Тобиас Чёртон (Tobias Churton, род. 1960) — британский исследователь эзотерики, розенкрейцеров, масонства, гностицизма. Имеет ученую степень по теологии Брасенос-Колледжа Оксфордского университета. Читает лекции в Эксетерском университете, является автором ряда важных работ по эзотерике, в том числе "Гностическая философия" (Gnostic Philosophy), "Маг свободного масонства: таинственная жизнь Элиаса Эшмола" (The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole), а также нескольких биографических работ, посвященных Алистеру Кроули.

Тобиас Чёртон является автором нескольких телевизионных программ, в частности популярного 4-серийного документального фильма "Гностики", вышедшего в 1987 году на британском канале Channel 4.

С 1997 по 2000 являлся редактором-учредителем журнала "Масонство сегодня" (Freemasonry Today).

В 2011 году вышла в свет написанная Чертоном биография Алистера Кроули. Затем были опубликованы еще четыре посвященные Кроули биографические работы: "Зверь в Берлине" (The Beast in Berlin), "Алистер Кроули в Америке" (Aleister Crowley in America), "Алистер Кроули в Индии" (Aleister Crowley in India) и "Алистер Кроули в Англии: возвращение Великого Зверя" (Aleister Crowley in England: The Return of the Great Beast).

Библиография

На английском языке:

Aleister Crowley: The Biography

• 2020 The Lost Pillars of Enoch
• 2019 Aleister Crowley in India
• 2018 The Spiritual Meaning of the Sixties
• 2017 Aleister Crowley in America
• 2017 Deconstructing Gurdjieff
• 2016 Occult Paris
• 2015 Jerusalem! The Real Life of William Blake
• 2015 Gnostic Mysteries of Sex
• 2014 Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin
• 2013 The Babylon Gene
• 2012 The Mysteries of John the Baptist
• 2011 Aleister Crowley: The Biography
• 2010 The Missing Family of Jesus
• 2009 The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians
• 2008 Kiss of Death: The True History of the Gospel of Judas
• 2007 Freemasonry: The Reality
• 2006 The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole
• 2005 Gnostic Philosophy
• 2004 The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians and the first Free Masons
• 1989 Miraval—A Quest (роман)

Ресурсы

1. Официальный сайт [1]

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Tobias Churton AKA TOBIAS ALEX CHURTON England 1960 - present Teachers: Professor Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke; Aleister Crowley; Elias Ashmole; Dr John Ranelagh, TV producer; William Blake; 12th century troubadour Raimon de Miraval; Rene Daumal; William Schaw; James Anderson; William Sinclair of Roslin; David Cunningham of Robertland; Sir James Murray of Kilbaderton; Sir Anthony Alexander; Sir John Veitch of Dawyck; John Carmichael; William Moray of Dreghorn; Sir Robert Moray, his brother; Sir William Bruce, 1671; John Theophilus Desaguliers; Albert Pike; Albert Mackey; Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie; Students: Chuck Furnace; RICHARD SMOLEY; Friends: Heinz Reinhoffer; Gerhard Fitzthum; Steve Segaller, director; Muhammad Ali al-Samman; Hans Jonas; Gilles Quispel; Elaine Pagels; James Robinson; Joost Ritman; Gilles Quispel; Aniela Jaffé; Kathleen Raine; Christopher McIntosh; Carlos Gilly; Screaming Lord Sutch; English ‘Madam’ Cynthia Payne; Jan Arvid Hellstrom; Sean Davison; Caroline Wise, current owner of ATLANTIS Bookshop, Michael Powell, filmmaker; Doug Pickford, folklorist; Peter Maxwell Jones; Nancy Cunard; Fellow Researchers: Stephen Dafoe; Kirk White; Andrew Hammer; The Knights of the North; Christopher Hodapp; Robert Lomas; Christopher Knight; Cliff Porter ;Tim Hogan; S. Brent Morris; Laurence Gardner; WB Chuck Furnace; WB Justin D****; Organizations: Exeter University; Elias Ashmole SOCIETY;

Author: The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians: The World's Most Mysterious Secret Society, 2009; The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, First Freemasons , 2005; The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole--Scientist, Alchemist, and Founder of the Royal Society, 2006; Invisibles: The True History of the Rosicrucians, 2011 (accompanying a TV show); Freemasonry - The Reality, 2009; Aleister Crowley: The Biography: Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master and Spy, 2011; Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times, 2005; The Gnostics, 1999 (earlier version?); The Missing Family of Jesus: An Inconvenient Truth - How the Church Erased Jesus's Brothers and Sisters from History, 2010; Kiss of Death: The True History of the Gospel of Judas, 2008; The Gnostic Philosophy, 2003; The Mysteries of John the Baptist: His Legacy in Gnosticism, Paganism, and Freemasonry, 2012 ; WHY I AM STILL AN ANGLICAN; The Fear of Vision: Selected Poems, 1996, some fiction under another name ; a series on the Gnostics for British television; Founder Editor of Freemasonry Today magazine; play IPSISSIMUS; musical LOVE IS ON FIRE! William Blake 1757-1827 (remember, he is deaf, and wrote the music); THE NEW AGE AND THE NEW MAN documentary; unfinished film THE VICTORY OF THE LIGHT; Comments: Excellent contemporary scholar on Rosicrucians, Freemasonry, Alchemy, the Gnostics and Thelema; teaches Britain's only master's program in Western esotericism ; born deaf, never limited him;

Resources: http://tobiaschurton.com/; http://tobiaschurton.com/books.htm; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Churton; http://www.amazon.com/Tobias-Churton/e/B001JP2IUA/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1352405976&sr=1-2-ent; http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/New%20Dawn%20Interview%20With%20Tobias%20Churton.html; http://www.tobiaschurton.com/biography.htm; http://www.tobiaschurton.com/biography.htm;