Eco: Foucalt's Pendulum by eco foucault (ebook smartphone .txt) 📕

Postel du Mas and Jeanne Canudo founded agroup called Polaris, which was inspired by the myth of the King ofthe World. They proposed a synarchic project: social serviceopposed to capitalist profit, the elimination of the class strugglethrough cooperatives...It sounds like a kind of Fabian socialism, alibertarian and communitarian movement. Note that both Polaris andthe Irish Fabians were accused of being involved in a syn-archicplot led by the Jews. And who accused them? The RevueInternationale des societes secretes, which talks about aJewish-Masonic-Bolshevik plot. Many of its contributors belonged toa secret right-wing organization called La Sapiniere. And they saythat all these revolutionary groups are only the front for adiabolical plot hatched by an occultist cenacle. Now you'll say:All right, Saint-Yves ended up inspiring reformist groups, butthese ! days the right lumps everything together and sees it all asa demo-pluto-social-Judaic conspiracy. Mussolini did the samething. But why accuse them of being controlled by an occultistcenacle? According to the little I know¡Xtake Picatrix, forexample¡Xthose occultism people couldn't care less about theworkers' movement." "So it seems also to me, O Socrates. So?""Thanks for the Socrates. But now we're coming to the good part.The more I read on the subject, the more I get confused. In theforties various self-styled synarchic groups sprang up; they talkedabout a new European order led by a government of wise men, aboveparty lines. And where did these groups meet? In Vichycollaborationist circles. Then, you say, we got it wrong; synarchyis right-wing. But hold on! Having read this far, I begin to seethat there is one theme that finds them all in agreement: Synarchyexists and secretly rules the world. But here comes the ¡¥but'...""But?"

"But on January 24,1937, Dmitri Navachine, Mason and Martinist (I don't know whatMartinist means, but I think it's one of those sects), economicadviser of the Front Populaire, after having been director of aMoscow bank, was assassinated by the Organisation secrete d'actionrevolutionnaire et nationale, better known as La Cagoule, financedby Mussolini. It was said then that La Cagoule was guided by asecret synarchy and that Navachine was killed because he haddiscovered its mysteries. A document originating from left-wingcircles during the Occupation denounced a synarchic Pact of theEmpire, which was responsible for the French defeat, a pact thatwas a manifestation of Portuguese-style fascism. But then it turnedout that the pact was drawn up by Du Mas and Canudo and containedideas they had published and publicized everywhere. Nothing secretabout it. But these ideas were revealed as secret, extremelysecret, in 1946 by one Husson, who denounced a revolutionarysynarchic pact of the left, as he wrote in his Synarchie, panoramade 25 annees d'activite occulte, which he signed...wait, let mefind it...Geoffrey de Charnay." "Fine!" I said. "Charnay was acompanion of Molay, the grand master of the Templars. They diedtogether at the stake. Here we have a neo-Templar attackingsynarchy from the right. But synarchy is born at Agarttha, which isthe refuge of the Templars!"

"What did I tell you?You see, you've given me an additional clue. Unfortunately, it onlyincreases the confusion. So, on the right, a synarchic pact of theleft is denounced as socialist and secret, though it's not reallysecret; it's the same synarchic pact, as you saw, that wasdenounced by the left. And now we come to new revelations: synarchyis a Jesuit plot to undermine the Third Republic. A thesisexpounded by Roger Mennevee, leftist. To allow me to sleep nights,my reading then tells me that in 1943 in certain Vichy militarycircles¡XPetainist, yes, but anti-German¡Xdocuments circulated thatprove synarchy was a Nazi plot: Hitler was a Rosicrucian influencedby the Masons, who now have moved from hatching a Judeo-Bolshevikplot to making an imperial German one."

"So everything issettled."

"If only that were all.Yet another revelation: Synarchy is a plot of the internationaltechnocrats. This was asserted in 1960 by one Villemarest, Le 14'complot du 13 mai. The techno-synarchic plot wants to destabilizegovernments and, to do it, provokes wars, backs coups d'etat,foments schisms in political parties, promotes internecinehatreds...Do you recognize these synarchists? "

"My God, it's the IMS,the Imperialist Multinational State¡X what the Red Brigades weretalking about a few years ago!"

"The answer is correct.And now what does Inspector De Angelis do if he finds a referenceto synarchy somewhere? He asks the advice of Dr. Casaubon, theTemplar expert."

"My answer: There existsa secret society with branches throughout the world, and its plotis to spread the rumor that a universal plot exists."

"You're joking, butI¡X"

"I'm not joking. Comeand read the manuscripts that turn up at Manutius. But if you wanta more down-to-earth explanation, it's like the story of the manwith a bad stammer who complains that the radio station wouldn'thire him as an announcer because he didn't carry- a party card. Wealways have to blame our failures on somebody else, anddictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followerstogether. As the man said, for every complex problem there's asimple solution, and it's wrong."

"And if, on a train, Ifind a bomb wrapped in a flier that talks about synarchy, is itenough for me to say that this is a simple solution to a complexproblem?"

"Why? Have you foundbombs on trains that...No, excuse me. That's really not mybusiness. But why did you say that to me, then?"

"Because I was hopingyou'd know more than I do. Because perhaps I'm relieved to see youcan't make head or tail of it either. You say you have to readlunatics by the carload and you consider it a waste of time. Idon't. For me, the works of your lunatics¡Xby ¡¥your' I'm referringto you normal people¡Xare important texts. What a lunatic writesmay explain the thinking of the man who puts the bomb on the train.Or are you afraid of becoming a police informer?"

"No, not at all.Besides, looking for things in card catalogs is my business. If theright piece of information turns up, I'll keep you inmind."

As he rose from hischair, De Angelis dropped the last question: "Among yourmanuscripts...have you ever found any reference to theTres?"

"What'sthat?"

"I don't know. Anorganization, maybe. I don't even know if it exists. I've heard itmentioned, and it occurred to me in connection with your lunatics.Say hello to your friend Belbo for me.