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This booklet is ideal for Christians who are unacquainted with the Tarot OR for Tarot enthusiasts, who are not familiar with the deeper currents of Christian spirituality. This is a12 page, full color \"saddle stitched\" booklet (8 pages + stapled self-cover , 8.5\" X 5.5\"). It is printed with an Ink-Jet printer on standard 20 lb. paper.
NOTE: The pictures are from an online printers\' preview--the pink line does not appear on the printed copy. NOTE also that while Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism is the primary inspiration behind the CMOTT booklet, the interpretations of the Tarot images contained in the booklet—whilegenerally consistent with that work —sometimes diverge from those of our anonymous author. Note also that the Tarot Aces are not discussed in MOTT...
The arrangement of Tarot images onthe back cover of this booklet reflects an integral understanding of humanexistence that is extremely difficult to come by in our post-modern age. Thisbooklet is, in part, an attempt to share this kind of understanding with awider audience. But there are also sincereseekers for whom meditating on these images will be the occasion of a profoundperceptual shift accompanied by authentic moral and spiritual transformation. For what at first sight may appear to be a ratherconfusing tableau of images— mere Tarot cards —is, in fact, a very intelligiblemapoffering a unique point of entry into the moral and spiritual territorywhich is sought—namely, a realization of the Way, the Truth, and the Life(of which Jesus said) “I AM”.
Remembering our anonymousauthor’s caution to avoid trying to explaina symbol by “reducing it to a few general abstract ideas”, readers should approachthe image captions and comments below (pages 1 – 5) as a collection of sacred keys— “not as an end but as thebeginning of the way of knowledge” —soas to facilitate the aforementioned realization (Meditations on the Tarot 174-175). As such, letus meditate on all the images in our tableauin an orderly fashion, beginning with TheLover…