Here we are on the brink of 2019 and, as I have done every year since I don’t know when, I think that this coming year we will succeed in replicating Bessler’s wheel. This next piece of information causes a frisson of expectation.
I have a copy of a document, a panegyric addressed to Karl annually, but it has something unique. As many will know, Bessler was very fond of chronograms, which is a phrase or inscription in which letters such as M, C, X, L, and V can be read as Roman numerals giving a date. He provides dozens and dozens of them in some of his documents and curious as they are they don’t appear to hold any coded information.
This particular one includes the year.........2019! He also wrote them for 1519, 1619, 1719, 1819.and 1919. But why 2019?
Here is a close up of the part for 2019,
As you can see, there are plenty of chronograms which each add up the relevant year they are attached to. I have attempted a translation of each piece of text but there seems little of import, as far as I can tell.
Each of the above has a quote from the Bible, but using just the one for the year 2019, Hebews 13;5 it says,
"Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,
“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
So, nothing but sound religious advice, but my suspicious mind still suspects that there could be more to this than meets the eye. But years of paranoia on my part probably affects my opinion!
Anyway there it is for your perusal. Any opinions welcomed.
JC
