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The detectives looked further into other
recent suicides of known psychiatrists and uncovered that many of
them also shared some sort of link to this unusual book.
Typically the evidence surfaced in the forms of notes relating to
patients who had read part or all of the book. The assumption was
made that these patients may have brought the book to the doctors,
exposing them to its content. Because I do not have any
records of these specific cases, I cannot say what became of the
patients or if any copies of the book were found at the scene.
Deeming the book too dangerous for any
one person to examine, the small group of brave psychologists who
first took on this research agreed that the pages should be divided.
Each doctor would receive only a few pages, then write an analytical
report to share with his colleagues. This worked, although only
later would history reveal how much luck had played into their hands. The
pages alone didn't have the strength of their combined whole.
What they discovered was truly amazing. Some pages consisted
of simple text while others included drawings, puzzles, or
babblings. Here, for the first time ever, are actually images
from a page of the Libri Verum. This example demonstrates how
the front and back of a page seem to be meaningless, yet when the
page is folded a particular way, the message becomes clear.

Why try to hide a message in a book that
has already established its clear intentions? Perhaps this was
a compromise of sorts, the guilt of contributing to a source of
madness versus the overwhelming desire to speak. Only the
author knew. And sometimes I even wonder about that.
It is often believed that insanity and genius are only a whisper
apart.
Several pages, even to this day, seem to
have no meaning. If they do, they have yet to be discovered.
The vast majority of pages, however, allowed the panel of
psychologists to form an educated hypothesis. The final
sentence of their summary read, "We therefore conclude that the
literature in question may cause the participating subject to
negotiate their circumstances to a lethal end." In simpler
terms - the book can
kill.
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