Foucault's Pendulum

Bored 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 controlleda point located in Paris, France, at Foucaults 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.

UMBERTO ECO is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the bestselling author of numerous novels and essays. He lives in Milan.

Table of Contents
 
KETER
1. When the light of the infinite   
2. Wee haue divers curious Clocks  
HOKHMAH
3. In hanc utilitatem clementes angeli   
4. He who attempts to penetrate into the Rose Garden   
5. And begin by combining this name   
6. Judá León se dio a permutaciones   
BINAH
7. Do not expect too much of the end of the world   
8. Having come from the light and from the gods   
9. In his right hand he held a golden trumpet   
10. And finally nothing is cabalistically inferred   
11. His sterility was infinite   
12. Sub umbra alarum tuarum   
13. Li frere, li mestre du Temple   
14. He, if asked, would also confess to killing Our Lord   
15. I will go and fetch you help from the Comte d’Anjou   
16. He had been in the order only nine months   
17. And thus did the knights of the Temple vanish   
18. A mass terrifyingly riddled with fissures and caverns   
19. The Order has never ceased to exist, not for a moment   
20. Invisible center, the sovereign who must reawaken   
21. The Graal . . . is a weight so heavy   
22. The knights wanted to face no further questions   
HESED
23. The analogy of opposites   
24. Sauvez la faible Aischa   
25. These mysterious initiates   
26. All the traditions of the earth   
27. One day, saying that he had known Pontius Pilate   
28. There is a body that enfolds the whole of the world   
29. Simply because they change and hide their names   
30. And the famous confraternity of the Rosy Cross   
31. The majority were in reality only Rosicrucians   
32. Valentiniani per ambiguitates bilingues   
33. The visions are white, blue, white, pale red   
GEVURAH
34. Beydelus, Demeymes, Adulex   
35. I’ mi son Lia   
36. Yet one caution let me give   
37. Whoever reflects on four things   
38. Prince of Babylon, Knight of the Black Cross   
39. Doctor of the Planispheres, Hermetic Philosopher   
40. Cowards die many times before their deaths   
41. Daath is situated at the point where the abyss   
42. We are all in agreement, whatever we say   
43. People who meet on the street   
44. Invoke the forces   
45. And from this springs the extraordinary question   
46. You will approach the frog several times   
47. The sense alert and the memory clear   
48. The volume of the Great Pyramid in cubic inches   
49. A spiritual knighthood of initiates   
50. For I am the first and the last   
51. When therefore a Great Cabalist   
52. A colossal chessboard that extends beneath the earth   
53. Unable to control destinies on earth openly   
54. The prince of darkness   
55. I call a theatre   
56. He began playing his shining trumpet   
57. On every third tree a lantern   
58. Alchemy, however, is a chaste prostitute   
59. And if such monsters are generated   
60. Poor idiot!   
61. The Golden Fleece is guarded   
62. We consider societies druidic if   
63. What does the fish remind you of?   
TIFERET
64. To dream of living in an unknown city   
65. The frame was twenty foot square   
66. If our hypothesis is correct   
67. Da Rosa, nada digamos agora   
68. Let your garments be white   
69. Elles deviennent le Diable   
70. Let us remember the secret references   
71. We do not even know with certainty   
72. Nos inuisibles pretendus   
73. Another curious case   
74. Though his will be good   
75. The initiates are at the edge of that path   
76. Dilettantism   
77. This herb is called Devilbane   
78. Surely this monstrous hybrid   
79. He opened his coffer   
80. When White arrives   
81. They could explode the whole surface of our planet   
82. The earth is a magnetic body   
83. A map is not the territory   
84. Following the plans of Verulam   
85. Phileas Fogg. A name that is also a signature   
86. It was to them that Eiffel turned   
87. It is a remarkable coincidence   
88. Templarism is Jesuitism   
89. In the bosom of the deepest darkness   
90. All the outrages attributed to the Templars   
91. How well you have unmasked those infernal sects   
92. With all the power and terror of Satan   
93. Whereas we stay in the wings   
94. En avoit-il le moindre soupçon?   
95. Namely the Jewish Cabalists   
96. A cover is always necessary   
97. I am that I am   
98. Its racist gnosis, its rites and initiations   
99. Guenonism plus armored divisions   
100. I declare the earth is hollow   
101. Qui operatur in Cabala   
102. A very thick and high wall   
103. Your secret name shall have 36 letters   
104. These texts are not addressed to common mortals   
105. Delirat lingua, labat mens   
106. List No. 5   
NEZAH
107. Dost thou see yon black dog?   
108. Are there several Powers at work?   
109. Saint-Germain . . . very polished and witty   
110. They mistook the movements and walked backward   
111. C’est une leçon par la suite   
HOD112. Four our Ordinances and Rites   
113. Our cause is a secret   
114. The ideal pendulum   
115. If the eye could see the demons   
116. Je voudrais être la tour   
117. Madness has an enormous pavilion   
YESOD
118. The conspiracy theory of society   
119. The garland of the trumpet was set afire   
MALKHUT
120. They hold for certain that they are in the light