User:ShadowyCaballero/Index
This list was researched by Anthony Burgess with the purpose of understanding Foucault's Pendulum. The words and subjects herein are widely considered archaic or esoteric. This list is by no means definitive, as some links are fictitious or misspelled (in red). Other links refer to real things (in blue) that unfortunately have yet to be discussed online (in red).
- "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, 5000 B.C.
KETER
editThe first section of Foucault's Pendulum refers to Keter, the sefirot also known as Da'at. It means crown, and symbolizes faith, pleasure and will.
Chapter 1
editQuote (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 0943688094
- wikt:isochronal
- triadic
- mandala
- wikt:pentaculum
- Agartha
- Samoa
- Novaya Zemlya
- Avalon
- Ayers Rock
- wikt:astigmatic
- Solomon's Temple
- Saint Martin-des-Champs, Musée des Arts et Métiers
- Panta Rei
- Ein-Sof
- wikt:Numinous
- ogive
- wikt:sapiential
- Planes of: Louis Charles Breguet, Louis Blériot, Esnault, Dufaux
- wikt:priory
- wikt:ogive
- chthonian
- patina
- entomologist
- wikt:chelae
- Proglottid
- ambulatory
- New Atlantis
Chapter 2
editQuote: The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon.
- wikt:obsequious
- concatenation
- liturgy
- macumba
- wikt:catoptric
- evanescent
- Alhazen
- calcination
- eolopile, Aeolipile?
- homunculus
- reliquaries
- quatrefoil
- Aglie
- wikt:Notarikon
- Lalique
- majolica
- faience
- Murano
- Yaldabaoth
- wikt:Plerome
- Ogdoades
- "But perhaps in that simsun, that diminishment, that lonely
separation-Diotallevi said-there was already the promise of a return."
HOKHMAH
editThe second section refers to the sefirot of Chokhmah, which refers to wisdom, insight, and selfishness.
Chapter 3
editQuote: De arte cabalistica by Johannes Reuchlin
Chapter 4
editQuote: "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
editQuote: Abulafia, Hayye ha-Nefes
Yesirah] = Sefer Yetzirah. Sefer haYashar?
Chapter 6
editQuote: Jorge Luis Borges, El Golem
- Adelino Canepa - character
- atabaque
- Exu
- pontos
- amor fati - "love your fate"
BINAH
editThe third section refers to the sefirot of Binah.
Chapter 7
editQuote: "Do not expect too much of the end of the world." -Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Aforyzmy
- Academie de Saint-Cyr
- polyphony
- wikt:diabolus
- teseract, wikt:tesseract?
- Carpocrates
- ignominy
- impotentia coeundi
- Krupskaya
- philology
- Pilade's is the bar the main characters frequent, presumably fictional
Chapter 8
editQuote: Fragment of Turfa'n M7
Chapter 9
editQuote: Johann Valentin Andreae
Chapter 10
editQuote: Cesare della Rivera
Chapter 11
editQuote: Emil Cioran
Chapter 12
editQuote: Fama Fraternitatis
Chapter 13
editQuote: Chronique a la suite du roman de Favel
Chapter 14
editQuote: Aimery de Villiers-le-Duc
Chapter 15
editQuote: Jean de Joinville
Chapter 16
editChapter 17
editQuote: Victor Emile Michelet, Martinism
Chapter 18
editQuote: Thomas Burnet
Chapter 19
editQuote: "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
Chapter 20
editQuote: Julius Evola
Chapter 21 & 22
editQuote: Wolfram von Eschenbach
HESED
editThe fourth passage is named for the sefirot Chesed, which refers to loving-kindness.
Chapter 23
editQuote: Eliphas Levi
Chapter 24
editQuote: Josephin Peladan
Chapter 25
editQ: C.-L. Cadet-Gassicourt, Le tombeau de Jacques de Molay
Chapter 26
editQ: Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
- sacristies
- jacaranda
- wikt:naves
- cloisters
- wikt:famuli
- Cagliostro
- wikt:braggart
- agate
- umbanda
- candomble
- Lourdes
- Capuchins
- syncretism
- Sorbonne
Chapter 27
editQuote: Collin de Plancy
Chapter 28
editQuote: Corpus Hermeticus
Chapter 29
editQuote: Heinrich Neuhaus
Chapter 30
editQuote: Christof von Besold(?), Appendix to Tommaso Campanella, Von der Spanischen Monarchy, 1623
Chapter 31
editQuote: Rene Guenon
- Cheops
- Nefertiti
- Solon
- Plotinus
- Essenes
- Therapeutae
- Alciun Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus
- Dagobert
- Francis Bacon
- Spinoza
- Jakob Bohme
- Debussy
- Cambronne
- Geronimo
- Pancho Villa
- siakra
- plexus
Chapter 32
editQuote: Tertullian
Chapter 33
editQuote: Papus
- Aglie- "{What is the} difference between the man who knows and the man who
undergoes?"
- alopecia areata
- marzipan
- Pantagruelian
- Corcovado
- wikt:Eucaristic
- wikt:cambone
- wikt:atabaques
- thurible
- "It was a quadrangular hall, with one area set aside for the dancing of the
GEVURAH
editGevurah symbolizes strength.
Chapter 34
editQ: Picatrix
Chapter 35
editQ: Purgatorio, Dante
Chapter 36
editQ: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
- epicurean
- regal
- wikt:libidinal
- wikt:deontologically
- larboard
- Lantenac
- wikt:welkin
- philter
- wikt:louche
Chapter 37
editChapter 38
editChapter 39
editQ: Grades of the Ancient and Primitive Rite Memphis-Miriam Rite? Memphis-Misraim Rite?
Chapter 40
editQ: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (play)
Chapter 41
editQ: Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah
- wikt: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
Chapter 42
edit- "gnoseology or whatever it is"
- geomancy
- maalox
- mercurial Radames, Radames
- catechism
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 Switserland
- 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
- wikt:aquiline
Chapter 44
editChapter 45
editChapter 46
edit- redivivus
- Ahasuerus
- wikt:imprudent
- tauroboliaste
- psychopompe
- ratatouille
- Palladians
- chocs
- bibelots
- alembiques
- Baphomet
- cataplasms
- Sorcelery
- voyante
- parquet
- diablotines
- Carmelite Scapular
Chapter 47
edit- crepuscular
- wikt:opalescent penumbra
- trompe l'oeil
- sylloges
- aeolipile of Hero of Alexandria
- cyclotrons
- mountebank
- wikt:conventicle
- esthetes
- anglais
- queste du Graal
- querulous
Chapter 48
editQ: Piazzi Smyth, Charles Piazzi Smyth
Chapter 49
editQ: Henry Corbin
Chapter 50
editQ: Nag Hammadi
Chapter 51
editChapter 52
editChapter 53
edit- Fabian Society socialism
- Vichy
- internecine
Chapter 54
edit"The prince of darkness is a gentleman." - King Lear
Chapter 55
editQ: Robert Fludd
Chapter 56
editChapter 57
editChapter 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
editQ: Paracelsus
Chapter 60
editQ: Artephius
Chapter 61
editChapter 62
editQ: M. Raoult
Chapter 63
editTIFERET
edittiferet means beauty, harmony
Chapter 64
editChapter 65
editChapter 66
editQ: Michael Baigent, Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Chapter 67
editChapter 68
editQ: Abulafia
Chapter 69
editQ: Jules Bois
Chapter 70
editChapter 71
editChapter 72
editQ: Effroyables pactions faicetes entre le diable & les pretendus Inuisibles
Chapter 73
editQ: J. Duchaussoy
Chapter 74
editQ: Guillaume Postel, Ignatius of Loyola
Chapter 75
editQ: Julius Evola
Chapter 76
editChapter 77
editChapter 78
editChapter 79
editChapter 80
editChapter 81
editChapter 82
editQ: H.P. Blavatsky
Chapter 83
editChapter 84
editChapter 85
editChapter 86
editQ: L. Charpentier
Chapter 87
editQ: W.C.F. Wigston
Chapter 88
editQ: Madame Blavatsky, Charles Southeran
- terraqueous
- picture on page 473
Chapter 89
editChapter 90
editQ: Abbe Barruel
Chapter 91
editQ: Captain Simonini to Barruel
Chapter 92
editQ: Sergei Nilus
- massacre of Tsarskoye Selo
- pogroms
Chapter 93
editQ: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Chapter 94
editQ: F.N. de Bonneville
Chapter 95
editQ: Mons. Leon Meurin, S.J.
Chapter 96
editQ: ?
Chapter 97
editQ: Exodus 3:14, Madame Blavatsky, Alexandre Dumas
Chapter 98
editQ: Rene Alleau
Chapter 99
editQ: Guenonism, Pauwels and Bergier
Chapter 100
editQ: J. Cleves Symmes of Ohio, Lands Beyond (1952) by L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley
Chapter 101
editChapter 102
editChapter 103
editChapter 104
editQ: Kamal Jumblatt, Johann Valentin Andreae
Chapter 105
editQ: Lucretius
Chapter 106
editQ: Woody Allen
- Ingolf Document
- pictures page 538
NEZAH
editNetzach (Kabbalah) means victory.
Chapter 107
editQ: Faust
Chapter 108
editChapter 109
editChapter 110
editQ: Pseudo Saadya ~ wikt:Pseudo Saadia Gaon?
Chapter 111
editHOD
editHod means splendor.
Chapter 112
editQ: John Heydon
Chapter 113
editQ: Ja'far as-Sadiq, sixth Imam
- antistrophe
- legerdemain
- rachitic
- psychopomp
- Grand Guignol
- Annibale Cantalamessa
- Pio Bo
- sacerdotal
- hieratic
- blanched
- wikt:vicissitude
Chapter 114
editQ: Mario Salvadori, features equations
Chapter 115
editQ: Talmud, Zeraim, Berakhot, 6
- loci
- temple of Karnak
- Bhagavad-Gita
- Assasins of Alamut, Hashshashin
Chapter 116
editChapter 117
editYESOD
editYesod means foundation
Chapter 118
editQ: Karl Popper
Chapter 119
editMALKHUT
editMalkhuth means kingdom