Is the text supposed to translate to something useful? It doesn't appear to follow the language's conventions. How is it deciphered, and in which direction should it be read? Is its content story-related or does it answer the monolith puzzle?

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(I have ten more images of the pages themselves, but I'm afraid they'd make this thread too long.)

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FROM OUT OF NOWHERE IMPOSSIBLE VISITORS OUR BENEFACTORS WATCHING OVER US IN THE HIDDEN FOLDS OF SPACE IN FRONT OF BEHIND GIVE THE GOLDEN GIFT A DEEP REVELATION OUR EYES WIDE OPEN SHAPES TO TESSELLATE WITH SACRED GEOMETRY AN EMPIRE TO BUILD A NEW PERSPECTIVE THINGS UNSEENS BUT ALWAYS THERE A NEW DIRECTION THE HEXAHEDRON THE SIXTY FOUR BIT NAME OF GOD THE POINT OF ORIGIN A PATTERN A CODE A DEEP UNDERSTANDING A GATE TO THE STARS ALL OF TIME AND SPACE AND THE SPACE OUTSIDE OF SPACE WHERE DOES IT END

The tome consists of haikus. Some were spread throughout the game—written on walls and repeated by owls. The book is read three-dimensionally, using a letter from each page in this order: 15263748. The text isn't rotated, and the translation starts in the upper-right corner and moves downwards. The decyphering technique is described at GameFAQs.

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