29-11-2024, 01:46 PM
In the cathedral of Siena there is a 15th century mosaic of Hermes Trismegistus. It may be surprising that a legendary figure who is a synthesis of ancient knowledge, magic, astrology and alchemy appears linked to Christianity. Although he never lost his ambiguous nature, in the first centuries of Christianity Hermes was considered a pagan prophet of the coming of Christ, hence, for example, some ideas of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa have been related to hermeticism.
A central idea of Hermeticism is the intimate correspondence of heaven and earth, of the astral influence on terrestrial phenomena. One of the mottos of this thought is what is above, there is below. In the Voynich, a book that basically consists of herbs and stars, a thought like this could explain why in the last section the stars can be confused with flowers, or why the color blue is so prominent in the flowers of the codex.
The Voynich could have been made by a group of people in a medieval university or in a monastery. There is nothing strange in that it was like this and that it is a perfectly orthodox work from the Christian point of view of the time.
A central idea of Hermeticism is the intimate correspondence of heaven and earth, of the astral influence on terrestrial phenomena. One of the mottos of this thought is what is above, there is below. In the Voynich, a book that basically consists of herbs and stars, a thought like this could explain why in the last section the stars can be confused with flowers, or why the color blue is so prominent in the flowers of the codex.
The Voynich could have been made by a group of people in a medieval university or in a monastery. There is nothing strange in that it was like this and that it is a perfectly orthodox work from the Christian point of view of the time.