Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism

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Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism

Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism

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I also have an archive of posts devoted to Valentin Tomberg with material from him which is unusual and hard to find in the Anglosphere: http: // corjesusacratissimum. 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. From this, the sensitive reader should be able to see and feel both Tomberg’s profound Catholicity – and how he regarded the situation of the Church today. To hear your story, so much like my own, is amazing, so I just had to say “hello” and “God bless you and your work. This book, in my view, is the greatest contribution to date toward the rediscovery and renewal of the Christian contemplative tradition of the Fathers of the Church and the High Middle Ages.

The anonymous author—who insisted that his French original be published posthumously—delivers his perceived insight and transcendent guidance from beyond the grave, in a manner of speaking, via epistolic essays on the twenty-two Major Arcana of the Tarot. Written in 1967 and not published until the early eighties after the anonymous author’s death, this tome of a book (it’s thick) takes a Christian, esoteric view of the tarot. Conversely, sound-syllables like the Bija-mantras can carry the Fruit or even be the Fruit of the Tree or True Vine of Christ.

Rather, our main purpose today is to reflect on the attitude towards Meditations on the Tarot emanating from the Vatican. To my mind, this has much to do with what Martin Kriele – Tomberg’s heir – says of Tomberg’s grave concern with both the New Age movement and Freemasonry (which can be found about half way down the page in this piece Behind the French Meditations of a Catholic Hermeticist). And again, speaking very personally, it was only through my repeated reading of Tomberg’s deconstruction of paganism that I could free myself from the New Age.

But the book SAVED me, snapping the links to the East, one by one and reorienting me to the Catholic Church.In turn, Sufism would influence the mystery of love in Medieval Europe, helping to further bring out what was already inherent in the Christian revelation. This year, she has made available The Holy Book of Thoth by Vladimir Schmakov in a beautiful edition with colour plates! Sometimes I am just glad that my own blog deals with very little with current affairs, so that I can easily keep silent about current affairs. The first is a report that Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, prior to becoming Pope Benedict XVI, authorised the Russian edition of Meditations on the Tarot.

True Christianity, says the New Age, has been lost, or, alternatively, retreated to some esoteric circle.A hindu can easily believe in an Avatar, a unique and very special Avatar of Brahma, Vishnu Or Shiva, or even Brahman itself, or an exclusive Sun being, changing the course of earth evolution (or planetary evolution, if so). And so it is clear that two important, influential figures for Benedict XVI regarded Meditations on the Tarot most highly. It remains true, however, that the Church has spoken nothing definitive about Meditations on the Tarot. It is difficult for a man to say to himself: I see fog rising, I see a stream of water dissolving into spray, I stand in the blowing wind, I see lightning dart from the clouds, and I know that all these are revelations of Angels; behind this physical body, which is by no means so limited as the human one I have to recognise the spirit.

Thus we are to suppose and firmly to believe, that a man may be so noble, and of such lofty condition, that he shall be almost an angel. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to push the limits of what they can consider in the world. Because we use our internal filing systems qua archetypes to structure relationships in the world, we have access to the outside only in that way.

Tomberg is readable because he really does bring a more continental, older-sourced tradition to Catholicism. They leave the Subtle Body and enter the Soul, in which case they either transform the soul into its Likeness or Annhilate it. For the New Age movement is based, above all, on Eastern forms of pre-Christian spirituality, which became outmoded by the Incarnation. It is magisterial in its scope and has been a continued source of insight, wisdom, and sacred magic.



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