User:ShadowyCaballero/List of Esoteric Subjects in Foucault's Pendulum
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
KETER
[edit]The first section of Foucault's Pendulum refers to Kether. It means crown, and symbolizes will.
Chapter 1
[edit]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
Chapter 2
[edit]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."
CHOKHMAH
[edit]The second section refers to the sefirot of Chokhmah, which refers to wisdom.
Chapter 3
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
- Temurah
- caftan
- Sefer Yesirah = Sefer Yetzirah. Sefer haYashar?
- gematria
- Metacyclosynchrotron (could it mean cyclotron?
- antediluvian
- acrostic
- Synarchy
- Druids
- Ennoia
Chapter 6
[edit]Quote: Jorge Luis Borges, El Golem
- Adelino Canepa - character
- atabaque
- Exu
- pontos
- amor fati - "love your fate"
BINAH
[edit]The third section refers to the sefirot of Binah which refers to understanding.
Chapter 7
[edit]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".)
Chapter 8
[edit]Quote: "Having come from the light and from the gods, here I am in exile, separated from them." Fragment of Turfa'n M7
- Copernican
- Etruscan
- catafalque
Chapter 9
[edit]Quote: "In his right hand he held a golden trumpet." Johann Valentin Andreae
Chapter 10
[edit]Quote: Cesare della Rivera
- Shklovski
- philologist
- Vedurin salon (Verdurin salon)
- chez Guermantes
- paralogism
- idee fixe
Chapter 11
[edit]Quote: Emil Cioran
Chapter 12
[edit]Quote: Fama Fraternitatis
Chapter 13
[edit]Quote: Chronique à la suite du roman de Favel
Chapter 14
[edit]Quote: Aimery de Villiers-le-Duc
Chapter 15
[edit]Quote: Jean de Joinville
Chapter 16
[edit]Chapter 17
[edit]Quote: Victor-Emile Michelet, Martinism
Chapter 18
[edit]Quote: Thomas Burnet
Chapter 19
[edit]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
[edit]Quote: Julius Evola
Chapter 21 & 22
[edit]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
[edit]The fourth passage is named for the sefirot Chesed, which refers to loving-kindness.
Chapter 23
[edit]Quote: Eliphas Levi
Chapter 24
[edit]Quote: Joséphin Péladan
Chapter 25
[edit]Q: C.-L. Cadet-Gassicourt, Le tombeau de Jacques de Molay
Chapter 26
[edit]Q: Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
- sacristies
- jacaranda
- naves
- cloisters
- famuli
- Cagliostro
- braggart
- agate
- umbanda
- candomble
- Lourdes
- Capuchins
- syncretism
- Sorbonne
Chapter 27
[edit]Quote: Collin de Plancy
- Kardecism
- Trier region
- Comte de Saint-Germain
Chapter 28
[edit]Quote: Corpus Hermeticus
Chapter 29
[edit]Quote: Heinrich Neuhaus
Chapter 30
[edit]Quote: Christof von Besold(?), Appendix to Tommaso Campanella, Von der Spanischen Monarchy, 1623
Chapter 31
[edit]Quote: Rene Guenon
- Cheops
- Nefertiti
- Solon
- Plotinus
- Essenes
- Therapeutae
- Alcuin Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus
- Dagobert
- Bacon
- Spinoza
- Jakob Bohme
- Debussy
- Cambronne
- Geronimo
- Pancho Villa
- siakra
- plexus
Chapter 32
[edit]Quote: Tertullian
Chapter 33
[edit]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
GEVURAH
[edit]Gevurah symbolizes strength.
Chapter 34
[edit]Q: Picatrix
Chapter 35
[edit]Q: Purgatorio, Dante
Chapter 36
[edit]Q: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Chapter 37
[edit]Chapter 38
[edit]Chapter 39
[edit]Q: Grades of the Ancient and Primitive Memphis-Misraim Rite
Chapter 40
[edit]Q: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (play)
Chapter 41
[edit]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
- Wronski
- Saint Medard
- Eleusinian Mysteries
- Samothrace
- Moloch
- Eurynomus
- somnambulism
- mercurial chemistry
Chapter 42
[edit]"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
- The Golden Branch
- Tabula Smaragdina
Chapter 43
[edit]- 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
Chapter 44
[edit]Chapter 45
[edit]"And from this springs the extraordinary question: Did the Egyptians know about electricity?" - Peter Kolosimo
- undines
- sylphs
- Nibelungs
- philology
- Charles Hoy Fort
- Fortean
- Machu Picchu
- Sibylline books
- Lilith
- angelology
- Porsena
- Iamblichus
Chapter 46
[edit]- redivivus
- Ahasuerus
- imprudent
- tauroboliaste
- psychopompe
- ratatouille
- chanoine
- pyx
- Palladians
- chocs
- bibelots
- alembiques
- Baphomet
- cataplasms (sinapisms?)
- Sorcelery
- voyante
- parquet
- diablotines
- Carmelite Scapular
Chapter 47
[edit]- crepuscular
- penumbra
- opalescent penumbra
- trompe l'oeil
- sylloge
- aeolipile of Hero of Alexandria
- cyclotrons
- mountebank
- McGregor Mathers
- conventicle
- esthetes
- anglais
- queste du Graal
- querulous
- Stella Matutina
Chapter 48
[edit]Q: Piazzi Smyth, Charles Piazzi Smyth
Chapter 49
[edit]Q: Henry Corbin
Chapter 50
[edit]Q: Nag Hammadi
Chapter 51
[edit]Chapter 52
[edit]Chapter 53
[edit]- Fabian Society socialism
- Vichy
- internecine
Chapter 54
[edit]"The prince of darkness is a gentleman." - King Lear
Chapter 55
[edit]Q: Robert Fludd
Chapter 56
[edit]Chapter 57
[edit]Chapter 58
[edit]- 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
Chapter 59
[edit]Q: Paracelsus
Chapter 60
[edit]Q: Artephius
Chapter 61
[edit]Chapter 62
[edit]Q: M. Raoult
Chapter 63
[edit]TIFERET
[edit]tiferet means beauty, harmony
Chapter 64
[edit]Chapter 65
[edit]Chapter 66
[edit]Q: Michael Baigent, Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Chapter 67
[edit]Chapter 68
[edit]Q: Abulafia
Chapter 69
[edit]Q: Jules Bois
Chapter 70
[edit]Chapter 71
[edit]Chapter 72
[edit]Q: Effroyables pactions faicetes entre le diable & les pretendus Inuisibles
Chapter 73
[edit]Q: J. Duchaussoy
Chapter 74
[edit]Q: Guillaume Postel, Ignatius of Loyola
Chapter 75
[edit]Q: Julius Evola
Chapter 76
[edit]Chapter 77
[edit]Chapter 78
[edit]Chapter 79
[edit]Chapter 80
[edit]Chapter 81
[edit]Chapter 82
[edit]Q: H.P. Blavatsky
Chapter 83
[edit]Chapter 84
[edit]Chapter 85
[edit]Chapter 86
[edit]Q: L. Charpentier
Chapter 87
[edit]Q: W.C.F. Wigston
Chapter 88
[edit]Q: Madame Blavatsky, Charles Southeran
- terraqueous
- picture on page 473
Chapter 89
[edit]Chapter 90
[edit]Q: Abbé Barruel
Chapter 91
[edit]Q: Captain Simonini to [uinytilks] for nonstudying peoples Barruel
Chapter 92
[edit]"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
Chapter 93
[edit]Q: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Chapter 94
[edit]Q: F.N. de Bonneville
Chapter 95
[edit]Q: Mons. Leon Meurin, S.J.
Chapter 96
[edit]Q: ?
Chapter 97
[edit]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
[edit]Q: Rene Alleau
Chapter 99
[edit]Q: Guenonism, Pauwels and Bergier
Chapter 100
[edit]Q: J. Cleves Symmes of Ohio, Lands Beyond (1952) by L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley
Chapter 101
[edit]Chapter 102
[edit]Chapter 103
[edit]Chapter 104
[edit]Q: Kamal Jumblatt, Johann Valentin Andreae
Chapter 105
[edit]Q: Lucretius
Chapter 106
[edit]Q: Woody Allen
- Ingolf Document
- pictures page 538
NEZAH
[edit]Netzach (Kabbalah) means victory.
Chapter 107
[edit]Q: Faust
Chapter 108
[edit]Chapter 109
[edit]Chapter 110
[edit]Chapter 111
[edit]HOD
[edit]Hod means splendor.
Chapter 112
[edit]Q: John Heydon
Chapter 113
[edit]Q: Ja'far as-Sadiq, sixth Imam
- antistrophe
- legerdemain
- rachitic
- psychopomp
- Grand Guignol
- Annibale Cantalamessa
- Pio Bo
- sacerdotal
- hieratic
- blanched
- vicissitude
Chapter 114
[edit]Q: Mario Salvadori, features equations
Chapter 115
[edit]Q: Talmud, Zeraim, Berakhot, 6
- loci
- temple of Karnak
- Bhagavad-Gita
- Assassins of Alamut, Hashshashin
Chapter 116
[edit]Chapter 117
[edit]YESOD
[edit]Yesod means foundation
Chapter 118
[edit]Q: Karl Popper
Chapter 119
[edit]MALKHUT
[edit]Malkhuth means kingdom
Chapter 120
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