© Gunnar Tómasson

2 September 2016

Foreword

This evening Iceland‘s National Symphony opened its 2016-17 season at the Harpa Concert Hall with a program of the ten pieces of classical music rated as popular favorites in a national internet vote.

The program concluded with three large choirs joining the National Symphony and several of Iceland‘s leading male and female singers in a performance of Ode to Joy from Beethoven‘s Ninth Symphony.

Watching the performance on a large flat-screen TV at my apartment a stone’s throw away from Harpa, it occurred to me that, like Mozart‘s Magic Flute and Verdi‘s Aida and Requiem, the (Friedrich Schiller) lyrics of Beethoven‘s Ode to Joy must have been designed to reflect the structure of what I have termed the Cipher Poetry of Authors in the 2500 year old Platonic-Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare tradition.

I obtained the Ode to Joy lyrics from the internet and determined their Cipher Values. As shown below, Beethoven‘s glorious Ode to Joy gives musical expression to the core structure of such Cipher Poetry.

I. Beethoven‘s Ninth Symphony – Ode to Joy¹

(German lyrics from the Internet)

615509

11089 = O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!
18628 = Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen,
8942 = und freudenvollere.
  5472 = Freude! Freude!

44131

13664 = Freude, schöner Götterfunken
10267 = Tochter aus Elysium,
14199 = Wir betreten feuertrunken,
10907 = Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
10913 = Deine Zauber binden wieder
12718 = Was die Mode streng geteilt;
12295 = Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
14573 = Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.
15418 = Wem der große Wurf gelungen,,
13785 = Eines Freundes Freund zu sein;
14235 = Wer ein holdes Weib errungen,
9275 = Mische seinen Jubel ein!
11165 = Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele
11913 = Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!
14960 = Und wer’s nie gekonnt, der stehle
12609 = Weinend sich aus diesem Bund!
11848 = Freude trinken alle Wesen
10775 = An den Brüsten der Natur;
8081 = Alle Guten, alle Bösen
11765 = Folgen ihrer Rosenspur.
11600 = Kuße gab sie uns und Reben,
12085 = Einen Freund, geprüft im Tod;
16575 = Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben,
14563 = Und der Cherub steht vor Gott.
13094 = Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen
13958 = Durch des Himmels prächt’gen Plan,
9482 = Laufet, Brüder, eure Bahn,
13620 = Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen.
12556 = Seid umschlungen, Millionen!
13446 = Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!
12799 = Brüder, über’m Sternenzelt
14121 = Muss ein lieber Vater wohnen.
14150 = Ihr sturzt nieder, Millionen?
13212 = Ahnest du den Schöpfer, Welt?
13679 = Such’ ihn über’m Sternenzelt!
  14980 = Uber Sternen muß er wohnen.

459285

Finale repeats the words:

 12556 = Seid umschlungen, Millionen!
13446 = Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!
12799 = Brüder, über’m Sternenzelt
14121 = Muß ein lieber Vater wohnen.
8130 = Seid umschlungen,
13446 = Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!
13664 = Freude, schöner Götterfunken
10267 = Tochter aus Elysium,
  13664 = Freude, schöner Götterfunken

112093

Total Cipher Value

44131 + 459285 + 112093 = 615509

II + III = 516432 + 99077 = 615509

II. Ben Jonson Remembers Shakespeare

(Private Diary – Discoveries)

516432

  19116 = I remember, the Players have often mentioned it

22552 = as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing,

21394 = (whatsoever he penn’d) hee never blotted out line.

22406 = My answer hath beene, would he had blotted a thousand.

18121 = Which they thought a malevolent speech.

24813 = I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance,

15271 = who choose that circumstance

22022 = to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted.

22162 = And to justifie mine owne candor, for I lov’d the man,

25930 = and doe honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any.

19837 = Hee was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature;

10140 = had an excellent Phantsie;

17853 = brave notions, and gentle expressions;

18375 = wherein hee flow’d with that facility

23484 = that sometime it was necessary he should be stop’d:

23469 = Sufflaminandus erat; as Augustus said of Haterius.

18146 = His wit was in his owne power;

16400 = would the rule of it had beene so too.

27845 = Many times hee fell into those things, could not escape laughter:

24385 = As when hee said in the person of Cæsar, one speaking to him:

13195 = Cæsar thou dost me wrong.

3946 = Hee replyed:

21881 = Cæsar did never wrong, but with just cause:

18145 = and such like; which were ridiculous.

20502 = But hee redeemed his vices, with his vertues.

  25042 = There was ever more in him to be praysed, then to be pardoned.

516432

III. Platonic-Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Authors

Cosmic Creative Power and God of Kabbalah

(Research G.T.)

99077

  1654 = ION

3412 = Platon

4946 = Socrates

14209 = Quintus Horatius Flaccus

12337 = Publius Virgilius Maro

11999 = Sextus Propertius

11249 = Publius Ovidius Naso

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

9814 = Sturla Þórðarson

5385 = Francis Bacon

7936 = Edward Oxenford

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

677 = EK – Author of Brennu-Njálssaga/Manifested God of Kabbalah

    100 = THE END

99077

IV. Repeated Words in Finale

(# I above)

112093

  12556 = Seid umschlungen, Millionen!
13446 = Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!
12799 = Brüder, über’m Sternenzelt
14121 = Muss ein lieber Vater wohnen.
8130 = Seid umschlungen,
13446 = Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!
13664 = Freude, schöner Götterfunken
10267 = Tochter aus Elysium,
  13664 = Freude, schöner Götterfunken.

112093

V. Plato’s World Soul and Christian Myth

(Research G.T.)

112093

105113 = Plato‘s World Soul²

Christian Myth

            1 = Monad

1000 = Light of the World

    5979 = Girth House³

112093

***

Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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

¹ NB. The German letters ß, ä and ü have been changed to “ss“, “a“and “u“ for the calculation of Cipher Values because the calculator is not programmed to deal with them.

² The sum of 34 numerical values derived from the tonal scale in so-called Traditional Construction of the World Soul. (See p. 229, Plato´s Mathematical Imagination by Robert Brumbaugh; on the Internet.)

³ Circular stone church in the Orkney islands built on the model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

English Translation of Lyrics

(Internet)

Oh friends, not these tones!
Rather, let us raise our voices in more pleasing
And more joyful sounds!
Joy! Joy!

Joy, beautiful spark of divinity
Daughter of Elysium,
We enter, drunk with fire,
Into your heavenly sanctuary!
Your magic reunites
What custom strictly divided.
All men will become brothers,
Where your gentle wing rests.
Whoever has had the great fortune
To be a friend’s friend,
Whoever has won a devoted wife,
Join in our jubilation!
Indeed, whoever can call even one soul,
His own on this earth!
And whoever was never able to, must creep
Tearfully away from this band!
Joy all creatures drink
At the breasts of nature;
All good, all bad
Follow her trail of roses.
Kisses she gave us, and wine,
A friend, proved in death;
Pleasure was to the worm given,
And the cherub stands before God.
Glad, as His suns fly
Through the Heaven’s glorious design,
Run, brothers, your path,
Joyful, as a hero to victory.
Be embraced, millions!
This kiss for the whole world!
Brothers, above the starry canopy
Must a loving Father dwell.
Do you bow down, millions?
Do you sense the Creator, world?
Seek Him beyond the starry canopy!
Beyond the stars must He dwell.
Finale repeats the words:
Be embraced, you millions!
This kiss for the whole world!
Brothers, beyond the star-canopy
Must a loving Father dwell.
Be embraced,
This kiss for the whole world!
Joy, beautiful spark of divinity,
Daughter of Elysium,
Joy, beautiful spark of divinity