Publication!!

I have spent several years working on a book about the Hermetic Kabbalah. I am very pleased to say it is now available through Amazon in the USA and in the EU. It is a large book of 464 pages and over 60 illustrations, and not only covers many aspects…

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Hermetic Kabbalah – the book

  I haven’t updated the site for some time because I have been working hard on completing the book I have been working on for the past eight years. I now have my proof copies (see picture), I’ve read through the proof, and it is nearly good-to-go. The blurb currently…

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Site Update – Don Karr

Don Karr updates his contributions to the site 2-3 times a year. I have just uploaded the new material, and you will find the updates here: Bibliographies: http://www.digital-brilliance.com/contributed/Karr/Biblios/index.php Hekhalot Rabbatai http://www.digital-brilliance.com/contributed/Karr/HekRab/index.php Kabbalah of Maat http://www.digital-brilliance.com/contributed/Karr/Maat/index.php Liber Salomonis http://www.digital-brilliance.com/contributed/Karr/Solomon/index.php

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Hello Spring

It is spring here in the UK. I have spent the winter working hard to complete The Book … which will be titled The Hermetic Kabbalah. It is nearly done, and I am currently completing the Index, something that has taken two weeks. The Book  is a substantial work running…

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The Four Zoas

Tarot card ‘the World’, Marseille Tarot est. 17th. century. Phanes, Orphic/Mithraic plaque, Modena 12th. century ivory tetramorph design, Cluny Tetramorph illustration Seventh century tetramorph design, Crypte Saint-Paul, Place Saint-Paul, Jouarre, France Four Mighty Ones are in every Man: a perfect Unity Cannot exist but from the Universal Brotherhood of Eden,…

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Celine et Julie vont en bateau

Seriousness is two-edged. On one hand we want promises to be kept, deadlines adhered to, guarantees to be meaningful, and aeroplanes to be flown safely. On the other hand seriousness locks us in to situations. When I tell someone a paper will be ready on Monday it is my seriousness…

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Goodbye Summer

When not working in the garden, travelling, and doing other summery things, I have been working intensively to produce a first draft of my book on Hermetic Kabbalah. This was done a couple of months ago and the draft has gone out to some friends for comment. It will be…

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Comments

Well, I thought no-one would bother my little blog sitting out here on the periphery of the WWW. How wrong I was. I don’t have time to moderate 50 spam comments a day all pretending to be genuine feedback. Most of them are so illiterate (I speak with the prejudice…

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Pritzker/Matt Zohar Vol. 8

Considering its importance, the Zohar has been relatively inaccessible to the English reader. There is plenty of stuff out there (the reader is invited to view Don Karr’s excellent Notes on the Zohar in English) but not a decent, modern and complete scholarly edition. The book is huge and written…

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