The Garden of Love - virtue and sin

On August 2, 2015 I visited WD Gann's grave for the second time to evaluate the apparent triangular arrangement of 12 gravestones in contrast to surrounding stones.  Macabre perhaps?  Standing amidst the stones, at the foot of the "Great Tree" I did not feel that emotion at all.  Instead, I had unavoidably looked at the names on the stones while measuring the distances and angles between them and their relative face angles between them.  There were graves with a single person, alone, but, mostly, they were families; husband and wife and often children with them.  Persons bonded by love.  I didn't feel the macabre of death but the comfort of love that day.

When two days later I waxed philosophic about the feeling of love I felt standing there I was roundly ridiculed by a person who I had previously respected as insightful, spiritually moved, mathematically inspired; "Jim, you've really lost it now."  In my less mature response I was hurt and defensive.  I'm over all that now, but perhaps this essay might help those stymied by the unknown...or those seeking fodder for their self promotion by ridiculing another.

Early on I read Petter Amundsen's "Oak Island and the Treasure Map in Shakespeare."  Mr. Amundsen's brilliant deciphering of fragments of Shakespeare was the inspiration of my subsequently discovering the "six e's" that indicated WD Gann "The Tunnel Thru the Air" was encoded with acrostic and telestic messages.  Mr. Amundsen was a WD Gann researcher before his moving to the Baconian/Shakespearian realm as I've read his essay on the anagram of the title of TTTTA (the lunar return essay), but he did not apply the Baconian encoding methods in TTTTA as best I can determine.

Mr. Amundsen's research of the Brothers of the RC (Rosy Crosse), the Rosicrucian society tied their order to their symbols; the Rose and the lesser angles of the Pythagorean triangle (37 and 53).  If I recall correctly, Mr. Amundsen identifies the fingerprints of the Rosicrucian in Shakespeare by the number 53 and the Rose.

It was with disappointment I did not find the Rose of the Rosicrucian on page 53 of TTTTA...but I was vastly compensated.  I found it on page 37.  On the page of the number, 37, which I have read represents the Rosicrucians "reason for existence."  I found the Rose in "The Garden of Love," which begins towards the end of page 36 and spans the entire page 37.  Since its long, I give first the reduced size picture of the entire text but to enable better viewing I've attached the two pages in a links; page 36 and page 37:

I did find the Rose coded in red above but I found so much more.  I found the fully articulated "The Garden of Love," the concept of "Unselfishness," the "Water of Forgetfulness," the "Lilly of Faith," the "Rose of Charity," and the isolated, delicate flower that blooms late in life, that of "Unrewarded Kindness."

Two problems.  Both involve missing letters.  The word "of" is used too many times and that is addressed under the "HOW" below.  And then still there are missing letters which are derived in the last words of the above.

HOW?  If you look at the lines 1455, 1456 and 1457, the acrostic letters spell "HOW."  The letters "of" are used four times in "The Garden of Love," Water of Forgetfulness," "Rose of Charity," "Lilly of Faith."  Mr. Gann isolates the word "of" on lines 1458 and 1459 in perfectly ordered acrostic letters.  That's "how" Mr. Gann gets around a scarcity of letters.

Missing letters.  Simply stated there are four missing letters that ultimately reside in the "Rose of Char_ty" and in the "Unrew_rded Kind_es_."  Without any escape, I am left without the letters, "i," "a," "n" and "s."  Missing i-a-n-s.

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Time and again I've re discovered the concept that often, the most important message is the one that is missing.  The letters i-a-n-s.  Do you see it?

In the context of all the virtuous words found in the narrative of pages 36 and 37, we find among them and not isolated to any one of them, except arbitrarily by process of elimination, the words "a sin."  I expect a philosopher could write of book of essays deliverable from the pulpit regarding sin among righteousness and goodness.  I just don't know the message of all this.

Neither did I know the narrative of page 37 was reinforced by the encoded repetition when I first focused on "The Garden of Love" in August of 2015.  I simply anticipated its philosophical importance; I'd felt the timeless love when standing amidst the gravestones on August 2, 2015.

It is not simply said that the Rosicrucian can predict the future but I've read the Brotherhood professes, itself, that it can discern the future.  According to Wikipedia, the manifestos of the Brotherhood assert its understanding and sharing of all secrets:

So, was WD Gann a Rosicrucian and could he discern the future?  Sadie and WD Gann's gravestone:

If you inspect the gravestone closely you will see a five-petaled rose at each of the upper corner's of the stone, surrounded by clusters of leaves.  The five-petaled rose, the sign of the Rosicrucian.

And if you construct an anagram of the letters of the stone, you will produce the message:

"A shaman died willing-Gann."  That's a pretty straightforward answer to whether Mr. Gann could foretell the future.

We found the 37 sign of the Rosicrucian as page 37.  So where is the 53?  Compute the life span of Sadie H. Gann above.

Coincidence?

Much material in this essay to consider.  One might consider the thoughts with the spirit of the virtues that are recounted in the words that are confirmed in the encodings.  

Alternately, one might use the thoughts for the purpose of ridicule and self promotion.  I would offer the latter is in the spirit of the words spelled by the missing letters.

Jim Ross