Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

It's NOT the job of research to turn it into something meaningful. It's the job of research to determine what it is and it may NOT be meaningful in a normal linguistic way. It may be processed text.

You remind me of the UN chemical weapons inspectors: their job is to determine whether or not chemical weapons were used, not to say who did it.

But I think you need to understand that the Rosicrucians (my field of expertise) did not write gibberish. They wrote so that members of the Inquisition would think it's gibberish while scholars with certain knowledge would be able to figure out the true meaning. Thus, every word of the marginalia has to be saying something directly or indirectly useful for the decoding of the VMS. If your analysis of any section of the handwriting does not lead to something helpful, it is safe to assume that you probably went astray somewhere along the way.

For example, on f116v, there is no chance whatsoever that they wrote 'pox leber' with the intention of it meaning 'goat's liver'. It is therefore necessary to examine pox leber for clues on how to modify it. Thus, we see that the x of pox is written in a much darker ink, likely overwriting a different letter, and we see a stray dot above leber, giving us an excuse to exchange one of those e's for an i. And so forth.

On the top of f17r, I am not saying that the 'vi' has to be the reversal 'iv' (the letter w) but only that such a reversal falls within the realm of possibilities and would be consistent with other indications that the VMS decodes in a right to left direction.

So far, I am able to make sense out of roughly 70% of the marginalia. If I make further progress, I'll let you know.