The second safe box will open by positioning (and stopping) the rotary dial on the following letters, moving the dial clockwise and then counter-clockwise:
These selected letters form the Shugborough code.
Since the solution to the Shugborough code involves the two parchments of Berenger Sauniere, obviously, these parchments must have existed before the Shugborough monument was constructed on or before 1756.
These codes are meaningless, and they were selected randomly. The relief sculpture on top of these two lines of code in the Shugborough monument gives us a clue on how this random selection was made.
The sculpture shows 2 sarcophagi, with the smaller sarcophagus placed on top of the bigger. Also, words were etched on these sarcophagi and two shepherds were pointing their fingers on specific letters while the other two shepherds were just observing the letters being pointed at.
If we combine this clue provided by the sculpture with that provided by the message written on the first safe box, namely:
QUE POUSSIN TENIERS GARDENT LE CLEF
That Poussin, Teniers keep the key.
It becomes obvious that the two shepherds doing the pointing were the painters Nicholas Poussin and David Teniers. They were of course asked to either close their eyes or look away from the inscriptions while pointing their fingers, ensuring that the selection was truly random. The message on the first safe box was inscribed on the upper sarcophagus, surrounding it entirely, while the message on the second safe box was inscribed on the lower sarcophagus. Each painter was told to point on a different sarcophagus and make a total of only 10 letter selections starting from left to right of each message, moving around the sarcophagus counter clockwise. Since the painters cannot see the letters they were pointing at, inadvertently, spaces between words were sometimes touched. Thus, there were 2 spaces and 8 letters selected on the first message, and 8 spaces and two letters on the second. Also, the final V of the first message was either inadvertently or intentionally selected twice; and this is the reason why there is no period after the final V of the first line of code.
The two safe boxes may have looked like this:
Notice that the smaller safe box on top of a larger safe box mirrors the smaller sarcophagus on top of a larger sarcophagus in the relief sculpture.
Finally, the four rotary dials also form the Tau cross, otherwise known as St. Anthony’s cross. This St. Anthony or Anthony the Great, is the same St. Anthony painted by David Teniers in his painting “The Temptation of St. Anthony”.
The four rotary dials represent the three male shepherds and one female shepherdess depicted in the Shugborough relief. I already mentioned a while ago that two of these shepherds, that is, the ones pointing their fingers, were Nicolas Poussin and David Teniers. This means that the remaining shepherd and shepherdess must represent two painters as well, one male, the other one female.
