© Gunnar Tómasson
12 December 2016

Foreword

A long-time fellow student of the William Shakespeare Mystery and related issues has focused closely on Dr. John Dee‘s association with the Shakespeare Authors. On consulting his web-site earlier today, I was intrigued to see that he construed the letter sequence N A B O N P, as in the first letter of the first six lines of Shakespeare‘s Sonnet # 14, as a letter clue to a link between the Sonnet and Dr. John Dee.

Also, the text of line # 6 – Pointing to each his thunder, raine, and winde – contains key words associated with Shakespeare‘s play, The Tempest, but as noted in Encyclopedia Britannica, “It is almost certain that William Shakespeare (1564–1616) modeled the character of Prospero in The Tempest (1611) on the career of John Dee, the Elizabethan magus.“

As for myself, I have long viewed the dialogue between Prospero and Miranda in Act I, Sc. ii of The Tempest (# II below) as somewhat out of place. Considering also that the text of Prospero‘s speech in Act IV, Sc. i (# III below) is featured on a statue of Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey, with the poet pointing it out with his finger, it occurred to me to check whether there might be some interesting Saga Cipher link between Sonnet # 14 and the two extracts from The Tempest.

The Cipher Sum of the three texts, 778638, is equal to the Cipher Sum 1000 + 345 + 216 + 777077 = 778638, where 1000, 345 and 216 are number symbols of Light of the World/Soul, Soul‘s material frame and Soul‘s Resurrection, respectively.

The Cipher Value, 777077, is that of an account on the peaceful final years of Sturla Þórðarson (d. 1284) after trials and tribulations at the court of the King of Norway as a result of his being maligned by his enemies in Iceland. The account highlights Sturla’s powers of prophecy and his use of occult techniques to foretell the future – as did John Dee’s alter ego Prospero.

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I. Shakespeare‘s Sonnet # 14
(1609 text)
256802

19549 = Not from the stars do I my iudgement plucke,
14699 = And yet me thinkes I haue Astronomy,
16863 = But not to tell of good, or euil lucke,
19362 = Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons quallity;
18378 = Nor can I fortune to breefe mynuits tell,
19404 = Pointing to each his thunder, raine and winde,
18090 = Or say with Princes if it shal go wel
14032 = By oft predict that I in heauen finde.
17948 = But from thine eies my knowledge I deriue,
18860 = And, constant stars, in them I read such art
18825 = As truth and beautie shal together thriue,
25556 = If from thy selfe to store thou wouldst conuert:
16717 = Or else of thee this I prognosticate,
18519 = Thy end is Truthes and Beauties doome and date.
256802

II. Tell your pitteous heart, there’s no harme done
(The Tempest, Act I, Sc. ii)
297864

11816 = Enter Prospero and Miranda.
Miranda
16805 = If by your Art (my deerest father) you have
21261 = Put the wild waters in this Rore; alay them:
27206 = The skye it seemes would powre down stinking pitch,
21778 = But that the Sea mounting to th’ welkins cheeke,
15516 = Dashes the fire out. Oh! I have suffered
22221 = With those that I saw suffer: A brave vessell
19024 = (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)
14732 = Dash’d all to peeces: O the cry did knocke
21886 = Against my very heart: poore soules, they perish’d.
14382 = Had I byn any God of power, I would
19212 = Have suncke the Sea within the Earth, or ere
21442 = It should the good Ship so have swallow’d, and
16772 = The fraughting Soules within her.
Prospero
4514 = Be collected,
7752 = No more amazement:
21545 = Tell your pitteous heart there’s no harme done.
297864

III. We are such stuffe As dreames are made on,
and our little life Is rounded with a sleepe.
(The Tempest, Act IV, Sc. i. First folio, 1623)
223972

Prospero
15483 = You doe looke (my son) in a mou’d sort,
16757 = As if you were dismaid: be cheerefull Sir,
20683 = Our Reuels now are ended: These our actors,
17926 = (As I foretold you) were all Spirits, and
14313 = Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre,
18400 = And like the baselesse fabricke of this vision
22618 = The Clowd-capt Towres, the gorgeous Pallaces,
18377 = The solemne Temples, the great Globe it selfe
17582 = Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolue
16848 = And like this insubstantiall Pageant faded
17878 = Leaue not a racke behinde. We are such stuffe
15647 = As dreames are made on, and our little life
11460 = Is rounded with a sleepe.
223972

I + II + III = 256802 + 297864 + 223972 = 778638

IV. Sturla Þórðarson (d. 1284) – A Little Life
(Sturlu þáttr, Ch. 3)
778638

Little Life
Alpha – The Fall

1000 = Light of the World – Soul
345 = Soul’s Material Frame

The Last Chapter

25900 = Þat er frá Sturlu sagt, at hann fór til Íslands með lögbók þá,
13578 = er Magnús konungr hafði skipat.
17800 = Var hann þá skipaðr lögmaðr yfir allt Ísland.
11754 = Váru þá lagaskipti á Íslandi.
21286 = Tók hann þá við búi um haustit í Fagradal af Skeggja bónda.
20331 = Þann vetr var með Sturlu Þórðr Narfason.

29178 = Þat var eitt sinn um vetrinn, at þangat kom til Sturlu Bárðr,
12955 = sonr Einars Ásgrímssonar.
6304 = Hann fór á skipi.
15913 = En þann dag eftir, er þeir fóru á brott,
13830 = laust á veðri miklu fyrir þeim,
15178 = ok uggðu menn, at þeir myndi týnast.
18754 = Þórðr gekk út ok inn, hugði at, ef veðr minnkaði.
18778 = Ok eitt sinn, er hann kom inn, mælti Sturla:
9586 = „Vertu kátr, Þórðr,
20412 = eigi mun Bárðr, frændi þinn, drukkna í þessari ferð.”
16414 = „Þat muntu aldri vita,” segir Þórðr.
19352 = En þat fréttist þá síðar, sem Sturla sagði.

19458 = Nökkuru síðar um várit tók Bárðr sótt.
13487 = Þá spurði Þórðr Sturlu,
21258 = hvárt Bárðr myndi upp standa ór sóttinni eða eigi.

21614 = „Skil ek nú,” segir Sturla, „hví þú spyrr þessa,
11233 = en fá mér nú vaxspjöld mín.”
8919 = Lék hann þar at um hríð.
12606 = Litlu síðar mælti Sturla:
16020 = „Ór þessari sótt mun Bárðr andast.”
5603 = Þat fór svá.

18556 = Sturla fór þá til Staðarhóls búi sínu
18391 = ok hafði lögsögn, þar til er hófust deilur
15807 = milli kennimanna ok leikmanna um staðamál.
13251 = Lét Sturla þá lögsögn lausa
22601 = ok settist hjá öllum vandræðum, er þar af gerðust.

16332 = Margir menn heyrðu Árna byskup þat mæla, –
11524 = ok þótti þat merkiligt, –
21134 = at Sturla myndi nökkurs mikils góðs at njóta,
11589 = er hann gekk frá þessum vanda.
22005 = Tók þá lögsögn Jón Einarsson ok Erlendr sterki.

9837 = Sturla gerði bú í Fagrey,
22273 = en fekk Snorra, syni sínum, land á Staðarhóli til ábúðar.
23388 = Sat Sturla þá í góðri virðing, þar til er hann andaðist
14525 = einni nótt eftir Óláfsmessudag.
16437 = Var hann ok Óláfsmessudag fyrst í heim
11099 = ok Óláfsmessudag síðast.
17523 = Hann var þá nær sjautugr, er hann andaðist.
13252 = Var líkami hans færðr á Staðarhól
18342 = ok jarðaðr þar at kirkju Pétrs postula,
21710 = er hann hafði mesta elsku á haft af öllum helgum mönnum.

Little Life
Omega

216 = Soul’s Resurrection
778638

V. Arise, shine, for thy light is come.
I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
(Isaiah, Ch. 60, King James Bible 1611)
1455222

60:1
14180 = Arise, shine, for thy light is come,
18687 = and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
60:2
19195 = For, behold, the darknesse shall cover the earth,
13591 = and grosse darknesse the people:
15137 = but the LORD shall arise upon thee,
14761 = and his glory shall be seene upon thee.
60:3
16584 = And the Gentiles shall come to thy light,
18574 = and kings to the brightnesse of thy rising.
60:4
16231 = Lift up thine eyes round about, and see:
16033 = all they gather themselves together,
7169 = they come to thee:
14310 = thy sonnes shall come from farre,
17995 = and thy daughters shalbe nourced at thy side.
60:5
17826 = Then thou shalt see, and flow together,
14178 = and thine heart shall feare, and be inlarged;
11386 = because the abundance of the Sea
12101 = shalbe converted unto thee,
20524 = the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
60:6
18047 = The multitude of camels shall cover thee,
12478 = the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah;
11262 = all they from Sheba shall come:
12506 = they shall bring gold and incense;
21866 = and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.
60:7
24056 = All the flockes of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee,
20212 = the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee:
20949 = they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar,
17579 = and I will glorifie the house of my glory.
60:8
14501 = Who are these that flie as a cloude,
17476 = and as the doves to their windowes?
60:9
15611 = Surely the yles shall wait for me,
14751 = and the ships of Tarshish first,
13917 = to bring thy sonnes from farre,
17641 = their silver and their gold with them,
13656 = unto the Name of the LORD thy God,
11291 = and to the Holy One of Israel,
10944 = because he hath glorified thee.
60:10
24740 = And the sonnes of strangers shall build up thy walles,
17838 = and their kings shal minister unto thee:
13247 = for in my wrath I smote thee,
16088 = but in my favour have I had mercie on thee.
60:11
19122 = Therefore thy gates shal be open continually;
15564 = they shall not bee shut day nor night;
23222 = that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles,
14153 = and that their kings may be brought.
60:12
10802 = For the nation and kingdome
18437 = that will not serve thee, shall perish,
19637 = yea those nations shall be utterly wasted.
60:13
16510 = The glory of Lebanon shal come unto thee,
20839 = the Firre tree, the Pine tree, and the Boxe together,
16017 = to beautifie the place of my Sanctuarie,
18423 = and I will make the place of my feete glorious.
60:14
17939 = The sonnes also of them that afflicted thee,
11545 = shall come bending unto thee:
11756 = and all they that despised thee
23913 = shal bow themselves downe at the soles of thy feet,
17116 = and they shall call thee the citie of the LORD,
14061 = the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
60:15
17510 = Whereas thou hast bene forsaken and hated,
16975 = so that no man went thorow thee,
16125 = I will make thee an eternall excellencie,
9854 = a joy of many generations.
60:16
21029 = Thou shalt also sucke the milke of the Gentiles,
14730 = and shalt sucke the brest of kings:
16580 = and thou shalt know that I the LORD
21920 = am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mightie One of Jacob.
60:17
27465 = For brasse I will bring gold, and for yron I will bring silver,
18386 = and for wood brasse, and for stones yron:
14615 = I will also make thy officers peace,
17825 = and thine exactours righteousnesse.
60:18
16001 = Violence shall no more be heard in thy land,
24334 = wasting nor destruction within thy borders,
28259 = but thou shalt call thy walles salvation, and thy gates praise.
60:19
16456 = The Sunne shall be no more thy light by day,
27014 = neither for brightnesse shall the moone give light unto thee:
22414 = but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light,
7393 = & thy God thy glory.
60:20
15561 = Thy Sunne shall no more goe downe;
20434 = neither shall thy moone withdraw itselfe:
19443 = for the LORD shall bee thine everlasting light,
15942 = and the dayes of thy mourning shall be ended.
60:21
16224 = Thy people also shall be all righteous:
14458 = they shal inherit the land for ever,
19548 = the branch of my planting, the worke of my hands,
8002 = that I may be glorified.
60:22
13434 = A litle one shall become a thousand,
12402 = and a small one a strong nation:
16715 = I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
1455222

IV + VI + VII + VIII = 778638 + 104521 + 438097 + 133966 = 1455222

VI. Arise, and say how thou cam‘st heere.
(The Tempest, Act V, Sc. i, First folio, 1623)
104521

Alonso
10590 = Now all the blessings
13754 = Of a glad father, compasse thee about:
15310 = Arise, and say how thou cam’st heere.
Miranda
5061 = O wonder!
18309 = How many goodly creatures are there heere?
12357 = How beauteous mankinde is?
9650 = O brave new world
11213 = That has such people in’t.
Prospero
8277 = ‘Tis new to thee.
104521

VII. Abomination of Desolation¹
(Contemporary history. Details below.)
438097
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.

VIII. For, behold, the darknesse shall cover the earth,
and grosse darknesse the people:
(Isaiah, Ch. 60:2, King James Bible, 1611)
133966
Little Life
The Fall and Crucifixion

345 = Soul‘s Material Frame

Light of the World
(Matt. 10:34, KJB 1611)

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

Hee was in the world, and the world was made by him,
and the world knew him not.
(John 1:10)

13031 = International Monetary Fund
9948 = Harvard University
7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland

Light of the World Crucified

16777 = THIS IS IESVS THE KING OF THE IEWES – Matt. 27:37

9442 = THE KING OF THE IEWES – Mark 15:26

13383 = THIS IS THE KING OF THE IEWES – Luke 23:38

17938 = IESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE IEWES – John 19:19

Little Life
Omega

216 = Soul’s Resurrection
4000 = Flaming Sword

Brave New World

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God’s Image

Light of the World
(Matt. 10:34, KJB 1611)

15592 = I came not to send peace, but a sword.
133966

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:
http://www.light-of-truth.com/ciphersaga.htm

¹ The darknesse shall cover the earth,
and grosse darknesse the people
(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.
438097