Re: VMs: Wikipedia & the vms

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

11/10/2004 12:34:07 PM, Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>It says in the "Hoax" of the vms in the Wikipeda section that: 

>'' The latter device, known as a Cardan grille, was invented around 1550 as an 
>encryption tool, and was apparently used by Edward Kelley to fabricate his 
>Enochian "language". ''

>How true is this "apparently"?  I have not been able to find any source to 
>point where this speculation is coming from. 

Let me quote Laycock ("The Complete Enochian Dictionary" first edition,
by Askin Publishers). 

p.23:

Many of Kelley's 'messages' consisted of letters of the alphabet
arranged in squares... Two of the earliest squares transmitted
by the 'spirits' through Kelley are the following:

[p.24]

Z l l R H i a
a Z C a a c b
p a u p n h r
h d m h i a i
k k a s e e e
i i e e l l l
e e l l M G +
              [20 March 1582]

(I'll omit the second square to move on to
Laycock's explanation of the first)

With reference to the first square, Dee is 
instructed to 'read downward'; he does so, and,
starting with the left-hand column, he finds
the following angelic names: Zaphkiel, Zadekiel,
Cumael, Raphael, Haniel, Michael, Gabriel (with
the sign of the cross to fill up the last square).

For the second square, which I won't reproduce
here, Laycock reports: "the names are to be read off
diagonally, in a south-westerly direction, starting
with the 'S' of the top left-hand corner."

There is a lot more there. Alas, there are only a
very few copies of the paperback at www.abebooks.com,
starting from $9.95. The Askin hardbacks are far too
expensive


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