Past and Future Box

The clues for this box include a word search and a cryptogram.

Word Search

The blank word search is as follows:

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After circling a selection of words in the word search, you arrive at the below solution. It should be noted that "omelet" can also be found in the wordsearch, but the next step of anagramming is easier if "lemon" is used instead of "omelet".

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• lilac
• nineteen
• count
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• north
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• water
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• peaks
• state
• divide
• twelve
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• three
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• sapphire

The word "line" is circled in blue, as that word is handled differently than the other words in the following step.
After removing the circled words, except for "line", one arrives with the following grid:

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There is a hidden message that can be decoded by anagraming the remaining letters highlighted below in blue.

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The anagrammed message is: "There are five clues in this word search. But do not tell anyone. Line them up. There are no special bends or turns. Just remain steady to complete the mission."
If the decoded message is removed, the following grid remains:

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It's unclear at this point what the "five clues" are or what else is hidden in the wordsearch. Some believe that the remaining grid above forms a map with "TN", "NC", "SC", and "MA" representing the states depicted by those state codes in the correct relative position as on a map of the United States.
It has also been pointed out that if "sapphire" is re-inserted in the bottom right, then the bottom right and left groups of letters, when combined, anagram to "apply a basic cipher", although with an extra "s".

If you take the remaining letters and switch them with the letters from the cryptogram, you can then unscramble what's left (the whole thing) to read "My luck bends with gems."

Cryptogram

The original cryptogram in the book is as follows:

This hiuz li trxaq this plhiyb li plhxvs,
mvpl lhxx vyq miplp li tihxpl bhxxy,
vhhrex nic yid doxhx jxvcln poxxyp.
Rl'p cyqxh, iexh, ry jxldxxy

The likely solution would be using the following letter replacements:

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Z	K
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The letter replacements above would yield the following solution:

From rock to field from strong to stream,
Past tree and posts to forest green,
Arrive you now where beauty sheens,
It's under, over, in between