“Recognized by many leading thinkers as among the pivotal spiritual texts of the twentieth century, every paragraph leads deeper into the Christ mystery.” Meditations on the Tarot, however, shows that Christianity has not been lost, but lives and breathes in precisely those institutions and teachings that to New Agers appear opposed to the life of the Spirit.” “True Christianity, says the New Age, has been lost, or, alternatively, retreated to some esoteric circle. To the contrary, the future of orthodoxy, its more radical cleaving to the biblical revelation, and above all its metaphysical coherence, may depend upon a new engagement with Sophiology, theurgic Neoplatonism, and Hermeticism.” “Ever since Hans Urs von Balthasar’s endorsement of Meditations on the Tarot, theologians have increasingly begun to see that Christian esotericism is not necessarily heterodox or ‘gnostic,’ despite many ambiguities. summarized in the 22 so-called Major Arcana of the Tarot, seeking to lead us meditatively into the deeper, all-embracing wisdom of the Catholic Mystery.” “A thinking, praying Christian of unmistakable purity reveals to us the symbols of Christian Hermeticism.
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