Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

I really don't want to enter this discussion, but it would probably be almost devious to let (parts of) it run on without pointing out the long-known case of folio nr. 42.

I've been studying their writings for years and I can fairly say that they did not do anything haphazardly. Lots of planning and forethought went into every stroke of the pen.

I think the overwriting of a plant could have been avoided either by placing the number in the middle of the page or by reversing the order of pages so that the corner plant fell on a page that did not require a number. Thus, I surmise it is possible that they wanted to draw our attention to the number "42", that this number might have some significance for the decoding effort.

In the 12th and 13th centuries (postulated for the creation of the VMS encryption system), the number 42 did have importance and appeared frequently in the literature of the epoch. Specifically, the mystical name of God had precisely 42 letters.

Meanwhile, the 42nd section of the Bahir (a mystic classic written in that epoch) might also have relevance. I'm here citing Scholem's book called Origins:

“To this syzygy also corresponds the symbolism of letters in section 42. Every letter has a "partner," if one counts the alphabet each time, forwards and backwards.”

This here is a clipping from the wheels of the Merkabah on f57v:



Note that the first and third wheels have a 'start line' marked by a single bar, But the inner wheel (the one which contains the all-critical transliteration alphabets) has two start lines marked by a double bar, allowing one proceed either forwards or backwards.