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There are 12 verses in The Secret and each one needs to be matched to an illustration in order to solve the puzzle. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any definite way to match the two parts together, and different treasure hunters still have different ideas. This page presents what are currently thought to be the most likely verse / image combinations. For more details about about each verse, see the appropriate verse interpretation page.
The 12 verses of The Secret:
- Verse 1
- Verse 2
- Verse 3
- Verse 4
- Verse 5
- Verse 6
- Verse 7
- Verse 8
- Verse 9
- Verse 10
- Verse 11
- Verse 12
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 8
SEARCHING: Hermann Park, Houston, Texas
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 1 Interpretation Page.
Fortress north
Cold as glass
Friendship south
Take your task
To the number
Nine eight two
Through the wood
No lion fears
In the sky the water veers
Small of scale
Step across
Perspective should not be lost
In the center of four alike
Small, split,
Three winged and slight
What we take to be
Our strongest tower of delight
Falls gently
In December night
Looking back from treasure ground
There's the spout!
A whistle sounds.
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 7
SEARCHING: New Orleans, Louisiana
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 2 Interpretation Page.
At the place where jewels abound
Fifteen rows down to the ground
In the middle of twenty-one
From end to end
Only three stand watch
As the sound of friends
Fills the afternoon hours
Here is a sovereign people
Who build palaces to shelter
Their heads for a night!
Gnomes admire
Fays delight
The namesakes meeting
Near this site.
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 11
SEARCHING: Boston, Massachusetts
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 3 Interpretation Page.
If Thucydides is
North of Xenophon
Take five steps
In the area of his direction
A green tower of lights
In the middle section
Near those
Who pass the coliseum
With metal walls
Face the water
Your back to the stairs
Feel at home
All the letters
Are here to see
Eighteenth day
Twelfth hour
Lit by lamplight
In truth, be free.
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 4
FOUND in 2004: Cleveland Cultural Gardens, Cleveland, Ohio
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 4 Interpretation Page.
Beneath two countries
As the road curves
In a rectangular plot
Beneath the tenth stone
From right to left
Beneath the ninth row from the top
Of the wall including small bricks
Seven steps up you can hop
From the bottom level
Socrates, Pindar, Apelles
Free speech, couplet, birch
To find casque's destination
Seek the columns
For the search.
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 9
SEARCHING: Montreal, Canada
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 5 Interpretation Page.
Lane
Two twenty two
You'll see an arc of lights
Weight and roots extended
Together saved the site
Of granite walls
Wind swept halls
Citadel in the night
A wingless bird ascended
Born of ancient dreams of flight
Beneath the only standing member
Of a forest
To the south
White stone closest
At twelve paces
From the west side
Get permission
To dig out.
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 2
SEARCHING: Charleston, South Carolina
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 6 Interpretation Page.
Of all the romance retold
Men of tales and tunes
Cruel and bold
Seen here
By eyes of old
Stand and listen to the birds
Hear the cool, clear song of water
Harken to the words:
Freedom at the birth of a century
Or May 1913
Edwin and Edwina named after him
Or on the eighth a scene
Where law defended
Between two arms extended
Below the bar that binds
Beside the long palm's shadow
Embedded in the sand
Waits the Fair remuneration
White house close at hand.
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 1
SEARCHING: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 7 Interpretation Page.
At stone wall's door
The air smells sweet
Not far away
High posts are three
Education and Justice
For all to see
Sounds from the sky
Near ace is high
Running north, but first across
In jewel's direction
Is an object
Of Twain's attention
Giant pole
Giant step
To the place
The casque is kept.
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 10
SEARCHING: Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 8 Interpretation Page.
View the three stories of Mitchell
As you walk the beating of the world
At a distance in time
From three who lived there
At a distance in space
From woman, with harpsichord
Silently playing
Step on nature
Cast in copper
Ascend the 92 steps
After climbing the grand 200
Pass the compass and reach
The foot of the culvert
Below the bridge
Walk 100 paces
Southeast over rock and soil
To the first young birch
Pass three, staying west
You'll see a letter from the country
Of wonderstone's hearth
On a proud, tall fifth
At its southern foot
The treasure waits.
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 6
SEARCHING: Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park, St. Augustine, Florida
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 9 Interpretation Page.
The first chapter
Written in water
Near men
With wind rose
Behind bending branches
And a green picket fence
At the base of a tall tree
You can still hear the honking
Shell, limestone, silver, salt
Stars move by day
Sails pass by night
Even in darkness
Like moonlight in teardrops
Over the tall grass
Years pass, rain falls.
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 12
SEARCHING: New York, New York
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 10 Interpretation Page.
In the shadow
Of the grey giant
Find the arm that
Extends over the slender path
In summer
You'll often hear a whirring sound
Cars abound
Although the sign
Nearby
Speaks of Indies native
The natives still speak
Of him of Hard word in 3 Vols.
Take twice as many east steps as the hour
Or more
From the middle of one branch
Of the v
Look down
And see simple roots
In rhapsodic man's soil
Or gaze north
Toward the isle of B.
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 3
SEARCHING: Roanoke Island, North Carolina
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 11 Interpretation Page.
Pass two friends of octave
In December
Ride the man of oz
To the land near the window
There's a road that leads to
Dark forest
Where white is in color
With two maps
After circle and square
In July and August
A path beckons
To mica and driftwood
Under that
Which may be last touched
Or first seen standing
Look north at the wing
And dig
To achieve
By dauntless and inconquerable
Determination
Your goal.
MATCHING IMAGE: Image 5
FOUND in 1983: Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois
Discoverers: Eric Gasiorowski, Bob Wrobel, Danny Rosenbach, and David James
For detailed notes on the meaning of this verse, see the Verse 12 Interpretation Page.
Where M and B are set in stone
And to Congress, R is known
L sits and left
Beyond his shoulder
Is the Fair Folks'
Treasure holder
The end of ten by thirteen
Is your clue
Fence and fixture
Central too
For finding jewel casque
Seek the sounds
Of rumble
Brush and music
Hush.