Additional Special Orffyrean Code Information.

Johann Bessler had already made plans for the moment when he finished his perpetual motion machine.  During a visit to Prague,  some years before that triumph,  he had discussed his intentions with a Jewish Rabbi and Jesuit priest in Prague. This was an unusual combination of religious community leaders, but as I explained in my biography about Bessler, it was the inventor’s habit to introduce himself to as many learned people as possible in the hope of acquiring further useful skills that might aid him in his search for an end to his long term goal.  He offered to be a secret contact between the two differing religious leaders, which they eagerly accepted.  Given the public intolerance to both religions, he was warned to keep his visits secret for fear of actions by opponents of either community. This he did.

Besides his efforts to find a solution to perpetual motion, Bessler was also taught some Hebrew and some complex codes and ciphers.  It was suggested that he encode information about his solution.  This might useful for when he finally succeeded in his quest.  So he could produce it as evidence of his success should he fail to convince anyone with a working wheel, which of course had to be covered to protect the secret.  He believed it would be of benefit to him to know that he had arranged for full disclosure of the details of his machine in a coded description which he planned to publish.  He preferred to die, secret unrevealed, rather than give it away 

During his Prague stay, Bessler was shown a three volume work called Steganographia written by the polymath and abbott, Johannes Trithemius. He was considered the founder of modern cryptography and in particular steganography.  This latter is the practice of concealing messages within seemingly ordinary messages or in an image. The main advantage of steganography is that it allows for secret communication without raising suspicion as the carrier file appears normal and unaltered.

Recent work on the abbot’s book, Steganographia has revealed that part of the Trithemius’s work used numbers for letter of the alphabet.  This required a complex system but it was invisible to the naked eye.

Bessler used several different ciphers and codes each unrelated to the other.  He concealed information in images and also used, for instance, 141 biblical quotation in one area, involving both letters and numbers.

I have deciphered most of the images containing hidden information, but although I have made some inroads into the 141 Bible references, not enough to do more than prove their purpose exists as a cipher.  I imagine that once the working model of his wheel is revealed and the stenographia proved to exist, decipherment will follow - I certainly hope so.

NB. During Bessler’s stay in Prague a Jesuit priest named Franciscus Haselbauer is known to have interactions with Rabbi Jonathon Eibeschuetz who was a prominent Jewish scholar and preacher.  There is a study titled ‘The Rabbi and the Jesuit.’ which explores their relationship, editing the Talmud.

PS.  Yes, the Prague Klementinum library is known to have a copy of the "Steganographia" book by Johannes Trithemius. It is part of the library's collection of rare books and manuscripts. The Klementinum, a historical complex in Prague, houses a vast collection of historical texts, including works related to the occult sciences. 

The "Steganographia" is a book that explores the art of secret writing and cryptography, and it has been a subject of interest for scholars and researchers for centuries. The Klementinum's copy of this book is a valuable part of its collection, reflecting the library's historical focus on science, astronomy, and the occult.   (Google). 

JC

Why Is the Number Five so Prominent in Johann Bessler’s Work.n

It seems as though no one shares my opinion that Bessler’s wheel required five mechanisms and yet Bessler did his utmost to point out the importance of the number five.  He embedded it in his name and in codes throughout his books, but also in his drawings. 

This blog was originally posted in October 2011 - almost 14 years ago - and nothing’s changed!  No sign of a successful model of Bessler’s wheel yet, not by me nor anyone else.  Isn’t it time people began to accept that at least five mechanisms were  necessary for successful build?

What of my own builds?  I’m so confident that my design is the same as Bessler’s that I’d put money on it, but I’m not rich enough yet to gamble.

Returning to my old post:-

I have indicated the presence of a pentagon embedded within the two drawings of the Merseburg and Weissenstein Castles many times over several years. It has been pointed out to me that ‘any geometric figure could be revealed by someone else who might draw lines on that Merseburg wheel drawing and get a hexagon or an octagon out of it!’

I think that’s a reasonable comment, although I don’t think that has happened yet. But I can provide convincing evidence that the pentagon/pentagram was deliberately included by Bessler, and with no other geometric design intended in those particular drawings, maybe that would help to focus people’s minds on the reason why.

Back in November 2021 I published a blog entitled “The Toys page, 137, 141 and 47 and the Freemasons”. Amongst other things I talked about the 47th proposition of Euclid and the Pythagorean theorem. I did not offer a link to Euclid’s 11th proposition which I now do, it was in fact ....

“ To inscribe an equilateral and equiangular pentagon in a given circle….”

I’ve abridged it somewhat to simplify my point. A diameter line is first drawn across the circle, in our Weissenstein version it is that line I call the padlock line running downwards from point A.  See the second illustration on this page.

A second line is drawn from the upper end of the padlock line, point A,  to the opposite circumference, point C in Euclid’s construction below, forming an 18 degrees angle.  That one in the Weissenstein drawing I call the ‘rope line’

A third line is drawn from the same point, to the opposite circumference, point D in Euclid’s construction, again at an angle of 18 degrees but on the opposite side of the padlock line from the rope line.

A line is drawn between Points C and D.  Angle CAD is 36 degrees (2 times 18 degrees) and angles C and D are twice the angle at A, 72 degrees.

“Let ABCDE be the given circle.

Set out the isosceles triangle FGH having each of the angles at G and H double the angle at F.

Inscribe in the circle ABCDE the triangle ACD (blue) equiangular with the triangle FGH, so that the angles CAD, ACD, and CDA equal the angles at F, G, and H respectively. Therefore each of the angles ACD and CDA is also double the angle CAD.

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Now bisect the angles ACD and CDA respectively by the straight lines CE and  DB, and join AB, BC, DE, and EA.

Then, since each of the angles ACD and CDA is double the angle CAD, and they are bisected by the straight lines CE and DB, therefore the five angles DAC, ACE, ECD,CDB, and BDA equal one another.

But equal angles stand on equal circumferences, therefore the five circumferences AB, BC, CD, DE, and EA equal one another.

But straight lines that cut off equal circumferences are equal, therefore the five straight lines AB, BC, CD, DE, and EA equal one another. Therefore the pentagon ABCDE is equilateral.

I say next that it is also equiangular.”

With thanks to http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/bookIV/propIV11.

What features of Euclid’s construction could be found in the two drawings being examined, and clearly identified as a clue to it being part of the pentagon, and nothing else?

This is the Weissenstein drawing with some existing lines coloured by me!

The blue line exists as the padlock line from A. Although it isn’t in this particular construction it is used in alternative constructions.

The red line is the rope line A to C.  These two are 18 degrees apart. This should spark the thought of a pentagon on its own.

The purple line A to D is also 18 degrees from the blue padlock line. These two angles total 36 degrees, another hint at the presence of a pentagon.

The yellow line C to D matches the green one and is aligned with the hatching lines in the wheel drawings.  Just in case you think that you B and E should also align with the hatching lines, you’re right they should, but I did not measure the bisected angles when I drew this with my mouse, so on the Weissenstein drawing my positioning was slightly out - but it doesn’t affect the conclusion.

The two white lines, DB and CE bisect the angles at ACD and ADC to provide the final two points of the pentagon.

Remember every single angle in the pentagram is a multiple of 18.  Hence there are these angles 18, 36, 54, 72, 90 and 108.  

Also the letter ‘R’ is the 18th letter of the alphabet.  It also forms a major part of Bessler’s logo and his initials, E for Ernst and Elias, the fifth letters, to become R through the ROT13 cipher.

To summarise. The two lines of interest in the Bessler wheel drawings are the rope line and the padlock line.  These two lines form the basis for suspecting the presence of the pentagon. They’re 18 degrees apart.

JC

Johann Bessler aka Orffyreus Showed Us His Secret.

I often repeat myself when I believe useful information that I’ve posted seems to be ignored. This stuff comes direct from Johann Bessler’s brain via his books and in my opinion it’s too important to ignore.  Bear in mind, Bessler told us he’d rather die than give away the details about his wheel.  Also there several hints about how his machine worked and where the information was hidden.  Assuming his claims were genuine how can anyone ignore this information?

I copied the following piece from a post I made on 14 September 2011, some 14 years ago!  I've hardly changed my opinion on my interpretation on the quote. I’ve repeated this information many times but still no one takes any notice.

“He will be called a great craftsman, 

who can easily/lightly throw a heavy thing high, 

 if one pound falls a quarter, 

it shoots four pounds, four quarters high.”

Firstly, the most obvious point is that if one pound falls a quarter and lifts another four pounds then we have a total of five pounds and those who are familiar with my work in decoding Bessler’s clues will at once recognise the presence of the ubiquitous number 5 again - which I have suggested refers to five mechanisms. 

Secondly, he tells us that there are five one pound weights (one plus four), but one of them is falling. Since one of the falling weights is one pound and the other four being lifted are also one pound each, all five of them are of equal mass - one pound each..”

I then erred and assumed there were ten weights, five pairs because of this next quote :-

 “... a work of this kind of craftsmanship has, as its basis of motion, many separate pieces of lead. These come in pairs, such that, as one of them takes up an outer position, the other takes up a position nearer the axle. Later, they swap places, and so they go on and on changing places all the time.” 

But I was wrong.  My current interpretation has changed a little from my early post. It goes like this:-

In the above quote the five weights operate in pairs.  As one falls it lifts the previous weight by means of a cord which passes around two pulleys.

But if  "..it shoots four pounds, four quarters high,” then you might think that either, one of the pounds is shot one quarter high, which is no big deal from a similar weight falling the same distance, or one pound shoots the other four pounds a quarter high, which is frankly impossible.

So one pound falls a quarter.  How do we define what he meant by a quarter? In this case he was referring to a clock - something he also included in the first drawings in both Grundlicher Bericht and Das Triumphirende  - it was embedded invisibly but it was easy to find and was an essential ingredient in deciphering other clues within the drawing.  A quarter of an hour or fifteen minutes covers 90 degrees.  But how could this single right angle fall cause “ four pounds to shoot upwards four quarters”? 

We saw in the first part that the word ‘quarter', referred to, not just 90 degrees but also to a clock.  In the second part the word ‘quarter' also refers to a clock but this time he has confused us by using the words ‘four quarters’. Four quarters equals one whole hour.  Each hour on a clock is divided into 30 degrees, so the words ‘four quarters’ meaning ‘one hour’ as used here equals thirty degrees.  To paraphrase Bessler’s words, “a great craftsman would be he who, as one pound falls 90 degrees, causes each of the other four pounds to shoot upwards 30 degrees.”  

It should be also be remembered that when the bi-directional Kassel wheel was started from a stand still it required only the smallest of pushes from two fingers for it to begin to accelerate, BUT it was also reported that rotation did not begin until a single weight was heard to fall, hence the phrase "...if one pound falls..." , meaning that it only takes one pound weight to fall for the whole wheel to begin to rotate and therefore cause the other weights to move.

This happened very quickly and this quick reaction has puzzled many people.  This is easily explained.  When the fallen weight, in its slightly advantageous position, fell, it lifted the previous fallen weight which had arrived at a disadvantageous point and was negating the small mechanical advantage of the falling weight.  Lifting the fallen weight just enough to neutralise any disadvantage gave the wheel in effect, two mechanical advantages simultaneously.

The energy gained comes from the falling weight, but energy expended to lift the fallen weight, is less because it doesn’t need to be lifted 90 degrees, it needs a lift of just 30 degrees. 

I should also add that a graphic of  the 30 degree lift is embedded in one of the drawings, but the clues have to recognised correctly and interpreted.  Having said that the method is ingenious and the result is unarguably correct.

As I said at the beginning of this post, people continue to ignore the evidence and are still struggling to work out how one pound could possibly lift four pounds.  

JC

Update on my Websites based on the Life of Johann Bessler aka Orffyreus

 In a few weeks I’m going to close down some of my websites, simply because they are becoming too expensive to maintain.  Costs have risen but also I am close to achieving my main aim which is to replicate Bessler’s wheel.  I regret having to remove the websites but they are almost redundant and everything detailed in them will be described in a book I’ve been writing … for ever it seems!

http://www.free-energy.co.uk/  This was my first ever website,  still going strong, since 1997!

www.besslerswheel.com will be completely rewritten, having video on the successful model.

http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/ will be updated to show some of the codes which explain the mechanisms.

http://www.orffyreus.net/  will be available in a limited version.

http://www.orffyreus.org/  will be available in a limited version.

https://www.gravitywheel.com/ will have full details of a working Bessler-Collins Wheel.

JC

50 Years Researching Bessler’s Wheel (Orffyreus’ Wheel)

 After more than fifty years studying the life of Johann Bessler aka Orffyreus, inventor of a gravity-enabled wheel, I find it remarkable that no one has realised the extraordinary implications of producing a machine that worked precisely as his machine did.  How it would affect the world we live in; this world of ours with its pollution, global warming, energy inefficiency, falling options to produce more cheaper forms of energy, etc. etc.

Over the years I have produced five books, four by Johann Bessler with full English translations, plus one by me, a full biography of Bessler.  I included numerous documents to him, by him and about him.  I had eight web sites running at one time, each with different information on the subject. 

I’ve been running this blog for nine years, I’ve been interviewed by various radio stations both here in the U.K, as well as in the USA.  Italian TV flew me to Rome to take part in a documentary about a Bessler.  Articles about my research have appeared in Infinite Energy magazine and Omni magazine.  I’m well-known for my firmly held conviction that Johann Bessler built a genuine perpetual motion machine and exhibited it over many years in different town’s throughout Germany.

He demonstrated the machine to one of the most famous scientists of the day, Gottfried Leibniz who offered advice on how to exhibit his device and allow public tests designed to prove that it was genuine.  These tests were all added to the numerous exhibitions, but no sale resulted.

My point is that there is very credible evidence that Bessler’s claim was genuine and there is not a single piece of evidence against him. I fully understand the reasons given for its impossibility but given the overwhelmingly positive evidence for Bessler, the rest is an open road to a successful replication of Bessler’s free energy machine.

So why is it that no one is prepared too open their minds to the possibility that his machine could save this planet from all it’s apparent suicide aided and abetted by our so-called experts, scientists, teachers, nay-sayers, elitist politicians etc, etc.

There will be a gigantic reward for the person who finally succeeds in deciphering Bessler’s incredible collection of textual and graphic clues, codes and hints.  I’m sure there could be a Nobel prize for the one who does it.

Why haven’t I succeeded?  Well I think I will have succeeded if I’m allowed to live long enough.  I’m eighty years of age and I’ve found the secret and I’m building a replica which I’m convinced will mirror Bessler’s own configuration.

The five books are available from the top of the right hand panel where it says “Bessler’s Books”, and here’s a link https://johncollinsnews.blogspot.com/p/johann-besslers-books-and-biography.html

Those are digital copies, but you can get printed copies from 

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins

If you need more convincing visit these web site that I have posted, maintained and updated since January 18th 1998!

http://www.free-energy.co.uk/   My original website still running.

http://www.orffyreus.org/          Info about Bessler’s unique windmill from which he fell to his death.

http://www.theorffyreuscode.com./  List of  interesting codes interpreted by me over the years.  These barely scratch the surface.  Search my blog for more.

http://www.besslerswheel.com/ More discussions about Bessler’s clues

https://www.gravitywheel.com/ My latest website which will have details of my new machine as soon as it’s finished.

Plus this blog of course!    https://johncollinsnews.blogspot.com/

JC

Some Important Features of Bessler’s Wheel.

Over the last few weeks I have made considerable progress towards making a working version of Bessler’s wheel.  Last year I awoke with an image in my mind of why and how Bessler’s wheel worked.  It’s taken until now to begin to apply the right configuration using previously discarded parts.

Bessler left visual clues as well as ambiguous comments and coded ones.  It was only when I began to seriously try and build again that difficulties began to accumulate.  This forced me to study the drawings again and combine this with the other less obvious clues.

So, here are some conclusions about what I believe I know.  Firstly do not ignore the seemingly obsessive concern about the number 5; it’s a vital ingredient and I’ll try and explain why. 

It has been suggested several times that to test a suitable mechanism you only need two of them.  Not true.  To rotate continuously you need a system that drives continuously.  In other words overbalancing needs to be continuous.  If you only produce two overbalances they would each have to produce it for more than half a revolution of overbalance which I think is impossible.

Bessler said (in a disguised way) when he tried the wheel with just four mechanisms it was as if the wheel could barely turn.  But when he added more levers, weights and pulleys then the wheel turned quickly.

I know the original translation says cross-bars, but this is wrong, the actual word used was creuze, which mostly means cross.  My friend Mike Senior who translated all of the German, thought cross-bar would fit best as a part of a mechanism,  but I think Bessler was indulging in his favourite method of obfuscation - ambiguity. Using the word for ‘cross’ was hinting at the four arms of a cross.

But with four arms the wheel didn’t move, however, when he added another arm, plus weights and pulleys then it turned.

Four arms means each arm covered a quarter of the wheel or 90 degrees each, five arms means each arm covered a fifth of the wheel, or only 72 degrees. If each of his overbalancing methods applied its drive to each fifth of the wheel, that is much better because it evened out the rotation, by reducing any potential gaps in the drive.  He also discovered that he could fit five mechanisms in the same space as four, therefore reducing the gaps between each mechanisms overbalancing action.

Bessler said his weights worked in pairs, as one fell, it lifted the previous fallen weight back up, but a shorter distance than it fell.

This would provide a continuous drive, something the mechanisms had to provide.  It was not enough to make it turn continuously, it also had to do work so the overbalancing had to be cumulative, building up the rotational speed.  Many witnesses remarked on the smoothness of the wheel’s rotation.

Just some of my thoughts.

JC

Amy Pohl, my wonderful granddaughter, 32 today

Some of you may remember, a few years ago, I started a crowdfunding site to raise money to help my granddaughter, Amy and we received a number of donations for which we are extremely grateful.

This is a brief update of her life since those days.

Her story begins when she had gained a teaching degree and had begun work at an infant school for children 4 to 7.  A couple of years after she started she caught a throat infection from one of the children and ended up being sent to hospital.  The emergency doctor tried to insert a cannula and reused the same needle several times because he had difficulty finding a suitable vein.  This practice is strongly discouraged and in fact, as a result her whole arm became infected.

To cut a long story very short; she developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.

 (Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic pain condition that affects limbs and is characterized by persistent, severe pain that's disproportionate to the injury. It's often triggered by an injury to the limb, such as a fracture, surgery, or immobilization, but can also occur spontaneously. CRPS pain can spread beyond the injury site, sometimes affecting the entire limb. 

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is consistently recognized as one of the most painful chronic pain conditions, typically scoring around 42 out of 50 on the McGill Pain Scale. This puts it on par with or even exceeding the pain levels associated with amputation of a finger without anesthesia and childbirth, according to Burning Nights CRPS Support and UK Parliament. Some studies even suggest CRPS Type II can reach as high as 47 out of 50.)  Thanks to Google.

It’s sometimes called the suicide disease because of the intense and enduring pain and requests to have the affected limb removed to stop the pain have to be routinely ignored as it doesn’t stop the pain, even in a phantom limb. Some people have attempted suicide to kill the pain.

She deals with the pain using techniques she has learned.  It is still bad but she manages it.  Unfortunately as the disease progressed she lost all feeling below the waist and is now confined to a wheelchair.  You might feel sorry for her but she doesn’t feel sorry for herself.

So moving on after seven years at a neurological rehab unit, Amy began to write about her condition on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.  She is now followed by more than 3.7 million people on TikTok, with 264 million likes,from all around the word! On YouTube she has 640,000 subscribers and 499, 393, 143 viewings of her 456 videos.

She has become an inspiration to thousands of people.  She was invited to the 2024 Summer Paris Paralympics by channel four TV to talk to competitors.  She’s been on TV a few times.  She is invited to attend numerous events which have a disability theme. 

She will try anything to prove that her disability doesn’t stop her living life to the full.  She has ridden horses, ‘rolled’ the full distance in the Great North Run, water skied on a waterboard, done adaptive rock climbing and so much more.  She is fearless and loves going on thrill rides if she can get on them.  I have barely scratched the surface of her life, but if you wish to see some her posts and videos just put Amy Pohl into google.

A huge thank you to everyone for your kind thoughts and wishes and gifts

JC.

The Bessler-Orffyreus Perpetual Motion Device.

 I cringe with embarrassment when I read my confident predictions about a my expected success in replicating Bessler’s wheel, going right back at the beginning of this blog - more than nine years ago!  Now aged 80 years, I still feel confident of success but no predictions this time.  

All I have to go on is my personal conviction that Bessler’s spoke the truth when he claimed to have designed and built a continuously rotating wheel, driven by nothing but gravity.  I have always dismissed the statement that such devices conflict with the laws of energy; they don’t, or at least this one didn’t, and we know why. Leaving aside that so-called law, the evidence that the inventor was genuine is so compelling that some highly reputable scientists who have read my biography of Bessler are convinced too.  But, they ask, how did he do it?

That question has haunted me since I first encountered the legend of Bessler’s wheel.  According to historic documents the wheel was verified as genuine by a man of impeccable reputation, who made it a condition of his patronage that he must be permitted to examine the internal workings of the wheel.  This was agreed and published his verification.  In addition the only piece of evidence offered as proof of Bessler’s fraudulence, was a document signed by his erstwhile maid or housekeeper.  Her description of how the wheel was made to rotate continuously night and day is so full of holes and actually impossible, that the only claim against the reality of Bessler’s wheel, is the invalid statement that perpetual motion machines such as Bessler’s are impossible.

I have been determined to solve this mystery ever since I learned of it, aged 15, and I’ve spent most of my spare time engrossed in discovering the secret.  I have ignored the scoffers, the scorners and the detractors.  I know what I know and I also know the answer is there in his books.  

People ask me why I haven’t solved it if it’s so simple?  What about all the clues, are they real or am I deluding myself?  No it’s all real and will eventually be proved.  I have come to know Bessler and the way his mind worked and it is obvious when you read his books at the pain and misery he endured at the actions of three men he called “his enemies”.  He gained a temporary peace from their actions when his patron, Karl the Landgrave of Hesse ordered them to cease their defamatory actions or face the consequences.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to discover the exact configuration of his machine is to build and build.  BUT a vital ingredient is to not ignore any clues no matter how off the wall they may seem.  Bessler adept at offering clues which look right but lead you up the wrong path.  I have spent years studying his clues and discovered many of them can be read differently but also he often offers two ways to get to the right answer.  When both ways agree, then you know it’s the right one.

The only acceptable proof would be a working model, and that is what I’m trying to achieve.

JC

When Johann Bessler’s Wheel Appears.

 The new alternatives ways of generating energy and the latest information on the many inventions is exciting.  There is one thing that concerns me and seems to be overlooked.  Without exception they each require an element that is highly technical and potentially expensive.

We know much about the costs, research and ramifications involved in using wind, solar, nuclear, hydro power, biomass, tidal/ocean,  geothermal, hydrogen etc; and I suspect that the several other more exotic varieties, currently being explored, are still too expensive and demanding of technical expertise to rely on any time soon.   

What I am saying is that Bessler’s wheel needed only the presence of gravity to run for as long as its structure and material remain intact.  Unlike the exotic fuels I referred to there are no sources or complex derivations needed to make the fuel acceptable to his amazing machine.  One of these day his perpetual motion machine (PM) will make an appearance and repudiate the many, many nay-sayers who called him a liar and his machine a fake.

Everyone could have their own “gravity-wheel” spinning endlessly in their back yards, gardens  or shed churning out endless electricity 24/7.  You can imagine that moment when the device appears on the world’s stage and the penny drops, globally!  There was no urgent need to pour millions of pounds into research for other ways of producing electricity when a simple, clean, cheap source of device has been available even before a way of producing electricity had even been needed.

JC

UNDERSTANDING JOHANN BESSLER’s CODES

Johann Bessler left an abundance of coded information and that is an indisputable fact, but for what purpose? Either the information revealed how his machine worked, or it explained how he cheated everyone!  I and many others have dismissed the latter as it is obviously wrong for many reasons too long to go into here, but I do provide convincing evidence about this in my biography about Bessler, see my book, below.  PMAAMS?

 It has to be posthumous.  He never wanted anyone to decipher the codes unless it happened after he had sold his perpetual motion machine, but perhaps he might have published a description of the codes later in life, for the education of his planned apprentices.  But he also wrote that he would prefer to die than give away the secret of his machine.  When he wrote that comment, he had already composed and embedded numerous examples of his codes in his published books! So I assume the posthumous decipherment would give him the acknowledgment he desired. I’ve worked on these codes for many years and I’m only now making headway; it seems to me that Bessler took a risk in publishing his information before he sold his wheel.

Anyway, how was he to bring our attention to the possibility that there could be coded information available to a determined researcher?  The answer was ingenious.  As soon as he began to exhibit his first perpetual motion machine (PM) in 1712 he adopted the pseudonym, Orffyreus.  This simple piece of code would have been more readily deciphered in those days as it was a familiar letter substitution cipher used by the ancient Hebrews, Julius Caesar and Napoleon to mention but a few.  In modern times it is referred to as RoT13, which simply means rotate a letter 13 places onwards, which was what one needed to do. In the illustration below note below the B for Bessler becomes O for Orffyreus, etc.

This is a well-known cipher and easy to solve.

There are a number of different ciphers, some I think Bessler had invented.  In addition to the ROT13 as seen above, (alphabet he used Alphanumeric substitution, Chronograms, Cryptic clues, information concealed or embedded in Geometric puzzles, Biblical encoded puzzles, word play, riddles, ambiguous text, ….and actual textual clues.

It is necessary to note that the number five was concealed in various ways in his books.  This  numbers is beyond question of the utmost importance in Bessler’s mind and therefore should be in ours too if we are serious about deciphering his many clues, and ultimately reproduce Bessler’s amazing invention.

In his illustrations he sometimes labelled parts with numbers.  These numbers always added up to a certain total.  That total has to be divided by the number of numbers used! Also the range of numbers used was a clue, 1 to 24 in one figure. As if that wasn’t enough he embedded a concealed clock in the illustration.

To clarify, one illustration has numbers totalling 660, taking the clock as a clue, divide 660 by 12 hours of the clock, equals 55.  1 to 24 points to the hours in a day, another clue to the clock.  The figure also contains a pentagram, another link to the number 5.

The angles of a pentagram are, 18, 36, 54,72, 90 and 108, and they feature prominently through out his illustrations, but in one case he uses letters instead of numbers.  But when they are converted to numbers their totals are divisible by both the quantities of the numbers used and the range of numbers, to produce more pentagonal numbers.  For instance, in one case, the numbers 1 to 10 is used and when added together totals 55.  But when the numbers used are added up, they total 90, another pentagonal number, and indicates the presence of another pentagram.

Another interesting cipher which Bessler made his own also concerns his name.  Not content with adopting the pseudonym Orffyreus, he also added two more forenames.  He was born Elias Bessler but later added the names Johann Ernst to Elias Bessler.  Using the same technique as he used to get the name Orffyreus, but only applying it to the first letter of his names, JEEB became WRRO. In this puzzle  again using his favoured cipher alphanumeric, JEEB becomes 10, 5, 5, 2; and WRRO becomes 23, 18, 18, 15..  interestingly the two 5s seems to point to the geometric figure, and even more surprising 18 degrees is the basic number of every angle in the pentagram, all of the rest are multiples of 18.

How convenient and what an utterly amazing coincidence that E is the fifth letter of the alphabet and when twinned with its RoT13 cipher it becomes R, the 18th letter, and both numbers are undeniably an intrinsic part of the pentagram!

It has been suggested that this apparent obsession with the number 5 is indicative of an interest in mystery schools and the occult, but this could not be further from the truth.  Bessler was extremely knowledgeable about such matter, but his determination to either sell his PM device or receive full acknowledgement as the original inventor over-ruled anything else.

The books you need to investigate Bessler codes are shown below. Clicking on the Buy Now link takes you to the order and payment page.  There you can see the book and add it to the cart and then make a payment.

Perpetual Motion: An Ancient Mystery Solved?”  PMAAMS?. View the synopsis for details of the book’s contents at my web site. http://www.free-energy.co.uk/html/synopsis.html.  Briefly it is an account taken from of every document relating to Bessler that I could find from files held in museums around the world, researched and translated. 

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Gruendlicher Bericht” - GB this was Bessler’s first publication, ostensibly produced by a friend although I think one can detect Bessler’s handiwork in places. This copy is also in the original German and includes a full English translation at the rear. It also includes the very first drawing which Bessler published and this also contains clues to the way his machine worked.

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Apologia Poetica,  - AP.  This was Bessler’s account of his life up until the time of Karl the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel’s patronage. The book contains the original German transcribed into a modern font and includes a full English translation at the rear. I would have preferred to include the original German font but it was in such poor condition that it would have been unreadable. This book contains some allusions to secret codes hidden within the book itself.

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Das Triumphans Perpetuum Mobile “- DT. this was Bessler’s most professionally finished book. It was written in both German and Latin and this edition is a faithful reproduction of the actual pages of the original book. It also includes a full English translation at the rear. A number of drawings are included by the original author and these are said to contain a number of clues as to his machine’s workings.

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Maschinen Tractate” - MT. this was found in the Bessler’s possessions after his death, in the form of a number of pages (141) and which contained a message on the front of the volume which stated that he had removed the drawings which depicted how his machine worked but that some one with a penetrating mind could by studying several drawings ultimately discover the secret of its construction. I have reproduced the drawings as they were found.  I included his handwritten notes with the best translation I could obtain, since the writing is very hard to read.

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JC

 

 I have claimed to have known the secret of Bessler’s perpetual motion device since last year and I’m well aware that without proof that claim is just hot air!  However, because I do have the solution I decided back at the end of last year, that I must build a working model and post a video of it working along with a complete explanation of how it works.

So what has happened?  I’ve been working on it periodically for several months, trying to make the right parts fit with the configuration I know holds the answer.  But it’s a bit like understanding how a clock works, you know what the device does and how it does it, and the basic principle by which it works, and if you can see the workings inside while it’s running, then your understanding is even better …but if you want to build one there are things that have to be made and which must work together.  Things like clocks have gears, and sprockets, and springs, and levers.

Each item needs to work perfectly with those that have to interact with it and without being able to see the inside, it just increases the difficulty if one or more parts is the wrong size.

So what I’m saying is that even though I have a full understanding of   Bessler’s wheel,  I still have to get the various parts the right size and in the right position.  I’m getting there and  it will work.      

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You who are reading this could still beat me to a successful outcome.  I have found and decoded so may clues and published most of them.  You find some on the search engine on this blog at top right side panel, or you can discover more on my web site at 

The Offfyreus Code  or several others see the links at the bottom of the right side panel.

And you can get copies of five of my books, see under the search engine right side panel, My Books.

JC

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Johann Bessler (aka) Orffyreus and his Perpetual Motion Device

 Johann Bessler, aka Orffyreus, exhibited a perpetual motion machine in 1712. Of course it wasn’t a perpetual motion machine (PM for Perpetual Motion) in the sense that most people think of them.   For a start it wasn’t isolated from any form of external energy, which is a strict requirement for such a theoretical device. It used weights which means it was enabled by gravity.

A waterwheel is driven by the flow of a river, the combustion engine by igniting petrol.  These two examples could just as easily be described as PM machines.  They are not isolated from any external source of energy, because the river flows down hill because gravity makes it.  It could in theory run continuously as long as the river flows thanks to gravity. The combustion engine will run continuously as long as it has fuel in its tank.

If the energy source is being maintained at a sufficient level, the machine will stay in motion like the so-called PM machine. But surely gravity isn’t an energy source?  No, but without it the water wheel won’t flow.

So Bessler’s wheel wasn’t a PM machine because it wasn’t isolated from external sources of energy.  But this is where confusion lies.  It was what people believed it to be, namely a PM machine.  But once people examined  the idea and defined it more precisely, they realised that many machines have external sources of  energy and they couldn’t all be PMs, so the idea was introduced, that a PM must be isolated from all external sources of energy including gravity.

The idea that a PM had to be isolated from all external stimuli and yet retain motion once started - and do work is utterly ridiculous.  No wonder PM is believed to be impossible.  Continuous motion can only happen if it can tap an external energy source.

Like every other would-be discoverer of the secret of PM, Bessler’s wheel used a number of weights in its interior, this is a well established fact.  This clearly implies that gravity had a role to play - the design of the machine required the movement of a number of weights configured in a certain way to produce continuous rotation. Thus we can say that his wheels were gravity-enabled.

But we have been taught that the force of gravity is not a source of energy.  This is actually true, but without its force the river wouldn’t flow.  Without its force the weights in Bessler's wheel wouldn’t fall.  But the water has to move from higher ground to lower in order to run and turn the water wheel - and the weights have to fall; both events are driven to move by gravity.  In doing this gravity does work, expends energy.   But in both cases there has be an intermediate medium.  Water or the weights.  Without them no motion is enabled by gravity.

So when we say Bessler’s wheel is enabled by gravity, even though gravity is not a source of energy, it is a vital ingredient.  The energy for the work being done is generated by the fall of the weights, the intermediary between gravity and the wheel. This process seems to be ignored even by many who study this field, they are still battling with the idea that as gravity is not an energy source it can’t be labelled such.  But it is just the same as any system which relies on the presence of gravity to provide input at its most basic level….mass in motion.

The main argument against this point of view is well known and simple. When a single weight falls, it derives kinetic energy from the motion of its fall.  When a force moves an object of mass it does work.  In this case the force doing the work is gravity.  After the work is done the energy has been transferred to the object of mass.  

Bessler’s wheel was driven by weighted levers, causing the machine to rotate.  We know that a weighted lever beginning its fall from the twelve o’clock position in a clock face and being allowed to fall freely will only get to the six o’clock position before it has to begin to climb against the force of gravity to get back to its starting point at twelve o’clock position.

Even if we could remove all possible friction, the return point would only just reach the twelve o’clock point.  But we need the device to do work, not just overcome friction.  Theoretically thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people have studied this problem and tried to resolve it - but all failed except Johann Bessler.  Instinctively those many, many people knew that there was a solution to this problem, and there is.  Bessler found it and I believe I have found it.  I’ve been working on a PoP wheel, (Proof of Principle) and I hope to have finished by early next year.  It won’t be an attractive model, just a crude assembly of previously used parts, but one that proves the design.

Click on the link below for all information about my published books.  There is my own biography about Bessler which includes all documents by or about Johann Bessler, plus you can obtain digital copies of all of his publications each with a full English translation.

https://johncollinsnews.blogspot.com/p/johann-besslers-books-and-biography.html

For more information about Bessler and his codes, view my YouTube video at

https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0  it describes the codes.

JC

A Brief Account of My Bessler Journey to the Present.

Between 1960, when I first read Gould’s excellent account of Bessler’s perpetual motion machine (or wheel) and 1974 when I built my first attempt at replicating it out of balsa wood and washers, my thoughts were confined to my mind and numerous scraps of paper and pencil drawings. The reason for my reluctance to accept what I had been taught; that perpetual motion devices  violated the laws of thermodynamics and were impossible; was the fact that the documentary evidence available  seemed to deny that assumption.

From then until about 1980 little changed until I made up my mind to try to obtain as much hard information about Johann Bessler and his perpetual motion machine as I could possibly manage.  This was of course before the internet made this kind of task so much easier.

I joined the British Museum Library and was able to actually touch and handle GB, AP and DT. Subsequently I obtained poor copies of those same documents, but I couldn’t read them anyway because I knew no German, not to mention that the language used was more than 300 years old. I advertised in a local newspaper for anyone who could translate 18th C German into English. Amazingly I was contacted by four people, one of whom was Mike Senior who became a good friend over the next twenty years or so.

He translated everything into English, handwriting it and adding a number of notes about what he had done.  He asked me if I wanted a literal word by word translation or what he said would be his best impression of what Bessler wrote, conveying meaning and nuance where possible. I chose the latter because I simply didn’t know what was in the documents at that time.

Seeing as we all make use of his translations I should say a word or two about Mike.  For a start he was was a polymath and a member of MENSA. He was consultant to the local authority on flora, having a Masters Degree in Botany in fact several degrees in different unrelated subjects - he was just curious about everything.  He read and spoke 18th C German, read and translated  Latin and could quote from memory from all the Greek classical plays in the original Greek.  He was an expert on astrophysics and wrote papers for peer review in scientific journals.  He loved Maths problems and tried to explain String Theory and Riemann’s Conjecture to me, for example.  It went straight over my head at very high altitude! He  also like his beer!  There was so much more to Mike but space is limited. But he did once say to me, “of course you do realise that what Bessler claimed is impossible”.  We laughed and agreed to disagree.

Once I had the translations plus a number of other documents about Bessler, also in German and needing translating, I set about writing my own biography of Bessler, trying hard to stick to the facts as presented.  Most of these were either letters to and from and about Bessler, or items from the local newspapers of the time.  Included were accounts of several official examinations arranged by certain men of high standing including Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel who agreed to offer his patronage and support but only if he had first satisfied himself that the machine was genuine

I was unable to get a publisher in the U.K. to publish my book, although I only sent it to about a dozen publishers having written the manuscript in one year.  I read that JK Rowling took seven years to write and sell her first book!  Maybe I should have held out for more publishers, but I was impatient, and decided to self publish.

Later I decided in addition to PM:AAMS? to self publish GB, AP, DT and MT.  It wasn’t profitable at all but it enabled me to just about cover my costs in running several web sites.

While this was happening I continued with my day job and in my spare time constructed many PM wheels.  I began this blog back in  April 2009.  It’s alarming to see how confident I was back then - nothing’s changed!

I’ve done numerous radio interviews both here and abroad.  I was invited to Rome to take part in a documentary about Bessler.  Unfortunately it was all in Italian, even my words were dubbed in so I don’t  even know what I said let alone what the rest of the cast said.  It was a bit of a set up as the other speakers were traditional scientists following the classic path that it was impossible.

I was asked to lecture at the Glastonbury Crop circle symposium in the mid 1990s and met Brian O’Leary a trained astronaut although he didn’t complete his training. It was a strange gig, which resulted in me discovering I could dowse for water, not a very useful trick these days, but curiously rewarding.

I also did several radio interview from home and here in England plus one memorable interview with Redneck radio in Greenwood, USA.  Hilarious but good fun.

There is so much more but I don’t want to bore the pants off you!

JC

GB Grundliccher Bericht

AP Apologia Poetica

DT Das Triumphirende

MT Maschinen Tractate.

PMAAMS Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?

John Collins