![]() ![]() The Blessed Virgin is real, as she is understood, worshipped, and portrayed.There are saints who participate actively in our lives.He then lists several specific teachings: ![]() Sooner or later one inevitably experiences that spiritual reality corresponds-with an astonishing exactitude -to what the Church teaches. The way of Hermeticism, solitary and intimate as it is, comprises authentic experiences from which it follows that the Roman Catholic Church is, in fact, a depository of Christian spiritual truth, and the more one advances on the way of free research for this truth, the more one approaches the Church. In Letter XI, Tomberg explain his reasons for entering the Church. While we think such conversions are a good thing in general, that is not at all Tomberg’s message. As a matter of fact, it seems that the Internet is replete with converts (or reverts) who are quite enthusiastic in promoting their new-found faith, usually to excess. Nevertheless, there are those who are convinced that Tomberg rejected so-called New Age teachings to become a Catholic, and therefore attempt to follow him in that path. Yet, as we saw in the conversion of Rene Guenon, such a move cannot be understood in the conventional sense as the rejection of one thing and the adoption of another. Much ink (virtual and real) has been spilled regarding the conversion of Valentin Tomberg from Anthroposophy to Roman Catholicism. ![]()
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