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Yair
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The higher truth is aristocratic; Moses encoded it in the Pentateuch. The cabalists understood this.
Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 436). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
— Aug 18, 2025 07:53PM
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Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 436). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
Yair
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“That’s up to you two,” Diotallevi said.
“Us two? All three of us are in this. If we don’t come out honorably, we’ll all look silly.”
“Silly to whom?”
“Why, to history. Before the tribunal of Truth.”
“Quid est veritas?” Belbo asked.
“Us,” I said.
Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 423). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
— Aug 18, 2025 06:51PM
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“Us two? All three of us are in this. If we don’t come out honorably, we’ll all look silly.”
“Silly to whom?”
“Why, to history. Before the tribunal of Truth.”
“Quid est veritas?” Belbo asked.
“Us,” I said.
Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 423). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
Yair
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“Chapter by chapter, we are reconstructing the history of the world,” Diotallevi said. “We are rewriting the Book. I like it, I really like it.”
Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 392). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
— Aug 18, 2025 05:45PM
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Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 392). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
Yair
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Poor idiot! Are you so foolish as to believe we will openly teach you the greatest and most important of secrets? I assure you that anyone who attempts to study, according to the ordinary and literal sense of their words, what the Hermetic Philosophers write, will soon find himself in the twists of a labyrinth from which he will be unable to escape, having no Ariadne’s thread to lead him out. —Artephius
Eco, Umberto
— Aug 17, 2025 10:36PM
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Eco, Umberto
Yair
is 55% done
“You’re telling me that, finally, all contradictions agree.”
“Quod ubique, quod ab omnibus et quod semper. Initiation is the discovery of the underlying and perennial philosophy.”
Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (pp. 328-329). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
— Aug 17, 2025 09:41PM
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“Quod ubique, quod ab omnibus et quod semper. Initiation is the discovery of the underlying and perennial philosophy.”
Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (pp. 328-329). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
Yair
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“Strange,” he said, holding out his hand. “We have been fellow-tenants for so long, and we introduce ourselves in the bowels of the earth a thousand miles away.”
Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 297). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
— Aug 17, 2025 08:07PM
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Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 297). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
Yair
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"During the day you will approach the frog several times and will utter words of worship. And you will ask it to work the miracles you wish. . . . Meanwhile you will cut a cross on which to sacrifice it."
—From a ritual of Aleister Crowley
Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 268). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
— Aug 17, 2025 06:29PM
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—From a ritual of Aleister Crowley
Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 268). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
