No text, but a visual code

[Hermes777]

I am more and more convinced that the Voynich is a science book. But a medieval science book, which is something different from what we understand by science. Medieval science is something very close to natural magic, to the occult powers of nature.
  
The magicians created some indecipherable characters whose mission was to communicate with those powers. For the ecclesiastical authorities, those characters were the mark of the devil. The science of that time, so close to magic, also created strange characters but with a rational basis, mathematical if you will.

It is not easy to explain but I sense that behind the VM script there is an astronomical system that wants to be a rational explanation of how herbs acquire their medicinal virtues. The characters or glyphs that make up this code are not diabolical, but have a rational basis in the movements of celestial objects.

Both "science" and "magic" and the habit of posing them as antithetical are modern, or more exactly post-Enlightenment, categories, whereas our manuscript is undoubtedly premodern and is a work of traditional cosmology. The defining characteristic of traditional cosmologies is that they are sensitive to the ratios rather than quantities of nature - they are harmonic rather than arithmetic - and map parallelisms across hierarchical orders of ontology. 

Any modern education will train us not to do that, from an early age. So it is a difficult mode of thinking to acquire or simulate for us. Premodern mental habits will note and make much of the fact an orange looks like the setting sun, whereas we are trained not to notice it or to say "so what?" 

For this reason we find it very difficult to get into the mind of the author of the Voynich Ms. and it is also difficult to explain what is going on in the work because it is outside of our framework. (By nature we are the same creatures as medieval man, but certainly not by nurture.)

For practical purposes, what that means is that the Voynich cosmology will operate by "correspondences" (parallelisms) whereby, for instance, certain herbs and flowers "correspond" (are parallel to) certain stars. The quest is to establish what corresponds with what? Typically, though, there are longer series of parallels, so it gets complex. It is clear that in its circles and charts the Voynich MS. is setting out a system of correspondences between different orders of nature. 

The level of correspondence that is usually overlooked is the meteorological. We see it in the Voynich. It has completely dropped out of Western astrology, but we find it in other traditions such as Tibetan astrology (where there are celestial winds and so forth.) 

As far as the text is concerned, it seems to be a systematic lexicon (procedural generation) organised into sets (lines, paragraphs, pages) according to topic, without syntax - and the sets may not be much more than lists of formulae. I suggest that as well as astrological the formulae (vords) can also be elemental, i.e. they are not always celestial coordinates as you describe them.