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    <body><![CDATA[This is not a book to read cover to cover.  It is a book I keep and read passages.   The unknown author is actually a fellow (I've heard that his name is Valentin Tomberg) who was deeply involved in the Golden Dawn/Rosicrusion/Rudolf Steiner crowd and then converted to Catholicism - perhaps becoming...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18378088">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Anonymous is the best writer ever.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is not about fortune-telling; the symbols from the Tarot are used as the starting points for a series of spiritual exercises intended to immerse the reader in the living tradition of Christian Hermeticism. Absorbing the knowlege in this book is a lifelong project.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So far this is mostly sitting by my bed stand while I peruse feng shui books and my book club books. Still, what I've read is amazing and gracious and worth my time.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is NOT a book on the tarot (as in &quot;card reading&quot;).  It is estoteric Christianity.]]></body>
    
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