![]() ![]() One of the most baffling of the hidden texts is without doubt the Rohonc Codex. Still, beyond finding that the book is most likely related to Kabbalah, a mystical sect of Judaism, these researchers have not been able to decipher the book’s real significance. Scholars have since studied the book, and one of them was able to partially translate the tables that had so fascinated Dee. Until then everyone would look under "S" for Soyga. A second book was found in Oxford at the Bodleian Library under the same, alternative title. Deborah Harkness who was working on a dissertation about John Dee, traveled to the British Library, and found the books cataloged under the title of Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor. The book itself, though known to have existed, was believed lost until 1994, when two copies of it were rediscovered in England. Unfortunately, Dee was unable to finish decoding the mysteries of the Book of Soyga before his death. John Dee was an astrologer, alchemist and necromancer who served Elizabeth I Dee is also given information he didn't anticipate, which was the book's secrets would bring death in two and half years to anyone who read it. Through Kelley, Dee claimed to have contacted the archangel Uriel, who told him that the book’s origins dated back to the Garden of Eden, and Uriel explains that only the Archangel Michael knows its secrets. This was no easy task, as the book’s unknown author had utilized a number of typographical tricks, including writing certain words backwards and encoding others in mathematical script.ĭee became so fixated on cracking the codes that in 1582, he traveled to continental Europe in order to meet with a famous spiritual medium called Edward Kelley (1555-1597). ![]() In the 1500s, Dee was said to be in possession of one of the only copies of the book, and he supposedly became obsessed with unlocking its secrets, particularly a series of encrypted tables that Dee believed held the key to some kind of esoteric spiritual knowledge. The book, also titled Aldaraia, is most famously associated with John Dee (1527-1608), a noted thinker of the Elizabethan era who was known to dabble in the occult. The Book of Soyga was rediscovered in 1994. ![]()
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