Templar Code Cracked

London, England.

‘ARCADIA’
The Solution to the Templar Code D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M.

‘Arcadia’ a book by Clifton Power.
Published June 2006 by Exposure Publishing (an imprint of Diggory Press, Diggorypress.com), England, U.K.
ISBN 184685248X 978 - 1 - 84685 - 248 - 0
60 pages. RRP £6-99
Available at Diggorypress.com and at Amazon and can be ordered through bookstores.

For over 250 years a mysterious inscription on the Shepherd’s Monument in the gardens of Shugborough Hall in England has confounded investigators. The Monument was erected in 1748 and as well as the inscription displays a white marble bas-relief of ‘Shepherds of Arcadia’, a painting by Nicolas Poussin executed about 1640. Both the aristocratic builder of the Shepherd’s Monument and Poussin are said to have been members of the Priory of Sion, an Order of the Knights Templar and the inscription has always been said to hold a secret about the Holy Grail, brought by the Knights Templar from the Holy Land.
The solution to the inscription D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M. which has often been called the Templar Code has evaded many of the greatest minds over the centuries. It has even baffled the code breakers of Bletchley Park, Britain’s code-breaking headquarters, who had succesfully cracked the Nazi Enigma Code during World War II. The announcement of their attempt in May 2004 and the disappointing result disclosed in November 2004 were widely reported in the press.
I solved the 250 year-old mystery of the ten letter acronymic inscription on the Shepherd’s Monument over a year ago, but further research and analysis was necessary before I could release the astounding ten-word phrase.
This book, ’Arcadia’, explores the meaning of the ten-word inscription and does contain the answer to the mystery, but to be understood it must be considered in the context of it’s location. The serene Shugborough Estate is a window in time, a view back to the apparently mystical but essentially philosophical and aesthetic notion of Arcadia that inspired many of the great minds of the Age of Enlightenment. Lessons in ancient philosophy were found recorded symbolically in the gardens at Shugborough which led Clifton Power deep into the mysteries of Poussin’s painting the Shepherds of Arcadia. ‘Arcadia’ describes a unique intellectual quest yielding ultimately no less than a groundbreaking explanation of the true nature both of the Templars beliefs and their fabled treasure being revealed.