In the 16th century, a mysterious grimoire called The Book of Soyga (also known as Aldaraia ) appeared. It contained magical diagrams, cryptic tables of letters, and instructions for summoning angels. One of its known owners was the occult philosopher John Dee, advisor to Queen Elizabeth I.

: Dee acquired a copy in the early 1580s. He was so obsessed with its secrets that he claimed to consult the Archangel Uriel through the medium Edward Kelley to understand its final pages.

The title Soyga is likely a constructed word, possibly a cipher itself. The text implies that the knowledge within is ancient, predating the Flood, and was given to Adam. This claim of "Adamic knowledge"—knowledge pure and uncorrupted by the Fall—was a common trope in Renaissance magic, used to legitimize the study of the occult.

: An edited English translation by Jane Kupin, which includes 19 sections of the original text, can be found on Scribd and Archive.org .

: After Dee's death, the manuscript was lost for centuries and only rediscovered in 1994 in the British Library and the Bodleian Library .

You can find the English translation by Jane Kupin on platforms like Rakuten Kobo and Amazon .