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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I believe that the Voynich is, in a broad sense, a scientific book, that is, a work that attempts to explain natural phenomena. In the Middle Ages, science and natural magic were closely related. Both sought to understand the hidden powers of the physical world.

   Given the images we see in the Voynich, it is not difficult to deduce that the driving idea of the book is the astral influence on plants, but not just any plants, but those that have healing powers. The authors of the VM did not know what photosynthesis was, something that would only be known centuries later, but they had the empirical knowledge that light made herbs grow and flourish. I think the authors wanted to show something like this by highlighting the zodiac signs of spring, when light grows. Sources of light were the sun, the moon, and the stars. We see all of them widely represented in the Voynich.

   How can we explain this hidden power of light over herbs? This is what I believe the authors of the book are trying to understand and convey. It is with this approach that the invention of an astral code, a code of combinations of astronomical symbols, makes sense.