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- 1. The Tarot as We Know It
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- 3. Comparing the Marseille & Waite-Smith Tarots
- 4. Aesthetic Roots and Resemblances Prior to 1770
- 5. The Philosophical and Theological Milieu
- 6. Archetypical Psychology and Spirituality
- 7. Outline of Seminal Figures in the History of the Occult Tarot
- 8. Two Esoteric Schools Worthy of Special Mention
- 9. Contemplative Tarot
- Works Cited and Additional Resources
- The Soul’s Choice
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Highlights of Study Guide XI on “Force”
Some highlights, separated by ellipses [. . .], are posted below. Follow this link to read the complete summary. Use CTRL-F to search for a desired word or phrase (This thing is the strongest of all powers, the force of … Continue reading
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Tagged bios, electricity, force, holy animality, life, redemption, Sophia, temptation, virgin nature, wisdom, zoe
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Study Guide X. The Wheel of Fortune
A new “study guide” for Letter X, The Wheel of Fortune, has been posted. While reading a summary of this letter is obviously no substitute for reading the original, it should offer a good review for those already familiar it … Continue reading
Lovers Solitaire
Instructions: How to Play Lovers Solitaire A Popular Key to The Soul’s Choice Tarot Spread An Annotated Illustration of the Complete Layout Download PDF of Lovers Solitaire eBooklet
Study Guide VIIII. The Hermit
A new “study guide” for Letter VIIII* on The Hermit was recently posted. While reading this summary is obviously no substitute for reading the original, it should offer a good review for those already familiar this Letter and may help … Continue reading
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Tagged action, contemplation, heart, hermit, intellect, Martin Lings, rene guenon, roman numerals
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Study Guide VIII. Justice
A new “study guide” for Letter VIII on Justice has just been posted. While reading this summary is obviously no substitute for reading the original, it should offer a good review for those already familiar Letter VIII and may help … Continue reading
Authentic Christian Platonism
“St. Bonaventura, in his doctrine of ‘signatura rerum’, interprets the entire visible world as the symbol of the invisible world. For him, the visible world is only another Holy Scripture, another revelation alongside that which is contained in the Holy … Continue reading
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Tagged Aquinas, Bonaventure, exemplarism, nous, Plato, Plotinus
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Tarot Course Materials
Most of the material linked to, below, was developed for a class which was offered at a local bookstore in 2017. These links can also be found under our new Tarot Course Materials menu item. Some aspects of this material will be revised and supplemented … Continue reading
Posted in Meditations on the Tarot, Tarot History and Trivia
Tagged aesthetics, Aleister Crowley, archetypes, arthur edward waite, Carl Jung, Eliphas Levi, esoteric schools, Etteillia, Gnosticism, Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetic Philosophy, Hermetism, history, hymn of the pearl, Jungian Psychology, Kabbalah, Lenormand, Mage Edmond, Major Arcana, Marseille, minor arcana, nicholas conver, occultists, Oswald Wirth, pamela colman smith, Papus, Paul Christian, philosophy, Plato, Plotinus, symbols, tarot, Waite-Smith
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The Soul’s Choice
The Lover stands in equilibrium between two gravitational fields—the world of the serpent, on the one hand, and the world of the Word, on the other (cf. the “psychic man” in Letter XII). MOTT References: “spiritual fornication“ (143); “It is love which … Continue reading
“Two Gravitational Fields” (Pope Benedict XVI)
In one of our initial posts (Let the journey begin…), we suggested that Meditations on the Tarot might be linked to Pope Benedict XVI through Robert Spaemann (the same Robert Spaemann who wrote the forward to the German edition of MOTT, … Continue reading
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Tagged gravitation, Letter vi, Letter xii, Pope Benedict xvi, the hanged man, the lover
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Why Meditate on the Tarot?
Cultivate the Seed of Self-Transcendence: The Self is a relation that relates to itself and to the power which grounds it (cf. Kierkegaard). The idea of “the separate self” is an illusion to be transcended. Serious Students May Reasonably Aspire … Continue reading
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