Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Hi Morten,

I have also examples of page 42.
The first one is from the VMS, the two other ones are from manuscripts circa 1550.

Hi Paris,

John Dee was my gateway to the VMS. Around six or so years ago, I investigated him as a candidate for co-authorship of several astrological almanacs that were forged in the French language and backdated some thirty to forty years to the 1550s and 1560s. Dee was already an astrologer back in the 1550s and hence one of the few people in England who could have assisted on such a project. In the course of this research, I discovered that Dee was accused a selling a mysterious manuscript to an emperor in Prague, so I decided to check it out. Prior to that, I have no recollection of ever having heard of the VMS.

A single number, like 42, is hardly sufficient to draw conclusions. Let's have a brief look at a nearby number:



So, Paris, please tell us which one is a) a classic symbol of medieval alchemy, b) a VMS page number, c) a SSM page number, and d) standard VMS text of the 15th century?

Let me remind you that JP has already determined that the author of the VMS marginalia had to have been a master forger. To my way of thinking, if he was able to forge 15th-century handwriting, why couldn't he also forge someone else's numbers? This whole thing could turn out to be a fool's game not worth playing.

There appears to be ample historical evidence that the SSM was in John Dee's vast library and there is also lots of evidence that the VMS decoders had access to that library. Thus, there is every reason to suspect that the SSM could prove helpful for our decoding efforts. Indeed, the SSM seems to be the only manuscript that spells out the complete names, apparently critical, for example, for distinguishing an "i" from a "y".