Authors and Contributors

Vincent Bridges is the co-author of A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross (by Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges, Aethyrea Books, 1999, 2000), as well as co-author of Mysteries of the Great Cross at Hendaye: Alchemy and the End of Time, Destiny Books, 2003, and Interlude with Sally Hemings: Diary of a Spiritual Healing (by R.J. Gabriel, with Vincent Bridges). For more information on Vincent's many accomplishments please click here.

Teresa Burns is an English professor with an interest in Renaissance Hermeticism, especially the connection between the magical systems of John Dee, Edward Kelley, and Giordano Bruno to the literature and architecture of the time. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition. She and Nancy Turner have created translated the first English edition of The Consecrated Little Book of Black Venus, or Tuba Veneris, attributed to John Dee. They are also currently working on the first English translation of Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica in over 50 years.

Proprietor of Waning Moon Publications and author of Out of the Shadows: An Exploration of Dark Paganism and Magick, Liber Yog-Sothoth, and A Cthulhian Grimoire of Dream Work. John is also the founder and webmaster of various gothic and occult websites located on waningmoon.com. For more information on this author please visit JohnCoughlin.com

DARLENE is an artist/illustrator who got her start in the late 1970s doing fantasy artwork for RPG (role-playing games) and is quite renowned in classic RPG circles. Throughout her life and art, DARLENE has always balanced her imagination and intuitive knowing with investigations into the use and meaning of symbols, esoteric scripts and alphabets as well as sacred geometry. DARLENE celebrates 30 years of art at her web-site, darlenetheartist.com.

Darrick Dishaw (Venger As'Nas Satanis) is the High Priest of the Cult of Cthulhu, a Lovecraftian and Satanic organization which he founded in 2004. The CoC is dedicated to Awakening man's inner potential. Darrick is also known for his dark painting and poetry as well as a rather sinister role playing game known as Empire of Satanis. "He looks like Anton LaVey and dreams like H.P. Lovecraft."

Jeffrey S. Kupperman is an instructor in Religious Studies, Philosophy and Anthropology with an interest in Antique, Renaissance and Modern Western esotericisms and esoteric religions. He is the publisher of, and contributor to, the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition.

Amongst other things: a musician, magician and Yorkshireman. Phil is chiefly interested in the intersection of psychogeography, folklore, esoteric spirituality and music, the fruits of which are collected on Larkfall imprint. You can also keep up with Phil's interests via his occasional weblog Tintinnalogia.

Nancy Turner has a background in classical and medieval Latin, medieval and Renaissance history, the History of Science, and German literature. She teaches at a small college in the U.S. She and Teresa Burns are currently working on a new English translation of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica, which they hope to have ready for publication in the summer of 2008.