TheCodeBreakers
Cramer, a teacher of mathematics at the I Calvin Academy in Geneva,
who corresponded with the most learned men of his time, inscribed two
cipher messages. Simple columnar transpositions, they counseled:
"The oracle tells thee to fear nothing; thou art permitted to hope for
everything; dare boldly; banish fear; thou canst surely give thyself over to
joy." Cramer almost certainly •composed the messages only for his own
pleasure or en-Icouragement, perhaps choosing the spiral because it
sym-Jbolized unrolling time and so a future to which he may have looked
forward.
Cryptography has protected not only personal secrets, but spiritual
ones as well. Secret societies have long used ciphers. The Free and
Accepted Masons monopolized the antique pigpen cipher to such an
extent that it is often called the Freemasons' cipher. Its most common
modern form is this:
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Thus Scottish rite would be enciphered These symbols
annaabi.ee 
