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Enticement.
The cyphers are mysterious and impossible to solve. They keep the curious on the path they've been encouraged to follow. They provide insurance in case the owners decide to make their own recovery. If there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the cyphers won't lead you to the physical prize.
mdog makes an interesting case that the LUE map might well be used to point out numerous caches, each with its own brand of cypher clues. Why use Masonic woo woo for the LUE map, and not Egyptian woo woo? Miller is reported to have been a Mason, so he must have been familiar with that woo, and simply released a map with plenty of Masonic symbology. The real question is, why would such a map be released to the public at all? Same question applies to all the satellite caches Miller's map might point to.
There are two points on the original map that don't show up on the Ram edition, the point at the top of the triangle and the point in the center of the circle, both in the bottom right quadrant. You need both of these points to make the treasure mapping. I wonder if he was having trouble finding the locations of these two points. Another important part of the mapping, also in the bottom right quadrant, is the horizontal line that divides the two big triangles on the right. Von Mueller actually gives clues to the locations of the starting points needed to make this line, on a map of the United States. In his writings he mentions Fort Knox, Treasure Mountain and, if he gave this clue, Lloro Urraca Enterrari could be the Pioneer Urraca Cemetery, at the base of Mount Blanca. With this information, you can draw the horizontal line across the United States. The other two would be harder to figure out. Maybe the Kensington Runestone location, but the starting point in Wyoming would be harder to figure out, if you didn't know about the Apple Lake Triangle.