Of all the codes in this manuscript, this one seems to me to be the clearest in terms of being a direction indicator. As a Latin phrase 'Ad Gennesareth' simply means 'Towards Gennesareth' a biblical word used to denote the sea of Galilee. It would seem to be clearly  telling the reader to head out in some particular direction. Perhaps towards a lake? We cannot be sure. There are certainly many lakes in the region, some of them quite large.

The text of the manuscript contains innumerable possibilities from which  the author could have selected his letters for this phrase. However he specifically chose them from lines 9, 10 and 11. Line 10  as you may recall from earlier explanations is the one in which the author  included accented letters and apart from the two separate lines at the bottom of the manuscript this is the only place where  accented letters appear. In choosing these letters to make up the words Ad Genesareth the author also selected those containing accents. This code should therefore read:-

This is exactly the way it would be written in the French language and for this reason alone we can assume that the author was either or intended the decipherment to be in French or that anyone wishing to decipher the message should use both the French alphabet and the French language.

In French you might phonetically read this as 'Ad Jai-nai-sa-raite'. By comparing the sounds of these accented groups with those appearing at the bottom of the manuscript you will see some striking similarities.

Jé (Jésu) - Gé

Né (Vulnérum) Né

Dè (Medèla) Rè

The first two are identical in sound while the last is quite dissimilar.  Since the use of accents is largely superfluous in terms of such a large encrypted manuscript it is probably reasonable to assume that he specifically intended the reader to use phonetics. This of course bring to mind the works of Henri Boudet.

Together the first two syllables do make up a recognizable word, 'Gener' which means to torture, torment, inconvenience, hamper, constrain, impede, to make uncomfortable, to cramp, to cause trouble or awkwardness, to bother, to be a nuisance, to embarrass, disturb or upset, to put oneself out, to squeeze up on a seat, not to hesitate, to make oneself at home.  The other syllable must be read as Raie (simply the phonetic sound Rè) because there is no such word as Raite, unless you use the English sense RATE. Raie means a line, stripe, stroke, streak, parting (hair), ridge (between furrows), ray (of the spectrum), Ray (the fish). The word can also be pronounced 'Rail' (Ray) meaning a rail as in a railroad and also pronounced 'Rets' meaning a snare or toil.

Of these two possible meanings Raie seems to be the clearest and having already found lines which form bearings on a map of the region, the meaning of the word as a stripe or line seems very clear and appropriate. The syllables  Gé and Né may also have some significance which as yet has not become evident.  Possibly these sounds form an Arabic word or perhaps the word was drawn from the Languedocien or Basque. There are also two more possible phonetic combinations:

  S'arret (from s'arreter) - To stop oneself, to pause

Arete - A fish bone, beard of barley, line, edge, crest, solid angle of intersection, ridge. Remember also the small tract of text which Saunière was playing around with (vide Parchment 3):-

Sot pecheur a l'embouchure ...cuit il ne lui resta que l'arete.

Another observation I made is that all these letters as well as the accented letters appear to be located in a straight line running East-West across the parchment on line 10.  It could well be that the author intended this to form one line of a bearing.

I noted that only a few Kilometres due West of Rennes-le-Château and a little to the South of La Serpent is a small village called Galié.

The sound of this name is not too dissimilar from Gallilee (the modern name for Genesareth). Could this be the landmark intended by the author? The person who created the manuscript was adept at making the most out of nothing. Every code, be it ever so humble yields not simply one deciphered message but a whole host of them. In studying the coded message Panis AW Sal it struck me that the author was providing a starting and ending point for one bearing and a geographical height. He did this also with the code Rex Mundi. If two codes follow this pattern then there is a good chance that this one does the same. Let us assume that the town of GaliJ forms one reference point. Ad Genesareth does not appear to provide any clues to another town but possibly a geographical height may be hidden within the words. By taking all the letters that make up the words Ad Genesareth and placing their alphabetical values below them you get:-

A	D	G	E	N	E	S	A	R	E	T	H
1	4	7	5	14	5	19	1	18	5	20	8

As you can imagine I tried using these values in every conceivable combination and obtained results which may or may not have been heights. Unfortunately none of them matched any appearing on the maps of the region. It then occurred to me that here we have 12 letters that can be rearranged into six groups of  two:-

A	D		G	E		N	E		S	A		R	E		T	H
1	4		7	5		14	5		19	1		18	5		20	8

Now if you subtract one number from the other in each group you get:-

A	D		G	E		N	E		S	A		R	E		T	H
1	4		7	5		14	5		19	1		18	5		20	8
3			2			9			18			13			12

Next take each group of two and add them together to get:-

A	D		G	E		N	E		S	A		R	E		T	H
1	4		7	5		14	5		19	1		18	5		20	8
3			2			9			18			13			12
5						27						25

Finally add 5 to 27 to yield 32 and then multiply the result by 25. You get 800.  There is only one peak that I have been able to find with a height of 800m within about a 12Km radius of Rennes-le-Château. It lies about 2Km east of Fourtou and is called Col des Fourmigadies. Fourmi is the French word for an ANT which in fact can be found in the words AD GENESARETH. 

This could of course be nothing more than the merest coincidence so it is probably wise not to read too much into it.

The question now arises, if this is a map reference where do we obtain  the other arm of the bearing from? Unfortunately this is where plain and simple trial and error enters in to the picture. It's not very scientific but I am absolutely sure it is what Saunière must have done and I am sure most other researchers have resorted to also.

A couple  of possibilities have emerged.

Position your tracing paper on the dot that lies between the words UNA and POENITENTIUM and then connect up the middle and last accented E's on line 10. Now place your tracing on the map so that the dot is on the peak of 800m. You will see that one arm runs through Galié and the other runs through Montreal.

Connect up the tiny I of REX MUNDI to the E and the D of REX MUNDI. Now by placing the meeting point (the I) on the height 800m with one arm running through Galié, the other arm goes almost directly through Col d'Éusèbe. This is a feature which figured during the analysis of parchment 1.

 

A Numerical approach to the problem

Within the context of the manuscript it is very interesting to note that the author used the French version of the word Génésarèth. In Latin the correct spelling would have been Gennesareth with an extra N. Since the entire text has been carefully transcribed from the Latin Gospels the fact that our cryptographer has insisted on using the French spelling including its correct accentuation, is most significant.

Cumulatively the alphabetic equivalents using the letters of the words as they stand is 107 but with the extra (Latin) N it comes to 121. This is extremely interesting from the point of view that the number has a perfect square root, namely11. Coincidentally the number of letters present in the word Gennesareth, is also 11. You may be wondering about the significance of a square root. Having found a great many numerical connections in the church as well as in the books of Henri Boudet, the fact that a number can have a perfect square root is more often than not a good indicator that this is what what was intended. Equally you will find prime numbers used and these too seem to have their place.

If you refer to my pages relating to the church in Rennes-le-Château you will notice that the numbers 111 and 11 appear on the Devil's wing and are then repeated in various disguised forms in a great many other parts of the church. Henri Boudet has also used the same numbers in his book La Vraie Langue Celtique and clearly they have a very special significance both in terms of this parchment and by those who used them at a later date.

By multiplying 111 and 11 together you get 1221 and by simply removing one of the 2s it produces the number 121 which we have here. Also the value 1221 is divisible by 121 10 times leaving a remainder of 11. Note that 1221 is a mirror image of itself and so too is 121. Mirror imaging is again commonly used in many places in this mystery. It is equally interesting to note that 1221 - 121 produces 1100 which once more is the value 11 times 100. I think you can begin to see that these numbers are very clearly inter related and have been used in this context with some careful forethought.

These are lines 9, 10 and 11 within which appear our particular message. Indicated are the major peculiarities circled in red while the letters making up the words Ad Genesareth are underlined in red:

It is worth mentioning that these few lines are actually about the most interesting in the entire manuscript. Apart from containing our mysterious message Ad Génésarèth you will also see the Alpha and the Omega which are described in code 6. Although it has long been believed that the message Panis AΩ  Sal is one complete unit, I believe that in fact the AΩ are part of this message. You will also note the question mark near the start of line 10. This is the only punctuation mark to appear in the entire document and for this reason alone must be regarded as significant. Its position on the line is fascinating. It appears at position 7 on line 10. Place these numbers side by side and you have 107. This number appears to be used again and again in this parchment. Clearly we are being asked to use it some way.

Since all these peculiarities appear exclusively on lines 9,10 and 11, I think it is fair to say they are probably all related to each other in terms of this one particular code. Let us start with a few basics. The Greek alpha has value 1 in its alphabet while the Omega has value 24. The Alpha appears at position 28 on line 10, the Omega at position 14 on line 11 and let us not forget the question mark which appears at position 7 on line 10. Note also that if one begins counting from the first letter immediately after the question mark, the Alpha appears at position 21 and coincidentally from the Alpha to the end of the same line is another 21 letters. Here again we can form our magic number 1221 even though it appears in slightly altered form of 2121. Now here is a true oddity. If you deduct 1221 from 2121 you are left with 900 which happens to have a square root of 30. If you now refer to page 30 of La Vraie Langue Celtique and you look on line 21, you will see a Biblical reference given. It is Genesis Chapter 1 28. Genesis as you will know is the Beginning (Alpha). Our Alpha has a value of 1 and it appears at position 28 on the line. This is a fascinating discovery because it forces us to ask who used what in their work. Did Boudet get hold of this parchment from which he then extracted information and added it in his books? Are these parchments a fake and their author used sections from Boudet's book as source material or is there perhaps something else at work here?

With the values obtained we can now derive some new numbers. Omega at position 14 and with an alphabetic value of 24 can be combined numerically to make 1424. Alpha can similarly be combined to make 281. Adding these two numbers together we get 1705. Keep this number in mind as we will need it in a moment.

Now we must look again at the area around the question mark. Immediately above the question can be seen the Roman numerals VIVM. To the right of it can be seen the Roman numerals DIXI and on the line just below it is the Roman numeral M. Logically it would seem that a fourth value should also be present and I believe it is in the form of the number of letters to the right of the question mark and including the question mark itself, total value 7. These numerals can be made to represent many values but by simply taking their maximum value you get 1011, 512 and 1000. Add 7 to each of them to produce 1018, 519 and 1007 and then sum them all together to get 2544. As though we needed some confirmation that we might be on the right trail this is again provided with the number 2544. By splitting the number in two and multiplying each half 25 x 44 we are again returned to the value 1100 which we initially discovered.

We can now add the value 1705 which we obtained earlier and this produces 4249. It is clear from this number that we are again near to one which has a perfect square root, namely the value 65 x 65 = 4225. To obtain this we need to deduct 24. There may be many ways of obtaining 24 from the section in which these letters occur but the simplest is probably just to take the value of Omega. As final confirmation that this may indeed be the value which the observer is meant to discover we can divide 4225 by 121 to give us 34 with exactly 111 left over.

This seems to be the number suggested because the value 121 can be divided into 4225, 34 times, leaving a remainder of 111, which is a key number throughout this mystery.

Another oddity is derived from line 10. Remember that if you count towards the Alpha from the first letter after the question mark, it produces a count of 21 and from the Alpha to the end of the line another 21. 21 times 21 = 441.  Next we found the Omega at position 14. It had a value of 24. 24 x 14 = 336. Now if we add 336 to 441 we get 777 and if we again use our magic number 111 to deduct from this value we get the famous 666. This too happens to be a number used in several places within the church.

It is also more than just coincidence that although the first letter A of Ad Genesareth appears at position 32 of line 9, each subsequent letter is placed exactly 7 spaces further on from its neighbour. This too provides us with additional information. Since the A is the start of the word its value can be ignored since it does not follow on from anything. The remaining letters  can be formed in to 3 groups of 777 and one group of 77. 777 times 3 = 2331. If you now add 111 to 2331 to get 2442 which is exact double of 1221. Again it is more than just coincidence that by removing the A which cannot be counted, you are left with 11 letters all of which are at position 7 from their neighbour. 11 x 7 = 77. Also note that by taking the number of letters to the ends of the lines from the first letter A of Ad Genesareth, the Alpha and the Omega you have 16, 21 and 39 respectively and then adding them together you get 76, just one less than our number 77. In fact the number begs to be 77 and by looking at the latter part of line nine we may actually have 17 letters following the A. If you look at the second letter past the A you will see what looks like a the letter V with two dots over it. This could very well represent a double I. Here again the author appears to have gone to inordinate lengths to add numerical symmetry to his work. He has also engineered a situation where in one case the number of letters following the Alpha is perceived as 21 while in another it can be seen as 22. Both are significant in their own contexts.

As though all this was not enough there is another really wonderful discovery to be made from this section and I owe this to my friend Jacques Mader whose excellent eye spotted it.

We are dealing with a code which appears in a self contained section of the manuscript, that is to say lines 9, 10 and 11 only. What Jacques spotted, was that by extracting the added letters forming the larger concealed message "Bergere pas de tentation..." and which follow from the last letter of Ad Genesareth, the H, you can find LUCCV as shown here circled in blue:

Clearly the inference is that a chapter and verse of the Gospel according to Saint Luke is being pointed to. First of all I looked at the letters purely from the point of view of Roman numerals and it is clear that these can be represented as LVCCV. By taking their largest numerical value these letters amount to 260. Keep this in mind.

The reference to Luke is 105. This can be made to represent 10:5, 1:5 or 5:1. The fact that we might be on the right trail is revealed by Luke 5:1 which reads as follows:

factum est autem cum turbae inruerent in eum ut audirent verbum Dei et ipse stabat secus stagnum Gennesareth

The text clearly mentions Gennesareth and this has to be more than mere coincidence.

My next move was to take each of the possible verses indicated (10:5, 1:5 or 5:1) and write them down:

factum est autem cum turbae inruerent in eum ut audirent verbum Dei et ipse stabat secus stagnum Gennesareth

in quamcumque domum intraveritis primum dicite pax huic domui

fuit in diebus Herodis regis Iudaeae sacerdos quidam nomine Zaccharias de vice Abia et uxor illi de filiabus Aaron et nomen eius Elisabeth

I now took a count of all the letters making up these three verses and it came to exactly 260. At this point I have to say the chances of this being pure coincidence is fairly enormous. The coincidences do not stop there. If you add the number words present (50) to the total number of letters (260) you get 310 which happens to be the number of pages in Boudet's book. Now I am not claiming that Boudet produced these manuscripts but if he had access to them and derived this information from them and this information was of such great importance, he may well have been inclined to make his book exactly this length.

Finally one can add the chapter and verse numbers such that you have 105+15+51 = 171. As most of you will know 171 is a number which appears in many places but most conspicuously of all as the date on which Marie de Blanchefort died, the 17th of January or 17, 1. Note once more that the number can be mirror imaged.

The million dollar question of course is, what on earth is our cryptographer trying to tell us. It certainly is clear that a considerable effort has been put in to this work. It is also clear that such numerical occurrences are far from random and the fact that we have certain numbers repeating in a variety of different places tells us that there seems to be a corporate conspiracy here spanning several hundred years or possibly even longer. If this document is totally genuine dating from the time of Antoine Bigou as speculation has it, Then it seems that much of the numerical content of this document was subsequently incorporated not only into the church at Rennes-le-Chateau but was also picked up by Henri Boudet and used in his own books and perhaps elsewhere for all we know. On the other hand if you had told me that Boudet himself made this manuscript, then the whole puzzle would fall very conveniently in to place. This would also explain all the other occurrences very well indeed. Unfortunately we are no wiser today than we were 40 years ago and those people who do know the truth about this are keeping stubbornly quiet.