The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers (Forgotten Books) - Softcover

Demianovitch Ouspensky, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605065374 ISBN 13: 9781605065373

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2008

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Book Description:

"An evocative inner journey through the Major Arcana of the Tarot." (Quote from sacred-texts.com)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; What Is The Tarot?; The Symbols; The Magician; The Fool; The High Priestess; The World; The Empress; Judgment; The Emperor; The Sun; The Chariot; The Moon; The Lovers; The Star; The Hierophant; The Tower; Power; The Devil; The Hermit; Time (temperance); The Wheel Of Chance; Death; Justice; The Hanged Man

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About the Author:

"Follower of early twentieth-century spiritual teacher Georgei I. Gurdjieff (1877-1949) and interpreter of his system. Ouspensky was born in Russia in 1878. He became a student of mathematics at Moscow University, then went on to become a journalist.

In 1907, motivated by the conviction that some higher form of knowledge must exist beyond the tangent fields of science and math, Ouspensky became aware of Theosophical literature and the possible synthesis of religion, mysticism, and science. In 1909, he published The Fourth Way, dealing with abstract mathematical concepts. He later published a book on yoga, followed by Tertium Organum; the Third Canon of Thought; a Key to the Enigmas of the World (English translation London, 1923). It offered his synthesis of time, space, relativity, Theosophy, cosmic consciousness, and Eastern and Western philosophy.

From 1913, Ouspensky traveled on an extended journey to Egypt, India, and Ceylon, searching for the miraculous, and upon his return gave a series of lectures on his experiences. In 1915, he met Sophia Grigorievna Maximenko (who later became his wife) and the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff (who became his guru).

Ouspensky became a disciple and interpreter of Gurdjieff's system (i.e., that there exists real possibilities for individuals to evolve psychologically into a state of consciousness far higher than that in which they spend the whole of their ordinary lives) until 1924, when he decided to follow his own path. He lectured, wrote books, and conducted study groups in England and the United States on the work of Gurdjieff until his death in 1947. Rom Landau attended and wrote an account of an Ouspensky lecture in London." (Quote from answers.com)

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1605065374
• ISBN 13: 9781605065373
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 68