Antoine/great quote

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Antoine,

 

Thanks for this quote! You selected a great one. The MEDITATIONS ON THE

TAROT is one of the finest books on hermetic mysticism. I know a whole

group of people here in NYC who study this book through the years. The

author is not exactly anonymous, but is thought to be Valentin Tomberg, a

former student of Rudolf Steiner, the anthroposophist. For an insider's

perhaps partial view of Tomberg, see:

 

http://www.vermontel.com/%7Evtsophia/boegner.htm

 

Antoine wrote:

>I came to read this last night, a flower among others:

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>"The Hermeticist is essentially an _iconophile_. For him symbols are not

>obstacles that must be eliminated in order to arrive at knowledge of the

>truth, but rather means of receiving revelation. The "clothes" - the

>symbols - of truth are for him not what _hides_ it, but rather what

>_reveals_ it. The entire world, in so far as it is a series of symbols,

>does not hide, but reveals the Word. The divine commandment: _Thou shalt

>not kill, is also applicable to the domain of knowledge. He who _denies_

>the life of symbols, kills them in thought. The iconoclast is an

>intellectual murderer. The Hermeticist is, in contrast, an iconophile

>and traditionalist. This means to say that he does side with the

>successive waves of iconoclasm - the waves named "reformation",

>"enlightement", scientific faith" - which set fire to forest of symbols

>protecting the intellectual sun of humanity agaisnt barrenness and

>erosion. this means to say, also, that he has as basic principle not

>only the commandement _Thou shalt not kill_, but also the commandment,

>growth, development and evolution - the commandment: _Honour thy father

>and thy mother_." (Meditations on the Tarot, anonymous).

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>Antoine

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perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside

back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than

the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of

Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is

Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality

of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge,

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