Perspectives
Page 74 of the Voynich Manuscript
Humans, though they have reason to be wary of things they do not understand, are still drawn to the unknown. At some indeterminate point in the 14th century, driven by curiosity and a deeply felt desire to know the world and our place in it, a book began to form, a record of a quest for understanding of the world that was familiar, but bent to the will of forces unknown and unknowable to its authors. Authors who, in their time, would have been seen by many as immoral heretics. And so, this book needed to be hidden and became an unknown and unknowable artifact. Encoded and allegorical in its illustrations, this book would move through the centuries as a great mystery, even as the world grew more at ease with the studies its authors undertook.
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