Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism

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I can only say that I myself have lived in Gemany and it is obvious to myself and all who know the German text that this is the two-volume German edition. It is a series of epistles; it is spiritual encouragement; it is an encyclopedic tome of spiritual and magical matters; it is a profound critique of life and magic and the human being; it is one of my holy books.

This was related by the Anthroposophist Sergei Prokofieff in a book hostile to Tomberg – The Case of Valentin Tomberg: Anthroposophy or Jesuitism? And yes, in the West he affirms the traditional church (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox), whose sacramental life, he considers as having the greatest healing value for our troubled culture. Recognized by many leading thinkers as among the pivotal spiritual texts of the twentieth century, every paragraph leads deeper into the Christ mystery. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The author is an anonymous Christian magician who clearly comes from the Rosicrucian/Golden Dawn/Hermetic Tradition of Western Occultism, and he knows his stuff.

My main recommendation once you put down the book would be to look further into the works of Bergson, as he ended up being quite the influential figure for certain Continental philosophers (especially my all-time favorite, Gilles Deleuze). I rather enjoyed this book this second time around (second time finishing, 3rd time starting it) -- and that was really amazing. Though it may not be deserts and thick forests into which one can retire into an undisturbed solitude nowadays, there are still people who have found or created in the deserts of the great cities and among the thickets of the crowds, a solitude and stillness of life for the spirit.In essence the eastern tendency towards abstraction and as Jung noted introversion in its spirituality. At the beginning of 1944 he moved to Cologne, where he was awarded the title of Doctor of Law for his dissertation, The Art of the Good: On the Regeneration of Fallen Justice, published in English for the first time by Angelico Press. I find myself self somewhat sympathetic to others commenting on Tomberg’s view of oriental mysticism, a view quite common in his time and reflected even in the Carl Jung. The author had clear sight, and he shared his understanding in a series of essays on the symbolism used in the Marseilles Tarot. as the author is not tired to repeat) is ultimately a failure and results more often than not in a kind of syncretistic theosophy ("pseudo-religion" as Guenon rightly dubbed it).

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. It took me over a decade to get through this book, with many false starts, interruptions of life, and a need to learn how to read better and be more clear in thought. I have it on good authority that Robert Spaemann did indeed give these books (not necessarily these copies, though) to St John Paul II.Why I take that seemingly bizarre stance relates to my twenty-year experience in the aforesaid New Age mindset and witnessing the power of Tomberg’s work to liberate people – myself and many more. Written anonymously and published posthumously, as was the author's wish, the intention of this work is for the reader to. Of interest is his take on the relation between non-fallen Nature, Mary, Sophia, the Virgin, being Chaste and his views on the notion of the holy trinity illuminated by this fourth element. By the end of the first chapter, "The Magician," I was fairly satisfied with that decision and curious to read more. My next book is Zhuan Falun and he says in there this will be our 82nd extinction level event, so we got that going for us, which is nice.

Your perceptive remarks about the formation of a temporary structure in the visual arrangement of the cards gets at the heart of why I love the Tarot. Some anthroposophists have recognised and seen reflected in this work the same spiritual impulse working itself - though in a different form - as it did in the works of Rudolf Steiner. Perhaps most difficult of all is a curious treatment of reincarnation in which the author suggests that reincarnation possesses reality in a certain sense and yet remains untrue in the deepest sense of that word. Valentin Tomberg was deeply conscious of the crisis in the Church at the time of Vatican II – a time when nearly everyone else was rejoicing.

The author offers surprising insights even though he views his subject very much through the lens of his Catholic faith. An excellent book with many profound and interesting ideas, However the reader should be aware of the background to the book which was written by Valentin Tomberg. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. But one cannot exclude the possibility that the Incarnation of Christ helped fertilize the growth of these latent possibilities within Buddhism, as the Mahayana truly took form only after the mission of Christ. It is one of the most life-changing explications and explorations of the Christian Mystery and Revelation that I have ever encountered.