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[edit]

The 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[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 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[edit]

Quote: The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon.

Netrikon

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[edit]

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

Chapter 3[edit]

Quote: De arte cabalistica by Johannes Reuchlin

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: Abulafia, Hayye ha-Nefes

Temurah
caftan
[[wikt:Sefer]

Yesirah] = Sefer Yetzirah. Sefer haYashar?

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.

Chapter 7[edit]

Quote: "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[edit]

Quote: Fragment of Turfa'n M7

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 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