It uses common religious notions like ‘epiphany’ (a revelation), ‘pilgrimage’ and ‘enlightment’. When the third round was announced on the 6th of January 2014, the message, found on Cicada’s twitter, sounded religious in tone too.

The religious language is very noticeable in all the circles, the third forming no excpetion. The choice for a religious figure with apocalyptic connotations for Cicada’s third cycle is not too surprisingly.

Now, all four panels of the cover of the Liber Primus, as well al the three drawings they were taken from have one thing in common: Daniel from the Hebrew Bible. In the second place, in 1773, Newton himself published a book about – yes, here we are – Daniel, called Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. Kaiser, Creational theology and the history of physical science (1997), p. In the first place, Blake took serious issue with two Newtonian ideas: absolute space and time, and supramechanical force (C. The second fragment, of Blake’s Newton, seems to have no connection with the book of Daniel, but I beg to differ. I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom. I kept looking in the night visions, / And behold, with the clouds of heaven / One like a Son of Man was coming, / And He came up to the Ancient of Days / And was presented before Him. His throne was ablaze with flames, / Its wheels were a burning fire. I kept looking / Until thrones were set up, / And the Ancient of Days took His seat / His vesture was like white snow / And the hair of His head like pure wool. The specific notion of ‘Ancient of days’ ( palaios hemeron in the Greek Septuagint, and antiquus dierum in the Latin Vulgate) is found – again – in the book of Daniel. The frontpiece itself is called ‘Ancient of Days’, one of the many names given to the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible. The frontpiece depicts one of Blake’s divine entities, known as Urizen, associated in Blake’s mythology with Reason. The third segment is that of the frontpiece of Europe a Prophecy, respectively drawn and written by Blake in 1974.

After seven years of God-induced madness, he is cured and praises God, as Daniel predicted when interpreting the king’s own dream earlier. In this chapter, the king of Babylon – commonly reffered to as Nebuchadnezzar II (reigned c. 605 – c. 562 BC) – is taught a lesson by Israel’s God, ‘who is able to bring low those who walk in pride’. The first painting is of Nebuchadnezzar, especially as depicted in the Biblical book of Daniel 4. Middle down (2b): The Ancient of Days (1974) – turned 90 degrees.Middle top (2a): Newton (1795) – mirrored.Left (1a) and right (1b): Nebuchadnezzar (c.The cover is divided in four tiles, all segments of works by William Blake, My primary assumption is that the interpretation of the cover is connected to the biblical figure of Daniel (from the Hebrew Bible book with the same name). Many have tried to interpret it before, but I seem to have found a possibility that I have not found anybody else having tried. Since I am not a skilled cryptographer, mathematician or programmer, I turned to the collage that is the cover of the Liber Primus. 3301’, along with the digital encypted ‘authograph’ of the organization (known to be used for all communication) and some other cryptographic clues in order to find the 56 pages of the entire Liber. When the image was processed by a programm called OutGuess – a tool used before by Cicada 3301 – the following message was found hidden in the file ‘Welcome. The html title given to the page was ‘For Every Thing That Lives Is Holy’, a rather religious sounding phrase. The cover of the Liber Primus was found on a – now ‘dead’ – page on the dark web: auqgnxjtvdbll3pv.onion. Nobody known who or what ‘Cicada 3301’ is or for what it stands, but there are still a considerable amount of enthusiasts who try to find out more about Cicada 3301 and/or want to solve the Liber Primus puzzle in order to proceed further down the proverbial rabbithole. The last puzzle of the 2014 edition was the ‘publication’ of the Liber Primus, (Latin for ‘First Book’) written in an unkown rune characters, of which only a couple of pages could be decyphered. No more puzzles were given, and the group only communicated twice since that time, on Januand in April 2017. Starting on January 4, 2012, the mysterious group has posted difficult puzzles on the internet, supposedly to recruit ‘highly intelligent individuals’.Ī second puzzle round started on January 4, 2013, and a third on the same date one year later.

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