Don Karr

Don Karr’s Knots & Spirals: Notes on the Emergence of Christian Cabala Presented here is a an ongoing series of essays relating to the emergence of the Christian Cabala.   


Don Karr’s Solomonic MagicLiber Salomonis: Cephar Raziel, Liber Lunae, and other selections from British Library Sloane MS 3826. Transcribed, annotated and introduced by Don Karr. According to legend, Adam received secret wisdom from the angel Raziel, and a number of texts (of widely differing origins) claim to be the mysterious book of the angel Raziel. This is one such text.  


Don Karr’s Selected Writings of FM van Helmont The Cabbalistical Dialogues, Chapter IV of the Paradoxal Discourses, and an appendix from The Divine Being and its Attributes. Transcribed, annotated and introduced by Don Karr.


Hekhalot Rabbatai – The Greater Treatise Concerning the Palaces of Heaven Translated from the Hebrew and Aramaic by Morton Smith, corrected by Gershom Scholem. Transcribed and edited with notes by Don Karr. Reproduced with permission.


Don Karr’s Kabbalah of Maat The 20th century saw the development and elaboration of a line of Kabbalistic speculation which derives its impulse from information channeled by Aleister Crowley and published as The Book of the Law. Don Karr provides a substantial overview and bibliography of these ideas in Approaching the Kabbalah of Maat: Altered Trees and the Procession of the Aeons. He also contributes four original works on the subject. New: Don has transcribed works by OAI: Liber SamekhHe, and O.A.I. Manifesto.