Codex Gigas

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This week on the podcast, we are discussing the Codex Gigas, the Devil's Bible.

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I'm Victus.

I am your personal, professional, paranormal investigator, Utabest.

where each week we put that claim to the test and we record this show live, one take, no edits, and try to figure out if this week's case is truly paranormal or just bullshit.

We're covering the Codex Gigas.

I've had this on the back burner for months.

He was still fumbling about the closet with profane ejaculations and finally emerged with something in his hand that I at first took for a small book.

But he unblushingly put on the table that pasteboard volume sometimes called the Devil's Bible.

"Come," he said, "where's the harm? Let us have a quiet game of casino or California jack or something else.

It is better than perishing of stupidity." I demurred.

All right, three.

What is the complete official title of the ancient Sumerian text discovered by Professor Nobi in the cellar? Is it A, Necronomicon Ex Mortis, B, The Red Book of Westmarch, C, Codex Gigas, or D, The Grimoire of Blood? Yeah,

okay, this one I did know.

Oh, you do know this one? I did know this one, yes.

Did separate answers.

Abby went with A. I'm not going to try to say that word again.

And Connor went with C, Codex Gigas.

And the correct answer was A.

Following that is a controlled waking visionary state of consciousness that can be dialed in and out.

Our modern world might compare this to Uncle Carl's self-induced isolation psychosis while purging out the codex that became The Red Book, or Hermann the Recluse who wrote Codex Gigas, the so-called Devil's Bible.

Because with controlled darkness comes intuition.

The things John the Apostle experienced simply couldn't be expressed in literal language, so the imagery was the language and then that imagery was described using word.

Why, it's the most important book on witchcraft ever written.

I suppose you, you know about The Devil's Bible, do you?

No.

It's in the Royal Library in Stockholm.

How?

Well, the black witch who wants to change and be relieved of the dreadful suffering, which is the portion of all who worship Satan, should first get some warm saltwater, and wash the soles of her feet and the palms of her hands with it, and then she should take what's left of the salt... [tense music]

If you'd like to know the ending to this story, Carol got out of the hospital and went with John and Celia to Stockholm, where I believe they saw The Devil's Bible, a most remarkable book, taller than a man, containing 300 parchment pages, each the size of a double bed.

They say it's the work of a monk arrested for practicing the black arts.

But, um, would...

Uh, DJ Talks Randomly for $5 says, "Would y'all ever do a video on the Codex Gigas? G-I-G-A-S." Codex Gigas.

I'd have to look at what it is.

I do a little Google.

Codex Gigas.

The giant book.

Hmm, interesting.

Yeah.