meditations on the tarot valentin tomberg

Translator of Meditations on the Tarot into German, biographer of Valentin Tomberg Tomberg thus delineates a fascinating and hopeful perspective, and one that is of exceptional relevance to our own time.” For by virtue of this miracle, human history is no longer merely a process (whether linear or cyclical) heading towards an uncertain future, but is instead also a course of events impelled by the ‘night side of history’ which breaks in upon the ‘day side of history’ with the aim of healing and resurrecting everything precious in it (even if abandoned for a time to transience, dying, and death) into new and everlasting life. Thereby the resurrection of Lazarus-described as if the author had himself been present at it-takes on a far wider significance. Here the Fall, into which the seven days of the Creation were drawn, serves as the backdrop against which the seven healing miracles depicted in John’s gospel may be fathomed in an entirely new way-for these miracles are not related solely to those individuals alive in Palestine in Jesus Christ’s time, but also to the seven days of the Creation, and thus to the whole history of the world and of humanity. The seven days’ labor depicted in Genesis is, for the author, no mere myth rather, from a depth of thought all his own, Tomberg opens up a path by means of which our modern consciousness can understand the continuing significance of Moses’ account for us today. “This book throws a new and surprising light on the history of humankind.

Praise for Lazarus: The Miracle of Resurrection in World History

Meditations on the tarot valentin tomberg