>>10141870Best book ever hands down. But you have to guide your audience on 4chan here a little bit before the protties spaz out about new-ageism and nazi's about a "jew on a stick. It's lost on them most likely, but who knows..
>this isn't about "divination".I think the Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar says this explicitly in the afterword. It's not about foretelling the future but instead:
>The Major Arcana of the Tarot are authentic symbols. They conceal and reveal their sense at one and the same time according to the depth of meditation. That which they reveal are not secrets, i.e. things hidden by human will, but are arcana, which is something quite different. An arcanum is that which it is necessary to "know" in order to be fruit-ful in a given domain of spiritual life. It is that which must be actively present in our consciousness —or even in our subconscious —in order to render us capable of making discoveries, engendering new ideas, conceiving of new artistic subjects. In a word, it makes us fertile in our creative pursuits, in whatever domain of spiritual life.