03-09-2025, 05:29 PM
For over a century, the greatest minds – from Friedmann to modern artificial intelligence algorithms – have been trying to decipher the text of the Voynich Manuscript. And for over a century, they all have ended the same way: helplessness. Some have seen it as a Romance language, others as an Aztec language, still others as a medical or astrological treatise. No theory has stood the test of time.
I don't want to belittle anyone or diminish the researchers' efforts; on the contrary – I admire their passion and perseverance. However, the problem lies in the premise itself: everyone is stubbornly staring at the letters. Yet the text could be a deliberate veil, a labyrinth intended to entrap those seeking meaning.
In my opinion, the true code is hidden in the illustrations. Semiology suggests: sign, symbol, ideogram. Plants, bodies, diagrams – these are the ones that convey meaning. The text serves more as decoration than as a carrier of information.
A few years ago, I proposed viewing the herbal section as a kind of compendium of history – from the Big Bang, through the evolution of life, the birth of civilization, to the present and the future. Every root, leaf, and flower is a record of events. It's the medieval equivalent of the Pioneer's golden plaque, a testimony left for future generations.
Researchers are therefore battling not a simple cipher, but something I would call a multi-level intelligence from 600 years ago, created by people with access to a source of knowledge that we cannot clearly understand today. Therefore, all traditional methods – whether linguistic, cryptographic, or computer – may prove insufficient.
And here we come to the crux of the matter. The Voynich Manuscript will likely never be cracked using either classical or digital methods. This isn't because the researchers are incompetent – they are exceptional – but because we are dealing with a structure that has transcended classical boundaries from the outset. The text will deceive endlessly, and the solution lies in the images. Deciphering them requires not only intellect but also a different perspective - one that allows us to view signs and symbols as a language in themselves.
My post should therefore be considered a polemic, an invitation to a shift in perspective. This is not to undermine the efforts of others, but to point out that in the game of the Voynich Manuscript, the winner will not be the one who calculates and encodes, but the one who can read the symbols and images. Because this book was not created to be broken by the methods of reason, but to open the way to a different kind of knowledge.
I don't want to belittle anyone or diminish the researchers' efforts; on the contrary – I admire their passion and perseverance. However, the problem lies in the premise itself: everyone is stubbornly staring at the letters. Yet the text could be a deliberate veil, a labyrinth intended to entrap those seeking meaning.
In my opinion, the true code is hidden in the illustrations. Semiology suggests: sign, symbol, ideogram. Plants, bodies, diagrams – these are the ones that convey meaning. The text serves more as decoration than as a carrier of information.
A few years ago, I proposed viewing the herbal section as a kind of compendium of history – from the Big Bang, through the evolution of life, the birth of civilization, to the present and the future. Every root, leaf, and flower is a record of events. It's the medieval equivalent of the Pioneer's golden plaque, a testimony left for future generations.
Researchers are therefore battling not a simple cipher, but something I would call a multi-level intelligence from 600 years ago, created by people with access to a source of knowledge that we cannot clearly understand today. Therefore, all traditional methods – whether linguistic, cryptographic, or computer – may prove insufficient.
And here we come to the crux of the matter. The Voynich Manuscript will likely never be cracked using either classical or digital methods. This isn't because the researchers are incompetent – they are exceptional – but because we are dealing with a structure that has transcended classical boundaries from the outset. The text will deceive endlessly, and the solution lies in the images. Deciphering them requires not only intellect but also a different perspective - one that allows us to view signs and symbols as a language in themselves.
My post should therefore be considered a polemic, an invitation to a shift in perspective. This is not to undermine the efforts of others, but to point out that in the game of the Voynich Manuscript, the winner will not be the one who calculates and encodes, but the one who can read the symbols and images. Because this book was not created to be broken by the methods of reason, but to open the way to a different kind of knowledge.
