Alchemy Theory

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If the manuscript was meant to be an alchemist’s notebook I can see the people involved creating a code to protect it from being destroyed. And ironically if that is true then the Voynich manuscript ending up in the collection of Jesuits feels bittersweet as the Jesuits are focused on knowledge ...
that a book of what the Catholic Church fought against ended up in their hands. If the book is cracked and it is a tome of alchemical knowledge it would give us a new window into the world of alchemists working in the early Renaissance. .....

The Catholic church and Jesuits were not only against the alchemy, but its home and heart.
The Jesuits also ran an extensive network of pharmacies- Jesuit "brothers" served as apothecaries in Austrian, Bohemian and Polish provinces (17 century).
Bohemian province was a hub of pharmaceutical knowledge and expertise.
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Consider the recorded evidence:

1. Albertus Magnus(1200-1280)- A Dominican friar was the most influential alchemist of the Middle Ages.
2. Roger Bacon (1214-1294) a Franciscan friar was perhaps the most famous alchemist of the medieval period
3. Thomas Aquinas 
The list is long so I will not continue. 

Maybe it  suffices  to mention  the Shakespeare"s Romeo and Juliet  example - Friar Laurence who was a Franciscan Friar and deep knowledgeable in herbs and medicinal plants?
 Remember the story takes place in medieval Italy and is based on a real story, reflected from an Italian author.

The very Athanasius Kircher, who received the Voynich manuscript for translation is the most famous example of alchemist at his time. This German Jesuit was polymath and wrote extensively on alchemy, chemistry and underground world. He proposed that the volcanic underworld formed the metals from two prima principles- sulpher and mercury...

If the church fought against alchemy, why are the most famous alchemists and herbalists Catholic friars?