© Gunnar Tómasson

17 November 2016

Hamlet’s Mill:

An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge

And Its Transmission Through Myth

Foreword

© Giorgio Santillana

This is meant to be only an essay.  It is a first reconnaissance of a realm well-nigh unexplored and uncharted.  From whichever way one enters it, one is caught in the same bewildering circular complexity, as in a labyrinth, for it has no deductive order in the abstract sense, but instead resembles an organism tightly closed in itself, or even better, a monumental „Art of the Fugue.“

The figure of Hamlet as a favorable starting point came by chance.  Many other avenues offered themselves, rich in strange symbols and beckoning with great images, but the choice went to Hamlet because he led the mind on a truly inductive quest through a familiar landscape – and one which has the merit of its literary setting.  Here is a character deeply present to our awareness, in whom ambiguities and uncertainties, tormented self-questioning and dispassionate insight give a presentiment of the modern mind.  His personal drama was that he had to be a hero, but still try to avoid the role Destiny assigned him.  His lucid intellect remained above the conflict of motives – in other words, his was and is a truly contemporary consciousness.  And yet this character whom the poet made one of us, the first unhappy intellectual, concealed a past as a legendary being, his features predetermined, preshaped by long-standing myth.  There was a numinous aura around him, and many clues led up to him.  But it was a surprise to find behind the mask an ancient and all-embracing cosmic power – the original master of the dreamed-of first age of the world.

Yet in all his guises he remained strangely himself.  The original Amlóði, as his name was in Icelandic legend, shows the same characteristics of melancholy and high intellect.  He, too, is a son dedicated to avenge his father, a speaker of cryptic but inescapable truths, an elusive carrier of Fate who must yield once his mission is accomplished and sink once more into concealment in the depths of time to which he belongs:  Lord of the Golden Age, the Once and Future King.

This essay will follow the figure farther and farther afield, from the Northland to Rome, from there to Finland, Iran, and India; he will appear again unmistakably in Polynesian legend.  Many other Dominions and Powers will materialize to frame him within the proper order.

Amlóði was identified, in the crude and vivid imagery of the Norse, by the ownership of a fabled mill which, in his own time, ground out peace and plenty.  Later, in decaying times, it ground out salt; and now finally, having landed at the bottom of the sea, it is grinding rock and sand, creating a vast whirlpool, the Maelstrom (i.e. the grinding stream, from the [Icelandic] verb mala,“to grind“), which is supposed to be a way to the land of the dead.  This imagery stands, as the evidence develops, for an astronomical process, the secular shifting of the sun through the signs of the zodiac which determines world-ages, each numbering thousands of years.  Each age brings a World Era, a Twilight of the Gods.  Great structures collapse; pillars topple which supported the great fabric; floods and cataclysms herald the shaping of a new world. (David R. Godine, Boston, Second Paperback Ed., 1983, pp. 1-2.)

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I. I Am Thy Father’s Spirit

(Hamlet, Act I, Sc. v, First folio)

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 vp my selfe.

Hamlet

7778 = Alas poore Ghost.

Ghost

19231 = Pitty me not, but lend thy serious hearing

10823 = To what I shall vnfold.

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

18694 = Are burnt and purg‘d away? But that I am forbid

18785 = To tell the secrets of my Prison-House,

20467 = I could a Tale vnfold, whose lightest word

25179 = Would harrow vp 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 vpon the fretfull Porpentine:

17082 = But this eternall blason must not be

10384 = To eares of flesh and bloud; list Hamlet, oh list,

16884 = If thou didst euer thy deare Father loue.

Hamlet

3459 = Oh Heauen!

Ghost

22153 = Reuenge his foule and most vnnaturall Murther.

Hamlet

4660 = Murther?

Ghost

18629 = Murther most foule, as in the best it is;

20891 = But this most foule, strange, and vnnaturall.

Hamlet

11813 = Hast, hast me to know it,

15426 = That with wings as swift

17684 = As meditation, or the thoughts of Loue,

11099 = May sweepe to my Reuenge.

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,

26342 = Would‘st thou not stirre in this. Now Hamlet heare:

19608 = It‘s giuen 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 Vncle?

Ghost

19142 = I that incestuous, that adulterate Beast

29730 = With witchcraft of his wits, hath Traitorous guifts.

21415 = Oh wicked Wit, and Gifts, that haue 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 loue was of that dignity,

21371 = That it went hand in hand, euen with the Vow

13881 = I made to her in Marriage; and to decline

25184 = Vpon a wretch, whose Naturall gifts were poore

24348 = To those of mine. But Vertue, as it neuer wil be moved,

21122 = Though Lewdnesse court it in a shape of Heauen:

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 = Vpon my secure hower thy Vncle 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-siluer, 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 euen in the Blossomes of my Sinne,

16349 = Vnhouzzled, 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 howsoeuer thou pursuest this Act,

22240 = Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contriue

19204 = Against thy Mother ought; leaue her to heauen,

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 vneffectuall Fire:

    12486 = Adue, adue, Hamlet; remember me.    Exit.

1658168

II, Emmanuel and The Last Judgement

(Saga-Shakespeare Myth and Prophecy)

36701

  3635 = Emmanuel

-1000 = Darkness

The Sacred Triangle

of Pagan Iceland

  7196 = Bergþórshváll

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr

3027 = Helgafell

The Last Judgement

Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica

  6677 = God with us

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale

36701

I + II = 1658168 + 36701 = 1694869

III + IV + V + VI + VII = 304805 + 378903 + 529042 + 468222 + 13897 = 1694869

III. The Law Brought by Moses

(Number of letters in the Torah)

304805

IV. Isaiah’s Vision of The Last Judgement

(Isaiah 29:1-6, King James Bible 1611)

378903

  23257 = Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the citie where Dauid dwelt:

17628 = adde yee yeere to yeere; let them kill sacrifices.

12921 = Yet I will distresse Ariel,

17127 = and there shalbe heauinesse and sorrow;

12031 = and it shall be vnto mee as Ariel.

17582 = And I will campe against thee round about,

19679 = and will lay siege against thee with a mount,

15690 = and I will raise forts against thee.

14869 = And thou shalt bee brought downe,

14749 = and shalt speake out of the ground,

19052 = and thy speach shall be low out of the dust,

7495 = and thy voyce shalbe

23361 = as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground,

20973 = and thy speach shall whisper out of the dust.

20325 = Moreouer the multitude of thy strangers

9311 = shalbe like small dust,

16953 = and the multitude of the terrible ones

13697 = shalbe as chaffe that passeth away;

14304 = yea it shalbe at an instant suddenly.

27642 = Thou shalt bee visited of the LORD of hostes with thunder,

15394 = and with earthquake, and great noise,

  24863 = with storme and tempest, and the flame of deuouring fire.

378903           

V. The Devil‘s Temptation of Jesus

 (Matt. 4:1-11, King James Bible, 1511)

529042

  28613 = Then was Iesus led vp of the Spirit into the Wildernesse,

11214 = to bee tempted of the deuill.

20530 = And when hee had fasted forty dayes and forty nights,

13181 = hee was afterward an hungred.

16482 = And when the tempter came to him, hee said,

10566 = If thou be the Sonne of God,

15281 = command that these stones bee made bread.

18472 = But he answered, and said, It is written,

11833 = Man shall not liue by bread alone,

26509 = but by euery Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

20924 = Then the deuill taketh him vp into the holy Citie,

16520 = and setteth him on a pinacle of the Temple,

8004 = And saith vnto him,

20580 = If thou bee the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe:

28489 = For it is written, He shall giue his Angels charge concerning thee,

15292 = & in their handes they shall beare thee vp,

22323 = lest at any time thou dash thy foote against a stone.

19606 = Iesus said vnto him, It is written againe,

17802 = Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

25356 = Againe the Deuill taketh him vp into an exceeding high mountaine,

20642 = and sheweth him all the kingdomes of the world

8143 = and the glory of them:

22688 = And saith vnto him, All these things will I give thee

19710 = if thou wilt fall downe and worship me.

12627 = Then saith Iesus vnto him,

17837 = Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written,

18110 = Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,

13398 = and him onely shalt thou serue.

11082 = Then the deuill leaveth him,

  17228 = and behold, Angels came and ministred vnto him.

529042

INSERT

  6306 = Prometheus – Providence

28613 = Then was Iesus led vp of the Spirit into the Wildernesse,

11214 = to bee tempted of the deuill.

    100 = THE END

46333

3394 = Jesus

3858 = The Devil

8856 = Money-Power-Sex

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland

    100 = THE END

46333

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale

57432

Matt. 10:34, KJB 1611

19148 = Thinke not that I am come to send peace on earth;

15592 = I came not to send peace but a sword.

Francis Bacon’s “Last Letter”

22692 = This was the last letter that he ever wrote.

57432

Prince Hamlet

Once and Future King’s Reuenge

11813 = Hast, hast me to know it,

15426 = That with wings as swift

17684 = As meditation, or the thoughts of Loue,

11099 = May sweepe to my Reuenge.¹

Reuenge

  7615 = Get thee hence, Satan

-6306 = Prometheus

1 = Monad

    100 = THE END

57432

END INSERT

VI. The Last Letter:

Abomination of Desolation

(Prophecy)

468222

The Wildernesse

  13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands

Abomination of Desolation²

(Contemporary history)

438097

Observers

    8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

Non-violent Crimes

  11587 = Character Assassination

5881 = Níðingsverk – Barbarity

7750 = Psychiatric Rape

6603 = Mannorðsmorð – Vicious Slander

16439 = Criminal Obstruction of Justice

Man-Beasts

U.S. Government

    12867 = William Jefferson Clinton – President

4496 = Janet Reno – Attorney General

IMF

     8899 = Jacques de Larosière – Managing Director

7678 = Michel Camdessus – Managing Director

5517 = William B. Dale – Deputy Managing Director

2713 = Dick Erb – Deputy Managing Director

6584 = Jacques J. Polak – Economic Counsellor

4734 = Tun Thin – Asian Department Director

9349 = W. John R. Woodley – Asian Department Deputy Director

3542 = Ken Clark – Director of Administration

3339 = Graeme Rea – Director of Administration

3227 = P. N. Kaul – Deputy Director of Administration

5446 = Nick Zumas – Grievance Committee Chairman

Harvard

    3625 = Derek C. Bok – President

8175 = Henry Rosovsky – Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

8566 = James S. Duesenberry – Chairman, Department of Economics

11121 = Paul Anthony Samuelson – Ph. D., Nobel Laureate in Economics

8381 = Walter S. Salant – Ph. D., Brookings Institution Senior Fellow

Iceland

  10244 = Vigdís Finnbogadóttir – President

11361 = Salóme Þorkelsdóttir – Althing President

6028 = Davíd Oddsson – Prime Minister

10295 = Þorsteinn Pálsson – Minister of Justice

8316 = Jón Sigurdsson – Minister of Commerce

5940 = Jónas H. Haralz – World Bank Executive Director

Other Iceland

    6648 = Jóhannes Nordal – Central Bank Governor

8864 = Bjarni Bragi Jónsson – Central Bank Chief Economist

14314 = Benjamín Jón Hafsteinn Eiríksson – Harvard Ph. D.

9720 = Matthías Jóhannessen – Editor, Morgunblaðið

Other

  10989 = Orenthal James Simpson

8015 = John & Patsy Ramsey

4953 = Osama bin Laden

Violent Crimes

    3586 = Murder

6899 = Nicole Brown

4948 = Ron Goldman

6100 = Brentwood

1204 = 12 June (4th month old-style)

1994 = 1994 A.D.

3718 = Jonbenet

3503 = Boulder

2510 = 25 December (10th month old-style)

1996 = 1996 A.D.

5557 = The Pentagon

9596 = World Trade Center

1107 = 11 September (7th month old-style)

2001 = 2001 A.D.

Other

    7920 = Excelsior Hotel

5060 = Paula Jones

803 = 8 May (3rd month old-style)

1991 = 1991 A.D.

4014 = Kiss it!

8486 = The White House

7334 = Kathleen Willey

2909 = 29 November (9th month old-style)

1993 = 1993 A.D.

22091 = I’ve wanted to do this ever since I laid eyes on you.

6045 = The Oval Office

8112 = Monica Lewinsky

1509 = 15 November (9th month old-style)

    1995 = 1995 A.D.

468222

VII. Metamorphosis

(Ancient Creation Myth)

13897

Hamlet‘s Death

  9015 = The rest is silence.

THE END

 -2118 = Time

New World

  7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image

13897

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¹ 11099 = May sweepe to my Reuenge.

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale

² Abomination of Desolation

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.