The essay also draws attention to Tomberg's innovatively irenic approach to Christian anti-Gnosticism. My 5-star Amazon review (NDA) of Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism by Valentin Tomberg. Both authors maintain that authentic esotericism, by contrast, is marked by radical humility and non-violence it is biblical, ecclesial, and committed to the unity of metaphysical reason and prayerful faith. This item: Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism by Anonymous Paperback 22.95 CBD Tarot De Marseille by Yoav Ben-Dov Cards 18.75 Customers who viewed this item also viewed of 1 Start over Contemplative Tarot: A Christian Guide to the Cards Brittany Muller 21 Paperback 12 offers from 11. Both Tomberg and von Balthasar believe that esotericism without prayer and institutional grounding can become narcissistic and self-righteous to the point of megalomania, and consequently it tends to become manipulative and coercive to the point of violence. The essay explains that both Tomberg and von Balthasar practice a rule-governed Christian esotericism whose goal is support for a fruitful ecclesial spirituality and resistance to non-ecclesial esoteric Gnosticism. It argues that von Balthasar respected and advocated this ostensibly occult text because he found its capacious understanding of Christian faith as true gnosis similar to his own. The essay examines Hans Urs von Balthasar's little-known Foreword to the Christian esoteric text, Meditations on the Tarot by Valentin Tomberg.
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