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A persuasive new Beale explanation
Since its inception, this website has maintained a policy of not promoting books and other Beale-related materials for sale. Now, a powerful new study compels me to make an exception.
Many pundits have suggested that freemasons were the authors of The Beale Papers but the secretive nature of this organization has made research into this claim near impossible. Following years of perseverance this author has achieved a convincing and detailed exposure.
Most theories on Beale fall into one of two categories. The first is based on a list of coincidental similarities in dates, events, and personalities between real history and the Beale story; the second consists of attempts to solve the ciphers without any, or little, historical correlation.
It is a rare jewel indeed which presents a plausible solution to the ciphers supported by specific and elaborate historical events. This book is just such a gem.
"Solving the Beale Papers", written by Paul Stewart of Stafford, Virginia, contains a viable, as well as verifiable, solution to the oldest remaining unsolved cipher mystery in the United States; the infamous Beale Papers, first published in 1885. It is an investigation which derives its beginnings from the exploring of a suggestion made by famed skeptic Joe Nickell, who concluded in his 1992 book “Mysterious Realms”, the Beale Papers were Masonic in origin, stating: “...Beale and his treasure are illusory- merely part of an allegory meant to evoke the anticipated Masonic discovery of the secret vault and the inestimable treasures, with the long-lost’ word'... “. Although Nickell’s assertion was made over two decades ago, no one, including Mr. Nickell himself, has ever done a deeper dive into the Papers, to prove whether or not his statement was in fact a correct one- until now. The result of this investigation into the Beale Papers as a Masonic document, has produced a conclusion which completely, and unequivocally, validates Mr. Nickell’s theory; the Papers are not authentic but Masonic, and were produced by a very specific branch of Freemasonry which had come of age in 1880, just five years before the Papers were first published.
A sample from the book:
"Because the Cryptic General Grand Council could not claim jurisdiction over Virginia or its recently-created sibling West Virginia, I believe it was accomplished cryptically and symbolically through allegory embedded into the Beale Papers. This is why the Papers are centered in Virginia, why the name Robert Morriss; the Mason who coined the term “Cryptic Rite” for the Royal and Select Masters, is the same name as one of the Papers’ main characters, why the American Declaration of Independence and its own connection to signer Robert Morris, was used as the Papers’ key document, and most importantly why the years of Beale’s treasure hunt correspond exactly to the years Jeremy L. Cross and his counterpart James Cushman, established the first Cryptic Rite Grand Council in Virginia. This one-to-one connection between key dates in Beale’s letters to Morris and events in the early history of Cryptic Rite, is critical to comprehend, for they provide the first verifiable links of the authorship and purpose of the Papers.
For example, is it coincidence that:
1) - The Beale Papers state the Beale party arrived in Santa Fe in December of 1817. Jeremy L. Cross created the first Cryptic Council at Richmond on December 25, 1817.
2) - The Beale Papers state gold and silver was discovered by members of the Beale party approximately in the middle of March, 1818. The two Degrees of Royal Master and Select Master were first combined by Jeremy L. Cross on March 21, 1818.
3) - The Beale Papers state the Beale treasure was excavated until the summer of 1819. Once Jeremy L. Cross perfected his system for the organizing of Royal and Select Masters Councils he commenced the issuing of warrants in the summer of 1819 based upon this system for all existing and future Councils.
4) - The first deposit was made by Beale in November of 1819. In November and December of 1819, “The True Chart or Hieroglyphic Monitor” the first book containing the Degrees of Royal Master and Select Master was published by Jeremy L. Cross.
5) - The second deposit was made by Beale in December of 1821. On December 8, 1821, after nine Cryptic Councils in the Commonwealth of Virginia were constituted, the Cryptic Grand Council of Virginia, the second in the nation, was formed.
All of these connections point to the legitimacy of Virginia’s Grand Council- not its illegitimacy and eventual disbandment in 1841. These dates allude as well to the recent victory of independence achieved by Cryptic Rite in 1880, and its first meeting of its independent General Grand Council in 1883- a victory Virginia could not participate in due to rash actions taken almost four decades earlier. The Papers are in fact a series of Masonic allegories acknowledging all of this, and co-written I believe by one or two of its high-ranking officers of the General Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters; George M. Osgoodby, George W. Cooley, and potentially William W. Austin."
The Beale Papers are not what they appear to be on their surface. Their true purpose, and what they are actually hiding, is far more profound than ever imagined. So, what are the Beale Papers hiding?
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