If the number 666 is really intended to be the number of Jesus, then it is possible that the Founding Fathers of America would have known this fact and may have used it to hide a secret message about The Holy Grail. The Founding Fathers protected the world’s greatest secret and they wanted this secret to be rediscovered one day, so they left clues and coded messages in some of the most unexpected places. One such message can be found encoded in the Declaration of Independence. The purpose of this message was to establish both what it is they were protecting and to provide the searcher with the critical elements needed to solve the puzzle. Recall from the previous page that the ‘mistake’ line on the Declaration of Independence intersected the letter ‘r’ in the word ‘separate’. Also, recall that the date 1611 was encoded into the 37 letters that preceded the letter ‘r’. The text used to find the 1611 date of the King James Bible using the letters ‘AFAA’ is repeated in the table below. Notice that there are four different ways to get 1611 from the 37 letters of the text, two forwards and two backwards. The letter count is shown above the text in both the forward and reverse directions.

Figure 1 – 1611 hidden Four ways on the Declaration of Independence

A very common and relatively easy technique that can be used to encode a message into a given text or document is often called a skip code. Popularized in a book titled ‘The Bible Code’ by Michael Drosnin, a subset of the skip code technique is called Equidistant Letter Sequence, or ELS for short. In the ELS coding technique, an encoded message is found by starting at a particular letter and repeatedly counting a set number of letters through the text, say every tenth letter. Of course any number could be used to hide the coded message, but the lower the ELS number, the more difficult the process becomes to create the cover text.

The use of equidistant spacing between each letter of the encoded message makes the encoded message easier to find by chance. It also decreases the level of confidence in the authenticity of the decoded message because short words or phrases can be found in purely random text. However, if the encoded message uses non-equidistant letter spacing, then the encoded message becomes virtually impossible to find by chance. A message encoded using non-equidistant letter spacing, requires that the searcher first identify a key. This key needs to be in the form of a sequence of non-equal numbers. By definition, a message that matches a predetermined key that consists of a specific set of non-equal numbers is inherently stronger than a message that does not require a key or one that uses a constant spacing between letters.

A possible Key for a non-equidistant letter spacing skip code can be identified by using the positions of the letters that form the 1611 date in the beginning text of the Declaration of Independence. As shown in the previous table, there are four different ways to get the 1611 date, but only one is needed for a key. Recall that the signature of John Hancock first pointed to the King James Bible and prompted a search for the 1611 date. The ‘John Hancock’ signature also was shown to encode the number 47 three different ways, and 47 is the standard gematria value of ‘GRAIL’. Since it is the Grail that we seek, it makes sense to try and use the number 47 here to identify the key for the non-equidistant letter sequence.

There are four ways to get the 1611 date. One of the four begins with the seventh letter of the text. The numbers 4 and 7 can be combined to form 47. The sequence of position numbers, shown as option 2 in the table, forms the key for the non-equidistant letter sequence that will be used to extract a coded message from the Declaration of Independence. The numerical key is 7, 22, 27, and 37. Any skip code requires a logical starting point or letter to begin the process of extracting the message. Here, the most logical place to look is the letter that was intersected by the ‘mistake’ line, the letter ‘r’ in ‘separate’. Beginning with the letter ‘r’ as position one, the first three letters of the message are extracted using the first three numbers of the sequence, 7, 22, and 27. As shown below the selected letters spell the Latin word ‘DEO’, which means God.

Figure 2 – ’DEO’ Hidden on the Declaration of Independence

There are several confirmations built into these three letters that confirm the authenticity of the word. First, the last letter of ‘DEO’ is the ‘o’ in ‘God’. Since ‘DEO’ is Latin for God, and the last letter is part of the word God, it self confirms the decoded word and the meaning of it. The letters for ‘DEO’ cover all or parts of 13 words in the text of the Declaration. The number 13 is the standard gematria value of the initials of Jesus Christ, or JC = 13.

The remaining confirmations depend on the use of gematria and will offer guidance for the next steps. A total of 50 characters are spanned in the text of the Declaration by the three letters that form ‘DEO’. The standard gematria value of DEO is 24. Adding the number of letters to the value of the decoded word gives the confirmation 50 +24 = 74 = JESUS. Finding the value of Jesus related to the decoded Latin name of God confirms that the decoded word is correct. A second confirmation using the value of Jesus can be found by calculating the total standard gematria value of the 50 letters spanned by ‘DEO’.

“D EQUAL STATION TO WHICH THE LAWS OF NATURE AND OF NATURE’S GO” = 592

The previous confirmation provided the value of JESUS = 74. Adding 74 to 592 gives another confirmation and it also tells how to get the next letter in the sequence. 592 + 74 = 666.

“D EQUAL STATION TO WHICH THE LAWS OF NATURE AND OF NATURE’S GO” + “JESUS” = 666

Here, the authors of the Declaration of Independence have associated DEO, or God, with the name of Jesus and with the number 666. As was shown earlier, 666 can be interpreted as the number of Jesus, not the number of the Antichrist. The Founders wanted anyone that would make it to this point to recognize this association between 666 and Jesus.

Aside from conveying the message that the number of Jesus is 666, this number is also revealing the next step in the skip code. The fourth number in the sequence should be 37, but the clue here is to use the number 666 and count 666 letters from the ‘O’ in ‘DEO’. The Founding Fathers were not simply encoding a secret message in the Declaration of Independence using a bunch of random numbers; they designed it to teach the searcher how to find the treasure of the Templar Knights. The numbers 13 and 666, along with the other numerical values and qualities of Jesus, are the required elements needed to successfully navigate the labyrinth of controlled chaos used to hide the secrets of The Holy Grail.

For now, the next step is to make use of the number 666 to find the next letter and to convince the searcher that it is ok to seek out and use the number 666. Simply count 666 letters from the end of ‘DEO’. The next 666 letters in the Declaration of Independence are shown in Figure 3. As before, all punctuation has been deleted except for the occasional punctuation that forms part of a word, such as, ‘self-evident’, which retains the ‘-‘ symbol.

Figure 3 – 666 letters from D to C

The next letter in the sequence is the letter ‘C’, which is the 666th letter from ‘DEO’. It is worth noting here that the first and last letters of the 666 letter group are ‘D’ and ‘C’, respectively. As impossible as this might seem at this stage, the letters ‘DC’, combined with the number 666, is a clue to look for 666 in a place associated with the letters ‘DC’, perhaps even Washington, DC. Never mind that Washington, DC did not exist when the Declaration of Independence was written, because Washington, DC and the number 666 will soon play a very important role in locating the treasure. The next 6 letters are found using the same sequence previously identified from the 1611 date, 7, 22, 27, and 37. Figure 4 shows the next six letters in the sequence, continuing from the ‘c’ in ‘dictate’.

Figure 4 – CALL ARK

The raw text of the decoded message is a total of 13 characters in length and reads as,

DEO 666 CALL ARK

At first, this may not appear to be a clear message, but part of confirming the validity of the message is that the length of the message is 13 characters. The number 13 is very important and will come into play throughout the rest of the search for the Grail. To form a more precise message, it is necessary to recognize that the first word, DEO, is a Latin word. In the Latin language, the order of the words in a given sentence is not important. Determining the declination of a noun or the conjugation of a verb depends on suffixes, rather than the position of the word in a sentence. Also, Latin does not use articles such as ‘a’, ‘an’, or ‘the’.

If the first word is taken as a clue to reconstruct the sentence by filling in the blanks, as would need to be done when translating from Latin to English, an interesting message emerges. ‘DEO 666 CALL ARK’ can be interpreted as ‘CALL the ARK of GOD using 666’ or ‘CALL the ARK of GOD with 666’. The word ‘CALL’ can also be interpreted as ‘SUMMON’, giving the message, ‘SUMMON the ARK of GOD with 666’. The message was associated with the number 13 twice; first with the number of words spanned by ‘DEO’ and second with the total length of the raw text of the message. Adding 13 to the message gives ‘SUMMON the ARK of GOD with 666 and 13’.

Also recall that the number 666 was associated with the letters ‘DC’ at the beginning and end. Since there were 666 characters between ‘D” and ‘C’ inclusive, the number 666 is inside or in ‘DC’. Adding ‘in DC’ to the message makes it even more interesting, ‘SUMMON the ARK of GOD with 666 and 13 in DC’.

Was this message intentional or just random chance? It would be helpful if there was some way to confirm that the discovered message was intentionally placed in the text and that the sequence used to find it was correct. The next two letters in the sequence just so happen to offer the needed confirmation. Continuing the sequence from the letter ‘K’, the next two letters in the sequence are shown below.

Figure 5 – ‘W’ and ‘M’ are the next letters in the sequence

The letters ‘W’ and ‘M’ are in positions 27 and 37 in the sequence after ‘ARK’. This might appear to be nothing to the untrained eye, but these two letters contain a wealth of possibilities. As an abbreviation, they might stand for ‘Washington Monument’, but that would be impossible because construction on the monument did not even begin until 1848. The hunt for The Holy Grail is full of seemingly impossible predictions, and the Washington Monument initials will prove to be very important, as will the Washington Monument itself.

‘WM’ could also stand for ‘Worshipful Master’, the title given to the leader of a Masonic lodge. The letters ‘W’ and ‘M’ are the inverse letter of each other. If one is turned upside down, it becomes the other. This could be symbolic of the first and last concept of Jesus that has been used several times to see the hidden secrets. Finally, in gematria, W + M = 36, and 36 is numerical code for 666 because all the numbers from 1 to 36 add up to 666.

As interesting as all these possibilities are, there is a more direct confirmation built into the Declaration of Independence using the line that was drawn through the two mistakes. Since this line led us to the coded message, it would make perfect sense for the authors of Declaration to also use this same line to provide confirmation of the encoded message once it was discovered.

Figure 6 – Mistake line intersects ‘W’ and ‘M’

The line passes directly through the letters ‘W’ and ‘M’ above the word ‘separate’. The unusual indentation used on the first line of the text, positions the letter ‘W’ so that it intersects the line. If the indentation was not exaggerated, the confirmation letter would not fall on the line. The exaggerated indentation makes the position of the letter ‘W’ appear to be forced to some extent because there is really no other reason to use an indentation that is so out of proportion to the other paragraph indentations used on the document.