![]() The essay also draws attention to Tomberg's innovatively irenic approach to Christian anti-Gnosticism. The addressee in this instance is anyone who will read. The Wandering Fool :Love and its Symbols, Early Studies on the Tarot. These meditations on the Major Arcana of the Tarot are Letters addressed to the Unknown Friend. 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. The Wandering Fool by Valentin Tomberg,Robert Powell,James Richard Wetmore. ![]() 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. This is from his meditation on the ninth major Arcanum. 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. To do so I will quote at length from Valentin Tombergs magnum opus, Meditations on the Tarot. 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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