Escape rooms are essentially a series of theme-based puzzles that a group of people must solve together. This has become a whole industry. Most escape rooms have a rule that each clue may be used only once, because clues within clues makes the puzzle exponentially more difficult and virtually impossible to solve in the typical hour allotted for the “escape.” The Secret has no such rule! Furthermore, this concept of clues within clues reflects the very nature of The Secret. This is the essence of its beautiful complexity.
The poem continues:
Eighteenth day
Twelfth hour
As I said earlier, this refers to Paul Revere’s midnight ride on April 18, 1775, and yet, it appears here, near the end of our detailed treasure hunting instructions, at a point where we expect the direction we are to go next, the direction of the casque. How could these lines possibly give us a direction? This is one of my favorite clues in all the puzzles! Contained within the Paul Revere allusion are the ordinal numbers eighteenth and twelfth, or eighteen and twelve, which gives us 1812, the year the USS Constitution earned its nickname, Old Ironsides, alluded to in the poem as “metal walls.”
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