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Category Archives: Valentin Tomberg
Violence and Revolution
The cause of all wars and revolutions — in a word, of all violence — is always the same: the negation of hierarchy. ~ Valentin Tomberg What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. ~ Joseph de Maistre While the world … Continue reading
Have you ever drunk the Silence?
Concentration without effort … is your life tossed to and fro by random events, thoughts, feelings? Or do you live life consciously? It begins with Silence … Rene Guenon claimed that at times when the authorities had lost the inner meaning of things, initiates would pose as jugglers or horse … Continue reading
The French Hermetic Tradition
Valentin Tomberg explains why he wrote his meditations on the major arcana of the Tarot in French: These letters were written in French, which is not the mother tongue of the author, because it is in France, and in France only, that a living literature on the Tarot has been … Continue reading
Hermetic Meditation
Since Gornahoor has been so insistent on the necessity for spiritual practice, we will here provide an example of Hermetic meditation. This is based on suggestions from the writings of Valentin Tomberg, the foremost Hermetist of the 20th century. As he points out: There are no theories; there is only … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
The Hermetic Method
Ask, and it will be given youseek, and you will find;knock, and it will be opened to you. ~ Luke xi, 9 Hermetism differs from both religion and science, although it does not attempt to replace them. Unlike religion, which accepts things on faith, and unlike science, which is based … Continue reading
Safeguarding the Mysteries
The goal of spiritual exercises is depth. It is necessary to become deep in order to be able to achieve the experience and knowledge of deep things. Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
The Metaphysics of Law
Thus one arrives at the ideal of law by introspection, at the idea of law by reasonable evaluation of experiences, and at the concept of law by knowing the facts of positive law. Continue reading