Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism

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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. For those who have been exposed to various religious, mystical, occult, philosophical, political and psychological thinkers and wondered how they all blend together in a meaningful way, this is the book that does it. It remains true, however, that the Church has spoken nothing definitive about Meditations on the Tarot. Coming back, as I do now, to a great stack of personal correspondence and comments here, I regret that I will not be replying to your comments one by one. This is a very, very painful topic and I do understand the enormous distress suffered by those whose hearts are pierced by the betrayal of the faith within the Church in recent decades.

It is magisterial in its scope and has been a continued source of insight, wisdom, and sacred magic. Here is why the pre-Christian path of Eastern spirituality is challenged here – not with violent polemic, but, as I say, delicate deconstruction. Thank you again for your kindness, Joshua, and know that even if I may have come to somewhat different views after this intensive immersion in MotT and “Tomberg Law”, your words here speak to a journey that has self-evidently been very reflective and very real.as an Anthroposophist, stressing Steiner's ideas of the spiritual development of the INDIVIDUAL through freedom in Thinking. 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. And if the report about the Russian edition is accurate, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger himself has shown his support for Tomberg’s work. They are transien

A thinking, praying Christian of unmistakable purity reveals to us the symbols of Christian Hermeticism in its various levels of mysticism, gnosis and magic, taking in also the Cabbala and certain elements of astrology and alchemy. The Tarot was designed as a pictographic encryption of the great arcanum and was meant to be studied and preserved for generations through the vices of the common people via gambling and fortune telling.

Samkhya, which maintains the distinctiveness of the plurality of Purushas (individual spirits) is praised. Pour yourself a glass of wine, coffee, water, chocolate milk, or beer, and allow yourself to linger, to mull and ponder. And before Anthroposophy, I was steeped in the East, most particularly the Eastern theosophy of Alice Bailey but also figures like Krishnamurti and Meher Baba who I cherished.