in 2022 a brick patio on the easterly side of the Solomon’s Temple Lodge was completed.

Many of the bricks bear laser etched messages from donors and sponsors, among them are six with peculiar symbols.

These bricks contain secret messages that were encrypted using ‘classical‘ ciphers.

Some notes:

  • All of the bricks are encrypted with a simple substitution cipher.
  • The bricks are further encrypted using a ‘classical’ ciphers
  • Some of the ciphers require keywords, all of which are related to Solomon’s Temple Lodge.
  • The sixth brick can only be solved using clues from the first five solutions.

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