National Treasure

[Charlotte]

A Walt Disney movie about a hunt for "a tresaure beyond all imagining", which "belongs to the world and everybody in it."

In loving memory, I wish Fern had lived long enough for this movie to be brought to the world. She lived for the day.

The clue to the finding this treasure is supposedly written in invisible ink on the back of the Declaration of Independence, and as it turns out in the movie, this treasure is found "right under the Trinity grave yard" in New York City. But that's not really where it is buried, good clue though, and I'm not the only one thinking so.

The people of the Indepence Hall Association are not fooled by the nebulous suggestion that something is written on the back of the famous document, and set the record straight.

"What's on the Back?"

"People who watched the popular movie "National Treasure" want to know. On the back, at the bottom down is simply written: "Original Declaration of Independence / dated 4th of July 1776. Regarding the note on the back, according to the National Archives, "While no one knows for certain who wrote it, it is known that in its life, the large perchment document was rolled up for storage. So, it is likely that the notation was simply made as a label." There are no hidden messages."

The Declaration of Independence is now desplayed in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom in Washington DC. It is "badly faded", so it is likely that the map cannot be easely seen, as in the movie itself is stated that the key is detected in silence as a "vision to see the treasured past", or in the mind of people somewhat familiar with the life and works of Sir Francis Bacon, the founder of America, the "New Atlantis."

Wikipedia

Inspiration and influences

"The idea of a large treasure which uses the Declaration of Independence as a clue to its discovery is similar to the story of the Beale ciphers, which supposedly were buried in Bedford County, Virginia ca 1820. However, to decode part of the cipher, one simply had to know the text of the Declaration; one did not need the original document itself.

"The film also draws upon several real-life pieces of history, including the use by revolutionary American forces of invisible inks to store hidden information in letters and other ducuments; dictionary codes as a form of cipher; and other intelligence tradecraft of the era.

"The secret location of the treasure may have been inspired by stories of the mysterious "Money Pit" at Oak Island. The site is subject to various rumors surrounding the Knights Templar, the American Revolution, and pre-Columbian voyages to America."

I also hold that all that all of this is related and of a monumental relationship, originating in this delightful fraternal conspiracy Fern was so enamored with, transferring this enthusiams and great love for Francis Bacon it to me.

In just a few words: treasure, buried, American Revolution, Virginia, cipher, "our" Francis can clearly be detected, but as usual it is up to me to explain some of these things to all you doubters

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Synchronicities of current envents bridging the past

The Beale cipher mentioned in my first post, the release of "National Tresure", the upcoming visit of the Queen to the US, and my recent trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Because of this trip to Santa Fe, the Beale cipher, which I didn't know existed, is a must primer for my story about a treasure "that defines history for all mankind." It's been roughly 432 years since Francis Bacon conceived the idea of 'The Universal Reformation of the whole World', and Shakespeare also wrote "not for an age but for all time."

The Beale Ciphers

One James B. Ward of Lynchburg, Virginia, "puzzled over a difficult problem" but could not solve it, so he published "The Beale Papers", regarding a treasure buried "in 1819 and 1821, near Bufords, in Bedford County, Virginia", which has never been found.

"Ward told a strange story about Beale leading "a party of thirty men west in 1817 on a buffalo hunt in northern New Mexico", where "they discovered a rich vein of gold and gave up hunting for mining." Already yellow flags go up. Beale and his men "had accumulated - 2,921 pounds of gold and 5,100 pounds of silver, as well as jewels obtained in St. Louis to save transportation." Knowing their lives were in danger having such riches, they "frequently" talked about how to transfer their treasure because hiding it in the desert "would avail nothing, as we might at any time be forced to reveal its place of concealment." Today the treasure would be worth "30 million dollars."

The Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe meaning "Holy Faith"

While traveling "back to west", to northern New Mexico, "to get a third shipment", the thirty men "entrusted their secret to Robert Morriss of Lynchburg", gave him "a strongbox with instructions not to open it for ten years. If the men failed to return by then, Morriss was to open the box. Inside the box were instructions and a series of cryptograms", which would give him the keys needed "to decode them. He was to use the secret information in the cryptograms to uncover the treasure and disperse the money among the men's surviving relatives."

The last sentence is obviously a blind since the treasure is not money, "it's never about money" says the grandfather to the boy Ben Gates in the movie, but whatever it is is, it is to be dispersed among the peoples of the world.

Morriss waited for "twenty-three years", but the men never returned. He opened the box and "found three cryptograms and a letter of explanation. The cryptograms consisted of a series of numbers from one to three digits long", but didn't give "the promised key to the messages", hence he failed to decrypt them. "About a year before his death in 1863 he passed the box onto Ward", who accidentally solved "one of the cryptogram ciphers" which he decoded "by consecutively numbering the words of the Declaration of Independence -swapping words with matching numbers - which gave him a list of the vaults content." Ward tryed for many years to decrypt "the location of the treasure and the list of men who were part of the group", but failed.

Ward "made the whole affair public", and resolved once and for all to sever all connections with it, correct his errors if possible, and thought it was the best means of placing temptations beyond my reach." One could infer that he knew something he was tempted to reveal.

Other people tried to decipher the messages, even a psychic was employed, all to no avail, the treasure was never found. They probably moved it to Hollywood because Benjamin Franklin Gates found it in the movie.

Some suggested that the solution lies not with treasure, but with trickery", and that maybe "Beale's papers were a hoax. There is no evidence that a Thomas Jefferson Beale existed in Virginia in the early 19th century - the Beale papers themselves do not even exist." Ward said they were destroyed in a fire in a Virginia print plant. The following gives good clues:

"Little is known abour Ward, but unlike Beale, he clearly did exist. Ward grew up in the same section of Virginia as figures in the Beale papers story. It is believed he was a member of the Freemasons. Records show he joined Dove Lodge No. 51 in 1862. In fact, Ward's membership in the organization may give clues to motives he may have had for concocting the hoax." In that case he was probaly a member of the "wild goose club" of Bacon, sending everybody on a wild goose chase it turned out.

"Many elements in the Beale Papers' story show up in Masonic rites. The idea of a vault (the exact word used by Beale) filled with treasure and lined with rough stone is part of Masonic symbolism." The true meaning be told by "Joe Nickell, a skeptic researching the Beale tale concluded in his book Mysterious Realms:

...Beale and his treasure are illusory-merely part of an allegory meant to evoke the anticipated Masonic 'discovery of the secret vault and the inestimable treasure, with the long lost word'... The contrast between the futile quest for gold and that for more spiritual wealth are didactically expressed in allegory."

Quotes from www.unmuseum.org/beal.htm

Lastly, one of the letteres of Thomas Jefferson Beale "suggests crevice mining of metallic gold, somewhat implausible in the claimed terrain, but nothing else is known, somewhere in what is now the American Soutwest. Where exactly the treasure was found is unknown, but speculation centers to the north of Santa fe, New Mexico, based on Beale's letters."

www.answers.com/topic/beale-ciphers

Reading all this gave me mental goose bumbs because 17 days ago I was strolling with my family through the heart of Santa Fe, and like Ward, discovered by accident something relevant to the ending of the Mason influenced movie "National Treasure", but was unsure as usual until I read his story and the latter note from the other site. Indeed, they left a mystery in Santa Fe, "The City Different", but I don't want to get ahead of myself, and who would expect a Scottish Rite Temple there in the middle of Navajo Country.

My close family connection with all this is Virginia, Lynch-burg, which I also just became aware of. Life IS stranger than fiction.

Of interest also is that both Santa Fe and Jamestown, Virginia, were founded in 1607, and it was said yesterday on the news that Queen Elizabeth II will for the first time visit Jamestown for the 400 Year Celbration of its founding. One could think that her Majesty is not unaware of the great treasure under consideration, of Francis Bacon.

New Mexico
Land of Enchantment

[Charlotte]

Addendum to my last post

Since Thomas Jefferson Beale didn't exist, I'm inclined to say that Thomas Jefferson himself wrote the Beale Papers, the name being pretty obvious, and dates also work. Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743 and died in 1826. Morriss, a strangely sharp sounding name, passed the strongbox onto Ward in 1863, so there is only a 37year gap, 23 of which Morris waited for the men to return, and the remaining 14 studying the papers, I would guess. Being an Initiate, Thomas Jefferson "had obtained the treasure", and authored the Declaration of Independence.

However, in 1609, the Counsil of shareholders of 52 members,Francis Bacon being one, of the Virginia Company, published "a document entitled A True and Sincere Declaration of the purpose and ends of the Plantation begun in Virginia." A "worthy enterprise - despite scanlalous reports", as Virginia "was habitable, fruitful and with great opportunities ..." In short, it was suitable virgin soil for Bacon's "New Atlantis."
The True and Sincere Deaclaration is much infested with Bacon's penchant for tautologies..."
www.sirbacon.org/thetempest.htm

Maybe Don can post the Red Cross Poster distributed to all grammer schools in America in 1949. It shows Bacon as the founder of America, in that he looks firmly into the eyes of a teenage boy representing America, who in turn looks into the future. The document reads:

WE DO HOLD OURSELVES STRAIGHTLY TIED TO ALL CARE OF EACH OTHERS GOOD AND OF THE WHOLE BY EVERYONE, AND SO MUTUALLY ..."

The rest of the document is blank.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

The movie
full of marvels and subtle hints in visual and word.

Main cast

Benjamin Franklin Gates, the Knight
Riley Poole, master of all sorts of sophisticated new technology and gadgets
Abigail Chase, curator of the museum housing the Declaration of Independence
Ian Howe, a treasure hunter with ill intent, or the evil empire
Partick Gates, father of Benjamin
The grandfather

Concerning the movie, I made the first connection to Francis Bacon a few days ago. The names are all of historical persons and self-explanatory. The carefully chosen name Gates is the second link to Bacon.

History in Shakespeare's Tempest

"In 1606 the Virginia Company was formed to promote the colonization of America." Bacon's New Atlantis, totally misunderstood. "On 2 June 1609 a fleet of ships set sail from Plymouth to strenghten the colony. - On 24 July in a tempest in Bermuda one of the ships, the Sea Venture, carrying the Deputy-Governor-to-be of the colony, Sir Thomas Gates, and its Secretary-to-be William Strachey, became seperated from the rest and ran aground on the island. But everybody got ashore ...

"Meanwhile in Bermuda the passengers of the Sea Venture stayed for 10 month while they built two new ships in which in May 1610 they completed their journey to Virginia.

The prospecting "Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, was usurped by his brother Antonio. Prospero and his young daughter Miranda were cast adrift, and eventually finished up in an enchanted uninhabited island. 12 years later Antonio and others were involved in a shipwreck of the island and cast ashore." Keeping in mind that Anthony was Bacon's step brother.

"On July 1610 Sir Thomas Gates left Virginia to return to England. He brought with him an exremely long letter of 20,000 words (more a long pamphlet or short book), from Strachey to an unnamed and unidentifiable lady who cannot have been a member of the all male Council. C.M. Gayley in his Shakespeare and the founders of liberty in America (1917), p. 50, writes of the letter: It was confidential and from June 2 1609 up to the time of its dispatch, describes with vivid fidelity and unvarnished detail" all the troublesome things that happened in "a period of necessity", as "Sir George Summers descried the land, which was by so much the more joyful by how much their dangers were despairful.

"(The next passage dealing with the chaos in Virginia is particularely fascinating as reflecting Bacon's and Shake-Speare's horror of anarchy and dissension.)

"The ground of all those miseries was the permissive Providence of God, who, in the forementioned violent storm, separated the head from the body, all the vital powers of Regiment being exiled with Sir Thomas Gates in those unfortunate (yet furtunate) Islands. The broken remainder of those supplies made a greater shipwreck in the Continent of Virginia, by the tempest of dissention: every man over-valuing his own worth, would be Commander: every man underprising another's value, denied to be commanded. The emulation of Caesar and Pompey watered the plains of Pharsaly with blood and distracted the sinews of the Roman Monarchy.

"It is but a golden slumber that dreameth of any human felicity, which is not sauced with some contingent misery. Dolor et voluptas invicem cedunt. Grief and pleasure are the cross sails of the world's ever turning windmill. Let no man therefore be over wise to cast beyond the moon and to multily needless doubts and questions . . . occasion is precious but when it is occasion."

The movie affords such a precious occasion.

"Gates arrived back in England September 1610, and no doubt passed the letter to the Lady addressee who must have handed it over to the Council. That body will have done its utmost to hush it up, and may have succeeded. Neither the original letter nor any manuscript copy of it is exant today, and there is no contemporary refeference to it till it was puplished in 1625 by Samuel Purchas in his Purchas His Pilgrims, Vol. 4, p. 1734, under the heading A true Repertory of the wrack and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight. The letter or a copy had been found among the papers of Richard Hakluyt, the geographer and collector, on his death in 1616, and then acquired by Purchas. Hakluyt had been one of the 8 patentees under the royal Letter Patent establishing the Virginia Company's first Charter of 1606.

"The importance of the Cauncil attached to secrecy in communication to and from Virginia is emphasised by the following: Item 36 of the Cauncil's instructions to Sir Thomas Gates before he set out for Virginia in June 1609 states that letters to him and his succssors must be kept secret. Item 13 of the instructions to the Govenor Lord de la Warr before he set out in 1610 (to take over from the Deputy-Governor Gates reads: "Your Lordship must take especial care what relations [accounts] come into England and what letters are written and that all things of that nature may be boxed up and sealed and sent first to the Council here." (see Three Charters of the Virginia Company edited by E.G. Swen and John M. Jennings, pp. 55 and 74). The reason for all this secrecy was of course that unfavourable publicity could jeopardise the success of the colony which badly needed more manpower and money."

Lord Bacon's Virginia Britannia

"We have further evidence of Bacon's interest in the Virginia Colony from the mouth of Strachey himself. In addition to his letter, Strachey wrote a book about Virginia, called The History of travel into Virginia Britannia (which does not duplicate the events of the letter). He probably started it either in Virginia or fairly soon after he got back to England in 1611, and finished it in 1612. It was not published till 1849, but it exists in three manuscripts. One is dedicated to Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland; a second to Sir William Apsley, Purveyor of his Majesty's Navy Royal ( a position he held till 1617). The third copy is dedicated to Bacon and styles him Lord Chancellor. The dedication therefore cannot be earlier than 1618 when he achieved that position, and reads:

To the Right Hnourable Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, Baron of Verulam, Lord High Chancellor of England, and of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Cauncel:

Most worthily honoured Lord

Your Lordship ever approving yourself a most noble faunter [supporter] of the Virginian Plantation, being from the beginning (with other lords and earls) of the principal counsel applied to propagate and guide it ; and my poor self (bound to your observance by being one of the Gray's Inn Society) having been there three years thither, employed in place of secretary so long there present; and setting down with all my well-meaning abilities a true narration or history of the country; to whom should I admit so aptly, and with so much duty, the most humble present thereof, as to your most worthy and best-judging Lordship? who in all virtuous and religious endeavours have ever been, as a supreme encourager, so an inimitable pattern and perfector; nor shall my plain and rude composition any thought discourage my attempt, since howsoever I should fear to appear therein before so matchless a master in that faculty (if any opinionate worth of mine own work presented me) yet as the great Composer of all made all good with his own goodness, and in our only will to his imitation takes us into his act, so be his goodness your good Lordship's. in this acceptation; for which with all my poor service I shall abide ever

Your best Lordship's most humbly

William Strachey

www.sirbacon.org/thetempest.htm

Such was the address to Francis Bacon by people who knew him as the guiding Light of the reformation of the whole world. People who make up their own stories according who they are, not the way things are, don't count.

'Tis a pretty good linking of "National Treasure" and "our" beloved Francis, and there are many more, quite obvious, if you see it our way

Charlotte

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte ...

A picture to explain the ages ...



and another ...




Cheers and Love to another National Treasure

Don Barone

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte

Artist is Walter Beach Humphrey. I am presently looking for a colour image of the poster and have found a small one but will keep searching for one the same size as the one below. Another of his efforts:




Creator (Artist): Humphrey, Walter Beach Original Creation Date: [1943]Description: A young man wearing an orange jacket holds a red cross flag. He looks into the distance to the left. A young woman stands in front to the right of him. She wears a yellow dress and holds two boxes and a garment on her arms. A view of a town is in the background. Text is in yellow at the bottom. Badges with silhouettes of various activities are at the bottom.Note: not found as of 5/4/2004 Physical Description: 1 Poster : col. ; 57 x 37 cm. Language: English Keyword(s): Red Cross Identifier:Accession or Local Control No : Database No. 324
Accession or Local Control No : Historical Collection Accession No. Y2112

Best and Love
Don Barone

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte.

Couldn't find a large image so I blew up a smaller one ...

At least it shows us what the colours were ...



Then have a look at this website. Very interesting ...

Red Cross Posters

Cheers and Love
Don Barone

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte ...

Some more work by Walter Beach Humphrey.

The Hovey Murals



Can't seem to find a good biography of him ... But something tells me he might have been a Freemason ...

... THAYER DINING HALL 1937
Jens Frederick Larson designed the building to face the street known as Massachusetts Row west of the Green. One of his proposals, however, shows the familiar triumphal-arch entrance facade of the building looking northward up the center of the street as Thayer connects to the rear of Robinson Hall (Box DC Hist Iconong 456 proposed buildings never built).

The building contains a number of discrete dining rooms. The conference room/dining room in the southeast corner of the building displays painted leather paneling on its walls and ceiling. The pub in the basement began as the Rathskeller, on whose walls Walter Beach Humphrey '14 painted the Hovey Murals as a jovially traditional response to the Orozco Frescos. The Rathskeller later become the Hovey Grill and began serving alcohol; the College covered the murals between 1979 and 1993, except during Commencement and Dartmouth Night Weekend. In 1993 the College planned to turn the room into a museum. ...


Cheers and Love
Don Barone

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte [Lips are getting sore. ]

Sorry for cluttering up your thread ...

I think this is as good as I am going to get for now. I saw two copies for sale. One for $150.00 and the other for $450.00.



cheers and Love
Don Barone

[Charlotte]

Hehe Don, and many thanks for more than I expected, Riley Poole that you are, and I don't remmember having been kissed that many times in one day

The boy in the "American Junior Red Cross" poster is young America, and the girl holding the treasure box is Fern, looks just like her yes indeed.

The mural of the two naked girls is equally telling. It's spring time in the picture, spring time again, now.

Thank you Don

Charlotte

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte [now that my lips are all better ]

Yes very nice imagery used. If it is Francis Bacon talking to a New (or Young) America or New Atlantis he holds in his his hands and reads from ... The Declaration of Independence. for I am sure the beginning words on the parchment he is reading from starts off ... We the people ....

Very nice Charlotte I will have to watch National Treasure again, a movie which by the way I cried at the end of for the pure joy of the discovery.

But why on a Junior Red Cross poster and what prompted him to do it in 1949 ? Any ideas Charlotte ?

Best and Love
Don Barone

[Charlotte]

Hi Don and All,

The document in Bacon's hand on the Red Cross poster may be the once kept secret The True and Sincere Declaration of the purpose and ends of the Plantation begun in Virginia", as "it is much infested with Bacon's penchant for tautologies..." You can glean his style of writing, it reads in capital letters

WE DO HOLD OURSELVES STRAIGHTLY TIED TO ALL CARE OF EACH OTHERS GOOD AND OF THE WHOLE BY EVERYONE, AND SO MUTUALLY ... (The rest of the paper is blank.

See also in a previous post about C.M. Gayley's Shakespeare and the founders of liberty in America.

Guess you missed all that

Then a rough congressional draft of the DOI was made about "The Want, Will, and Hopes of the people", adding and omitting words, then was finalized, as we know it today.

The Murals of Humphrey, yes he was talked about, generally described, one Eleazar Wheelock bringing 500 gallons of New England rum to Native Americans to have a good time, , and "the drinking song itself implies that the Native Americans traded their land to Wheelock for alcohol", implies this only for the blind following the deliberately so painted and obscure words accompanying the murals.

The mural you posted

belongs with Jamestown, Virginia Colony, the first English settlement, founded May 14, 1607, and the sociable "marriage" of Wahunsunacock, Chief of the powerful Powhatan Confederacy, speaking Algonquin, and the English Representatives, and his daughter Pocahontas is mightily involved.

The mural shows a young Western and Native American women. The west wears a revolutionary round hat folded into 3 corners called the "Tricorn Hat." She has taken of her cape, offering it on her right arm to Pocahontas as a gesture of good will, honesty, and the naked truth. She wears white shoes, her left hand rests on a closed door, and she stands patiently looking at Pocahontas, curious what her friend might think reading with concentration a large book upside down. (I can't make out its title?) The upside down book says that the Indian Princess spoke and read her native language, not English, yet, as the book came from the other side of the door.

Autumn foliage touches the legs of the West and the hand of the Natives, they both have a history. On their common side a new tree with fresh green leaves has grown, bending toward both of them. On a revolutionary re drum is another large volume for Pocahontas to read, and by her feet is a bush with blue leaves. White shoes, red drum, blue leaves. Between them is a distinctly painted bundle of beautiful yellow flowers in full bloom, planted in a circle of fresh earth. In general, Bacon's England means to tell the Natives about his wisdom, the naked women a sort of Athena.

A most interesting Pocahontas, a picture tells a 1000 words

If you care to take time, Don, you can find

"A 1616 engraving of Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe.
The original English caption (not visible here) reads Matoaks als Rebecka
daughter to the might Prince
Powhatan Emperour of
Attanougkomouck als
virginia converted and babtized in the Christian faith,
and wife to the wor.th M. Joh.
Rolff."
The inscription under the portrait reads "Aetatis suae 21
A. 1616", Latin for "at the age of 21 in the year 1616".

Pocahontas is dressed similar, has the same stern facial expression as Elizabeth I as Astraea by Nicholas Hilliard, and holds pearls in the near identical had gesture as the Queen in a painting attributed to Frans Floris. But, Pocahontas wears a Bacon hat and Bacon/Shakespeare collar. It is uncanny, the Indian Princess is literally depicted a combination of the 2 portraits of the Queen, and Bacon, or half Queen, half Bacon. There is than dreamed of . . . .

The Red Cross is on the American Junior poster because it is the symbol of the Knights Templar.

If you want to, you can wait to watch the movie again till I describe it in more detail.

Charlotte

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte ...

Forgive the comparison but very much like another lady I knew so well (now gone) you always seem to post just enough to keep me from atrophying mentally and keep moving me on to further discoveries.

Case in point "The Tempest" and this website ... found by typing this into The Oracle Google - "The True and Sincere Declaration of the purpose and ends of the Plantation begun in Virginia"

Cheers and Love
Don Barone

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte

A book you might enjoy if you haven't already read it.

Just click on cover and download in pdf form.



Cheers and Love
Don Barone

[Charlotte]

Lol Don, glad to keep you from going to sleep ;D

"The Tempest" you linked to is where I get, or confirm much of my "Baconian" info. The pdf is to long right now, later. In the "American Junior Red Cross" poster, notice the way one corner of the cross is in the hat, and the entire cross directly above the Head of Bacon, the Knight.

Anyway, the peculiar 1616 engraving by de Passe is here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas

Closer to the treasure

The historic triangle of Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown, and the Red Cross.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown._Virginia
scroll to "Selecting Jamestown"

The mother of Francis Bacon, Queen Elizabeth I, was very much involved in the colonization of Virginia, as she gave Sir Walter Raleigh a charter which "specified that Raleigh had ten years in which to establish a settlement in North America or lose his colonization rights.

"Raleigh and Elizabeth intended that the venture should provide riches from the New World and a base from which to send privatees on raids against the treasure fleets of Spain."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony

Thats looking at it without a looking glass, even though on the same page is a short article about "the continuing mystery known as "The Lost Colony."

I would correct saying a few days ago, repeating the news people concerning the the "first" visit of the present Queen to Jamestown for the 400 year celebration of its founding in 1607. Darn news media .

Jamestown, Virginia

"Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip first visited Jamestown, Virginia October 16 1975. She loaned a copy of the Magna Carta for exhibition" at that time. Much more interesting. Also, it was Francis Bacon who "was the first to try to use Clause 39 to guarantee due process in a trail." The "Great Charter of Freedoms" issued 1215 influenced the US Constitution and Bill of Rights."

For entertainment only

Obviously the critics of "National Treasure" don't listen to Don to "look for the picture within the picture." It's just another adventure movie, nothing to do with "real" history, as some 50 inconsistencies have been found. Comments are made that it isn't "even a pop corn movie", there are problems with time zones, daylight saving time, and the sun not being at the right angle to cast a shadow on the brick where the colored glasses were hidden. Somebody watched the movie 3 times and thought it was "horrible from a critical standpoint." Brick heads. At best, quipped a lady, it is "lighthearted entertainment" and "a bit of fun", and what's wrong with that?

To entertain by writing
and make up hoaxes for hiding
a safe way to avoid fighting
lawsuits and bad tiding

For entertainment only

National Treasure

The year was 1947. In the darkness of a stormy night, young and curious Ben Gates, having heard rumors at the family table, quietly enters a room and shines his flashlight about to "orient" himself. Aided by flashes of light from the lightening he climbs up a latter to look for clues, or maybe a book, to find out what is rumored about, and indeed finds a large book decorated with a symbol, which he opens and shines his flashlight on.

Before he can read a word, he is startled by his grandfather who reminds him that he knows he is not supposed to be up there. "I just wanted to know", apologizes Ben, and the wise and kindly grandfather supposes the boy was old enough now to be told the story of a secret handed down in the Gates Family. He sits down and begins:

"It was 1832", on a strormy night . . . . Important events always take place on strormy nights

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

On a stormy night in 1832, the grandfather tells young Ben, the Mason Charles Carroll, in the movie the last signer of the DOI, hastened to the White House to see Andrew Jackson with an important communiqué. Upon arrival the stable boy/coach driver runs to the door to announce Carroll, but is told that the President is not home. (Ok I won't say it lol) Knowing he was dying, Carroll entrusted his secrete to the person with him, "to my great, great grandfathers, Thomas Gates."

However, he is not talking to his grandson Ben who himself has morphed into the coach driver, who listenes intently and nods his head slightly in understanding. His picture takes up the entire screen in a deliberate still moment, is you look closely.

Now Ben again, listens spellbound to his grandfather and wants to know what this important message is. The grandfather leans forward and tells the again become coach driver Ben, that it is "a secrete beyond all imaginings." The facial expression of the driver is somber, as he knows he is about to hear a thing profound. Ben and the driver are interchanged, and the grandfather at once is speaking as such and also as Thomas Carroll to the driver.

The gleaming eye of the wise grandfather watches as the centuries long fight over the treasure is shown, which is but a continuation of the eternal fight of good and evil, and later the struggle of the Aryan Adept and sorcerers, a fight as old as humanity.

Pharaohs, Emperors, tyrants and warlords fought not over this treasure, as is said in the beginning of the movie, it "is a vision to see the treasured past", but became an objective treasure when Sir Francis Bacon wrote on paper that "which defines the history for all mankind."

The "secrete" treasure "grew larger every time it changed hands", not because gold and pearls were added to make it bigger, but the rumors of it grew out of proportion, and the fight got more vicious for ignorance and greed took it for worldly riches it could not find, so only more history was added.

"Der Bessere giebt nach!" The better one gives in! The good ones stopped the slaughter by going underground and the treasure vanished with them, but as is said, they kept the lamp burning.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

The grandfather tells Ben that the treasure was "discovered on secret walls beneath the Temple of Solomon." Knights with torches look at the treasure there with awe and saw it was to great for a one man, even a king, that it was the communal treasure of humanity. Knights with the Red Cross on their breast garments, the same Maltese Cross, "Symbol of God Controlled Power - through which great truths may be revealed for the blessing of all." The Red Cross is on the sails of the ships which brought the treasure to Europe.

The 1000 year darkness was dispersed by the light of Florence and great Renaissance Painters, and in England magnanimous Francis Bacon, Elizabeth's "little Solomon" as a boy, was born into the powerful Royal House. He later gathered the greatest minds of Europe about him and began to solidify his plans for the reformation of the whole world with their assistance. With the old stones of Solomon's Temple they began building even while the Monarchies of Europe were at war with each other, much like a new humanity is now evolving under the stress of war and discord everywhere, regardless.

In the movie, the ancient treasure in the form of Bacon's literature and priceless manuscripts, together with the unparalleled poetry and Plays of Shakespeare were "smuggled" to America, where it was hidden again to out-wait the American Revolution. The Founding Fathers were informed, "by then the Masons included George Washington, Bejamin Franklin, Paul Revere and others. They knew they had to make sure the treasure would not fall into the hands of the British, so they divised a series of clues and maps to its location", which were "lost or forgotten - over time, until only one remained, and that was the secrets Thomas Carroll entrusted to youg Thomas Gates", the coach driver.

Not only should it not fall into the hands of the British troops occupying Boston under the rule of George III, who the Colonists resented lording over them, but also it shall never fall into the hands of that dangerous "evil empire", represented by the power hungry Ian Howe, obsessed to the point that he thinks nothing of stepping over dead bodies to make the treasure his own. For real

The grandfather becomes Thomas Carroll again. His hand alone is on the screen, on his finger is a ring with a Masons square connected to a wavy line which I can't quite make out, so good, and from under his jacket sleeve the lace of a shirt sleeve is about his wrist and hand. He hands the last remaining clue, a worn little scroll to the coach driver, not Ben, who takes the rolled up scroll and unfolds it, at the same time morphing into Ben who looks at it. As Ben reads, the grandfather, as he says in a profound voice "Charlotte" a cowl covers his head, intimating ancient and concealed Wisdom, and as grandfather again he says "the secret lies with Charlotte."

Ben wants to know who Charlotte is, and grandpa replies "oh, not even Mr. Carroll knew that."

How could he, I was not born yet ;D

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

The treasure found by the Knights in the vaults under Solomon's Temple is a coin depicting the pyramid with the all-seeing eye as is on the back of the One Dollar bill. The grandfather shows Ben said bill and tells him that the Founding Fathers left us clues with symbols, of the Knights Templar, guardians of the treasure, who speak to us through them.

Overhearing the conversation, Ben's father Patrick Gates, ridicules the whole affair by saying that the 1$ bill represents the entire fortune of the Gates Family, "six generations of fools", chasing after fools gold, give it up Ben, but the grandfather insisists that "It's not", and "never was about the money", and is saddened by his son's attitude and bitterness.

Undeterred, Ben inquires if the men of the Gates Family are Knights, to which grandpa responds with a humorous laughter and playfully asks: Do you wanna be?" Joyously Ben nods. "Alright, then, kneel." Ben closes the book, kneels, and a happy grandfather drapes a stole or cape about the boys shoulder, stands back asking the boy with a firm and serious voice: "Benjamin Frankling Gates, do you take upon yourself the duty of the Templars, the Free Masons, and the Family of Gates, do you so swear?" Ben so swears. He must have read many years in this large volume about the relatively short history of America, I would guess, acquainted as he is throughout the movie to instantly recall people, events, and what have you, without giving it a thought.

He raises his head from the book as a mature man driving a high tech snow mobile over the wide, silent landscape of the Arctic Circle. The words "National Treasure" appear on the screen, indicating the second phase of the search. Ben thinks out loud about the hardships previous exploreres must have encountered, but his passenger Ian, having other things on his mind, couldn't care less, "extraordinary" is all he has to say.

Beep - beep - beep, they must be closer to their goal. Knowing Ben's theory, and looking at his "tracking device", Riley, who surely is computer and gadget savy Don, affirms they are very close, and remarks by the way that his shoelace broke this morning and is "probably a bad omen." Typical Don, don't you think?

The bell rings unmistakably, Riley's tracking device shows two snow cats with trail they left and the words

TARGET REACHED

LOTTE MA(F?)

Now that's interesting, because in my days in Germany I was, and still am called Lotte. They stop to survey the lay of the land. Aman with an Irish accent, probably Paul as explorer, asks why they are stopping, he doesn't see any ship, so it can't be Paul who sees ships everwhere. Ben assures the man the "she is out there." The man asks Riley how a ship could possibly "wind up here", and Don, admittetly being no expert but interested in all such things, nevertheless launches into an explanation of "hydrothermal properties of the region producing hurricane force ice storm's", the ocean freezing, thawing, and refreezing "resulting in a semi solid landmass" landing "a ship right around here."

Ben's metal detector beebs rapidly, he kneels down on the spot and excitedly swings his ice hammer. Bingo, he strikes metal! Removing a patch of snow, he pays no attention to the words "Boston Massacre", rather hastens to pour some ice melting liquid below it and "Charlotte" appears. "Hello Beautiful" he says gratified as a stone statue partially covered with snow stands a witness to the development looking into the future.

The scene is profound. You probably don't believe me, thats ok
the statue looks like, and is Fern, who in her later life waited patiently, more than that, her reason for "staying here" was for the day "for something to happen" to bring to the light of day and to the people of America and the World, the grand story of Francis Bacon himself, and his great colonization scheme for America. This something is the wonderful movie.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

When Ben cleared the snow, "Boston Massacre" appears first and not frozen over, so the "Charlotte" could be a ship sent by George III whose wife was the Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Against him the Colonists rebelled, and he may have sent a ship full of gunpowder huh. Charlottesville, Virginia, was also named after her. The King had "bouds of madness", and the Queen was "ugly", and their's was the "dullest" court in Englands history, I read.

I forgot to note the scene when they are close to the target, Riley's tracking devise shows a map of the arctic circle in a split screen, and in the main frame is a strangle clad lady with large artificial breast. In her right hand she holds a sort of laser gun, and from her invisible left hand a dotted line ending in a circle projects. The only thing I can think of this seemingly out of character image is, that the search for the treasure is guided and "nourished" by a women who shortly after is shown as the stone statue alluded to in my last post. In my view of the movie that would make sense, as Fern alone began the search vor Bacon's vault, persued with a friend for many years, and never let go till the end of her life. "It's A Multilevel Treasure Hunt", it says on the little pamphlet that comes with the movie.

To continue

After much snow shoveling, Ben and the gang are happy to have found the ship with the statue of Fern at the helm. Ben remarked that had it not been for Ian telling him about, and convincing him that the treasure is real, he probably would never have found Charlotte. Yeah, says Ian, everybody thought it was a bad investment, not he, and he has no doubt that Ben would have found the ship sooner or later. Enough talk, ok let's do it! declares enthusiastic Ben, the ship has turned and the kind of dead eyes look straight at the viewer.

They enter the ship, Riley happens upon a skeleton and freaks out, he doesn't handle such things well. Ben calls out "here it is" and opens the door to the cargo hole to find nothing but barrels. Riley wonders if the treasure is in them, you know how Don looks for treasures in the strangest of places. Anxious Ian breaks one open and finds only gunpowder, but thoughtful Ben observes that the skeletal remains of the Captain of the Charlotte are positioned as if guarding a particular barrel. He removes the brittle hand, breaks it open and lifts out an object neatly wrapped in cloth and tied with a string.

Riley is all eyes and inner ear as Ben unfolds the cloth revealing a box depicting an eagle in the middle section, and men in various dress and poses. The scene on the left is headed by a man in forward motion extending a hand to a man on the right in a receiving stance, who acknowledges with his raised right arm and open hand: "we got it - we're with you." He holds a rifle and his attire resembles that of an Indian, so the gesture could be one of friendship and peace such as the Indians signal. I can't make out details, even with zooming, and will look further. Maybe you can make them out better.

In the box is a pipe, maybe a billion or even million-dollar pipe, Riley hopes. "No" says Ben, "it's a clue."

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Another backpedal

Why is it that when Ben had removed only a small patch of snow exposing the words "Massacre" and "Charlotte", the entire ship still buried, the statue of the women at the helm of the ship, and that part of the ship is shown, enlarged and held on the screen so as not to be missed, before they even begin digging?

The pipe as a clue

Ian recognizes the beautiful pipe as a "Meerschaum" pipe. Methinks it is more than that. The stem of the pipe is a "new" clue with which Ben and company concern themselves, the body of the pipe is an "old" clue not drawn attention too. Constructed of bricks, so to say, it is an English castle, the "tower" is where the tobacco goes, another "crowned" tower is seen, and not to be missed is the imposing figure of a Knight on a horse holding aloft in his left hand a stately banner so large that it waves around the "crowned" tower. A "New England" lighthouse fronts the Knight, who represents Francis Bacon, and overall the pipe suggests the bringing or "smuggling" of his treasured works to America. After all, this pipe-clue opens the door to the "real" treasure room at the end of the movie, and at that time also a Templar Cross is seen where the stem had been removed.

Ben draws blood from his thumb to make the dry, rolled up paper on the stem more pliable, I would think, and finds Templar symbols, the first one their cross. He walks about pondering what "the legend writ" may mean, but actually reads in a small book, not the piece of paper. The key to what 55 signed with an iron pen is to be detected in silence.

He picks up a good size pouch, his mind where much information is stored, because he "needs to think" about this "riddle." Capable as he is in such matters, it doesn't take him long to conclude that "it's a map - maps have legends - maps have keys - it's an invisible map" because of the dye used at the time, but the key is to make the "undetecable, detectable - unless - the key in silence could be...." "Prison" Ian interrupts his thinking. Ben and I look at him: are you for real? Well, says Ian, you said something about 55 signing with an iron pen, "it's a prison." Ian is hopelessly lost below.

Isn't it just like the dead letter of the word word-shippers?

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Ben comes to the final conclusion that a "resolution" was signed with an iron pen, or firm hand, and the resolution was the DOI. Clever, were the Fore Fathers, to put this riddle on the most important document of history, Ian remarks, and the thing to do is to "borrow" it. Ben won't have it and is "working on it" as is his habit. Assuming Ben is "bitter" because he searched all his life for the treasure, was "mocked" and treated with "contempt" by the down to earth thinkers, Ian says here is a chance to "rub it in their arrogant faces." Ben is not bitter, he is of the Gates Family, Masons, who are used to being vilified.

Ian has made arrangements of how to go about stealing the DOI, Ben remains firm: "No." Ian now turns on him: in this case you are "a hindrance." Hi partner in crime Sean cocks the trigger, but Ben, working miles ahead of him knows that he is the only one with the information to find the treasure, hence figure out the clues. Either you or Riley bite the bullet if you don't cooperate, Ian threatens. Go ahead, says Ben, holding a flare in the midst of all the gunpowder, and outwits him by throwing the flare to him upon which Ian and part of the cargo room catch on fire. Ian shuts the door to leave Ben and Riley for death. This is the fork in the road of those working for the good of humanity and the power hungry evil empire. Methinks there are two societies of Masons.

Ben knows there is a "smugglers hole" through which he and Riley can escape. They climb down and slam the door while Ian and company run for their vimanas to avoid being blown to bits. The ship is utterly pulverized, but Ben and Riley are seen struggling out of it. The bad guys look back as the last pieces fall to the ground. All is quiet now, but inserted here is a strange scene: apparently a part of the ship resembling a space capsule, floats over the still landscape and at once has lodged in the snowdrift as part of the ship, out of which capsule Ben and Riley emrge a second time as if kept safe in it while the ship exploded. Very strange, must have been their saving Grace, or aliens coming to their rescue. Just kidding.

It's only 9 miles to an Indian place from where they can make their way "back home" and stop Ian from stealing the DOI.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Washington DC

Riley thinks it a crazy idea to get to the DOI before Ian, to get to it at all, but Ben is "passionate" about his mission. Having been blown off by the FBI and Homeland Security, Ben is intent on pleading his case to other authorities. While waiting to be seen by one, an invitation to a Gala event catches his eye. He skims over it and a plan forms in his mind. He has changed his name to Paul Braun because "Gates" doesn't get any respect from the academic community. We know the feeling ;D

A secretary invites them into the office of Dr. Abigail Chase, they are surpised and delighted to find a pretty lady instead of a boring man bureaucrat who are harder to persuade. Ben often feigns ignorance to better maneuver things where he wants them to go. In this meeting with Abigail he purposely ignores her routine "how can I help you" and gets flatteringly personal by tending her accent for a favorable reaction to what's on his mind. Is your accent "Pennsylvania Dutch?", he asks innocently. No, she replies, it's "Saxony German." Riley disapproves of a foreigner holding such an important position in an All American Institution and somewhat irritated asks: "You're not American?" Abigail assures him she is she just wasn't born here. Now you must admit that fits me perfectly, minus the title and position. ;D Ben points to her collection of George Washington campaign bottons and tells her that he once found a 1789 one she is missing. Riley marks her condescending "that's very fortunate for you." Ok, Ben thinks, she missed it, i.e., my intimate knowledge of that history.

My sister told me you are here about an urgent matter, says Abigail, couldn't be me then because I have no helper sister here, clever twist though by the script writer. To be blunt, says Ben, "somebody is going to steal the DOI." Riley nods to assure her it's true, but Abigail agrees with the FBI that "it cannot possibly be stolen" so there is nothing to talk about, really.

If I could just have a look at it, says Ben, I could tell you why I'm going through all this trouble to keep it out of the wrong hands. Half amused, half intrigued, she wonders what they are hoping to find. Knowing he will not be taken seriously, Ben is working on a beginning of how to tell his story causing Riley to They both fidget and Ben minces his words carefully about them believing that there is "an incription on the back", ummm, maybe a "code" or "map", perhaps "the location of..." how shall I say, Ben clears his throat, fidgets some more and looks at the ceiling, nods and shakes his head at the same time, opens and closes his mouth again, well maybe "the location of hidden items of historic and intrinsic value." I love this scene. Ms. Chase guesses it must be a "treasure map", that's it, she doesn't like treasure hunters and they just lost her interest as well. Abigail doesn't know Ben is a Knight and they are "more like treasure protectors" he means her to hear, but it goes right over her head. Proff again that it couldn't be me ;D

Abigail has personally seen the back of the DOI and the only words written on it... Yes, yes, I know, Ben interrupts her and repeats what it says and the three of them fall silent. Problem is that neither Abigail nor any body else at the White House got to hear the secret Carroll's coach driver, Thomas Gates, was intrusted with, but Ben did.

Another great scene: Riley and Ben look at each other, Riley closes his eyes and slowly shakes his head: it's hopeless. Ben sighs and smiles at Abigail who looks at him: Yees? He leans forward, takes a breath and says firmly in his ever modest voice that the map he is talking about "is invisible." Ahhh I see, Abigail jests, where did they get the idea of an invisible map on the back of the DOI, Abigail wonders, well, says Ben, we "found an engraving on the stem of a two hundred year old pipe", made "by Free Masons" Riley nods. Might Abigail see it? Huh "we don't h-have it" Riley is She now outright humors Ben with "did big foot take it?" Not a good idea, upruptly Ben gets up and smiles politely "it was nice meeting you." She returns the compliment but is somewhat sorry for her snide remark because she likes Ben, who then really gets her attention when he again points to her "nice collection" of coins, and matter-of-factly remarks that it must have taken her "a long time to hunt down all that history." These words struck a cord somewhere in her, she stands wide-eyed and speechless, but before she can collect her wits Ben has turned on his heal, leaving her perplexed and wondering what it is about this man that she can't put her finger on. She blinks to break the spell.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Mocked by Dr. Chase, their an my reputation already shot, Riley says they have nothing to loose by telling their story on the net. Ben is oblivious to the comment, he stands and reflects on a line of the DOI "at the heart of all the others." He draws Riley into a mood of deference as he reads:

"But when a long train of abuse and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

No, we don't talk like this anymore unless we dive deeper into the Hermetic origins of America, and consider the last sentence of the DOI to be inspired by the words on the document of the "American Junior Red Cross" poster in the hands of Francis Bacon, his motto elsewhere, and also Hamlet. The last sentence of the DOI

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred honor."

Indeed, and written with a "firm pen", but when reminded of noble words and deeds, Ian and his evil empire shot indescribable glances of hate from their eyes... in real life.

The words he just read echo in Ben's mind and he resolves to steal the DOI. Aghast, Riley thinks "prison" and tries to talk him out of it. Whatever the consequences, Ben has to secure the document to foil Ian's plan. Riley takes Ben to The Library of Congress, he looks really good with glasses , and is serious in telling Ben that the twenty million books there all say "listen to Riley", it is a waste of time. To prove his point he presents Ben with the underground layout of DC, Ben skims over them and "works on" a way to get to the "preservation room" where documents are cleaned. Reminds me of Don posting the above ground layout years ago for the first time, another obsession of his

Undeterred by Riley's enumeration of how many ways the DOI is protected, Ben plans to steal it during the Gala event when there is less security down there, and finally convinces his friend that it could be done. Abigail became part of his greater plan when he saw the campaign buttons. Versed in chemistry, Ben concocts a glowing solution into which he dips the button Dr. Chase is missing, it will adhere to her fingers and give him the password to open the door to the cleaning room. He sends it to her.

The secretary/sister puts a little gift box on Abigail's desk who hopes it isn't from her admirer Stan. Ah! It's from Paul Braun. Pleasantly surprised she opens it, finds and admires the coin and looking at her collection once again this uncanny feeling of what this man is all about comes over her, but she has not time to wonder long, for Riley has plutoed the heat sensors and she is called to the preservation room, and as intended leaves the invisible dye on the keyboard for Ben.

Meanwhile Ian and Co. are also working to get to the cleaning room, but with no such finesse, guns and sledge hammers will do.

Ben clears security with a fake ID, peals off his overalls and assures Riley that he looks good in his Tux. He goes upstairs to mingle with the galant people, among them Abigail whom he startles with a glass of champagne. Assuming his timid personality, he tells her he got in by making "a last minute donation - pretty big one." I always hear such words with a double meaning. She takes the opportunity to thank him for his valuable gift which normally she wouldn't accept but she really wanted it to complete her collection. He feigns some surprise it reached her, in any case she needed it, he thought.

It was also her chance to tell him that she had been wondering about this supposed map and "the pipe that big foot took", but in truth more about him, as I told you, but no self-respecting German Lady would admit to such a thing. My sister, for instance, wonders about many things I say, but pretends she doesn't care and moreover isn't interested, but keeps asking questions.

Abigail would have loved to persue the subject, but her friend Stan interrupted them with two more glasses of bubblies, in one hand unwelcome, but God sent in the other, giving Ben the chance to take his glass back with her fingerprint he needed in a few minutes, and at the same time stepping back as a stranger and gentlemen, coming away smelling of Tudor Roses.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Ben, Abigail and the man she doesn't care for too much, Dr. Herbert, stand and smile, the obligatory exchange of polite words is over, and the smiles vanish from the faces of the latter two when Ben jolts them by proposing a toast "ja to high treason" which the signers of the DOI committed, and tells of the gruesome things that would have happened to them had they lost the war.

He elicits Abigail's undivided attention by looking her straight in the eyes and toasting "to the men who did what was considered wrong in order to do what they knew was right", letting her know with a certain nod that he is about to do the same thing, and walks away. This time she hears him, alarmed, she sends an unsure but somewhat admiring smile after him, he is getting to her more and more.

Smarter than Riley's computer, Ben discerns the password, types in Valley Forge, and walks on as "the invisible man." Ian and partners in crime got in by brute force, Ben and him come face to face, shooting happens, but Ben makes it to the elevator, removes the document from its frame, hides it as a roll under his arm and coat and looks for the exit. No such luck, he is taken aback by the girl at the souvenir counter, he buys a copy of the DOI which comes in handy later.

Abigail meanwhile found out tha no Paul Braun is on the Guest list and runs after him. Riley is terrified and starts singing. Ian observes Ben with the roll and Abigail running after him, and the usual Hollywood fight takes place.

Abigail is beside herself "verdammt" nochmal, give me the document, she demands, Ben persuades her to stop shouting, assures her that everything is ok and to trust him. He confesses that his name is not Braun but Gates. She can't believe her ears, did he say Gates? "The family with the conspiracy theory about the Founding Fathers?" I belong to this family Ben is annoyed at this assumption and says calmly "it's not a conspiracy theory", "per se" quips Riley with a knowing smile. The "per se" is important. She thinks them not even only liars but simply "insane." Clearly, Abigail is not a Baconian, but Ben is and already knows that they will live happily after all this is over and he will have plenty time to tell her of the great conspiracy to reform the whole world, conceived a good 400 years ago by Sir Francis Bacon.

"When you gain insight into the mighty scheme you will see where the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy fits in, and you will realize that it represents but a match intended to touch off a glorious light which is destined to fill the earth, illumine the dark ages from which we are just emerging, and warm the hearts of men during the coming of the New Age.

"By necessity, American democracy as we know it is a prenatal democracy. By its ver fundamental definition and principle, democracy cannot be a national proposition, except in its inception stages. The true ideal of democracy is a world proposition. The true birth of World Democracy from its prenatal national confinement is even now in progress. A war-torn, bleeding World is in the midst of labor-pains, preceeding the ordeal of birth." Fern, 1940

The Age to come would say: this Poet lies,
such heavenly touches never touched earthly faces.
So should my papers, yellowed with their age
be scorned like old men of less truth than tongue;
But were some child of mine alive that time
You should live twice in it and in my rhyme.

Shakespeare Sonnet 17

These yellowed papers are part of the National Treasure, and there are many children now, lovers of Francis, who now live and live in his rhyme. I know no other more beautiful and whole.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

During the chase through Washington, Ben rescues Abigail from Ian who is left with a worthless piece of paper. Ben, Abigail, and Riley stop at a park and have a moment to decide what to do next. Abigail keeps disrupting Ben's thoughts and he gives her the DOI to shut her up, she tries to make off with it, Ben catches her and tells her she is free to go. But she is not going anywhere without it, besides, Ben made the mistake of saying that the next stop is his fathers house and they have to take her along, lest she tells the FBI where they are.

Parked at the home of Patrick Gates, Riley suggests they may keep Abigail quite with duct tape, but Ben will have no such thing, makes her promise not to make any trouble, she reluctantly does. Ben smiles at her with affectioned understanding, knowing "she is curious." I told you so. She is really annoyed to be spoken to like a child, but more so because she knows Ben sees right through her.

They are now in Pennsylvania at the door of Ben's fathers house, Patrick Gates opens the door and none to happy to see his son, he wonders who Riley and Abigail are. Ben tells his dad that he is in trouble, and to be let in the house without delay he sort of agrees that Abigail is pregnant and to please not let her stand in the cold. Patrick warns Ben under his breath that this better not be about the dumb treasure, err yes it is, and he needs the dogood letters of B. Franklin. Patrick is "disappointed" by his son and asks him to leave, but his demeanor changes entirely when Ben says: "Dad, I found the Charlotte." Patrick is astonished "THE Charlotte, you mean she was a ship?" Yeah, says Ben: "She was beautiful, it was amazing dad." How did he guess it was a ship? The grandfather said nothing about a ship when telling the story about the treasure to Ben. "What"? looks Abigail, "this is news to me."

ben's excitement wanes when his father, a sort of disillusioned Mason, offers nothing but negative resistance because his son found a clue on the Charlotte but no treasure, tells him that a legeng about a treasure "was invented to keep the British occupied searching", and that "the treasure is a myth." Ben refuses to believe that, me too, but we can believe what we want. Ben means to "find out right now" if there is another clue. Lemons only make lemonade, "heat" is needed to make the invisible dye visible, and all other things too.

Abigail stops Ben from damaging the DOI, tells him that she "is trained to handle antique ducuments." Ben looks at her tenderly and for the first time gives way to his feelings for her, very nice scene if you love romance. Patrick again says they "need heat", they have the same thought, look at each other, bend down and "hauch" their warm breath on the document and little bit on each other, but it's not enough, it takes a hair dryer to reveal the "Ottendorf cipher", numbers corresponding to certain letters in certain words. Just like in Bacon's writings.

Patrick Gates donated the dogood letters "to the Franklin Institude in Philadelphia." He tries to stop Ben from going any further, but is tied up with Riley's duct tape, they steal his money and car, and off the drive to the "House of Benjamin Franklin" in Phili.

Riley sits on a bench in front of the Franklin Institute. He sends a bright, polite, and well-dressed black teenager to get the letters he needs to decipher the code for 1 Dollar a run, and writing on the Liberty Bell on a bus, which just happens to stop in front of him gives him the remaining clues. No dummy, Ian has caught on to what the boy and Riley are up to, too late, Riley disappears with the bus.

More romance. During a clothes change Abigail and Ben get a bit more personal. Her lead-in is Ben's father assuming first thing that she is pregnant. He thinks there is a question in her remark, and matter-of-factly asks how many times she told somebody "I love you" other than a relative. Yes, she has, more than once, and he admits that he has too. A happy mood envelops them and Ben wonders if the treasue is real, not in his head or heart. "People don't really talk that way you know" she smiles warmly and motioning love with her bare foot, had she worn socks they would have been flying all over. He knows that people don't talk that way, "but they think that way." That makes me feel better, that I'm not the only one. They're finally sharing a, "we know for sure now we love each other" moment. Abigail is now in for the long haul, come that treasure or not, she found her's.

Riley meets them at the Department Store and the three of them brainstorm about a shadow passing at a specific time over a brick of the house of the Liberty Bell, Indipendence Hall, pictured on the back of the Hundred Dollar Bill, to lead them to "the vision to see the treasured past." Ben asks for one of the hundred bills he just paid with for the clothes, they sales lady says no, so he gives her his "divers watch - I dive with this" he says, "it's actually quite valuable." They look for the specific time and find it to be 2:22, but it's almost 3:00, and Abigail laments that they're too late. Not, Riley's mind lights up, he explains about daylight saving time and relishes this "cool" moment in which he knows something about history Ben doesn't. In a flash he realizes how good it feels to know/discover something and asks Ben: "Is this how you feel all the time?" He does, methinks, he smiles at Riley and calls him a genius.

Ian, always a day late and a Dollar short, is just a step behind them. They find the brick with the Masonic emblem, and behind it the colorful spectacles Franklin may have invented for the purpose to make the invisible visible. Another long chase with two copies of the DOI to confuse the evil empire. Ian captures the real one but needs the glasses which are in Ben's possession. They two finally meet and stand at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway, by the Trinity Church. Now it gets interesting.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Recapping some

Still at Independence Hall, Ben takes a deep breath to ease his excitement and in a solemn moment remembers that the DOI was signed at the very place they are. He unrolls the document , looks through the "okular device" and sees a winged A and the words: "Heere at the wall", and the symbol of the Trinity. It's more than that, you have to look at it yourself. Abigail thinks it wonderful: "wow", Riley is dismayed again at the constant riddles presented to to them, and "why can't they...", or the ancients just say out right what things are and mean. Ian would destroy the world.

Ben and Ian meet across from the Trinity Church in New York. The camera zooms in on the standard of the Church waving with the wind, it being the same as seen with the X-ray glasses on the back of the DOI. Why the Trinity Church in New York? The only reason I can think of is, Francis Bacon, at the age of 12, was sent to be educated at Trinity College in Cambridge, England. And, there is an old and new Trinity Church, as there is an old and new church where the treasure is, more on that later.

Ian gives Ben the DOI and Meerschaum pipe found on the Charlotte in exchange for Ben telling him where the tresure is. Err, it's right on the corner of Wall Street and Broadway, it says so on the map, Ben tells him, that's all, have a good life.

Ian has prepared for the eventuality of Ben not telling him everything he knows and holds Patrick hostage. Ok, Ben is forced to take Ian into the Trinity Church, Abigail and Riely are also held hostage. Ben and Ian look through the spectacles at the A, now more an arrayed cross, between the all-seeing eye emblem above and the Trinity symbol below are three ribbons with the words

Beneath

Parkington

Lane

Ben says something like "cif" or "zif", in any case he knows its a clue in cipher. Ian doesn't get it, there is no Parkington Lane anywhere around there, so Ben tells him that it says "beneath" so it must be below the Church. Ben's father has lost his pessimism, I think he caught a little fire himself, and now works with his son, seeing that Ian is dangerous and trigger-happy.

Riley finally has a Eureka moment (hope Don has one soon) and calls out "I found it." They all gather round and Ben reads: "Parkington Lane" and looking at the symbol: "it's a 33 degree Master Mason of the Blue Lodge." The Blue Lodge being a symbolic lodge.

Not blinking an eyelid one of Ian's accomplices in their wanton ways, takes a sledgehammer and pulverizes the square "door", Masonic symbol and writing, disregarding Ben's protest. They pull out an old wooden coffin, which falls apart at once exposing a clothed body and scull, to which they pay no attention, but apprehensively look down a "creepy tunnel inside the tomb" where they expect to find the treasure. Baconians pay attention to the man in the coffin, or rather the words

Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire
Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

This later scene shows, it is clear to a Baconian, that access to the treasure is through Francis Bacon, as son of Elisabeth I and her husband Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, therefore rightful heir to the Throne of England, whose "hands the rod of empire might have swayed", were it not for his stubborn and exceedingly self-willed mother. As Shakespeare he "waked to ecstasy the living lyre." And the whole world agrees there is no sweeter sound.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Trinity Church in New York City, where Ben and Co. "unearthed" a wooden coffin of "a 33 degree Mason of the Blue Lodge", Francis Bacon, at "Parkington Lane", the empty pro-nous of the Temple.

The colonization scheme of America, Bacon's "New Atlantis", is wholly unknown to the general public here, and conventional historians and commentators on the life and works of Francis Bacon, and the Shakespeare Plays, scoff at such a notion. The "New Atlantis", I hear, is a fantasy of an ideal society, and the "Old Atlantis" some story invented by Plato to teach how to live a better life, for some, for others it "must" be somewhere under some ocean.

If they would be more familiar with Lord Bacon's life and covert works, consider the in the greater, the evolution of mankind and its races, and heed the signs of our times, they would better see why Francis called America "New Atlantis", as here in "the New World", I said a thousand times before, a new race is gradually being born, its parent all the current races of the world which intermarry here in relative comfort. By all accounts of informed peoples, such as the Hopi, fresh on my mind, the "Old Atlantis" was an earthshaking transition from one era to the "next" which the Egyptians called "First Time." Obviously, there was time before.

"The treasured past" which Ben and Co. found under the Trinity Church is the "New Age Treasure" of Francis Bacon, or, the "treasured past" comes via Francis, for "neither the births nor abortions of Time have been registered" as they were, and not conjectured. I may guess at some things, but our betters don't. The treasure is "the Easter-Mystery of anticipated New Age Resurrection and living, human-collective Rebirth! Rebirth to reborn waking for long anticipated, long worked for, prepared for and hoped for, post-Christian World and family enlightenment." Fern. We are living "it", and the time for "lawful discernment" seems to be here, or the movie of a thousand clues wouldn't have been made.

The Trinity Church in NYC, Episcopal, is closely associated with England at the time, you can find more at Wiki. There were two Churches:

"The first Trinity Church was constructed in 1698. According to historical records, the infamous privateer Captain William Kidd lent the runner and tackle from his ship for hoisting the stones." Wiki

Maybe he was the Captain of the Charlotte you knew that was coming.

"Construction on the second Trinity Church building began in 1788, it was consecrated in 1790." Wiki

This brings us to Williamsburg, Virginia, where are a first and second Bruton Church. There is a record of two wooden churches, in the main. A sketch of the first Bruton Church depicts a plain, oblong brick structure, box-like, with a tiny steeple. It was drawn in 1699 by "someone by the name of Michael, traveling from Germany to the New World", stating openly it "could not be mistaken for any other wooden churches recorded." Fern

"Present Bruton Church is claimed to be the oldest Colonial Church in continous use in America. It is of Episcopal denomination, which also was Lord Bacon's affiliation." Fern. So much for the long and short of it.

We are in Williamsburg, Virginia, and if you love winged words.

The verse in my at the end of my last post, and the following, though not in sequence, are from

Elegy Written in a Churchyard

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth
And melancholy marked him for her own.

(Melancholy Hamlet - the Play about the tragic life of Francis Bacon, based on Ur-Hamlet, say some.)

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page,
Rich with the spoils of time, did never unroll
For thee, who mindful of the unhonered dead
Doest in these lines their artless tale relate
If chance, chance by lonely contemplation led
Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate.

(The births and abortions of time never unrolled, and Shakespeare used no art at all.)

Haply some hoary-headed swine may say:
Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn
Brushing with hasty steps the dews away
To meet the Sun upon the upland lawn. (Sonnets 24 and 33)

The next with dirgest due in sad array
Slow through the church-way path we see him born:
Approach and read, (for thou canst read) the
lay
Graved on the stone beneath yon aged
thorne.

Charlotte

[PMacG]

Hi Charlotte. Seen him at the peep of dawn - Mercury, messenger of the rising light?

Interesting inscription indeed, will go back to it - Paul.

[Charlotte]

"Heavenly alchemy" this transition from night to light.



Slow through the church-way path we see him born:
Apprach and read, (for thou canst read) the
lay
Graved on the stone beneath yon aged
thorne.

The Bruton Churchyard has a lay-out to be read, and yon aged thorne is a pyramidal tombstone.

READER

Another tombstone marks the grave of "Mr. Nicolson - late Steward of William and Marrys COLLEGE", who was born anno 1711, and died January 22, 1773. January 22 being Francis Bacon's Birthday.

Another tombstone is dedicated to "Anna Graham."

In the Restauration Library at Williamsburg, Virginia, can be found the "Bland map", an old English map, "worded in Old English", which "had been used by the Restauration in laying out Williamsburg. The map was drawn the same year as the Michael-drawing (of the old Bruton Church, my note) in 1699.

"The Bland map had only three buildings marked, as located on Duke of Gloucester Street: William and Mary College westward the Capitol building eastward, and Bruton Church in the middle."

Since I have not yet discerened the meaning of "Parkington Lane", I'll say the treasure is parked along Duke of Gloucester Street where is the entrance to Bruton Churchyard, since Parkington Lane was also the entrance to the tunnel to the treasure.

Measurements are given in a "legend" attached to this Bland map and written" by Mr. Nicolson.

"Maps have legends", says Ben, looking for a clue.
The legend writ
The stain effected
The key in silence undetected . . .

Of course, that was in the beginning of the movie when they found the Meerschaum pipe in a barrel of gunpowder in the Charlotte, and Ben concludes that there may be an "invisible map" on the back of the DOI, which, says Ben, is far-fetched and crazy reasoning, because there isn't. The Bland map, which Fern detected, works better.

"Of course even in pre-restauration days William and Mary College--one of America's finest institutions for higher learning--was an asset any city could rightfully be proud of. In the famous Christopher Wren Building on the campus several of America's greatest men and poneers acquired their diplomas qualifying them to become Builders and Masons of the young New World nation! Among them George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, General Robert E. Lee, Patrick Henry and others. Whatever members of the Williamsburg population are in their calling not connected with the Rockefeller Restauration, William and Mary College, the City Management or necessary Supply Houses, are employed by the Eastern State Hospital, a large Institution for the Insane, located at the border of the town."

Fern is German born and educated, so she capitalizes as in our language.

I have touched on the movie "Dr. Dolittle" with Rex Harrison, before, and was thought of as coming from this "Institution for the Insane", so here I can can say a few words connecting Francis Bacon, Wlliam Shakespeare, Williamsburg, and the Rockefeller's.

In the beginning of the movie, Dr. Dolittle, a veterinarian/scientist studying animals, their minds, and speaks their language, a cute little pig strolls about the "laboratory", persistently squealing, Dr. Dolittle says to the piglet: "will you please stop making any further noise, if you pork, sausage is a bit of Bacon . . . " a bit garbled.

A day later he wakes and asks his parrot how to say "good morning" to his friend, a full grown pig walking passed the open door, and the bird tells him to shake his left leg, which he does, and the pig "answers" by shaking its left leg. "Good heavens, I speak pig!" declares Dolittle.

The "push me-pull you" lama in the circus, from Tibet, is the circus of the Bacon/Shakespeare controversy.

At the end of the movie, Dr. Dolittle lands on the island of the stately, cultured, and well-spoken Shakespeare XIII. On one of the peaks you will see a "rock" rocking back and forth, which then "fell" of the peak. The island is slowly joined to the mainland, one half of a tree on each land body merging perfectly. The Shakespeare/Bacon controversy will be no more.

It's all true methinks.

Charlotte

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte (always one for each of The Pyramids ! )

I would dearly love to sit down and watch National Treasure with your commentary in the background.

Perhaps when I win the Lottery and National Treasure II: The Book of Secrets comes out we can have a Double Feature .

Meanwhile my latest imagery from Giza ...

It has a certain charm to it ...



cheers and Love as always
Don Barone