22-02-2019, 06:06 PM
My last post about the tapestry of astrolabes has disappeared maybe because of the last server crash. It doesn't matter. My purpose was to show the identity of the stars and herbs-flowers in the mentality of people from the XV century. You can see other examples of this identity in the Ellie Velinska's blog, in the post 'Dotted Stars' with old manuscripts where stars and flowers are confused.
In the 'Treatise of signatures' by Oswald Croll or Crollius, an follower of Paracelsus, we can read the best description of that identity. It reads: "Stars are the matrix of all the herbs of the Earth and every star of the sky is only the spiritual prefiguration of an herb".
It's the hermetic philosophy of the Italian Renaissance.
God has marked all the creation with signatures. The medicinal herbs are marked. Its shapes (roots, leaves, flowers) resemble human organs, parts of the body which are healed by them. Maybe something of this philosophy is reflected in the herbs of the Voynich and they are part of the alchemical tradition They look like fantastic herbs but they don't need an explanatory text, only to link them with its correspondent stars.
In the 'Treatise of signatures' by Oswald Croll or Crollius, an follower of Paracelsus, we can read the best description of that identity. It reads: "Stars are the matrix of all the herbs of the Earth and every star of the sky is only the spiritual prefiguration of an herb".
It's the hermetic philosophy of the Italian Renaissance.
God has marked all the creation with signatures. The medicinal herbs are marked. Its shapes (roots, leaves, flowers) resemble human organs, parts of the body which are healed by them. Maybe something of this philosophy is reflected in the herbs of the Voynich and they are part of the alchemical tradition They look like fantastic herbs but they don't need an explanatory text, only to link them with its correspondent stars.