The Arcana of Light on the Path by John Barnwell

A meditative guidebook that explores the esoteric cosmology shared by the twenty-two major arcana of the tarot and the twenty-two stanzas of Mabel Collins' Light on the Path. The author leads us from Anthroposophia (wisdom of being human) to Theosophia (the wisdom of God). In the process, we see a path revealed to self-initiation. Foreword by William Bento, coauthor of Signs in the Heavens.

John Barnwell (19xx-Present), first became aware of Rudolf Steiner around 1966-1967, and would later become the manager of the largest Esoteric and Holistic bookstore in the world: The Mayflower Bookshop. This enabled him to meet many teachers and authors from many traditions and schools of thought, and to become proficient in many esoteric disciplines. In fact, while Barnwell was at the Mayflower Bookshop, they have been told they sold more books on Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy than anywhere in the English speaking world.

Barnwell has studied Rudolf Steiner's work for almost 50 years, and studied at the Detroit Waldorf Institute near Detroit with Dr. Werner Glas, co-director with Hans Gebert, and Ralph Marinelli. Many teachers from all around the world would give lectures and classes there. Barnwell spent years working with Ralph Marinelli as his research assistant and editor at the Rudolf Steiner Heart Research Center which led to the publication of The Heart is Not a Pump: A Refutation of the Pressure Propulsion Premise of Heart Function, by Ralph Marinelli, et. al. As a result of this research he first began writing his books on Spiritual Science and the Grail Mysteries.

Barnwell also compiled a four volume bibliography on Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia after curating one of the largest private collections of books on these subjects.