Acknowledgements
As usual, a great many kind, supportive and especially tolerant friends and colleagues have contributed, directly or indirectly, to the gestation and writing of this book. The following in particular have in one way or another succeeded in keeping up the authorial spirits and getting the show on the road.
Special thanks to:
Clive Prince, my friend and colleague par excellence, for his unwavering support and comfort, readiness to point out when anxieties are needless and the efficacy of Thai curries for most ills, not to mention his generous discovery and translation of various French passages and provision of elusive references. It's been the best decade ever!
Debbie Benstead, for inspiring me to write this book in the first place with her enthusiasm for the real Lucifer, and for her rightly fabled generosity as a hostess. I don't think we're there yet, though ...
Sheila and Eric Taylor, whose enduring kindness and northern hospitality know no bounds, and whose comfort in times of stress or distress puts a very different face on the world. Such true life-enhancers are few and far between.
Craig Oakley, an old and very understanding friend, who knows all about the years that led inevitably to this book.
Jeffrey Simmons, my agent and friend, for his support.
Nigel Foster, without whose kindness The Secret History of Lucifer would literally never have been produced.
Robert Lomas, for his generous contribution to the section on Freemasonry - and all at a moment's notice!
Graham Philips, for his good advice. And just for being himself.
Yvan Cartwright, for his good-natured hospitality, humour and nagging about a web site. There will be one, one day ...
At Constable, Krystyna Green, Gary Chapman and Sarah Moore. Thanks for your patience and good humour - not to mention an unusual willingness to stretch deadlines.
Charles and Annette Fowkes, old friends whose hospitality and encouragement is much appreciated.
My York friends: David Bell, Moira Hardcastle and Richard Hardcastle for always being interested and supportive, plus silly giggling and mulled wine experiences and much, much more over more years than any of us care to remember.
All the talented and congenial `NoNamers', in appreciation of many excellent discussions and lots of laughs, especially Andy and Suzie Collins, Ian Lawton and Caroline Wise.
Lou Tate - lovely to be back in touch after all this time!
Thanks too, to Jayne Burns; Christy Fearn; Carina Fearnley; `Giovanni'; John Glasscock; Hannah R. Johnson; Octavia Kenny; Jane Lyle; and John and Joy Millar.
The staffs of the British Library and St John's Wood Library.
AND FOR DECADES OF INSPIRATION - WHO ELSE BUT COLIN WILSON?
Select Bibliography
There are hundreds of books on Lucifer, the Devil/Satan, evil and allied subjects, but these are just a sample of the more invaluable texts.
(Where possible, the paperback editions are given. Other titles can be found in the Notes and References.)
Ahmed, Rollo, The Black Art, Arrow Books Ltd, London, 1966. First published in 1936.
Baigent, Michael, and Richard Leigh, The Inquisition, Penguin, London, 2000.
Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Jonathan Cape, London, 1982; revised edition; Arrow, London, 1996.
Birks, Walter and R. A. Gilbert, The Treasure of Montsegur, The Aquarian Press, London,1990.
Blavatsky, H. P., Isis Unveiled, Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, CA., 1988, originally published 1876.
-The Secret Doctrine, Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, 1888.
Blum, Howard, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1995.
Bramly, Serge, Leonardo: The Artist and the Man, Michael Joseph, London, 1992; first published as Leonard de Vinci, Editions Jean-Claude Lattes, Paris, 1988.
Campbell, Joseph, The Mask of God: Creative Mythology, Penguin, New York, 1959.
Churton, Tobias, The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians and the First Free Masons, Signal Publishing, Lichfield, 2002.
-The Gnostic Philosophy, Signal Publishing, Lichfield, 2003.
Collins, Andrew, Twenty-first Century Graiclass="underline" The Quest for a Legend, Virgin, London,2004.
Crowley, Aleister, The Book of Thoth, Samuel Weiser, Inc., York Beach, Maine, 1944.
De Troyes, Chretien, trans. Burton Raffel, Percevaclass="underline" The Story of the Grail, Yale University Press, New Haven, USA, 1999. Originally published in the 12th century.
De Voragine, Jacobus, The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, trans. William Grayer Ryan, 2 Volumes, Princeton University Press, 1993.
Drower, E. S., The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran: Their Cults, Customs, Magic, Legends and Folklore, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1937.
Frazer, Sir James G., The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Macmillan, London, 1922.
Freke, Timothy and Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Goddess, Thorsons, London, 2002.
Godwin, Malcom, The Holy Graiclass="underline" Its Origins, Secrets and Meaning Revealed, Bloomsbury, London, 1994.
Harpur, Patrick, Daimonic Reality: Understanding Otherworld Encounters, Penguin Arkana, London, 1995.
Haskins, Susan, Mary Magdalen, HarperCollins, London, 1993.
Huysmans, J. K., trans. Terry Hale, The Damned, Penguin Classics, London, 2001. First published in Paris as Ld Bas (Down There), 1891.
Institoris, Henricus, The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger, Dover Publications, New York, 1971.
James I and Paul Tice, Demonology, Book Tree, New York, 2002. First published in London, 1597.
Jones, Gwyn and Thomas Jones (trans. and ed.), The Mabinogion, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1974.
Jong, Erica, illustration by Joseph A. Smith, Witches, Granada, London, 1988.
Josephus, Flavius, The Jewish War, trans. G. A. Williamson, Penguin, London,1970.
King, Francis (Ed.), Crowley on Christ, The C. W. Daniel Company Ltd., 1974.
LaVey, Anton Szandor, The Satanic Bible, New York, Avon Books (HarperCollins), 1969.
-The Satanic Rituals, Avon Books, New York, 1972.
-The Devil's Notebook, Feral House, Los Angeles, 1992.
Layton, Bentley, The Gnostic Scriptures, SCM Press, London, 1987.
Levi, Eliphas, The History of Magic, trans. A. E. Waite, William Rider & Sons, London, 1913; first published as Histoire de la magie, Germer Bailliere, Paris, 1860.
Lomas, Robert, The Invisible College: The Royal Society, Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science, Headline, London, 2002.
Luckert, Karl W., Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire, State University of New York Press, New York, 1991.
Mann, AT., and Jane Lyle, Sacred Sexuality, Element Books, Shaftesbury, 1996.
Markale, Jean, trans. Jon Graham,Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont, 2003. Originally published as Montsegur et l'enigme cathare by Editions Pymalion/Gerard Watelet, Paris, 1986.
Mead, G. R. S., Pistis Sophia, Kessinger Publishing Company, Kila, MT, USA, 1921.
-Simon Magus: An Essay, Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1892.
McGrath, Alister E., A Brief History of Heaven, Blackwell Publishers, Maiden, MA, USA, 2003.
Milton, John, ed. Christopher Ricks, series Ed., John Hollander, Introduction by Susanne Woods, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, Penguin Books, London, 2001. First published in 1667.
Nataf, Andre, The Occult, W & R Chambers, Edinburgh, 1991; first published as Les Maltres de I'occultisme, Bordas, Paris, 1988.
Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospels, Penguin Books, London, 1982.
-The Origin of Satan, Vintage Books, New York, 1996.
Patai, Raphael, The Hebrew Goddess, (3rd Ed.), Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1990.