It begins with a vignette describing the destruction of the world by nuclear and chemical warfare at the hands of intelligent baboons – a critique of the human race (see more about these vignettes below).
Ape | The Hairy Ape | ape | Essence to Essence | Essence | The Naked Ape | The Ape Of Naples | Going Ape! | Essence (magazine) | Ape Action Africa | APE | 'Ape' | Warren the Ape | "The painstaking Irishman"
As depicted by "Ape" (Carlo Pellegrini | The Naked Ape (book) | The Ivory Ape | Piaggio Ape | Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom | Noble Ape | Essence ordinaire | Essence of Decision | Essence Atkins |
Birkbeck as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini
Jenkinson as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini
Forster as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini
Popular culture contains many references to Belial; notably in the 1922 film, Nosferatu, Philip K. Dick's novel The Divine Invasion, Graham Masterton's novel Master of Lies, Aldous Huxley's novel Ape and Essence, contemporary horror The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and Dean Koontz's novel "Phantoms".