The Independent (UK, 4 November 2005) includes a fascinating article about comic book creator Alan Moore: “Hollywood may love Alan Moore, but the cult graphic novelist sets his artistic sights higher. Roz Kaveney talks to him about Kabbala, comics and consciousness”.
…[T]his is the house of a working writer; cases of editions of his work litter the office floor. It is also the home of a working magician, decorated with ritual wands from the Golden Dawn, falcon masks and the haunting art of the occultist Austin Osman Spare. This makes for an appropriately strange setting for the recluse whom Iain Sinclair has described as “the last sane man in England”.
… He is distrustful of many things about magic and the occult: “When I talk about Kabbala, it is a coherent system for organising our understanding of things and the connections between them, not wearing a red string on your wrist or drinking expensive bottled water.” One of the most beautiful sections of Promethea is a prolonged wander through the Sephirothim, the realms of reality described by the Kabbala, which are cognate with the planets of non-predictive astrology and with the effects of colour on our moods. Thus, one issue is largely green and discusses that oceanic feeling of belonging and being nurtured that is associated with Venus; it is also Williams’s tribute to the swirly softness of Alphonse Mucha and much Underground art of the 1960s.
The whole article can be viewed online at: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/interviews/article324487.ece