© Gunnar Tómasson

10 January 2017

I. Hamlet Prince of Denmark – Dramatis Personæ

(Oxford Standard Authors Edition, 1905)

259255

  10090 = Claudius, King of Denmark.

23684 = Hamlet, Son to the late, and Nephew to the present King.

14155 = Fortinbras, Prince of Norway.

10720 = Horatio, Friend to Hamlet.

11732 = Polonius, Lord Chamberlain.

7495 = Laertes, his Son.

37593 = Voltimand, Cornelius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Osric, A Gentleman, Courtiers

4049 = A Priest.

12528 = Marcellus, Bernardo, Officers.

8459 = Francisco, a Soldier.

14893 = Reynaldo, Servant to Polonius.

3268 = A Captain.

8594 = English Ambassadors.

17728 = Players.  Two Clowns, Grave-diggers.

19762 = Gertrude, Queen of Denmark and Mother to Hamlet.

13798 = Ophelia, Daughter to Polonius.

30334 = Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, and Attendants.

  10373 = Ghost of Hamlet’s Father.

259255

II. The Phoenix and the Turtle – Threnos Section

(Ox. Stand. Auth. Ed., 1905 – Omega, p. 1135)

180438

  11061 = Beauty, truth, and rarity

9668 = Grace in all simplicity,

10948 = Here enclos’d in cinders lie.

14375 = Death is now the phoenix’ nest;

12861 = And the turtle’s loyal breast

11177 = To eternity doth rest.

10286 = Leaving no posterity:

13555 = ‘Twas not their infirmity,

11840 = It was married chastity.

12501 = Truth may seem, but cannot be;

11933 = Beauty brag, but ‘tis not she;

10681 = Truth and beauty buried be.

14331 = To this urn let those repair

12424 = That are either true or fair;

  12797 = For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

180438

I + II = 259255 + 180438 = 439693

III. World Soul, Platonic-Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Authors

The Works of William Shakespeare

(First Folio, 1623)

439693

105113 = Platonic World Soul

The Authors

    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

New Atlantis – Francis Bacon

Omega Sentence

  13484 = The rest was not perfected

-1000 = Darkness

The First Folio

  16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,

17935 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and

13106 = Tragedies: Truely set forth,

16008 = according to their first Originall.

 Poem Prefixed

To First Folio

  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.

439693

IV. The Hamlet Play – Re-enactment

(Contemporary history)

439693

The Prince

    5596 = Andlig Spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

The Devil

   -4000 = Dark Sword/Man-Beast

Abomination of Desolation¹

(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 Government

  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.

439693

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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

¹Abomination 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.

Addendum

Platonic World Soul

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

The Hamlet Myth

(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. (Hamlet’s Mill – An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time, 1969; Second Paperback Edition, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, 1983, pp. 1-2.)