5/18/2023 0 Comments Valentin tomberg tarotHe described reincarnation, in no uncertain terms, as a "fact" of the inner world, 5 one to be recognized through direct spiritual experience. 1 It is, after all, no ordinary task to aspire to the "higher knowledge" that may be obtained when a humble, prayerful "living soul" enters into true communion with the "living God." 2 One area where Tomberg dared to aspire beyond the bounds of normative Catholicism was in his active embrace of reincarnation, which is simply, if rather obliquely, defined in the work as "successive lives of the same human individuality." 3 While observers, such as the Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, who wrote a famous afterword to the work, have often dismissed Tomberg's reincarnationist views as something of a curiosity, 4 a benign theological misstep that need not be taken too seriously, Tomberg himself maintained a deep personal commitment to the notion. In his remarkable work Meditations on the Tarot, the Russian-born, Roman Catholic mystic, Valentin Tomberg (1900–1973), asserts that a certain degree of "daring" is required of the person actively engaged in the Christian life.
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