Does Cryptic Code Hidden in Beale Ciphers Reveal Secrets of the Freemasons?
The Beale Ciphers have challenged prize seekers for nearly 200 years. Is the Declaration of Independence the secret to discovering the gold, silver, and jewels that Beale hidden near Bedford, Virginia? Can the problem of the ciphers be addressed? A woodshop instructor has actually located a remedy but not the treasure.
Beale’s Treasure a Freemason’s Story by Dan Mento recognizes long-lasting Freemason Dr. Robert Morris, the second Freemason Poet Laureate and father of the Order of the Eastern Star, as the designer of the Beale Papers. Dr. Robert Morris and the Board on Foreign Communication composed the Beale Papers.
What are the Beale Ciphers?
The Beale Papers are an epic – near mythological – account of a man called Beale that traveled to Colorado from Virginia to search buffalo in 1816 with thirty other men. It is reported that after one of the participants of the searching party found surface gold, the searching adventure developed into a mining expedition.
According to the account, Beale and also his men extracted for over two years and also amassed thousands of extra pounds of silver and gold ore. Beale as well as a few of his men journeyed back to Virginia twice, hiding thousands of extra pounds of gold ore, silver ore, and a variety of jewels simply 4 miles (6.44 km) from the community of Bufordville in Bedford Area, Virginia.
Beale left three encrypted web pages with an innkeeper named Robert Morris. The Beale Ciphers told of a partner of Beale’s who would go back to Bufordville with a vital to decrypt the encrypted pages and also claim the prize. The associate never ever shown up. The 3 encrypted pages are called containing the place of the treasure, the names of the family members of the miners, as well as the components of the buried treasure. In 1885 the 3 ciphers were sold to the public as The Beale Documents.
Beale’s Treasure a Freemason’s Story writer Dan Mento, a woodshop teacher pausing from rating his pupil’s dimension projects and also looking for a brief distraction, ran into the enigma of Beale Papers on the web. He read a summary of the Beale Ciphers and was intrigued. He printed a copy of the Prize Cipher also known as C1.
Finding Coordinates
Mento’s impressions led him to refine the numbers from C1 as roadway bearings and range land surveyor collaborates. The outlining procedure generated a graphical depiction that seemed a road or river taking a trip in a North Easterly direction. Interested by the outcomes, Mento located a map of Montvale, Virginia. Montvale, formerly known as Bufordville, was where the thought Beale prize was to have been buried. After he looked the map for a North Easterly road or river, he recognized North Goose Creek as a feasible match.
Given that more than 180 years had actually passed, he needed to locate an older map. Mento found an 1891 topographic map of Roanoke, Virginia as well as looked carefully at the Bufordville section of the map, which exposed a roadway that was a near ideal match to the graphical depiction that he had actually drawn from the Treasure Cipher. Mento acknowledged that he was onto something as well as created a method for properly outlining the land surveyor data from the prize cipher onto the 1891 topographic map.
Mento eventually recognized that the three encrypted web pages (the Prize Cipher C1, Fixed Cipher C2, as well as the Labels Cipher C3) all had property surveyor coordinates. Plotting the coordinates of the 3 ciphers, he located that they precisely matched 3 converging roadways that merged at an equilateral triangular turn from the 1891 topographical map of Roanoke, Virginia. Mento thought the encrypted surveyor’s bearings and also distance works with would certainly have had to originate from a property surveyor’s note pad probably supplied by James B. Ward, who was the printer of Beale Documents, a Freemason, and also a county land surveyor.
The Beale Papers mentioned that the Solved Cipher C2 was fixed by transposing the numbers from C2 to letters making use of the Declaration of Independence. The transcription of C2 informed of gold ore, silver ore, as well as gems that had actually been hidden. Mento envisioned the opportunity that the bearings and range numbers served a twin purpose as well as likewise could be shifted to words.
Anagrams and Phrases
He decrypted the road surveyor bearings as well as distance numbers to letters making use of the Declaration. This revealed over 30 four-letter anagrams and phrases connecting to Freemasonry. The similarity OATH, AIMA, SCRAP, ETON, OTHER HALF, WAGE, MADE, GATE, EAST, INCA, IPSE, FORT, IBIS, NAOS, SION, ORIO, EAAA “Entered Apprentice Ancient and Accepted,” ATRA “American Templar Royal Arch,” and OBDT “Obedient Slave” are discovered within C1, C2, and C3 roadway bearings and distance numbers.
Furthermore, Mento uncovered that each of the 3 cipher web pages included ingrained areas of numbers that did not have plottable roadway bearings. C1 contains one area, C2 has three fields, and also C3 includes two fields. The 6 embedded fields are symmetrically situated in each of the 3 cipher web pages.
Masonic Signs Emerge
Within the six embedded areas, Mento located the existence of four-letter anagrams that additionally have latitude and longitude collaborates. When the works with are outlined, they create part of the Freemason square and compasses. The square as well as compasses are located throughout the world linking old lands to what the Freemasons claim as their legacy. Five of the six ingrained areas contained big anagrams connecting to Masonic dogma. 2 various other fields contain geometric letter symbols that stand for the Shield of David and the Order of the Eastern Celebrity symbol.
The proof that Freemason Dr. Robert Morris is the architect of Beale’s Ciphers is installed within the initial field of the Labels Cipher or C3. The anagram BETA “implying the 2nd in line” was found in the very first area.
The works with for BETA period between Mississippi as well as Alabama creating the left arm of the freemasons square. The Mississippi latitude and longitude coordinates for BETA lie 2 miles from Eureka Masonic College likewise known as the Little Red Schoolhouse. Eureka Masonic College is where Dr. Robert Morris, its most renowned instructor, developed the Order of the Eastern Star (OES).
In 1884, 500,000 Freemason siblings voted Dr. Robert Morris to become the second Freemason Poet Laurette, coincidentally the Beale Papers were released as well as offered in 1885. The connection between Robert Morris as well as the OES resulted in an OES paper qualified A Sophisticated History of the Order of the Eastern Star by Jean M’Kee Kenaston.
An Elaborate Background of the Order of the Eastern Star discussed a Mary A. Beale as the Illinois Grand Secretary of the OES (1882-1891) and her husband George H. Beale, a 32nd Level Mason. Both Mary and also George spent over two years in Colorado while George fought intake in the 1880’s prior to his death. The Beale Documents also recognized Colorado as the place where the treasure was mined. An Elaborate History of the Order of the Eastern Star kept in mind in the OES conference minutes the handling of masonic products that required to be encrypted and distributed to its lodges as well as the originals ruined.
A Freemason Tale
The Committee on Foreign Communication (CFC) was uncovered as a twelve-letter anagram embedded at the end of the Treasure Cipher roadway bearings and also range numbers as CFC WITHSTOOD. The lodge obligations of the Board on Foreign Correspondence are to address all communications with various other lodges, document and record all annual activities, keep all lodge documents, as well as do research study as routed– basically this is the literary branch of the lodge system.
The tale of Beale’s Treasure a Freemason’s Story echoes the trip of explorations in the order that Mento had actually found them. Beale’s Treasure a Freemason’s Story offers a demanding narrative of methods used as well as the links that each remedy has to Masonic literary works. Having ended up Beale’s Prize a Freemason’s Story, the visitor will end that there is no silver or gold treasure – only 19th century Freemasons.
