Today we ate lunch at our usual Friday Chinese restaurant. I noticed that the phone number is:

8231 2231

This is, according to the rules of the game (which I made up, and which include that 13 or 31 is an acceptable permutation of 22, as indicating a temporary division of 4 objects into sets of 1 and 3, or 3 and 1, before returning to the natural 2:2 division) reducible therefore, or translatable into, or substituted by 8222 2222. Even the 8 reduces to pairs of 22: 2+2+2+2; or 2x2x2: so in fact the phone number is nothing but a string of twenty-twos. The restaurant's name is T-Chow, pronounced T-Tchoo, shorthand, I now suspect, for TwentyTwo.

Dear .....,

You won't believe this one.

I was taken though the security issues today at work.

I had to choose a pin number - won't tell you what it was but I wanted to
choose 2222.

Then I was given an ID number - 22

I laughed under my breath, audible and almost felt the need to explain.
Then I was told what the number of my office was and......you know what
number it is... 22 of course.

It was then that I had to tell her about the 22 phenomenom.

One day I might show her your blogg.

:-)

.......

Bishop Desmond Tutu. :-)

He received his Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

1 + 9 + 8 + 4 = 22.

The 22 Code

So where is the entrance to the Cave of Treasures? We may know the answer. Very early on in the course of our investigation, we stumbled upon what seemed like the solution to one of the central mysteries of Rennes-le-Chateau: “the 22 code.” Throughout Sauniere’s church and its grounds, the number 22 is repeatedly encoded into things. Words are purposely misspelled so as to contain twenty-two letters. The Tour Magdala has twenty-two crenels. The skull at the entrance to the cemetery has twenty-two teeth. Researchers have gone to absurd lengths trying to divine the occult significance of the number 22, producing obtuse “explanations” which in fact explain nothing at all. We wondered if a simpler, more straightforward approach might be in order. We had noticed that the church and its surroundings seemed to be infused with symbolism pointing towards duality, or indeed, redundancy. There were two Christs on Sauniere’s pulpit, and two baby Christs at the front of the church (one held by Joseph, the other by Mary. The name of the Tour Magdala is also a redundancy, as the name “Magdala” means “tower.” Why would someone with Sauniere’s sophistication name one of his key constructions “Tower Tower” unless it was an indication of something? Bearing this strange theme of duality in mind, we wondered if perhaps the 22 code could mean that we should look for two sets of two. Almost immediately, we could think of a number of such sets: statues and other constructions around the domain that seemed to mirror or echo one another on some symbolic level. Enlarging a map of the church and its grounds, we marked the sets of landmarks. We proceeded to draw lines through the points indicated, extending the lines across the map. When we were finished, we had five sets of lines, all of which intersected at precisely the same point.

A strange coincidence? Hardly. We had followed obvious clues that had been purposely left by Sauniere. We had interpreted evidence according to the simplest possible means: logic. And as it appeared, we had gotten results. From the very onset, we had felt instinctively that the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau held something of far greater import than a mere treasure. Whatever lies buried beneath the spot on the map revealed by the 22 code holds the key to a great secret. We now believe that this location might very well conceal the entrance a tunnel system leading to the Cave of Treasures.

from: The Vessel of God