@book{churton_lost_2021,
	title = {The {Lost} {Pillars} of {Enoch}: {When} {Science} and {Religion} {Were} {One}},
	isbn = {978-1-64411-043-0},
	abstract = {Explores the unified science-religion of early humanity and the impact of Hermetic philosophy on religion and spirituality

• Investigates the Jewish and Egyptian origins of Josephus’s famous story that Seth’s descendants inscribed knowledge on two pillars to save it from global catastrophe

• Reveals how this original knowledge has influenced civilization through Hermetic, Gnostic, Kabbalistic, Masonic, Hindu, and Islamic mystical knowledge

• Examines how “Enoch’s Pillars” relate to the origins of Hermeticism, Freemasonry, Newtonian science, William Blake, and Theosophy

Esoteric tradition has long maintained that at the dawn of human civilization there existed a unified science-religion, a spiritual grasp of the universe and our place in it. The biblical Enoch--also known as Hermes Trismegistus, Thoth, or Idris--was seen as the guardian of this sacred knowledge, which was inscribed on pillars known as Enoch’s or Seth’s pillars.

Examining the idea of the lost pillars of pure knowledge, the sacred science behind Hermetic philosophy, Tobias Churton investigates the controversial Jewish and Egyptian origins of Josephus’s famous story that Seth’s descendants inscribed knowledge on two pillars to save it from global catastrophe. He traces the fragments of this sacred knowledge as it descended through the ages into initiated circles, influencing civilization through Hermetic, Gnostic, Kabbalistic, Masonic, Hindu, and Islamic mystical knowledge. He follows the path of the pillars’ fragments through Egyptian alchemy and the Gnostic Sethites, the Kabbalah, and medieval mystic Ramon Llull. He explores the arrival of the Hermetic manuscripts in Renaissance Florence, the philosophy of Copernicus, Pico della Mirandola, Giordano Bruno, and the origins of Freemasonry, including the “revival” of Enoch in Masonry’s Scottish Rite. He reveals the centrality of primal knowledge to Isaac Newton, William Stukeley, John Dee, and William Blake, resurfacing as the tradition of Martinism, Theosophy, and Thelema. Churton also unravels what Josephus meant when he asserted one Sethite pillar still stood in the “Seiriadic” land: land of Sirius worshippers.

Showing how the lost pillars stand as a twenty-first century symbol for reattaining our heritage, Churton ultimately reveals how the esoteric strands of all religions unite in a gnosis that could offer a basis for reuniting religion and science.},
	publisher = {Inner Traditions},
	author = {Churton, Tobias},
	year = {2021},
	keywords = {масонство, freemasonry, герметизм, теософия, hermeticism, theosophy, религия, religion, мартинизм, martinism, thelema, телема, гнозис, gnosis, наука, science, индуизм, hinduism, эзотеризм, esotericism, исламский мистицизм, islamic mysticism, monographs / translations},
	annote = {Author info:Britain’s leading scholar of Western esotericism, Tobias Churton is a world author­ity on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Freemasonry, and Rosicrucianism. Holding a master’s degree in theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, he was appointed Honorary Fellow of Exeter University in 2005. The author of many books, including Gnostic Philosophy and Aleister Crowley in America, he lives in the heart of England.
},
	annote = {Table of ContentsProvenanceA Note about the Timing of This BookPART ONEThe Lost Pillars in AntiquityONESaving Knowledge from Catastrophe: The World’s First Archaeological StoryThe NephilimWhere Could Josephus’s SurvivingPillar Be Found?TWO“Sethites” in Egypt?THREEEnoch and Hermes: Guardians of TruthTracing the MythThe Emerald TabletFOURA Sense of Loss Pervades The Fallen Gnostics: Return of the SethitesFIVEHow Ancient Is the Ancient Theology?SIXA Concise History of ReligionSEVENFrom Apocalyptic to Gnosis--and Back to ReligionPART TWOHermetic PhilosophySeeking Concordance, or Reuniting the FragmentsEIGHTThe Unitive VisionKabbalahRamon Llull (1232-ca. 1316) 100The Alembic of Florence: Hermetic Philosophy RebornNINERestoring Harmony: From the Sun to InfinityFrancesco Giorgi: Cosmic HarmonyCopernicusGiordano Bruno (1548-1600)TENThe Lost Pillars of FreemasonryLate Medieval Evidence for Antediluvian PillarsAntediluvian MasonryELEVENEsoteric Masonry and the Mystery of the “Acception”John Dee and Primal MathematicsTWELVEThe Return of Enoch“Out of Egypt I Have Called My Son”THIRTEENEnter Isaac NewtonFOURTEEN“A History of the Corruption of the Soul of Man”The Temple of WisdomThe Ancients Knew AlreadyNewton and the “Daimon”FIFTEENAntiquarianism: Stukeley and BlakeStukeley, Freemasonry, and the Prisca SapientiaSIXTEENBlake and the Original ReligionAll Religions Are OneSEVENTEENFrom the Enlightenment to Theosophy: Persistence of Antediluvian Unity of Science and ReligionThe TraditionSaint-Yves d’AlveydreThe Secret DoctrineProblems with Theosophical InfluenceEIGHTEENThe Aim of Religion, the Method of Science: Aleister Crowley and ThelemaScience and Antediluvian MythologyPART THREEParadise Regained?NINETEENBack to the OneEssential Communion in Esoteric SystemsReligion for the FutureTWENTYReturn of the Lost PillarNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
},
}

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He explores the arrival of the Hermetic manuscripts in Renaissance Florence, the philosophy of Copernicus, Pico della Mirandola, Giordano Bruno, and the origins of Freemasonry, including the “revival” of Enoch in Masonry’s Scottish Rite. He reveals the centrality of primal knowledge to Isaac Newton, William Stukeley, John Dee, and William Blake, resurfacing as the tradition of Martinism, Theosophy, and Thelema. Churton also unravels what Josephus meant when he asserted one Sethite pillar still stood in the “Seiriadic” land: land of Sirius worshippers. 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