Many of the friends and acquaintances who made valuable suggestions or provided material are acknowledged in the body of this book: A. L. Rowse, Robert Graves, Ronald Duncan, Louis Singer, Dick Roberts, Arthur Guirdham, Wilson Knight, Harold Visiak, J. B. Priestley, David Foster. I would like to add the names of Mark Bredin, Dennis Watkins (whose suggestions about the hanged man card were fascinating if untenable), Russell Turner, Fred Martin, Major George Sully, David Pugh and Richard Cavendish, the editor of Man, Myth and Magic. My English editor, Jane Osborn, made many valuable suggestions. My wife Joy prepared the bibliography.
I also wish to express my grateful acknowledgements to the following authors and publishers of books from which I have drawn suggestions and information.
The Bodley Head for J. Cowper Powys’ Autobiography and A Glastonbury Romance; Messrs. Dutton for W. E. Woodward’s The Gift of Life; Arnold Toynbee and Oxford University Press for A Study of History; Robert Graves and Faber & Faber for The White Goddess and Doubleday for Five Pens in Hand; E. H. Visiak and John Baker Ltd. for Life’s Morning Hour; A. L. Rowse and Jonathan Cape for A Cornish Childhood; Arthur Osborn and University Books for The Future is Now; Ivar Lissner and Jonathan Cape for Man, God and Magic; Rayner C. Johnson and Hodder & Stoughton for The Imprisoned Splendour; Richard Cavendish for The Black Arts; J. Eisenbud and William Morrow for The World of Ted Serios; J. B. Priestley and Messrs. Aldus for Man and Time; Faber & Faber for lines from ‘Ash Wednesday’ in Collected Poems, 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot, and for Warner Allen’s The Timeless Moment; R. H. Ward and Gollancz for A Drug-Taker’s Notes; Arthur Koestler and Hamish Hamilton/Collins for Arrow in the Blue; Macmillan for the Works of W. B. Yeats.