List of esoteric subjects in Foucault's Pendulum

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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

"Superstition brings bad luck." - Raymond Smullyan

1 KETER
- 1.1 Chapter 1
- 1.2 Chapter 2
2 CHOKHMAH
3 BINAH
4 HESED
5 GEVURAH
6 TIFERET
7 NEZAH
8 HOD
9 YESOD
- 9.1 Chapter 118
- 9.2 Chapter 119
10 MALKHUT
- 10.1 Chapter 120

[edit] KETER

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

[edit] Chapter 1

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

isochronal
triadic
mandala
pentaculum
Agartha
Samoa
Novaya Zemlya
Avalon
Ayers Rock
astigmatic
Solomon's Temple
Saint Martin-des-Champs, Musée des Arts et Métiers
Panta Rei
Ein-Sof
Numinous
ogive
sapiential
Planes of: Louis Charles Breguet, Louis Blériot, Esnault, Dufaux
priory
ogive
chthonian
patina
entomologist
chelae
Proglottid
ambulatory
New Atlantis

[edit] Chapter 2

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.

concatenation
esthete
Empedocles
liturgy
macumba
evanescent
Alhazen
calcination
eolopile
homunculus
reliquaries
quatrefoil
Netrikon
Lalique
majolica
faience
Murano
Yaldabaoth
Ogdoades
"But perhaps in that simsun, that diminishment, that lonely separation-Diotallevi said-there was already the promise of a return."

[edit] CHOKHMAH

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

[edit] Chapter 3

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.

[edit] Chapter 4

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

[edit] Chapter 5

Quote: Abulafia, Hayye ha-Nefes

Temurah
caftan
Sefer Yesirah = Sefer Yetzirah. Sefer haYashar?
gematria
Metacyclosynchrotron cyclotron?
antediluvian
acrostic
Synarchy
Druids
Ennoia

[edit] Chapter 6

Quote: Jorge Luis Borges, El Golem

Adelino Canepa - character
atabaque
Exu
pontos
amor fati - "love your fate"

[edit] BINAH

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

[edit] Chapter 7

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

Carpocrates
ignominy
impotentia coeundi
Krupskaya
philology
Pilade's is the bar the main characters frequent, presumably fictional. ("Pilade" is Italian for "Pylades".)

[edit] Chapter 8

Quote: Fragment of Turfa'n M7

[edit] Chapter 9

Quote: Johann Valentin Andreae

Finis Austriae

[edit] Chapter 10

Quote: Cesare della Rivera

[edit] Chapter 14

Quote: Aimery de Villiers-le-Duc

[edit] Chapter 15

Quote: Jean de Joinville

[edit] Chapter 16

Quote: Étienne de Provins

[edit] Chapter 17

Quote: Victor Emile Michelet, Martinism

[edit] Chapter 18

Quote: Thomas Burnet

[edit] Chapter 19

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 owr 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

[edit] Chapter 20

Quote: Julius Evola

[edit] Chapter 21 & 22

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

[edit] HESED

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

[edit] Chapter 23

Quote: Eliphas Levi

[edit] Chapter 24

Quote: Joséphin Péladan

neophyte

[edit] Chapter 25

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

[edit] Chapter 26

Q: Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin

[edit] Chapter 27

Quote: Collin de Plancy

[edit] Chapter 28

Quote: Corpus Hermeticus

[edit] Chapter 29

Quote: Heinrich Neuhaus

[edit] Chapter 30

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

[edit] Chapter 31

Quote: Rene Guenon

[edit] Chapter 32

Quote: Tertullian

[edit] Chapter 33

Quote: Papus

Agliè- "{What is the} difference between the man who knows and the man who undergoes?"
alopecia areata
marzipan
Pantagruelian
Corcovado
Eucaristic
cambone
atabaques
thurible
"It was a quadrangular hall, with one area set aside for the dancing of the cavalos"
pontos
clavichord
aspirant
saraband
Archean
ostentatious
askesis

[edit] GEVURAH

Gevurah symbolizes strength.

[edit] Chapter 34

Q: Picatrix

[edit] Chapter 35

Q: Purgatorio, Dante

epistolary

[edit] Chapter 36

Q: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

[edit] Chapter 37

Q: Talmud, Hagigah

scrofula

[edit] Chapter 38

Q: Scottish Rite

[edit] Chapter 39

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

[edit] Chapter 40

Q: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (play)

[edit] Chapter 41

Q: Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah

couchette
decan
magiam
necromantium
astrologiam
geomantiam
pyromantium
hydromantium
chaomantium
medicinam adeptam
physiognosis
cosmognosis
ontological
anthropognosis
psychurgy
clairvoyance
5 hyperphysical senses
physiognomics
theurgy
necromancy
onomancy
thaumaturgy
somnambulism
mercurial chemistry

[edit] Chapter 42

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

"gnoseology or whatever it is"
geomancy
maalox
mercurial Radames, Radames
catechism

[edit] Chapter 43

Q: Joris-Karl Huysmans

Dr. Moebius - Belbo's pseudonym
Jesuits
Opus Dei
Carbonaria
Rotary
Absolutists
Aetherius Society of California
Astara of Lausanne
Atalanteans
Builders of the Adytum in California
Cercle E.B. of Perpignan
Cercle Eliphas Levi of Maule
Knights of the Templar Alliance of Toulouse
Druidic College of Gaul
Couvent Spiritualiste de Jericho
Cosmic Church of Truth in Florida
Traditionalist Seminar of Econe in Switzerland
Church of Mithra
Church of Satan
United Luciferan Church
Apostolic Rosicrucian Church
Childern of Darkness and Green Order on the Ivory Coast
Escuela Hermetista Occidental of Montevideo
Tetra-Gnosis of Chicago
Ancient Bretheren of the Rosie-Cross
dachshund
hippomene - pregnant mares secrete it
joss stick
aquiline

[edit] Chapter 44

Q: Israel Regardie

[edit] Chapter 45

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

[edit] Chapter 46

Q: Aleister Crowley

redivivus
Ahasuerus
imprudent
tauroboliaste
psychopompe
ratatouille
Palladians
chocs
bibelots
alembiques
Baphomet
cataplasms (sinapisms?)
Sorcelery
voyante
parquet
diablotines
Carmelite Scapular

[edit] Chapter 47

Q: Giulio Delminio

[edit] Chapter 48

Q: Piazzi Smyth, Charles Piazzi Smyth

[edit] Chapter 49

Q: Henry Corbin

Badoglian

[edit] Chapter 50

Q: Nag Hammadi

tete-a-tete
pompiers
pointillist
Mondrian
Ennoia
satyr
Allumeuse

[edit] Chapter 51

Q: Thomaso Garzoni

firedamp

[edit] Chapter 52

Q: Saint Yves d'Alveydre

[edit] Chapter 53

Q: Josef Hoëné-Wroński

[edit] Chapter 54

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

[edit] Chapter 55

Q: Robert Fludd

[edit] Chapter 56

Q: Johann Valentin Andreae

[edit] Chapter 57

Q: Johann Valentin Andreae

[edit] Chapter 58

Q: Johannes Trithemius

sepulcher
Rebis
White Copper
Immaculate Lamb
Aibathest
Alborach
Orpiment
Azoch
Baurach
Cambar
Caspa
Comerisson
Fada
Favonious
Foundation of the Art
Precious Stone of Givinis
Zibach
Ziva
Veil...

pg. 344

biers
sumptuous
carbuncle
alembics
lethargy
insufflate

[edit] Chapter 59

Q: Paracelsus

ampules

[edit] Chapter 60

Q: Artephius

Ariadne's thread
rocaille
gendarmes
detritus
phonurgic
Nibelungs

[edit] Chapter 61

Q: Jean d'Espagnet

[edit] Chapter 62

Q: M. Raoult

hallouines
dolmen

[edit] Chapter 63

Q: Joseph Heller, Catch 22

athanor
pg. 362
menhir

[edit] TIFERET

tiferet means beauty, harmony

[edit] Chapter 64

Q:Gerolamo Cardano

cyclotron

[edit] Chapter 65

Q: Johnathan Swift

revelatory
Chermish
Adamic

[edit] Chapter 66

Q: Michael Baigent, Holy Blood, Holy Grail

polygenesis

[edit] Chapter 67

Q: Sampayo Bruno

Morgan le Fay

[edit] Chapter 68

Q: Abulafia

Aleksandr Nevski
ignominy

[edit] Chapter 69

Q: Jules Bois

[edit] Chapter 70

Q:Fama Fraternitatis

[edit] Chapter 71

Q:Fama Fraternitatis

[edit] Chapter 72

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

[edit] Chapter 73

Q: J. Duchaussoy

[edit] Chapter 74

Q: Guillaume Postel, Ignatius of Loyola

[edit] Chapter 75

Q: Julius Evola

morass
ipissimus

[edit] Chapter 76

Q: Renè Le Forestier

[edit] Chapter 77

Q: Johannes de Rupescissa

[edit] Chapter 78

Q: Athanasius Kircher

[edit] Chapter 79

Q: Alexandre Chayla

[edit] Chapter 80

Q: Dom J. Pernety

[edit] Chapter 81

Q: Ferdinand Ossendowski

tatterdemalion
ithyphallic
mentula

[edit] Chapter 82

Q: H.P. Blavatsky

[edit] Chapter 83

Q: Alfred Korzybski

apse
nave
pictures on page 458

[edit] Chapter 84

Q: Christian Huygens

vicissitude

[edit] Chapter 85

Q: Michael Lamy, Jules Verne

[edit] Chapter 86

Q: L. Charpentier

[edit] Chapter 87

Q: W.C.F. Wigston

[edit] Chapter 88

Q: Madame Blavatsky, Charles Southeran

terraqueous
picture on page 473

[edit] Chapter 89

Q: Marquis de Luchet

[edit] Chapter 90

Q: Abbé Barruel

[edit] Chapter 91

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

[edit] Chapter 92

"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

massacre of Tsarskoye Selo
pogroms

[edit] Chapter 93

Q: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

libertinage

[edit] Chapter 94

Q: F.N. de Bonneville

[edit] Chapter 95

Q: Mons. Leon Meurin, S.J.

[edit] Chapter 96

Q: ?

[edit] Chapter 97

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