Abbot of a benedictine monastery in German, acquired a softly sinister
reputation about possessing a vast erudition and knowing the occult arts.
He was interested on the alchemy and the magic. The cabala stimulated
his fascination for the codes and the ciphers. His book about the subject,
Stenographia, was not published until 1606, but it circulated previously
in the form of a manuscript.
He founds, jointly with Whesmann, a secret society for the study of astrology,
the magic of numbers, the languages and mathematics. The society takes
a significant name: Celtic Sadalites or Celtic Cofrady. He is highly interested
on alchemy and magic, as well as linguistic, mathematics, cabala and parapsychology,
which are mixed in his works.
On his master piece, the Stenographia, based on a symbols management system
founded by the language, capable to produce effects that could be perceived
and controlled at big distance by other intelligence, he comments: “I
can assure that this work in which I teach numerous unknown mysteries and
secrets, will appear for everybody, even for those more ignorant, as containing
incredible, admirable and supernatural things, given the fact that nobody
has written nor spoken about them before me”. |