Questions about Greek influences

[Helmut Winkler]

The real point is, though, that I find it of interest to know what these archei looked like. But perhaps there are no illustrations of them, and they are only mentioned in his text. Anyhow, Paracelsus' work almost certainly postdates the Voynich MS.

I don't know much about these things, but as far as I remember the  archaei are a neo-Platonic concept, something in the Astral plane and not only Paracelsian, but used before him in Alchemical circles (Agrippa?) and there was a lot of neo-Platonism around in the 15th c. What I mean to say: If there are similarities, they must not be derived from Paracelsus, but P. and the VMs could be derived from common sources.