His entire life has been spent trying to decipher his part in the greater plan, and following a vision of the three-faced Masonic god Jah-Bul-Lon, it seems as if he has found it. The greater part’s an iceberg of significance that lurks below.” The murders that he commits are intricately woven parts of Masonic ritual, used as a means to connect him to the Great Architect of the Universe. To Gull, these killings go far beyond assisting the royal family, calling it “ the fraction of my work that’s visible beneath the waterline. With the references to more mainstream mythology (those of the Greeks and Romans) as well as lesser-known lore (especially that relating to the notoriously secretive Freemasons), there is a whole different plane of existence on which the story takes place. Moore likely had a fleeting interest in the occult when he set about scripting From Hell, but once it was complete, he had convinced himself to become a full-fledged occultist. The small details in both the script and the artwork were painstakingly researched, bringing a sense of realism to the proceedings, even when things take a drastic turn into the metaphysical.Īnd it is drastic. Moore, though, always takes things to a place far beyond where you expect them to go. Were this written by someone other than Alan Moore, it likely would have been a straightforward conspiracy thriller, full of action beats and by-the-numbers cliffhangers at the end of each installment.
Queen Victoria sees this as yet another threat to the crown, and rather than pay them off, she calls upon Sir Gull once again to silence them as he sees fit. The five women who will become the Ripper’s victims, and who were friends of the institutionalized woman, know of Prince Eddy’s illegitimate child and seek blackmail money to buy their silence and pay off the Nichol boys. Our tale would end there, if not for the threats of the Old Nichol Gang, an assemblage of ruffians prone to assaulting the local prostitutes if they don’t offer up an increasing amount of “protection money”. When Queen Victoria learns of this outrage, she has the woman locked in an asylum, her mental faculties diminished through some cerebral tinkering by royal physician and Freemason Sir William Gull. Here, the story begins with Prince Albert Victor (also known as Prince Eddy) secretly marrying and impregnating a lower-class woman who is unaware of her paramour’s royal heritage.
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