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Title: Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism by Robert Powell, Anonymous, Hans Urs Von Balthasar ISBN: 1-58542-161-8 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 06 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: 22 letters addressed "to the Unknown Friend"
Comment: Boring, wordy and not really about tarot? 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. It took me several abortive attempts over half a decade to get past the first couple of chapters. But eventually I took the time to sit down and read one a night for three weeks. I'm really glad I did.
It's heady stuff, strong wine, but not deliberately intoxicating as so many "spiritual" books are. A date rape drug it's not. The anonymous author was once involved with Steiner but became a Catholic, and this is a deeply, devoutly Catholic book. It'll draw you, if you care to go, more deeply into the Christian-Hermetic tradition than anything else will, I think -- even Rene Guenon or Fulcanelli, who are not to be sniffed at themselves.
"The purpose of these letters," according to the author, "will be to incarnate into this tradition, i.e. to become an organic part of it, and in this way to contribute support to it... Their aim is not only to revive the tradition in the twentieth century but also, and above all, to immerse the reader (or rather the Unknown Friend) in this current -- be it temporarily or for ever."
It couldn't be less about divination or self-affirmation or transpersonal psychology. In fact, it sits far more comfortably alongside the work of such fine, authentic 20th century theologians as Henri de Lubac and von Balthasar (who wrote the preface to the German edition) or, say, Pavel Florensky than it does on the occult shelf where it's usually found. I love this book. It was worth writing and worth reading in a way that sets it apart from all but the tiniest few.
Rating: 5
Summary: a puzzle of a book, both narrow-minded and broad-minded ....
Comment: The author of this book truly overwhelms the subject matter with himeself. His personality and his philosophical lens (Catholic hermeticism/occult Christianity)so dominate that it is difficult to get a sense of the Tarot in its own right. Thus I do not recommend this book for those beginning Tarot study. That being said, the writer has a wonderful, convoluted, complex mind.....very opinionated and judgmental in some matters, very humanist and tolerant in others. Some of the passages are heavy, dense and ponderous.......others are sheer music and lift you up to the stars......Although his teachings on mysticism are what I bought the book for, it's also a fascinating read for his critiques on the thinking of many 20th century (and earlier) writers. A much needed antidote for the literal-mindedness which has overtaken the Christian churches through the course of the past few centuries.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not enough about tarot
Comment: Boring, wordy and not really about tarot. As a pagan, I bought this to see a different viewpoint on tarot. The book is really about Christian Hermeticism with a coating of tarot. If your primary interest is tarot, thi is not the book for you.
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Title: Inner Christianity : A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition by Richard Smoley ISBN: 1570628106 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Rose of the World by Daniel Andreev, Daniil Leonidovich Andreev ISBN: 0940262835 Publisher: Lindisfarne Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions by Richard Smoley, Jay Kinney ISBN: 0140195823 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Forest of Souls: A Walk Through the Tarot by Rachel Pollack ISBN: 1567185339 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Most Holy Trinosophia and the New Revelation of the Divine Feminine by Robert A. Powell, Daniel Andreev ISBN: 0880104805 Publisher: Anthroposophic Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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