© Gunnar Tómasson

8 January 2018

Foreword

GORGON, or the Wonderfull Yeare is the title of a poem by Gabriel Harvey, published in 1593. Also published in 1593 was the first work to appear under the name of William Shakespeare.

The poem has been accurately described as “intensely cryptic“. I first came across it decades ago and, like every other layman, I could not make head or tail of it – until today.

At the outset, the poem notes the non-occurrence in 1588 of the prophesied End of the World.  In this respect, the title‘s Cipher Value of 14786, is the sum of 5364 + 9322 + 100 = 14786, as in the respective Cipher Values of Gabriel Harvey, William Shakespeare, and THE END.

In Creation Myth, the End of the World is not to be construed literally. Rather the World is MAN as Creation in Time and Space. In Shakespeare‘s play, Hamlet‘s TRANSFORMATION on meeting his Father‘s Ghost marks End of a World/MAN and Advent of a New World/SON of MAN.

Through Cipher Analysis below, Gabriel Harvey‘s poem is shown to allude in three meaningful ways to the last Chapter of the Book of Revelation in the King James Bible of 1611. As further background, here are comments on Shakespeare Myth by three well-known personalities.

Charlie Chaplin

“In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare… Whoever wrote [Shakespeare] had an aristocratic attitude.”

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

“We are The Reasoning Race, and when we find a vague file of chipmunk tracks stringing through the dust of Stratford village, we know by our reasoning powers that Hercules has been along there. I feel that our fetish is safe for three centuries.”

Henry James

“I am… haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world.”

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I. GORGON, or the Wonderfull Yeare

(Gabriel Harvey, 1593)

469189

14786 = GORGON, or the wonderfull yeare.

3276 = Sonet          

19406 = St Fame dispos’d to cunnycatch the world,

16460 = Uprear’d a wonderment of Eighty Eight:

16495 = The Earth addreading to be overwhurld,

22381 = What now availes, quoth She, my ballance weight?

16310 = The Circle smyl’d to see the Center feare:

20016 = The wonder was, no wonder fell that yeare.

22473 = Wonders enhaunse their powre in numbers odd:

16316 = The fatall yeare of yeares is Ninety Three:

17270 = Parma hath kist: De-Maine entreates the rodd:

22246 = Warre wondreth, Peace in Spaine and Fraunce to see.

16323 = Brave Eckenberg, the dowty Bassa shames:

21855 = The Christian Neptune, Turkish Vulcane tames.

23504 = Navarre wooes Roome: Charlmaine gives Guise the Phy:

22680 = Weepe Powles, thy Tamberlaine voutsafes to dye.

3335 = L’envoy

14215 = The hugest miracle remaines behinde,

18005 = The second Shakerley Rash-Swash to binde.

8599 = A Stanza declarative:

16072 = to the Lovers of admirable Workes.

14468 = Pleased it hath, a Gentlewoman rare,

17902 = With Phenix quill in diamant hand of Art,

15675 = To muzzle the redoubtable Bull-bare,

15946 = And play the galiard Championesses part.

19416 = Though miracles surcease, yet Wonder see

16292 = The mightiest miracle of Ninety Three.

17467 = Vis consilii expers, mole ruit sua.*

469189

*Force without wisdom falls by its own weight.

 II. GORGON…The Writers Postscript

(Continuation)

764839

22204 = The Writers Postscript: or a frendly Caveat

15951 = to the Second Shakerley of Powles.

 3276 = Sonet

12467 = Slumbring I lay in melancholy bed,

16780 = Before the dawning of the sanguin light:

19714 = When Echo shrill, or some Familiar Spright

12112 = Buzzed an Epitaph into my hed.

16409 = Magnifique Mindes, bred of Gargantuas race,

19616 = In grisly weedes His Obsequies waiment.

27826 = Whose Corps on Powles, whose mind triumph’d on Kent,

16231 = Scorning to bate Sir Rodomont an ace.

16241 = I mus’d awhile: and having mus’d awhile,

16337 = Jesu, (quoth I) is that Gargantua minde

14804 = Conquer’d, and left no Scanderbeg behinde?

17313 = Vow’d he not to Powles A Second bile?

21454 = What bile, or kibe? (quoth that same early Spright?)

18382 = Have you forgot the Scanderbegging wight?      

3509 = Glosse       

14726 = Is it a Dreame?  Or is the Highest minde

20829 = That ever haunted Powles, or hunted winde,

19588 = Bereaft of that same sky-surmounting breath,

21476 = That breath, that taught the Timpany to swell?

14297 = He, and the Plague contended for the game:

21808 = The hawty man extolled his hideous thoughtes,

22472 = And gloriously insultes upon poore soules,

26489 = That plague themselves: for faint harts plague themselves.

18315 = The tyrant Sicknesse of base-minded slaves

16178 = Oh how it dominers in Coward Lane?

18095 = So Surquidry rang-out his larum bell,

15505 = When he had girn’d at many a dolefull knell.

18928 = The graund Dissease disdain’d his toade Conceit.

16725 = And smiling at his tamberlaine contempt,

22405 = Sternely struck home the peremptory stroke.

14701 = He that nor feared God, nor dreaded Div’ll,

20326 = Nor ought admired, but his wondrous selfe,

20986 = Like Junos gawdy Bird, that prowdly stares

18475 = On glittring fan of his triumphant taile:

16680 = Or like the ugly Bugg, that scorn’d to dy,

22266 = And mountes of Glory rear’d in towring witt:

18142 = Alas: but Babell Pride must kisse the pitt.

3335 = L’envoy

20142 = Powles steeple, and a hugyer thing is downe:

18340 = Beware the next Bull-beggar of the towne.

10384 = Fata immatura vagantur.**

 2600 = FINIS

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* Premature deaths roam abroad

I + II = 469189 + 764839 = 1234028

III + IV = 47339 + 1186689 = 1234028

III. Let there be light.

(Gen. 1:3, KJB 1611)

47339

A

In the beginning.

  7128 = Let there be light.

And there was light.

  4000 = Flaming Sword – Coming of Christ

St. Peter‘s Basilica – Christ‘s Church

Symbol of Perfect Creation

37575 = Facade Inscription¹

47339

B

Premature Death – Coming of Christ

47339

Baptism

17252 = Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere

2602 = 26 April – 2nd month old-style

1564 = 1564 A.D.

Burial

10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.

2502 = 25 April

1616 = 1616 A.D.

Coming of Christ

4000 = Flaming Sword

New Man in God‘s Image

7000 = Microcosmos

God‘s Image

  677 = EK (EGO) – Anonymous Author

FINIS

  100 = THE END

47339

C

Stratfordian Myth – Alpha and Omega

47339

Alpha

      1 = Monad

5627 = Stratford

Omega

 -2118 = TIME, End of

William Shakespeare – In Memoriam

(Holy Trinity Church, Stratford)

19365 = IUDICIO PYLIUM, GENIO SOCRATEM, ARTE MARONEM

20204 = TERRA TEGIT, POPULUS MÆRET, OLYMPUS HABET*

Who‘s there?

 4260 = Fr. St. Albans

47339

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

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

IV. And he shewed mee a pure riuer of water of life,

cleere as Chrystall.

(Revelation, Ch. XXII, KJB 1611)

1186689

22:1

19593 = And he shewed mee a pure riuer of water of life,

8398 = cleere as Chrystall,

20151 = proceeding out of the throne of God, and of the Lambe.

22:2

27072 = In the middest of the street of it, and of either side of the riuer,

29095 = was there the tree of life, which bare twelue manner of fruits,

13707 = and yeelded her fruit euery moneth:

25499 = and the leaues of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

22:3

12963 = And there shall be no more curse,

18449 = but the throne of God, & of the Lambe shall bee in it,

14737 = and his seruants shall serue him:

22:4

9256 = And they shall see his face,

14232 = and his name shall be in their foreheads.

22:5

12059 = And there shalbe no night there,

19152 = and they need no candle, neither light of the sunne,

14789 = for the Lorde God giueth them light,

14853 = and they shall reigne foreuer and euer.

22:6

7417 = And hee said vnto mee,

15494 = These sayings are faithfull and true.

15521 = And the Lord God of the holy Prophets

21146 = sent his Angel to shew vnto his seruants

18506 = the things which must shortly be done.

22:7

8612 = Beholde, I come quickly:

15564 = Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings

12703 = of the prophecie of this booke.

22:8                                         = 388968

17013 = And I John saw these things, and heard them.

9776 = And when I had heard and seene,

18397 = I fell downe, to worship before the feet

18481 = of the Angel, which shewed me these things.

22:9

18137 = Then saith he vnto me, See thou doe it not:

13068 = for I am thy fellow seruant,

18296 = and of thy brethren the Prophets, and of them

16154 = which keepe the sayings of this booke:

6969 = worship God.

22:10

8491 = And hee saith vnto mee,

22367 = Seale not the sayings of the prophesie of this booke:

8971 = for the time is at hand.

22:11

20236 = He that is vniust, let him be vniust still:

18786 = and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still:

23343 = and hee that is righteous, let him bee righteous still:

15839 = and hee that is holy, let him be holy still.

22:12

9251 = And behold, I come quickly,

19186 = and my reward is with mee, to giue euery man

13415 = according as his worke shall be.

22:13

5444 = I am Alpha and Omega,

8494 = the beginning and the end,

8800 = the first & the last.

22:14

17490 = Blessed are they that do his commandements,

17480 = that they may have right to the tree of life,

21534 = and may enter in thorow the gates into the citie.

22:15

17835 = For without are dogs, and sorcerers,

15289 = and whoremongers, and murderers,

21533 = and idolaters, and whosoeuer loueth and maketh a lie.

22:16

11524 = I Iesus haue sent mine Angel,

24281 = to testifie vnto you these things in the Churches.

16044 = I am the roote and the offspring of Dauid,

13920 = and the bright and morning starre.

22:17

14049 = And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come.

12458 = And let him that heareth, say, Come.

13797 = And let him that is athirst, come.

25933 = And whosoeuer will, let him take the water of life freely.

22:18

13460 = For I testifie vnto euery man

24725 = that heareth the wordes of the prophesie of this booke,

14827 = If any man shal adde vnto these things,

28874 = God shall adde vnto him the plagues, that are written in this booke:

22:19

10323 = And if any man shall take away

21713 = from the wordes of the booke of this prophesie,

20902 = God shal take away his part out of the booke of life,

10286 = and out of the holy citie,

24376 = and from the things which are written in this booke.

22:20

18846 = Hee which testifieth these things, saith,

10098 = Surely, I come quickly.

1412 = Amen.

11013 = Euen so, Come Lord Iesus.

22:21

23373 = The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all.

  1412 = Amen.

1186689

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¹Inscription to mark its completion in 1612

23501 = IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS

14074 = ROMANVS PONT. MAX. AN. MDCXII PONT. VII. *

37575

*IN HONOR OF THE PRINCE OF APOSTLES; PAUL V BORGHESE, POPE,

IN THE YEAR 1612 AND THE SEVENTH YEAR OF HIS PONTIFICATE.