Can anybody see my avatar picture?

[BainsBane]

12. That's very cool

Is the implication that you yourself are an enigma?

I would think the text was encoded to hide it from the Church and the Inquisition, all the more important if the author was in fact a priest. The document looks to be in remarkably good shape, much better than 19th century documents I have used, but paper from that period is thin and those documents in particular were poorly preserved.