Lord Larehip

Are there esoteric manuscripts from these times that we can point to? Yes, one of the most mysterious is the Voynich Manuscript. It was written probably in Italy in the early 15th century by an unknown author in an unknown language or writing system. No one has yet deciphered it although a great many have tried. It is written in dozens of strange glyphs of which about 25 are repeated many times throughout the text which is about 170,000 glyphs long. The rest of the glyphs appear only once or twice. This makes the task of deciphering the writing exceedingly difficult. A page from the Voynich Manuscript:



The manuscript is also full of colored illustrations. Whether the author is also the artist is unknown:










This one appears to be a galaxy.









This was obviously a document of a secret society. Some attribute it to Da Vinci but this is not convincing. Da Vinci never wrote in any such code in anything else and the artwork certainly does not compare to Da Vinci's talent. Whoever the author was, he was educated and either wealthy or patronized by someone of wealth. The work had to be produced for some kind of audience but obviously that audience would have to know how to read the glyphs so it was not meant for anyone outside a certain circle.

What society was this and who belonged to it is anyone's guess. What knowledge is contained in the codex and where it came from is also unknown. It seems to me however that this is a very important find and deciphering it may tell us a lot about our past.