09-04-2020, 09:48 AM
If I say that the VM is a scientific treatise on astrological magic it seems like I'm saying something contradictory. Can science and astrological magic go together? For me, this is the key, the key that opens the understanding of the VM.
The closest work to VM in its time is the Giovanni Fontana books. Fontana, an engineer, imitates the power the magicians, but 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 author of the VM, like Fontana, also imitates the power of magic, but with astrological glyphs that have meaning by themselves.
The closest work to VM in its time is the Giovanni Fontana books. Fontana, an engineer, imitates the power the magicians, but 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 author of the VM, like Fontana, also imitates the power of magic, but with astrological glyphs that have meaning by themselves.