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).
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.
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
Quote: The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon.
separation-Diotallevi said-there was already the promise of a return."
The second section refers to the sefirot of Chokhmah, which refers to wisdom, insight, and selfishness.
Quote: De arte cabalistica by Johannes Reuchlin
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
Quote: Abulafia, Hayye ha-Nefes
Yesirah] = Sefer Yetzirah. Sefer haYashar?
Quote: Jorge Luis Borges, El Golem
The third section refers to the sefirot of Binah.
Quote: "Do not expect too much of the end of the world." - Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Aforyzmy
Quote: Fragment of Turfa'n M7
Quote: Johann Valentin Andreae
Quote: Cesare della Rivera
Quote: Emil Cioran
Quote: Fama Fraternitatis
Quote: Chronique a la suite du roman de Favel
Quote: Aimery de Villiers-le-Duc
Quote: Jean de Joinville
Quote: Victor Emile Michelet, Martinism
Quote: Thomas Burnet
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
Quote: Julius Evola
Quote: Wolfram von Eschenbach
The fourth passage is named for the sefirot Chesed, which refers to loving-kindness.
Quote: Eliphas Levi
Quote: Josephin Peladan
Q: C.-L. Cadet-Gassicourt, Le tombeau de Jacques de Molay
Q: Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
Quote: Collin de Plancy
Quote: Corpus Hermeticus
Quote: Heinrich Neuhaus
Quote: Christof von Besold(?), Appendix to Tommaso Campanella, Von der Spanischen Monarchy, 1623
Quote: Rene Guenon
Quote: Tertullian
Quote: Papus
undergoes?"
Gevurah symbolizes strength.
Q: Picatrix
Q: Purgatorio, Dante
Q: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Q: Grades of the Ancient and Primitive Rite Memphis-Miriam Rite? Memphis-Misraim Rite?
Q: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (play)
Q: Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah
Q: Piazzi Smyth, Charles Piazzi Smyth
Q: Henry Corbin
Q: Nag Hammadi
"The prince of darkness is a gentleman." - King Lear
Q: Robert Fludd
pg. 344
Q: Paracelsus
Q: Artephius
Q: M. Raoult
tiferet means beauty, harmony
Q: Michael Baigent, Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Q: Abulafia
Q: Jules Bois
Q: Effroyables pactions faicetes entre le diable & les pretendus Inuisibles
Q: J. Duchaussoy
Q: Guillaume Postel, Ignatius of Loyola
Q: Julius Evola
Q: H.P. Blavatsky
Q: L. Charpentier
Q: W.C.F. Wigston
Q: Madame Blavatsky, Charles Southeran
Q: Abbe Barruel
Q: Captain Simonini to Barruel
Q: Sergei Nilus
Q: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Q: F.N. de Bonneville
Q: Mons. Leon Meurin, S.J.
Q: ?
Q: Exodus 3:14, Madame Blavatsky, Alexandre Dumas
Q: Rene Alleau
Q: Guenonism, Pauwels and Bergier
Q: J. Cleves Symmes of Ohio, Lands Beyond (1952) by L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley
Q: Kamal Jumblatt, Johann Valentin Andreae
Q: Lucretius
Q: Woody Allen
Netzach (Kabbalah) means victory.
Q: Faust
Q: Pseudo Saadya ~ wikt:Pseudo Saadia Gaon?
Q: Jaques Cazotte - Jacques Cazotte
Hod means splendor.
Q: John Heydon
Q: Ja'far as-Sadiq, sixth Imam
Q: Mario Salvadori, features equations
Q: Talmud, Zeraim, Berakhot, 6
Yesod means foundation
Q: Karl Popper
Malkhuth means kingdom