Don Karr (RISD: BFA 1974; Cornell: MFA 1976) is the author of numerous articles on Jewish mysticism and its influence on the Western esoteric tradition; prominent among these is a series of bibliographic essays covering merkabah mysticism and hekhalot literature, 'Sefer Yetzirah, ' early kabbalah, the Zohar, ' later kabbalah including the Lurianic kabbalah, and Christian kabbalah. Other works include 'Knots and Spirals: Notes on the Emergence of Christian Cabala, ' 'Approaching the Kabbalah of Maat: Altered Trees and the Procession of the Aeons' and 'The Methods of Maat: Sources for the Kabbalah of a Future Aeon.' Karr has also transcribed and edited several key works, making them available to the general public for the first time: Morton Smith's translation of 'Hekhalot Rabbati, ' British Library Sloane MS 3826, selected writings of Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont, and the Maatian writings of Ordo Adeptorum Invisiblum and 416. All of the works mentioned can be found online at: www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/. Stephen Skinner began his career as a geography lecturer. He wrote, with Francis King, the classic 'Techniques of High Magic' in 1976, and later The 'Oracle of Geomancy' 'Terrestrial Astrology' and 'Divinatory Geomancy.' He edited 'Aleister Crowley's Magical Diaries' and 'Astrology.' Highly illustrated books on 'Nostradamus' and 'Millennium Prophecies' followed. He was responsible for stimulating the renewed interest in John Dee and Enochian magic by first re-publishing Meric Casaubon's 'True and Faithful Relation...' in 1973. His recent books include two substantial reference books: 'The Complete Magician's Tables' and 'Guide to the Feng Shui Compass' and the Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic series with David Rankine. He has written more than 30 books, translated into more than twenty different language