© Gunnar Tómasson

4 February, 2015

Introduction

Many years ago I read some of the principal works by Friedrich Nietzsche’s in English translation.  It soon became apparent to me that Nietzsche’s worldview was very much in line with that of the eight authors in the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare literary tradition, (Horace, Virgil, Propertius, Ovid, Snorri Sturluson, Sturla Þórðarson, Edward Oxenford, and Francis Bacon) as reflected also in the King James Bible (1611).

The following summary is an excellent introduction to that worldview and its underlying philosophy.

Man as Bridge Between Animal and Overman

Nietzsche contends that humanity is a transition, not a destination. We ceased to be animals when we taught ourselves to control our instincts for the sake of greater gains. By learning to resist some of our natural impulses, we have been able to forge civilizations, develop knowledge, and deepen ourselves spiritually. Rather than directing our will to power outward to dominate those around us, we have directed it inward and gained self-mastery. However, this struggle for self-mastery is arduous, and humanity is constantly tempted to give up. Christian morality and contemporary nihilism are just two examples of worldviews that express the desire to give up on life. We come to see life as blameworthy or meaningless as a way of easing ourselves out of the struggle for self-mastery. Nietzsche’s concept of the overman is the destination toward which we started heading when we first reined in our animal instincts. The overman has the self-mastery that animals lack but also the untrammeled instincts and good conscience that humans lack. The overman is profoundly in love with life, finding nothing in it to complain about, not even the constant suffering and struggle to which he willingly submits himself. (http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/nietzsche/themes.html)

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I. What Is Truth

(Francis Bacon, Of Truth, 1625)

                Alpha 

16829 = What is Truth; said jesting Pilate;

16465 = and would not stay for an Answer.

                Omega 

22422 = Surely the Wickednesse of Falshood, and Breach of Faith,

17402 = cannot possibly be so highly expressed,

13942 = as in that it shall be the last Peale,

24494 = to call the Iudgements of God, vpon the Generations of Men,

20293 = It being foretold, that when Christ commeth,

15732 = He shall not finde faith vpon the earth.

147579

II. At the Coming of Christ

(King James Bible, 1611)

               Matt. 27:37
16777 = THIS IS IESVS THE KING OF THE IEWES
Mark 15:26
9442 = THE KING OF THE IEWES
Luke 23:38
13383 = THIS IS THE KING OF THE IEWES
John 19:19
17938 = IESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE IEWES

57540

III. What man is that? – i

(Brennu-Njálssaga – My construction)

    4714 = Völuspá – Sybil’s prophecy

                Monad in Time and Space

9299 = Njáll Þorgeirsson – Saga Monad

1000 = Light of the World

9132 = Kári Sölmundarson – Saga personification of Time and Space

                Tri-unite Man

11359 = Snorri Sturluson – Murdered at autumnal equinox, 23. September 1241

9880 = Gunnarr Hámundarson – Saga Solar hero and Njáll’s friend – bloodied sowing corn in a field

11850 = Höskuldr Hvítanessgoði – Njáll’s fosterson – slain sowing corn in a field

                Strife in Man-Beast’s Soul – Christianity vs. Paganism

10773 = Spiritus Sanctus

-10467 = Osiris-Isis-Horus

57540

IV. What man is that? – ii

(Julius Caesar, Act V, Sc. v, First folio – My construction)

Octauius

8070 = What man is that?

Messala

20905 = My Masters man.  Strato, where is thy Master?

Strato

14955 = Free from the Bondage you are in Messala,

16841 = The Conquerors can but make a fire of him:

16240 = For Brutus onely ouercame himselfe,

14033 = And no man else hath Honor by his death.

                Freedom from Bondage

930 = Year of Althing’s establishment – World’s first Parliament

2692 = Ísland – Iceland/Symbol for Free Man‘s State of Mind

-4627 = Freedom from the Cross of Time/Tími, 2315, and Space/Rúm, 2312.

90039

III + IV = 57540 + 90039 = 147579.

V. What man is that? – iii

(Nietzsche, Three books¹ – My construction)

26000 = Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch fur freie Geister– Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

16386 = Vermischte Meinungen und Spruche – Mixed Opinions and Proverbs

14435 = Der Wanderer und sein Schatten – The Wanderer and His Shadow

                The Wanderer

-10 = Hidden/Slain Hebrew Father (10-5-6-5) – Saga Ten-Speaking Head

                His Shadow

729 = Platonic Tyrant – Scialetheia/Shadow of Truth²

57540

III + V = 57540 + 90039 = 147579.

¹ Later re-published as two books.

² Nietzsche 

4600 = Scialetheia

729 = Platonic Tyrant

                Freedom

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power Burns World of Time and Space

9329

Free Man – William Shakespeare

7 = Man of Seventh Day – Man-Beast No More

9322 = WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

9329

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A calculator for converting letters to cipher values is on the Internet at:

http://www.light-of-truth.com/ciphersaga.htm