Edward de Vere and Francis Bacon Message: The Minds That Made the Brotherhood of the Rose Crosse
This is a short post showing a self-explanatory hidden message on page 266 of Hamlet.
The message is:
The Brotherhood of the Rose Crosse, from the
Noble Minds and Brains of
Edward de Vere and Francis Bacon.
Update: I have been contacted by my colleagues, Owen Sixpence and his brother, B. Holden Sixpence, and they spotted another 1740 solution associated with the word "Brains." The new solution is marked in green. B. Holden Sixpence spotted the line "For the demand of our neglected Tribute," and noticed that a line drawn from the letter "F," at the beginning the line, through the letter "B" in the word "Brains" intersects the letter "R" in the word "Reuennew" in the last line of the right-hand column. Note that the line in which the word "Brains" appears is the 17th line from the bottom of the page.
Owen Sixpence noticed the letters spelling "For th...T" in the line "For the demand of our neglected Tribute," and the letters "T" and the "H" at the beginning of the lines immediately above and below the line. The letters "T" and the "H" are the first letters in the words Templum Hierosolym and, when placed together, form a triple tau symbol.
The triple tau is made of three letter T's, and also contains a "hidden" upside-down cross of St. Peter. Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is called the "Fourth T" (or "Forty") in the hidden messages. Thus, the number 1740 is a code number identifying Edward de Vere. The number 1740 is made from the number in Edward de Vere's title (17) and the number 40 (from the triple tau forth T (forty)).
There is also a "For...T" in the letters beginning the last two lines of the right-hand column.
All of the things noted by the Sixpence brothers indicates another set clues that reveal another set of "1740" messages. Furthermore, their "F" to "R" solution (shown in green) in the spelling of "Francis" seems to be better than the "F" to "R" solution, shown in blue, that I initially though was correct. Well done!
Believe me, there is a lot more crammed into this page, so stay tuned.
Update 2: I should point out something on the circle in the lower left of the image that spells BACON. When the "O" in "Ophelia" is reached, the line at that point is "How now Ophelia?". As the circle is followed counterclockwise, the circle runs into letters that spell the words "how" and "now" just before the capital letter "N" is reached. The beginning of the lines look like this:
Nor what...
Was not...
O're...
Nor what...
Was not...
O're...
So there is a "how now" clue pointing out the letter "N" as the correct letter to follow the letter "O" in the spelling of "BACON."
The line "He shall with speed to England" could be a clue too. The letter "E" (England) is the fifth letter of the alphabet. The letter "N" is the fifth letter in the name "BACON." The capital letter "N," beginning the line "Nor what he spake...", is the fifth capital letter from the capital letter "E" in "England," counting nearby capital letters encountered going counterclockwise around the purple "BACON" circle from the "E" (There's (1), Madness (2) [in?], His (3), Love (4), Nor (5)). The word "he" is also encountered in the line with the capital letter "N" by following the purple circle counterclockwise from the "E" in "England" ("He shall speed..." to "Nor what he spake...").
