Does anyone practice Celtic Qabalah?

If so, which books or resources to you use?

Also, is anyone familiar with any books or references to Celtic Qabalah that use faeries instead of angels and archangels?

I have never heard of that

I'm reading a book on it called "The Miracle Tree" by R. J. Stewart.

He doesn't actaully call this "Celtic Qabalah" specifically, however he goes into great detail in the book about his views and how they came to be. He traces stories that are very similar the Qabalah back to pre-Jewish times. Then he speaks to the issues that the Jewish culture had on the Qabalah as well as the Christian influence. However, the view of the Qabalah that he presents is from a distinct Celtic vantage point.

He speaks in terms of angels and archangels, however he makes it clear that he is not using these terms in Christian or Judaic sense and he explains precisely what he means by these terms.

I often wonder when I read about Faery traditions and other spiritualities from around the world if all these terms are not truly interchangable. (i.e. Angel = Faery = spirit) In other words, angels and faeries are really just culture terms that refer to spirits. Labels don't change the fundamental nature of the entities that are being percieved.

I perfer to think in terms of Faeries over Angels simply because I'm trying to distance myself from Mediterranean influences as much as I possibly can.

Stewart also uses the concept of the 'perfect garden', he uses the folklore of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden as an example. But at the same time he rejects the biblical folklore and claims that Adam and Eve were never cast out of the garden but instead wandered out on their own.

This is an important distinction, because his whole point is that it can be just as easy to wonder back into the perfect garden. There is nothing preventing us from returning to the Garden any time we choose. From his point of view this is the very value, meaning, and usefulness of practicing the Qabalah.

I've found his book quite fascinating and it contains many useful forms of being.

However, I've also been reading Faery books. I have one called "The Faery Teachings" by Orion Foxwood. I find it to be a very good book too. In many ways it's saying the same things but it doesn't use the concept of the Qabalah at all. None the less it contains many meditations and shamanic journeys that parallel the Qabalah forms of being that Stewart addresses in this book on "The Miracle Tree".

I see a very consistent interrelatedness between all of these "Celtic" teachings. I have more books to read on these topics as well. Time is a restriction on reading.

I'm finding the Celtic views to be far more useful and pragmatic than most other views of spirituality. The Celts seem to have combined the best of all the other religions. They are heavy into visualizations, meditations, and shamanic journeying (much of which resembles the practices of many Buddhist and Taoist traditions.

Yet they aren't afraid to incorporate ideas from the Mediterranean cultures as well. So they tend to bring it all together, oten using a basic faery tradition to weave it all together.

Fascinating stuff.