Elizabethen Biformed Alphabets

[FB Decipherer]

I'm new to this forum and dislike this Forum Software intensely, i seem to be struggling with replying to individual posts. So I am not intentionally ignoring those who have reached out to me already.

So to that member who said he had tried, without success to decode, the biliteral code in the First Folio, here is an up-to-date statement-of-purpose to my project, New Gorhambury, with the website https://gorhambury.org/

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You raise a key point that in some cases the difference between the 'a' and 'b' biformed forms is sometimes so miniscule that Classification cannot be reliably performed by inspection (human eyeballs). But consider an arbitrary digital representation of one letter in an alphabet, extending, say, 30 x 30 pixels. If the position of any one pixel was uniform across letters, it could be easily read in place, and used as one binary digit of data. That's all the Biliteral cipher method requires.

 

That, of course, is not what we have in historic high resolution digital facsimiles, such as my favoured Bodleian Library downloads of the FIrst Folio. But I think of this: an image editing program such as Photoshop allows superimposing two images, moving them in place manually for registration, then taking the union and intersection of the pair together. 

 

Computer Vision programming libraries such as OpenCV have extensive facilities for doing all of that. Then the difference image of two biformed variants for any letter could be isolated as a third, much smaller, image. In the difficult case it might be a very thin crescent shape of some kind, but it would be detectable as a non-zero number of pixels, and it would be uniform within a number of pages which had been printed from the same set of alphabetic lead slugs (there is some more proper word for them...)

 

I did a little exploratory coding some months back with OpenCV routines for working with SIFT (Scalable Invariant Feature Transform). I think the meaning is that it can distill down, or abstract, an entire digital image into a much simpler data structure, one which is particularly well-suited for comparing with other images for discerning differences between images. And it works well with some very complex full color images!

 

So the requirement here is vastly simpler, in that it is always purely monochrome, strictly two-dimensional, and in the case of either italic or roman type, and always total of 96 glyphs (24 letters in the Elizabethan alphabet, two biformed forms, both upper and lower case, 24 x 4) .

 

A fantastic freebie resource is the Bodleian Library set of Text Encoding Initiative XML files, one for each of the 36 First Folio plays, each having the complete text in machine-readable form. Presumably it is a very reliable information source.  The names of the team of proofreaders are included in the header of the files! 

 

Because of the above, as we iterate through each letter of each line in our Python code, we can know in advance what each letter the next "should" be...we only have to test whether it is an 'a' or 'b' variant. If we can extract the bounding box coordinates of each letter in turn, we can take the SIFT of each in turn, and compare it to the looked-up value from a list of reference SIFT values for each letter (calculated in advance and used repeatedly).

 

But where do these crucial reference values come from? I am thinking of an application of Bootstrapping, where the initial reference values might be very rough to begin with, but refinement comes after each classification, and learning on-the-fly comes from a progressively more extensive store of classified images to work with.

 

Some months back I did the initial work on a project for the Roboflow Open Source, cloud-based AI development platform, which I named Elizabethan Biformed Alphabets. I was hoping someone with much more experience with me with Convolutional Neural Networks would find the premise interesting enough to contribute to the project, but so far no one has come forward.

[Light-of-Truth]

37 minutes ago, FB Decipherer said:

A fantastic freebie resource is the Bodleian Library set of Text Encoding Initiative XML files, one for each of the 36 First Folio plays, each having the complete text in machine-readable form. Presumably it is a very reliable information source.

A resource I like and use daily for both facsimile and original spelling text is The Internet Shakespeare Editions:

https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Foyer/plays/

Roll over the Text menu item and you can see the plays and poetry.

I like seeing the original spelling and text in the original page layout. The first thing I noticed in the Bodleian XML version is the line numbers are different than The Internet Shakespeare Editions. I guess now I'll need to look at both... 😉

 

 

 

[Light-of-Truth]

53 minutes ago, FB Decipherer said:

A fantastic freebie resource is the Bodleian Library set of Text Encoding Initiative XML files, one for each of the 36 First Folio plays...

This is handy in the Bodleian First Folio XML:

Numbering peculiarities: 1st count: p.50 misnumbered 58; p.59
misnumbered 51; p.86 misnumbered 88; p.153 misnumbered 151; p.161
misnumbered] 163; p.164 misnumbered 162; p. 165 misnumbered 163; p.
189 misnumbered 187; p. 249 misnumbered 251; p.250 misnumbered 252; p.
265 misnumbered 273 -- 2nd count: p.37 misnumbered 39 in some copies;
p.89 misnumbered 91; p. 90 misnumbered 92 -- 3rd count: p.165-166
numbered 167 and 168 respectively; p. 216 numbered 218 -- 5th count:
p. 279 misnumbered 259; p. 282 misnumbered 280; p.308 misnumbered 38;
p. 379 misnumbered 389; p. 399 misnumbered 993.

[FB Decipherer]

57 minutes ago, Light-of-Truth said:

This is handy in the Bodleian First Folio XML:

Numbering peculiarities: 1st count: p.50 misnumbered 58; p.59
misnumbered 51; p.86 misnumbered 88; p.153 misnumbered 151; p.161
misnumbered] 163; p.164 misnumbered 162; p. 165 misnumbered 163; p.
189 misnumbered 187; p. 249 misnumbered 251; p.250 misnumbered 252; p.
265 misnumbered 273 -- 2nd count: p.37 misnumbered 39 in some copies;
p.89 misnumbered 91; p. 90 misnumbered 92 -- 3rd count: p.165-166
numbered 167 and 168 respectively; p. 216 numbered 218 -- 5th count:
p. 279 misnumbered 259; p. 282 misnumbered 280; p.308 misnumbered 38;
p. 379 misnumbered 389; p. 399 misnumbered 993.

Thanks for that...what is its source?

[Light-of-Truth]

10 hours ago, FB Decipherer said:

Thanks for that...what is its source?

That was from the Bodleian XML for The Tempest:

https://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/download/xml/F-tem.xml

I used an online parser to beautify it:

https://countwordsfree.com/xmlviewer

 

[Light-of-Truth]

14 hours ago, FB Decipherer said:

You raise a key point that in some cases the difference between the 'a' and 'b' biformed forms is sometimes so miniscule that Classification cannot be reliably performed by inspection (human eyeballs).

Too bad they didn't have digital printers back then. 🙂

 

 

[RoyalCraftiness]

3 hours ago, Light-of-Truth said:

Too bad they didn't have digital printers back then. 🙂

 

 

The logical question is to ask why would anyone favor a binary which is potentially prone to being misinterpreted when there are everywhere unequivocal choices of binaries? The criteria for the ciphering is that you do not know where to find it, but it must be clear and easy to decipher when you do find it.  Capitalization versus non capitalization is an example that avoids the noise of how characters appear to us.  We'd also have to know that in the entire set of the printers typefaces there are no two that point to the same letter that are different enough that we can tell them apart. That's hard to assume when these may have been hand produced. How many "e" letters would have to keep in stock to print a page worth of text. Even identical letters could form a binary if they are positioned differently in relation to the baseline. It is hard to imagine that anyone would go ahead with differences in minutia when clearer differences are available. The point is not to hide the differences. It is to use what is expected to be found in such a way that the occurrence contains a binary that is being exploited. If we knew there were multiple variations of an e that were possible to select from what two form a binary?

Edited October 10 by RoyalCraftiness

[Light-of-Truth]

42 minutes ago, RoyalCraftiness said:

How many "e" letters would have to keep in stock to print a page worth of text.

And even in those the ones that are supposed to be the same would have flaws, nicks, scratches and defects that could create confusion. And on top of that there are imperfections in the printing process with ink smears or tiny spots missing.

Any typeface biliteral messages out there must use clearly identifiable differences. If a human eye is not able to detect the differences between the letters then it is a useless cipher.

 

[RoyalCraftiness]

12 hours ago, Light-of-Truth said:

And even in those the ones that are supposed to be the same would have flaws, nicks, scratches and defects that could create confusion. And on top of that there are imperfections in the printing process with ink smears or tiny spots missing.

Any typeface biliteral messages out there must use clearly identifiable differences. If a human eye is not able to detect the differences between the letters then it is a useless cipher.

 

It's a major consideration. What does one accept/consider as a binary to look for? Presumably, any intended binary would have to be plain and simple to observe. For example, I just decided to consider the first folio dedication. There are ten lines in it. That's a multiple of 5, so there's a potential two letter solution to any binary coding in those lines. What would be the binary? Well, there are obvious ones. Some lines have multiple capitalizations and some do not (for no apparent reason). We can even extend Yann's idea that the key to the binary is given with the BI initials. That would be the suggestion of a form of consistency which helps to find the cipher when many reading rules could apply. There are lines which "B" and "I" appear in and lines which they do not appear in. 

You could even chop up the text in 5 bit words and consider capitalization within them. There are a good mix of capitalized and non capitalized words in it.

The business of a minimum 2^5 bits required to encode the 24 character alphabet paired with your suggestion that FB can be considered as 6 and 2, does potentially have some interesting consequences. 2^6=64; 6^2=36; 64+36=100 as does 67+33. That's just another way Francis Bacon computes with 100. Both 36 and 64 are squares, of 6 and 8. So is 100, of 10. These two numbers are the sides of a 3:4:5 triangle of 6,8,10. The proportion of such Pythagorean triangle relatives is conserved. This means that sides of 60,80 and 100 are of the same triplet root (3:4:5). 60 and 80 are a pair of angles in the summer triangle where two of the constellations involved are birds (Cygnus, the swan, and Aquila, the eagle). This pair is also the Eagle and the Cross of Herge's cipher.

You just linked to a misnumbered page 153. That's a number we've talked a lot about in regards to its biblical significance. There's an interesting dialogue with a character called Master Mustard-seede there. This immediately may send us looking for the mustard seed reference in the Bible which is found in Mathew 13:31 (palindrome and exhibiting the 1:3 and 3:1 relationships). The kingdom of God is associated to a mustard seed in this verse. You will gain access to it if you even have faith as large as a mustard seed. A bit further on this page we read from Hermia (the female Hermes)

The Sunne was not so true vnto the day,As he to me. Would he haue stollen away,From sleeping Hermia? Ile beleeue as soone This whole earth may be bord, and that the Moone

[1035]

May through the Center creepe, and so displeaseHer brothers noonetide, with th' Antipodes.It cannot be but thou hast murdred him,So should a mutrherer looke, so dead, so grim.Dem.So should the murderer looke, and so should I,

[1040]

Pierst through the heart with your stearne cruelty:Yet you the murderer looks as bright as cleare,As yonder Venus in her glimmering spheare.

 

This is interesting to say the least because it puts Hermes and alchemical ideas involving boring a hole to the center of the Earth (idea of the monad) at odds with God. We're approaching lines 1080 on page 154.

 

Edited October 11 by RoyalCraftiness

[Light-of-Truth]

5 hours ago, RoyalCraftiness said:

This immediately may send us looking for the mustard seed reference in the Bible which is found in Mathew 13:31 (palindrome and exhibiting the 1:3 and 3:1 relationships).

<-- 1331 -->

1331 is not the same as 1881, yet is similar. 1881 is about "Time", and "Eternity". I've noticed 1331 over the years and it is well connected with other numbers, but I haven't yet learned what it teaches.

The Tier 13 begins with Sonnet 133 along with Day 313. You could say that the first Line of Sonnet 133 could be numbered as 133:1.

The 11 Letter Simple cipher of the first letters of Lines 2-12 of Sonnet 133 is 102.

ONE HUNDRED TWO is 157 Simple and 287 Kaye cipher to Seal Sonnet 133 and the entire Tier 13 on the first Line of Day 313.

Tier 13 ends on Line 2001. The end of the 13th Tier is Sealed even more than the beginning. I've known this for years, yet as much as I have studied these lines I have not yet Pierced the Veil covering the meaning of 1331.

"Mustard seed" is curious, at the beginning of Tier 13 at Sonnet 133:1. Tier 12 was a biggie, beginning on Day 287. So what is beginning with Tier 13 in a 13 themed party of coincidences?

I vaguely remember a "Mustard seed" description when I was a kid and every time I see mustard seeds I laugh about how small they really are. But to them we are such huge giants, like mountains. But they can grow into big trees.

 

 

[Light-of-Truth]

7 hours ago, RoyalCraftiness said:

You just linked to a misnumbered page 153. That's a number we've talked a lot about in regards to its biblical significance. There's an interesting dialogue with a character called Master Mustard-seede there. This immediately may send us looking for the mustard seed reference in the Bible which is found in Mathew 13:31 (palindrome and exhibiting the 1:3 and 3:1 relationships). The kingdom of God is associated to a mustard seed in this verse. You will gain access to it is you even have faith as large as a mustard seed. A bit further on this page we read from Hermia (the female Hermes)

This is what Bacon says:

The kingdom of heaven is compared, not to any great kernel or nut, but to a grain of mustard-seed: which is one of the least grains, but hath in it a property and spirit hastily to get up and spread.

[Light-of-Truth]

23 hours ago, Light-of-Truth said:

...p.153 misnumbered 151;

In the 1623 First Folio the first page 153 is misnumbered as 151 in A Midsommer nights Dreame.

https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/Bran_F1/171/index.html%3Fzoom=800.html

[Light-of-Truth]

Same page, but I am exhausted. Can anyone give me some tips on this I don't know I have ever read before on the same page?

[RoyalCraftiness]

1 hour ago, Light-of-Truth said:

<-- 1331 -->

1331 is not the same as 1881, yet is similar. 1881 is about "Time", and "Eternity". I've noticed 1331 over the years and it is well connected with other numbers, but I haven't yet learned what it teaches.

The Tier 13 begins with Sonnet 133 along with Day 313. You could say that the first Line of Sonnet 133 could be numbered as 133:1.

The 11 Letter Simple cipher of the first letters of Lines 2-12 of Sonnet 133 is 102.

ONE HUNDRED TWO is 157 Simple and 287 Kaye cipher to Seal Sonnet 133 and the entire Tier 13 on the first Line of Day 313.

Tier 13 ends on Line 2001. The end of the 13th Tier is Sealed even more than the beginning. I've known this for years, yet as much as I have studied these lines I have not yet Pierced the Veil covering the meaning of 1331.

"Mustard seed" is curious, at the beginning of Tier 13 at Sonnet 133:1. Tier 12 was a biggie, beginning on Day 287. So what is beginning with Tier 13 in a 13 themed party of coincidences?

I vaguely remember a "Mustard seed" description when I was a kid and every time I see mustard seeds I laugh about how small they really are. But to them we are such huge giants, like mountains. But they can grow into big trees.

 

 

18 and 81 are chiral. Their compliments, if they are angles, are 72 and 9 which sum to 81 or 18 depending if you treat them as individual numbers or not. Their supplementary angle equivalents are 162 and 99. 18+81=99; 18/99=18.1818181818...; 81/99=0.818181818181.... One is 9^2 and the other is 9x2.

13 and 31 sum to 44. Each of these numbers expressed as a sum is 4. Together they can be seen as making up 44.  Both are prime.  44 and 99 are divisible by 11 to give numbers which are the squares of 2 and 3.

[RoyalCraftiness]

2 hours ago, Light-of-Truth said:

This is what Bacon says:

The kingdom of heaven is compared, not to any great kernel or nut, but to a grain of mustard-seed: which is one of the least grains, but hath in it a property and spirit hastily to get up and spread.

169 is 13 squared which again involves 1:3 and its chiral 3:1.

[Light-of-Truth]

2 minutes ago, RoyalCraftiness said:

169 is 13 squared which again involves 1:3 and its chiral 3:1.

I "felt" 169 was in there! But me and my calculator could not match them. LOL

 

[RoyalCraftiness]

11 hours ago, RoyalCraftiness said:

The logical question is to ask why would anyone favor a binary which is potentially prone to being misinterpreted when there are everywhere unequivocal choices of binaries? The criteria for the ciphering is that you do not know where to find it, but it must be clear and easy to decipher when you do find it.  Capitalization versus non capitalization is an example that avoids the noise of how characters appear to us.  We'd also have to know that in the entire set of the printers typefaces there are no two that point to the same letter that are different enough that we can tell them apart. That's hard to assume when these may have been hand produced. How many "e" letters would have to keep in stock to print a page worth of text. Even identical letters could form a binary if they are positioned differently in relation to the baseline. It is hard to imagine that anyone would go ahead with differences in minutia when clearer differences are available. The point is not to hide the differences. It is to use what is expected to be found in such a way that the occurrence contains a binary that is being exploited. If we knew there were multiple variations of an e that were possible to select from what two form a binary?

The FF dedication, if treated as a 10 line bilateral cipher with reading rule BI, yields AAAAB and BABBB. The corresponding letters are B and Z. Beta and Zeta are 2 and 7 respectively in the Greek. This is the familiar Masonic 27 or 3^3, which is 1/3 of 81. This looks entirely possible by extension of Yann's TT application to the sonnets dedication. The sum 2+7=9 seems to be extremely relevant since all of the angles in the compass and square are divisible by 9. The 18 and 81 pair have those wonderful properties because they sum to 9.

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21 minutes ago, RoyalCraftiness said:

The FF dedication, if treated as a 10 line bilateral cipher with reading rule BI, yields AAAAB and BABBB. The corresponding letters are B and Z. Beta and Zeta are 2 and 7 respectively in the Greek. This is the familiar Masonic 27 or 3^3, which is 1/3 of 81. This looks entirely possible by extension of Yann's TT application to the sonnets dedication. The sum 2+7=9 seems to be extremely relevant since all of the angles in the compass and square are divisible by 9. The 18 and 81 pair have those wonderful properties because they sum to 9.

CJ, knowing you for as long as you have been annoying us, this is a shiny Arrowhead for me! But I will look to see if your cipher can be duplicated. You may be acting like Alan Green merely pretending to see beyond the Veil. 🙂

"The corresponding letters are B and Z"

The Two Pillars?

I'm gonna check you on that, hopefully tomorrow morning...

[RoyalCraftiness]

8 minutes ago, Light-of-Truth said:

CJ, knowing you for as long as you have been annoying us, this is a shiny Arrowhead for me! But I will look to see if your cipher can be duplicated. You may be acting like Alan Green merely pretending to see beyond the Veil. 🙂

"The corresponding letters are B and Z"

The Two Pillars?

I'm gonna check you on that, hopefully tomorrow morning...

I'm working to polish the stone. It can't be done without abrasion. I'm coming at this empirically, and it is likely at least one half of how Francis Bacon, if he was involved in any of this, would have looked at this. Like you, he also had unreasonable feelings which he valued. I find it intriguing that myths (alchemical and esoteric) may have been used to lure the reader to the symbol of the Cross where a small leap of faith would have sufficed to make him gain the greatest of all treasures and a solution to the greatest mystery humans can question themselves about. I've always had difficulty understanding why Bacon would have bothered using myths, but there's a very easy way to square that by thinking he may have been "tricking" those who would get on board working this out to an interpretation he saw as the only true and valid syllogism. In a sense it is to turn Cygnus of the Greeks into the Cross of the Christians and give the new narrative for the new society (to be self guided by the laws of God like the residents of the New Atlantis). That is to say that the way to true understanding and progress is through the cross.

On the tomb is MM, and that may very well be Master Mustard-seede. Herge saw fit to call the blue bird brother M. MM after all. Haliburton also has MM on the tomb in his TT chapter called The Tombstones. I went back to see what Herge gives on page 13. It's the page where the "serrurier" or locksmith is called in. Pages 13 and 31 are employed by him in a way that fits the Mathew 13:31 suggestion. If 13 is the key to the mystery then the key which opens the door to eternal life is faith in an amount that need not be that great to start with. The thing about faith is that you have it or you don't. If you have a mustard seed's worth you are at least not without hope. It's described as enough to move mountains with. I see the parallel in the individual who has belief in himself or has none. If he has none he can do nothing. If he has even a bit, great things are possible. We often say the sky is the limit. Beyond the sky is the realm of the divine. All things on this Earth are thus possible.

Use me as you see fit. You can call it mining my ignorance if you want.

 

[Light-of-Truth]

4 minutes ago, RoyalCraftiness said:

I'm working to polish the stone. It can't be done without abrasion.

Yesterday I thought about buying a rock tumbler. Growing up from about 6 or 7 years old until I left home we had tumblers all over the house. Rough grit, medium grit, fine grit, polish one, polish two. We collected agates, petrified wood, obsidian, granite, marble, anything hard. Sandstone tumbles into sand, limestone into powder.

I appreciate that you are polishing the stone. 😉

13 minutes ago, RoyalCraftiness said:

Pages 13 and 31 are employed by him in a way that fits the Mathew 13:31 suggestion. If 13 is the key to the mystery then the key which opens the door to eternal life is faith in an amount that need not be that great to start with. The thing about faith is that you have it or you don't. If you have a mustard seed's worth you are at least not without hope. It's described as enough to move mountains with. I see the parallel in the individual who has belief in himself or has none. If he has none he can do nothing. If he has even a bit, great things are possible. We often say the sky is the limit. Beyond the sky is the realm of the divine. All things on this Earth are thus possible.

1331 might teach about "Beliefs."

That's been a theme for a while and makes sense.

55 is the difference between 1331 and 1881. That tickles my bells too.

I might be back if I can find a small stone I have...

[RoyalCraftiness]

1 hour ago, Light-of-Truth said:

Yesterday I thought about buying a rock tumbler. Growing up from about 6 or 7 years old until I left home we had tumblers all over the house. Rough grit, medium grit, fine grit, polish one, polish two. We collected agates, petrified wood, obsidian, granite, marble, anything hard. Sandstone tumbles into sand, limestone into powder.

I appreciate that you are polishing the stone. 😉

1331 might teach about "Beliefs."

That's been a theme for a while and makes sense.

55 is the difference between 1331 and 1881. That tickles my bells too.

I might be back if I can find a small stone I have...

Between 99 and 44 you mean? And the difference is divisible by 11 in a way that the the 2+3 I gave before equals 5. The sum is 143 which is divisible by 11 also, 13 times. That's evocative of 1:3 and 3:1 again.  2,3,5,11,13 and 31 are primes.

 

Edited October 11 by RoyalCraftiness

[RoyalCraftiness]

50 minutes ago, Light-of-Truth said:

Yesterday I thought about buying a rock tumbler. Growing up from about 6 or 7 years old until I left home we had tumblers all over the house. Rough grit, medium grit, fine grit, polish one, polish two. We collected agates, petrified wood, obsidian, granite, marble, anything hard. Sandstone tumbles into sand, limestone into powder.

I appreciate that you are polishing the stone. 😉

1331 might teach about "Beliefs."

That's been a theme for a while and makes sense.

55 is the difference between 1331 and 1881. That tickles my bells too.

I might be back if I can find a small stone I have...

Doesn't 154 figure in the Sonnets? I threw you a rough pebble above by pointing you to the fact that line 1080 is on that page in the FF. You should be able to see the 108 there that is appears factored by 10.  6 x 180 is that 1080 (the six triangles that make up the hexagon). The sum of all the internal angles of the octagon is also 1080 degrees. 6,8,10 are united by the Pythagorean identity. The nonagon 's wedge or diamond tile is 40 degrees where it is 60 for the hexagon.  60 and 40 sum to 100 and are in 3:2 proportion, so are 6:9. They are also the swan(cross) and the eagle in the positioning of those angles in the Summer triangle. What would it be like to look at the Summer triangle on a Midsummer Night? Would it be dreamy? The Midsummer festival is on Saint John's day. His bird is the eagle (given in Ezekiel). The cross and the eagle my friend...It's the 175th day of the year. There are 189 days left in the year. 189/175=1.08 quite exactly. That's your 108 again in the calendar puzzle form. Saint John's day is the original Masonic day. 108 is 4x27 which is the perimeter of the prefect stone ashlar that gets completed in death. In life you work on 1/2 of it. That would be the block which you have noticed you are dealing with in the Sonnets tiers. Pretty soon all that will be left to do is die and check the results in the hall of records, lol. 

[RoyalCraftiness]

On 10/10/2023 at 10:08 PM, Light-of-Truth said:

CJ, knowing you for as long as you have been annoying us, this is a shiny Arrowhead for me! But I will look to see if your cipher can be duplicated. You may be acting like Alan Green merely pretending to see beyond the Veil. 🙂

"The corresponding letters are B and Z"

The Two Pillars?

I'm gonna check you on that, hopefully tomorrow morning...

Could well be in reference to those. BZ is the abbreviation for bronze. In Jeremiah there is a description of the destruction of the columns of the Lord which were in bronze. 2 is B and 2+7=9=I/J in the Latin based gematria. Boaz is the left column by definition. B is at least in that position "to the reader". The acrostic TWO  in the text may be putting emphasis on the two pillars and/or two entries or pasages. H B in the remaining acrostic is unclear. In Biblical acronyms this is Hebrew Bible or Holy Bible. There are two passages in the HB where the columns are described, in 1 Kings 7 and 2 Chronicles 3. There's also the remote possibility that the H is visually concealing an I/J on its side.  I wouldn't typically like this sort of thing, but in this case the there is the possibility that we may be seeing it if it is wanting to suggest something akin to the hidden and reoriented Taus associated with TT that points to the Triple Tau which is concealing the fourth T. The Tau in that instance is also the key because it is the mark which identifies the worthy individual to be saved. 

B.I. which is the reading rule I used, or key, is Ben Johnson's initials, or is it? it's Boaz and Jachin which are used to decipher to BZ. Lovely. 

Edited October 13 by RoyalCraftiness

[RoyalCraftiness]

On 10/10/2023 at 10:08 PM, Light-of-Truth said:

CJ, knowing you for as long as you have been annoying us, this is a shiny Arrowhead for me! But I will look to see if your cipher can be duplicated. You may be acting like Alan Green merely pretending to see beyond the Veil. 🙂

"The corresponding letters are B and Z"

The Two Pillars?

I'm gonna check you on that, hopefully tomorrow morning...

The other obvious binary is the presence of two capitalized words in a line or not. The capitalization of words seems to be arbitrary.

That yields:  AABAB and BABAA

These are for the characters: F W

Here we have two letters which point to each other in the ancient Greek. The sound for W was denoted by the F character. F's value in ancient Greek was 6. It is conserved in the Latin with the f in the 6th position. In Greek today the "w" sound is a lower case Phi symbol which is the 21st position. There's a similar 6+21=27 that comes out of digamma and F. It may be that 27 was cleverly pointed to in two ways using what are two readily observed binaries.

If you recall, I made a post showing that the Droeshout portrait of the "geometric man" was an image based in 27 degree angles. 3^3 appears to be well accounted for.  In the First Folio. FF, for what it is worth, is 66, which can be cleverly given as FW.

I suppose one could also suggest that F is tag-teaming with W in the FF. 

Edited October 13 by RoyalCraftiness

[Light-of-Truth]

7 hours ago, RoyalCraftiness said:

The other obvious binary is the presence of two capitalized words in a line or not. The capitalization of words seems to be arbitrary.

That yields:  AABAB and BABAA

These are for the characters: F W

Here we have two letters which point to each other in the ancient Greek. The sound for W was denoted by the F character. F's value in ancient Greek was 6. It is conserved in the Latin with the f in the 6th position. In Greek today that is a lower case Phi symbol which is the 21st position. There's a similar 6+21=27 that comes out of digamma and F. It may be that 27 was cleverly pointed to in two ways using what are two readily observed binaries.

If you recall, I made a post showing that the Droeshout portrait of the "geometric man" was an image based in 27 degree angles. 3^3 appears to be well accounted for.  In the First Folio. FF, for what it is worth, is 66, which can be cleverly given as FW.

I suppose one could also suggest that F is tag-teaming with W in the FF. 

Nice biliteral offering! What I get excited about is that some silly binary idea will be the one that tells Bacon's story that can be duplicated even by Stratfordians.

Treasure seekers have a map to explore. Bacon describes a biliteral (binary) cipher that can leave secrets. Bacon's life is a mysterious topic.

That Bacon wrote Shakespeare has been hinted and suggested even when Bacon was alive. Various ciphers, although never any kind of proof, tell about his life.

Is there a Bacon cipher based on his Biliteral Cipher example with two type-styles in Shakespeare?

I'll suggest, in my opinion, that there may be a few messages by his pupils and friends, and maybe even a few by Bacon himself using two versions of type faces. But the example Bacon left in his works was of an almost impossible cipher system for human eyes. FR Decipherer just proved it again. Bacon, and his buddies knew it. That made it a perfect example of "Biliteral" that would filter out 94% of anybody who would care. (I was going to say 99%, but my wife is watching the Weather Channel snoozing and when I typed the first "9" the lady on TV was saying, "94%..., so I typed 94% which must be correct.)

Is there a Bacon cipher in Shakespeare?

Shakespeare is your map, there are treasures for every level of seeker who has a passion to seek.