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The Wandering Fool - Love and its Symbols, Early Studies on the Tarot (Paperback)
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The Wandering Fool - Love and its Symbols, Early Studies on the Tarot (Paperback)
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Loot Price R422
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In 1982 there appeared a remarkable book, written by an author who
wished to remain anonymous, entitled Meditations on the Tarot: A
Journey into Christian Hermeticism. This book was destined to
become a spiritual classic of the twentieth century. Distinguished
scholar Antoine Faivre called it "the most beautiful and
instructive book of the twentieth century concerning western
esotericism." Father Bede Griffiths said "to me it is the last word
in wisdom." Trappist Abbot Basil Pennington wrote "it is such a
rich collection of wisdom drawn from such a staggering number of
diverse sources that it leaves the mind almost reeling. Besides the
Bible we find the Upanishads, the Cabbala, the Hermeticists, and
men as diverse as Origen and Chardin, Plato and Bergson, Jung and
John of the Cross, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. It is without doubt
the most extraordinary work I have ever read." And Cardinal Hans
Urs von Balthasar described the author as "a thinking, praying
Christian of unmistakable purity." Students of Meditations on the
Tarot now have cause for celebration, for in 2007 a collection of
the author's notes was published - preliminary studies of the
images of the Tarot cards, illustrating the method he followed.
This methodology is now revealed for the first time in English
translation through the inclusion of material published in Part Two
of this volume. Unfortunately, the notes cover only the last nine
Arcana, from XIV to XXII, the notes to the first thirteen Arcana
having gone missing. Part One comprises three lectures held by
Robert Powell, the translator of Meditations on the Tarot into
English from the original French manuscript. These lectures, held
in California in 2006, 2007, and 2008, were delivered to an
audience of friends of Christian Hermeticism, who gather every year
to converse and share concerning the path of Christian Hermeticism.
The second lecture, in particular, serves as an introduction to
Part II. Also included is additional background material from the
Luxembourg (Kairos) and German (Achamoth) editions.
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