Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism

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The book features an extremely beautiful meditation on the nature of love as central to Christianity, whereas the author suggests that pre-Christian Indian spirituality is based not on love – but indifference. The only real flaw in Tomberg’s excellent work is therefore his biased, if friendly, treatment of other religions that is simply not qualified to evaluate them objectively because he obviously doesn’t have the entire picture or access to the depths of these diverse traditions and hence forced to make simplifications that are more based on symptoms caricatured than any essential truth. UPDATE 2017: I also go extensively into Tomberg and his thinking in my just-released book from Angelico Press Cor Jesu Sacratissimum: From Secularism and the New Age to Christendom Renewed. Even if I had time, I am not sure how fruitful it would be with anyone, including yourself, who did not experience this utter wonder that has transformed my life.

This is is similar if not the same as what Rudolf Steiner apoke about, in that the Ego/Ahamkar (Aham=I, in Sanksrit) Kar=Doeer in Sanskrit ==== I am the doer /the sense of doership. If any doubt remains, a blow-up of the photo can be seen here compared with a clear picture of the German volumes.

Tarot and the like aren’t ends in themselves, but a medium in which intuitive thought can take place, and as such, I think they deserve to be sampled by creative professionals whose livelihoods depend on accessing that kind of thinking on a regular basis. One reason I am so drawn to occulted or hidden knowledge so much is it helps me manage the current trauma and put things in perspective so I can be grateful and vibrate on a higher level of consciousness than the base fear state the elites try so so desperately to keep us in.

In this regard, let us note that Tomberg addresses his book to esotericists and hermeticists – in other words the very kind of folk who lie at the root of todays’ serious New Age movement. First, what this book is NOT: it is not a "how to" book that will teach you how to use and interpret Tarot cards for the purpose of divination. wThere are, of course, any number of unorthodox writings that the Church never troubles herself with for an instant. It's not gospel truth, but it is a way of approaching what is in a way that is spectacular and amazing. It is an effort to revive the tradition of Christian Hermeticism - that spiritual tradition that seeks the depths and the heights of meaning and authentic tradition.

True Hindu, Vedanta can only fortify Christianity, not oppose it, if understood with goodwill, wisdom and actual knowledge of the Hindu Scriptures. Amongst these highest echelons are, of course, the Cardinals – that elite college of no more than 150 men in the world, of whom those under the age of 80 elect the Pope. 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). 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. Not a perfect work by any means, but considering the ambitious scope I'd say it's fairly successful in setting out a compelling school of interpretation, not only of these cards, but also of ourselves and the world around us.