Foucault's PendulumBored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth. Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment. |
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Contents
In hanc utilitatem clcmentes angeli 21 4 He who attempts to penetrate into the Rose Garden 28 | |
BINAH | |
Do not expect too much of the end of the world 49 | |
Having come from the light and from the gods 53 | |
In his right hand he held a golden trumpet | |
And finally nothing is cabalistically inferred 61 | |
His sterility was infinite 67 | |
What does the fish remind you of? 348 | |
TIFERET | |
To dream of living in an unknown city 357 | |
If our hypothesis is correct 363 | |
Da Rosa nada digamos agora 369 | |
Let your garments be white 374 | |
Elles deviennent le Diable 380 | |
Let us remember the secret references 382 | |
Sub umbra alarum tuarum 72 | |
frere limestre du Temple | |
He if asked would also confess to killing Our Lord 93 | |
will go and fetch you help from the Comte dAnjou 103 | |
And thus did the knights of the Temple vanish 115 | |
A mass terrifyingly riddled with fissures and caverns 121 | |
The Order has never ceased to exist not for a moment 128 | |
Invisible center the sovereign who must reawaken 136 | |
The Graal is a weight so heavy 145 | |
Sauvez la faible Aischa 161 | |
These mysterious initiates 166 | |
All the traditions of the earth | |
One day saying that he had known Pontius Pilate | |
There is a body that enfolds the whole of the world | |
Simply because they change and hide their names 183 | |
And the famous confraternity of the Rosy Cross 188 | |
The majority were in reality only Rosicrucians 795 | |
The visions are white blue white pale red 201 GEVURAH 34 Beydelus Demeymes Adulex 211 | |
Pmi son Lia 218 | |
Yet one caution let me give 221 Whoever reflects on four things 228 | |
Prince of Babylon Knight of the Black Cross 232 | |
Doctor of the Planispheres Hermetic Philosopher 238 | |
Cowards die many times before their deaths 244 | |
Daath is situated at the point where the abyss 247 | |
We are all in agreement whatever we say 252 | |
People who meet on the street 255 | |
Invoke the forces 260 | |
And from this springs the extraordinary question 263 | |
You will approach the frog several times 268 | |
The sense alert and the memory clear | |
The volume of the Great Pyramid in cubic inches | |
A spiritual knighthood of initiates 283 | |
For I am the first and the last 288 | |
When therefore a Great Cabalist 296 | |
A colossal chessboard that extends beneath the earth 300 | |
Unable to control destinies on earth openly 303 | |
The prince of darkness 310 | |
call a theatre 313 | |
He began playing his shining trumpet | |
On every third tree a lantern 324 | |
Alchemy however is a chaste prostitute 332 | |
And if such monsters are generated 336 | |
Poor idiot 338 | |
The Golden Fleece is guarded 341 We consider societies druidic if 344 | |
Nos inuisibles pretendus 390 | |
Another curious case 393 | |
Though his will be good 403 | |
The initiates are at the edge of that path 409 | |
This herb is called Devilbane 424 | |
Surely this monstrous hybrid 427 | |
He opened his coffer 431 | |
When White arrives 434 | |
They could explode the whole surface of our planet The earth is a magnetic body 438 | |
A map is not the territory 443 | |
Following the plans of Verulam 447 | |
Phileas Fogg A name that is also a signature | |
It was to them that Eiffel turned 431 It is a remarkable coincidence 433 | |
Templarism is Jesuitism 436 | |
In the bosom of the deepest darkness 461 | |
All the outrages attributed to the Templars 463 | |
How well you have unmasked those infernal sects With all the power and terror of Satan 468 | |
Whereas we stay in the wings | |
En avoitille moindre soupcxm? | |
Namely the Jewish Cabalists 474 | |
A cover is always necessary 477 | |
am that I am 481 | |
Its racist gnosis its rites and initiations 493 | |
Guenonism plus armored divisions 496 | |
declare the earth is hollow | |
Qui operatur in Cabala | |
A very thick and high wall 503 | |
Your secret name shall have 36 letters 507 | |
NEZAH | |
Dost thou see yon black dog? 529 | |
Are there several Powers at work? 535 | |
SaintGermain very polished and witty 342 | |
Our cause is a secret 565 | |
The ideal pendulum 382 | |
If the eye could see the demons 83 | |
Je voudrais etre la tour 590 | |
Madness has an enormous pavilion 594 | |
YESOD | |
The conspiracy theory of society 601 | |
The garland of the trumpet was set afire 609 | |
MALKHUT | |
They hold for certain that they are in the light 621 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Foucault's Pendulum |
| Author | Umberto Eco |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0547539681, 9780547539683 |
| Length | 656 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / General Fiction / Literary Fiction / Occult & Supernatural Fiction / Thrillers / General |
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