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The Wandering Fool: Love and its Symbols, Early Studies on the Tarot

In 1982 there appeared a remarkable book, written by an author who wished to remain anonymous, entitled Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism. This book was destined to become a spiritual classic of the twentieth century. Distinguished scholar Antoine Faivre called it “the most beautiful and instructive book of the twentieth century concerning western esotericism.” Father Bede Griffiths said “to me it is the last word in wisdom.” Trappist Abbot Basil Pennington wrote “it is such a rich collection of wisdom drawn from such a staggering number of diverse sources that it leaves the mind almost reeling. Besides the Bible we find the Upanishads, the Cabbala, the Hermeticists, and men as diverse as Origen and Chardin, Pla
The Wandering Fool: Love and its Symbols, Early Studies on the Tarot