© Gunnar Tómasson

Ides of March, 2015

 I. STAY PASSENGER – READ IF THOU CANST

Some 35 years ago, my wife and I visited Stratford. In Holy Trinity Church, a challenge greeted us:

19949 = STAY PASSENGER WHY GOEST THOU BY SO FAST

22679 = READ IF THOU CANST WHOM ENVIOUS DEATH HATH PLAST

24267 = WITH IN THIS MONUMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME

20503 = QUICK NATURE DIDE WHOSE NAME DOTH DECK YS TOMBE

20150 = FAR MORE THEN COST: SIEH ALL YT HE HATH WRITT

129308

II. The Arrow of Time

Modern physics holds that “the arrow of time” moves in a linear manner. In ancient Hindu and Saga myth, the evolution of MAN as Creation in Time and Space is viewed as a cyclical phenomenon which unfolds in stages or World Cycles of 432000 “years” each.

In the Christian tradition of Saga-Shakespeare Myth, the imagery involves the “incarnation” of Monad as Spirit/Light, 1000, of Reason in a mortal frame of Time/Tími, 2312, and Space/Rúm, 2312, as in 1000 + 2315 + 2312 = 5627. In Shakespeare Myth, the imagery is highlighted by the name Stratford = 5627.

MAN’s evolution in TIME is held to be driven by “strife” between the Light, 1000, of Reason in MAN’s Soul and Ignorance, 4119, arising from MAN’s mortal frame. At mythical End of Time, the “strife” is held to be resolved through Metamorphosis whereby Ignorance is ″slain″ by the Light of Reason.

1 = Monad/God

129308 = Stratfordian MAN

432000 = World Cycle

7725 = Metamorphosis

1000 = Light

-4119 = Ignorance

565915

III. Et tu Brute? Then fall, Cæsar.

In the First folio (1623) version of Shakespeare’s play, Julius Cæsar, Stratfordian MAN is represented by “the mightiest Julius” as the Ruler of Rome was referred to in an end-of-the-world scene in a 1611 version of Hamlet. With MAN’s Soul being the “theater” of the action, Metamorphosis is symbolized by the “dagger” of Brutus whereby Cæsar is brought face-to-face with his inner BRUTE Self (Act III, Sc. i).

Cinna:

3200 = O Cæsar, –

Cæsar:

16936 = Hence: Wilt thou lift up Olympus!

Decius:

4910 = Great Cæsar, –

Cæsar:

16307 = Doth not Brutus bootlesse kneele?

Casca:

7232 = Speake, hands, for me!

   6500 = They stab Cæsar.

Cæsar:

13836 = Et tu, Brute? _______ Then fall Cæsar.                Dyes     

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.

169492

As in 169492 + 565915 = 735407.

IV. Stratfordian MAN’s ″hour upon the stage”

Quixotic Stratfordian MAN/Poor Player casts himself in the role of The Mightiest Julius during his ″hour upon the stage″ of The Globe theater – ″and then is heard no more″. A spark of Divine Wisdom enters the stage with Quixotic Stratfordian MAN at Alpha of his ″hour″ and exits to rejoin its Motherlode at Omega (see following section).

4385 = Hagia Sophia – Divine Wisdom – Incarnate in Ignorant Stratfordian MAN

-4000 = Dark Sword – Symbol of Ignorance as polar opposite to Light become Flaming Sword of Cosmic Creative Power

8284 = Stratfordian MAN’s “hour upon the stage”¹

105113 = Platonic World Soul² – Motherlode of Hagia Sophia

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V. Ending that work the Ides of March begun

(Julius Cæsar, Act V, Sc. i – First Folio)

                Cassius:

12879 = Now most Noble Brutus,

17568 = The gods today stand friendly, that we may,

15686 = Louers in peace, leade on our dayes to age!

23178 = But since the affayres of men rests still incertaine,

21190 = Let’s reason with the worst that may befall.

17931 = If we do lose this Battaile, then is this

19984 = The very last time we shall speake together:

15404 = What are you then determined to do?

Brutus:

15472 = Euen by the rule of that Philosophy,

14051 = By which I did blame Cato, for the death

19501 = Which he did giue himselfe, I know not how:

14406 = But I do finde it Cowardly, and vile,

19113 = For feare of what might fall, so to preuent

19095 = The time of life, arming my selfe with patience,

20623 = To stay the prouidence of some high Powers,

11326 = That gouerne vs below.

Cassius:

13765 = Then, if we loose this battaile,

16527 = You are contented to be led in Triumph

14976 = Thorow the streets of Rome.

Brutus:

7042 = No, Cassius, no:

13000 = Thinke not thou Noble Romane,

19844 = That euer Brutus will go bound to Rome,

16711 = He beares too great a minde. But this same day

19149 = Must end that work the Ides of March begun.

20191 = And whether we shall meete againe, I know not:

19155 = Therefore our euerlasting farewell take:

17976 = For euer, and for euer, farewell Cassius,

17336 = If we do meete againe, why we shall smile;

21165 = If not, why then, this parting was well made.

Cassius:

18046 = For euer, and for euer, farewell, Brutus:

14916 = If we do meete againe, wee’l smile indeed;

21535 = If not, ’tis true, this parting was well made.

Brutus:

17661 = Why then leade on. O that a man might know

17668 = The end of this dayes businesse, ere it come:

17050 = But it sufficeth, that the day will end,

20505 = And then the end is knowne. Come ho, away.   Exeunt.

621625

As in 113782 + 621625 = 735407.

¹ Alpha and Omega of Stratfordian MAN’s ″hour upon the stage″ are 26 April 1564 and 25 April 1616, the alleged dates of his baptism and burial in Holy Trinity Church, as in 2602 + 1564 + 2502 + 1616 = 8284. April is the second month of the year, old-style.

²Platonic World Soul, 105113, is the sum of 34 numerical values derived from the tone scale by what is known as the Traditional Construction of the World Soul. See Plato´s Mathematical Imagination by Robert Brumbaugh. The book was issued in 1954 and is accessible on the Internet. See p. 229.

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A calculator for converting letters to cipher values is on the Internet at:

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