© Gunnar Tómasson

17 May 2015.

Introduction.

This line in the First Folio (1623) of Shakespeare‘s plays conveys first an instant of surprise ________ and then the instant of mighty Cæsar‘s death on the Ides of March. It did not occur to me until recently that the curious ________ between the two parts might not be a printer‘s error but may have been intended to signal a link with the following lines spoken by Brutus in his ‟everlasting farewell‟ in Act V, Sc. i:

But this same day

Must end that work the Ides of March begun.

The fateful Act III opens on this exchange between Cæsar and the Soothsayer who bade him beware the Ides of March, and whom Cæsar dismissed as a “dreamer” to whom no attention need be paid:

Cæsar:                  The Ides of March are come.

Soothsayer:        I Cæsar, but not gone.

A first test of the link hypothesis would be to check the Saga Cipher Values of the above four lines:

9508 = The Ides of March are come.

8887 = I Cæsar, but not gone.

7070 = But this same day

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

44614

In the context of Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Myth, it may not be accidental that this Cipher Sum may also be written as 1000 + 25920 + 7000 + 10594 + 100 = 44614, where

1000 = Light of the World

25920 = Platonic Great Year

7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in God´s Image

10594 = Sir Francis Bacon, Knight

    100 = The End

44614

More on that later.

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I. This same day must end The 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

II. The work the Ides of March begun

(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.

100571

III. Veritas kills Cæsar

621625 = This same day must end

100571 = The work the Ides of March begun

4315 = Veritas

    -9356 = Gaius Julius Cæsar (Minus = Dead)

717155

Post-script

Brutus, like Prince Hamlet, is Cosmic Creative Power personified.

In Icelandic Settlement Myth the Power is personified as Leifr who

goes in “Viking” to Ireland and enters there an “earthen house”.

HELL.

There, in Darkness, sits a man holding a Dark Sword. When the

Sword begins to “shine”, Leifr kills the Man, takes the Sword,

sails to Iceland and is killed by Slaves.

The Hamlet Myth is a Variation on this theme.

    4654 = Brutus

-4000 = Dark Sword

1612 = HELL

714889 = Prince Hamlet´s To be, or not to be… (First Folio 1623)

717155

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