Hi Michael and Tim

I am thinking you are both right on the Voynich manuscript. 

Michael in ancient times people communicated with symbolism.... hence the folk tales we read today from that time.  The manuscript could be a form of symbolism, written in such a fashion to avoid detection and being burnt at the stake.  If no one but the writer and certain people could understand it then those who would want to burn them alive for they would not have anything tangible to go on, because they would not understand it.

Auto writing is an interesting theory, and it could be so..... I remember reading a post once of a person that did the strangest writing while doing automatic writing. No one could read it or understand what it said.

Pen

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~