Tag: Meditations on the Tarot
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Mind Fasting
On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception we are reminded that only the Soul without sin can fully accept the Spirit. That Soul is totally free from perturbations.
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Sun, Moon, & Stars
I want to remark on something in Tomberg’s Meditations, in comparison between Chapter 18 (The Moon) & Chapter 19 (The Sun). Besides many other side meditations of delight (including a short, extremely well put defense of medieval scholasticism, which he says was a marriage of wisdom and intelligence to produce intuition), Tomberg gives us two…
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Conscious Participation in World Events
Meditation leads to conscious participation in objective world events.
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Hermetism and the Primordial State
Hermetic initiation is the conscious descent into the depths of the human being all the way to the initial state. When we follow the Hermetic method and meditate on symbols and images, we transcend the external facts of the symbols to descend to the “vital, mental, and spiritual realities that the symbols and images reveal.”…
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Tentacles, Paws, Arms, Wings
Since Evola wrote a thorough book on the Hermetic Tradition, I will use an example from the Hermeticist Valentin Tomberg to illustrate the Principle of Correspondence. In Letter XIV on Temperance in Meditations on the Tarot, Tomberg writes: Tentacles, paws, arms, wings — are they not simply diverse forms manifesting a common prototype or principle?…