Repetition of words

[Barbrey]

I think Mark might be right and I look forward to his results. I did want to contribute a few observations about repeated words that I’ve seen in these manuscripts. I’ve broached a lot of unfamiliar territory since first reading Mary D’Imperio! The occult and alchemy are two examples. 

I noticed in the Picatrix for talisman making that you’d be instructed to recite a prayer when making one, and these prayers often consisted of repeated words, probably nonsense words. Hermetic texts did this too, a lot of times a lot of vowels together. I suspect this was to help with religious fervour but on the printed page it looks like howling. 

I’ve never read The Book of the Holy Trinity (alchemy text contemporaneous with VMS) because it’s not in English. However, I’ve read a lot about it and extracts from it. Apparently, the author would write fairly succinctly, relatively speaking, in Latin and then fill big paragraphs in Middle High German with gibberish, including repeated words. 

So maybe your comparisons are to the wrong books, Mark!  I’m 90% kidding, but I still retain hope the The Book of the Holy Trinity will be translated one day and I can take a proper look.