The Forbidden Zone....Home of The OrangeBox, keepers of Skully, an ancient, quartz crystal skull.

Mysterious codes and cyphers

Of all the documents found with Skully, the most important was a manuscript (dating from around 1900) written in a strange code. We printed a page from this manuscript in our

January, 1999, Newsletter. We asked if anyone had any ideas as to what the script was, and how it could be decoded. Several individuals contacted us with the information that the code was a quasi-Masonic shorthand utilized in the 18th and early 19th century by an esoteric fringe of Freemasonry with links to both the Theosophists and the Golden Dawn.

We were unable to obtain a copy of this script but by using various diagrams and tables contained in the manuscript itself and checking these against published sources we gradually came to an understanding of the material contained within the manuscript. In part, it contains various Masonic rituals and ceremonies, with comments and interpretations of these.

There are also a number of occult tables, correspondences and diagrams depicting the relationships between various supernatural phenomena. Most of the journal material, however, is devoted to a kind of automatic writing. The author explains the methods he uses to contact the spirit (named ShLB LShD) and almost seems to be trying to come to terms

with the nature and implications of both the spirit dictating the material, and the material being produced. All pages from this material together with translations will eventually be posted on these pages. This information is very controversial and extremely sensitive. In the meantime we have included a small selection of images for anyone who may be interested.

We are indebted to Tim Rollins who's invaluable expertise and infinite patience enabled us to realize that the material was written in two different forms of the same cypher; and ultimately to decode it.

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