Here is the library of Mister Eco. Wow.
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PhoenixToEmber
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I recently started reading this book. I'm more than halfway through it and I'm actually really enjoying it, although I can see how it wouldn't be just anyone's cup of tea. For one, the story is told mostly through flashbacks, so it jumps around a lot and you have to really pay attention to where you are. The plot is also not quite clear, and it takes a while for you to start figuring out where it's going. It's not a book with action, or even a lot of dialogue (mostly narration) but a very cerebral book - so if you like action and thrillers, this book will bore you to tears. Which brings me to: secondly, there are A LOT of obscure occult, esoteric, and historical references, as well as obscure vocabulary words - a lot of which I was already familiar, and a lot of which I wasn't. So if you don't like having to stop in the middle of reading to look something up you won't enjoy this book, unless you are already as knowledgeable as Eco is on the obscure or are keen to know more about it. I personally enjoy this aspect of the book, because I'm fascinated by esoterism, occult history, and history in general, and reading this book has been forcing me to learn many new fun facts in these areas.
I'm getting a similar impression from this book. I think to dismiss hidden undercurrents of influence in history entirely is certainly foolish, but Eco also has a point - searching for clues to these currents often feels like running through a maze, and I can see how it can drive one mad with paranoia and confusion, being unsure of what's even real of not real anymore, connected or not connected, and you begin to see connections in anything and everything, which seems to be a theme in the book. When you look at all of the New Age mumbo-jumbo and a lot of people in the conspiracy realm, they certainly go out of their way to find connections and correlations between anything and everything to find proof of a global human conspiracy where there isn't always one. Although we know there are hidden factions, secret societies, and the like, with occult beliefs and practices influencing history, we also know from LKJ's research that to carry on such a "global conspiracy" through human groups for thousands of years seems impractical and unlikely. This is where the hyperdimensional element comes into play - beings who influence a multitude of groups in that undercurrent. Of course, Eco doesn't go this far, hence dismissing such undercurrents of influence as mostly fictitious and delusional pursuits.
I looked this book up a few weeks ago after reading your comment here and it sounds fascinating! It seems to be about the search for the ancient "Ur language" - for a philologist, an ancient language from which others originate; for esotericists, an ancient language from which all languages originate and which can be understood through finding phonetic and symbolic links in words from all languages. That is, the phonetic cabala, Green Language, the Language of the Birds - of which Fulcanelli writes.
It was actually through researching Fulcanelli that I stumbled upon your work, Laura. Of all the threads you weave together, he is perhaps the figure/subject that interests me the most, mainly because I've been researching an ancient relic from Peru, of which I've found astonishing symbolic and proportional connections linking it to Notre Dame de Paris, Auch cathedral, and other alchemical symbols describing the Philosopher's Stone. It's something I've been dying to ask the C's about, considering it's what ultimately brought me to the forum, but have been unsure of how to word my questions or whether or not I should even propose asking them. But if there are any questions I have that are truly "burning questions" of which I can't find all the answers through my own research, it's those that revolve around this relic, its meaning, why I stumbled upon it, why I was able to "read" it, why it influenced me the way it did, etc.
Mal7 said:
I'm getting a similar impression from this book. I think to dismiss hidden undercurrents of influence in history entirely is certainly foolish, but Eco also has a point - searching for clues to these currents often feels like running through a maze, and I can see how it can drive one mad with paranoia and confusion, being unsure of what's even real of not real anymore, connected or not connected, and you begin to see connections in anything and everything, which seems to be a theme in the book. When you look at all of the New Age mumbo-jumbo and a lot of people in the conspiracy realm, they certainly go out of their way to find connections and correlations between anything and everything to find proof of a global human conspiracy where there isn't always one. Although we know there are hidden factions, secret societies, and the like, with occult beliefs and practices influencing history, we also know from LKJ's research that to carry on such a "global conspiracy" through human groups for thousands of years seems impractical and unlikely. This is where the hyperdimensional element comes into play - beings who influence a multitude of groups in that undercurrent. Of course, Eco doesn't go this far, hence dismissing such undercurrents of influence as mostly fictitious and delusional pursuits.
Laura said:
I looked this book up a few weeks ago after reading your comment here and it sounds fascinating! It seems to be about the search for the ancient "Ur language" - for a philologist, an ancient language from which others originate; for esotericists, an ancient language from which all languages originate and which can be understood through finding phonetic and symbolic links in words from all languages. That is, the phonetic cabala, Green Language, the Language of the Birds - of which Fulcanelli writes.
It was actually through researching Fulcanelli that I stumbled upon your work, Laura. Of all the threads you weave together, he is perhaps the figure/subject that interests me the most, mainly because I've been researching an ancient relic from Peru, of which I've found astonishing symbolic and proportional connections linking it to Notre Dame de Paris, Auch cathedral, and other alchemical symbols describing the Philosopher's Stone. It's something I've been dying to ask the C's about, considering it's what ultimately brought me to the forum, but have been unsure of how to word my questions or whether or not I should even propose asking them. But if there are any questions I have that are truly "burning questions" of which I can't find all the answers through my own research, it's those that revolve around this relic, its meaning, why I stumbled upon it, why I was able to "read" it, why it influenced me the way it did, etc.
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