![]() 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 author gathers us into his own spiritual journey to the authentic Source of all true knowledge and compassion. The meditations are, in the truest sense, a school of lectio divina requiring an activity more profound than that of study and intellectual explanation. In the hands of this author of immense erudition and deep contemplation, the Tarot cards of ancient Egypt reveal their universal archetypal symbolic nature and become a school of objective insight. ![]() This may be regarded as one of the great spiritual classics of this century. By way of the Major Arcana the author seeks to lead meditatively into the deeper, all-embracing wisdom of the Catholic Mystery." These symbols are summarized in the twenty-two so-called "Major Arcana" of the Tarot cards. ![]() ![]() "In his foreword to the German edition, Hans Urs von Balthasar writes: "A thinking, praying Christian of unmistakable purity reveals to us to symbols of Christian Hermeticism in its various levels of mysticism, gnosis, and magic, taking in also the Cabbala and certain elements of astrology and alchemy. ![]()
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