© Gunnar Tómasson

24 April 2016

Prologue

The Horace Howard Furness Shakespeare Collection at the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries has been an invaluable resource over the years for my research on the Shakespeare Opus and the King James Bible.

Today, I found out that the Collection lists a book by Nicholas Rowe with the intriguing title, The Tragedy of Jane Shore – Written in Imitation of Shakespear‘s style.

When read Shakespeare-style, the book provides authoritative confirmation of Henry James‘ conviction that “the divine William was the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world.“

For Rowe “documents“ through the Cipher Sum of the Alpha and Omega parts of the book‘s Dedication that, as I concluded many years ago, the Shakespeare Opus was the work of three main authors:

Edward Oxenford – Francis Bacon – Ben Jonson

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I. Rowe Imitating Shakespear‘s Style

(The Tragedy of Jane Shore)

215385

Alpha

19300 = To his Grace the Duke of Queensberry and Dover,

8792 = Marquis of Beverly &c. [c = 100 in &c]

Omega

31266 = That I may live to see Your Grace eminent for the Love of your Country

29167 = for Your Service and Duty to your Prince, and in convenient time,

21022 = adorn‘d with all the Honours that have ever been

14105 = conferr‘d upon Your Noble Family:

19939 = That you may be distinguish‘d to Posterity,

23365 = as the Bravest, Greatest, and best Man of the Age You live in,

14152 = is the hearty Wish, and Prayer of,

3177 = My Lord,

12909 = Your Grace‘s most Obedient, and

14015 = Most Faithful, Humble Servant,

   4176 = N. Rowe.

215385

II. Gnostic Christianity and Shakespeare Authors

(Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Tradition)

215385

Alpha

   3045 = LOGOS

Incarnation

   1000 = Light of the World

345 = Soul‘s material frame

216 = Soul‘s Resurrection

3394 = Jesus

Shakespeare Authors

7936 = Edward Oxenford

5385 = Francis Bacon

4692 = Ben Jonson

Omega

(Ovid‘s Metamorphoses)

20809 = Iamque opus exegi, quod nec Iovis ira nec ignis

20812 = nec poterit ferrum nec edax abolere vetustas.

23327 = Cum volet, illa dies, quae nil nisi corporis huius

18460 = ius habet, incerti spatium mihi finiat aevi:

19235 = parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis

20738 = astra ferar, nomenque erit indelebile nostrum,

22001 = quaque patet domitis Romana potentia terris,

17657 = ore legar populi, perque omnia saecula fama,

18369 = siquid habent veri vatum praesagia, vivam.¹

Vivam

   7864 = Jesus Patibilis – The Passible Jesus

     100 = The End

215385

III. Rowe‘s Capital Letters

(I. above)

21674

3126 = TGDQDMB

6935 = TIYGLCYSDPHYNF

5668 = TPBGMAYWP

20284 = MLYGOMFHS

1390 = NR

21674

Hebrew Myth

       10 = Father

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale – Michelangelo, The Last Judgement

10565 = JHWH’s Name Risen in Creation Anew

21674

IV. Rowe‘s Lower-case Letters

(215385 – 21674 =)

193711

Platonic Roots

105113 = Platonic World Soul²

Enlightenment

Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Authors

   1000 = Light of the World

14209 = Quintus Horatius Flaccus

12337 = Publius Virgilius Maro

11999 = Sextus Propertius

11249 = Publius Ovidius Naso

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

9814 = Sturla Þórðarson

5385 = Francis Bacon

7936 = Edward Oxenford

   3310 = Fróðari – Wiser; Gangleri Enlightened in Gylfaginning

193711

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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

¹And now the measure of my song is done:

The work has reached its end; the book is mine,

None shall unwrite these words: nor angry Jove,

Nor war, nor fire, nor flood,

Nor venomous time that eats our lives away.

Then let that morning come, as come it will,

When this disguise I carry shall be no more,

And all the treacherous years of life undone,

And yet my name shall rise to heavenly music,

The deathless music of the circling stars.

As long as Rome is the Eternal City

These lines shall echo from the lips of men,

As long as poetry speaks truth on earth,

That immortality is mine to wear.

²The numerical value of Plato’s World Soul is defined as the sum of 34 numerical values which are derived from the tonal scale according to what is known as the Traditional Construction of the World Soul. (See p. 229, Plato´s Mathematical Imagination by Robert Brumbaugh. On the Internet.)