Umberto Eco - Foucaut's Pendulum

[Linda Minor]

What appears to be completely undiscussed about Eco's two major novel's, The Name of the Rose, and Umberto Eco's is the close association both have with the Qabalistic Tree of Life.

In the frontpiece of Name of the Rose, Eco includes the glyph of the Tree of Life, but one that has two unexplained images added to the normal Tree of Life diagram.

David,
This is all quite new to me. It's amazing how well you and I get on when our interests diverge so far afield from the same center.
But I did look up Umberto Eco, semiotics and related topics on google and found something here:

http://forums.armageddononline.org/new_w...5548.html?

New World Order/Synarchy - The Secret History *
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The Secret History's most important figures are perhaps self-proclaimed Russian mystic Madame Helena Blavatsky and her American husband Colonel Henry Olcott. The result of their collaboration would thrust the world into the abyss and cost the lives of millions. *
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Their Theosophy ideology became popular amongst the middle classes in Germany at the end of the 1800's, mostly because of its introduction to Eastern religious and mystical ideas.* Blavatsky claimed to have been party to revelations from Hidden Masters called the "Great White Brotherhood" who resided somewhere in the Himalayas.* But Blavatsky later admitted in letters to her sister that this was a codename for the Rosicrucian hierarchy who funded her.* It is clear her work is influenced, if not sourced, in the work of Masonic demagogue General Albert Pike - the American South's Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, Civil War war criminal, and leading member of the Ku Klux Klan - who revealed Rosicrucian/Masonic doctrine and its "Aryan heritage" in his unpublished pamphlet Morals & Dogma (1871) that was distributed to Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret (32nd degree) Scottish Rite initiates.
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Albert Pike is regarded as bringing "order out of chaos" by rewriting the ancient rites of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, formerly devised by groups in France including the Council of the Emperors of the East and West (now known as the European Council of Princes) and the Royal Stewart's Chapter of Clermont, based at the College of the Jesuits, Paris in 1761.*
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Pike modernized these rituals for the modern American leader, and explained their Aryan source and meaning in Morals & Dogma and numerous other works.* At this time Pike was head of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, based in Charleston, South Carolina, and following the Civil War and dropped charges of treason against Pike, the Supreme Council moved to Washington DC.
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Blavatsky's breakthrough book The Secret Doctrine (188 was an attempt to popularize the racist concepts of Rosicrucian belief at a time of great change and turmoil.* America was recovering from the Civil War, and the abolition of Slavery was forcing a redefinition of the West's perception of Race.* The radical decision to reveal the beliefs of the power elite came at a time when desperate measures seemed necessary.* The Priory of Sion within the Royal Houses of Europe and various occult circles were attempting to create a movement with their Synarchy ideology, a politicized form of Rosicrucian dogma.* Synarchy advocated government by secret society - an elite of enlightened initiates who rule from behind the scenes.* This found expression through the writings of Joseph Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, which called for the infiltration of "the three key pillars of society... political and social institutions, economic institutions, and religious institutions".* The infamous Protocols of the Learned Elders of Sion (commonly known by its Old English variant "Zion") are clearly some form of manifesto for the implementation of Synarchy's aims, and are signed by the "representatives of Sion of the 33rd degree".* Not surprisingly, the content of the Protocols have much similarity to Albert Pike's central work Morals and Dogma.* Synarchy was opposed to ideas of democracy and social equality, as only the Synarchists were the "natural leaders".
As the masses of Europe were rising up rebelliously against their feudal overlords, the Holy Roman Empire was in disarray.* The First Reich, founded in 800 by the 'Emperor of the West' Charlemagne, had been smashed by Napoleon following the French Revolution.* With Napoleon's eventual defeat, the Holy Roman Empire reformed in a weakened and splintered state.* Prussia/Germany took the former Gnostic Cathar regions of Lorraine and Alsace back from revolutionary France, and established the Second Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm I.* He was allied with the Austrian-Hungarian-Croatian Empire, which was still under the control of the Grail bloodline House of Habsburg, who had been ruling for the previous 600 years.* Power was still very much in the hands of the Princes of Europe and the Vatican, who found unity within their occult "Secret Church" that has historically always existed behind the "Visible Church".
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Theosophy was born in 1875, a key time of political upheavals throughout Europe, as Russia was moving towards revolution, following the examples set by America and France.* The Theosophy movement was an attempt to occultize the newly emerging industrial and merchant class and provide a spiritual antidote to Marxism straight from the Rosicrucian philosophy that previously had been for hand-picked initiates only.* The Grail aristocratic families of the Holy Roman Empire were planning to reunify the old territories and needed the control and support of the managing classes.* It is no coincidence that their plan to "infiltrate Freemasonry and seize absolute control of the Western World's social, political and economic institutions" as outlined in the Protocols of Sion appeared simultaneously with the Synarchy ideology and the creation of Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy movement.* As the Protocols stress "Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the various beliefs of the manipulated.* But no-one will ever bring under discussion our faith from its true point of view since this will be fully learned by none save ours who will never dare betray its secrets".* *
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At the turn of the 20th century this agenda was again outlined in the Priory of Sion's Hieron du Val D'Or that described "a theocracy wherein nations will be no more than provinces, their leaders but proconsuls in the service of a world occult government consisting of an elite.* This regime of the Great King will be a double hegemony of the Papacy and the Empire, of the Vatican and of the Habsburgs".* This ambitious scheme was thwarted with the assassination of the Habsburg heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, an event that ignited the First World War. *
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Theosophy's teachings about enlightened mystics guiding human evolution towards the creation of a higher super-race, and pseudo-theories about the ancient Aryan civilization of Atlantis, promoted dangerous racial theories that formed the core of Austrian and German anti-Semitism. *
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From an aristocratic background, Helena Blavatsky, the widow of Russian Army General Count Blavatsky, designed elaborate genetic family trees that clearly illustrated the superiority of the Aryan people over the other races of the world.* These strange beliefs were heralded by middle class occultists throughout Germany and Austria-Hungary and merged with their extreme right-wing nationalist politics.* Hence, complete reunification of the Holy Roman Empire, effectively abolished by Napoleon in 1806, became a priority not only of the ruling aristocracies, but also of the merchant middle classes. *
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The ensuing horrors of the First World War was an attempt to take France from the democratic Republicans by a vengeful aristocracy who had seen their brethren murdered by the French revolution.* The new middle-class occultists such as Guido von List and his Armanen Order, Baron von Sebottendorf and his Thule Society, and Lanz von Liebenfels and the Order of the New Templars referred to the First World War as a Holy War, revealing the quasi-religious and philosophical motives of their Hidden Masters.* It has been documented that Nazi party leaders Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolph Hess and Hermann Goering were all members of these occult secret societies.* The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Sion and the Hieron du Val d'Or are proof that a conspiracy of epic proportions was at play behind the broader political scene. *
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The end of the First World War resulted in Kaiser Wilhelm I being banished to Belgium and the removal of the Habsburgs from the throne of the Second Empire--the global "hegemony of Great King and Pope" was delayed.* The Habsburg's reluctant abdication was upon the insistence of the Allied nations and their Treaty of St. Germaine.* Incidentally, the Order of St. Germaine is the French Royal Stewart equivalent of the Habsburg's Order of Sion (each laying claim to genetic superiority and Kingship of Jerusalem) - such is the secret subtext of European war and politics.* The magickally relevant regions of Alsace and Lorraine were promptly returned to the Republic of France through the Treaty of Versailles, which not so much infuriated a young Hitler, as his aristocratic Hidden Masters behind the curtain.* While their agenda had brutally backfired, the Great White Brotherhood were by no means beaten, and a simple reversal of the truth (a common propaganda technique) would lead them ever closer to their goal, and introduce the world to perhaps their greatest spin doctor.

So I take it semiotics (Eco's field) comes in when writers like Blavatsky create code words that translate to other meanings to the "initiated" members of their group?

http://www.geocities.com/newworldorder_t...sophy.html

...Following the widespread distribution of the Protocols by the Thule Society and Hitler's protege Alfred Rosenberg, it was the added "Jewish" elements that were seized upon by Hitler's Mein Kampf and Henry Ford's The International Jew. Conveniently both of these fervantly anti-Semitic works chose to ignore the Rosicrucian references of the Protocols, and the fact that the "Return of the King" agenda is not traditionally Jewish or a historical goal of Jewish Zionism, but the secret goal of the Catholic/Rosicrucian/Grail elites. Perhaps the popularization of the altered Protocols was an attempt at damage control, and a pointing of the finger away from the true authors, as their actual neo-feudalistic agenda was becoming known by political and occult scholars. Or something even more nefarious: "It is hardly credible that the baddies would reveal their fell purposes so blatantly", commented Foucault's Pendulum author Umberto Eco on the current recycling of the Protocols within popular culture and the disturbing rise of "crude forms of racism of the neo-Celtic kind" -- and yet the use of the Protocols was the primary justification for the Holocaust and the attempted annihilation of the Jews, who are regarded as the historical "perfidious Enemy" of both Jesuit and Rosicrucian elites....