Foucault's Pendulum

by Eco, Umberto

• ISBN13: 9780151327652
• ISBN10: 0151327653
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-11-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

A superb cerebral entertainment about three editors who cook up a hoax-involving the Templar Knights, Stonehenge, the Cabala, and Brazilian voodoo, among other things-that suddenly becomes all too real. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Table of Contents

Keter
When the light of the infinite	p. 3
Wee haue divers curious Clocks	p. 8
Hokhmah
In hanc utilitatem clementes angeli	p. 19
He who attempts to penetrate into the Rose Garden	p. 24
And begin by combining this name	p. 27
Juda Leon se dio a permutaciones	p. 37
Binah
Do not expect too much of the end of the world	p. 43
Having come from the light and from the gods	p. 46
In his right hand he held a golden trumpet	p. 51
And finally nothing is cabalistically inferred	p. 53
His sterility was infinite	p. 58
Sub umbra alarum tuarum	p. 62
Li frere, li mestre du Temple	p. 67
He, if asked, would also confess to killing Our Lord	p. 81
I will go and fetch you help from the Comte D'Anjou	p. 90
He had been in the order only nine months	p. 95
And thus did the knights of the Temple vanish	p. 100
A mass terrifyingly riddled with fissures and caverns	p. 105
The order has never ceased to exist, not for a moment	p. 111
Invisible center, the sovereign who must reawaken	p. 119
The Graal ... is a weight so heavy	p. 126
The knights wanted to face no further questions	p. 130
Hesed
The analogy of opposites	p. 137
Sauvez la faible Aischa	p. 140
These mysterious initiates	p. 144
All the traditions of the earth	p. 147
One day, saying that he had known Pontius Pilate	p. 151
There is a body that enfolds the whole of the world	p. 155
Simply because they change and hide their names	p. 159
And the famous confraternity of the Rosy Cross	p. 164
The majority were in reality only Rosicrucians	p. 169
Valentiniani per ambiguitates bilingues	p. 172
The visions are white, blue, white, pale red	p. 175
Gevurah
Beydelus, Demeyes, Adulex	p. 185
I' mi son Lia	p. 191
Yet one caution let me give	p. 193
Whoever reflects on four things	p. 199
Prince of Babylon, Knight of the Black Cross	p. 202
Doctor of the Planispheres, Hermetic Philosopher	p. 207
Cowards die many times before their deaths	p. 212
Daath is situated at the point where the abyss	p. 214
We are all in agreement, whatever we say	p. 218
People who meet on the street	p. 221
Invoke the forces	p. 225
And from this springs the extraordinary question	p. 227
You will approach the frog several times	p. 232
The sense alert and the memory clear	p. 235
The volume of the Great Pyramid in cubic inches	p. 240
A spiritual knighthood of initiates	p. 244
For I am the first and the last	p. 248
When therefore a Great Cabalist	p. 255
A colossal chessboard that extends beneath the earth	p. 258
Unable to control destinies on earth openly	p. 260
The prince of darkness	p. 267
I call a theatre	p. 269
He began playing his shining trumpet	p. 274
On every third tree a lantern	p. 279
Alchemy, however, is a chaste prostitute	p. 285
And if such monsters are generated	p. 289
Poor idiot!	p. 290
The Golden Fleece is guarded	p. 293
We consider societies druidic if	p. 296
What does the fish remind you of?	p. 299
Tiferet
To dream of living in an unknown city	p. 307
The frame was twenty foot square	p. 310
If our hypothesis is correct	p. 313
Da Rosa, nada digamos agora	p. 317
Let your garments be white	p. 321
Elles deviennent le Diable	p. 326
Let us remember the secret references	p. 327
We do not even know with certainty	p. 331
Nos inuisibles pretendus	p. 334
Another curious case	p. 337
Though his will be good	p. 346
The initiates are at the edge of that path	p. 350
Dilletantism	p. 355
This herb is called Devilbane	p. 362
Surely this monstrous hybrid	p. 365
He opened his coffer	p. 368
When White arrives	p. 370
They could explode the whole surface of our planet	p. 371
The earth is a magnetic body	p. 374
A map is not the territory	p. 378
Following the plans of Verulam	p. 381
Phileas Fogg. A name that is also a signature	p. 383
It was to them that Eiffel turned	p. 384
It is a remarkable coincidence	p. 386
Templarism is Jesuitism	p. 388
In the bosom of the deepest darkness	p. 392
All the outrages attributed to the Templars	p. 394
How well you have unmasked those infernal sects	p. 396
With all the power and terror of Satan	p. 397
Whereas we stay in the wings	p. 399
En avoit-il le moindre soupcon?	p. 400
Namely the Jewish Cabalists	p. 401
A cover is always necessary	p. 404
I am that I am	p. 407
Its racist gnosis, its rites and initiations	p. 417
Guenonism plus armored divisions	p. 419
I declare the earth is hollow	p. 421
Qui operatur in Cabala	p. 424
A very thick and high wall	p. 425
Your secret name shall have 36 letters	p. 428
These texts are not addressed to common mortals	p. 431
Delirat lingua, labat mens	p. 433
List No. 5	p. 436
Nezah
Dost thou see you black dog?	p. 449
Are there several Powers at work?	p. 454
Saint-Germain ... very polished and witty	p. 460
They mistook the movements and walked backward	p. 465
C'est une lecon par la suite	p. 469
Hod
Four our Ordinances and Rites	p. 475
Our cause is a secret	p. 480
The ideal pendulum	p. 495
If the eye could see the demons	p. 497
Je voudrais etre la tour	p. 501
Madness has an enormous pavilion	p. 504
Yesod
The conspiracy theory of society	p. 511
The garland of the trumpet was set afire	p. 518
Malkhut
They hold for certain that they are in the light	p. 531
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