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stronglove wrote: ↑27 Feb 2020, 10:37 will start my list of tomberg’s keywords and key sentences this weekend, but in the meantime i highly recommend this website i recently found, it is amazing.....

https://www.meditationsonthetarot.com/

stronglove wrote: ↑01 Mar 2020, 15:37 I am using your list, aeonhorus, though in my translation the english names for the cards are used.
I have used Tomberg’s sequence, he places the fool between judgment and the world, because he doesn’t want the fool to be at the beginning of the major arcana, but neither at the end.... so he also changes the numbers, his fool is XXI and his world is XXII

the keywords Tomberg uses are not always self-evident, sometimes his enthusiasm is so urgent, he starts voicing his thoughts without taking the time to explain his starting point, it was fun to reread some of his chapters trying to extricate the ‘magic word’ that inspired his thinking.
he often uses more than one keyword, wherever i feel they are of equal importance, or closely associated, i mention both.
sometimes his ‘keywords’ are more like key phrases, i chose to copy them rather than try to create one keyword out of them.

I want to start with a quotation, because this is what Tomberg considers to be the first and fundamental principle of esotericism, and it is also the foundation for his meditations:

Learn at first concentration without effort; transform work into play; make every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light

I. Le Bateleur
concentration without effort/ the pure act of intelligence

II. La Papesse
reflection/ inner mirror

III. L'Impératrice
sacred magic

IIII. L'Empereur
active renunciation/ obedience

V. Le Pape
benediction/ poverty

VI. L'Amoureux
chastity/ absolute wholeness in love

VII. Le Chariot
mastership/ being able to set in motion

VIII. La Justice
law/ maintaining equilibrium

VIIII. L'Ermite
the narrow gate and the hard way to the Divine (the method and essence of Hermeticism!)

X. La Roue de Fortune
ascent and descent, Fall and Reintegration

XI. La Force
holy animality/ from quantity to quality

XII. Le Pendu
gravitation

XIII. (La Mort)
disappearance/ subtraction/ excarnation

XIIII. Tempérance
cooperating polarity/ integrated duality

XV. Le Diable
counter-inspiration

XVI. La Maison Dieu
purification

XVII. L'Étoile
growth

XVIII. La Lune
retrograde movement/ enchantment

XVIIII. Le Soleil
intuition

XX. Le Jugement
resurrection

0. Le Mat
love/eternal archetype

XXI. Le Monde
creation/ birth

stronglove wrote: ↑01 Mar 2020, 15:37

XIII. (La Mort)
disappearance/ subtraction/ excarnation