/lit/ - Literature

You forgot the most important book OP

>>17751948

This book here is written from the Catholic perspective

>>15801191

>>11049573
Have you read pic related? Thoughts on hermeticism in general? I could see how it could be New Age (The secret).

>>10945296

Thoughts on pic related?

If I had to pick one book, it would be this one (This edition, too; it's a good translation by Robert Powell with an accompanying afterword by Cardinal Hans Ur von Balthasar).

The reason is simple... it's the rare book that is both stylistically supreme, beautiful, and replete with the profoundest philosophical insights. Both theoretically & practically enriching.

It's infinitely better than anything Eastern.

There have been other books that attempted to be the perfect marriage of wisdom and beauty. Thus Spake Zarathustra IMO is a complete failure (it's quite a failure stylistically... ironically, Nietzsche was a terrible writer when he tried to be one: his ugly poems, or his Zarathustra and its pathetic, exaggerated metaphors... BUT Nietzsche was a masterful writer WHEN he wrote prose / aphorisms).

As I said, there have been other attempts at art+philosophy synergy and all I'm aware of were failures, I won't even go into things like Sartre (eww!) or Camus.

Tomberg is unparalleled.

Hart, Feser, and other modern Christian philosophers and theologians are like dog poop compared to Tomberg's heavenly fragrance.

Jewish texts, too, can't hold a candle to Tomberg... with their tedious Kabbalistic exegesis.

This is the highest text humanity has ever produced, except perhaps the Bible upon which it co-depends. Yet nobody studies it, except the cliche divination shit.

Don't be faggots and study this, do yourself a favor. You'll thank me later.

http://www.alpheus.org/html/articles/esoteric_history/Wojtyla&Tarot.htm