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Book Review

Tarot and Jewish Mysticism tradition in the counting of the Omer over the forty nine
days between Passover and Shavuot. A practitioner of
Mark Horn. Tarot and the Gates of Light, A Kabbalistic Path divination, he offers his guidance in affairs of the Tarot
to Liberation. Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books, 2020. and has written his book Gates of Light for the uninitiated.
The Zohar, Pritzker Edition, volume II, Translated and Tarot embraces the occult and renders it in visualization
Commentary by Daniel C. Matt. Stanford: Stanford in contrast to the Kabbalah which derives from an
University Press, 2004. intellectual tradition that proscribes visual art. The Tarot
“The heavens declare the Glory of God, and the filament Major Arcana offers a deck of pictured cards fraught with
showeth his Handiwork.” Psalms 19.1 layers of symbolism, embracing the metaphysical and
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, physical that elude the common reader.
than are dreamt of in Your Philosophy,” Shakespeare’s The mystical tradition is universal, even the term
Hamlet Kabbalah in Judaism, Cabala in Catholicism and Qabalah
“He sent His Signs and Wonders into your Midst. Psalms in Islam reveal a common search for truth and embrace
135.9 Meditation as the path to virtue, illumination, and union
and Arthur Schonberg in music all of whom embraced with the divine. Mark Horn argues for the correspondence of
By Dr. Ronald J. Meyers the occult. More recently, I have enrolled in study of the the revelations of the Sephirot to Oriental symbolism such
Zohar with Dr. Daniel Matt, translator and principal editor as the Hebrew hieroglyphic alphabet, Chinese ideograms,
I first became familiar of the comprehensive Pritzker Zohar, which has whetted the Chakra followed both in Hinduism and Buddhism, Yin
with notions of Tarot in my intellectual curiosity. and Yang. Just as we have recently seen diverse approaches
connection with my studies Though Professor Matt treats with some skepticism the to vaccine development that are dissimilar, but ultimately
of modernism in the arts relationship of Tarot to the Jewish mystical tradition, Mr. achieve a similar successful result. Viruses themselves
and literature which evolved Mark Horn who contemporaneously was raised Jewish inhabit the occult, and perhaps can be said to render as
in the salon of Madame suggests a significant connection between the two. Both many varieties as the mystical experience.
Blavatsky at the turn of the Tarot cards and the Jewish mystical tradition evolved in Professor Matt acknowledges that in an important
nineteenth century as she the Middle Age from a search for and belief in spiritual sense, the Jewish mystical tradition draws upon diverse
taught Theosophy, Jewish sources. Mr. Horn has derived much meaning in his sources, like Islamic Sufism, Hinduism, and Buddhism,
Mysticism, and embraced life from the two traditions; after delving into Oriental
Tarot divination; her salon became a source of influence meditation, he came to appreciate the Jewish meditative Book Review on page 5
of the occult, oriental mysticism in T.S. Eliot’s Wasteland,
poetry of William Butler Yeats, Wassily Kandinsky in art
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