Valentin Tomberg

Valentin Arnoldevitch Tomberg (d. 1973) was a Christian mystic, polyglot scholar and hermetic magician who wrote chiefly on Jesus the mage. T. H. Meyer and other Anthroposophists claimed that Tomberg was the 20th Century incarnation of the boddhisattva who will in time incarnate as the Maitreya Buddha.[1] Tomberg espoused Esoteric Christianity, and gave direction to Initiation through the Tarot interpreted through Esoteric Christianity, in an Romish Catholic variant especially.
Tomberg's major written works were published posthumously. They include:
* Lazarus, komm heraus: vier Schriften (Come Forth, Lazarus), a study of Christian mysticism, written in German and published in 1985, ISBN 3-906371-08-5. Translated as Covenant of the Heart and published in English in 1992. Also published as Lazarus, come forth! Meditations of a Christian esotericist on the mysteries of the raising of Lazarus, the Ten Commandments, the Three Kingdoms, and the Breath of Life. ISBN 1-58420-040-5.
* Méditations sur les 22 arcanes majeurs du Tarot (a study of the Tarot of Marseilles) published anonymously in French in 1984 (with a foreword by a Catholic theologian and priest, Hans Urs von Balthasar), and in English as Meditations on the Tarot in 1985. ISBN 1-58542-161-8.
* Christ and Sophia: anthroposophic meditations on the Old Testament, New Testament, and apocalypse, Great Barrington, MA: SteinerBooks, 2006. ISBN 0-88010-565-8.
* Degeneration und Regeneration der Rechtswissenschaft, Bonn: Bouvier, 1974 [German]. ISBN 3-416-01032-9.
* Le Mat itinérant. L'amour et ses symboles. Une méditation chrétienne sur le Tarot. Edition établi et présentée par Friederike Migneco et Volker Zotz. Luxembourg: Kairos Edition 2007 [French with German translation]. ISBN 978-2-9599829-5-8.
Minor written works
* Suffering as a Preparation for Etheric Visionwordpress.com.
He was active in Dutch anti-Nazi resistance by hiding allied pilots and parachutists. Tomberg and a Russian friend, the poet-philosopher Nikolai Belotsvietof, allegedly approached the leader of the Christian Community, Emil Bock about creating a new ritual focusing on Sophia, but were rebuffed. He then joined the Russian Orthodox Church in the Netherlands but left shortly thereafter, as its leadership turned out to be sympathetic to National Socialism.
Life and Death: Estonian-Russian, February 27, 1900 – February 24, 1973. 
Was into: French Hermetic Tradition, Hermetic Tradition, Magery.
Noted to have been studied by people into: Mouravieff, 4th Way, Papus, Guénon, Evola, Gevolians, Mysticism, Seclusion.
== R ==
* Christian Tarot; Jesus-centred Esotericism; Esoteric Tarot; Real Tarot; Deep Tarot; Mentions love many times; Deep Catholicism; 
* Deep Tradition; 
* Historically-informed spirituality
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