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Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism

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This isn't a tarot reference book but an extended meditation, an open-ended pondering of the symbols of the major arcana. Raids on the random of various kinds have served as a creative tool for millennia, of course, although they were seen less as randomness than as divination.

Their aim is not only to revive the tradition in the twentieth century but also, and above all, to immerse the reader (or rather the Unknown Friend) in this current -- be it temporarily or for ever. Most of us ignore it altogether, believe the narrative and think the mRNA spike protein gene therapy is actually safe and effective. These great traditions are not easily done full justice from outside and moreover from the perspective of another religion. Thirdly, I discovered Tomberg coming out of Rosicrucian background, a background I share with Tomberg. In a Hegelian like synthesis (without the chaos of Hegel), this author runs the gambit, a real cornucopia of meanings, picks and chooses, guides our way across them in argument leading us on a possible path, an interpretation of a huge sum of human knowledge to the point at which portals break down, words become invisible and you understand more than yourself.A profound, profound thinker whose heart, burning with compassion for the world, gave us a manual of practical Christian transformation – a transformation that has undone my neuroses, strengthened my sanity, vastly enlarged my scope of feeling, vitalised my mind, melted my anger, fired my compassion, deepened my calmness.

In fact, he is a representative of a Western occult tradition that is very old, a tradition that many orthodox Catholics will find disturbing, subversive, even diabolic. e., the Tarot cards (major arcana) are used as "launching points" for philosophical meditations on the {alleged) truths of Christian Hermeticism. And I understand from others who would know better than me that it’s a good potential pathway for those taken in by the New Age movement back to Christianity. Some of this is possibly tied into the overcoming/ the self’s identification with of all three Gunas, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.

In fact, it sits far more comfortably alongside the work of such fine, authentic 20th century theologians as Henri de Lubac and von Balthasar (who wrote the preface to the German edition) or, say, Pavel Florensky than it does on the occult shelf where it's usually found. It is only later that this knowledge, wisdom, teachings had to be written down, since MAN was starting to evolve differently. And regardless of your thoughts on their validity, accuracy, or philosophical basis, there’s little question, at least to my mind, that they offer a set of valuable approaches to modes of thinking that often go unactivated in everyday life. In a multiplicity of ways, his book goes on to suggest that this Gold of Christic Love did not exist in the world before Christ.

One who deeply knows a vast tradition like Buddhism, for example, will find oneself unconvinced by his take on it, which conforms more to orientalist prejudices than to Buddhism’s own premises, and betrays a shallow knowledge of traditional source material. The nature of man in a sense mimics and recapitulates the nature of God ("As it is above, so it is below. In this work of staggering insight, intelligence, imagination, and service, an anonymous Catholic author metabolizes diverse cultural and spiritual terrains while participating in the Mystical Body of Christ.

This book is not about fortune-telling; the symbols from the Tarot are used as the starting points for a series of spiritual exercises intended to immerse the reader in the living tradition of Christian Hermeticism.

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