Method to submit an entry

[Bownarrow]

I was never convinced that the way to submit an entry was to input the number( which I have forgotten) into the Time Device on the Timemonk website and find the web page with the 'Congratulations' message on it and a box in which you had to enter what you thought was the beast and submit that page.

The Timemonk website was launched a few years after the Maranatha - Et in Arcadia Ego puzzle puzzle was released.  Until the Timemonk website came into existence it would have been impossible to submit a correct entry if this were the correct method. This does not make sense. Also the sheepish grin on the photo of the Timemonk that was on the page that entering the number in the Time device took you to, was not consistent with the idea that you had just found the correct way to submit an entry. There had to be another way that made more sense. 

During the time that the puzzle was active I did not keep track of on the dates on which specific information about the company Priory Publications (GB)Ltd. was publicly available.  I do not know whether the way that I have found was feasible from the time that the puzzle was first released.

Briefly I believe that the way to find the way to submit an entry was to use the anagram of the "Find a Devil" anagram found by Synchronicity from the  first letter of - Nicholas Flamel Discovered It And Leonardo Da Vinci Encrypted It - on the back cover of the Maranatha - Et In Arcadia Ego book.

The Devil we had to find I believe is the word devil that appears in Revelation 12:9 in the King James Bible.

9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

In this verse the devil is equated with that "old serpent". 

Old serpent is an anagram of old present. Present in French is don. Old serpent therefore may be rendered as old don. This in turn is an anagram of Loddon. For a short time from Feb 4 2010 to 6 Sept 2010 the registered address of Priory Publications(GB) Ltd was a Loddon P.O. Box address. 

The correspondence address of Duncan Burden was also given as an address in Loddon.

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05428246/officers

The idea that Revelation 12.9 is relevant is supported by the online clue :

At the end is where the chapter and verse are different.

The end would be a reference to the book of Revelation at the end of the Bible. 12 and 9 , the numbers of the Chapter and verse of Revelation 12:9, are indeed different. In addition the Latin word for different is alter. Alter is an anagram of later. The Latin word later means tile.
Tile  in turn is an anagram of L et I. L is the 12th letter of the alphabet and I is the ninth. Thus the word different in the clue reveals that the Chapter and Verse numbers we are looking for are 12 and 9. Putting the information contained in the clue together reveals that Revelation 12:9 is the Chapter and Verse we are looking for.

The idea that a Chapter and verse number are needed to submit the solution is supported by the sentence on page 38 that says - "....and write the wisdom of numbered lines and words of the King".

The online clue :

Discover the word and write without a pen to answer without a letter

appears on the surface to mean that the way to submit an entry is electronically using a keyboard to write rather than a pen.
This would contradict the idea that the way to submit an entry is to write a letter and send it by snail mail to the address. This was the major stumbling block that stopped me from the finding the way to submit an entry for so long.

The above clue however is extremely devilish and does in fact refer to Loddon also!

I'll leave it up to you to find out how! 

I believe that the webpage saying 'Congratulations' was also intended as a devilish( deceptive) Red herring - hence the sheepish grin on the face of the Time monk on the webpage!

[Bownarrow]

Another nice thing about the online clue:

At the end is where the chapter and verse are different

If the word “tile” is understood as “L et I”, this can also be understood as 12+9. The sum of 12+9= 21.

The 21st letter in the Hebrew alphabet is the letter shin which has the meaning of “(a)tooth”

In French the letter “a” translates as “to” in English. The Latin word for “tooth” is “dens” which is an anagram of “send”. The numbers of the Chapter and Verse therefore can be equated to the words: SEND TO”

Using the idea that the “old serpent” in Revelation 12:9 can be equated with Loddon, the clue supports the idea that the way to submit an entry is to send it to Loddon.

[Bownarrow]

Of the two different Loddon addresses addresses connected with Priory Publications (GB) Ltd the one that seems the more likely to be the correct one is the correspondence address given for DB.
The other address, that of the registered office of Priory Publications (GB) Ltd. for a short time, does not make sense for the same reason that using the Time Device on the Timemonk website does not - it did not exist until years after the puzzle was released.

This is not the only reason why the address given for DB is considered to be the correct one of the two. It is described as the ‘correspondence’ address. This description tells us that it is an address where written correspondence such as the solution to the puzzle is to be sent.

The most convincing thing about the address however is that the number and street name of it, 12 Beck Way, also corresponds to the word ‘Loddon’. The letter L is the 12th letter of the alphabet, the word ‘beck’ is a synonym of ‘nod’, and ‘way’ is an anagram of the word ‘yaw’ (pronounced ‘your’), for which the word in Irish ( i.e. the translation of the word ‘your’ into Irish ) is ‘do’. The transformations of these three elements of the address - L NOD DO - can easily be seen to be an anagram of LODDON. The correspondence address for DB therefore can be understood as Loddon, Loddon...

Another of the online clues was:

As twice it is hidden to show the worth of this book

If the ‘it’ in the clue is understood as referring to Loddon, then the clue can be understood as confirming the idea that the correspondence address of DB was the correct address that an entry was to be sent to.

[Bownarrow]

www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/nr14-6uz.html

This site indicates that the property at 12, Beck Way, Loddon, was sold on 12, July 2006. and then sold again on April 16th 2016. If it is assumed that the owner of the property from 12, July 2006 - April 16th 2016 was DB, this would mean that he was at the address for the vast majority of the time that the Puzzle was active. The only time that the 12, Beck Way address would not have been valid as an address for sending in an entry, would have been for the first 8 months that the puzzle was active - from October 31st 2005 to July 12th 2006.

The idea that the property was probably not owned by DB for the first 8 months that the puzzle was active may be argued as a reason why the way to submit an entry I have proposed is not correct. In absence of any better alternatives however, and the fact that the Companion book was not published until 20 October 2006, I believe that the way outlined is likely to have been correct.

During the time that the puzzle was active, the correspondence address of DB could presumably have been found by paying a fee to companies house for the information.

[astree]

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Hi bownarrow,

I dont recall the various wordings used in the Maranatha material. I think a phrase something like “the method of submission is part of the puzzle” but dont remember anything like “entry” or “make an entry”. I may be going out on a limb, but maybe the true solution holds the way to submit. If so, there was nothing like that overtly revealed in the Tree of Life pdf that was offered.

astree

[Bownarrow]

Hi A,

I think the wording in Rule 5 was something like “The manner in which an/the entry/solution is to be submitted to Priory is itself part of the puzzle”. I don’t think it matters what the exact wording was however.

As far I am concerned ,the pdf and the article offered explaining what the key was, were deception rather than Revelation. But maybe the Revelation/deception duality of them was intended as a pointer to Revelation 12:9!


Hope you are well.

[Bownarrow]

Another reason why I believe that DB's address at Loddon is likely to have been the address where to submit an entry to, was derived from the mention of the word WISDOM in the line:

" and write the WISDOM of numbered lines and words of the King"

In Greek the word for wisdom is "SOPHIA" which is an anagram of "A OPHIS". In Gaelic "A" tranlates as "THE" and in Greek "OPHIS" translates as "SERPENT". Therfore WISDOM corresponds with "THE SERPENT"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loddon,_Norfolk

"The earliest written mention of Loddon (Lodne)..."

An old spelling of "LODDON" was "LODNE" which is an anagram of "LE DON" which in French tranlates as "THE PRESENT". This in turn is an anagram of "THE SERPENT", which has been shown to correspond to WISDOM. Therefore WISDOM also can be understood as referring to LODDON.

Since both "WISDOM" and "THE NUMBERED LINES AND WORDS OF THE KING"( "KING" can refer to both "REX MUNDI", the Cathars's equivalent of Satan/the Devil, and the KING James Bible)" can be understood as referring to "LODDON", this is good evidence that the LODDON address already given, was likely to have been the address to submit an entry/solution.

(In a previous post on this thread it was noted that because it seems probable that DB only became the owner of the address in July 2006 , it could be argued that the address given was unlikely to have been the correct address to submit an entry to. It is not outside the realm of possibility however that DB was a tenant at the address before 2006 also, and so the address could have been valid for the whole time from when the puzzle was released to when the competion was ended in 2011. This however is just speculation, and I have no proof one way or another that he either owned or was a tenant of the propetty other than the information contained in the link below.)

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05428246/officers