29-02-2024, 06:48 PM
I suppose it is possible, and until the text is deciphered we will never be sure what it is saying, but other than multiple levels of Heaven, I don't see a connection between 2 Enoch and the Voynich Manuscript. Was there some specific verse in 2 Enoch that you had in mind that I missed?
At the time the Voynich Manuscript was created it took a lot of time and resources to create any manuscript. As I understand it, the current thought is that there were five different scribes who wrote the Voynich Manuscript. A scribe may or may not be the author. Knowing there were five different scribes doesn't tell us how many authors there were.
But it seems there were at least five people, probably all men, who were involved with the creation of the Voynich Manuscript and that isn't counting artists who drew the illustrations. I don't know if there is a consensus on how many artists there were. These five or more people could have been working for some wealthy noble or wealthy merchant but the Catholic Church was very rich in Italy during the early 15th century and commissioned lots of works. I think there is a good chance that the people who created the Voynich Manuscript were a part of the Catholic Church or working for the Catholic Church.
I'm not a biblical scholar but as I understand it, 2 Enoch is not considered to be canonical scripture. I think it is unlikely that so much work would have been put into a manuscript that was not canon.
I think the Voynich Manuscript is the traditional policy of the Catholic Church that men and women should respect the sanctity of marriage and procreation. Echoes of Monty Python. You know the song I am talking about.
I think they were attempting to give a medical explanation of how souls came to be in babies inside their mothers following the union of a man and woman that resulted in conception and then eventually that soul returned to Heaven after life on Earth.
The microscope wasn't invented until around 1590 but the people of the early 14th century knew enough about biology to know that the man made a contribution to the creation of a pregnancy which then required a new soul to come from Heaven and be in that baby for it to be born here on Earth.
Once you see it, you can't un-see it. If you dare, take another look at Image # 135 and tell me you don't see this as an illustration of a man's contribution to the creation of a pregnancy.
Maybe the text was written in some kind of code because it is such a delicate topic that makes a lot of people uncomfortable.
At the time the Voynich Manuscript was created it took a lot of time and resources to create any manuscript. As I understand it, the current thought is that there were five different scribes who wrote the Voynich Manuscript. A scribe may or may not be the author. Knowing there were five different scribes doesn't tell us how many authors there were.
But it seems there were at least five people, probably all men, who were involved with the creation of the Voynich Manuscript and that isn't counting artists who drew the illustrations. I don't know if there is a consensus on how many artists there were. These five or more people could have been working for some wealthy noble or wealthy merchant but the Catholic Church was very rich in Italy during the early 15th century and commissioned lots of works. I think there is a good chance that the people who created the Voynich Manuscript were a part of the Catholic Church or working for the Catholic Church.
I'm not a biblical scholar but as I understand it, 2 Enoch is not considered to be canonical scripture. I think it is unlikely that so much work would have been put into a manuscript that was not canon.
I think the Voynich Manuscript is the traditional policy of the Catholic Church that men and women should respect the sanctity of marriage and procreation. Echoes of Monty Python. You know the song I am talking about.
I think they were attempting to give a medical explanation of how souls came to be in babies inside their mothers following the union of a man and woman that resulted in conception and then eventually that soul returned to Heaven after life on Earth.
The microscope wasn't invented until around 1590 but the people of the early 14th century knew enough about biology to know that the man made a contribution to the creation of a pregnancy which then required a new soul to come from Heaven and be in that baby for it to be born here on Earth.
Once you see it, you can't un-see it. If you dare, take another look at Image # 135 and tell me you don't see this as an illustration of a man's contribution to the creation of a pregnancy.
Maybe the text was written in some kind of code because it is such a delicate topic that makes a lot of people uncomfortable.