02-11-2025, 01:02 AM
in 1400 doesnt exist much words, so they use the same word in repetition that means something different.
BY example, Hermes Trismegistus literally means “three times master” or “thrice great.” In Hermetic philosophy, the number three was never random. It represented completion, total knowledge, and the passage from the material level to the spiritual one. Repetition in threes was used to elevate an idea — it meant that something had reached its highest state of meaning.
That’s why, in alchemical texts, when a word appears three times it’s not a mistake or meaningless redundancy. It’s a symbolic language. The repetition in threes marks the three phases or states of the same element. For example, when you see something like “aqua, aqua, aqua,” it doesn’t simply mean “water, water, water.” It’s describing the process of transformation: first the physical water, the raw matter; then the transforming water, the vapor or energetic essence; and finally the purified or spiritual water, the essence that remains after distillation.
This triple repetition was part of a way of writing that mixed science, philosophy, and ritual. It was common among Hermetic and alchemical authors. The number three expressed the passage from matter to energy and finally to spirit — from the visible to the invisible. So when we see this kind of repetition in old manuscripts, like in parts of the Voynich, it’s not nonsense or copying error. It’s a linguistic ritual meant to encode a complete process of transformation, where matter, change, and spirit are the three stages of the same truth.
BY example, Hermes Trismegistus literally means “three times master” or “thrice great.” In Hermetic philosophy, the number three was never random. It represented completion, total knowledge, and the passage from the material level to the spiritual one. Repetition in threes was used to elevate an idea — it meant that something had reached its highest state of meaning.
That’s why, in alchemical texts, when a word appears three times it’s not a mistake or meaningless redundancy. It’s a symbolic language. The repetition in threes marks the three phases or states of the same element. For example, when you see something like “aqua, aqua, aqua,” it doesn’t simply mean “water, water, water.” It’s describing the process of transformation: first the physical water, the raw matter; then the transforming water, the vapor or energetic essence; and finally the purified or spiritual water, the essence that remains after distillation.
This triple repetition was part of a way of writing that mixed science, philosophy, and ritual. It was common among Hermetic and alchemical authors. The number three expressed the passage from matter to energy and finally to spirit — from the visible to the invisible. So when we see this kind of repetition in old manuscripts, like in parts of the Voynich, it’s not nonsense or copying error. It’s a linguistic ritual meant to encode a complete process of transformation, where matter, change, and spirit are the three stages of the same truth.