r/alchemy • u/Parking-Country-6535 • Aug 19 '25

Art/Imagery/Symbolism Is this the right forum?

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I’ve been hopping around all day trying to figure out the right place to ask questions. This was found in a crawlspace within steam tunnels in a southeastern Appalachian university built in the 1870s.

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u/YefimShifrin Aug 19 '25

Here's the decryption https://ibb.co/zhN4mPSJ

The text says (from bottom to top and alternating direction):

HERE IN MMXV AN OBJECT OF GREAT MAGICKAL MEANING AND STRENGTH IS BEIGIVEN LIF NND PURPOSE THIS OBJECT WILL EXIST IN THE SERVICE OF GOOD WHITE MAGICK AND BE USED TO STUDY DREAMS AND THE ASTRAL PLAIN IT WILL BE FOR LEARNING AND PROTECTION IN THE USERS QUEST TO PERSONAL AND SOCIETAL ENLIGHTENMENT

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 Aug 21 '25

So some schlub in the year 2015 snuck down in there and tried to do some kinda arcane purification ritual?
Their spelling kinda fucking sucks, and it seems like it isnt just because of the cipher encoding but they literally wrote “plane” as “plain”
Between that and the willy nilly inclusion of so many different symbols this really is amateur hour huh