The Winchester Mystery House, The Winchester Mystery House published by the Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, California, 1997. Instead of pouring her profits back into the company, she funneled them into her house, as an admittedly brilliant way to give her relatives the financial middle finger from across the country. Many married couples like to say their union is the product of some kind of ineffable destiny. Moreover, like a Masonic lodge the House is emblematic of Solomons Temple. Thus, Sarah emulates the dual allusion to the number 47 in the Masonic 3rd Degree lecture by displaying the number twice. It marked both the death of his front man Will Shaksper, and the birth of his new, secret society of Speculative Freemasonryand this was the year in which Bacon wrote and published his third and final Rosicrucian Manifesto The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. The letters W S stand for William Shakespeare, and Winding Stairs, while the letters S W represent Sarah Winchester. As we shall see, the anomalous features throughout Mrs. Winchesters mansion are a testament to the profound impact higher dimensional geometry had on its design. William was the son of Oliver Fisher Winchester who was Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and manufacturer of the famous Winchester rifle. The top and bottom panes properly rearranged showing Sarahs Tubal-Cain Symbols. It should be noted that most Rosicrucians are theosophists. Instead of allowing admittance in the front of her House, Mrs. Winchester required people to enter from the rear, through one entrance strategically located near the northwest corner. In 2017, The Mercury News reported a new general manager overhauled the way things are done there, opening 40 more rooms to the public, including unfinished spaces and cubbyholes created by the haphazard construction. Escher, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York, 1971. In another part of the House, the initiate comes to a landing connecting two staircases, each leading to different second story rooms. In fairness to the management of the WMH, they try to present Mrs. Winchester in a positive light. Furthermore, Sarahs use of Bacons stops (decimals or periods) in the inscriptions indicates that something is further concealed in code. So, her middle name, Lockwood adds up to 25, which then simplifies to 7. CSICOP adds there are 13 coat hooks in the seance room, 13 drains in the sinks, and 13 stars in the leadlight window Winchester herself designed. Washington History (1989-present) is the only scholarly journal devoted exclusively to the history of the nation's capital. In the span of one year, 1881, she lost her mother, her father-in-law, and finally her husband William, who died of tuberculosis. Its a riveting story of romance, mystery, intrigue, betrayal, plots and murder. Michio Kaku, Hyperspace, published by Anchor Books DOUBLEDAY, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1994. In the center of each window we see the Glass of Bacons muse, the goddess Pallas Athena. However, their Halloween flashlight tours, along with booklets, postcards, coffee mugs and other sundry items being sold in the WMH souvenir shop displaying the title The Mansion Designed By Spirits only enhances the Folklore version of Sarah Winchesters life. First, she saw the number 13, i.e. Regardless, Sarah Winchester built the whole thing, employing 16 carpenters who worked in shifts to keep construction going 24 hours a day. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven. Using photographs of the two Shakespearean Windows, we cut them into thirds, resulting in facsimiles of the six window panes. From shortly after her husband died in 1881 until her own death in 1922, rifle heiress Sarah Winchester lived alone. Tracing the story through letters, scrapbooks, and the journals of the workers who built the house, Ignoffo says there was another motivation behind the constant building: providing jobs. The codes used by Bacon were generally a mixture of five different tables: Simple Cipher, Kaye Cipher, Reverse Cipher, Short Cipher and the Pythagorean Cipher. In one brilliant stroke, Sarahs code reveals Shakespeare, Hiram Abiff and Francis Bacon to be one and the same person. Sarah also wants to underscore the relationship between the moons reflective light and the Astral Light AKA the Akashic record. Sarah has left instructions. Again, we should not be surprised that Sarah introduces us to her puzzle by demonstrating her view of her relationship to Bacon. You don't need to believe in ghosts to appreciate a great ghost story. Thus, Sarah Pardee = 6. She also acquired a vast and uncanny knowledge of Masonic-Rosicrucian ritual and symbology. For this reason, the Mayans and the Chinese had 13 month calendars. Unfortunately, the Winchesters' joy would be short-lived. As earlier noted, the number 777 is extremely important to Kabbalists, Rosicrucians and Freemasons. In addition to being in concert with such ideas as the ever building universe, and the dynamic agriculture of the famous Rosicrucian Theosophist, mathematician and philosopher Rudolph Steiner (1861-1925), it seems clear that Sarah adopted his concept of the cube as the simplest geometric structure for the higher dimensional dynamics of the universe. We notice that a tiny ball is tightly tucked into the crook of each of Pans staves. The invisible difference is 13. In another part of the House, a second story door opens outward to a sheer drop to the ground below. The better sort,. William's wife, Sarah, moved to San Jose, California, where she began building a chaotic mansion now known as the Winchester Mystery House with her inheritance. Yet, everything in the pattern leads to the circleand, everything emanates from it. With regard to Sarahs reason for building the House the way she did, author Ralph Rambo states: The great question is yet to be answered,Why? The initiate had to successfully find the correct path through the labyrinths numerous pitfalls, obstacles and traps. But most importantly, as we shall see, Sarah adopted the numeric, cryptographic techniques of Francis Bacon, incorporating them into her architecture along with specific Baconian symbols. Lets examine them. She is believed to have been the first builder to use of wool insulation. Using the Pythagorean Table is a simple matter of matching the letters in a name or word with their corresponding numbers, then adding the numbers together until you have one, simplified number. . Why?. After . Whenever I make mention of Sarah Winchester the typical response I get from people is Oh yeahwasnt she the crazy lady who built that weird house because she was afraid the spirits would kill her? Many of these people have never been to the Winchester House. Why?) is a matter of connecting the dots and properly assembling the pieces of the puzzle Sarah has generously left behind. To the untrained eye, the beam has the appearance of just another piece of wood. The truncated pyramid, with its hovering capstone and All Seeing Eye represents the unfinished work of the quest to mirror the divine blueprint in accordance with Proverbs, 25it is the final piece of the universal puzzle yet to be set in place. Request Permissions, Mark W. Grabowski, Douglas W. Owsley and Karin S. Bruwelheide. For example, when viewed from a higher dimensional perspective, a solid wall would seem more like a broken line. First, his name adds up (in the Pythagorean Cipher) to the number 111 (just like Bacon in the Kaye Cipher). [1] During the marriage, William worked as treasurer for his family's company alongside his father. But, more importantly, it represents the tangled, interconnectedness of all things. of Connecticut and Jane Ellen Winchester The double loss of Annie and William was a staggering blow to Sarah. This story begins with the union of two people, Sarah Lockwood Pardee and William Wirt Winchester. The length of the, hypotenuse drawn from this point to Stonehenge is 12.368. This is symbolically important as the east represents the source of Light (Knowledge and Wisdom). Moreover, it was Bacon who gave the Rosicrucian movement its name and articulated its purpose. Well, at least there's no doubt about which makes the better story. William G Winchester of Sharon Springs, Schoharie County, New York was born on March 30, 1911, and died at age 81 years old on April 3, 1992. By partitioning this number set, and combining the partitions, the symmetrical relationship between 7 squared, 11 squared, and the number 13 has been demonstrated. In fact, she has already done it for us. According to Winchester Mystery House employees (via The Mercury News), it's still home to some active spirits including a dark-haired man seen pushing a wheelbarrow through the halls or stopping to repair things. We recall that the outer boundary of the Spider-web window has four sides, or a value of 4. The image in the mirror above the fireplace was a reflection of the rooms 13 globe chandelier. It is not known if Sarah and Escher ever met. Its as if they were reading from the same book. Following her death, the home was auctioned to the highest bidder, who then turned it into an attraction for the public; the first tourists walked through the house in February 1923, five months after Winchester died. Like Rosslyn Chapel, the Winchester House serves as a higher dimensional puzzle. Also, when we take a closer look at the words UNCLASP and TABLES, we realize that in Bacons time the only things to be unclasped were bookssecret booksbooks containing Encryption Codes with an Encryption Table to decipher such codes. And, as we have seen, the two letter Cs facing each other give us the number 33 (Bacon in Simple Cipher). B. Architect. And, indeed, Bacon saw himself (at least metaphorically) as an architect. And, they arent just talking to ustheyre SCREAMING at us! In three dimensions however, the Spider-web windows topography changes. These are good people who mean wellbut this is hardly the legacy Sarah wanted to leave to posterity. Here, she is affirming her Theosophical point of view. According to historical documents, the Winchesters and the Pardees were well acquainted, particularly through the auspices of New Havens First Baptist Church. Clearly, Sarah was aware of Bacons placement of the name Winchester as the 20th word from the plays end. As we have seen, what makes E (8) exceptional is that it defines natures maximum limit for symmetric growth. Lets take it still higher by multiplying 12 by 7 squared (49). Moreover, she has employed a brilliant device in the Shakespearean Windows to drive home the connection between Shakespeare, Hiram Abiff, Francis Bacon and herself. In a different way, each of the names William (34) Winchester (52) and Annie (25) Winchester (52) when simplified, equate to the number 77. One of these concepts involves the labyrinthine aspect of the Houses design. Their source is usually television. She also purchased a farmhouse, now known as the Winchester-Merriman House, for her sister and brother-in-law. Awarded each year to the graduate student in architecture whose academic performance has been consistently at the highest level, who has displayed the most promise and potential for a future professional role, and who has completed a piece of distinguished . Adding further to the mysterious features, the prime numbers 7, 11, and 13 are repeatedly displayed in various ways throughout the Housethe number 13 being most prominent. above-ground portion of the Wirt family vault is a granite monument to William Wirt that measures eight feet square at the base with a roughly twelve . The most crucial room in which Sarah wants the initiate to begin his journey of discovery is the Ballroom. This is the only room in the House which was constructed almost entirely without nailsan important feature that mimics the building of Solomons Temple. Because we are already familiar with Numerological Tables, we know that in displaying the numbers 1 through 9, Sarah is alluding to the Pythagorean Table. Since its founding, the Historical Society has published articles about the people and events in the city's past and present. "Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune." 1938-1950", Official website of Winchester Mystery House, Findagrave.com entry for Sarah Winchester, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Winchester&oldid=1113476413, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. it is the glory of God to conceal a thing and the glory of kings to find out a thing. As a matter of fact, on page 45 of his personal copy of The Advancement and Proficience of Learning (currently residing in the British Museum), Bacon penned a drawing of Pans crooked staff in the margin next to the books text regarding Proverb 25and just beneath the drawing, he has written the words Hide and Seek.. In the exact center of the House, we come upon the so called sance room. We remember that this, according to the folklore, is where Sarah supposedly conducted midnight sances for the purpose of receiving building instructions from the spirits. For example, on the second floor, near the front of the House, there is a gallery of beveled, stained glass windows featuring the fleur-de-lis design associated with both the Prince of Wales and the House of Tudor. She was married to William Wirt Winchester, and they were together until William's death on March 7, 1881 in New Haven, New Haven County. For reasons I will soon make clear, we know with certainty that young Sarah followed Bacons example. From its inception, Yale (and New Haven) was a hub of progressive, Freemasonic-Rosicrucian thinking and activity. So naturally the initiates journey begins at the front wrought iron gates. William took over the company in 1880 but died from tuberculosis the next year. Sarah and William were married on September 30, 1862. 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