In ‘Das Triumphirende,’ there is a portrait of Bessler. It is a curious picture, but what makes it stranger is the addition, in my copy at least, of a second portrait affixed to the first. This second picture has a hole neatly cut in it, which, carefully aligned, allows Bessler to look through from the first picture. The reasons for this are insufficiently understood at the moment and so I cannot comment helpfully on this, but there is another feature present which is of interest. 

There are a series of letters beneath the portrait, which spell out his name, and it says J.E.E.Orffyreus, His Highness’s Counsellor of Commerce, Medical Practitioner and Inventor of the Perpetual Motion. At the end of the first line is a small, innocent looking punctuation mark; at least that is what it looks like but in fact it isn’t really like any mark I can find. I looked for an anomaly and I found it in the punctuation mark.

In the picture below you can see an enlarged version of the text with the punctuation mark. I thought that the punctuation mark looked as if it should have been a numeral 5 which lacked the upward line to complete it. So I drew a line upwards at a slight angle as in the drawing, as close to the 5 alignment as possible.

The result was a line that cut through the bottom of the picture and through the right hand border. Parallel to this line and starting upward from the first R of Orffyreus, was a second one. I drew a horizontal line from the point where the first line cut the right hand border of the picture and noted that it ran precisely through the point of Orffyreus’ pointing index finger. A second line drawn from this same finger down to the point where the first line first crossed the bottom border, showed the beginnings of a pentagon. I filled in the other lines and produced the picture you see below.

There is a wealth of symbolism and other clues, both geometric and textual, included in this picture but space prevents me from enlarging on these here.

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Copyright © 2009 John Collins.