A mysterious coded letter penned in the 17th century by a nun who claimed to be possessed by the Devil himself has finally been deciphered using an algorithm found, oddly enough, on the Dark Web. 
 
 Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione was writing letters at the convent of Palma di Montechiaro on August 11 1676, when she claimed that Lucifer was attempting to lure her into serving evil reports La Stampa. 
 
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 She then wrote a note that included a variety of symbols and languages including Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Runic. In the intervening centuries, scholars, cryptographers, mystics and occultists have tried and failed to decipher the text. 
 
 Recently, a team from The Ludum Science Center in Sicily happened to stumble upon an algorithm on the Dark Web which allowed them to decipher the seemingly unintelligible code. 
 
 “We heard about the software, which we believe is used by intelligence services for codebreaking,” said Daniele Abate, director of the center, as cited by The Times. 
 
 “We primed the software with ancient Greek, Arabic, the Runic alphabet and Latin to descramble some of the letter and show that it really is devilish,” he said. 
 
 The newly minted translation of the bizarrely complex letter has fuelled speculation that not only was the nun a rather talented linguist but also that she may have been schizophrenic. 
 
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 The letter allegedly described the Holy Trinity in Catholicism, God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit, as being "dead weights," and goes on to state that, "God thinks he can free mortals,” while encouraging to abandon humans. 
 
 “I personally believe that the nun had a good command of languages, which allowed her to invent the code, and [she] may have suffered from a condition like schizophrenia, which made her imagine dialogues with the Devil,” Abete added. 
 
 “That has not stopped numerous interested Satanic sects contacting me since I published our findings,” Abete added. 
 
 "My theory was that this is a precise alphabet, invented by the nun with great care mixing symbols she knew. Each symbol is well thought out and structured, there are signs that are repeated, perhaps intentionally or perhaps unconsciously," Abete said, as cited by The International Business Times. ||||| A coded letter written by a 17th-century Italian nun who claimed it had been dictated to her by the Devil has been deciphered by scientists using codebreaking software found on the Dark Web. 
 
 According to legend, Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione woke up after fainting to find several letters she had penned in an unintelligible mix of ancient scripts. 
 
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 Sister Maria and the others at the convent of Palma di Montechiaro believed the letters were a scheme by Lucifer to convince her to turn away from God. 
 
 Only one of Sister Maria’s letters composed in 1676 survived, and its text had stumped scholars and codebreakers since then. 
 
 Earlier this week, 341 years later, researchers from the Ludum Science Center in Sicily unscrambled the letter using an algorithm found on the Dark Web. 
 
 “We heard about the software, which we believe is used by the intelligence services for codebreaking,” Center director Daniele Abete told The Times of London. “We primed the software with Ancient Greek, Arabic, the Runic alphabet and Latin to de-scramble some of the letter and show that it really is devilish.” 
 
 The scientists concluded that the letters were a jumble of languages and were composed and written by Sister Maria herself; she had become a skilled linguist during her time at the convent. 
 
 The letter describes the relationship between humans, God and Satan in a rambling and inconsistent manner. 
 
 “God thinks he can free mortals,” Sister Maria’s letter says, adding that “this system works for no one.” The text also describes God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit as “dead weights.” 
 
 Abete said the contents of the letter made him believe she may have been suffering from schizophrenia. 
 
 “I personally believe that the nun had a good command of languages, which allowed her to invent the code, and may have suffered from a condition like schizophrenia, which made her imagine dialogues with the Devil,” Abete told The Times. “That has not stopped numerous interested Satanic sects contacting me since I published our findings.”
– For 341 years, scholars and occultists have been trying to decipher a letter purported to be from the Prince of Darkness, and this week, with the help of the Dark Web, they finally cracked the code. The story goes that Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione, a nun at the convent of Palma di Montechiaro in Southern Italy, woke up after a fainting spell on August 11, 1676, to discover several letters written in her hand in an indecipherable mix of symbols and languages, the Times of Israel reports. Sister Maria and her fellow nuns decided the letters were dictated to her by Lucifer in an attempt to drive Sister Maria away from God and the convent. Only one of the letters survived and for nearly 350 years it has flummoxed scholars, mystics, and codebreakers. But this week, researchers at the Ludum Science Center in Sicily cracked the code using an algorithm they found on the Dark Web, RT reports. “We primed the software with ancient Greek, Arabic, the Runic alphabet and Latin to descramble some of the letter,” Daniele Abate, director of the center, says. And while the translation they came up with does sound sinister—including claims that God and Jesus are "dead weights" and that the "system works for no one"—Abete believes the letter is proof less of the existence of Satan than Sister Maria's talent for languages and mental illness. “I personally believe that the nun had a good command of languages, which allowed her to invent the code, and [she] may have suffered from a condition like schizophrenia, which made her imagine dialogues with the Devil,” Abete says. (After 600 years, has a literary mystery been solved?)