There are more stories about the Winchester Mystery House than there are rooms, and it's easy to see why. The novice student, called the initiate or candidate, was required to undergo a series of tests in order to prove that he was ready and worthy to advance to successively higher levels of learning. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven. Francis Bacon didnt adhere to the strict application of the simplification rule. As we have seen in earlier chapters the name Bacon, in Simple Cipher, adds up to the number 33. The greatest test for the initiate lies in his ability to understand and identify Mrs. Winchesters remarkable mix of symbols and numbered code. He called his invention Quaternions.. 21 consists of three 7sand, as we shall see, this is a consistent theme with all of the names in the Winchester family. Now, lets go to a higher level using the 777 symmetric triplet. Furthermore, Sarah adds a lesson in higher dimensional mathematics. When a man walks down 7 steps, and then up 11 steps, what has he gained? Sarah Pardee Winchester, age unknown. For all Masonic initiates (Candidates), these are the first features they will pass through when entering the Lodge room. The Winchester House has many 13-paned . the 47th proposition of Euclids Elements known as the Pythagorean Theorem) and to the name Hiram (Simple Cipher). Youve got to hand it to them theyve created a highly effective marketing strategy for a very lucrative commercial enterprise. In this case, the variant of 49 is 4,576 (i.e. The same symmetries we find in Ramanujans work, culminating in the E (8) x E (8) symmetry, also seem to conform to the symmetries that rule over the Winchester model. M.C. We are actually dealing with a choice between two options: one, either Mrs. Winchester was crazy, or two, she is cleverly guiding us toward an understanding of the methodology she employs for the sole purpose of solving her puzzle. 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. Knowing the occidental mind reads from left to right, Sarah wants the initiate to start with the left window. Thus, what appear to be upside-down pillars, chimneys and skylights that have overhead roofs, and doors or stairs that lead into solid walls make perfect sense when viewed from higher dimensions. In order to discover its underlying meaning, one must follow the path of the initiate. The ordinal numbers in the sequence are: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ad infinitum. Thus, Sarah emulates the dual allusion to the number 47 in the Masonic 3rd Degree lecture by displaying the number twice. (en) William Wirt Winchester (Baltimore, 22 de junho de 1837 - New Haven, 7 de maro de 1881) foi o tesoureiro da Winchester Repeating Arms Company, posio que manteve at sua . Request Permissions, Mark W. Grabowski, Douglas W. Owsley and Karin S. Bruwelheide. The Records of the Columbia Historical Society (1894-1989), published every year until 1922 and thereafter every two or three years, remain one of the best collections of information on the history of Washington, D.C. This house was originally the home of Sarah Winchester, who was the widow of William Wirt Winchester, the gun manufacturing magnate. We recall the meaning of this number as it relates to both the number 13, and its prominent display in the grid of Sarahs bedroom ceiling. As we shall see, the dynamics of the algorithm are essential to the application of higher dimensional mathematics. Notice that 52 x 88 is really a variant of 7 x 7because 52 and 88 both simplify to the number 7. [2] Popular legends, which began during her lifetime, held that she was convinced she was cursed by the spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle, and the only way to protect herself was to continually add on to her California home. In fairness to the management of the WMH, they try to present Mrs. Winchester in a positive light. As we have seen, this became the second code number he used to represent his last name. And, if someone were to try to describe cubes, spheres and pyramids to us, we would tell them they were crazy. The Winchester Tiffany Window. No one had understood the underlying dynamics of the universe better than Francis Bacon who viewed nature as a model of the universe based on a set of fundamental rules and laws immanent from the outset in its ratio, order, structure, measure and corresponding symmetries. Courtesy of the Winchester Mystery House. 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. As with all things in the House, there is more, here, than meets the eye. The reason for the north facing orientation of the window is that it leads to the immortal star Sirius. Historically, the Tubal-Cain symbol has generated controversy because of its phallic connotation. Does it really matter who wrote Shakespeare? equate to 555, another crucial Kabbalistic-Masonic number. 13. architecture as art, higher dimensional unification, and, most important, the theme of concealment. Bacons concept of concealment originated with his view of Proverbs 25 (in the Old Testament): It is the Glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. This is the underlying principle that evolved into both the modern scientific method and the Masonic Hiramic legend. His siblings include: Ann Rebecca Winchester (1835-1864) who married Charles B. Dye; and Hannah Jane Winchester who married Thomas Gray Bennett. Pardee = 31 = 4. 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. And finally, if Mrs. Winchester truly believed she was cursed by the Winchester fortune, why would she exacerbate the matter by continuing to own vast shares of stock in the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, then, later acquire still greater controlling shares that she maintained and profited from for the rest of her life? Exploring the actual history of America's strangest mansion suggests the truth might be stranger than the fiction. As we saw with the wrought iron gates in front of the House, Sarah displays two, eight petaled daisies. First, like Bacons play on the letters L, L, L in Loves Labours Lost11, 11, 11 combined, becomes the number 33. The couple had one known child, Annie Pardee Winchester, born June 15, 1866, who died 6 weeks later on July 25 from marasmus[citation needed]. He was vice president of the, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT, United States, Oliver Winchester, 52nd Lt. Gov. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. The ancient mystery schools emphasized the tradition of the initiate. These are good people who mean wellbut this is hardly the legacy Sarah wanted to leave to posterity. To form an idea of what that would entail, try thinking in reverse. Hence, 5 and 6 combined = 11. This is precisely the effect Sarah wanted the inscriptions to have on us. As thoughts of things divine,are intermixd. As we have seen, he was the mastermind who single-handedly sired the English Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment that would follow. The Winchester Mystery House is an architectural wonder and historic landmark in San Jose, CA that was once the personal residence of Sarah Lockwood Pardee Winchester, the widow of William Wirt Winchester and heiress to a large portion of the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune. In Carrolls wonderland, everything seemed to defy common sense. Richard Allan Wagner, personal research notes for The LOST SECRET of William Shakespeare, published by Richard Allan Wagner, Los Angeles, 2010. No one's sure, but everyone has a story. At his death, she took his position in the company. [1], President of Winchester Repeating Arms Company, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Wirt_Winchester&oldid=1108773282, Pages using infobox person with multiple parents, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 September 2022, at 05:25. Writing in theSmithsonian, historian Pamela Haag says shebecame obsessed with the Winchester Mystery House and spent a good amount of time researching the actual history behind the stories. Then, 588 x 121 (11 squared) = 71,148. Columbia, Mo. This seems nuts, unless you know Winchester was suffering from chronic arthritis at the time they were built. Again, Roosevelts offer was turned down. Lets take it still higher by multiplying 12 by 7 squared (49). It should be noted that most Rosicrucians are theosophists. Any funny business and they'd be fired on the spot. Its tantamount to inserting the term Winchester goose (77) inside of the name Winchester (52). There are literally miles of maze-like corridors and twisting hallways, some of which have dead endsforcing the traveler to turn around and back-up. To the untrained eye, the beam has the appearance of just another piece of wood. Because the number 16 simplifies to 7, we may view these three concentric rings as 777 (instead of 16 16 16). The house had been open for tours for around 90 years at that point, so pretty unlikely. The significance of this unusual feature has to do first, with Sarah paying homage to Francis Bacon, for the crescent moon, as we are about to see, is emblazoned like a brand on the side of the boar in the Bacons coat of arms. The late Cal Tech physicist Richard Feynman said You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicitybecause the truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.. The E stands for Exceptional, while the 8, of course, refers to the eighth ordinal point (occupied by the number 13) in the Fibonacci sequence. This symbol was used by Bacon in many of his engravings. Additionally, the reverse palindromic twin of 13 is 31thus, 31 x 777 yields the same result, i.e. 20 = Sarah (Pythagorean Cipher). Then, we see the triangles all sharing a 13th piece within the circle. The property was called Llanada Villa, and would later become known as the Winchester Mystery House. With the exception of the inscriptions written on the banners, the windows are exact mirror images of each other. Sure, the Winchester Mystery House might look like it was designed by a ferret tripping on LSD, but CSICOP says there are practical reasons behind some of the features. First, she saw the number 13, i.e. It is natures arbitrary template by which all natural structures, from atoms, flowers, trees, seashells and star galaxies comply with specific symmetric parameters. She goes as far as suggesting there was never any psychic, that Winchester dismissed construction crews for months at a time, and that she may have used the endless turmoil of building as a reason to turn away visitors. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven. The simplest mathematical expression of cubical symmetry is 111111, which Sarah hoped we would discover by simply multiplying the number 11 x 777 x 13. 12 x 49 = 588. She also acquired a vast and uncanny knowledge of Masonic-Rosicrucian ritual and symbology. The co-discoverer of String Theory, Dr. Michio Kaku, says Its as though there is some kind of deep numerology being manifested in these functions that no one understands. Appropriately, theoretical physicists like to describe the String (or Membrane) as a resonating subatomic matrix of entangled lattices forming the structure of the universe in a unified configuration resembling a vast, spider-web. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Second, The Crescent was a periodical magazine of poetry and prose written, under various pseudonyms, by Sarah and her classmates, and published by her alma mater The Young Ladies Collegiate Institute of New Haven, CT. Their only child, Annie Pardee Winchester came into the world on July 12, 1866. As noted earlier, young Sarah Pardee was raised in an educational environment in which she had direct exposure to the influence of Masonic, Rosicrucian, and Baconian concepts. Their source is usually television. However, she has ingeniously raised the bar by including 13 sub panels with each of the 9 main panels. It sounds complicated, but its not. Such a notion, as any practicing Rosicrucian knows, is utterly absurd. On the ground floor, not far from Jacobs Ladder, there is an unfinished room which Sarah planned to use as a second Ballroom. Upon entering the room we notice a rough, horizontal cross-beam extending across the upper portion of the south wall. of Missouri Press, 2010. A close scrutiny of the bottom portion of the Shakespearean Windows reveals the crooked staff entangled in a serpent-like creature. Written and edited by distinguished historians and beautifully illustrated with fine and often rare images of the city, the biannual publication interprets the stories of people and places that shaped the past. Without symmetry, the universe and everything in it would not be coherentrather it would be chaotic. Inside, we find six, identical windows, all fashioned in a unique Spider-web design. But there's surreal beauty there, too. According to historical documents, the Winchesters and the Pardees were well acquainted, particularly through the auspices of New Havens First Baptist Church. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven. Most of the place just doesn't make sense. And, we recall that the number 777 also corresponds to the name William (34) Wirt (25) Winchester (52). 1. Moreover, when we consult the Pythagorean Table, we realize that the number 77 corresponds both to the words Winchester goose and the name Annie Winchester. In one simple lesson, Sarah has skillfully introduced the initiate to the rudiments of her number system. In their book The Templar Revelation, authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince point out the rather obscure fact that the Rosicrucian movement was the cause of the Renaissance. This was the Golden Age of Geniusand, of all the geniuses the Renaissance spawned, no one was more influential or as productive as Francis Bacon. William Parsons Winchester (9 November 1801 5 August 1850) was an American colonel and wholesale merchant. But according to Mary Jo Ignoffo's book Captive of the Labyrinth, all the stories are nothing more than a marketing gimmick to drum up interest in tours and the property in general, fueled by the rumors spawned by jealous neighbors (via The Mercury News). Well, at least there's no doubt about which makes the better story. It was exactly as Sarah had planned it. Francis Bacon and Sarah Winchester both understood that the only way to reveal all that nature conceals is through the transcendental science of numbers. Moreover, Enoch and George were Knights Templar Freemasons. The ark was destroyed by fire in 1929.[10]. Tours are conducted of both the house and the grounds on those days. Then, 9,324 x 13 = 121212. Unquestionably, for many people, the folklore is entertainingbut it is a complete fabrication. According to popular lore, Sarah Winchester retreated to the room every night between midnight and 2 a.m., and no one else was allowed in. Her favorite niece and secretary, Marian Marriott, oversaw the removal and sale of all of Sarahs furnishings and personal property. Rudolph Steiner, Rosicrucian Wisdom An Introduction, published by Rudolph Steiner Press, East Sussex, UK., 2000. The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., is a community-supported educational and research organization that collects, interprets, and shares the history of our nation's capital city. The initiate had to successfully find the correct path through the labyrinths numerous pitfalls, obstacles and traps. The room was a perfect time capsule, furnished with an organ, couch, dress forms, sewing machine, and paintings. Each step is just under 2 inches in height. It is literally the Key to Phi. Sarah was also among the first to make use of a showerand elevators, two driven by hydraulics, and a third by electricity. Since its founding in 1894, the Historical Society has been publishing articles about the people and events in the city's past and present. Its geometric shape is now pyramidal. Thus, Riemann devised a new, higher dimensional geometry that demonstrates how parallel lines can intersect, and arcs, rather than straight lines, can be the shortest distance between two points. 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