![]() 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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