Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism

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But it does not seem diabolic to me, and has indeed received praise from several prominent Catholic monks (Basil Pennington and Thomas Keating, among others).

It is, without a doubt, one of the most magical books I have ever read and one could pass through several lifetimes reading this book and still not reach its core. Meditations on the Tarot helps us see that the future of orthodoxy and above all its metaphysical coherence, may depend upon a new engagement with Sophiology, theurgic Neoplatonism, and Hermeticism.It’s long passed the time we start talking loudly about this insanity, abuse and trauma happening to our brothers and sisters around the globe daily.

Tomberg is readable because he really does bring a more continental, older-sourced tradition to Catholicism. For the New Age movement is based, above all, on Eastern forms of pre-Christian spirituality, which became outmoded by the Incarnation. Well, yeah, in the sense that it's a long, complex book about so much more that the Tarot that it's like a bomb going off inside you when you start to follow where it's going. Again, I am not speaking from dogma or doctrine – although I certainly affirm these – but the EXPERIENCE, I say, of the daily Sacraments. The book begs not only to be studied cover to cover, but also to be savored, meditated upon and assimilated into one’s life.

These great traditions are not easily done full justice from outside and moreover from the perspective of another religion. Meditations on the Tarot, however, shows that Christianity has not been lost, but lives and breathes in precisely those institutions and teachings that to New Agers appear opposed to the life of the Spirit. For a (positive) traditional Catholic assessment of the work and its author: http://corjesusacratissimum. And during that time, I came across a notice on the internet that had appeared in the leading Catholic traditionalist weblog Rorate Caeli.