Magical Christianity: The Power of Symbols for Spiritual Renewal, with a CD of Guided Meditations [With CD]

Christianity is rooted in symbolism. For those of us raised in the Christian tradition, the biblical stories we learned as children are as real as the Christian revelation itself. From Noah’s Ark to the parting of the Red Sea and from the Three Magi present at Christ’s birth to the Resurrection, the symbols found in these stories are as much alive in our culture today as they were thousands of years ago. Many currently popular books blend Christian and magical elements. The main characters of C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, for instance, are replete with Christian symbolism. And let’s not forget J .K. Rowlings’ Harry Potter series. The Goblet of Fire speaks of one of the most primal elements in magic and Christian mythology, fire, which represents the beginning and end of all creation. Coleston Brown—scholar and expert on the esoteric Christian traditions—reaches far beyond any other book of its genre to bring us a truly experiential form of Christianity. Drawing on the myths, legends, lore, and symbols inherent in the Christian tradition, Brown reveals the potential in all of us to use, as he does, Magical Christianity as a practice for healing and regenerating the spirit. Brown combines the insights he gained as a student under Gareth Knight, a renowned authority on Kabbalistic magic, with his own study of ancient texts and practice of the esoteric Christian tradition, developing this new work, the official text and formal course of training in what is now known as the Western Magical Tradition. Readers will be captivated by the symbols Brown covers in this book, including the sphere, the holy fire, the wheel of life, and the planes of being. He even details the magical power of sacred architecture rich in the Christian tradition as a basis for magical practice. In addition to a new chapter on the Divine Feminine, this revised edition also includes an experiential meditation at the end of each chapter and a CD of guided meditations to bring readers more deeply into the transformative power of Christian symbolism.

232 pages

About the author: Coleston Brown is a writer, artist, and independent scholar of magical and esoteric Christian traditions. He is committed to practicing and teaching the Magical Way, which he defines as a trans-religious spiritual path of personal and planetary transformation. He trained for seven years with Gareth Knight in the arts of Seership, Magic, and the Tree of Life. Knight, working in the line of Dion Fortune, initiated Brown in 1986 at the famed Hawkwood College in England. Brown has spent the ensuing years training and initiating others in Canada and the United States. During this time he wrote two books, a number of articles, and was featured in Gnosis magazine’s issue on Esoteric Christianity. In 1995, Brown founded Sun Chalice Books, an esoteric publishing house. As a publisher he was able to make a number of important and rare works available to the public. These included several significant books by Gareth Knight, the works of the late Anthony Duncan, a Scottish seer and priest, a lost manuscript of Dion Fortune on Esoteric Healing, the collected papers of Margaret Lumley Brown—an associate of Dion Fortune's and a pioneer in the fields of Elemental and Faery work—and the magical fiction of Josephine Dunne. He also authored a correspondence course and a system of Magical Christianity now known as the Magi Group, which remains a contacted and initiating school in the Western Inner Tradition. He left the Magi Group in 2002 to pursue other work. The author of several books, Brown teaches through recordings, lectures, low-cost, intense workshops, and he lives in Vista, California.