He was the only son of Oliver Fisher Winchester and Jane Ellen Hope. Her father Leonard was a joiner by trade whose shrewd sense of business found him moving up the ladder of polite society as a successful carriage manufacturer. Astonishingly, the, continuation of this line crosses precisely at the location of the Great Pyramid at, Giza, which had not yet been constructed at the time of the completion of. America s Most Haunted Places tops the list of TV shows that grossly reinforces the Folklore. Instead of allowing admittance in the front of her House, Mrs. Winchester required people to enter from the rear, through one entrance strategically located near the northwest corner. Since she clearly regarded her House as a living puzzle and a work of architectural art, we are compelled to examine the environment that influenced her views and her work. In fact, Sarah shows us daisies everywhere, both in and around the House. Many species of the daisy have 13 petals. For example, it is certain that Sarah regarded 52 as the code number representing the name Winchester as evidenced by the 52 skylights in her Houseand the fact that her earthly remains, along with those of William and Annie are interred in plot number 52 of New Havens Evergreen Cemetery. Courtesy of the Winchester Mystery House. In the center of each window we see the Glass of Bacons muse, the goddess Pallas Athena. Soon after Williams arrival, the Winchesters moved to New Haven where the enterprising Oliver, along with his partner John Davies, founded a successful clothing manufacturing company. Within the webs structure, intricately related higher dimensional symmetries are at work. The Crescent Hedge as seen from Sarahs bedroom window His work within his Rosicrucian circle, during the writing of the Fama Fraternitatus (the first of Bacons three Rosicrucian manifestos), reflects his use of the code name F. After . Biography ID: 14897703 . Thats what were dealing with when we try to imagine the properties of higher dimensional space. Check it out, and watch the Video Trailer! As already noted, Sarah was weaving her tapestry of numbers long before she began the construction of her house. She was the fifth of seven children born to Leonard Pardee and Sarah Burns. Others say she was reaching out to those who met a grisly end at the barrel of a Winchester rifle, while still others say she spent time talking to her husband. It sounds complicated, but its not. We are also reminded of the image of Francis Bacon (in Whitneys Book of Emblems) stamping at the serpent with a similar staff. Despite the fact that the Civil War was then going on in the USA, the wedding was a big social occasion in New Haven, Connecticut. This symbol should be partially recognizable to the Master Freemason, but something is missing. William Wirt Winchester (June 22, 1837 - March 7, 1881) was the treasurer of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, a position he held until his death in 1881. With Mrs. Winchester as its only architect, the House gradually mushroomed outward and upward, reaching a height of 7 stories in some places, and encompassing 500 600 rooms. And, second, it is, unquestionably, one of natures finest examples of the hidden unifying symmetry of the number 13. Jea Yu and Russell Lockhart, Secrets of The Underground Trader, published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 2004. And as we have previously seen, 21 consists of three 7s, or 777. The two stained glass windows incorporate designs that were used by Francis Baconincluding his familiar winding banner. One of the rooms is a ballroom, and in the middle of the room stands a door. Moreover, each of the rings consist of 16 pieces of glasshowever, the third, outer-most ring is squared off, which forms the outer boundary of the web. The construction of the House was an ever building enterprise in which rotating shifts of workers labored 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We count 12 pieces of glass in each triangle. 13, 31, 22, 112, 211, or 1111. The hospital was later sold and became a Veteran's Administration Hospital. Many visitors to the Winchester mansion have justifiably compared its strange design to the work of the late Dutch artist M.C. The number 46 (i.e. He was born on June 22, 1837, to Oliver Winchester and Jane Ellen Hope in Baltimore, Maryland. For personal and mathematical reasons, he elected to have that number represent his last name rather than the number 6. Lets examine them. This was an enormous sum for that time, but the wealth was no consolation to her losses. Son of Oliver Winchester, 52nd Lt. Gov. Thus, the solution to Ralph Rambos question (Why? They were married until William's death in 1881 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Try to imagine what living (and perceiving) in two dimensional space would be like. To further elaborate on this point, authors Jea Yu and Russell Lockhart tell us: In the Fibonacci series, it is at the eighth ordinal point that the ratio between. Sarah Lockwood (Pardee) Winchester of San Jose, Santa Clara County, California United States was born in 1839 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. In humours like the people of this world, For no thought is contented. Next, she observed 7 horizontal squares, 7 vertical squares and 7 diagonal squares, rendering the number 777. Notwithstanding their mutual love, their union was destined by numbers. At his death, she took his position in the company. 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. The ceiling is a perfectly square grid consisting of 49 (7 squared) individual squares reminiscent of a mathematical table devised by John Dee. Also, 13 and 31 possess the unique quality of generating (reverse) palindromic twins when they are squared, i.e. These staff-like branches with their distinct hooks are a direct allusion to Pans crooked staff that is also brandished (like Athenas spear) against the serpent of ignorance. His siblings include: Ann Rebecca Winchester (1835-1864) who married Charles B. Dye; and Hannah Jane Winchester who married Thomas Gray Bennett. Sarah Pardee Winchester, age unknown. Sarahs Sanctum is shaped like a cube, emulating the Sanctum Sanctorum, or Holy of Holies of Solomons Temple. And, we recall that the number 777 also corresponds to the name William (34) Wirt (25) Winchester (52). 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. The ordinal numbers in the sequence are: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ad infinitum. . Its as if they were reading from the same book. For example, 52 x 88 = 4,576. John Dees 007 signature as Tubal-Cain, and the traditional Tubal-Cain symbol. William Wirt Winchester was the second president of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company from 1880 to 1881. According to historical documents, the Winchesters and the Pardees were well acquainted, particularly through the auspices of New Havens First Baptist Church. For Example, the name Sarah = 20, which then simplifies to 2 because zeros are regarded as nulls (and are not counted). 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. Front Cover of the Crescent. No matter where we go, both in and around the House, Sarah has gone to great lengths to put her numbers on display. Moreover, most daisy species have 13 branches growing out of their stalks (when they mature), and they possess another remarkable featurethe head of every daisy flower forms a Fibonacci Spiral consisting of 34 tiny florets spiraling clockwise, inward, from the outer ring to the centerand, 21 florets spiraling, outward, counter-clockwise from the center to the outer ring. Sadly, Sarah and William's infant daughter, Annie, died from a mysterious childhood disease in 1866. Furthermore, why would odd features built into a house confuse evil spirits? She turned to a psychic named Adam Coons, who allegedly told her to move west to build an ever-growing home for all the spirits of victims of Winchester victims. The letters W S stand for William Shakespeare, and Winding Stairs, while the letters S W represent Sarah Winchester. Riemannian geometry, along with the mathematical equations of William Thompson and William Rowan Hamilton conclusively demonstrated the existence of higher dimensions. William Wirt Winchester was born on June 22 1837, in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, to Oliver Fisher Winchester and Jane Ellen Winchester. Panels of electric buttons were used to operate the lights by means of electro-mechanical strikers that caused a spark to ignite the various lamps. That was used as a sauna and helped her arthritis. For one thing, it truly possesses the quality of captivating those who venture in. The most crucial room in which Sarah wants the initiate to begin his journey of discovery is the Ballroom. This is the only room in the House which was constructed almost entirely without nailsan important feature that mimics the building of Solomons Temple. Throughout her lifetime, Sarah primarily saw 13 as her number. There was a vault inside, so they opened that, too (via CSICOP). The Mars Key is an action packed Sci-fi thriller that mirrors the real-life Mars One mission to colonize the Red Planet within the next few years. You're probably working 40 or more hours a week just to pay your mortgage, but Winchester was financing her building project on a 50 percent stake in the company and, according to CSICOP, a daily salary of $1,000. In 1989 the publications shifted from the hardback Records of the Columbia Historic Society to a magazine format Washington History. William's wife, Sarah, moved to San Jose, California, where she began building a chaotic mansion now known as the Winchester Mystery House with her inheritance. Instead of a two dimensional circle, we now see a spherical manifold into which the capstones of the six pyramids invisibly merge together as one. How about a reason for the doors to nowhere? In the middle of the lawn we see a magnificent crescent shaped hedge, accentuated with brilliant, yellow chrysanthemums. the Theory of Everything was well underway. The importance of the Winchester algorithm is that it reveals hidden symmetries that would otherwise not be seen or understood. The Untold Truth Of The Winchester Mystery House. The concept of a forth dimension became an obsession that permeated both the scientific and academic communities of the latter nineteenth century. Historian Pamela Haag says from the outside, the house looks impressive but not weird. Sarah has intentionally shaded each ball so as to give it a three dimensional effect. With that in mind, let us begin the initiates journey down the path that Sarah laid out. 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. William was the son of Oliver Fisher Winchester who was Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and manufacturer of the famous Winchester rifle. Notice that 52 x 88 is really a variant of 7 x 7because 52 and 88 both simplify to the number 7. As Sarah and Escher saw, the beauty of higher dimensional numbers lies in their simplicity and symmetry. As we shall see, simplicity and symmetry are inter-related. Additionally, we are reminded that the name William Shakespeare renders the numbers 7/11 as there are 7 letters in William, and 11 letters in Shakespeare. The three symmetric triplets of 777, 111, and 444 are actually higher dimensional expressions of 7, 11, and 13. 13. After his death, his wife, Sarah, became notable for building Llanada Villa, later known as Winchester Mystery House. Where is the Encryption Table? Bacon, Kaye Cipher, and William Wirt Winchester, Pythagorean Cipher). Francis Bacon and Sarah Winchester both understood that the only way to reveal all that nature conceals is through the transcendental science of numbers. With the proper realignment of the six window panes, we now have three letter Cs, two of which have a ball tucked under the top and bottom horns of the letters arc. Likewise, the name Bacon, in accordance with the Kaye Cipher Table, adds up to the number 111. Their source is usually television. Its geometric shape is now pyramidal. Notice how they mirror each other. Although there are other Spider-web windows located in other parts of the House this is the final place where Sarah clearly wanted the enlightened initiate to land. He died on March 7, 1881 in New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesat 43 years of age. Maybe Sarah Winchester wasn't as batty as everyone thought. Sarah is exhorting us to rearrange the order of the partitions. 7 squared). There are more stories about the Winchester Mystery House than there are rooms, and it's easy to see why. We easily see the correlation to the names Anne Pardee (47 in the Pythagorean Cipher), and Hiram (47, Simple Cipher). Notice the Masonic metaphor of the number 33 enclosed within the number 11, as it is flanked by the twin, Masonic pillars, i.e. The distinction between large and small seemed to dissolve. On July 15, 1866, Sarah gave birth to their only child, Annie Pardee Winchester, but the baby died six weeks later of marasmus. Naturally, when the number 7, or any variant of that number is multiplied by 777, the result (through the Winchester algorithm) will always be 444. 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. We recall that the outer boundary of the Spider-web window has four sides, or a value of 4. This, of course, isnt the only instance in which Sarah has joined the numbers 4 and 7 together. According to author Pamela Haag, Ph.D. (via the Smithsonian), relatives later said she believed building was the only way she could keep the ghosts away. Thus, we have the number 3 in both windows, rendering Bacons number 33. And as we have seen he created a new branch of the Rosicrucian Order called Speculative Freemasonry., Bacons new, revolutionary innovations in the arts and sciences were built on the solid foundation of the ancient wisdom. As with the Templars, such knowledge was to be preserved and propagated through the tradition of the initiate.. The Winchester House has 13 bathrooms. Later, Oliver channeled his efforts into a firearms manufacturing venture that eventually (1866) evolved into the famous Winchester Repeating Arms Company. The codes used by Bacon were generally a mixture of five different tables: Simple Cipher, Kaye Cipher, Reverse Cipher, Short Cipher and the Pythagorean Cipher. This she did by counting the number of letters in her name, i.e. There are three spider-web rings flowing outward from the circle like concentric waves in a pond. Each step is just under 2 inches in height. Sarahs insertion of daisies in the center of the two Sun symbols on the front, wrought iron gates are important because the daisy represents the two essential qualities of the initiate: Innocence and Fidelity. One of the strangest places in the house is the South Turret Witch's Cap, where guides claim Harry Houdini once held a seance. One year later, William died of Tuberculosis at the age of 43. This unique backdrop to Sarahs early development played a crucial role which, in essence, defined what would become her lifes work. It's the same condition that explains the so-called "Room of Fires," built with a seemingly unnecessary number of heat sources. Higher dimensions consist of a unique set of super-mechanics that transcend the limited, box-like structure of length, width, and height. It is because Sarah wants us to form an image of the windows as a cube. Johnston, Masonry Defined A Liberal Masonic Education, published by NATIONAL MASONIC PRESS, Inc., Shreveport, Louisiana, 1930. The birth of the Winchesters daughter, Anne Pardee Winchester (in 1866) resulted in a new set of numbers for Sarah to deal with. Note the number 13 occupies the eighth ordinal position in the sequence. The artwork on the magazines cover featured a crescent moon in its waxing stage. For all Masonic initiates (Candidates), these are the first features they will pass through when entering the Lodge room. 6447, then combine 64 and 47, the result is 111. Sarah and Williams destiny was not ineffable. This house was originally the home of Sarah Winchester, who was the widow of William Wirt Winchester, the gun manufacturing magnate. when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. Fundamentally, the tour guides at the WMH know the canned patter they to feed the tourists is mostly Folklore. These are not coincidencesand we know what these and other numbers meant to Sarah. What went on there? Did she foresee someone who would later appear as an incarnation or embodiment of herselfand did she emulate Bacon in leaving behind clues designating someone to whom her legacy would be passed? the 47th proposition of Euclids Elements known as the Pythagorean Theorem) and to the name Hiram (Simple Cipher). Established by Mrs. Jane Ellen Winchester and Mrs. Hannah Bennett as a memorial to their son and brother, William Wirt Winchester. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Winchester House has many 13-paned . 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