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Throughout history millions and millions of books have been written,
some more interesting than others,
of course!
Well, in today's video,
I made a compilation for you with 10 super mysterious old books that nobody could explain.
From an indecipherable manuscript, to an old book that will teach you to communicate with animals.
So I'm sure you're going to love this video!
But before I start with the subject, I have a small question for you.
Will you have any idea which is the best-selling book in all of history?
I'm going to leave 4 options on the screen, you choose the one that you think is right,
then write it down in the comments below right now.
At the end of the video we will see if you answered correctly,
do you agree?
Now we are ready, make yourself comfortable. And enjoy it, my friend!
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This book officially called Codex Gigas,
is an ancient medieval manuscript created at the beginning of the 13th century.
Did you know that Codex Gigas is also known as the Devil's Bible?
It not only has a very frightening name, but also its history.
It is said that this book was written by a monk who was imprisoned in a cloister,
and that before he died he proposed a rather peculiar task,
writing in a single night the greatest book ever written,
and as you can see, he achieved it, he did it all in one night.
Only for him to be able to do it, he had to invoke dark spiritual forces,
or the devil himself, so that we can be more precise.
Thanks to that legend, the Codex Gigas not only became the largest known medieval manuscript,
but a very, very mysterious book.
Inside you can find a strange mixture of themes of all kinds,
from biblical texts, through powerful spells, medicinal treatments
and even a drawing of the devil on page 320,
which may be a sign that this monk was really inspired by the devil himself.
After having been analyzed by several experts on the subject,
it is believed that the book really is authentic,
its dating is in accordance with the legend and it seems that it was written by only one person.
The questions here are: was it really written in one night?
And if so, how did he do it?
Is it true that he invoked evil spirits to achieve it?
How frightening, right?
Number 9
The Book of Dzyan is known as the oldest book in the world,
it is so old that it is said to have been created long before the human race existed,
which basically means that it was created by beings from other planets.
The book is very well protected in a Tibetan temple, of which very few people know,
or that is what is supposed!
the few details that are known from the book is that it is full of symbols and images
that can only be deciphered by very few people in the world.
It is said that if someone who is not ready to even try to open it,
he would suffer from bitter nightmares and terrible things in his life.
Bullshit!
I'm not going to get you a copy of the book, Benny.
You are not part of the elect!
Although it is a book without letters, in fact it is full of symbols in the best Egyptian style,
the specialists who have dedicated themselves to study these symbols, tell that the book
talks about very intelligent beings that inhabited our planet more than 17 million years ago,
and which also addresses varied topics such as the disappearance of Atlantis for example.
Although it is a very mysterious book is known to really exist
because some people claim to have seen and even touched the book,
one of those people is a Russian psychic called Helena Blavatsky,
she says it is a book full of hidden teachings.
Number 8
The Book of Thoth, it is said that this book was burned while the Egyptian empire flourished,
not only because it was a forbidden book but because it apparently had magical powers.
We know of its existence thanks to the fact that fragments of it are preserved in different ancient papyri,
its creator was Thoth, an Egyptian god that supposedly
was the god of wisdom, writing, music, incantations, and other magical spells,
that's where his name comes from, the Book of Thoth.
The legend says that the book remained hidden in a occult area of the Nile River for a long time
but when it was found,
they decided that it was best to destroy it because of the great powers it possessed.
With the Book of Thoth not only would you learn to decipher and understand animals,
but you would activate other occult powers that all humans possess
but that very few people can develop, among these powers are to give orders to the ocean,
to resurrect the dead and move very heavy things at will.
How crazy, right?
Although to date it is not known if it was really destroyed or what happened with this book,
it is interesting that a book like this has really existed, do not you think?
Number 7
Although this book is not as old as the previous ones, its content is quite peculiar,
it was presented for the first time in 1981 under the name of Codex Seraphinianus.
After almost 2 years working on the book, Luigi Serafini decided that it was time to show it to the world.
Within that Codex you can find pages with very peculiar illustrations,
like the ones you are seeing right now,
and it has been written in a language that nobody has been able to decipher until now,
as if the mystery was not big yet!
Because of that it is thought that Luigi Serafini elaborated the whole book in psychographic writing,
the Codex Seraphinianus is divided into 2 sections.
In the first, he presents illustrations of an unknown world
with flora, fauna and physical laws very different from those of our planet,
and in the second part, there are illustrations of how these people live in that unknown world,
that is, their culture!
Thanks to all those strange illustrations and language that nobody has ever been able to decipher,
not even the author himself,
the Codex Seraphinianus is taken as a simple work of art, or something fictitious,
although the more and more you analyze it, the more questions will remain hanging around in your head,
that's for sure.
Number 6
The Rohonc Codex is another of those books
that were written using a completely unknown writing system,
so not only has nobody been able to interpret it,
but it is also unknown who that writer was, let alone when he wrote it.
Screw You!
You did not write that Codex, Benny. You do not even know how to write.
For many years it has been said that the Rohonc Codex was the work of a forger,
but some people think that this is just an excuse,
since a person with enough intellect has not been found to be able to explain what it says in their pages.
In recent years the interest in this book has increased and some scholars have tried to find an answer,
for example, a Hindu polyglot Mahesh Kumar Singh,
who believes that some pages of the Rohonc Codex detail the childhood of Jesus,
but neither he has provided evidence to certify this assumption.
If you think you have enough intellect to decipher it, you can search it on the internet,
a few years ago a Hungarian university scanned the manuscript
and shared it online to see if anyone can help interpret it.
Anyway, as the language of the book seems to be written with indecipherable symbols,
and since we do not have more information about who wrote it or for what reason,
I believe that this book will still not be deciphered for a long time.
Number 5
Picatrix is a book about the magic of the Middle Ages, these books were known as grimoires.
It is estimated that this grimoire was written between the 10th and 11th centuries of our era,
in its pages you will not only find everything you need to know to create magical talismans
but you will even discover that in the past there were entire cities
that were built with the principles of astrological magic.
The teachings of Picatrix were so interesting that it became a very popular book in the past,
not for nothing, King Alfonso of Spain ordered to get a translated copy of the Arabic into Spanish,
and although it seems that this copy in Spanish was lost at some time hundreds of years ago,
several translations into Latin are in very good condition,
and it is thanks to that, that we can know what the book talks about.
As with many of these curious books, it is not known exactly who the author was,
and that only increases the mystery of Picatrix.
If you are ever interested in learning to create powerful potions, a bit of talismanic magic,
or if you want to learn to get energy from the planets, then Picatrix is your book.
How interesting, don't you think?
Number 4
The book "hombre después del hombre", translated into English as "Man After Man",
is a book written by paleontologist Dougal Dixon
where he tries to explain how he believes humans will be in the future.
Although it is a speculative book, that is, based on his own assumptions, it is really interesting.
Inside you can find how the humans of the future will be,
or what we will have become in about 200 or 500 years.
If you take a look at the illustrations,
you will understand why I decided to give it a place on this list,
among the new species of human beings that will exist, according to Dougal Dixon,
there are the aquamorphs and vacuumorph,
the first ones are marine human beings that will have gills instead of lungs to breathe underwater,
and they will look like this!
And the second ones, the vacuumorp will be able to live both on our planet
and in outer space without any problem.
The book also talks about other species more like feline men with saber teeth,
and even parasitic humans.
What really impresses me is that all the ideas in this book,
as well as the illustrations, came out of the mind of one person,
Dougal Dixon
How crazy, right?
Number 3
Have you ever heard about Excalibur?
The book that drives the person who reads it crazy?
It seems that this book is a work of L. Ron Hubbard, and according to his words,
all its contents were declared while he was clinically dead during an operation.
History says that just when he finished writing the book,
Mr. Hubbard shared it with his closest friends,
to his surprise,
they were all victims of a kind of madness,
to the point that some had to be interned in psychiatric hospitals and others ended his life.
Because of that, it is said that the book was never published on a large scale,
but thanks to the internet you can now find the complete book,
only that I do not recommend reading it!
Bullshit!
Leave your copy of Excalibur on one side and finish dinner, Benny.
No cursed books on the table. We already talked about this.
Surely you wonder what this book really talks about,
it seems to answer questions that we have all done at some point:
who we really are, where we come from, where are we going, is there a god? or when did the world begin?
Because of its content and its history, Excalibur is one of the scariest books written in history.
Number 2
A video about ancient and mysterious books could not be complete
without mentioning the Voynich manuscript,
this book is so mysterious that many crypto-analysts have tried to interpret it
without being too successful!
The little that is known of the Voynich manuscript
is that it has passed through several hands to the present day,
its last owner was a specialist in ancient books called Wilfrid Voynich,
after Voynich died, his wife sold it to Yale University, and it is where it currently stands.
Being the last owner, they decided to call it Voynich manuscript,
to date no one knows who was its real author, the language in which it was written is not understood,
much less is there an explanation for the dozens of strange images that this book is full of.
Due to all those loose ends, some people think that it is a book with origins out of this world.
Fortunately many of the pages in this book have been scanned and shared online,
so if you have a little time, you can try to decipher it,
but let me warn you that many people who tried the past fell into madness.
It's crazy, don't you think?
Number 1
The Beale ciphers, commonly known as "Beale Papers", are a set of three encrypted texts,
it is said that if you are smart enough to solve them,
they would take you to a great treasure buried in the United States valued at more than $60,000,000.
Although the Beale Papers are not a book in itself,
obviously!
but just three encrypted pamphlets, the story is really curious.
It is said that in the year 1820 a man named Thomas Beale
decided to hide a treasure in Bedford County in Virginia, United States.
Then he wrote three encrypted pamphlets,
which among other things gave the exact location of the treasure.
A few years after writing these pamphlets,
Thomas Beale disappeared under strange circumstances,
and the papers were made public,
currently only one of the pamphlets has been resolved
with the help of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
This pamphlet describes the content of the treasure,
but the other two, which would help to find it have never been finally resolved,
so the person who managed to decipher them first, would instantly become a millionaire.
Bullshit!
You close that mouth, Benny.
And that's all for today!
I hope you loved this video about ancient and mysterious books.
Hey!, did you know which best-selling book in all of history is the Bible?
It is estimated that about 100,000,000 copies of this book are sold each year.
What turns the Bible into the best-selling book in all of history.
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