07-07-2020, 05:36 PM
(07-07-2020, 05:27 PM)aStobbart wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Maybe not the kind of person who would be interested in medicine/alchemy/astrology/ciphers
I don't think this is relevant, a number of persons involved in the VMS history were not just religious, but they were jesuits or strongly connected to jesuits.
Trithemius was an abbot
In fact, religious doctrines were used to "cover up" aspirations in the fields of magic, alchemy and cryptography, to distinguish "good" from "evil" occupations. Trithemius had quite some problems with this, and not he alone.