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Very little has been written about the Orffyreus Code, and the reason for this is that hardly anyone knows about it. In 1997 I published a book called “Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?”, in which I wrote down the results of a lifetime of researching the story of Johann Bessler, also known as Orffyreus. Up to that time the life of Bessler was described in a few books all of which quoted a primary source of information, written some fifty years after his death. This was a detailed, if somewhat biased account. There followed a couple more accounts which took some brief look at the various papers published by the inventor to promote his machine, but none of them noticed something that I had discovered.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. I should explain for those who do not know, that Johann Bessler is infamous for the claims he made that he had invented a perpetual motion machine. He constructed several machines each larger than the previous with the intention of selling one of them for a large sum of money. The fact that he did not sell a single machine is not so much because no one wanted to buy one - it was his determination not to give the secret away before being paid which thwarted all negotiations
Now whether or not you are open-minded about his claims, the facts are impressively in favour of them and I shall detail the tests on another page of this web site. For now I want to return to the presence of a code which I discovered hidden within all of his publications.
The first place to look is the obviously constructed pseudonym which he used - namely ORFFYREUS. No reason has ever been offered to explain this strange choice and even though the method used to change the name from Bessler to Orffyreus is known, no convincing explanation has ever been offered. I thought long and hard about this and because of the existence of another piece of the puzzle also not commented on but fairly obvious, I came to the conclusion that there could only be one reason for the pseudonym and that was because it was intended to point to the existence of further pieces of code. |
