{"id":1183,"date":"2025-07-03T09:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/?page_id=1183"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:40:32","slug":"don-karrs-knots-spirals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/don-karrs-knots-spirals\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Karr&#8217;s Knots &#038; Spirals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Don Karr&#8217;s Knots &#038; Spirals<\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"292\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pico.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-765\" style=\"width:520px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Knots and Spirals (Notes on the Emergence of Christian Cabala): Pico Della Mirandola,\u00a0<\/em> by Don Karr (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-brilliance.com\/contributed\/Karr\/KS\/Pico.pdf\">PDF<\/a>)<br>Presented here is a series of cautionary vignettes addressing incomplete or erroneous ideas about \u201cThe Phoenix of His Age,\u201d \u201cThe Prince of Concordia,\u201d \u201cThe Father of Christian Cabala\u201d\u2014all epithets for the short-lived Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Knots and Spirals(Notes on the Emergence of Christian Cabala): Some Brief Writings of Henry More,\u00a0<\/em>by Don Karr (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-brilliance.com\/contributed\/Karr\/KS\/More.pdf\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Knots and Spirals: Esotericism and Christian Kabbalah: 1480-1520<\/em> by Don Karr (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-brilliance.com\/contributed\/Karr\/KS\/ECK.pdf\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Page updated 29th January 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knots and Spirals (Notes on the Emergence of Christian Cabala): Pico Della Mirandola,\u00a0 by Don Karr (PDF)Presented here is a series of cautionary vignettes addressing incomplete or erroneous ideas about \u201cThe Phoenix of His Age,\u201d \u201cThe Prince of Concordia,\u201d \u201cThe Father of Christian Cabala\u201d\u2014all epithets for the short-lived Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. 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