© Gunnar Tómasson

30 August 2016

Introduction: Plato’s Translator

Benjamin Jowett, Theologian

(Wikipedia)

Benjamin Jowett [1817-1893] was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford.

Quotes:

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

I + II = 1904437 + 143553 = 2047990¹

III + IV = 1927965 + 120025 = 2047990

III. Francis Bacon – Of Truth

(Essayes, 1625)

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    33294 = What is Truth; said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an Answer.

18074 = Certainly there be, that delight in Giddinesse

13235 = And count it a Bondage, to fix a Beleefe;

22340 = Affecting Free-will in Thinking as well as in Acting.

24810 = And though the Sects of Philosophers of that Kinde be gone,

21536 = yet there remaine certaine discoursing Wits,

12152 = which are of the same veines,

18070 = though there be not so much Bloud in them,

14517 = as was in those of the Ancients.

19835 = But it is not onely the Difficultie, and Labour

17822 = which Men take in finding out of Truth;

14466 = Nor againe, that when it is found,

16605 = it imposeth vpon mens Thoughts;

13519 = that doth bring Lies in fauour,

24851 = But a naturall, though corrupt Loue, of the Lie it selfe.

16509 = One of the later Schoole of the Grecians,

19915 = examineth the matter, and is at a stand, to thinke

21204 = what should be in it, that men should loue Lies;

24494 = Where neither they make for Pleasure, as with Poets;

26333 = Nor for Aduantage, as with the Merchant; but for the Lies sake.

7815 = But I cannot tell:

17572 = This same Truth, is a Naked, and Open day light,

21950 = that doth not shew, the Masques, and Mummeries,

13062 = and Triumphs of the world,

17896 = halfe so Stately, and daintily, as Candlelights.

19942 = Truth may perhaps come to the price of a Pearle,

10647 = that sheweth best by day:

26281 = But it will not rise, to the price of a Diamond or Carbuncle,

16547 = that sheweth best in varied lights.

16697 = A mixture of a Lie doth euer adde Pleasure.

7308 = Doth any man doubt,

19595 = that if there were taken out of Mens Mindes,

23057 = Vaine Opinions, Flattering Hopes, False valuations,

16567 = Imaginations as one would, and the like;

20493 = but it would leaue the Mindes, of a Number of Men,

27588 = poore shrunken Things; full of Melancholy, and Indisposition,

13441 = and vnpleasing to themselues?

15790 = One of the Fathers, in great Seuerity,

12325 = called Poesie, Vinum Dæmonum;

14068 = because it filleth the Imagination,

18552 = and yet it is, but with the shadow of a Lie.

23809 = But it is not the Lie, that passeth through the Minde,

19114 = but the Lie that sinketh in, and setleth in it,

20452 = that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before.

19135 = But howsoeuer these things are thus,

17631 = in mens depraued Iudgements, and Affections,

19303 = yet Truth, which onely doth iudge it selfe,

16947 = teacheth, that the Inquirie of Truth,

19407 = which is the Loue-making, or Wooing of it;

24317 = The Knowledge of Truth, which is the Presence of it;

21439 = and the Beleefe of Truth, which is the Enioying of it;

17137 = is the Soueraigne Good of humane Nature.

23316 = The first Creature of God, in the workes of the Dayes,

12236 = was the Light of the Sense;

15062 = The last, was the Light of Reason;

13986 = And his Sabbath Worke, euer since,

16231 = is the Illumination of his Spirit.

24837 = First he breathed Light, vpon the Face, of the Matter or Chaos;

15511 = Then he breathed Light, into the Face of Man;

15000 = and still he breatheth and inspireth

13512 = Light, into the Face of his Chosen.

14216 = The Poet, that beautified the Sect,

22778 = that was otherwise inferiour to the rest,

12983 = saith yet excellently well:

18762 = It is a pleasure to stand vpon the shore

16065 = and to see ships tost vpon the Sea;

21011 = A pleasure to stand in the window of a Castle,

22322 = and to see a Battaile, and the Aduentures thereof, below:

14652 = But no pleasure is comparable, to

21546 = the standing, vpon the vantage ground of Truth

9474 = (A hill not to be commanded,

19050 = and where the Ayre is alwaies cleare and serene;)

17193 = And to see the Errours and Wandrings,

18416 = and Mists, and Tempests, in the vale below:

23256 = So alwaies, that this prospect, be with Pitty,

15853 = and not with Swelling, or Pride.

14791 = Certainly, it is Heauen vpon Earth,

14444 = to haue a Mans Minde moue in Charitie,

9099 = Rest in Prouidence,

16653 = and Turne vpon the Poles of Truth.

24147 = To pass from Theologicall and Philosophicall Truth,

16506 = to the Truth of ciuill Businesse;

26945 = It will be acknowledged, euen by those, that practize it not,

24509 = that cleare and Round dealing, is the Honour of Mans Nature;

12692 = And that Mixture of Falshood,

15180 = is like Allay in Coyne of Gold and Siluer,

27045 = which may make the Metall worke the better, but it embaseth it.

18111 = For these winding, and crooked courses,

12669 = are the Goings of the Serpent;

23514 = which goeth basely vpon the belly, and not vpon the Feet.

23313 = There is no Vice, that doth so couer a Man with Shame,

14034 = as to be found false, and perfidious.

18522 = And therefore Mountaigny saith prettily,

24123 = when he enquired the reason, why the word of the Lie,

20405 = should be such a Disgrace, and such an Odious Charge?

12538 = Saith he, If it be well weighed,

16568 = To say that a man lieth, is as much to say,

25983 = as that he is braue towards God, and a Coward towards men.

15156 = For a Lie faces God, and shrinkes from Man.

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.

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II. Peace, the peale begins.

(Loue’s Labour’s Lost – Act V, Sc. I, First Folio)

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A

Boy:

15678 = They haue beene at a great feast of Languages,
9992 = and stolne the scraps.

Clown:
21528 = O they haue liu’d long on the almes-basket of words.

Great Feast of Languages

And Stolen Scraps

           1 = Monad/Word

8856 = Money-Power-Sex

-1000 = Darkness

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland

Macrocosmic Time

  25920 = Platonic Great Year

Long Life on Almes-basket of words

(Shakespeare Opus)

Draws to a Close

    5604 = Lord Jesus

    3321 = Dies Irae – Day of Wrath

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B

Dedicating the Almes-basket

(Venus and Adonis, 1593)

  20165 = Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo,

16408 = Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.²

Base Conceited Wits

      345 = Soul‘s Foundation

      666 = Man-Beast

                Clown:

19431 = I maruell thy M. hath not eaten thee for a word,

16196 = for thou art not so long by the head as
14034 = honorificabilitudinitatibus:

20669 = Thou art easier swallowed then a flapdragon.

Page:
7463 = Peace, the peale begins.

The Peale Begins

      216 = Soul‘s Resurrection – 3, 4, 5 raised to third power, 27+64+125=216

4000 = Flaming Sword

      432 = Right Measure of Man

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C

The Longest WORD

(Shakespeare Myth)

  14034 = honorificabilitudinitatibus.

6677 = God With Us

The Last Judgement

(Sistine Chapel)

   -4000 = Dark Sword/Brute

1000 = FIRE

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale

Et tu, Brute? Then, fall Caesar!

  -9356 = Gaius Julius Caesar

Ambition‘s Debt is Paid

(Julius Cæsar, Act III, Sc. i, First Folio)

Cinna:

12536 = Liberty,  Freedome,  Tyranny is dead,

20780 = Run hence, proclaime, cry it about the Streets.

Casca:

19015 = Some to the common Pulpits, and cry out,

14707 = Liberty, Freedome, and Enfranchisement.

Brutus:

15381 = People and Senators, be not affrighted:

  18152 = Fly not, stand still: Ambition’s debt is paid.

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¹ Details in Plato’s Timaeus in Saga Cipher – I of II.

² Christopher Marlowe‘s translation:

Let base-conceited wits admire vile things,

Fair Phoebus, lead me to the Muses’ springs