The Art of the Good is the first of these volumes. We are deeply indebted to Angelico Press, then, for starting to re-publish them in English. But prior to these two great books, there were earlier works addressing jurisprudence, that were likewise informed by his newfound Catholic vision.Īlas, until now, these have been extremely obscure in the Anglosphere. These two have long been available in English. (Less explicitly, he said the same thing in countless other ways, as well.)Īfter 1944, though, the newly converted Tomberg set out on a new Catholic road that led to his Magnum Opus Meditations on the Tarot with its companion volume Lazarus Come Forth, written in the 1960s and 70s. First came his 1930s pre-Catholic Anthroposophical studies, which he once explicitly declared “totally alien” to the man he later became. Valentin Tomberg’s writings fall into two distinct periods.
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