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The man had to make a living Wage of Johann Sebastian Bach, who had to feed 20 children: 400 Taler per year Orffyre: 800 Taler as a welcome gift, 200 Taler a year without any mandatory work, augmented to 1000 Taler in 1725, plus wheat, wine, barley, etc. worth 344 1/2 Taler, plus a big house for fr...

The circle is a very interesting discovery! I spent the last weeks reading the complete Orffyreana papers including the neglected letters. There are several hints that alchemy was more important to him than it is known by now. For example, Bessler was able to produce phosphorus, what at this time is...

Sorry, there was a mistake in my post. Of, course, the third letter in ca R olus is the R and not the O. That's what the big R represents. The F comes from or F fyre. The letters and the symbols are not to be read side by side but sometimes line by line. Going through the pages, you can read C A R O...

Is there anybody here who is able to read latin? While doing research on Besslers biography, I came across a letter from Zittau at the time Bessler went to school there. The letter does not mention him, but discusses an incident quite interesting which I would like to know more about. As I do not un...

So I think it's time to give the solution. Thanks to everybody who joined this little game. Of course the majority of members taking part in the poll chose the correct solution: PM built by a saxon clockmaker around 1790 (60 rpm) The pictures are taken from a book published by Johann Gottlob Häntzs...

I forgot to mention that O R F F Y R E is seven letters, too. So this is why there is an F on the bottom of this third window, cause Carolus was not the only person to be praised, of course-

I give another example in the world of Besslers use of esoteric traditions. On New Year's day of 1722 seven windows of his Carlshafen house were illuminated in seven different colours, each showing one of the seven letters of the name "Carolus", linked with one of the seven planets, linked...

I'm afraid that the ideas underlying Orffyreus' passion for numerology are much more complex than anyone here might be aware of. The hope, that there is a subtext you can just simply translate seems to me quite naive. Those talking about "ROT13" when describing the relation of the names Be...

One should know that it was not only Bessler to send poems to Carl for birthdays or for new year. Many people did, and some even more often than Bessler, although he was a very diligent contributor. Some libraries keep collections of theses poems, and even from a small town like Karlshafen there sur...

There are about a dozen of these panegyrics left and sure some more being lost. Bessler used to get 30 Thl. as a recgnition. He loved to play this game called chronostichon, which is showing a year's number by finding a verse containing it as roman letter. In several of these poems one finds this ga...

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The yellow surrounded country is Hessen. Karlshafen is not shown in the map because it was new built town. It has is its place in yellow surrounded Hessen, a bit south of the big letter "U" from "Herzogtum Braunschweig" Follow the river towards north. There you will find Meinbrex...

Here's some help for those not aware of the political borders:

OK, so lets get it cleaned up: Despite Karl the Landgrave son marrying the Swedish princess, I see no connection with Bessler’s world. The connexion is that this is the Frederic who asked for the "inventory after death", cause he wasn't only King of Sweden but also Karl's successor as La...

Thinking about Besslers heritage, it seems to be most important to be aware of the fact that Bessler at the time of his death was living in two countries. He still owned a house in Karlshafen, Hessen, but was working in Fürstenberg, Braunschweig. Although the distance are only about 18 km, Bessler ...