The Ghost of John Dee M.A.
The whole cipher business fascinated me from the start. But something has always puzzled me regarding Bacon: many times when reading some article or other about Bacon and ciphers, I came across statements stating that the 'Bacon number' is 33, Francis is 67, and Francis Bacon is 100. But I could never find the source of those numbers associated with that name. There is absolutely no evidence that Bacon used 'gemetria'*, and there's no evidence that anyone else used those numbers. They seem to have appeared out of thin air. Of course I, like many others, know full well that the numbers are correct, but where in the ancient documents and texts is it written? The same thing applies to John Dee: it is often claimed that he used OO7 as a code of some kind, but I have yet to find any such example. Over the years I've come to the conclusion that the only way to get at the truth is to use a strict systematic approach to the whole business. I decided that if there are