Vestibule: Esoterismo

The esoteric thing (of Greek that, “inside”) is against the exotérico (of Greek éxo, “it was”). A doctrine or education is designated to the part of that stays far from the general attention, reserved to a small core of initiates thus.

Thus, the lessons that Plato it orally solicited to his disciples advanced in the Academy, by opposition to the exotéricas gathered in the dialogs published by this one are considered esoteric.

According to the student René Guénon, all the traditional religions have an esoteric core, that by its symbolic complexity remains hidden for the majority of the believers. The idea of the esoteric thing goes united to those of initiation and occultism, because the sense of the iniciáticos rituals is, indeed, to penetrate in that internal circle and to accede to the hidden knowledge.

The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book of unknown contents, written it makes around 500 years by an anonymous author in an alphabet nonidentified and an incomprehensible language.

Throughout its stated existence, the manuscript has been object of intense studies by numerous professional cipher clerks and amateurs - including deciphered American and British specialistic outstanding in of World War II. No was able to decipher a single word. This rollover of failures has turned to the manuscript into the Holy Grail of the historical cryptography; but it has also fed the theory that the book is not more than a processed deceit, a sequence of symbols at random without sense some.

The book was named by the old book specialist Wilfrid M. Voynich, acquired who it in 1912. At the moment it is item MS 408 in the rare book Library Beinecke and manuscripts of the University of Yale.

The alchemy is one old protocientífica practice and philosophical discipline that combines elements of the chemist, the metallurgy, the physics, the medicine, the astrology, the semiótica, the mysticism, the spiritualism and the art. The alchemy has been practiced in Old Egypt, Persia, India and China, in Old Greece and the Roman Empire, in the Islamic Empire and later in Europe until century XIX, in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems that includes at least 2,500 years.

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