10 Most Mysterious Books That Ever Existed

Many mysterious books and writings have baffled curious minds throughout history. Many of these books are written in a language no one knows, and many contain knowledge that is beyond human imagination.

These books are written in a certain cryptic code that has left historians scratching their heads. Most of these writings have disappeared over time, but some of them are still well preserved and continue to intrigue historians, cryptologists, and followers of the occult.

• 1. Voynich Manuscript

  The Voynich Manuscript (also known as Beinecke MS 408 and VMS) is the most mysterious manuscript ever written in an unknown language. Scientists are still trying to decipher it.

  The Voynich Manuscript, a modest little book in the Yale University vault, is one of the most mysterious books in the world. It is believed that the precious document, containing exquisite handwriting and strange drawings, was written six centuries ago in an unknown or coded language that has never been deciphered.

  The Voynich manuscript is probably what cryptologists call a cipher, or coded set of letters. Written in Central Europe in the 15th century, the book is little bigger than a modern paperback and contains 246 fragile pages of bound parchment or animal skin prepared to be written on.

  It doesn't have an index, but it probably contained layouts that were gone long time ago. There are gaps in the page numbers and evidence that the book may have been rewritten at some point, so the page order today may be different from what it was when the book was published.

  The elegant looping font, 25 to 30 characters long, runs from left to right in short paragraphs down the pages, interspersed with detailed illustrations. The drawings feature castles and dragons, as well as diagrams of plants, planets, nudes, and astronomical symbols, all detailed in green, brown, yellow, blue, and red ink. One particularly interesting passage shows dozens of naked women bathing in pools of interconnected green liquid.

  The manuscript has been held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University since 1969. It is named after Wilfrid Michael Voynich, a Polish bookseller who bought it from a Jesuit library in Italy in 1912. He tried to get people interested in its translation, but, alas, no one succeeded.

• 2. Book of Soyga

  The Book of Soyga, also known as Aldaraya, is a 16th-century book dealing with magic, astrology, spells, and demonology. The author of the book is unknown, but it was first acquired by the scholar John Dee in the early 1580s, when he was working as an adviser to Queen Elizabeth I.

  Dee has spent his entire life trying to decipher the book's secrets. Much of the book was written in plain Latin, which was easy to read. It contained several paragraphs describing spells, intricate magic formulas, defensive spells, and hierarchies of angels and demons.

  In the end, Dee was never able to decipher the last 36 pages of the Book of Soiga, which contained 36 tables. The book was lost after his death in 1609. The book was rediscovered in 1994 in two different locations: the British Library and the Bodleian Library. However, the mystery of the Book of Soyga remains. Who wrote it? What do these 36 tables and their magic words mean? No one knows.

• 3. Code of Rohonczy

  This code was discovered in 1838 and is written in illegible language. It is still not clear whether the text should be read from left to right or right to left.

  A 450-page manuscript, the Code of Rohonczy, was first discovered at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1838. Since its discovery, scientists, linguists and decipherers have tried to decipher the unknown language of the manuscript, but not a single word has been deciphered to this day. The manuscript contains about 90 cartoon illustrations of battles and various religious themes. It is still not clear whether the texts in the Rohonczy Code should be read from left to right or from right to left.

  The Rohonczy code first appeared in 1743 in one of the catalogs of the Rohonczy library. It is believed that this is not an ancient work of culture lost in time, but that this work was deliberately written in a high-class code language that even the greatest minds cannot understand.

  Scientists are still scratching their heads trying to decipher the strange symbols of the Code. The only thing that can be said for sure about the Code is that the paper on which this manuscript is written dates from 16th century Italy.

• 4. Popol Vuh

  The Popol Vuh is a text dating from the mid-1500s, written in the Quiche Maya language, that sheds light on the creation of humans and animals.

  The Popol Vuh, also known as the Book of the People, is a Maya document describing ancient Maya culture and mythology. The text was written as early as the mid-1500s in Quiche (a Mayan language). The Popol Vuh tells of the creation of the world, the actions of the god, the migration and settlement of the Quiche people until the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century AD.

  The book mentions the hero twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, who will eventually turn into the Sun and Moon. The book goes on to discuss the creation myth, according to which at first there was only the sky and the sea, and then the creators of the Earth created animals, men and women. The book was first found in the 1700s by priest Francisco Jiménez in Guatemala.

• 5. Les Propheties

  Michel Nostradamus Predictions is a book full of prophecies written by the Frenchman Michel de Nostradamus in the 16th century.

  Les Propheties is a famous book full of prophecies written by Michel de Nostradamus in the 16th century. He was French and a self-proclaimed seer who could predict future events and mentions them in his book. One of his best works was The Prophecies, first published in 1555 and never out of print after his death.

  Nostradamus has attracted a huge number of people who credit him with predicting major historical events such as the rise of Adolf Hitler, the conquests of Napoleon, the French Revolution, the death of Henry II, the great fire of London, the September 11 attacks, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and other major disasters.

  All the prophecies in Les Propheties are written in four lines of rhyming verse. Many scholars argue that his predictions are just material for misinterpretations or mistranslations.

• 6. Kybalion

  The Kybalion was published in 1908. The book was written by the "Three Initiates" who speak of the arcane knowledge of how to control the human mind.

  The Kybalion, published in 1908 by the Yogi Publishing Society, is an anomalous piece of information written by the "Three Initiates". The book served as the basis for the Hermetic doctrine and its seven ancient principles. The principles described in the book are great secrets that have been passed down from mouth to mouth. Hermes Trismegistus was an ancient sage who first received this knowledge from the Egyptian gods.

  The knowledge in the book has always been kept strictly secret and has always been part of the "occult". The word "occult" here does not mean that it has anything to do with religion or black magic, it simply means "kept secret."

  The book of the "Three Initiates" describes the knowledge and principles associated with mentalism and human experience. This explains how to influence the mind and change it according to your will. The Kybalion has a lot of information about the fundamentals of the universe that is still unknown to most of humanity.

• 7. Codex Serafini

  The Serafini Code was published in 1981. The book is an encyclopedia of the imaginary world with illustrations of surreal impossible things.

  The Codex Seraphinianus is a strange encyclopedia created by the Italian architect Luigi Serafini. He created the book in the late 1970s and it was originally published in 1981. The 300-page book itself is shrouded in mystery and is a guide to an alien world with descriptions and explanations of imagined existence. The work in the book is surreal art where heads are cut up and turned into other objects.

  The book is full of illustrations of plants, animals, maps, cars, people, food, games, buildings and humanoids. It features hand-drawn prints such as a bleeding fruit, trees that uproot themselves and migrate, strange flowers, surreal animal variations, bizarre games, and more. People are looking for a hidden code behind the unusual language written in the book, but Serafini himself says that there is no hidden meaning behind the book. He simply wanted to create a unique book that would evoke the sense of wonder in every reader.

• 8. Greek magical papyri

  The spell book of the second century BC, the Greek magical papyri, is a manual for spells, rituals and divination.

  The Greek Magical Papyri is a book from the second century BC written primarily in ancient Greek. The material inside the papyri has been dated to 100 BC and 400 AD. The book is a complete guide to magical spells, rituals, formulas, divination and hymns.

  The papyri contain instructions on how to summon a demon, open doors to the underworld, protect yourself from wild beasts, and a way to get a supernatural helper, meaning an entity from another world that follows your orders.

  The most famous spells are fortune-telling, with which you can see into the future. The manuscript was discovered in the 1700s through the antiquities trade. The most famous text from the magical papyri is the Liturgy of Mithras. The book is a bible for followers of the occult.

• 9. Codex Gigas

  The world's largest illuminated medieval manuscript Codex Gigas was created in the early 13th century by a monk from the Kingdom of Bohemia. This 89 cm book is also commonly known as the "Devil's Bible" due to its gigantic size and a very unusual full-page portrait of Satan. The beauty of this book is that the entire text was written in one night.

  According to legend, the monk broke his monastic vows and was sentenced to be immured alive. In exchange for his life, he promised that he would create a book glorifying the monastery. He began to write the text, but was sure that he would not be able to finish it, so he asked the Devil for help. The devil helped the monk complete a giant book in just one night in exchange for the monk's soul. People say that it will take 20 years of continuous writing to recreate the manuscript, and not even the whole book, but only the calligraphic part.

• 10. Picatrix

  Picatrix is a grimoire in Arabic. The book was written in the 10th or 11th century and contains knowledge about astrology and occult magic.

  It was originally written in Arabic and was called "Gayat al-Hakim", which translates as "The Purpose of the Wise Man". The book covers spells, infamous magical recipes, and spells to channel occult energies.

  His enigmatic astrological descriptions and spells have been translated into many languages ​​and are used by many cultures, as well as followers of the occult all over the world. The ingredients of these magical spells are blood, bodily secretions, and brain matter mixed with opium and psychoactive plants. The book has also been called "a handbook of talisman magic" and "a rigorous account of celestial magic in Arabic".