On January 8^th, 1868, an unidentified man delivered to the London estate of Professor Anton Sevlinn one crimson colored journal with the inscription “Sanctum Sanctorum” inscribed on the cover. There has never been a clear explanation as to why this journal was given to Professor Sevlinn, or as to the identity of the man who delivered it to him, but one thing is certain, his life was transformed forever due to the events that followed. Professor Sevlinn had always been an extremely public man, but all that seemed to change after receiving the journal.  He went from lecturing several times a month to almost complete obscurity.  His choice of friends also changed dramatically as he began to delve more deeply into the subjects of occult philosophy and western mysticism.  Many people who knew him well said that his physical appearance also began to change. Just six months after receiving the mysterious book Professor Sevlinn contacted two of London’s most enigmatic occultist, Dr R.S. Rothchile and Eric Bowers. After showing them the crimson colored journal he easily convinced them into forming a secret society called “The Hermetic Order of Arcanus Sanctum.”  According to Sevlinn’s personal records the journal contained translations of certain ancient rituals and ceremonies that date back as far as 500 B.C. During his lifetime Professor Sevlinn showed the journal to only two other people;  Rothchile and Bowers. He never made a copy of it and everything he wrote about it in his own personal diaries was encrypted. He considered the information within the crimson journal to be so important that he never allowed the book to be taken outside of his London estate. It is even rumored that once the journal was placed in his private estate library, he had the two main entrances sealed off from the rest of the house and the only way into the library was through an underground service entrance to which Sevlinn had the only key. All of this was done in order to keep the journal from the prying eyes of rival occult organizations.  He even had the blueprints of his house revised so that the service entrance was omitted. What could have been so important within the journal that would have caused Sevlinn to go to such lengths to protect it? The answer must surely lie within his personal diaries. Professor Sevlinn kept very accurate records of all of his activities and he never allowed anyone access to his  personal diaries, that is until two months before his death when  Sevlinn turned all of his personal records over to Eric Bowers. Sevlinn never commented on what he thought was the true meaning of the inscription on the cover of the journal, however he told Bowers before his death that he thought it was of Gnostic origin. Professor Sevlinn gave Bowers permission to translate and publish his diaries, but this never came to pass and the secrets of Sevlinn’s encrypted journal remain undisclosed to this very day. Bowers never spoke about what became of professor Sevlinn’s diaries, but it is rumored that he sold copies of them to several prominent collectors of occult literature. As for the originals, there is no clear answer as to what happened to them. During his time as head of the order Professor Sevlinn used the rituals and ceremonies of the crimson journal as the foundation of the Order of Arcanus Sanctum, but only the three founding members were ever allowed access to its contents. Upon his death the journal was to be turned over to his successor within the organization but his house burned to the ground just two days before his passing away and none of his possessions were ever recovered, including the journal. It was later determined that the cause of the fire was arson and this only lead to more speculation about what really happened to the crimson journal. The exact contents of the book may never be known, but the legacy of Anton Sevlinn and The Hermetic order of Arcanus Sanctum are very much secure within the mysterious history of occult lore.