100
Noah, 25, 64, 66
Nomothete (Name Giver), 24
Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain (Leibniz), 92
Nova collectio patrum et scriptorum graecorum (Montfaucon), 5
Novissima Sinica (Leibniz), 70
numbers, 56, 78, 92, 100
Obeliscus Pamphilius (Kircher), 62
obscure borrowing thesis, 111, 112
Oedipus Aegyptiacus (Kircher), 61–62, 65–67
Okhrana (political police), 16
Old Man of the Mountain, 14
Oresme, Nicolas, 6
Origen, 6, 59
original iconism thesis, 111, 113
Osean language, 79
Osiris, 62
Other Inquisitions (Borges), 93
paradise: Dante, viii, 41; languages of, vii. See also Eden, Garden of
Paradise (Dante), 23, 30, 41–43, 49, 50
paralogisms, 104
Parmenides, 5
parody, 80–81
particles, transcendental, 87–88
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 19
perfumed panther, 40
periphrases, 86
Perush Havdalah de-Rabbi ‘Akiva, 48
Peyrère, Isaac de la, 64
Philip the Fair, 14
Philippos, 58
philosopher’s stone myth, 19
Phoenician navigators, 4
phonograms. See hieroglyphs
Piazza Navona (Rome), 63
plagiarism, Goedsche and, 15
Plato, 5, 27, 60, 97, 100, 102, 104
Pliny, 59
Plutarch, 60
polygenetic hypothesis, 97–98, 103
polysemia, 94
Popper, Karl, 18
Porphyry, 59
Prague cemetery ritual, 15
Prester John, 7–9, 17, 55
primigenial language, 97–98, 109
primitives, semantic, 81, 86–87, 89, 90–91, 93
Priscian, 32
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 16–18, 20
Ptolemy, 3–4, 7, 17–18, 62, 65
Purgatory (Dante), 41
Pythagoras, 5, 54
Quaestia quodlibetalis XIII (Aquinas), 1
Rachovskiji, Pyotr Ivanovich (Sergej Witte), 16
Readclif, John. See Goedsche, Hermann
Readcliff, Sir John. See Goedsche, Hermann
Récherches philosophiques (Bonald), 98
Relacion de las cosas de Yucatan (Diego de Landa), 67
Retcliffe, Sir John. See Goedsche, Hermann
Reynolds, Barbara, 43–44
Ricci, Matteo, 54, 63, 64
Risorgimento, 14
Rosencreutz, Christian, 10
Rosetta stone, 57, 61
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Yates), 11
Rosicrucian manifestos, 10, 17
Rosicrucians, 18, 21
Rosiello, Luigi, vii, 97
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 67
Russell, Jeffrey Burton, 4, 7
Sacred Mophtha, 62
Saint Martin, Louis-Claude de, 98
Salamanca, sages of, 4, 6–7
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, 77
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 34–35
Sayers, Dorothy, 43
Scala, Cangrande della, 42
scholastic age, 6
Scottish Rite. See under Masons
Search for a Perfect Language (Eco), vii
secret societies, 10, 14
Selenite language, 80
serendipity, viii, 7, 53, 74
Servius, 32
Shem, 25
Siger of Brabant, 39
Simone, Raffaele, 98
Simonini (Captain), 14
Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg (Maistre), 99, 115
Sophocles, 60
Sperber, Julius, 11
Spinoza, Baruch, 78
Stoics, 26, 46
storks, 58–60
Studies in the History and in the Method of Sciences (Marvin), 7
stutter, 26, 53
Sue, Eugène, 15–16
Swift, Jonathan, 80
synecdoche, 87
syntagm, 86, 88–89
Systema Theologicum ex prae-Adamitarum hypothesis (de la Peyrère), 64
Système Général des Sciences et des Arts (Alembert), 93
Tao, Great Wheel of, 2
Templars, 13–14, 98, 100, 103. See also Masons
Theater of Illusion, 3
Themis aurea (Maier), 11
Theodosius, 57
Theosophism, 98
Thirty Years’ War, 10
Thomas Aquinas, 1, 6–7, 20, 39
Timaeus (Plato), 100
“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (Borges), 12–13, 94
Torah, 45
Tower of Babel, 8, 25–26, 29–30, 32, 34–35, 43, 45, 55, 97
tradition: cabalistic, viii; preconceived ideas, 54–55
Troy, 18
truth: versus dogmatic thought, 4; versus error, ix; language and, 98, 106, 108, 115; mystical, 56; and myth, 19; scientific, 3; strength of, 1–2
Tübingen, 11
Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques (Baron de l’Aulne), 14
universals, linguistic, 39
universals, semantic, 77–78, 86
universe, existence of, 20–21, 100
Unknowns, Higher, 15
Unknowns, Superior, 13
Utopia (Thomas More), 80
utopian language, 80, 93–94
Vairasse, Denis, 80
Valeriano, Pierio, 60
Valla, Lorenzo, 7
vernacular languages, 30–34, 37, 40, 44
Vico, Giovanni Battista, 103
Vie de Monsieur Descartes (Baillet), 12
virago, 25
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), 14
Warburton, William, 67
Webb, John, 64
White, Andrew D., 98
Wilkins, John, 63, 78, 81, 87–90, 93–94, 103
William of Rubruck, 9
Witte, Sergej, 16
Xavier, Saint Francis, 64
Yahoo language, 94
Yates, Francis, 11
Yehuda, Romano, 50
Zerakhya of Barcelona, 48–50
Zoroaster, 66
This book was designed by Linda Secondari.
Composed at Columbia University Press by Danielle De Lucia.