Re: VMs: Can one "prove" a hoax? - and a request.

[Clay Holden <cholden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two sources for the first "Enochian" language are now fairly
readily available, both from Joseph H. Peterson.

His "Esoteric Archives" CD has the complete transcription of
Sloane 3189, a.k.a. 'Liber Loagaeth', the book of 49x49 magic
squares.

Also, the just published new edition of his "John Dee's Five
Books of Mystery" from Weiser not only gives a clear
transcription of Sloane 3188 and the reception of the first
Enochian language, but should provide any enterprising
cryptologist with sufficient data to determine whether or not
the whole scheme was cryptographic or not.

Best wishes,

Clay

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Rafal Prinke wrote:

>One of the obvious suspects is Kelley and perhaps
>it might be interesting to see the statistical
>properties of the two Enochian languages that we know
>he "produced" (either consciously, unconsciously
>or through angelic intervention).
>
>This would perhaps be far from hard proof, but if
>the relevant curves in those texts and the VMS
>look similar, it might suggest the same "mindset"
>of the author, or the same native language, or at least
>the same "psycholinguistic profile". My own competence
>in statistics shows the very flat curve you mention,
>so I cannot do that myself.
>
>Donald Laycock did statistical research on the Enochian
>which he mentions in the introduction to his Dictionary
>- but there are no details. Perhaps Jacques Guy knows
>more about the nature of Donald Laycock's computer analysis
>of the two Enochian languages?
>
>I silently assume that Enochian *is* considered a hoax
>- but there is no proof of it, either. I have Laycock's
>dictionary upstairs and am too lazy to go and check
>it right now, but I recall he concluded that the "second
>Enochian" (the one with English translations) had
>many features of a genuine language.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Rafal
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