Alan Moore and Steve Moore's "The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic" (2024)






Sherman Oaks, California, US: Top Shelf Productions (book), 2024.
12.25" x 9.25" x 1.125", 350 pages, hardcover without dust-jacket as issued, ISBN 978-1-60309-550-1.

The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore and Steve Moore, as published by Top Shelf Productions (Sherman Oaks, California, US) in 2024. This is an illustrated book on magick (with a 'k', i.e. the occult) to appear like a children's book on magic (without a 'k', i.e. illusion).

At page 267 is "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 47", cut up to read "Gold Moores' Livers of the Enoch anteaters 47", which is a short illustrated biography of William S. Burroughs.

Thanks to Matthew Levi Stevens for bringing attention to this item.

Contents:

  • Table of Contents
  • "The Moon and Serpent Magical Alphabet"
  • "In the Morning of the Mind"
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 1" (on "The Dancing Sorcerer")
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 2" (on Zoroaster)
  • Introduction
  • "Things to Do on a Rainy Day: No. 1: Making Things Is Magic!"
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 3" (on Circe)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 4" (on Medea)
  • "The Soul: Chapter One: In the Shadow of the Mausoleum"
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 5" (on Solomon)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 6" (on Pythagoras)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 7" (on Hermes Trismegistus)
  • "Things to Do on a Rainy Day: No. 2: Magic for the Motionless!"
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 8" (on Simon Magus)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 9" (on Apollonius)
  • "Kabbalah: Tree Climbing for Beginners"
  • "The Adventures of Alexander: He's the Tyke from Abonoteichus"
  • "The Soul: Chapter Two: The Fungi from Beyond"
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 10" (on Sosipatra)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 11" (on Merlin)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 12" (on Albertus 'Magnus')
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 13" (on Roger Bacon)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 14" (on Alchemy)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 15" (on Raymond Lull)
  • "The Adventures of Alexander: He's the Quack with the Knack!"
  • "Things to Do on a Rainy Day: No. 3: Shocking Behaviour!"
  • "The Adventures of Alexander: "He's the Fraud with a Broad!"
  • "The Soul: Chapter Three: Forbidden Ceremonies"
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 16" (on Johannes Trithemius)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 17" (on Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 18" (on Faust)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 19" (on Parcelus)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 20" (on John Dee)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 21" (on Edward Kelly)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 22" (on Christian Rosenkreuz)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 23" (on Robert Fludd)
  • "Things to Do on a Rainy Day: No. 4: Seeing Things"
  • "The Adventures of Alexander: He's the Fake with the Snake!"
  • "The Soul: Chapter Four: Tree of Darkness"
  • "Pick a Card, Any Card: A Beginner's Guide to Tarot"
  • "The Adventures of Alexander: He's the Showman with a Roman!"
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 24" (on Jacob Boehme)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 25" (on Emanuel Swedenborg)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 26" (on William Blake)
  • "Magical Landscapes":
    • "Malkuth"
    • "Yesod"
    • "Hod"
    • "Netzach"
    • "Tiphereth"
    • "Geburah"
    • "Chesed"
    • "Daath"
    • "Binah"
    • "Chokmah"
    • "Kether"
    • "Qliphoth"
    • "The Shamanic Otherworld"
    • "Tattvas"
    • "The Astral Plane"
    • "The Visionary Realm"
    • "Fairyland"
    • "The Alchemical Landscape"
    • "The Enochian Aethyrs"
    • "The Witches' Sabbat"
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 27" (on Comte de Saint Germain)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 28" (on Giuseppe Balsamo)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 29" (on Francis Barrett)
  • "Things to Do on a Rainy Day: No. 5: Imaginary Friends"
  • "The Spirit Guide":
    • "No. 1: Animal Spirits"
    • "No. 2: Spirits of Place"
    • "No. 3: Spirits of the Dead"
    • "No. 4: Gods"
    • "No. 5: The Loa"
    • "No. 6: Demons"
    • "No. 7: Angels"
    • "No. 8: Planetary Spirits"
    • "No. 9: Enochian Angels"
    • "No. 10: Fictional Entities"
  • "The Adventures of Alexander: He's the Guru with a Revue!"
  • "The Soul: Chapter Five: The Garden by Right"
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 30" (on Alphonse Louis Constant)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 31" (on Helena Hahn Blavatsky)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 32" (on Samuel Liddell Mathers)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 33" (on The Golden Dawn)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 34" (on women of The Golden Dawn)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 35" (on men of The Golden Dawn)
  • "The Adventures of Alexander: He's the Dude Who's Really Screwed!"
  • "Things to Do on a Rainy Day: No. 6: Malpractical Magic"
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 36" (on Charles Leland)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 37" (on Aleister Crowley)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 38" (on George Gurdjieff)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 39" (on Charles Stansfeld Jones)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 40" (on Austin Osman Spare)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 41" (on Violet Firth)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 42" (on H. P. Lovecraft)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 43" (on Gerald Gardner)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 44" (on Jack Parsons)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 45" (on Kenneth Grant)
  • "The Soul: Chapter Six: In Pearl Fire"
  • "Fun and Games"
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 46" (on Harry Smith)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 47" (on William S. Burroughs)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 48" (on Iain Sinclair)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 49" (on Chaos Magic)
  • "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters, No. 50" (on Art and Magic)
  • "The Adventures of Alexander: He's the Sect-Head Who's Neglected!"
  • "The Moon and Serpent: An Evening in the Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels":
    • "In the Morning of the Mind"
    • "Adventures in Thinking"
    • "Things to Do on a Rainy Day"
    • "The Adventures of Alexander"
    • "Lives of the Great Enchanters"
    • "The Soul"
    • "Postscript"
  • "The Cut-out and Assemble Moon and Serpent Temple"
  • Tables of Correspondences I
  • Tables of Correspondences II
  • Tables of Correspondences III
  • Tables of Correspondences IV
  • Tables of Correspondences V
  • Tables of Correspondences VI
  • Magical Alphabets
  • Useful Figures

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