Reference Sources

According to JHW3 Alan Moore sent him 3 books as sources of reference when they started collaborating on Promethea:

• 777
• The Book of Thoth
• Now for Reality

Bibliography

• The Qabalistic and Hermetic Works of Frater Achad
• Alchemy a huge reference source on all things alchemical
• Alchemy Lab
• Alchemy Electronic Dictionary
• The Anathema Society
• Apocrypha especially Book of Tobit chap 3 vers 8
• John Kendrick Bangs a Houseboat on the Styx (1896)
• Bible especially Revelations and chapter 17 in particular.
• Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica - Library of Hermetic Philosophy
• Builders of the Adytum
• Compiclopedia Comic Book Artists
• Aleister Crowley
  • 666 Books
  • Aleister Crowley Biography Project
  • Aleister Crowley Foundation
  • Aleister Crowley 1875-1947
  • AA Curriculum Crowley Archives
  • The Equinox
  • The Libri of Aleister Crowley
  • Magick
  • The Newaeon Newsletter
  • Ra-Hoor-Khuit Network
  • The Thelemite Test
• John Dee
  • John Dee Society
  • John Dee and the Secret Societies
  • Introductory bibliography of Enochian and diary MSS of John Dee
  • Robert Turner - Elizabethan Magic - The Art and the Magus (Element Books, 1989)
  • Michael Wilding - Raising Spirits Making Gold and Swapping Wives: the true adventures of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly (Shoestring Press, 1999)
  • Benjamin Woolley - The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. Dee Harper Collins, 2001)
• Delusions of Grandeur
• Dictionary of Symbols: - 3 good books with this same title are:
  • A DoS - Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant, translated from the French by John Buchanan-Brown (Penguin, 1996)
  • A DoS - by JE Cirlot, translated from the Spanish by Jack Sage (Routledge, 1962)
  • DoS: an illustrated guide to traditional images, icons and emblems by Jack Tresidder (Duncan Baird Publishers, 1997)
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Enochian Magick - papers & links
• Diana Fernando - The Dictionary of Alchemy: An A-Z of History, People and Definitions (Vega, 2002)
• Fortean Times described by Alan as "My very favourite magazine in the world, material or otherwise"
• Kenneth Grant
  • Beyond the Mauve Zone (1999)
  • Kenneth Grant and the Merovingian Mythos
  • Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian OTO
  • The Magical Revival (1972)
  • The Sword of Horus
• Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
• Heroines of the Golden Age Promethea isn't the only Superheroine. Check out this list
• Invisible Library A collection of fictional books that only appear in other books (eg. A Faerie Romance by Charlton Sennet)
• Kabbalah
  • English Qabalah
  • Gateway to the Qabalah
  • Kabbalah Centre
  • Kabbalah for Simpletons
  • Sefer Zohar
  • Templum
  • Wisdom of the Kabbalah
• KAOS online magazine with two contributions by Alan Moore
  • Review of Kenneth Grant's book Against the Light on pgs. 155-162
  • Description of The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels co-written with Steve Moore on pgs. 187-194
• Edward Kelly - The Stone of the Philosophers
• Law of Thelema includes the entire text of the Book of the Law with comments.
• Eliphas Levi - Transcendental Magic
• Lucian - a True Story
• The Magician's Dictionary
• NORA - National Occult Research Association
• Notes on Le Serpent Rouge
• Occultebooks
• Occultopedia
• Order of Nazorean Essenes
• The Psychonomicon
• Qartoon Qabala
• Austin Osman Spare
  • ~Austin Osman Spare~
  • Austin Osman Spare 1886-1956
  • Austin Osman Spare Archive
  • Noumenon Austin Osman Spare Archive
  • Austin Osman Spare Obituary
  • Zos Speaks
  • Spare & Crowley
  • Zos Vel Thanatos
• Lawrence Sutin Do What Thou Wilt: a life of Aleister Crowley (2000)
• Skeptic Magazine
• Symbols.com - world's largest encyclopedia of graphic symbols
• Tarot
  • Aeclectic Tarot
  • Exploring the Alphabetical Tarot
  • Guide to Understanding and Using Tarot Cards
  • The Pythagorean Tarot
  • Tarocchi of Mantegna
  • Tarot Inspiration - Book of Thoth Tarot
• Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica
• Typhonian OTO
• Donald Tyson's Supernatural World