Daniel Conderman 
How I Found This
I’ve always been the kind of person who gets lost in historical rabbit holes. It started with a simple curiosity about pre-Civil War America—the strange in-between years when the country was growing, fracturing, and unknowingly standing on the edge of catastrophe.
Most people focus on the politics, the economy, the war itself. But I wanted to dig into the minds of the forgotten—the strange, obscure thinkers whose work never quite made it into the history books.
That’s when I came across Dr. Hezekiah Fant.
Fant isn’t famous. You won’t find him in mainstream history, but in the right places—old university records, archived society journals, private collections—you can find whispers of his existence. He was a natural philosopher, a self-taught scientist who dabbled in everything from optics to early electromagnetism. Some called him brilliant. Others called him insane.
And in 1845, he wrote something that should not exist.
The Lost Manuscript: “Reflektivum Mundi”
Fant’s final known work was a handwritten manuscript titled:
Reflektivum Mundi: A Treatise on the Mirrored and the Luminiferous Realm
It was rumored to be lost in an 1851 fire that destroyed much of his research. But a partial copy survived in the archives of a defunct scientific society, the New England Institute for the Advancement of Natural Philosophy.
This is what I found.
Excerpts from Dr. Fant’s Journal (1845)
(Transcribed with original spelling and formatting preserved.)
November 3rd, 1845
Lo, the Glasse doth not Merely Reflect, but doth hold an Order of its own.
I have Observ’d a most Startling Phenomenon in my Studies of the Mirrored Surface. When a Man doth hold an Object behind his Head, such that he Seeth it only in Reflexion, the Object doth not always Appear as it should.
I have Replicated this Experiment in the Company of my Assistant, Mr. Josiah Wentworth, & he too hath Witness’d the Change.
- Take ye a Small Trinket—a Coin, a Key, a Spectacle’s Glass.
- Hold it behind thy Head & fix thy Gaze upon the Eyes of thine own Reflexion.
- Raise the Object in a measured Fashion, allowing it to be seen in ye Glasse but not by thy natural Sight.
Many Times will the Object Appear as it should. But at Intervals most rare—& most Terrible—it doth Appear as Something Else.
Josiah, upon first Observing this Effect, did drop his Looking Glass & refuse to perform the Experiment again. He claimed to have seen Inscribed upon the Glasse a Mark most Foreign to him—Letters of no known Alphabet, yet most crisp and clear.
When pressed to Describe them, he did shakily render thus:
NOVA MONDA ORDO KONFIRMITE.
We know not the Tongue, nor the Meaning.
What It Means
Let’s pause here. Fant and his assistant saw a phrase written in a language that shouldn’t exist.
NOVA MONDA ORDO KONFIRMITE.
It’s Esperanto—a constructed language created in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof.
But Fant died in 1851.
And yet, here it is. A phrase from a language not yet invented, appearing in an experiment performed by a man who could not have known it.
Fant himself admits that he didn’t recognize the writing. But we do.
It means: “New World Order Confirmed.”
Which makes no sense.
Fant’s Final Warnings
(More excerpts from his writings, dated 1846.)
March 14th, 1846
I have studied ye Mirrored Realm further & I am Convinc’d that it is Not a mere Play of Light. There is an Order to ye Reflexion, & it is not the Order of this World.
My Eyes doth perceive ye Anomalie more oft, & I do feele a great Unease in my Soul. The Letters do Persist, & when I did attempt to Trace them upon Paper, I was struck w’ a most grievous Illness that did not abate for several Days.
Josiah hath left my Service. He doth claim he perceives small Changes in my Reflexion—delays, hesitations, small Errors that should not be.
I do not believe him. Yet, I have Cover’d all ye Looking Glasses in my Home.
(The journal abruptly ends here. Fant’s house burned down in 1851, and he was never seen again.)
Recreating the Experiment
Fant’s experiment is surprisingly easy to try. Here’s how to do it:
- Stand in front of a mirror in a dimly lit room. A bathroom with a single candle or nightlight works best.
- Hold an object behind your head. A coin, a spoon, anything simple.
- Keep full eye contact with yourself. Do not look at the object directly.
- Slowly bring it into the mirror’s view.
- Glance at it in the mirror—but only briefly.
Most people see nothing unusual.
But some claim that their reflection’s hand is holding something else.
Some report brief flashes of symbols or text.
The most commonly reported phrase?
NOVA MONDA ORDO KONFIRMITE.
Implications & Theories
This could all be a trick of the mind. A self-reinforcing internet myth. But the timing of the phrase’s existence is impossible to ignore.
If Fant and his assistant saw an Esperanto phrase 40 years before the language existed, then:
- Did he glimpse a future linguistic artifact embedded in reality?
- Is this proof that reality has a hidden order?
- Is the mirror realm actually a construct—something imposed upon reality, with built-in fail-safes?
Or… is this a message?
A phrase confirming something about the world. A message that has always been there, hiding in reflections, waiting to be seen.
The Cover-Up?
If Fant was onto something, why isn’t he remembered?
His house burned down. His name faded. His work was dismissed as nonsense. But the phrase remained.
And what’s stranger… when I looked deeper into records from the New England Institute, I found that Fant was not the only one to see it.
A young physicist in 1911.
A Harvard professor in 1956.
An anonymous government report in 1973.
All saw the same phrase.
None of them could explain it.
And all of them disappeared from public record.
Final Thought
Try the experiment.
See what happens.
And if you see the words NOVA MONDA ORDO KONFIRMITE, don’t look too long.
Because something might be looking back.
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