Today’s post is adapted from evensong’s Reflections newsletter from April 12, 2021. A dear reader from Hawaii sent me a link to an article published on medium.com by a fellow I’m not familiar with, Alistair McFadden (justacatholic.medium.com). I found McFadden’s monograph useful, and believe that you will too, if you have not yet read it.
What do Gnosticism, the Kabbalah, Hermeticism and the Tarot have in common with Traditional Catholicism?
The answer to that will surprise you perhaps.
Observations on the Influence of the Occult in Traditional Catholic Discourse
McFadden led off by quoting 2Timothy 3-4,
“For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears, And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.”