MOTT Web Links

This page is designed to pull together as much quality content as possible from around the web pertaining to Meditations on the Tarot  (MOTT for short – Copyright © 2002 Tarcher/Penguin).  Here– in more or less random order –is what has been discovered so far:

• Striving Towards Being:  A Journey into Christian Hermeticism.  Includes sections devoted to epigraphs and structure.
  http://www.traveh.net/

• FourHares.Com:   A collection of PDF files and tarot images with references to local and online study groups.  Additional resources pertaining to philosophy, anthroposophy, and  freemasonry.
  http://www.fourhares.com/pdfs/mott/
  

• Meditations on the Tarot: Plunging in the currents of the Hermetic Tradition, including discussion of Martinism and Metaphysics.
  http://www.meditationsonthetarot.com/

• The Corpus Hermeticum and Hermetic Tradition:  Includes the complete Corpus Hermeticum; Hermetic Excerpts and Fragments preserved in classical literature; A compilation of the Hymns of Hermes; and Hermetic texts from Nag Hammadi.
  http://www.gnosis.org/library/hermet.htm

• English Wordplay ~ Listen and Enjoy:  A very attractive site offering some extensive excerpts from several of the Letters from MOTT.  Additional writings  by Valentine Tomberg are also discussed on this site (and much, much, more). http://www.englishwordplay.com/tarot.html
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• Wikipedia:  Valentin Arnoldevitch Tomberg (February 27, 1900 – February 24, 1973) was an Estonian-Russian Christian mystic, polyglot scholar and hermetic magician.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Tomberg
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•  Meditations on the Tarot Facebook Group: An online forum for Hermits and Contemplatives reading MOTT.
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/159756145591/
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• Christian Hermeticism Facebook Group:  A place for sharing and learning about the Hermetic tradition from within the scope of catholic discourse (taken in its original sense of universal).
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianhermeticism/

• Gornahoor.Net:  A 50 page PDF index of MOTT.  The same (or a very similar) index appears at Tarot Hermeneutics in a larger print format (92 pages).  It concludes with this copyright:
  Copyright © Colin James Hamer 2000 Doctor Colin James Hamer, D.C.H., M.R.P., S.T.L., Ph.D., A.F.Phys. (I.T.E.C.), D.Sc. (hc) Master of the Rainbow Program & Director of Creativity House
  http://www.gornahoor.net/library/IndexMOTT.pdf

• Free Hermetic-Christian Study Center:   Features a variety pages, including one on Hermeticism and one on Valentin Tomberg.  There is also a page of Downloads which includes a German edition of:
  • What Is Hermeticism: A study of the Christian Hermeticism of Valentin Tomberg in the light of Rudolf Steiner’s school of Initiation Science, by Sebstian Niklaus (Available here in German in a PDF format, but also available in English on amazon.de).
    http://www.fhab.org/sebastian-niklaus_hermetismus

• One Cosmos: Several good articles here–just do a search for tarot.  The first one to catch my eye was: A Brief Message from Beyond the Grave.
  http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html

• Wikipedia:  Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism is a book published posthumuously and anonymously in 1985. It was originally written in French and translated into English by Robert A. Powell of the Sophia Foundation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations_on_the_Tarot

• Alchemical Weddings: Magic is the Science of Love
  Search Results : Meditations on the Tarot »

• Medtarot Discussion List: Meditations on the Tarot discussion list participating in the Hermetic tradition as a community of Spirit.
  http://www.meditationsonthetarot.com/medtarot-discussion-list

• Aeclectic Tarot Forum > Tarot > Talking Tarot > An Introduction to Christian Hermeticism: A student’s review and discussion of a summer course at Vancouver School of Theology: “An Introduction to Christian to Hermeticism”.  The course is said to have been led by Cynthia Bourgeault.
  http://www.tarotforum.net/archive/index.php/t-45303.html

• Tarot Hermeneutics: Valentin Tomberg Biography and Bibliography with links to other Tarot resources.
  http://tarothermeneutics.com/tarotliterature/MOTT/valentintomberg2.html

• Wiley Online Library: Abstract of article:”Rule-Governed Christian Gnosis: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Valentin Tomberg’s Meditations on the Tarot”, by Kevin Mongrain.
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0025.2008.01520.x/abstract
  NOTE:  This entire article is available on Academia.Edu  (10/26/2018)

• Ignatius Insight: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Tarot: A Review of Meditations on the Tarot by Anonymous (Valentin Tomberg) | Stratford Caldecott
  http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/scaldecott_hubtarot_apr07.asp

• Cor Jesu Sacratissimum: Meditations on the Tarot and the Vatican.  This is at a website written by two Catholic converts from the New Age.  Meditations on the Tarot was central one of the authors’ conversion.  Includes other articles pertaining to Tomberg and Anthroposophy.                                               http://corjesusacratissimum.org/2013/12/meditations-on-the-tarot-and-the-Vatican

• Sophia Foundation:  The Sophia Foundation was founded by the translator of Meditations on the Tarot.  The following pages may be of interest:
  • General Introduction to Christian Hermeticism
  • Study Materials (by John Hipsley)
  • MOTT Invocations & Images
    

• Second Spring Community >> Metaphysics >> Anybody up to reading “Meditations on the Tarot”?  This is an interesting discussion of MOTT in a public forum.
  http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/487/Anybody-up-to-reading-quotMeditations-on-the-Tarotquot#.VHEUwk10yB1

• Linda Goodman Forum Topic: The Cosmic Christ and The Personal Incarnation
  Includes some significant discussion of MOTT and Tomberg.  http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum21/HTML/000603.html

• Life Streams — Narrative and Grace:  A thoughtful review of MOTT which also includes selected links to other Tarot related resources.
  https://jwayneferguson.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/meditations-on-the-tarot/

• Don’t Shoot the Prophet:  An Episcopal Church oriented site with several relevant articles, including one article on “Christian Hermeticism” and another on Tarot entitled, “A Christian should have no doubts,” or “Where they burn books…”
  http://dstp.rel.pl/?p=6967

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