{"id":27,"date":"2014-03-18T09:44:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T09:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/?p=27"},"modified":"2014-03-18T09:44:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T09:44:30","slug":"welcome-and-whats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, and Whats-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWelcome to this new blog. It is part of the Hermetic Kabbalah site\u00a0at digital-brilliance.com<\/a>.\u00a0 For the past five years I have been preparing a book, and consequently the site is not updated as much as I would like (apart from Don Karr, who updates his many contributions regularly). I hope the blog will provide a sense of activity, and provide an outlet for the many bees in my bonnet.<\/p>\n

Digital-Brilliance had its first inchoate beginnings in 1989 when I became a very active contributor to the alt.magic Usenet forum. I pulled together a Kabbalah FAQ<\/em><\/a>, and then wrote a series of articles I called simply Notes on Kabbalah<\/em><\/a>. These were widely circulated and can still be found on many sites. They seem somewhat limited in perspective to me now, but that is in the nature of writing – one tries to build on and transcend what one has previously written.<\/p>\n

This site was created in 1995 when the WWW was little and Google was still years in the future.\u00a0 HTML 2 had just been implemented, and it was possible to add images to web pages. Here is one of the graphics Jan Swanson kindly made for the site:<\/p>\n

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Below\u00a0is another image I made using a very early version of 3D Studio running on DOS:<\/p>\n

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I was pleased with myself. These were simple times.<\/p>\n

In 2001, while I was grounded following a serious motorcycle accident, I completely rewrote Notes on Kabbalah<\/em> and published it as an early EBook titled A Depth of Beginning<\/em><\/a>. Ten years later, in 2011, I tore the website apart and\u00a0 rewrote it in its current form.<\/p>\n

Since then all my\u00a0time has gone into writing a new book on Hermetic Kabbalah, which I intend to complete this year. It will be large, and is aimed at someone who has read many introductions to Kabbalah and wants to go deeper. I hope it will be available for the 20th. anniversary of Digital Brilliance.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to this new blog. It is part of the Hermetic Kabbalah site\u00a0at digital-brilliance.com.\u00a0 For the past five years I have been preparing a book, and consequently the site is not updated as much as I would like (apart from Don Karr, who updates his many contributions regularly). I hope the blog will provide a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}