28-11-2025, 04:47 PM
(28-11-2025, 02:48 PM)oshfdk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.some provocative teachings or any related thought crimes
It is a myth that people at that time were put into prison just for ‘provocative’ teachings. It was a time of new ideas, new philosophies. Belief in the secret sciences was strong, and new ideas were welcomed. An ambitious readership was fast growing. Raising people from the dead, summoning the spirits of dead people, addressing chants to the angels in heaven, incantations, offering burnt offerings to deities, suffumigation, demonic intervention, charting the planets, interpreting their positions to predict the future. All of this was not provocative at the time. These all had a theological basis and so they were accepted as genuine fact.
This was all strong and powerful stuff and only if you were a person of learning and education and had a strong personal faith could you be trusted that you would not use the knowledge for a bad purpose.
I cannot believe that the VMS could possibly be more provocative than manuscripts such as the Picatrix or Ars Notoria. These manuscripts did not hide their content. They were freely available, copied and consulted, unencrypted and readable.
There is a nice book about magic and the role of manuscripts with ‘provocative’ teachings in mediaeval times. I hope you will find it an instructive read.
'The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts' by Anne Lawrence-Mathers.