First up, in Greece, C.R.C. discovered a tablet fragment inscribed with indecipherable characters. He made a drawing of these characters in a diary that he began to keep. This diary was later typeset and copies were distributed to select Brothers and Sisters.
The typeset copies also included a facsimile of the unrecognizable script, in the hopes that the Brothers and Sisters might be able to someday translate it. The facsimile appears thus, with C.R.C.'s diary entry below :
Credo has fuiſse litteræ Enochi. Non eſt dubium vt ſint multum
anticæ
quoniam nemo ne inter eruditiſsimos quidem illas legere
poteſt.
I believe these to have been the letters of Enoch. There is no doubt that they are
very old since no one, not even among the most learned, is able to read them.
A later Brother, identified as Fr I.D., noticed a particular sequence of four symbols that occurs twice in the short text :
Taking his cue from C.R.C.'s hypothesis concerning the origin of the characters, Brother I.D. proposed that these might be the Adamic characters equivalent to the Hebrew אדני (Adonai) but in this he was mistaken. We now know that the script is Linear B, and the four characters highlighted by Brother I.D. can be read as e-ru-ku-te, likely a cognate of the later Greek ειρκτή (prison).
The full inscription can be read : Whereas some say the body was created as a prison for the soul, I ask, is the nest a prison for the bird ?
This esoteric question surely would've intrigued C.R.C. had he been able to decipher it.
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