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Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

This is a list of obscure subjects mentioned in Foucault's Pendulum. The words and subjects herein are widely considered archaic or esoteric. This list is by no means definitive, as some links (in red) are fictitious, misspelled, or have yet to be discussed in Wikipedia. Among these subjects, many are in other languages, and need translation.

  • "Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom." -Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, De occulta philosophia

KETER

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The first section of Foucault's Pendulum refers to Kether. It means crown, and symbolizes will.

Chapter 1

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Quote (in Hebrew): "When the Light of the Endless was drawn in the form of a straight line in the Void...it was not drawn and extended immediately downwards, indeed it extended slowly - that is to say, at first the Line of Light began to extend and at the very start of its extension in the secret of the Line it was drawn and shaped into a wheel, perfectly circular all around." - Philip S. Gruberger (ed.) - The Kabbalah: A Study of the Ten Luminous Emanations from Rabbi Isaac Luria with the Commentaries Sufficient for the Beginner. Vol. II, Press of the Research Centre of Kabbalah, Jerusalem, 1972-1973, p. 7., ISBN 0-943688-09-4

Chapter 2

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Quote: "Wee haue divers curious Clocks; and other like Motions of Return....Wee haue also Houses of Deciets of the senses, where we represent all manner of feats of juggling, false apparitions, Impostures and Illusions...These are (my sonne) the Riches of Saloman's House. - The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon.

CHOKHMAH

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The second section refers to the sefirot of Chokhmah, which refers to wisdom.

Chapter 3

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Quote: De arte cabalistica by Johannes Reuchlin- In hanc ufilitatem clementes angeli saepe figuras, characteres, formas et voces invenerunt proposueruntque nobis mortabilus et ignotas et stupendas nullius rei iuxta consuetum linguae usumásignificativas, sed per rationis nostrae summam admirationem in assiduam intelligibilium pervestigationem, deinde in illorum ipsorum venerationem et amorem.

Chapter 4

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Quote: "He who attempts to penetrate into the Rose Garden of the Philosophers without the key resembles a man who would walk without feet." -Atlanta Fugiens by Michael Maier

Chapter 5

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Quote: "And begin by combining his name, YHWH, at the beginning alone, and examine all its combinations and move it and turn it about like a wheel, front and back, like a scroll, and do not let it rest, but when you see its matter strengthened because of great motion, because of the fear of confusion of your imagination and the rolling about of your thoughts, and when you let it rest, return to it and ask it, until there shall come to your hand a word of wisdom from it, do not abandon it."Abulafia, Hayye ha-Nefes

Chapter 6

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Quote: Jorge Luis Borges, El Golem

BINAH

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The third section refers to the sefirot of Binah which refers to understanding.

Chapter 7

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Quote: "Do not expect too much of the end of the world." -Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Aforyzmy

Chapter 8

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Quote: "Having come from the light and from the gods, here I am in exile, separated from them." Fragment of Turfa'n M7

Chapter 9

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Quote: "In his right hand he held a golden trumpet." Johann Valentin Andreae

Chapter 10

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Quote: Cesare della Rivera

Chapter 11

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Quote: Emil Cioran

Chapter 12

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Quote: Fama Fraternitatis

Chapter 13

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Quote: Chronique à la suite du roman de Favel

Chapter 14

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Quote: Aimery de Villiers-le-Duc

Chapter 15

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Quote: Jean de Joinville

Chapter 16

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Quote: Étienne de Provins

Chapter 17

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Quote: Victor-Emile Michelet, Martinism

Chapter 18

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Quote: Thomas Burnet

Chapter 19

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Quote: "After Beaujeu, the Order has never ceased to exist, not for a moment, and after Aumont we find an uninterrupted sequence of Grand Masters of the Order down to our own time, and if the name and seat of the true Grand Master and the true Seneschals who rule the order and guide it's sublime labors remain a mystery today, an impenetrable secret known only to the truly enlightened, it is because the hour of the Order has not struck and the time is not ripe.... - Manuscript of 1760, in G.A. Schiffmann

Chapter 20

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Quote: Julius Evola

Chapter 21 & 22

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Quote: "The Graal...is a weight so heavy that creatures in the bondage of sin are unable to move it from its place." - Wolfram von Eschenbach Parzival, IX, 477

HESED

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The fourth passage is named for the sefirot Chesed, which refers to loving-kindness.

Chapter 23

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Quote: Eliphas Levi

Chapter 24

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Quote: Joséphin Péladan

Chapter 25

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Q: C.-L. Cadet-Gassicourt, Le tombeau de Jacques de Molay

Chapter 26

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Q: Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin

Chapter 27

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Quote: Collin de Plancy

Chapter 28

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Quote: Corpus Hermeticus

Chapter 29

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Quote: Heinrich Neuhaus

Chapter 30

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Quote: Christof von Besold(?), Appendix to Tommaso Campanella, Von der Spanischen Monarchy, 1623

Chapter 31

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Quote: Rene Guenon

Chapter 32

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Quote: Tertullian

Chapter 33

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Quote: Papus

GEVURAH

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Gevurah symbolizes strength.

Chapter 34

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Q: Picatrix

Chapter 35

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Q: Purgatorio, Dante

Chapter 36

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Q: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Chapter 37

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Q: Talmud, Hagigah

Chapter 38

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Q: Scottish Rite

Chapter 39

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Q: Grades of the Ancient and Primitive Memphis-Misraim Rite

Chapter 40

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Q: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (play)

Chapter 41

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Q: Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah

Chapter 42

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"But you must know we are all in agreement, whatever we say." - Turba Philosophorum

Chapter 43

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Q: Joris-Karl Huysmans

Chapter 44

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Q: Israel Regardie

Chapter 45

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"And from this springs the extraordinary question: Did the Egyptians know about electricity?" - Peter Kolosimo

Chapter 46

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Q: Aleister Crowley

Chapter 47

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Q: Giulio Delminio

Chapter 48

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Q: Piazzi Smyth, Charles Piazzi Smyth

Chapter 49

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Q: Henry Corbin

Chapter 50

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Q: Nag Hammadi

Chapter 51

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Q: Thomaso Garzoni

Chapter 52

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Q: Saint Yves d'Alveydre

Chapter 53

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Q: Josef Hoëné-Wroński

Chapter 54

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"The prince of darkness is a gentleman." - King Lear

Chapter 55

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Q: Robert Fludd

Chapter 56

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Q: Johann Valentin Andreae

Chapter 57

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Q: Johann Valentin Andreae

Chapter 58

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Q: Johannes Trithemius

pg. 344

Chapter 59

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Q: Paracelsus

Chapter 60

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Q: Artephius

Chapter 61

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Q: Jean d'Espagnet

Chapter 62

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Q: M. Raoult

Chapter 63

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Q: Joseph Heller, Catch 22

TIFERET

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tiferet means beauty, harmony

Chapter 64

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Q:Gerolamo Cardano

Chapter 65

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Q: Johnathan Swift

Chapter 66

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Q: Michael Baigent, Holy Blood, Holy Grail

Chapter 67

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Q: Sampayo Bruno

Chapter 68

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Q: Abulafia

Chapter 69

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Q: Jules Bois

Chapter 70

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Q:Fama Fraternitatis

Chapter 71

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Q:Fama Fraternitatis

Chapter 72

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Q: Effroyables pactions faicetes entre le diable & les pretendus Inuisibles

Chapter 73

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Q: J. Duchaussoy

Chapter 74

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Q: Guillaume Postel, Ignatius of Loyola

Chapter 75

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Q: Julius Evola

Chapter 76

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Q: Renè Le Forestier

Chapter 77

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Q: Johannes de Rupescissa

Chapter 78

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Q: Athanasius Kircher

Chapter 79

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Q: Alexandre Chayla

Chapter 80

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Q: Dom J. Pernety

Chapter 81

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Q: Ferdinand Ossendowski

Chapter 82

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Q: H.P. Blavatsky

Chapter 83

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Q: Alfred Korzybski

Chapter 84

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Q: Christian Huygens

Chapter 85

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Q: Michael Lamy, Jules Verne

Chapter 86

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Q: L. Charpentier

Chapter 87

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Q: W.C.F. Wigston

Chapter 88

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Q: Madame Blavatsky, Charles Southeran

Chapter 89

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Q: Marquis de Luchet

Chapter 90

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Q: Abbé Barruel

Chapter 91

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Q: Captain Simonini to [uinytilks] for nonstudying peoples Barruel

Chapter 92

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"There can no longer be any doubt. With all the power and the terror of Satan, the reign of the triumphant King of Israel is approaching our unregenerate world; the King born from the blood of Zion, the Antichrist, approaches the throne of universal power." - Sergei Nilus

Chapter 93

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Q: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Chapter 94

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Q: F.N. de Bonneville

Chapter 95

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Q: Mons. Leon Meurin, S.J.

Chapter 96

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Q: ?

Chapter 97

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I am that I am. - Exodus 3:14, "Ego sum qui sum. An axiom of hermetic philosophy" - Madame Bavatsky, "'Who are you?' three hundred voices asked as one, while twenty swords flashed in the hands of the nearest ghosts...." - Alexandre Dumas, père

Chapter 98

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Q: Rene Alleau

Chapter 99

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Q: Guenonism, Pauwels and Bergier

Chapter 100

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Q: J. Cleves Symmes of Ohio, Lands Beyond (1952) by L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley

Chapter 101

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Q: Pico della Mirandola

Chapter 102

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Q: Odorico da Pordenone

Chapter 103

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Q: Hasan as-Sabbah

Chapter 104

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Q: Kamal Jumblatt, Johann Valentin Andreae

Chapter 105

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Q: Lucretius

Chapter 106

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Q: Woody Allen

NEZAH

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Netzach (Kabbalah) means victory.

Chapter 107

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Q: Faust

Chapter 108

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Q: Nesta Webster

Chapter 109

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Q: Le Coulteux de Canteleu

Chapter 110

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Chapter 111

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Q: Jacques Cazotte

HOD

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Hod means splendor.

Chapter 112

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Q: John Heydon

Chapter 113

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Q: Ja'far as-Sadiq, sixth Imam

Chapter 114

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Q: Mario Salvadori, features equations

Chapter 115

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Q: Talmud, Zeraim, Berakhot, 6

Chapter 116

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Q: Blaise Cendrars

Chapter 117

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Q: Sebastian Brant

YESOD

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Yesod means foundation

Chapter 118

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Q: Karl Popper

Chapter 119

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Q: Johann Valentin Andreae

MALKHUT

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Malkhuth means kingdom

Chapter 120

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