The Tragic History of Esoteric Christianity
The Church's War against the Spirit of Sophia
Sean Byrne

As Christianity enters its third millennium, the Church is experiencing what many would regard as its greatest challenge since the Reformation. In the face of this challenge there is a crying need for a spiritual renewal within the Church, something which in truth can only happen through a rediscovery and a reassertion of the spiritual roots of this great religion.

This is no easy task, for over the centuries these roots have virtually been lost, due to the Church having gradually turned its back on the purely spiritual realms, in favour of a more temporal or worldly agenda.

Many dimly sense the truth of this loss, but it is a loss the consequences of which have rarely, if ever, been properly addressed or articulated.

Sean Byrne's The Tragic History of Esoteric Christianity investigates both the spiritual genesis of Christianity, and outlines the Church's failure to incorporate correctly the consequences of this genesis, at the centre of which lay the Holy Spirit of Sophia. Through fear and ignorance, any real attempt at gaining knowledge of this Spirit was early on altogether abandoned; and eventually, at the Universal Church's 4th General Council held in Constantinople in 869 A.D., the existence of this Spirit was even dogmatically denied!

Byrne thus exposes not only the shocking historical record of the Church regarding the true Spirit of Christianity, but also shows how this Spirit has actually survived, albeit in a somewhat miraculous fashion, in that form which is called Esoteric or Spiritual Christianity.

It is therefore only by grasping the spiritual nature of Christianity that one can truly arrive at a correct understanding of that sublime and Holy Spirit which informs all of Christianity, the selfsame Spirit which has given to the world the great Gospel of Love.

Age-Old Books
240pp; paperback
ISBN: 0 9540255 0 4

About the author:
Sean Byrne is from the Republic of Ireland. After working there in various occupations, he moved to the north of the country, Ulster, where he lived and worked in a Christian-based lay community for many years. He now lives independently in Ulster, near Belfast. He is self educated. This is his first book, part one of a planned trilogy.

 

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