If, however, you claim that, to mark the words, we should write them with points of division between them, it will then many times be the case that one or two letters are left over at the end; and it also sometimes happens that a word is composed of only one or two letters.  Now if you with to arrange the secret according to this method, the form of the preceding secret will be this; Hmdbodsns ydigdzmnspgw lfnfop hpqzqhhsyskl.

One may, further, by combining these three different Positions, being the one-letter, the two-letter, and the three-letter Position, write by syllables, but with regard to this method I will speak below, Bk.7.c.3.

So much, then, for the writer; the reader, that he may the more easily resolve the transposed Universal letters, will have need of a table, wherein is contained the Transposition of the Universal alphabet: thus,

     M O V G B Y F R H D X W A I L T Z C S P N Q K E
     a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s t u w x y z

There will, however, be no need of this table if the writer and the reader have each a book so arranged that, on twenty four successive leaves, twenty four pages or parchment slips stand, like an index, in projection, on which slips are written both the Universal transposed letter and the Universal letter which is to be transposed.  For, at the first glance, the reader can catch the first transposed letters and the first true letters, which will help him in his search for the others.  Thus, if he have provided himself with an arrangement either of the one or of the other sort, and the secret be now to be investigated, let him take the first three letters HMD.  The letter H will at once show him I.  By means of I, the Transpositive letter M will next be found in the table, and M points out M.  By means of this, again, the letter D is found, and D indicates P.  And let him continue thus with the other letters.

In using the table, observe that, in its present form, it contains twenty-four letters, sufficient for any language.  If, now one finds that, in the structure of the language, he has no need for H, K, Q, W, X, and Y, he may omit these letters, and the resulting table will be a sixth part shorter.

Again, it is not necessary that the Transpositive letters be always retained as they are found written in the table; rather, will it be to your advantage so to arrange the table, for your won and your confidant’s use, that the Transpositive letters may at pleasure be taken in some other way.  Further, that you may on the third occasion utterly confuse their order, put together four (or, if you prefer, more) books in such a way that each book shall contain a different order of every one of the three Transpositive alphabets.  Then take your three Transpositive letters successively from these books, first from one book and then from another.  The following scheme (wherein the first book is marked 1, the second 2, and the third 3, and the fourth 4) shows that the four books may be arranged in twenty four different ways: