These Spaniards.....
From about 1500 give or take a few decades the Jesuits and the Spanish in general where in charge of the New World and of course New Spain. This control lasted well in to the late 1700's there is appox 250 years!! Wave after wave , Expedition after expedition came to the new world to explore, mine, store and ship Gold and Silver and precious Jewels!. Two centuries and the entire Western Hemisphere was climbed over like ant at a sugar mound!
With the publication of ReDeMetalica as the guide book, the graduate mining engineers from the the University of Salamanca headed contracted expeditions to the New World to find riches for the noblemen ( Conquistadors) and the Jesuits and the Pope. The Spanish Soldiers were the security force, and part of the labor force, until Native American could be captured and enslaved to work the Hardrock Mines and the Placer Diggings.
The Secular Masons were hired to do the stone masonry and monumenting.Not to be confused with the Ritual Masons who attend meetings and take oaths, these were the actual stone cutters who worked with their hands and their tools.
The King of Spain micromanaged the entire operations from start to finish. Nothing was left to chance. The saying " The pain of Spain" was the common death threat, that backed up the breaking every rule! The King of Spain collected a 20% tax from everyone who had a contract, actual or inferred to mine in the New World, His own tax collectors issued these stamps upon the actual goods, for them to be legal for transport across the Kings Highways or Trails.
All the goods that were mined and transported where taxed , Assayed, the 20% taken and the stamps hammered into the bars themselves. If a need arose to have to wait for safer transport conditions, then monuments were built to show the hidden vaults, when the goods were stored. The Kings Recovery Crew were tasked with the retrieval of these goods.
To keep the Treasure Signs, consistent, the Kings men had the same solutions as the Masons who cut the signs on stone, the idea that signs are unreadable only by the person who cut the signs is of course ridiculous - any one caught making up their own signs would have be executed by the Spanish Army in a heartbeat!
These signs are not easily broken, and they usually defeat the amateur code breaker or the casual attempt to steal these goodies!. It takes a Lifetime of study, research, and an tremendous amount of dedication and effort! This code took so long to break that back in the day , that the Kings men would have arrived and recovered the treasure before you recognized what an Alpha Monument even was, let alone be able to find the Omega and then the final Geometric layout.
What Spaniards? The Tsunami of Spaniards! The 2.5 Centuries of Expeditions! The Millions of Dollars and Tons of Gold and Silver Shipped in Galleons across the Atlantic! The Billions in Emeralds and jewels alone* - All Evidenced by the Hundreds of Spanish Galleons the still lay on the bottom of the Ocean!
What Spaniards? The ones who Ruled the World, The ones who controlled the Sea!, The ones who did battle with the rest of Europe at one time or another. The ones who Performed the Terroristic Act of the Inquisition for a couple of Hundred Years!
What Spaniards, the ones who operated the First Universities in the Old World!
What Spaniards, the ones who employed the Secular Jesuits as Mining Engineers in the New World as early as the 1500's, The one who hired Tin Miners from Wales and Germany in the Mid 1500's and imported them to Mexico as Gold and Silver Miners!
The ones who slogan was GOLD - GLORY & GOD ! <-- IN That order!
Thats who!
The ones who said that Gold was a disease of the Heart and the only cure was more Gold!
Thats who!
I rest my case,
let the nitpicking, the nay saying and automatic negative responders begin....
auferiously
rangler
H8
"With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction".
*present day values
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