Book of Soyga

The Book of Soyga, or Aldaraia ( Enochian " the will of God ") is a Latin treatise from the 16th century through magic.

Background

A copy of this book was in the possession of the Elizabethan scholar John Dee. After Dee's death, the book was considered lost until 1994, the historian Deborah Harkness Dee- two manuscripts of it tracked back. One was found in the British Library ( Sloane MS. 8 ), the other in the Bodleian Library under the title Aldaraia immersive Soyga vocor ( Bodley MS. 908).

From Elias Ashmole is reported that the Duke of Lauderdale, a manuscript entitled Aldaraia immersive Soyga vocor had that Dee was before. The manuscript was sold at an auction in 1692, and Jim Reed's assessment indicates likely Sloane MS. 8 The other manuscript Bodley MS. 908 1605 the Bodleian Library was donated.

In addition to the incantations and instructions for magic, the book contains 36 large tables filled with single letters, which could not be deciphered by Dee. While Dees so-called angel conversations - alleged conversations with angels, which he carried out using the medium Edward Kelley - Dee asked the Archangel Uriel, the significance of the book, and asked for instructions. The answer Uriel was that the book had been revealed to Adam in paradise by the angels, and the Archangel Michael was the translator of the book.

After Harkness rediscovered the book succeeded Jim Reeds 1998 using a mathematical formula to decipher the tables.

The 36 code tables

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Explanation of the method used

It is a 23- letter alphabet Western used and each of these letters is allocated, a counter value, as follows:

A 2 g 6 n 14 t 8 b 2 h 5 o 8 u 15 c 3 i 14 p 13 x 15 d 5 k 15 q 20 y 15 e 14 l 20 r 11 z 2 f 2 m 22 s 8 The respective 6-digit code word is entered left in the first column of a 36 x 36 table top to bottom, written alternately forwards and backwards ( for the codeword nisram example: nisrammarsinnisrammarsinnisrammarsin ).

The first column is thus available, and the remaining columns are now filled line by line. You start doing left at the first codeword letters and works its way to the right before. In order to know which letter comes next, you have the letter from the left of it and note the letter about it. In the first line there is of course no letters about it, you hereby accepts only the left letter and use this as a letter about it.

The very first letter has n left thought the counter value 14 in the first line by the same letter n is also above. This letter is about the 13'te in our 23- letter alphabet, and is now one of the counter value from the 14 letters left add ( 13 14 = 27). This one has been our missing letters because the number is larger than 23, you must first deduct 23 ( 27-23 = 4). The 4'te letter in our 23 -letter alphabet is d, and this can now be added to the right of the n:

N d i d i z z b b b d i z. . . i s r l. . . s c u. . . r o. . . a.. . m.. . m.. . a.. . r. . . . . . . . . The next letter is calculated in the same way. It is the letter d with the counter value 5, thinks the same letter (d, the 4'te in the alphabet ) about it, and this is one of the counter value added (4 5 = 9). The next letter is therefore the ninth in the alphabet i

The same procedure in the next line. In the second row far left is the letter i with the counter value 14, which Will be added to the already existing letters about d ( 4 14 = 18). The 18'te letter is s, and can now be entered in the second column of the second row. For the next letter referring back to the counter value, the letter s just calculated, and counts him the letter i also added ( 9 8 = 17), resulting in the letter r.