In showing us 9 sets of the number 13, she has forced us to multiply. The story of the house begins with the death of William Wirt Winchester in 1881, that left Sarah in possession of an incredible fortune over $20 million and nearly 50% stake in the Winchester company giving her an income of $1,000 a day. In 1850, William was living with his parents and siblings in New Haven, Connecticut. Sarah Lockwood Winchester (ne Pardee; 1839 - September 5, 1922) was an American heiress who amassed great wealth after the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester, and her mother in law, Jane Ellen Hope. Its tantamount to inserting the term Winchester goose (77) inside of the name Winchester (52). This seems nuts, unless you know Winchester was suffering from chronic arthritis at the time they were built. Such tables matched the twenty four letters of the Elizabethan-Jacobean Alphabet with specific numbers. Furthermore, the initials W.W.W. Columbia, Mo. Here, Sarah has ingeniously incorporated her spider-web design into the architecture as a calculating device functioning both as an instructional tool that shows how her algorithm works, and as a model revealing the fundamental, symmetric structure of the universe. A new, simplified view of the universe had opened up in which unseen forces, from the structure of atoms to the dynamics of gravity were becoming better understood from the perspective of higher dimensional space. In addition to the liberal arts, the Roots set forth a strict curriculum consisting of the sciences and mathematics. Once inside the gates, looking straight ahead, we view the front of the House through the frame of two palm trees that represent the twin porch pillars known as Boaz and Jachin at the entrance of Solomons Temple. Using the Pythagorean Table is a simple matter of matching the letters in a name or word with their corresponding numbers, then adding the numbers together until you have one, simplified number. There is a staircase that leads nowhere, abruptly halting at the ceiling. CSICOP adds there are 13 coat hooks in the seance room, 13 drains in the sinks, and 13 stars in the leadlight window Winchester herself designed. William died in New Haven, Connecticut, on March 7, 1881, of tuberculosis. There's another theory about Winchester's motivations that has everything to do with revenge and nothing to do with the supernatural. To begin, there was Yale University (originally known as Yale College). William Wirt Winchester, son of Oliver Winchester, manufacturer of one of the very first repeating rifles, at age 22. As we are about to see, Sarah always displays 8 petaled daisies in pairs. Nor is there any evidence to support the idea that she was a spiritualist or had any inclination to believe in communication with the deceased. In one of the rooms, light and dark floorboards seem to change color when the sun hits them in a certain way. Like Francis Bacon, she was a child prodigy. Thus, the product has to be a variant of 49 (i.e. Coons further instructed Sarah that the angry spirits demanded that she move to California and build them a house. Its an immutable law. But we can project some well educated theories. Its as if they were reading from the same book. We recall the meaning of this number as it relates to both the number 13, and its prominent display in the grid of Sarahs bedroom ceiling. He held that architecture was the noblest and most perfect of all the art forms. Moreover, two numbers are always multiplied by each other, leaving a product that is then partitioned, and the partitioned numbers are then added together resulting in a sum. He called his invention Quaternions.. He was the only son of Oliver Fisher Winchester and Jane Ellen Hope. Sarah made certain her legacy was well within reach and capable of being understood. Has Sarah Winchesters work been fulfilled? Moreover, by all accounts, she was also considered to be quite beautiful. However, both Richard and Sarah resolve to overcome their plight with the phrase: Yet, Ill hammert out. For Richard, this is meant figuratively, but for Sarah, the interpretation took on a more literal meaning. [7], In 1888 Winchester purchased 140 acres of land, the majority of what is now downtown Los Altos, California, to use as a ranch. Since its founding, the Historical Society has published articles about the people and events in the city's past and present. Sarahs puzzle may ultimately help us discover the Theory of Everything. However, the final KEY to unlocking Sarahs puzzle is in her numbers. The entrance referred to by the tour guides as the Switchback Staircase (or the goofy) is built so as to wind from the center, outward, round and round, in the shape of an Archimedes Spiral until it reaches the second floor. Again, we should not be surprised that Sarah introduces us to her puzzle by demonstrating her view of her relationship to Bacon. We havent forgotten the Baconian stops Sarah has incorporated in the Shakespearean inscriptions. And finally, if Mrs. Winchester truly believed she was cursed by the Winchester fortune, why would she exacerbate the matter by continuing to own vast shares of stock in the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, then, later acquire still greater controlling shares that she maintained and profited from for the rest of her life? 11. What a practical woman. The present pay is $2.50. Its geometric shape is now pyramidal. Next, she observed 7 horizontal squares, 7 vertical squares and 7 diagonal squares, rendering the number 777. Throughout her lifetime, Sarah primarily saw 13 as her number. Thus, Sarah induces us to multiply 11 x 7. Clearly, Sarah was aware of Bacons placement of the name Winchester as the 20th word from the plays end. The Egyptians saw the path to heaven as a 12 step staircase with a magnificent door at the top. We count 12 pieces of glass in each triangle. From its inception, Yale (and New Haven) was a hub of progressive, Freemasonic-Rosicrucian thinking and activity. But there's surreal beauty there, too. It is a mansion in San Jose and that was once the home of Sarah Winchester - the widow of William Wirt Winchester (the wealthy treasurer of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company). Despite the fact that the Civil War was then going on in the USA, the wedding was a big social occasion in New Haven, Connecticut. It sounds complicated, but its not. Such symmetry is governed by harmonics of wave function in which the growth of any given wave pattern flattens out when it reaches the 8th ordinal point in the Fibonacci sequence, which corresponds to the number 13. Sarah further knew that we would multiply 49 x 777, which equates to 38073. Sarah Winchester was fully aware of Riemannian geometry when she incorporated higher dimensional properties into the architecture of her amazing puzzle. She also slept in a different room every night as an extra measure to throw the spirits off her trail. Additionally, the staircase has 7 turns. As thoughts of things divine,are intermixd. The room is actually called the Sanctum. Freemasons refer to it as the Chamber of Reflection. The Sanctum is where Rosicrucians study, meditate and perform private ritual. As mentioned earlier, Mrs. Winchester undoubtedly discovered the dynamic trio of symmetric primes by studying Bacons use of them. The (two dimensional) circle residing in the webs core appears to possess a kind of mystic, magical quality that seems capable of manifesting any value required to complete or fulfill any given symmetry. Following her death, the home was auctioned to the highest bidder, who then turned it into an attraction for the public; the first tourists walked through the house in February 1923, five months after Winchester died. However, their Halloween flashlight tours, along with booklets, postcards, coffee mugs and other sundry items being sold in the WMH souvenir shop displaying the title The Mansion Designed By Spirits only enhances the Folklore version of Sarah Winchesters life. There may still be secrets lurking in the house, which is awesome because a world without secrets waiting to be discovered is a world you don't want to live in. The next thing Sarah wants us to notice is that the web contains 49 separate pieces of glass. The greatest test for the initiate lies in his ability to understand and identify Mrs. Winchesters remarkable mix of symbols and numbered code. Moreover, the name Annie Pardee corresponds with the number 56 in the Pythagorean Cipher. Given her direct exposure to the Baconian Doctrine, along with her passion for the Shakespearean works, it was inevitable that Sarah Pardee was drawn like an irresistible force to a more than passing interest in the new theorem. Written and edited by distinguished historians and beautifully illustrated with fine and often rare images of the city, the biannual publication interprets the stories of people and places that shaped the past. However, the four triangles are not complete unless their points merge, invisibly, into the circle. They were married until William's death in 1881 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Then, 38 + 73 = 111 (i.e. If warps in space were the cause of natural forces such as electromagnetism and gravity, the structure of space had to conform to a higher dimensional curvature. According to popular lore, Sarah Winchester retreated to the room every night between midnight and 2 a.m., and no one else was allowed in. All we have to do is pay close attention and follow those clues. This is important as it reveals the close bond Sarah felt for her daughter. William died in New Haven, Connecticut on March 7, 1881 of tuberculosis. Again, Roosevelts offer was turned down. The Winchester Tiffany Window. This product can then be partitioned as 45 76, which, when combined becomes 121 (11 squared), or, it can be partitioned (from the inside-out) as 57 46, which, when combined equates to 103 (13). Partial collapse left it dangerously unstable, and it was torn down. For example, lets multiply (get out your calculator) the numbers 7, 11, and 13 by any two digit numberlets use the number 12. Here, she is affirming her Theosophical point of view. The New Haven Register, dated 1886, lists Sarah as having been removed to Europe. No other information has survived to tell us exactly where Mrs. Winchester went during those years or what her activities consisted of. Moreover, Sarah has added a novel twist to her Tubal-Cain devise by joining two of them in such a way as to form the number 3. The design of the spider-web window is important for several reasons. Stepping further into the room, we have no choice but notice the obvious Elephants Sarah uses to capture our attentionthese are two, elongated, stained glass windows which flank both sides of the rooms fireplace. Courtesy of the Winchester Mystery House. The funeral of, Conn., last night, aged years. Inside, it's a different story. Therefore, in describing the dynamics of space, a new, higher dimensional model was required. Like all of the other anomalous features we find in the House, Sarah wanted the display of apparent irregularity in the Shakespearean Windows to utterly shock our sensibilities. An English mathematician by the name of Charles Dodgson, writing under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, wrote a childrens book that described the mind boggling properties one would encounter in a forth spatial dimension. 7 March 1881) ( his death) ( 1 child) Sibling: Not Available: Children: Not Available : William Winchester Net Worth. William Winchester was William Philo Hibbard's 6th cousin once removed. Her connection with Francis Bacon is undeniable. One of many Triquetra symbols embedded in the wallpaper of Sarahs bedroom, Knights Templar Cross with Triquetra Symbols. the Theory of Everything was well underway. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. She was the fifth of seven children born to Leonard Pardee and Sarah Burns. Sadly, Sarah and William's infant daughter, Annie, died from a mysterious childhood disease in 1866. But, the matter runs still deeper when we consider that, in showing the number twice, Sarah is also revealing a different perspective as 47 47 transforms (rotates) into 44 77and, when these two numbers combine, we have the number 121 (11 squared) which then rotates (12 + 1 = 13) into the number 13. William Wirt Winchester (June 22, 1837 - March 7, 1881) was the treasurer of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, a position he held until his death in 1881. As we shall see, Sarahs preference for the names Annie Pardee (56), and Annie Winchester (77) were important because they demonstrated a numerical kinship between Annie and Sarah, and Annie and William. To the ancient Egyptian mind, this is where heaven is located. To further appease the angry spirits, Mrs. Winchester made sure the construction of the House went on, nonstop, 24 / 7, 365 days a year for fear that should the building ever stop, she would die. [4][5] On September 30, 1862, in New Haven, Sarah married William Wirt Winchester, the only son of Oliver Winchester, the owner of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. In 1884, Sarah took up residence in the San Francisco Bay areaeventually moving inland to the Santa Clara Valley (now San Jose) to buy an eight room farmhouse from one Dr. Robert Caldwell. Since its founding in 1894, the Historical Society has been publishing articles about the people and events in the city's past and present. Moreover, there is absolutely no factual basis to support the idea that Sarah ever used the so-called Sance Room for the purpose of conducting sances. Sarah and William were married on September 30, 1862. Then, 588 x 121 (11 squared) = 71,148. Biography ID: 14897703 . 4444. 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