© Gunnar Tómasson
12 April 2016
Saga Cipher Overview
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1658168 + 438097 + 12538 + 433745 = 2542548
As in Dedication of King James Bible = 2542548
I. Murther most foule, as in the best it is – Myth
(Hamlet, First Folio, Act I, Sc. v)
1658168
9462 = Enter Ghost and Hamlet.
Hamlet
22112 = Where wilt thou lead me? Speak; Ile go no further.
Ghost
2883 = Marke me.
Hamlet
3756 = I will.
Ghost
11748 = My hower is almost come,
22142 = When I to sulphurous and tormenting Flames
10942 = Must render up my selfe.
Hamlet
7778 = Alas poore Ghost.
Ghost
19231 = Pitty me not, but lend thy serious hearing
10823 = To what I shall unfold.
Hamlet
9425 = Speake, I am bound to heare.
Ghost
21689 = So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt heare.
Hamlet
3270 = What?
Ghost
10539 = I am thy Fathers Spirit,
19489 = Doom‘d for a certaine terme to walke the night;
15474 = And for the day confin‘d to fast in Fiers,
19868 = Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature
10839 = Are burnt and purg‘d away?
7855 = But that I am forbid
18785 = To tell the secrets of my Prison-House,
20467 = I could a Tale unfold, whose lightest word
25179 = Would harrow up thy soule, freeze thy young blood,
27383 = Make thy two eyes like Starres, start from their Spheres,
16795 = Thy knotty and combined locks to part,
15570 = And each particular haire to stand an end,
20558 = Like Quilles upon the fretfull Porpentine:
17082 = But this eternall blason must not be
19562 = To eares of flesh and bloud; list Hamlet, oh list,
16884 = If thou didst ever thy deare Father love.
Hamlet
3459 = Oh Heaven!
Ghost
22153 = Revenge his foule and most unnaturall Murther.
Hamlet
4660 = Murther?
Ghost
18629 = Murther most foule, as in the best it is;
20891 = But this most foule, strange, and unnaturall.
Hamlet
11813 = Hast, hast me to know it,
15426 = That with wings as swift
17684 = As meditation, or the thoughts of Love,
11099 = May sweepe to my Revenge.
Ghost
5591 = I finde thee apt;
20490 = And duller should‘st thou be then the fat weede
18672 = That rots it selfe in ease, on Lethe Wharfe,
18843 = Would‘st thou not stirre in this.
7499 = Now Hamlet heare:
19608 = It‘s given out, that sleeping in mine Orchard,
21032 = A Serpent stung me: so the whole eare of Denmarke,
13077 = Is by a forged processe of my death
18982 = Rankly abus‘d: But know thou Noble youth,
18951 = The Serpent that did sting thy Fathers life,
13593 = Now weares his Crowne.
Hamlet
15252 = O my Propheticke soule: mine Uncle?
Ghost
19142 = I that incestuous, that adulterate Beast
29730 = With witchcraft of his wits, hath Traitorous guifts.
21415 = Oh wicked Wit, and Gifts, that have the power
22656 = So to seduce? Won to to this shamefull Lust
22351 = The will of my most seeming vertuous Queene.
17021 = Oh Hamlet, what a falling oft was there,
18901 = From me, whose love was of that dignity,
21371 = That it went hand in hand, even with the Vow
13881 = I made to her in Marriage; and to decline
25184 = Upon a wretch, whose Naturall gifts were poore
24348 = To those of mine. But Vertue, as it never wil be moved,
21122 = Though Lewdnesse court it in a shape of Heaven:
17577 = So Lust, though to a radiant Angell link‘d,
20657 = Will sate it selfe in a Celestiall bed & prey on Garbage.
20310 = But soft, me thinkes I sent the Mornings Ayre;
18535 = Briefe let me be: Sleeping within mine Orchard,
17248 = My custome alwayes in the afternoone;
19016 = Upon my secure hower thy Uncle stole
17466 = With iuyce of cursed Hebenon in a Violl,
16672 = And in the Porches of mine eares did poure
18685 = The leaperous Distilment; whose effect
17290 = Holds such an enmity with bloud of Man,
25233 = That swift as Quick-silver, it courses through
15783 = The naturall Gates and Allies of the Body;
19585 = And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset
16801 = And curd, like aygre droppings into Milke,
18159 = The thin and wholsome blood: so did it mine;
15969 = And a most instant tetter bak‘d about,
22687 = Most Lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,
7531 = All my smooth Body.
16992 = Thus was I, sleeping, by a Brothers hand,
19671 = Of Life, of Crowne, and Queene at once dispatcht;
18043 = Cut off even in the Blossomes of my Sinne,
16349 = Unhouzzled, disappointed, unnaneld,
18018 = No reckoning made, but sent to my account
15902 = With all my imperfections on my head;
16946 = Oh horrible, Oh horrible, most horrible;
17164 = If thou hast nature in thee beare it not;
13314 = Let not the Royall Bed of Denmarke be
15607 = A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.
22022 = But howsoever thou pursuest this Act,
22240 = Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contrive
19204 = Against thy Mother ought; leave her to heaven,
19764 = And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge,
19266 = To pricke and sting her. Fare thee well at once;
22305 = The Glow-worme showes the Matine to be neere,
15555 = And gins to pale his uneffectuall Fire:
12486 = Adue, adue, Hamlet; remember me. Exit.
1658168
II. Murther most foule, as in the best it is – Reality
(History 1976-2016)
438097
From 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 possibly “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.
III. Prince Hamlet’s Revenge – Fortinbras ha’s my dying voyce
(Matt. 4:10, KJB 1611; Hamlet, Act V, Sc. ii)
12538
ONE
3781 = The Pope
4000 = Flaming Sword
7615 = Get thee hence, Satan.
-3858 = The Devil
1000 = LIGHT
12538
TWO
1861 = Mary – Virgin Mother, Daughter of Thy Son (Dante)
4000 = Flaming Sword
6677 = God with us. – Matt. 1:23, KJB 1611.
12538
THREE
2949 = Ophelia
4000 = Flaming Sword
5589 = Fortinbras
12538
IV. God is our refuge and strength.
(46th Psalm, King James Bible, 1611)
433745
It would be pleasant to think that Shakespeare was responsible, in part, for the majesty of the following – 1611 text substituted with Cipher Values]:
27783 = God is our refuge and strength; a very present helpe in trouble.
25140 = Therfore will not we feare, though the earth be removed:
25186 = and though the mountaines be caried into the midst of the sea,
21736 = Though the waters thereof roare, and be troubled,
29088 = though the mountaines shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
7214 = There is a river,
21306 = the streames wherof shall make glad the citie of God:
19776 = the holy place of the Tabernacles of the most High.
18882 = God is in the midst of her: she shal not be moved:
15090 = God shall helpe her, and that right early.
17597 = The heathen raged, the kingdomes were moved:
15907 = he uttered his voyce, the earth melted.
15221= The Lord of hosts is with us,
14069 = the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
15149 = Come, behold the Workes of the Lord,
17919 = what desolations hee hath made in the earth.
21932 = He maketh warres to cease unto the end of the earth:
23023 = hee breaketh the bow, and cutteth the speare in sunder,
14120 = he burneth the chariot in the fire.
12080 = Be stil, and know that I am God:
13996 = I will bee exalted among the heathen,
12241 = I will be exalted in the earth.
15221 = The Lord of hosts is with us,
14069 = the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
433745
Whether he had anything to do with it or not, he is in it. It is the forty-sixth Psalm. The forty-sixth word from the beginning is SHAKE, and the forty-sixth word from the end, if we leave out the cadential ‘Selah’, is SPEAR[E]. And, in 1610, Shakespeare was forty-six years old. If this is mere chance, fancy must allow us to think that it is happy chance. The greatest prose-work of all time has the name of the greatest poet set cunningly in it.“ (Anthony Burgess, Shakespeare, Penguin Books, 1972, pp. 233-234)
V. Come, behold the Workes of the Lord
(Dedication, King James Bible, 1611)
2542548
17083 = To the most high and mightie Prince, James
14782 = by the grace of God King of Great Britaine,
13600 = France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. [c = 100 in &c]
16142 = The Translators of The Bible, wish
23471 = Grace, Mercie, and Peace, through Iesvs Christ our Lord.
25844 = Great and manifold were the blessings (most dread Soueraigne)
18175 = which Almighty GOD, the Father of all Mercies,
27472 = bestowed vpon vs the people of ENGLAND, when first he sent
26231 = your Maiesties Royall person to rule and raigne ouer vs.
20761 = For whereas it was the expectation of many,
20349 = who wished not well vnto our SION,
17198 = that vpon the setting of that bright
15710 = Occidentall Starre Queene ELIZABETH
9424 = of most happy memory,
18376 = some thicke and palpable cloudes of darkenesse
18648 = would so haue ouershadowed this land,
13878 = that men should haue bene in doubt
15782 = which way they were to walke,
15261 = and that it should hardly be knowen,
19547 = who was to direct the vnsetled State:
12947 = the appearance of your MAIESTIE,
14404 = as of the Sunne in his strength.
27059 = instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists,
17924 = and gaue vnto all that were well affected
22864 = exceeding cause of comfort; especially when we beheld
20399 = the gouernment established in your HIGHNESSE,
18518 = and your hopefull Seed, by an vndoubted Title,
9996 = and this also accompanied
19326 = with Peace and tranquillitie, at home and abroad.
12121 = But amongst all our Ioyes,
20593 = there was no one that more filled our hearts,
12579 = then the blessed continuance
21601 = of the Preaching of GODS sacred word amongst vs,
17008 = which is that inestimable treasure,
18678 = which excelleth all the riches of the earth,
19597 = because the fruit thereof extendeth it selfe,
27323 = not onely to the time spent in this transitory world,
14104 = but directeth and disposeth men
24591 = vnto that Eternall happinesse which is aboue in Heauen.
21523 = Then, not to suffer this to fall to the ground,
30913 = but rather to take it vp, and to continue it in that state, wherein
24340 = the famous predecessour of your HIGHNESSE did leaue it;
27586 = Nay, to goe forward with the confidence and resolution of a man
16494 = in maintaining the trueth of CHRIST,
12944 = and propagating it farre and neere,
19426 = is that which hath so bound and firmely knit
17031 = the hearts of all your MAIESTIES loyall
14221 = and Religious people vnto you,
19655 = that your very Name is precious among them,
18171 = their eye doeth behold you with comfort,
26424 = and they blesse you in their hearts, as that sanctified person,
29842 = who vnder GOD, is the immediate authour of their true happinesse.
24171 = And this their contentment doeth not diminish or decay,
19250 = but euery day increaseth and taketh strength,
22410 = when they obserue that the zeale of your Maiestie
26020 = towards the house of GOD, doth not slacke or goe backward,
22020 = but is more and more kindled, manifesting it selfe abroad
18605 = in the furthest parts of Christendome,
15825 = by writing in defence of the Trueth,
23901 = (which hath giuen such a blow vnto that man of Sinne,
8430 = as will not be healed)
21881 = and euery day at home, by Religious and learned discourse,
13424 = by frequenting the house of GOD,
25817 = by hearing the word preached, by cherishing the teachers therof,
9916 = by caring for the Church
18829 = as a most tender and louing nourcing Father.
19308 = There are infinite arguments of this right
22543 = Christian and Religious affection in your MAIESTIE:
22020 = but none is more forcible to declare it to others,
17320 = then the vehement and perpetuated desire
22604 = of the accomplishing and publishing of this Worke,
32321 = which now with all humilitie we present vnto your MAIESTIE.
23846 = For when your Highnesse had once out of deepe judgment
17057 = apprehended, how conuenient it was,
18847 = That out of the Originall sacred tongues,
19144 = together with comparing of the labours,
21033 = both in our owne, and other forreigne Languages,
19731 = of many worthy men who went before vs,
12929 = there should be one more exact
29045 = Translation of the holy Scriptures into the English tongue;
17764 = your MAIESTIE did neuer desist, to vrge
21746 = and to excite those to whom it was commended,
14331 = that the worke might be hastened,
24488 = and that the businesse might be expedited in so decent a maner,
24495 = as a matter of such importance might iustly require.
14074 = And now at last, by the Mercy of GOD,
15651 = and the continuance of our Labours,
30488 = it being brought vnto such a conclusion, as that we haue great hope
23456 = that the Church of England shall reape good fruit thereby;
23807 = we hold it our duety to offer it to your MAIESTIE,
17329 = not onely as to our King and Soueraigne,
26260 = but as to the principall moouer and Author of the Worke.
19776 = Humbly crauing of your most Sacred Maiestie,
16010 = that since things of this quality
17125 = haue euer bene subiect to the censures
17049 = of ill meaning and discontented persons,
16624 = it may receiue approbation and Patronage
25494 = from so learned and iudicious a Prince as your Highnesse is,
21401 = whose allowance and acceptance of our Labours
15850 = shall more honour and incourage vs,
11761 = then all the calumniations
23605 = and hard interpretations of other men shall dismay vs.
10548 = So that, if on the one side
23984 = we shall be traduced by Popish persons at home or abroad,
15346 = who therefore will maligne vs,
28146 = because we are poore Instruments to make GODS holy Trueth
20859 = to be yet more and more knowen vnto the people,
25267 = whom they desire still to keepe in ignorance and darknesse:
9729 = or if on the other side,
18634 = we shall be maligned by selfe-conceited brethren,
28157 = who runne their owne wayes, and giue liking vnto nothing
25716 = but what is framed by themselues, and hammered on their Anuile;
32015 = we may rest secure, supported within by the trueth and innocencie
7810 = of a good conscience,
24170 = hauing walked the wayes of simplicitie and integritie,
7044 = as before the Lord;
12205 = And sustained without,
29877 = by the powerfull Protection of your Maiesties grace and fauour,
16674 = which will euer giue countenance
16584 = to honest and Christian endeuours
25197 = against bitter censures, and vncharitable imputations.
10393 = The LORD of Heauen and earth
19648 = blesse your Maiestie with many and happy dayes,
21799 = that as his Heauenly hand hath enriched your Highnesse
20534 = with many singular, and extraordinary Graces;
24271 = so you may be the wonder of the world in this later age,
14503 = for happinesse and true felicitie,
24291 = to the honour of that Great GOD, and the good of his Church,
24380 = through IESVS CHRIST our Lord and onely Sauiour.
2542548
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