© Gunnar Tómasson

24. nóvember 2017

Prologus

(Snorri Hjartarson)

Örlagastundin nálgast grimm og köld;

hiki ég þá og bregðist bý ég mér

bann þitt og útlegð fram á hinzta kvöld.

Ísland, í lyftum heitum höndum ver

ég heiður þinn og líf gegn trylltri öld.

***

I. Ísland á heljarþröm

(6. október 2008)

1617717

Rit­ari 

7591 = Gjörðu svo vel.

Davíð 

2117 = Halló.

Geir 

6075 = Sæll vertu.

Davíð 

24575 = Sæll það sem ég ætlaði að segja þér, sko, sko, við út af fyr­ir sig

23019 = getum í dag skrapað saman 500 milljónir evra en náttúrlega,

11423 = en erum þá komnir inn að beini

23073 = og þá gætum við hjálpað Kaupþingi í einhverja fjóra fimm daga

19332 = en þá getum við ekki hjálpað Landsbankanum líka, sko.

Geir 

1222 = Nei.

Davíð 

25137 = Þú ert að tala um það að við eigum frekar að reyna að hjálpa Kaupþingi.

Geir 

32981 = Það slær mig þannig sko og mér fannst þeir vera líka á þeirri línu í gærkvöldi

11816 = allavega þessir Morgan menn.

Davíð 

20557 = Ég býst við því að við fáum ekki þessa peninga til baka.

22283 = Þeir segja að þeir muni borga okkur eftir fjóra fimm daga

23001 = en ég held að það séu ósannindi eða við skulum segja óskhyggja.

Geir 

12736 = En eru þeir ekki með einhver veð?

Davíð 

20237 = Við myndum aldrei lána það og við ætlum að bjóða þetta

6165 = gegn 100% veði í FIH banka.

Geir 

498 = Já.

Davíð 

18865 = Og þá verðum við að vita að sá banki sé veðbandalaus.

Geir 

498 = Já.

Davíð 

11034 = Því þá við megum ekki, sko,

18110 = við megum ekki setja íslenska ríkið á galeiðuna.

Geir 

24565 = Nei, nei þetta eru 100 milljarðar, spítalinn og Sundabrautin.

Davíð 

28618 = Já, já ert þú ekki sammála því að við verðum að gera ýtrustu kröfur?

Geir 

2748 = Jú, jú.

Davíð 

498 = Já.

Geir 

12731 = Ég held að þeir muni leggja mikið á sig

15452 = til að reyna samt að að uppfylla þær, sko.

Davíð 

12699 = Já, já, já, já það er bara eina hættan er sú

14337 = að þeir séu búnir að veðsetja bréfin

14850 = og þá geta þeir ekki gert þetta, sko.

Geir 

15279 = Já, já og hvað myndum við koma með í staðinn?

Davíð 

19565 = Ja, það veit ég ekki, þá verðum við bara að horfa á það en það,

15872 = við erum bara að tala um ýtrustu veð,

12037 = erum að fara með okkur inn að beini

19128 = þannig að við verðum að vera algjörlega öruggir..

Geir 

15694 = En er Landsbankinn ekki með neitt slíkt

11439 = sem hann geti látið okkur hafa?

Davíð 

16617 = Já, en þá er að við erum ekki með pening í þetta.

15487 = Við erum að fara alveg niður að rassgati

13959 = og við ætlum meira að segja að draga á Danina

18989 = sem ég talaði við í gær og sagði að við myndum ekki gera..

Geir 

498 = Já.

Davíð 

18823 = En við erum búnir að tala við bankastjórana þar

14402 = og þeir eru að íhuga að fara yfir þetta.

Geir 

1491 = Um.

Davíð 

17626 = Það tekur tvo til þrjá daga að komast í gegn.

Geir 

498 = Já.

Davíð 

8643 = En við myndum skrapa,

19499 = Kaupþing þarf þetta í dag til að fara ekki á hausinn.

Geir 

19208 = Já, en það er spurning með þá, fer þá Landsbankinn í dag?

Davíð 

16011 = Já, þá myndi hann fara í dag á hausinn væntanlega.

Geir 

8916 = Og Glitnir á morgun?

Davíð 

8916 = Og Glitnir á morgun.

Geir 

498 = Já.

Davíð 

18156 = Landsbankanum verður væntanlega lokað í dag bara.

Geir 

498 = Já.

Davíð 

17038 = Við vitum ekki, reyndar vitum við ekki

13337 = hvort það er árás á Kaupþing Edge.

24540 = Við gerum ráð fyrir því þeir hafa ekki sagt okkur það ennþá.

Geir 

5591 = Er það á Icesave?

Davíð 

19093 = Það eru farnar 380 milljónir út af Icesave punda

9780 = og það eru bara 80 milljarðar.

Geir 

10690 = Þeir ráða aldrei við það, sko.

Davíð 

16414 = Nei, þeir ráða aldrei við neitt af því, sko,

10749 = en þetta er það besta leiðin

20439 = ef við getum afskrifað allar skuldir þjóðarinnar

17776 = þó að það muni valda vandræðum í Evrópu þá

22309 = en þeir bara hjálpuðu okkur ekki neitt þannig að það er ha…

Geir 

996 = Já, já.

Davíð 

8819 = Þannig að þetta er nú…

Geir 

19380 = Heyrðu, ég var að spá í að halda hérna fund klukkan eitt

17983 = og ætlaði að biðja þig að koma þangað annað hvort einan

11780 = eða með þeim sem þú vilt hafa með

18868 = með öllum formönnum stjórnmálaflokkanna.

Davíð 

1109 = OK.

Geir 

10258 = Og Fjármálaeftirlitinu?

Davíð 

498 = Já.

Geir 

9413 = Til að fara yfir þetta og…

Davíð 

14188 = En það, getur þú ekki haft það Jónas

16457 = ekki Jón Sigurðsson það er óeðlilegt að…

Geir 

14546 = Jónas, hann var hjá okkur í morgun.

Davíð 

10235 = Og hvað ertu að hugsa um að?

Geir 

23263 = Ég myndi vilja að það yrði farið í fyrsta lagi yfir frumvarpið

13278 = án þess kannski að afhenda þeim það en…

Davíð 

11165 = En hvað mega menn vera einlægir?

Geir 

15268 = Ég er búinn að vera mjög einlægur við þá.

Davíð 

498 = Já.

Geir 

16769 = Ég er eiginlega búinn að segja þeim þetta allt.

Davíð 

1109 = OK.

Geir 

17188 = Ég segi bara að við erum bara hérna að tala hérna saman

19950 = í fyllstu einlægni um alvarlegustu vandamál

13105 = sem upp hafa komið í þjóðfélaginu

16441 = og ég treysti ykkur til að fara ekki með það.

Davíð 

996 = Já, já.

Geir 

12776 = Og það hafa þeir virt held ég ennþá.

Davíð 

20149 = Ja, þeir hafa sagt einhverjum af örugglega en það er bara,

12778 = þú getur aldrei haldið lokinu.

Geir 

1222 = Nei.

Davíð 

7084 = Fastara en þetta á.

Geir 

2019 = Nei, en…

Davíð 

8090 = Klukkan eitt eða hvað?

Geir 

19102 = Bara hérna hjá mér í ríkisstjórnarherberginu.

Davíð 

11689 = Hérna niðri í stjórnarráði?

Geir 

498 = Já.

Davíð 

1109 = OK.

Geir 

11635 = Spursmálið er svo hérna…

Davíð 

6532 = Ég kem bara einn held ég,

17950 = það er betra að vera þarna fámennt en fjölmennt.

Geir 

19426 = Já og þá myndum við fara almennt yfir heildarmyndina.

Davíð 

498 = Já.

Geir 

16709 = Og af hverju þessi lög eru nauðsynleg.

Davíð 

996 = Já, já.

Geir 

11397 = Og svo er ég að plana það þannig

17609 = að lögin verði orðin að lögum um sjöleytið,

29391 = mælt fyrir þeim klukkan fjögur, þingflokksfundir klukkan þrjú

17884 = og það ætti að skapa okkur rými til þess að…

Davíð 

14072 = Mælt fyrir þeim klukkan fjögur?

Geir 

498 = Já.

Davíð 

1109 = OK.

Geir 

11092 = Já, er það ekki rétti tíminn?

Davíð 

8244 = Jú, jú, jú, jú, jú, jú.

Geir 

9876 = Ég er búinn að undirbúa það

17007 = að þetta geti fengið hraða afgreiðslu og þeir…

Davíð 

996 = Já, já.

Geir 

8092 = Hafa haft góð orð um það.

Davíð 

3251 = Fínt er.

Geir 

6389 = OK bless, bless.

Davíð 

2640 = Bless.

1617717

II + III + IV = 554893 + 119668 + 468222 = 1142783

V + VI = 1142783 + 195850 = 1338633

VII + VIII = 1338633 + 279084 = 1617717

II. The Queene (my lord) is dead

 (Macbeth, Act V, Sc. v)

554893

18403 = Enter Macbeth, Seyton, & Souldiers, with,

8343 = Drum and Colours.

Macbeth

21757 = Hang out our Banners on the outward walls,

23086 = The Cry is still, they come: our Castles strength

19926 = Will laugh a Siedge to scorne: Heere let them lye,

13600 = Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp:

25999 = Were they not forc’d with those that should be ours,

18203 = We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard,

20078 = And beate them backward home.  What is that noyse?

11226 = A Cry within of Women.

Seyton

15780 = It is the cry of women, my good Lord.

Macbeth

17369 = I haue almost forgot the taste of Feares:

18952 = The time ha’s beene, my sences would haue cool’d

15646 = To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire

22673 = Would at a dismall Treatise rowze, and stirre

23924 = As life were in’t.  I haue supt full with horrors,

23242 = Direnesse familiar to my slaughterous thought

21957 = Cannot once start me.  Wherefore was that cry?

Seyton

9748 = The Queene (my Lord) is dead.

Macbeth

12050 = She should haue dy’de heereafter;

20111 = There would haue beene a time for such a word:

22689 = To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow,

17099 = Creepes in this petty pace from day to day,

15476 = To the last Syllable of Recorded time:

17611 = And all our yesterdayes, haue lighted Fooles

19767 = The way to dusty death.  Out, out, breefe Candle,

18629 = Life’s but a walking Shadow, a poore Player,

23287 = That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage,

13957 = And then is heard no more.  It is a Tale

15789 = Told by an Ideot, full of sound and fury

8516 = Signifying nothing.

554893

III. She should haue dy‘de heereafter

(Saga-Shakespeare Myth)

119668

The Playfield of the Words

(Edda, Uppsalabók)

18613 = Munnrinn ok tungan er leikvöllr orðanna.

22777 = Á þeim velli eru reistir stafir þeir, er mál allt gera,

14347 = ok hendir málit ýmsa svá til at jafna

24365 = sem hörpu strengir eða eru læster lyklar í simphonie.

Alpha

-10 = Father’s Murder

7 = Man of Seventh Day

Omega

William Shakespeare – In Memoriam

(Stratford, Holy Trinity Church)

19365 = IUDICIO PYLIUM, GENIO SOCRATEM, ARTE MARONEM

20204 = TERRA TEGIT, POPULUS MÆRET, OLYMPUS HABET*

119668

*With the judgment of Nestor, the genius of Socrates, the art of Virgil,

Earth covers him, the people mourn him, Olympus has him.

IV. Abomination of Desolation

(Contemporary history)

468222

The Gates of Hell

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands = 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.  = 438097¹

468222

V. Now do‘s my Proiect gather to a head

(The Tempest, Act V, Sc. i, First Folio)

1142783

19042 = Enter Prospero (in his Magicke robes) and Ariel.

Prospero

15368 = Now do’s my Proiect gather to a head:

19423 = My charmes cracke not: my Spirits obey, and Time

21225 = Goes upright with his carriage; how’s the day?

Ariel

19816 = On the sixt hower, at which time, my Lord

15623 = You said our worke should cease.

Prospero

4250 = I did say so,

21770 = When first I rais’d the Tempest: say my Spirit,

16751 = How fares the King, and ‘s followers?

Ariel

7666 = Confin’d together

15388 = In the same fashion, as you gave in charge,

19427 = Just as you left them; all prisoners Sir

22044 = In the Line-grove which weather-fends your Cell,

19182 = They cannot boudge till your release; The King,

20172 = His Brother, and yours, abide all three distracted,

15913 = And the remainder mourning over them,

18980 = Brim full of sorrow, and dismay: but chiefly

21938 = Him that you term’d, Sir, the good old Lord Gonzallo,

25492 = His teares runs downe his beard like winters drops

25314 = From eaves of reeds: your charm so strongly works ’em

19560 = That if you now beheld them, your affections

9453 = Would become tender.

Prospero

14311 = Dost thou thinke so, Spirit?

Ariel

14479 = Mine would, Sir, were I humane.

Prospero

4984 = And mine shall.

20119 = Hast thou (which art but aire) a touch, a feeling

17692 = Of their afflictions, and shall not my selfe,

19176 = One of their kinde, that rellish all as sharpely,

20310 = Passion as they, be kindlier mov’d then thou art?

27099 = Thogh with their high wrongs I am strook to th’ quick,

19196 = Yet, with my nobler reason, gainst my furie

14422 = Doe I take part: the rarer Action is

19963 = In vertue, then in vengeance: they, being penitent,

18701 = The sole drift of my purpose doth extend

19904 = Not a frowne further: Goe, release them Ariell,

19197 = My Charmes Ile breake, their sences Ile restore,

11286 = And they shall be themselves.

Ariel

10223 = Ile fetch them, Sir.                        Exit.

Prospero

19671 = Ye Elves of hils, brooks, stading lakes & groves,  [text: stāding]

21781 = And ye, that on the sands with printlesse foote

15355 = Doe chase the ebbing-Neptune, and doe flie him

18559 = When he comes backe: you demy-Puppets, that

21219 = By Moone-shine doe the greene sowre Ringlets make,

23846 = Whereof the Ewe not bites: and you, whose pastime

20191 = Is to make midnight-Mushrumps, that rejoyce

18871 = To heare the solemne Curfewe, by whose ayde

16242 = (Weake Masters though ye be) I have bedymn’d

24732 = The Noone-tide Sun, call’d forth the mutenous windes,

20131 = And twixt the greene Sea, and the azur’d vault

21995 = Set roaring warre: To the dread ratling Thunder

19875 = Have I given fire, and rifted Joves stowt Oke

25796 = With his owne Bolt: The strong bass’d promontorie

17910 = Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluckt up

14410 = The Pyne and Cedar.  Graves at my command

19453 = Have wak’d their sleepers, op’d, and let ’em forth

19097 = By my so potent Art.  But this rough Magicke

15146 = I heere abjure: and when I have requir’d

19551 = Some heavenly Musicke (which even now I do)

19620 = To worke mine end upon their Sences, that

16897 = This Ayrie-charme is for, I’le breake my staffe,

15226 = Bury it certaine fadomes in the earth,

16147 = And deeper then did ever Plummet sound

8638 = Ile drowne my booke.

7565 = Solemne musicke.

1142783

VI. Faire is foule and foule is faire,

Hover through the fogge and filthie ayre.

(Macbeth, Act I, Sc. i. First Folio)

195850

19939 = Thunder and Lightning.  Enter three Witches.

First

13740 = When shall we three meet againe?

14117 = In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine?

Second

13522 = When the Hurley-burley’s done,

16533 =  When the Battaile’s lost, and wonne.

Third

14977 = That will be ere the set of Sunne.

First

7015 = Where the place?

Second

6364 = Upon the Heath.

Third

12409 = There to meet with Macbeth.

First

6510 = I come, Gray-Malkin.

All 

19261 = Padock calls anon: faire is foule, and foule is faire,

20309 = Hover through the fogge and filthie ayre. Exeunt.

Doctor of Physicke

(Appendix; VII below)

7864 = Jesus Patibilis – The Passible Jesus

The Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland

(Einar Pálsson)

7196 = Bergþórshváll

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr

3027 = Helgafell

The Battaile’s Lost

And Wonne

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God’s Image

195850

VII. One: Two: Why then ’tis time to doo’t:

 (Macbeth, Act V, Sc. I – First Folio)

1338633

23553 = Enter a Doctor of Physicke, and a Wayting Gentlewoman.

Doctor

17408 = I haue too Nights watch’d with you,

20296 = but can perceiue no truth in your report.

14559 = When was it shee last walk’d?

Gentlewoman

17165 = Since his Maiesty went into the Field,

12297 = I haue seene her rise from her bed,

17142 = throw her Night-Gown vppon her,

20925 = vnlocke her Closset, take foorth paper, folde it,

20294 = write vpon’t, read it, afterwards Seale it,

9251 = and againe returne to bed;

17740 = yet all this while in a most fast sleepe.

Doctor

14191 = A great perturbation in Nature,

15598 = to receyue at once the benefit of sleep,

12556 = and do the effects of watching.

12263 = In this slumbry agitation,

22287 = besides her walking, and other actuall performances,

15653 = what (at any time) haue you heard her say?

Gentlewoman

21760 = That Sir, which I will not report after her.

Doctor

19124 = You may to me, and ’tis most meet you should.

Gentlewoman

11761 = Neither to you, nor any one,

19398 = hauing no witnesse to confirme my speech.

10419 = Enter Lady with a Taper.

19966 = Lo you, heere she comes: This is her very guise,

11154 = and vpon my life fast asleepe:

10746 = obserue her, stand close.

Doctor

11115 = How came she by that light?

Gentlewoman

9377 = Why it stood by her:

20143 = she ha’s light by her continually, ’tis her command.

Doctor

9850 = You see her eyes are open.

Gentlewoman

12269 = I but their sense are shut.

Doctor

12347 = What is it she do’s now?

13625 = Looke how she rubbes her hands.

Gentlewoman

16623 = It is an accustom’d action with her,

14975 = to seeme thus washing her hands:

25514 = I haue knowne her continue in this a quarter of an houre.

Lady

7588 = Yet heere’s a spot.

Doctor

6672 = Heark, she speaks,

19161 = I will set downe what comes from her,

20219 = to satisfie my remembrance the more strongly.

Lady

11907 = Out damned spot: out I say.

18146 = One: Two: Why then ’tis time to doo’t:

6119 = Hell is murky.

12691 = Fye, my Lord, fie, a Souldier, and affear’d?

17263 = what need we feare? who knowes it,

19800 = when none can call our powre to accompt:

14904 = yet who would haue thought

16585 = the olde man to haue had so much blood in him.

Doctor

7327 = Do you marke that?

Lady

18946 = The Thane of Fife, had a wife: where is she now?

15632 = What will these hands ne’re be cleane?

16047 = No more o’that my Lord, no more o’that:

16797 = you marre all with this starting.

Doctor

25555 = Go too, go too: You haue knowne what you should not.

Gentlewoman

23695 = She ha’s spoke what shee should not, I am sure of that:

17611 = Heauen knowes what she ha’s knowne.

Lady

14867 = Heere’s the smell of the blood still:

27589 = all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.

3108 = Oh, oh, oh.

Doctor

20106 = What a sigh is there? The hart is sorely charg’d.

Gentlewoman

18666 = I would not haue such a heart in my bosome,

14174 = for the dignity of the whole body.

Doctor

9402 = Well, well, well.

Gentlewoman

7046 = Pray God it be sir.

Doctor

14600 = This disease is beyond my practise:

26386 = yet I haue knowne those which haue walkt in their sleep,

13789 = who haue dyed holily in their beds.

Lady

28871 = Wash your hands, put on your Night-Gowne, looke not so pale:

14684 = I tell you yet againe Banquo’s buried;

12779 = he cannot come out on’s graue.

Doctor

3530 = Euen so?

Lady

15743 = To bed, to bed: there’s knocking at the gate:

14311 = Come, come, come, come, giue me your hand:

12635 = What’s done, cannot be vndone.

10277 = To bed, to bed, to bed.             Exit Lady.

Doctor

11095 = Will she go now to bed?

Gentlewoman

4000 = Directly.

Doctor

20766 = Foule whisp’rings are abroad: vnnaturall deeds

19751 = Do breed vnnaturall troubles: infected mindes

25556 = To their deafe pillowes will discharge their Secrets:

18663 = More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian:

15295 = God, God forgiue vs all. Looke after her,

16865 = Remoue from her the meanes of all annoyance,

18042 = And still keepe eyes vpon her: So goodnight,

14578 = My minde she ha’s mated, and amaz’d my sight.

11439 = I thinke, but dare not speake.

Gentlewoman

14011 = Good night good Doctor.  Exeunt.

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VIII. A New Breed of Men Sent Down from Heaven

(Virgil, Fourth Eclogue)

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16609 = Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas;

20087 = Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.

18681 = Iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna,

18584 = Iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto.

20229 = Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum

18431 = Desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo,

17698 = Casta fave Lucina: tuus iam regnat Apollo.

18480 = Teque adeo decus hoc aevi te consule, inibit,

18919 = Pollio, et incipient magni procedere menses;

22004 = Te duce, si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri,

20495 = Inrita perpetua solvent formidine terras.

18330 = Ille deum vitam accipiet divisque videbit

20448 = Permixtos heroas et ipse videbitur illis

22153 = Pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem.

The Author

William Shakespeare

7936 = Edward Oxenford, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford

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¹A New Breed of Men Sent Down From Heaven

Now the last age by Cumae’s Sibyl sung has come and gone, and the majestic roll of circling centuries begins anew: justice returns, returns old Saturn’s reign, with a new breed of men sent down from heaven.  Only do thou, at the boy’s birth in whom the iron shall cease, the golden race arise, befriend him, chaste Lucina; ‘tis thine own Apollo reigns.  And in thy consulate, this glorious age, O Pollio, shall begin, and the months enter on their mighty march.  Under thy guidance, whatso tracks remain of our old wickedness, once done away, shall free the earth from never-ceasing fear.  He shall receive the life of gods, and see heroes with gods commingling, and himself be seen of them, and with his father’s worth reign o’er a world of peace.

APPENDIX

The Gnostic concept of Jesus Patibilis

….Jesus is here the god with the mission of revelation to man, a more specialized hypostasis or emanation of the Messenger, whose mission was to the captive Light in general and preceded the creation of man.  That it is he who makes Adam eat from the Tree of Knowledge explains the Christian accusation that the Manichaeans equated Christ with the serpent in Paradise.  Of the content of this revelation, the doctrine concerning „his own self cast into all things“ requires comment. It expresses the other aspect of this divine figure: in addition to being the source of all revelatory activity in the history of mankind, he is the personification of all the Light mixed into matter; that is, he is the suffering form of Primal Man.  This original and profound interpretation of the figure of Christ was an important article of the Manichaean creed and is known as the doctrine of the Jesus patibilis, the „passible Jesus“ who „hangs from every tree,“ „is served up bound in every dish,“ „every day is born, suffers, and dies.“ He is dispersed in all creation, but his most genuine realm and embodiment seems to be the vegetable world, that is, the most passive and the only innocent form of life.  Yet at the same time with the active aspect of his nature he is transmundane Nous who, coming from above, liberates this captive substance and continually until the end of the world collects it, i.e., himself, out of the physical dispersal.  (Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion – The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity, Second Edition, revised, Beacon Press, Boston, 1963, pp. 228-229)