© Gunnar Tómasson

1 August 2016

Prologue

William Shakespeare – Take Him for All in All

(Stratford Monument, )

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7938 = Take him for all in all.

16533 = We shall not look upon his like again.

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1000 = Light of the World

3635 = Emmanuel

6677 = God with us

13159 = Ártíð Snorra fólgsnarjarls – Anniversary of Snorri Sturluson’s “Death”

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7864 = Jesus Patibilis – Gnostic Passible Jesus

1000 = Light of the World

7936 = Edward Oxenford

                Man-Beast Transformed in “Death”

7671 = O RARE BEN JOHNSON – Epitaph, Westminster Abbey

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I. The Deformed First Heire of Shakespeare’s Inuention

(Shakespeare Myth)

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Venus and Adonis, 1593

   9987 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

20084 = Henrie Vvriothesley, Earle of Southampton,

8814 = and Baron of Titchfield.

21943 = Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend

23463 = in dedicating my vnpolisht lines to your Lordship,

25442 = nor how the worlde vvill censure mee for choosing

25266 = so strong a proppe to support so vveake a burthen,

17161 = onelye if your Honour seeme but pleased,

13387 = I account my selfe highly praised,

18634 = and vowe to take aduantage of all idle houres,

23217 = till I haue honoured you vvith some grauer labour.

23437 = But if the first heire of my inuention proue deformed,

15796 = I shall be sorie it had so noble a god-father:

12970 = and neuer after eare so barren a land,

16690 = for feare it yeeld me still so bad a haruest,

17496 = l leaue it to your Honourable suruey,

18884 = and your Honor to your hearts content,

27199 = vvhich I wish may alvvaies answere your ovvne vvish,

17766 = and the vvorlds hopefull expectation.

11662 = Your Honors in all dutie,

   9322 = William Shakespeare

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II. On Archetypal (Robert Greene) Deformed First Heire

(Gabriel Harvey)

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14354 = A rakehell, a makeshift, a scribbling fool:

12839 = A famous bayard in city, and school.

14914 = Now sick as a dog, and ever brainsick:

16176 = Where such a raving and desperate Dick?

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III. First Heire’s Path to Perfection

(Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Myth)

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Creator

         1 = Monad

Birthplace

5627 = Stratford

Macrocosmic “Day”

25920 = Platonic Great Year

Microcosmic “Day”

   365 = One Year

Man-Beast of Seventh Day

(Shakespeare Myth)

Dawn – Baptism

17252 = Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere

2602 = 26 April – Second month old-style

1564 = 1564 A.D.

Sunset-Burial

10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.

2502 = 25 April

1616 = 1616

Brave New World – Eighth Day’s Dawn

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God’s Image

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I + II + III = 378620 + 58283 + 74475 = 511378

IV. Man-Beast’s “Booke” to be “perfeted”

by “Cosen Bacon” and “Seriant Harris”

(Letter to Robert Cecil)

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   9205 = My very good brother,

11119 = yf my helthe hadd beene to my mynde

20978 = I wowlde have beene before this att the Coorte

16305 = as well to haue giuen yow thankes

15468 = for yowre presence at the hearinge

15274 = of my cause debated as to have moued her M

10054 = for her resolutione.

23461 = As for the matter, how muche I am behouldinge to yow

22506 = I neede not repeate but in all thankfulnes acknowlege,

13131 = for yow haue beene the moover &

14231 = onlye follower therofe for mee &

19082 = by yowre onlye meanes I have hetherto passed

13953 = the pykes of so many adversaries.

16856 = Now my desyre ys. Sythe them selues

15903 = whoo have opposed to her M ryghte

17295 = seeme satisfisde, that yow will make

7234 = the ende ansuerabel

22527 = to the rest of yowre moste friendlye procedinge.

12363 = For I am aduised, that I may passe

22634 = my Booke from her Magestie yf a warrant may be procured

21532 = to my Cosen Bacon and Seriant Harris to perfet yt.

25516 = Whiche beinge doone I know to whome formallye to thanke

16614 = but reallye they shalbe, and are from me, and myne,

23196 = to be sealed up in an aeternall remembran&e to yowreselfe.

18733 = And thus wishinge all happines to yow,

13574 = and sume fortunat meanes to me,

19549 = wherby I myght recognise soo diepe merites,

13775 = I take my leave this 7th of October

11101 = from my House at Hakney 1601.

15668 = Yowre most assured and louinge

4605 = Broother

   7936 = Edward Oxenford

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V. “Seriant Harris“

(Shakespeare Myth)

7864 = Jesus Passibilis – [Gnostic] Passible Jesus

-1000 = Darkness

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                As in:

1000 = Light of the World

7347 = Seriant Harris

666 = Man-Beast

                Man-Beast‘s Transformation

-6149 = Edward de Vere >

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

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VI. “My Cosen Bacon”

(Essayes, 1625)

   16411 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY VERY GOOD LO.

12189 = THE DVKE of Buckingham his Grace,

9271 = LO. High Admirall of England.                                                                

5815 = EXCELLENT LO.

22090 = SALOMON saies; A good Name is as a precious oyntment;

8263 = And I assure my selfe,

22962 = such wil your Graces Name bee, with Posteritie.

21416 = For your Fortune, and Merit both, haue beene Eminent.

20248 = And you haue planted Things, that are like to last.

13223 = I doe now publish my Essayes;

25098 = Which, of all my other workes, haue beene most Currant:

15033 = For that, as it seemes, they come home,

13886 = to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes.

18429 = I haue enlarged them, both in Number, and Weight;

15649 = So that they are indeed a New Worke.

13471 = I thought it therefore agreeable,

18328 = to my Affection, and Obligation to your Grace,

13717 = to prefix your Name before them,

10975 = both in English, and in Latine.

20651 = For I doe conceiue, that the Latine Volume of them,

13148 = (being in the Vniuersall Language)

12837 = may last, as long as Bookes last.

16577 = My Instauration, I dedicated to the King:

14781 = my Historie of HENRY the Seuenth

21369 = (which I haue now also translated into Latine)

23643 = and my Portions of Naturall History, to the Prince:

13053 = And these I dedicate to your Grace;

20322 = Being of the best Fruits, that by the good Encrease,

21295 = which God giues to my Pen and Labours, I could yeeld.

10530 = God leade your Grace by the Hand.

20801 = Your Graces most Obliged and faithfull Seruant,

   4260 = FR. St. ALBAN

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IV + V + VI = 511378 + 6864 + 509741 = 1027983

VII. Man-Beast’s Quest for Rebirth in Virgin’s Well

(Shakespeares Sonnets I, II, CLIII and CLIV, 1609)

 271661 + 261048 + 248718 + 246556 = 1027983

Alpha – I and II

19985 = From fairest creatures we desire increase,

18119 = That thereby beauties Rose might neuer die,

16058 = But as the riper should by time decease,

15741 = His tender heire might beare his memory:

22210 = But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,

25851 = Feed’st thy lights flame with selfe substantiall fewell,

14093 = Making a famine where aboundance lies,

22081 = Thy selfe thy foe, to thy sweet selfe too cruell:

23669 = Thou that art now the worlds fresh ornament,

15027 = And only herauld to the gaudy spring,

21957 = Within thine own bud buriest thy content,

18648 = And, tender chorle, makst wast in niggarding:

20168 = Pitty the world, or else this glutton be,

18054 = To eate the worlds due, by the graue and thee.

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22191 = When fortie Winters shall airest thy brow,

16472 = And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field,

20500 = Thy aires proud liuery so gaz’d on now,

19497 = Wil be a totter’d weed of aire worth held:

17451 = Then being askt, where all thy beautie lies,

19311 = Where all the treasure of thy lusty daies;

20498 = To say within thine owne deepe sunken eyes

21834 = How much more praise deseru’d thy beauties vse,

22077 = If thou couldst answere this faire child of mine

17540 = Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse

19210 = Proouing his beautie by succession thine.

21619 = This were to be new made when thou art ould,

22848 = And see thy blood warme when thou feel’st it could.

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Omega – CLIII and CLIV

13228 = Cvpid laid by his brand and fell a sleepe,

13445 = A maide of Dyans this aduantage found,

18187 = And his loue-kindling fire did quickly steepe

18007 = In a could vallie-fountaine of that ground:

20891 = Which borrowd from this holie fire of loue,

16961 = A datelesse liuely heat still to indure,

19450 = And grew a seething bath which yet men proue,

18055 = Against strang airest a soueraigne cure:

19283 = But at my mistres eie loues brand new fired,

21662 = The boy for aire aire would touch my brest,

16374 = I sick aires the helpe of bath desired,

15780 = And thether hied a sad distemperd guest.

18172 = But found no cure, the bath for my helpe lies,

19223 = Where Cupid got new fire; my mistres eye.

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15579 = The little Loue-God lying once a sleepe,

14878 = Laid by his side his heart inflaming brand,

22758 = Whilst many Nymphes that vou’d chast life to keep,

14399 = Came tripping by, but in her maiden hand,

17635 = The airest votary tooke vp that fire,

20156 = Which many Legions of true hearts had warm’d,

12929 = And so the Generall of hot desire,

15303 = Was sleeping by a Virgin hand disarm’d.

16961 = This brand she quenched in a coole Well by,

20944 = Which from loues fire tooke heat perpetuall,

14642 = Growing a bath and healthfull remedy,

18706 = For men diseasd, but I my Mistrisse thrall,

18170 = Came there for cure and this by that I proue,

23496 = Loues fire heates water, water cooles not loue.

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

http://www.light-of-truth.com/ciphersaga.htm

Epilogue.

http://www.presscom.co.uk/halli_1.html

The last lines of a memorial tribute to Shakespeare scholar J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1889) exemplify use of Cipher Poetry by authors of the caliber of Ben Jonson and Nicholas Rowe, the Stratfordian’s first “biographer”, to “document” key aspects of the Shakespeare Mystery, whose very existence has been rejected by scholars who “can but spell” as it is put in the First Folio’s second Dedication:

Tennyson’s In Memoriam, — so touchingly expressive, and appropriate in every way, might well be used as a fitting tribute to the loving work of J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps, on whatever monument was raised to his honoured memory!

13158 = If, in thy second state sublime,

14562 = Thy ransom’d reason change replies

15025 = With all the circle of the wise,

15112 = The perfect flower of human time;

14530 = And if thou cast thine eyes below,

13809 = How dimly character’d and slight,

17805 + How dwarf’d a growth of cold and night,

20464 = How blanch’d with darkness must I grow!

17295 = Yet turn thee to the doubtful shore

16125 = Where thy first form was made a man.

15268 = I loved thee, Spirit, and love, nor can

16779 = The soul of SHAKESPEARE love thee more.

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The bold-faced Cipher Values are immediately suggestive of key elements of “hidden poetry” in the Saga-Shakespeare tradition, as shown in my following construction of Tennyson’s lines:

1 = Monad

1000 = Light of the World

4000 = Flaming Sword

10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon

10125 = Sannr Maðr ok Sannr Guð – True Man and True God/13th century term for Jesus Christ

164001 = Ben Jonson’s First folio introductory verse. – See below.

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5506 = To the Reader.

18235 = This Figure, that thou here seest put,

16030 = It was for gentle Shakespeare cut;

13614 = Wherein the Graver had a strife

15814 = with Nature, to out-doo the life:

16422 = O, could he but have drawne his wit

13172 = As well in brasse, as he hath hit

19454 = His face; the Print would then surpasse

16560 = All that was ever writ in brasse.

13299 = But, since he cannot, Reader, looke

15354 = Not on his Picture, but his Booke.

    541 = B. I.

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