The Legend of Bessler’s Perpetual Motion Machine.

 On 6th June, 1712, in Germany, Johann Bessler (also known by his pseudonym, Orffyreus) announced that after many years of failure, he had succeeded in designing and building a perpetual motion machine. For more than fourteen years he exhibited his machine and allowed people to thoroughly examine the outside of it, but it’s internal workings were kept hidden. This was because the inventor feared that his design would be copied and someone else might obtain credit for all his years of hard work looking for the solution. He followed the advice from the famous scientist, Gottfried Leibniz, who was able to examine the device, and recommended a number of demonstrations and tests designed to prove the validity of his machine without giving away the secret of its design.

Karl the Landgrave of Hesse permitted Bessler to live, work and exhibit his machine at the prince's castle of Weissenstein. Karl was a man of unimpeachable reputation and he insisted on being allowed to verify the inventor's claims before he allowed Bessler to take up residence. This the inventor reluctantly agreed to and once he had examined the machine to his own satisfaction Karl authorised the publication of his approval of the machine. For several years Bessler was visited by numerous people of varying status, scientists, ministers and royalty. Several official examinations were carried out and each time the examiners concluded that the inventor's claims were genuine.

Over a number of years Karl aged and it was decided that after so long it was time the inventor left the castle and he was granted accommodation in the nearby town of Karlshafen. Despite the strong circumstantial evidence that his machine was genuine, Bessler failed to secure a sale and after more than thirty years he died in poverty. His death came after he fell from a windmill he had been commissioned to build. The windmill was an interesting design using a vertical axle which allowed it to benefit from winds from any directions. 

He had asked for a huge sum of money for the secret of his perpetual motion machine, £20,000 which was an amount thought only affordable by kings and princes, and although many were interested, none were prepared to agree to the terms of the deal. Bessler required that he be given the money before the buyer was allowed to view the internal workings of the machine. But those who sought to purchase the wheel, for that was the form the machine took, insisted that they see the secret mechanism before they parted with the money. Bessler feared that once the design was known the buyers could simply walk away knowing how to build his machine and he would get nothing for his trouble. 

I became curious about the legend of Bessler’s Wheel, while still in my teens, and have spent most of my life researching the life of Johann Bessler (I’m now 80). I obtained copies of all his books and had them translated into English and self-published them, in the hope that either myself or someone else might solve the secret and present it to the world in this time of pollution, global warming and increasingly limited energy resources.

Not long after I was able to read the English translations of his books, I realised that Bessler had embedded a number of clues in his books. These took the form of hints in the text, but also in a number of drawings he published and I found suggestions by the author that studying his books would reveal enough information about his wheel,to allow “someone with an acute and discerning mind, to build one”.

For some ideas about Bessler’s code why not visit my web sites at 

http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/

Take a look at my work on his “Declaration of Faith” at 

http://www.orffyreus.net/

Also please view my video at 

https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0

It gives a brief account both the legend and some more detail about some of the codes.

The problem of obtaining a fair reward for all his hard work was anticipated by Bessler and he took extraordinary measures to ensure that his secret was safe, but he encoded all the information needed to reconstruct the machine in a small number of books that he published. He implied that he was prepared to die without selling the secret and that he believed that posthumous acknowledgement was preferable to being robbed of his secret while he yet lived.


It has recently become clear that Bessler had a huge knowledge of the history of codes and adopted several completely different ones to disguise information within his publications. I have made considerable advances in deciphering his codes and I am confident that I have the complete design.


Johann Bessler published three books, and digital copies of these with English translations may be obtained from the links to the right of this blog. In addition there is a copy of his unpublished document containing some 141 drawings - and also my own account of Bessler’s life is also available from the links. It is called "Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?" 

This biography contains a wealth of information about Bessler himself, as well as many quotes by Bessler and letters to him or about him from many interested parties. It tells of his life up to and including his years with Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel, and what happened to him later.

Bessler's three published books are entitled "Grundlicher Bericht", "Apologia Poetica” and "Das Triumphirende...".

I have called Bessler's collection of 141 drawings “Maschinen Tractate”, but it was originally found in the form of a number of loosely collected drawings of perpetual motion designs. Many of these have handwritten notes attached and I have published the best English translation of them that I was able to get. Bessler never published these drawings but clearly intended to use them in his planned school for apprentices.

You can order copies of the books from my website at 

http://www.free-energy.co.uk/

Printed books direct from the printer can be obtained from here

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

Or from the top of the right side panel under the heading ‘Bessler’s Books’.

There are also links lower down on the right side panel.

These books contain the most important information available if you seek to find the solution to Bessler’s wheel.

JC

Update on Bessler’s Wheel PoP Model.

My latest iteration of a proof of principle of Johann Bessler’s perpetual motion machine is nearing completion.  It has taken far longer to get to this point than I thought it would.  I dreamed the solution some time last year, but working out how to bring it to a reality has been a tougher task than it seemed.

 

Until it’s completed and tested, I cannot say that it is the right design, with absolute certainty, but I’m more sure than I have ever been because the dream showed me the solution with a clarity I’ve never had before.

There have been numerous trials and errors where the mechanisms didn’t function exactly as I designed, or there were glitches in its smooth motion which caused it to stop. I fear that even though I expect to finish it soon, it might not run as smoothly as Bessler’s did, stopping and starting as the mechanisms catches, interferes or hinders the action.  But by then I will know if it will work. If it was built by an accomplished engineer or mechanic and I explained the configuration, then I think it would be best - but I’m determined to get to the finish line if I can!  Then others can build a proper working model.

There are five mechanism, each paired with another and their actions work together, as one falls it lifts the preceding one.  I know this idea will be dismissed as unworkable and yet it shouldn’t be, Bessler described it and if you believe his wheel worked, why would you dismiss it?

I have completed the five mechanisms so far and they seem to be operating as designed.  I have to fit ten (yes ten!) pulleys and their cords and then it’s done.  It sounds complicated and more complex than it is.  Once seen in action it is simple to understand.

Even if the model fails, I am firmly convinced that I have the correct configuration. My workmanship is severely limited by my age, arthritis etc, poor selection of tools! 

So I’m planning to do a simple video explaining how it works, to post after I’ve tested my pop wheel. I know people will say I should make a simulation of the wheel, but at my age I’m too old to attempt it.  But hopefully others will be willing to do I.

One more thing.  Every day I come across hundreds of comments saying that every possible variation of mechanical arrangement has been tried, described, failed and dismissed.  They say there are no more variations available.  This is not true!

There is at least one more method which works, I will share all the information asap!

In the mean time here’s a pic of my so-called workshop.

There’s actually more but it’s all old stuff!

JC

All The Code contained in the Orffyrean Declaration of Faith

Deciphering the Orffyrean Declaration of Faith

Part One

Apologia Poetica - the clues to deciphering Orffyreus’ secret message.

Johann Bessler, aka as Orffyreus first exhibited his device in 1712. It took the form of a wheel suspended on an axle. Each end of the axle was attached to two wooden posts. 

To save time I will stress that fraud was initially suspected but eventually ruled out by a number of tests and the assurance of one man of was allowed to inspect the inner workings of the wheel. This man, Karl of Hesse Kassel, was chosen specifically because he was regarded as being absolutely honest and is well-known historically. He insisted that he would not offer his patronage to Bessler without confirming to his own satisfaction, that the inventor’s claims were genuine. 

Over a number of years several tests were carried out and witnessed by many people, some of whom signed certificates that they had attended the tests and were convinced the machine was genuine. 

The inventor published three books, one of which recounted the inventor’s search for the solution to perpetual motion. There were hints that there was a secret to be found in this book, but nothing obvious was revealed.

The legend of Bessler’s wheel; his discovery of the secret of making a working gravity wheel and what happened; and his subsequent failure to reveal the secret are described in my book, “Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?”, available from my website at www.free-energy.co.uk. This website, www.orffyreus.net, explores the means of deciphering the various coded message found in Chapter 55 of Bessler’s book, “Apologia Poetica” as well as other verbal clues throughout his works.

I first published this information on the website in 2010 and it has been somewhat neglected over the years and has collected a number of digital typos which has made it difficult to read. So I've decided to publish it again, here in a corrected and updated format.

Many people will be familiar with the discoveries I have made concerning the secret codes hidden in Johann Bessler’s (aka Orffyreus) books published in 1717 and1719, and also the other clues and hints in his unpublished documents. I refer to the discovery of several pentagrams hidden in each of his published drawings and the ubiquity of the numbers 5 and 55. For further information on the codes, go to www.theorffyreuscode.com or for the background to Johann Bessler see my site at www.free-energy.co.uk

My feeling was that there were too many references to the number 5 to simply assume that it was intended to indicate how many mechanisms might be required within the gravity wheel. I have always maintained that that was one aspect of the number but in fact we are overwhelmed with the appearance of the numbers 5 and 55, encoded in numerous places both within his name and also in many document both published and unpublished.

These clues were deliberately inserted into his books to point to a certain place where he had hidden a secret message which once deciphered would reveal exactly how his wheels worked. He left hints that this was his intention and I’m certain that deciphering the clues will lead to a full understanding of his machine. He commented that he would prefer to die and leave his secret to posterity than give it away for free while he lived, implying that the secret would still be available after his death.

The evidence that he built a genuine gravity-driven wheel is absolutely convincing and many people around the world believe that this clean, free technology is waiting to be rediscovered and made use of as an alternative to current energy generation methods. This desire is welcome and needs to be encouraged.

To aid those who might feel that they have the necessary expertise in code breaking to reveal the message, I have written down everything that I have discovered about chapter 55 in the hope that it will lead to a successful outcome – the reconstruction of Bessler’s wheel.

If one wished to leave a secret message hidden within a normal piece of prose there would have to be some way of identifying where to start; which passage within the book held an encoded message? In the end the requirements are quite simple. First the relevant piece of text must be identifiable. The particular letter or word has to be ascertainable on a certain line and somewhere within that line. If as seems to be the case, the secret message is of considerable length, how is possible to hide all of it within an innocuous looking piece of text?

The purpose of deciphering the code is to try to learn the design of Bessler’s wheel. For myself I have no doubt that most of the explanations given in the following pages are correct and set us on the path towards deciphering his message which will lead to a complete description of what Bessler intended us to discover. But even those who are sceptical will find some reassuring arguments and convincing proof of the code’s existence. If it exists then it can be deciphered and if it is deciphered it will reveal a message written by Bessler. Since it was encoded, it must be something he didn’t want the world to know of too soon. That can only be the secret of the wheel’s construction. This is my attempt at making a re start to the process. 

Part Two

The Decoding of Chapter 55

We can narrow the search for the text which includes the code, to a small chapter in the book, “Apologia Poetica. Chapter 55 is the last chapter in the first part of Apologia. 

When he first began to write the book, Bessler had no intention of writing it in two parts. So, all necessary clues had already been built into part one, however as he says himself, he had to react to attempts by his enemies, Gartner, Wagner and Borlach, to blacken his reputation and chose to add a second part to Apologia to refute the accusations made against him. Chapter 55 would have been the last chapter in the book, and not just the final chapter in part one and we may assume that this was the one he wanted to draw our attention to because it is numbered 55 and because of the large number of pieces of code that when deciphered simply reveal the number 55, for which there seems almost no other reason. Even though it was a later addition, the second part of Apologia Poetica includes a number of simple clues which also point to Chapter 55. 

To narrow the search further we have to identify the particular part of Chapter 55 which is where the clues are hidden. The rhyming throughout the book, (224 pages) is written according to the AABB scheme, the first line rhyming with the second line - rhyming couplets. However, part of the way into chapter 55 the rhyming changes to ABAB, the first and third lines rhyming, and the second and fourth, producing a four-line stanza instead of the two-line ones. The text reverts to rhyming couplets before the end of chapter 55, so this implies that the text within the four-line stanzas section is of significance and because it is the only part with this rhyming scheme it is reasonable to assume that it is this section which holds the key to unlocking the secret message. 

Returning to the 55 theme, there are in total, only 54 stanzas in chapter 55, assuming the number 55 is important one appears to be missing. On the first page of the “Declaration of Orffyreus”, which appears on the second page of chapter 55, commencing with the first four-line stanzas, there are 5 stanzas. On the five following pages there are 8 stanzas per page. So far then, there are 45 stanzas. 

Now on the penultimate page of chapter 55 there are only seven and a half stanzas, the total is now 52 and a half. Mostly there are 32 lines per page in Apologia, allowing 8 stanzas, but on the penultimate page of chapter 55, there is quite clearly a gap where the last two lines should be. The last two lines of the last four-line stanza on that page have been left blank. But turn over to the last page and there they are! This produces a six-line stanza on the last page, instead of a four line one. 

Looking at the total of stanzas again we find 5 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 +8 + 7½ + 1½ Perhaps two lines should have been added to the bottom of the penultimate page and two more at the top of the final page, making 55 in all?

The bottom of pages 126 & 127. Notice two rows on the right are missing

I suggest that by omitting the two lines on the penultimate page, he wished to draw attention to the fact that, on the last page the remaining stanza had six lines instead of four. This might lead someone to count the stanzas to see what figure was obtained and thus arrive at the number 54. 

The final verse on the last page ends with the word “Ende”, “end” in English; and since there are only 54 to that point, there would indeed seem to be a missing verse. But where were the missing four lines of verse? The answer turned out to be quite simple. 

Having found two missing lines on the penultimate page of chapter 55, I re-examined the text and found two further single blank lines which I had ignored before, assuming that they were merely new paragraphs. So now I had my four blank lines, but what to do with them? It was then I realised that we were simply meant to count and number the lines. This I did and you can see the results in the last part of these posts. 

But there were other considerations to take into account which might possibly hold the key to further progress. 54 verses plus four blank lines made of 220 lines and attached to the ends of more than half of the lines in this section were 141 bible references to explain. 

So, I believe that we were intended to count and number the lines as a start to deciphering his coded message.

Part Three

The Bible References Examined

You can see in the above picture that the references are abbreviated which gives considerable scope to adapt them as pointers to a specific piece of text.

These references it seemed to me, held the possibility of a coded message which might yet reveal Bessler’s secrets and were part of the code. I doubted that they are in themselves a part of the coded text but their abbreviated format looked like it might be an ideal device for pointing to specific letters or words within the text. 

In my search for other small anomalies used by Bessler as clues to deciphering his codes I discovered several apparent errors, which, under any other circumstances would be regarded as accidental or coincidental, but here, knowing how Bessler worked, I assumed that they were intentional. 

Among the 141 bible references I found some duplicates. I found this surprising, given the care with which the whole publication had been created, and I speculated that this might be another pointer to a piece of the puzzle? There were five biblical references duplicated; namely, Titus 2.verse 14; 1. Timothy 3, verse 16; 1. Corinthians 10, verse 31; Titus.2, verse 11; and Romans. 3 verse 24. Coincidence and a simple error seemed likely until I realized that there were five duplications making 5 and 5 or 55, again. To add weight to the fact that they are deliberate duplications and designed to be noticed, the first two are on the first page and it’s unlikely that Bessler wouldn’t have noticed this if it was an error. 

A study of the actual texts referenced in the bible revealed nothing of interest and I quickly came to the conclusion that most of the texts to which the biblical references related were irrelevant to deciphering the clues for the following reasons. Firstly there were a number of different versions of the bible extant, sometimes with the texts and/or the verse-numbering varying from one to another. Another quirk of the bible references is the frequent appearance of neighbouring verses quoted in different places, making one wonder why he did not place them together. I decided that if the bible references were a clue then they probably were intended to be used as a pointer to specific words or letters within a certain line or a four line stanza. 

Part Four 

Letters or Words?

Would Bessler have used letters of words? I decided letters would be better and I was able to confirm this to my own satisfaction by checking so see if there were any German words within the lines of the 55 stanzas, which might be of use in explaining how the machine worked. If the code pointed to whole words then they should appear somewhere within the text. I was thinking of the German for such words as, wheel, weight, round, rotate, lever etc. None of these appears and in any case it would be too obvious. So knew I had to search for the right letter in a certain line within the 55 stanzas.

Which Letter and which Line?

One thing that struck me was that the upper case letters of each book referenced would make a good pointer to the exact letter in a particular line. The reason for this was that I had already noticed that there were rarely more than about 30 letters in each line so the 24 letters of the alphabet in use then might easily be used in this way. An upper case "M" being the thirteenth letter in a 26 letter alphabet could point to the 13th letter in a certain line. 

Secondly the verse numbers referenced from the Bible ran from 1 to 172 and the chapter numbers from 1 to 118. There were 55 four line stanzas in chapter 55 so a total of 220 lines, including the four blank ones. The verse numbers did not exceed the number 220 so it could be argued that this lends credence to the idea that the verse and/or chapter numbers could indicate the line number.

According to my speculations then, the upper case letter of each book of the bible quoted pointed to a letter on a particular line and the line to be used was indicated by the verse number or was it the book number or both? This I felt, looked very promising and I set to work to try to identify the relevant line of each stanza. The first bible reference in chapter 55, which was isolated from the rest of the references, being the only one on the first page, did not contain a verse number, just Judae 19.

The bible text to which Judae 19 refers, reads, "These are they who separate themselves, sensual men, having not the Spirit."

And the text adjacent to the bible reference above, reads ……

 ( As my chattering enemies seem to). 

Neither items seem particularly relevant. The number 19 suggested line 19 to me, but when I checked, it was on line 18. This was so close I had to double check and it was then that I realised that the first of the four blank lines came in at line 17 and if included in the count made the 'Judae 19' reference, line 19. I tried to see if the text I quoted above, "These are they who separate themselves..." had any relation to the feature identified with it, and I guess it is possible to see that the blank lines do separate or split the text, but it is a pretty vague connection. "These are they who separate themselves.." might be the nearest quotation that Bessler could get to providing a hint that these were the spaces that separate the text. 

Including the blank lines in the count is a simple but clever way of protecting the casual code-breaker from stumbling across the right clues, too easily. The fact that the line numbering clue is included here in the first bible reference confirms to my mind that these 220 lines contain the encoded message. Some may argue that because the verse references only go to 172, the 220 lines are more than were needed, but remember that there had to be a multiple of 55 to attract our attention to the right chapter, so 220 it had to be, and Bessler needed less than 220 verse numbers to achieve his aim.

Spaces Between the Words?

It occurred to me that I had omitted to take into account something else. If, as I have suggested, the code is composed of individual letters picked out according to the instructions of the code, should I not allow for spaces too? The letters cannot be allowed to run together in one long stream, so there must surely be spaces indicated to separate each word. To this end I think that this is also indicated in the first bible reference, Judae 19, see again, below.

Notice that the text which accompanies the reference has a bracket followed by a space, then the text, and finally a closed bracket without an intervening space. There are just 21 letters in the sentence, two brackets and three spaces. It might be a coincidence but I doubt it - 21 letter plus 2 brackets and three spaces adds up to 26, the number of letters in the 26 letter alphabet. We have already seen that this phrase in brackets right next to the first bible reference tells us that blank lines must be included in the line count, and now a space is to be counted within the text as well. So we can add to that the possibility that the line number is indicated by the chapter number and the verse number when present.

Does the letter J indicate the letter position? It's the tenth letter of the 26 letter alphabet. So perhaps the J of Judae is indicating the 10th letter in the sentence, including any spaces? 

Bessler made much of the dual turning capabilities of his wheel and even included suggestions of it in his drawings and I considered the possibility that he might just count his letters from the end of the line instead of the beginning. Counting backwards reveals that the space in between 'Schwatzer' and 'feindliche' is the tenth item. This appears to confirm that spaces in between lines and words are to be counted and the letter or space can be identified by means of the upper case letter of the bible reference - and count from the end not the beginning.

Typos or Deliberate Anomalies?

Before we go any further, Bessler has included another little anomaly which potentially throws some of what we have discussed out of the window. Some of the abbreviated bible books referred to have different spellings. Notice in the example below that Matthew is spelled with one "t" first and two "t"s secondly. For two reasons I think this is part of the deciphering method. Firstly it occurs right near the beginning, in the second and third references on the first page of the main list of references, and there are several more instances in the 141 references; and secondly it provides for detailed variations in the identifying procedure.

We know that Bessler used both alphabetic substitution, as in his pseudonym, and alphanumeric substitution (as in the Romanised capitals used under the Apologia Poetica wheel drawing). However in this case, alphanumeric substitution is out because when the individual letters are added up they come to more than the number of letters and spaces in each line. That this is part of the deciphering process and not careless spelling is certain and therefore there has to be a reason for it. A clue to its use can be found, as can all of Bessler's coded clues, in his published drawings. In more than one instance we are led to count up the number of letters used for labelling the items in each drawing and in this case I think we must do the same - and total their accumulated numbers.

Consider this. I have said that there are about 30 letters used in each sentence, plus an assortment of spaces to count, yet we have only 26 available to identify each letter.  But in fact we have fewer than 26 because Bessler uses the books of the bible to identify the required letter and therefore he is limited by their scarcity. The first bible reference on page 122, the first page of references after Judae 19, is Rom.1.v.16. by picking a letter such as R in Rom (Romans) he can suggest 18 as R is the 18th letter, but then by adding the letters ‘om’, they are just two letters and he can thereby add two to the total. So in the example above, the two Matthews. He can mean M = 13 and add just three to the total and get 16, or in the second example, add four to get 17. The following letters appear as the capital letters used by Bessler in his bible codes. I have only produced one example of each but there are several.

Act - Apoc - Cor - Col - Deut - Eph - Esa - Ezech - Gal - Gen - Hebr - Hiob - 

Hos - Jac - Jer - Joh - Judae - Job - Levit - Luc - Marc - Math - Micha - Phi -

Pet - Prov - Psal - Rom - Reg - Sap - Tit - Thess - Thren - Tim

Although 34 books are referenced, only 13 begin with a different capital letter, but with several alternative spellings it is possible to arrive at a total equalling any required letter count. Not only is this useful, it is also necessary as Bessler must also have had to count spaces as well as letters to find the right letter position along the line, but also point out a space to be included to separate the deciphered letters into words. These extra letters give him that option.

Returning to the penultimate page again, six lines from the top and apparently the fourth bible reference on the page, is a strange reference, ‘B.Weiszh.7’. I was unable to find any indication of which bible this came from and if it had been just that, I might have assumed that it was some local book that was familiar to the local people of that part of Germany, but there was an anomaly. All of the fonts used for the actual bible references are in normal Roman script, not dissimilar to that which appears on this page. You can see the font used in the first reference below - two types of font in the first line and note that the usual font used for the references is Joh 1. v.1.14, underlined in the illustration below.

Notice that the text that accompanies those references, on the left, and is used in the rest of the book, is in the German Fraktur font which was commonly used at the time. But in the ringed reference the font used is also the Fraktur one. Why is ‘B.Weiszh.7’ in the Fraktur style too, like the rest of the book when all the other references here are in Roman script. There is one other example of the bible references being written in Fraktur, and it is the references immediately below ‘B.Weiszh.7’, I have underlined it at the bottom of the above picture. I suspect that this difference is somehow to be taken as part of the code rather than a pointer to it. But what did it mean?

The only meanings I could find for the word ‘Weiszh’ were a fairly rare last name; a reference to some text in Grimms fairytales, and its use as an abbreviation for Weist(h) or Wistuom which means wisdom. The brother Grimms lived long after Bessler so it can’t be reference to them. It can be used to refer to a collection of dictums, or sayings and also applies to a judicial sentence serving as a precedent. This was all very well but I wondered, how was I to find book 7 of wise old sayings. Then one day while checking the translations of some German words I came across Weisz without the ‘h’, meaning ‘gives, points to, alludes to, or alternatively, rejects, repels, expels, identifies, refers to, or transfers’. Quite a range of meanings and yet it seemed to me that ‘alludes to’ or ‘points to’, or ‘refers to’ or even ‘expels’, might just be the desired meaning. Now this looked interesting and perhaps I was trying to make the clues fit my purpose but it certainly seemed worthy of further investigation.

I tried transposing the phrase, ‘B’, points to 7, or ‘B alludes to 7’. If B was equal to 7, then A must be equal to 6 and therefore V must equal 1. Or it could be reversed and if B equalled 7 then C was 6 and H equalled 1. The last just felt wrong. I was sure that Bessler would have used the letter V to represent 1 rather than creating some obscure relationship between H and 1. V equalled five in Roman numerals and besides, if V equalled 1, then Bessler had in effect moved the alphabet backwards just five positions. Five again. But if B really does allude to 7, ddid that mean B equalled G, five places ahead, or did it mean that B actually equalled the number 7? I feel sure that it meant the letter ‘V’ here represented ‘A’.

How are we to know when to apply the alphabetic substitution? Looking at the first reference after Judae 19, we see Rom.1.v.16. According to my theory the capital R, as the 18th letter in the alphabet, means that we should look at the 18th letter, firstly on line 1, (Rom.1.v.16) and then again on line 16, because verse 16 is also in the reference. But should we first, add 2 to the letter ‘R’ for the ‘om’ of Rom to get 20?

Just to add to the confusion, in some areas, the inventor has altered the small ‘v’ standing for verse from a Roman font to a Fraktur one, which might mean in those case which are not italicised, that we should add five as represented by the letter v to whatever number we have arrived at? Or, because in the first reference it is Rom 1, should we look at line 1first, then 5 and finally 16?

The letter v itself is a strange one. Look at the above two references and in the left one you will see that the letter v has an almost vertical stroke through the left leg and yet in the right one it looks like a normal fraktur font. I assume that the fraktur one is to be ignored but this suggests that the other one, with its strange additional ascending stroke has some meaning, but as I have only been able to find a single example of it anywhere other than in this book, I can only present what I have found and leave it others to interpret. According to a web site at, www.sizes.com/numbers/roman_numerals.htm, the particular letter v we are discussing meant 41/2 in ancient Rome. I doubt that, in this case, this is the correct interpretation and I prefer the answer provided for me on a forum, that this is a common abbreviation for verse and versicle. In which case I must simply ignore it for now - until I know more. 

This table details all of the abbreviated bible references as shown in chaper 55. I have attempted to include every single feature of the references as they appear in the original book and have included or omitted every full stop (period) according to the original. In the tables below, the duplicated references are highlighted in similar colours. The varied spelling of the abbreviated references is accurate and according to the original.The page numbers at the head of each column are the ones on which the references appeared in the original Apologia Poetica. Items 126 and 128 appear in their Fraktur font as per the original.

Some items have not transferred correctly.  Items number 9, 36, 42, 126 should all read Rom, but the umlauts did not display properly.

Repeated references highlighted as above are:-

Tit.2.v.14

1.Tim.3.v.16

1.Cor.10.v.31

Tit.2.v.11 and

Rom.3.v.24 (but not 25 or 28)

Some of the ‘v’s for verses have different fonts on some pages and I have included all the variations, as discussed on the other pages of this web site. The first examples are normal Latin ‘v’s but with an oblique ascender or slash. I was unable to replicate the precise letter so I have simply shown it as a normal letter ‘v’.

Please note that the above images were obtained from:-

Georg August UniversityGottingen 

GOOD LUCK!

JC

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