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Though
magic
metaphors and secret codes operate according to very different rules, they
are hardly historical strangers. Take the incantations of the Steganographia,
a trailblazing cryptographic text written by the enigmatic Trithemius of
Wurzberg. Born in 1462, Trithemius was a prodigious scholar and humanist
who took over the monastery's paltry store of forty-eight books into a
library of nearly two thousand volumes. His collection of occult
texts alone made it one of the greatest
libraries
in all of Germany. The man was also innovative if primitive book
of secret writing, is housed today in the NSA museum near Washington, D.C.
- Erik Davis - _Techngosis:
Myth, Magic & Mysticism In The Age Of
Information_
p.217
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