Ensoulment

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On "ensoulment" the key text must be Porphyry's 'On the Cave of the Nymphs' which, surprisingly, is rarely if ever mentioned in the context of the Voynich ms. but which is glaringly relevant, surely? (The first edition in the West is 16th C, but a summary was made in the Greek East in the 11th C. and circulated widely and must certainly have been known to Plethon and his school.) Nymphs as souls? The classical text for it is Porphyry. (A neglected text, an English translation was made by the great Thomas Taylor.)