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IN RELIGIOUS NEWS.
THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT: NOW EVEN MORE FIGURED OUT.
Leonardo and Voynich Manuscript. Which is which? It’s hard to tell!
Since then, the reviews have multiplied further, with the result that the mystery is even more figured out. As of last night, there were 109 reviews at the Internet Archive page. The great majority of them confidently present explanations of the text of the Voynich Manuscript, and a significant number advance our scientific knowledge in other fields as well.
For example, here are some things you didn’t know about botany.
The fauna [by which the reviewer seems to mean “flora”] seems kind of alien because Grape Vines in particular have a history of bringing in the fauna around them to better accommodate their surroundings if they are left untamed, in other words there will be similar shapes and structure of the leaves and roots and also the vining capabilities amongst the complimentary plants that come with them. They learn to spread, climb, and grow in similar patterns including in rows and are capable of changing or variegating the other plants that grow with them.
Another reviewer, whose review is headed simply “Sad,” finds that the manuscript is an illustrated historical document.
Subject: Sad
This book is about a village of innocence taken away by soldiers with weapons like crossbows who came in bounded these poor females impregnated them destroyed their lives and then sadly the creator didn’t live to finish the book rip beautiful souls forever in blessed peace
Apparently the creator of the manuscript was furiously scribbling an illustrated record while the sacking of the village was going on, but was interrupted by massacre—the victorious pillagers, however, taking care to preserve what had been written so far.
Meanwhile, a reviewer named Our Cloaked Unseen World has figured out what the book is all about, and his evidence is undeniable.
Subject: I figured out what this book is all about & My Evidence is Undeniable
Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Decoded by me Evidence=Why is Patent Technology by 2inventors & 2Different eras Nikola Tesla& Mysterious Hyperspace Inventor St Clair JohnQ doing on same page? & Nature Image off My recording Closely matches Nikola Patent on that page & Nikola “There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active,& the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.”
Crazy how Academia and Super computers could not figure this book out but I did just from one page I have the key that unlocks the whole thing pretty much in this one social media post of mine & Here is the answer that should put me down in the History books as solving this. It is my original find & its hard to Deny.
You may go to the Internet Archive page if you wish to see the link to the social-media post. You may be shocked to discover that the link leads to Truth Social.
Another reviewer posts under the subject “Fascinating but not much of a mystery to me”:
I flipped through each page as if reading it and couldn’t help but feel that book was familiar to me. The structure of the handwriting, the drawings, the shape of the letters…then it hit me.
This book isn’t fake, it’s not chinese, and it’s not islamic. This is what we would call a “lost” notebook or journal of a young Leonardo Da Vinci. Before you dismiss me, hear me out…
And so on. Now that our reviewer points it out, you are doubtless thinking that the resemblance between the art of the Voynich Manuscript and Leonardo’s earlier paintings is striking.
A reviewer who is a student of comparative religion explains how Eastern religions work, which is relevant to his interpretation of the manuscript:
It’s a little bit religious and astronomical, but it’s main subject is biology. There are numerous ancient books in eastern world that mixing religion and biology, also they mixed religion and astronomy. So my opinion is that the book is describing plant’s biology with many exemplifications and associating them with religion and astronomy, and totalizes them with the help of woman characters to understand them.
From a different religious perspective, however, the book is a Mid-Evil Witch Grimoire.
Subject: It’s a Mid-Evil Witch Grimoire
I just skimmed through the manuscript and in my opinion I believe as a Pagan & a practicing Witch that this is a Witches Grimoire, either for personal use or within a Coven. And I also believe the words are written using some form of the Witch’s alphabet.
Are you a good witch or a bad witch? Well, I’d say sort of mid-evil.
Finally, we should not neglect the one comment that links to a professionally designed Web site where the decipherer’s claims are presented with slick graphics.
You may find the valid translation work on the Voynich Manuscript in the web page given below. www.turkicresearch.com. This accurate study has been done by Mr. Ahmet Ardic and the ATA Team and the detailed information you may find therein. The decipherment of any sort is not required as it seems basically but rather a translation (interpretation) of the north( north east) Khazarian Turkic language of the medieval ages may be required understandably.
The site is dedicated to work on the Voynich Manuscript by Ahmet Ardic, and although the design is slick, we can take a guess at the attitude of the scholar by noting that the first thing we see on his slider after his name is a quotation from Rumi:
Rûmî said that “You can beat forty scholars with one fact, but you can’t beat one idiot with forty facts.” Mevlânâ Celâleddîn-i Rûmî (1207-1273).
That our scholar all but calls his opponents idiots (“But I didn’t say that. Rumi said that.”) suggests that we are dealing with crank linguistics. A glance at the many interpretations offered shows us a crank in full Barry Fell mode, confidently spinning out the meaning of an entire page from two or three allegedly deciphered words. A linguist who cares about things like grammar and repeatability would probably not accept this kind of work. But in less scientifically enlightened nations, such as Turkey or the United States, this is the approach to science that qualifies you for a government position. We predict a bright future for Mr. Ardic. But a word of advice: he should reconsider the design of his site. It’s too professional for government or academic work. There are still standards to be upheld.
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THEOLOGY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
Clearly the Swedenborgians are only the vanguard of what will become the dominant trend in theology as our century progresses. The Anglicans will soon have an Archchatbot of Canterbury. The Vatican will adopt the new technology within a few years, and the next pope will have a name like code-pius-0013. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) will be replaced by a large language model, and no one will notice.
Thus progress marches forward in religion as in other human endeavors, and at last we begin to see the true meaning of the quotation from Swedenborg engraved over the entrance to the New Church in Pittsburgh: “Nunc licet intrare in arcana fidei”—“Now we may enter into the hidden things of the faith.”
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WHAT THE WORD “POEM” MEANS.
“Success” done up in style in The Inland Printer.
The phrase is an abridged form of the 1904 poem “Success” by Bessie Anderson Stanley…
An essay by Jake Rossen in Mental Floss:
There’s the phrase itself, which appears to have grown popular thanks to a poem by Bessie Anderson Stanley.
An article by Brie Dyas in House Beautiful:
The real source of “Live, Laugh, Love” is Bessie Anderson Stanley’s 1904 poem, “Success.”
A “deep dive” by Jessica Barrett in Refinery29:
While it has often been misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the words were first linked together in a poem called “Success” by Iowan writer Bessie Anderson Stanley in 1904.
And so on. Some of the writers quote the poem:
He [has] achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has left the world better than he found it, whether [by] an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
Now, if you, like Dr. Boli, were born in the eighteenth century and came of age in the nineteenth, you might be thinking, “Where’s the poem? This is an essay.” But it seems that, if you were born in the twentieth century and came of age in the twenty-first, this is what “poem” means. It is a prose composition, generally meant to be inspirational or sincere in some obvious way. In other words, what we used to call an essay; perhaps more specifically what we used to call a personal essay. For these writers, a “poem” is any manufactured expression of sincerity, and it is the manufactured sincerity, not the form, that makes a “poem.”
There was a time—way back in April—when Dr. Boli would have been arrogant enough to say that all these writers do not know what the word “poem” means. But he is past that age. There is not a single writer who talks about this essay who does not call it a poem. “Poem,” therefore, means “prose essay,” whether divided into short lines or not, and the old Johnsonian definition “a metrical composition” must be relegated to the scrap heap of archaisms, where it will join several dozen outdated meanings of “nice.”
This does leave us with no word to describe a metrical composition, which might seem unfortunate. But a moment’s thought reconciles us to the loss. No one in the twenty-first century has any need for a word to describe a metrical composition. Like the forgotten technical terms of alchemy, the archaic meaning of “poem” may be allowed to pass from general use and linger only in a long paragraph of etymological explanation in the Oxford English Dictionary.
If you wish to see Mrs. Stanley’s poem in something like its original form, you can look in publications from 1905 in Google Books or the Internet Archive or Hathi Trust. Dr. Boli will leave you the fun of searching for it yourself, but the poem will not be hard to find, although in those unenlightened days it was never described as a “poem.” It was picked up, often but not always attributed to Mrs. Stanley, by just about every magazine and a number of other publications: The Northwest Journal of Education; The Leather Worker’s Journal; The Ladies’ Home Journal; Breeder and Sportsman; The McMaster University Monthly; Hardwood Record; a Biennial Report of the Bureau of Agriculture of Tennessee; an Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; Motorman, Conductor, and Motor Coach Operator; The Christian Student; The San Francisco and Pacific Druggist; The Free Will Baptist; Pennsylvania Grange News; and yes, though you probably had no need to ask, it was inserted in the Congressional Record. We were not able to find the original publication in the Brown Book, but we did not devote more than three minutes to the search.
“Success” in The Hardwood Record, sharing a page with “The Logical Evolution of the Hardwood Lumber Business.”
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