Tarot Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism by HH
Author:Anonymous Translated by Robert Powell Copyright © 1985, 2002 Jeremy P
Tarcher/Putnam ISBN 1-58542-161-8 Excerpt from The Magician: "For the Major Arcana of the Tarot are authentic symbols, i.e
they are "magic, mental, psychic and moral operations" awakening new notions, ideas, sentiments and aspirations, which means to say that they require an activity more profound than that of study and intellectual explanation
It is therefore in a state of deep contemplation - and always ever deeper - that they should be approached
" Although there is a wide-ranging disaffection and disassociation with Christian beliefs, it is hard to discount the effects that Christianity has had on all of us
Many tend to see those effects as wholly negative
However, a non-emotional, critical examination of Christianity, and a through separation of Christians from Christianity, demonstrates that the Roman Catholic Church, the espiscopal and liturgical offshoots, nor the latter secularized churches are unmitigatedly, injuriously *evil*
Arising from the depths of Renaissance Christianity we have been given the legacy of Western Tradition Hermeticism and concurrent metaphysics
Recently released as a English-language trade paperback issue, _Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism_ has been praised by no less an occultist expert than Antoine Faivre as, "The most beautiful and instructive book of the twentieth century concerning Western esotericism
" Now, that is quite a recommendation! I have been using this book and its examination of the journey though the tarot trumps for several months, and unreservedly recommend it to any serious student of the tarot
other posts in this tarot thread
Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism by HH