© Gunnar Tómasson

24 September 2017

Introduction

The William Shakespeare Project, the present author submits, was conceived by Our Ever-living Poet of the Dedication of Shakespeares Sonnets as the final phase of a linear evolutionary path from time immemorial to the present.  As here construed, the Project builds on ancient Hebrew and Pythagorean Creation Imagery as integrated with Platonic metaphysical thought.

In turn, the Four Augustan Poets (Horace, Virgil, Propertius and Ovid) integrated the Wisdom of the Ancients in what became the foundation of an over-arching or cosmic structure of thought. For the first thousand years of the Common Era, this structure of thought was manifested in Christianity‘s gradual emergence as an alternative world view to Paganism.

In the Icelandic Saga tradition, the Second Coming of Christ in the Year 1000 was viewed as a watershed event that Snorri Sturluson and Sturla Þórðarson memorialized in Brennu-Njálssaga (Saga of Burnt Njall). As construed by Saga scholar Einar Pálsson, the burning FIRE was that of Spiritus Sanctus launching the decisive phase of Christianity’s challenge to Paganism.

The challenge consisted in giving a Christian interpretation to the imagery of Ancient Creation Myth, with Grace and Redemption added to the foundation provided by the Law of Moses. In this respect, the themes and imagery of the major Sagas of 13th century Iceland became a model for authors from Dante to the Shakespeare Authors in Elizabethan/Jacobean England.

The thematic continuity of the Platonic-Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Opus and the essential role of the Saga Cipher in “documenting“ it may be demonstrated by the Cipher deconstruction of Ben Jonson‘s Dedication of his Commendatory Ode to William Shakespeare in the First Folio:

A

11150 = To the memory of my beloved,

5329 = The AVTHOR

10685 = MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

10274 = AND what he hath left us.

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B

10148 = Snorri fólgsnarjarl – Snorri Sturluson “hidden earl” – Key Saga Concept

16290 = Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland – Pythagorean Triangle between Landmarks

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power – Coming of Christ at Level of Man

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God’s Image – Upon such Coming of Christ

37438

C

Snorri fólgsnarjarl

10148

  888 = IESOUS – Greek gematria value

1000 = Light of the World – Christ

4260 = Fr. St. Alban – Francis Bacon’s signature, Essayes Dedication (1625)

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

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The thematic continuity of the presentation below is briefly indicated where necessary.

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I. Ben Jonson Commendatory Ode

(First Folio, 1623)

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11150 = To the memory of my beloved,

5329 = The AVTHOR

10685 = MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

867 = AND

9407 = what he hath left us.

17316 = To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name,

13629 = Am I thus ample to thy Booke, and Fame:

20670 = While I confesse thy writings to be such,

19164 = As neither Man, nor Muse, can praise too much.

21369 = ‘Tis true, and all mens suffrage. But these wayes

20516 = Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise;

17686 = For seeliest Ignorance on these may light,

23213 = Which, when it sounds at best, but eccho’s right;

17565 = Or blinde Affection, which doth ne’re advance

19375 = The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;

18692 = Or crafty Malice, might pretend this praise,

19456 = And thinke to ruine, where it seem’d to raise.

18294 = These are, as some infamous Baud, or Whore,

23199 = Should praise a Matron: – What could hurt her more?

18170 = But thou art proofe against them, and indeed

16465 = Above th’ill fortune of them, or the need.

16324 = I, therefore, will begin. Soule of the Age!

20370 = The applause! delight! the wonder of our Stage!

18434 = My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by

16611 = Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lye

15597 = A little further, to make thee a roome:

17952 = Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe,

19673 = And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live,

19194 = And we have wits to read, and praise to give.

18259 = That I not mixe thee so, my braine excuses, –

22232 = I meane with great, but disproportion’d Muses;

19760 = For if I thought my judgement were of yeeres,

21584 = I should commit thee surely with thy peeres,

23104 = And tell, how farre thou didst our Lily out-shine,

19727 = Or sporting Kid, or Marlowes mighty line.

21016 = And though thou hadst small Latine, and lesse Greeke,

21296 = From thence to honour thee, I would not seeke

20635 = For names; but call forth thund’ring Æschilus,

14527 = Euripides, and Sophocles to us,

15939 = Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead,

15425 = To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread

19665 = And shake a Stage: Or, when thy Sockes were on,

14842 = Leave thee alone for the comparison

18781 = Of all that insolent Greece or haughtie Rome

20033 = Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.

21540 = Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe

18910 = To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe.

14789 = He was not of an age, but for all time!

19879 = And all the Muses still were in their prime,

17867 = When, like Apollo, he came forth to warme

16143 = Our eares, or like a Mercury to charme!

19768 = Nature her selfe was proud of his designes,

18609 = And joy’d to weare the dressing of his lines!

22712 = Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,

20715 = As, since, she will vouchsafe no other Wit.

16006 = The merry Greeke, tart Aristophanes,

22701 = Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please;

12944 = But antiquated, and deserted lye,

15906 = As they were not of Natures family.

17575 = Yet must I not give Nature all; Thy Art,

16885 = My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part:

17709 = For though the Poets matter, Nature be,

16202 = His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he,

24373 = Who casts to write a living line, must sweat

18045 = (such as thine are) and strike the second heat

17403 = Upon the Muses anvile: turne the same,

19618 = (And himselfe with it) that he thinkes to frame;

16266 = Or, for the lawrell, he may gaine a scorne,

15633 = For a good Poet’s made, as well as borne.

21914 = And such wert thou. Looke how the fathers face

15715 = Lives in his issue, even so, the race

20651 = Of Shakespeares minde and manners brightly shines

17328 = In his well torned and true-filed lines:

15712 = In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance,

14757 = As brandish’t at the eyes of Ignorance.

21616 = Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were

17318 = To see thee in our waters yet appeare,

19678 = And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames,

14184 = That so did take Eliza and our James!

15161 = But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere

14530 = Advanc’d, and made a Constellation there!

22500 = Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage

19541 = Or influence, chide or cheere the drooping Stage;

24007 = Which, since thy flight frō hence, hath mourn’d like night,

18824 = And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.

  4692 = BEN: IONSON

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II – VII = 378620 + 394811 + 199022 + 9754 + 509741 + 37575 = 1529523

II + VIII + IX + X + XI + VII = 378620 + 92280 + 468222 + 529042 + 23784 + 37575 = 159523

At the level of Man, God is Consciousness.

Consciousness is taken to be a God-given attribute of Man that comes in two different forms – what Snorri Sturluson termed Andlig spekðin (Spiritual Wisdom) and Jarðlig skilning (Earthly Understanding). Spiritual Wisdom is Intuitive. Earthly Understanding is Conjectural. In the Dedication of Venus and Adonis, the latter is implicit cause of/one with Man‘s “deformity“.

II. The first heire of Shakespeare‘s inuention.

(Venus and Adonis, Dedication, 1593)

  9987 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

20084 = Henrie Vvriothesley, Earle of Southampton,

8814 = and Baron of Titchfield.

21943 = Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend

23463 = in dedicating my vnpolisht lines to your Lordship,

25442 = nor how the worlde vvill censure mee for choosing

25266 = so strong a proppe to support so vveake a burthen,

17161 = onelye if your Honour seeme but pleased,

13387 = I account my selfe highly praised,

18634 = and vowe to take aduantage of all idle houres,

23217 = till I haue honoured you vvith some grauer labour.

23437 = But if the first heire of my inuention proue deformed,

15796 = I shall be sorie it had so noble a god-father:

12970 = and neuer after eare so barren a land,

16690 = for feare it yeeld me still so bad a haruest,

17496 = l leaue it to your Honourable suruey,

18884 = and your Honor to your hearts content,

27199 = vvhich I wish may alvvaies answere your ovvne vvish,

17766 = and the vvorlds hopefull expectation.

11662 = Your Honors in all dutie,

9322 = William Shakespeare

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Transformation of Consciousness

In the imagery of Saga-Shakespeare Myth, Man enters the Stage of the Globe possessed of Earthly Understanding and lacking Spiritual Wisdom. An essential aspect of the unfolding of Consciousness as God at the level of Man is exemplified by the biblical story of Saul become Paul on the Road to Damascus and Prince Hamlet‘s encounter with Ghost of His Father.

In Matt. 16:13-17, the like transformation from Earthly Understanding to Spiritual Wisdom is underscored by the “answer“ given by Simon Peter to the question asked by Jesus – But what say ye that I am? – and by the name used by Jesus in his “reply“ to Simon bar Iona:

III. Transformation of Consciousness

(Matt. 16:13-20, King James Bible, 1611)

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16:13

23675 = When Iesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi,

11616 = he asked his disciples, saying,

17235 = Whom doe men say, that I, the sonne of man, am?

16:14

22774 = And they said, Some say that thou art Iohn the Baptist,

23541 = some Elias, and others Ieremias, or one of  the Prophets.

16:15

19313 = He saith vnto them, But whom say ye that I am?

16:16

14266 = And Simon Peter answered, and said,

19943 = Thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God.

16:17

16129 = And Iesus answered, and said vnto him,

13647 = Blessed art thou Simon Bar Iona:

20799 = for flesh and blood hath not reueiled it vnto thee,

13923 = but my Father which is in heauen.

16:18

19578 = And I say also vnto thee, that thou art Peter,

19317 = and vpon this rocke I will build my Church:

20444 = and the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it.

16:19

24422 = And I will giue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen:

27217 = and whatsoeuer thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heauen:

28617 = whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heauen.

16:20

11853 = Then charged hee his disciples

26502 = that they should tel no man that he was Iesus the Christ.

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Earthly Understanding/Saul/Simon Peter/Satan

Simon Peter‘s thrice-repeated denial of Jesus and his “rebuking“ of Jesus in Matt. 16:21-23 attests to the essential difference between the earthly “deformity“ associated with God as Earthly Understanding, on the one hand, and God as Spiritual Wisdom, on the other hand.

IV. Get thee behind me, Satan.

(Matt. 16:21-23, KJB, 1611)

199022

16:21

29661 = From that time foorth began Iesus to shew vnto his disciples,

18499 = how that he must goe vnto Hierusalem,

26389 = and suffer many things of the Elders and chiefe Priests & Scribes,

14138 = and be killed, and be raised againe the third day.

16:22

19850 = Then Peter tooke him, and began to rebuke him, saying,

22014 = Be it farre from thee Lord: This shal not be vnto thee.

16:23

14777 = But he turned, and said vnto Peter,

20644 = Get thee behind mee, Satan, thou art an offence vnto me:

23056 = for thou sauourest not the things that be of God,

 9994 = but those that be of men.

199022

V. “Deformed“ First Heire

Decapitated/Transformed at Play‘s End

(Brennu-Njálssaga and KJB)

9754

Alpha

10900 = Kolr Þorsteinsson – Arsonist at Burning of Njall, Decapitated at Saga’s End

-1000 = Darkness

Omega

 -5975 = Simon Peter

  5829 = Simon bar Iona

9754

Transformation of First Heire

Ends Francis Bacon’s Essayes

VII. Francis Bacon – Essayes

(Dedication, 1625)

509741

16411 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY VERY GOOD LO.

12189 = THE DVKE of Buckingham his Grace,

9271 = LO. High Admirall of England.                                           

5815 = EXCELLENT LO.

22090 = SALOMON saies; A good Name is as a precious oyntment;

8263 = And I assure my selfe,

22962 = such wil your Graces Name bee, with Posteritie.

21416 = For your Fortune, and Merit both, haue beene Eminent.

20248 = And you haue planted Things, that are like to last.

13223 = I doe now publish my Essayes;

25098 = Which, of all my other workes, haue beene most Currant:

9396 = For that, as it seemes,

19523 = they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes.

18429 = I haue enlarged them, both in Number, and Weight;

15649 = So that they are indeed a New Worke.

19918 = I thought it therefore agreeable, to my Affection,

25598 = and Obligation to your Grace, to prefix your Name before them,

10975 = both in English, and in Latine.

20651 = For I doe conceiue, that the Latine Volume of them,

13148 = (being in the Vniuersall Language)

12837 = may last, as long as Bookes last.

16577 = My Instauration, I dedicated to the King:

14781 = my Historie of HENRY the Seuenth

21369 = (which I haue now also translated into Latine)

23643 = and my Portions of Naturall History, to the Prince:

13053 = And these I dedicate to your Grace;

20322 = Being of the best Fruits, that by the good Encrease,

21295 = which God giues to my Pen and Labours, I could yeeld.

10530 = God leade your Grace by the Hand.

20801 = Your Graces most Obliged and faithfull Seruant,

 4260 = FR. St. ALBAN

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VII. St. Peter‘s Basilica – Symbol of Perfect Creation

Façade inscription on its completion in 1612

  23501 = IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS
  14074 = ROMANVS PONT. MAX. AN. MDCXII PONT. VII.*

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* Paul V Borghèse, pape, a fait ceci en l’an 1612, en l’honneur du prince des apôtres.

Earthly Understanding – Spirit of Deepe Sleepe

(Isaiah Ch. 29:10-14, KJB 1611)

[T]he  LORD hath powred out vpon you the spirit of deepe sleepe, and hath closed your eyes: the Prophets and your rulers, the Seers hath hee couered. And the vsion of all is become vnto you as the wordes of a booke that is sealed, which men deliuer to one that is learned, saying, Reade this, I pray thee: and hee saith, I cannot, for it is sealed: And the booke is deliuered to him that is not learned, saying, Reade this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

VIII. The Crucifixion – The Spirit of Deepe Sleepe

Consciousness as Earthly Understanding

(King James Bible, 1611)

92280

16777 = THIS IS IESVS THE KING OF THE IEWES – Matt. 27:37

9442 = THE KING OF THE IEWES – Mark 15:26

13383 = THIS IS THE KING OF THE IEWES – Luke 23:38

17938 = IESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE IEWES – John 19:19

Christ’s Mission

(Matt. 10:34)

19148 = Thinke not that I am come to send peace on earth;

15592 = I came not to send peace but a sword.

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The Wisdome of their Wise Men shall Perish

 (Isaiah Ch. 29:13)

Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw neere mee with their mouth, and with their lips doe honour me, but haue remoued their heart farre from me, and their feare towards mee is taught by the precept of men:

And the Understanding of their Prudent Men shall be hid

(From “their wise men”)

(Isaiah Ch. 29:14)

Therefore behold, I will proceed to do a marueilous worke amongst this people, euen a marueilous worke and a wonder: for the wisedome of their wise men shall perish, and the vnderstanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Pagans/non-believing “Christians”:

Who seeth vs? and who knoweth vs?

(Isaiah Ch. 29:15)

Woe vnto them that seeke deepe to hide their counsell from the Lord, and their workes are in the darke, and they say, Who seeth vs? and who knoweth vs?

IX. Abomination of Desolation

– A Marueilous Worke –

 (Contemporary history)

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Gates of Hell

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland = 30125

Right Measure of Man

Persecuted

  8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

Modes of Persecution

11587 = Character Assassination

5881 = Níðingsverk – Barbarity

7750 = Psychiatric Rape

6603 = Mannorðsmorð – Vicious Slander

16439 = Criminal Obstruction of Justice

Persecutors – Jesting Pilates

U.S. Government

12867 = William Jefferson Clinton – President

4496 = Janet Reno – Attorney General

International Monetary Fund

8899 = Jacques de Larosière – Managing Director

7678 = Michel Camdessus – Managing Director

5517 = William B. Dale – Deputy Managing Director

2713 = Dick Erb – Deputy Managing Director

6584 = Jacques J. Polak – Economic Counsellor

4734 = Tun Thin – Asian Department Director

9349 = W. John R. Woodley – Asian Department Deputy Director

3542 = Ken Clark – Director of Administration

3339 = Graeme Rea – Director of Administration

3227 = P. N. Kaul – Deputy Director of Administration

5446 = Nick Zumas – Grievance Committee Chairman

Harvard University

3625 = Derek C. Bok – President

8175 = Henry Rosovsky – Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

8566 = James S. Duesenberry – Chairman, Department of Economics

11121 = Paul Anthony Samuelson – Ph. D., Nobel Laureate in Economics

8381 = Walter S. Salant – Ph. D., Brookings Institution Senior Fellow

Iceland Government

10244 = Vigdís Finnbogadóttir – President

11361 = Salóme Þorkelsdóttir – Althing President

6028 = Davíd Oddsson – Prime Minister

10295 = Þorsteinn Pálsson – Minister of Justice

8316 = Jón Sigurdsson – Minister of Commerce

5940 = Jónas H. Haralz – World Bank Executive Director

Other Iceland

6648 = Jóhannes Nordal – Central Bank Governor

8864 = Bjarni Bragi Jónsson – Central Bank Chief Economist

14314 = Benjamín Jón Hafsteinn Eiríksson – Harvard Ph. D.

9720 = Matthías Jóhannessen – Editor, Morgunblaðið

Other

10989 = Orenthal James Simpson

8015 = John & Patsy Ramsey

4953 = Osama bin Laden

Violent Crimes

3586 = Murder

6899 = Nicole Brown

4948 = Ron Goldman

6100 = Brentwood

1204 = 12 June (4th month old-style)

1994 = 1994 A.D.

3718 = Jonbenet

3503 = Boulder

2510 = 25 December (10th month old-style)

1996 = 1996 A.D.

5557 = The Pentagon

9596 = World Trade Center

1107 = 11 September (7th month old-style)

2001 = 2001 A.D.

Other

7920 = Excelsior Hotel

5060 = Paula Jones

803 = 8 May (3rd month old-style)

1991 = 1991 A.D.

4014 = Kiss it!

8486 = The White House

7334 = Kathleen Willey

2909 = 29 November (9th month old-style)

1993 = 1993 A.D.

22091 = I’ve wanted to do this ever since I laid eyes on you.

6045 = The Oval Office

8112 = Monica Lewinsky

1509 = 15 November (9th month old-style)

1995 = 1995 A.D. = 438097

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Murderous “Strife“ In  Archetypal “Man‘s Heart“

Presented as “Temptation of Jesus“

X. Get thee hence, Satan.

(Matt. Ch. 4:1-11, KJB, 1611)

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4:1

28613 = Then was Iesus led vp of the Spirit into the Wildernesse,

11214 = to bee tempted of the deuill.

4:2

20530 = And when hee had fasted forty dayes and forty nights,

13181 = hee was afterward an hungred.

4:3

16482 = And when the tempter came to him, hee said,

10566 = If thou be the Sonne of God,

15281 = command that these stones bee made bread.

4:4

18472 = But he answered, and said, It is written,

11833 = Man shall not liue by bread alone,

26509 = but by euery Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

4:5

20924 = Then the deuill taketh him vp into the holy Citie,

16520 = and setteth him on a pinacle of the Temple,

4:6

8004 = And saith vnto him,

20580 = If thou bee the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe:

28489 = For it is written, He shall giue his Angels charge concerning thee,

15292 = & in their handes they shall beare thee vp,

22323 = lest at any time thou dash thy foote against a stone.

4:7

19606 = Iesus said vnto him, It is written againe,

17802 = Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

4:8

25356 = Againe the Deuill taketh him vp into an exceeding high mountaine,

20642 = and sheweth him all the kingdomes of the world

8143 = and the glory of them:

4:9

22688 = And saith vnto him, All these things will I give thee

19710 = if thou wilt fall downe and worship me.

4:10

12627 = Then saith Iesus vnto him,

17837 = Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written,

18110 = Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,

13398 = and him onely shalt thou serue.

4:11

11082 = Then the deuill leaveth him,

17228 = and behold, Angels came and ministred vnto him.

529042

XI. Retun of Sweet Swan of Avon

Day of Wrath – The Last Judgement – End of Time

EK

 (Construction G. T.)

23784

10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon

3321 = Dies Irae

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale

-2118 = TIME, End of

    677 = EK/EGO – ”Anoymous” Author of Brennu-Njálssaga

23784

Epilogue

Daniel 12:1-4

12:1

And at that time shall Michael stand vp, the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people, and there shalbe a time of trouble, such as neuer was since there was a nation, euen to that same time: and at that time thy people shalbe deliuered, euery one that shalbe found written in the booke.

12:2

And many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to euerlasting life, and some to shame and euerlasting contempt.

12:3

And they that be wise shall shine as the brightnesse of the firmament, and they that turne many to righteousnesse, as the starres for euer and euer.

12:4

But thou, O Daniel, shut vp the wordes, and seale the booke euen to the time of the ende: = many shall runne to and fro, and knowledge shall bee increased.

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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¹Abomination of Desolation

Message posted to friends on 26 February 2014:

While in Iceland last August, I met with Pétur Halldórsson at the Cafe Milano in Reykjavík. We discussed matters of mutual interest, including what my Saga Cipher work might “mean“.

I took a napkin and, for emphasis, wrote down the number 438097. This is the Cipher Sum of some three dozen names of persons, institutions, dates and events during the reference period, including two famous murder cases, a sex scandal in high places, and presumptive lies told in connection therewith.

I told Pétur (what I had long surmised) that I believed that this number was associated with a watershed event in human history whose final phase was upon our world.

An earth-shaking culmination of human and spiritual evolution.