Foucault's Pendulum (the novel by Umberto Eco)

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Title: Foucault's Pendulum

Author: Umberto Eco

ISBN: 0345418271

[English translation published 1989?]

Subjects: Alchemy, Freemasonry, Hermeticism, The Holy Grail, Knights Templar.

What if the Templars really found the Grail and stashed it away,
and several competing secret societies of their descendants have
been searching for the hiding spot ever since? What if three editors
at a modern vanity press, trying to scam as many wannabe occult buffoons as they can, develop a grand Plan, incorporating every tidbit of Hermetical thought from Agarttha to homonculii to the Philosopher's Stone to telluric forces? What if the occult buffoons actually start to believe this great Plan, and hunt them down for their secrets?

Umberto Eco1. Everything occult. More Rosicrucians than you can shake a stick at.

Nuff said.

1Author of The Name of The Rose.

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