John Martin (2012). Coral Castle Construction: How One Man Created a Megalithic Wonder. ISBN 978-0988429703. ISBN 9780988429703 Overlapping the covers of Ed Leedskalnin’s written works Magnetic Current and, Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Life, reveals a hidden diagram for Ed Leedskalnin’s Perpetual Motion Holder. Hidden by Ed Leedskalnin in August of 1945 and discovered by RL Poole in December of 2010. The ancient temples of Egypt: simple monuments to the gods? Or complex puzzles that we are just beginning to understand? Magnets in general are indestructible. For instance you can burn wood and flesh. You can destroy the body, but you cannot destroy the magnets that hold together the body. They go somewhere else. Iron has more magnets than wood, and every different substance has a different number of magnets that hold the substance together. If I make a battery with copper for positive terminal and beef for negative terminal I get more magnets out of it than when I used copper for positive terminal and sweet potato for negative terminal. From this you can see that no two things are alike. [6] In popular culture [ edit ] The first sentence in Ed’s book, Magnetic Current, is one of the oddest and most confusing lines I’ve ever read:

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Man of Mystery

By the late twenties Ed was welcoming visitors to his ‘place’ on a regular basis. And by then he was beginning to formulate the speech he would give to those visitors while he gave them a tour of his unusual “home.” And at the center of that tour, from the very beginning, was the story about the girl he had left behind in Latvia. The girl who had left him at the altar. His Sweet Sixteen. Something we haven’t touched on yet is Ed’s obsession with who he refers to as his ‘Sweet Sixteen’—his long-lost love whom he claimed to have built the Coral Castle as an ode to. It’s for this reason that his castle is often referred to as Leedskalnin’s ‘Taj Mahal’. McClure and Heffron cover this aspect of Ed’s motivation for building the castle at length:

Stollznow, Karen (January 1, 2010). "Coral castle: fact and folklore". Skeptical Inquirer. Archived from the original on May 26, 2012 . Retrieved October 15, 2017.City History". City of Florida City. Archived from the original on October 25, 2015 . Retrieved November 3, 2015. The stones are fastened together without mortar. They are set on top of each other using their weight to keep them together. The craftsmanship detail is so fine and the stones are connected with such precision that no light passes through the joints. The 8-foot (2.4m) tall vertical stones that make up the perimeter wall have a uniform height. Even with the passage of decades the stones have not shifted. Born in Latvia on January 12 1887, Edward (Ed) Leedskalnin was a self-taught engineer who single-handedly built the Coral Castle in Homestead, Florida, after emigrating to the USA in 1912. We know little about his childhood, apart from that his parents weren’t wealthy, and that he was only formally educated until the age of nine or ten. It’s suggested that Ed loved reading, and that he learned stonemasonry skills from his father. We know that by the time Ed was in his twenties, he could read, write and probably speak at least three languages. So, we had the secret schematic over several sheets of paper, which details part of what Ed calls the Perpetual Motion Device. Alone, this made no sense. Then, almost a century later, we find that he hid a portion of it in plain sight all along that completes it. After that, we find this device mirrored in the guidelines he left us with, which are the first words of his book, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Life. We then realise we must change the PMH from a magnetic device into an electrical device by adding the hidden part of the schematic. More remarkably, it becomes clear from Ed’s words about facing east that we’ve understood his teachings.