31-01-2020, 07:23 PM
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This is the magic lantern of Giovanni Fontana and the projection of a devil. As Nick Pelling once wrote: there are plenty of similarities between Fontana’s enciphered book of secrets and the Voynich Manuscript.
Fontana, an engineer, imitates the power the magicians. He takes pride in being able to do what they do, make demons appear for example. But it is an ambivalent game. He shows the mechanism of his artifacts, wants not to be confused with a magician. This confusion is dangerous. It's what explains that he uses a cipher that doesn't hide anything. He just wants to imitate magic writing, but with intelligible meaning. He invents characters with lines and small circles that look like the signs we see in astral magic. But they are characters that are easily replaced by Latin letters.
The VM breathes the same cultural environment. The author has made a science book using natural magic and he uses a magical script to invoke the astral spirits. Maybe he too, like Fontana, doesn't want to be confused with a magician and he makes a script that resembles ordinary writing with glyphs that look like letters.
It could be an explanation to what we see. For me, the meaning of the VM script is almost as intelligible as Fontana's. It's so obvious that it doesn't look. One c is a position of the Moon, two cc is another position and three ccc another. It's that simple. The script is a combination of astronomical symbols that work as a spell.
This is the magic lantern of Giovanni Fontana and the projection of a devil. As Nick Pelling once wrote: there are plenty of similarities between Fontana’s enciphered book of secrets and the Voynich Manuscript.
Fontana, an engineer, imitates the power the magicians. He takes pride in being able to do what they do, make demons appear for example. But it is an ambivalent game. He shows the mechanism of his artifacts, wants not to be confused with a magician. This confusion is dangerous. It's what explains that he uses a cipher that doesn't hide anything. He just wants to imitate magic writing, but with intelligible meaning. He invents characters with lines and small circles that look like the signs we see in astral magic. But they are characters that are easily replaced by Latin letters.
The VM breathes the same cultural environment. The author has made a science book using natural magic and he uses a magical script to invoke the astral spirits. Maybe he too, like Fontana, doesn't want to be confused with a magician and he makes a script that resembles ordinary writing with glyphs that look like letters.
It could be an explanation to what we see. For me, the meaning of the VM script is almost as intelligible as Fontana's. It's so obvious that it doesn't look. One c is a position of the Moon, two cc is another position and three ccc another. It's that simple. The script is a combination of astronomical symbols that work as a spell.