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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I have included in my last post the opinions of 20th century researchers such as Panofsky, Father Petersen and Mary d'Imperio because I share many of the things they said. Personally, I am sorry that they are no longer with us, because I would have liked to know their opinion on my theory.

Regarding Panofsky, the most qualified of them from the iconological point of view, he said the following, as I read in the excellent page of René Zandbergen:

   The Voynich appears to include first a general cosmological philosophy explaining the medicinal properties of terrestrial objects, particularly plants, by celestial influences transmitted by astral radiation and those spirits which were frequently believed to transmit the occult power of the stars to the earth.

Curiously, two decades earlier, in 1931, the first time Panofsky saw the book, he was right to date it better than the second time. But this had to do with the fact that he came to give a margin of credit to the American identification of the sunflower.

Although the first time he did not explicitly mention his hypothesis of astral spirits, he did show that this was what he thought because he said that the Voynich was possibly the surviving book of two volumes: the plant and star half of the work which doubtless include also beasts and stones