01-10-2026, 01:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-10-2026, 01:21 PM by JustAnotherTheory.)
Let me add a few more details. Take a look at the Solomonic magic (Ars Notoria) text BSB Clm 276 from the 14th century:
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Therre are several parallels to the VMS:
I tried to look for "michiton" and "oladabas" in this manuscript, but no luck.
A few words about the Ars Notoria: the reader/practitioner was supposed to learn how to achieve a greater understanding of things very quickly. Like a tutorial for learning and memory, for people who didn't have access to riches and libraries.
One of the ways the Ars Notoria did this, was to memorize large swathes of unintelligible text, like hundreds of names of angels. This is a kind of glossolalia, called Voces Mysticae or Magicae:
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Is the VMS perhaps, a type of Voces Magicae? If so, it would be some kind of "magical speaking in tongues", with no purposeful meaning in a specific language. It could also explain why we cannot decipher it. It might not be a language or a cipher, after all.
Having said that, the issue with the Solomonic magic theory is that it has not much to do with plants. Especially not hundreds of imaginary herbs with weird roots. Plus we don't have an example of a fully encoded Ars Notoria to compare it to. The naked nymphs also do not seem to make sense within this hypothesis.
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Therre are several parallels to the VMS:
I tried to look for "michiton" and "oladabas" in this manuscript, but no luck.
A few words about the Ars Notoria: the reader/practitioner was supposed to learn how to achieve a greater understanding of things very quickly. Like a tutorial for learning and memory, for people who didn't have access to riches and libraries.
One of the ways the Ars Notoria did this, was to memorize large swathes of unintelligible text, like hundreds of names of angels. This is a kind of glossolalia, called Voces Mysticae or Magicae:
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Is the VMS perhaps, a type of Voces Magicae? If so, it would be some kind of "magical speaking in tongues", with no purposeful meaning in a specific language. It could also explain why we cannot decipher it. It might not be a language or a cipher, after all.
Having said that, the issue with the Solomonic magic theory is that it has not much to do with plants. Especially not hundreds of imaginary herbs with weird roots. Plus we don't have an example of a fully encoded Ars Notoria to compare it to. The naked nymphs also do not seem to make sense within this hypothesis.