Frankly, I doubt most “occultists” I have ever met would benefit from it, being stuck in their Golden Dawn / Gardnerian / Western Mystery Tradition whatever. Beginning from a background in Western European thought, he quickly expands his pool of reference to include comparative religious studies from a variety of cultures worldwide, and seems to find a broad understanding attempting to accommodate all of them.

The new, most current, special Avatar can easily be accepted and be placed first on the list of Avatars. Although he asserts that understanding of this is so dangerous that the Church is absolutely right to refute reincarnation, adding that ‘it is worth a hundred times more … to deny the doctrine of reincarnation’ than to court this danger. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. If Love existed, Jesus himself would not have cast demons into the innocent animal kingdom, the pigs.John Paul II clearly saw no reason to deny a very high level of ecclesiastical authority to von Balthasar. Generally speaking, Ria, I recognise your concerns and would have shared them to a much greater extent many years ago.

Though it may not be deserts and thick forests into which one can retire into an undisturbed solitude nowadays, there are still people who have found or created in the deserts of the great cities and among the thickets of the crowds, a solitude and stillness of life for the spirit. Yet despite this stated goal, when one reads, one gets a better sense of the larger world around us. The nice thing about tarot is that it concretizes the problem in a form that’s out of our control, forcing us to take the extra step of mapping the issues we’re mulling over onto the array of symbols that the deck has generated. Samkhya, which maintains the distinctiveness of the plurality of Purushas (individual spirits) is praised.The anonymous author—who insisted that his French original be published posthumously—delivers his perceived insight and transcendent guidance from beyond the grave, in a manner of speaking, via epistolic essays on the twenty-two Major Arcana of the Tarot. A hindu can easily believe in an Avatar, a unique and very special Avatar of Brahma, Vishnu Or Shiva, or even Brahman itself, or an exclusive Sun being, changing the course of earth evolution (or planetary evolution, if so). Others are drawn by the traditional Catholic liturgy, which I think has a real capacity to attract and evangelise New Agers if only it were better known. Before the Motu Proprio, I was living and travelling in France, profoundly interested in the rumours that existed that Benedict XVI was about to free the Latin Mass.

In this regard, let us note that Tomberg addresses his book to esotericists and hermeticists – in other words the very kind of folk who lie at the root of todays’ serious New Age movement. For it was then I saw that Tomberg’s profound, complex masterpiece turned not simply on Jesus Christ – but on a sustained meditation of how the entire cosmos changed through the Incarnation, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.Please forgive me for taking so very long to make this very inadequate response to your depths, unknown friend. Even if I had time, I am not sure how fruitful it would be with anyone, including yourself, who did not experience this utter wonder that has transformed my life.