Editing Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (section)

===Postscript===
In the [[anachronism|anachronistic]] postscript set in 1947, Borges remembers events that occurred in the last years.

In 1941, the world and the narrator have learned, through the emergence of a letter, about the true nature of Tlön. It goes that a "benevolent secret society" was formed "one night in [[Lucerne]] or in London", in the 17th century, and had Berkeley among its members. That group, a society of intellectuals named ''Orbis Tertius'', studied "[[Hermeticism|hermetic studies]], [[philanthropy]] and the [[Kabbalah]]" (an allusion to societies such as the [[Bavarian Illuminati]], the [[Freemasonry|Freemasons]] and the [[Rosicrucianism|Rosicrucians]]), but its main purpose was to create a country: Uqbar. It gradually became clear that such work would have to be carried by numerous generations, so each master agreed to elect a disciple who would carry on his work to perpetuate an hereditary arrangement. The society is eventually [[persecution|persecuted]], but reemerges in the United States two centuries thereafter. The American "eccentric" millionaire Ezra Buckley, one of the members of the restored sect, finds its undertaking too modest, proposing that their creation be of an entire world instead of just a country. He also adds that an entire encyclopedia about this world—named Tlön—must be written and that the whole scheme "have no pact with that impostor Jesus Christ."<ref>"Tlön…", p. 120</ref> The new ''Orbis Tertius'', composed of three hundred collaborators, proceeds to conclude the final volume of the First Encyclopedia of Tlön. An explanation of Uqbar is not explicitly given in the story.

By 1942, Tlönian objects began to inexplicably appear in the real world. One of the first instances in which this occurs is when Princess Faucigny Lucinge received, via mail, a vibrating compass with a Tlönian scripture. Another instance is witnessed by Borges himself: a drunk man, shortly after dying, dropped coins among which a small but extremely heavy shining metal cone appeared. It is suggested that these occurrences may have been forgeries, but yet products of a secret science and technology.

By 1944, all forty volumes of the First Encyclopedia of Tlön have been discovered and published in a library in [[Memphis, Tennessee]]. The material becomes accessible worldwide and immensely influential on Earth's culture, science and languages. By the time Borges concludes the story, presumably in 1947, the world is gradually becoming Tlön. Borges then turns to an obsession of his own: a translation of Sir [[Thomas Browne]]'s ''[[Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial|Urn Burial]]'' into Spanish.