The Science of the Sacraments

About this book

What might a church service look like to someone who believed they could see spiritual forces moving through the building? C. W. Leadbeater describes ceremonial worship as an intricate exchange of colours, forms and invisible energies, each gesture contributing to the whole.

Writing from his Theosophical and Liberal Catholic perspective, Leadbeater interprets the Eucharist, vestments, symbols and ritual actions through claimed clairvoyant observation. His diagrams attempt to picture the unseen effects of worship. He presents these images as the results of spiritual vision. They document an effort to reconcile Christian ceremony with esoteric ideas of consciousness and subtle matter, beyond what ordinary observation can establish.