© Gunnar Tómasson

10 March 2017

Contents

I + V

1441199 = I am constant as the Northerne Starre

  468222 = Abomination of Desolation

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II + III + IV + VI

  100571 = Ambition’s Debt is Paid

621625 = This Same Day Must End that Work the Ides of March begun

988942 = Brutus: Cæsar, now be still, I kill’d not thee with halfe so good a will. Dyes.

  198283 = Snorri Sturluson’s Advice to Young Poets

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I. I am constant as the Northerne Starre

(Julius Cæsar, Act III, Sc. i. First Folio 1623)

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      4916 = Flourish.                                                                                                                          

    24433 = Enter Cæsar, Brutus, Cassius, Caska, Decius, Metellus,

25886 = Trebonius, Cynna, Antony, Lepidus, Artimedorus, Publius,      

8352 =  and the Soothsayer.

Cæsar

9508 = The Ides of March are come.

Soothsayer

8887 = I Cæsar, but not gone.

Artimedorus

11592 = Haile Cæsar: Read this Scedule.

Decius

17267 = Trebonius doth desire you to ore-read

20518 = (At your best leysure) this his humble suite.

Artemidorus

17809 = O Cæsar, reade mine first: for mine’s a suite

19816 = That touches Cæsar neerer.  Read it great Cæsar,

Cæsar

22379 = What touches vs our selfe, shall be last seru’d.

Artemidorus

14149 = Delay not, Cæsar, read it instantly.

Cæsar

11037 = What, is the fellow mad?

Publius

6900 = Sirra, giue place.

Cassius

22754 = What, vrge you your Petitions in the street?

9210 = Come to the Capitoll.

Popillius

19963 = I wish your enterprize to day may thriue.

Cassius

15019 = What enterprize Popillius?

Popillius

6575 = Fare you well.

Brutus

11992 = What said Popillius Lena?

Cassius

22191 = He wisht to day our enterprize might thriue:

15837 = I feare our purpose is discouered.

Brutus

15806 = Looke how he makes to Cæsar: marke him.

Cassius

16942 = Caska be sodaine, for we feare preuention,

20350 = Brutus what shall be done?  If this be knowne,

18558 = Cassius or Cæsar neuer shall turne backe,

10528 = For I will slay my selfe.

Brutus

9990 = Cassius be constant:

21899 = Popillius Lena speakes not of our purposes,

18125 = For looke he smiles, and Cæsar doth not change.

Cassius

24829 = Trebonius knowes his time: for look you Brutus

17249 = He drawes Mark Antony out of the way.

Decius

16210 = Where is Metellus Cimber, let him go,

19500 = And presently preferre his suite to Cæsar.

Brutus

16379 = He is addrest: presse neere, and second him.

Cynna

19433 = Caska, you are the first that reares your hand.

Cæsar

16879 = Are we all ready?  What is now amisse,

17969 = That Cæsar and his Senate must redresse?

Metellus

21506 = Most high, most mighty, and most puisant Cæsar

19567 = Metellus Cymber throwes before thy Seate

5778 = An humble heart.

Cæsar

12472 = I must preuent thee Cymber:

21733 = These couchings, and these lowly courtesies

14345 = Might fire the blood of ordinary men,

16504 = And turne pre-Ordinance, and first Decree

14255 = Into the lane of Children.  Be not fond,

18986 = To thinke that Cæsar beares such Rebell blood

20290 = That will be thaw’d from the true quality

27136 = With that which melteth Fooles, I meane sweet words,

22347 = Low-crooked-curtsies, and base Spaniell fawning:

12618 = Thy Brother by decree is banished:

17586 = If thou doest bend, and pray, and fawne for him,

18113 = I spurne thee like a Curre out of my way:

25524 = Know, Cæsar doth not wrong, nor without cause

8655 = Will he be satisfied.

Metellus

21609 = Is there no voyce more worthy then my owne,

20385 = To sound more sweetly in great Cæsars eare,

15686 = For the repealing of my banish’d Brother?

Brutus

18142 = I kisse thy hand, but not in flattery, Cæsar:

16107 = Desiring thee, that Publius Cymber may

12806 = Haue an immediate freedome of repeale.

Cæsar

7924 = What, Brutus!

Cassius

11142 = Pardon, Cæsar; Cæsar, pardon:

19425 = As lowe as to thy foote doth Cassius fall,

19052 = To begge infranchisement for Publius Cymber.

Cæsar

16379 = I could be well mou’d if I were as you,

22538 = If I could pray to mooue, Prayers would mooue me:

19543 = But I am constant as the Northerne Starre,

19698 = Of whose true fixt, and resting quality

16134 = There is no fellow in the Firmament.

21305 = The Skies are painted with vnnumbred sparkes,

15567 = They are all Fire and every one doth shine:

18563 = But, there’s but one in all doth hold his place.

23070 = So, in the World; ‘Tis furnish’d well with Men,

15675 = And Men are Flesh and Blood, and apprehensiue;

15653 = Yet in the number I do know but One

15556 = That vnassayleable holds on his Ranke,

13067 = Vnshak’d of Motion: and that I am he,

16339 = Let me a little shew it, euen in this,

19864 = That I was constant Cymber should be banish’d,

15998 = And constant do remaine to keepe him so.

Cinna

3200 = O Cæsar, –

Cæsar

16936 = Hence:  Wilt thou lift up Olympus!

Decius

4910 = Great Cæsar, –

Cæsar

16307 = Doth not Brutus bootlesse kneele?

Casca

7232 = Speake, hands, for me!

6500 = They stab Cæsar.

Cæsar

    13836 = Et tu, Brute? _______ Then fall Cæsar.              Dyes     

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II. Ambition’s Debt is Paid

(Cæsar, Act III, Sc. i. – Cont.)

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Cinna

12536 = Liberty,  Freedome,  Tyranny is dead,

20780 = Run hence, proclaime, cry it about the Streets.

Casca

19015 = Some to the common Pulpits, and cry out,

14707 = Liberty, Freedome, and Enfranchisement.

Brutus

15381 = People and Senators, be not affrighted:

  18152 = Fly not, stand still: Ambition’s debt is paid.

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III. This Same Day Must End that Worke

the Ides of March begun

(Cæsar, Act V, Sc. I, First Folio)

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Cassius

12879 = Now most Noble Brutus,

17568 = The gods today stand friendly, that we may,

15686 = Louers in peace, leade on our dayes to age!

23178 = But since the affayres of men rests still incertaine,

21190 = Let’s reason with the worst that may befall.

17931 = If we do lose this Battaile, then is this

19984 = The very last time we shall speake together:

15404 = What are you then determined to do?

Brutus

15472 = Euen by the rule of that Philosophy,

14051 = By which I did blame Cato, for the death

19501 = Which he did giue himselfe, I know not how:

14406 = But I do finde it Cowardly, and vile,

19113 = For feare of what might fall, so to preuent

19095 = The time of life, arming my selfe with patience,

20623 = To stay the prouidence of some high Powers,

11326 = That gouerne vs below.

Cassius

13765 = Then, if we loose this battaile,

16527 = You are contented to be led in Triumph

14976 = Thorow the streets of Rome.

Brutus

7042 = No, Cassius, no:

13000 = Thinke not thou Noble Romane,

19844 = That euer Brutus will go bound to Rome,

16711 = He beares too great a minde.  But this same day

19149 = Must end that work the Ides of March begun.

20191 = And whether we shall meete againe, I know not:

19155 = Therefore our euerlasting farewell take:

17976 = For euer, and for euer, farewell Cassius,

17336 = If we do meete againe, why we shall smile;

21165 = If not, why then, this parting was well made.

Cassius

18046 = For euer, and for euer, farewell, Brutus:

14916 = If we do meete againe, wee’l smile indeed;

21535 = If not, ’tis true, this parting was well made.

Brutus

17661 = Why then leade on.  O that a man might know

17668 = The end of this dayes businesse, ere it come:

17050 = But it sufficeth, that the day will end,

  20505 = And then the end is knowne.  Come ho, away.   Exeunt.

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IV. Brutus: Cæsar, now be still,

I kill’d not thee with halfe so good a will.  Dyes.

(Cæsar, Act V, Sc. v, First Folio)

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  27431 = Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato, and Volumnius.   

Brutus

22431 = Come poore remaines of friends, rest on this Rocke.

Clitus

22615 = Statillius shew’d the Torch-light, but my Lord

14738 = He came not backe: he is or tane, or slaine.

Brutus

21394 = Sit thee downe, Clitus: slaying is the word,

16002 = It is a deed in fashion.  Hearke thee, Clitus.

Clitus

18735 = What I, my Lord?  No, not for all the World.

Brutus

9486 = Peace then, no words.

Clitus

9389 = Ile rather kill my selfe.

Brutus

8186 = Hearke thee, Dardanius.

Dardanius

7540 = Shall I doe such a deed?

Clitus

4916 = O Dardanius.

Dardanius

4806 = O Clitus.

Clitus

19677 = What ill request did Brutus make to thee?

Dardanius

16522 = To kill him, Clitus: looke he meditates.

Clitus

18524 = Now is that Noble Vessell full of griefe,

16777 = That it runnes ouer euen at his eyes.

Brutus

19766 = Come hither, good Volumnius, list a word.

Volumnius

8965 = What sayes my Lord?

Brutus

11762 = Why this, Volumnius:

15079 = The Ghost of Cæsar hath appear’d to me

20095 = Two seuerall times by Night: at Sardis, once;

17915 = And this last Night, here in Philippi fields:

11202 = I know my houre is come.

Volumnius

6885 = Not so, my Lord.

Brutus

14113 = Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius.

24548 = Thou seest the World, Volumnius, how it goes,

22418 = Our Enemies haue beat vs to the Pit:                     Low Alarums.

20447 = It is more worthy, to leape in our selues,

22529 = Then tarry till they push vs.  Good Volumnius,

29663 = Thou know’st, that we two went to Schoole together:

17052 = Euen for that our loue of old, I prethee

24652 = Hold thou my Sword Hilts, whilest I runne on it.

Volumnius

15886 = That’s not an Office for a friend, my Lord.

6214 = Alarum still.

Clytus

17222 = Fly, flye, my Lord, there is no tarrying heere.

Brutus

20403 = Farewell to you, and you, and you, Volumnius.

20554 = Strato, thou hast bin all this while asleepe:

19893 = Farewell to thee, to Strato,  Countrymen:

15437 = My heart doth ioy, that yet in all my life,

16259 = I found no man, but he was true to me.

15062 = I shall haue glory by this loosing day,

15870 = More then Octauius, and Marke Antony,

19379 = By this vile Conquest shall attaine vnto.

21107 = So fare you well at once, for Brutus tongue

16046 = Hath almost ended his liues History:

21799 = Night hangs vpon mine eyes, my Bones would rest,

19708 = That haue but labour’d, to attaine this houre.

13599 = Alarum. Cry within, Flye, flye, flye.

Clytus

5833 = Fly my Lord, flye.

Brutus

10117 = Hence:  I will follow:

18105 = I prythee, Strato, stay thou by thy Lord,

15993 = Thou art a Fellow of a good respect:

17546 = Thy life hath had some smatch of Honor in it,

18913 = Hold then my Sword, and turne away thy face,

22243 = While I do run vpon it.  Wilt thou, Strato?

Strato

19393 = Giue me your hand first. Fare you wel my Lord.

Brutus

19970 = Farewell good Strato. –  Cæsar, now be still,

  20131 = I kill’d not thee with halfe so good a will.  Dyes.

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V. Abomination of Desolation¹

(Contemporary history)

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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.

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The Gates of Hell

  13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

    7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland

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VI. Snorri Sturluson’s Advice to Young Poets

(Edda, Skáldskaparmál, Ch. 8.)

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  16349 = En þetta er nú at segja ungum skáldum,

15868 = þeim er girnast at nema mál skáldskapar

16723 = ok heyja sér orðfjölða með fornum heitum

15251 = eða girnast þeir at kunna skilja þat,

8474 = er hulit er kveðit,

22969 = þá skili hann þessa bók til fróðleiks ok skemmtunar.

19899 = En ekki er at gleyma eða ósanna svá þessar frásagnir

17985 = at taka ór skáldskapinum fornar kenningar,

14787 = þær er höfuðskáld hafa sér líka látit.

19481 = En eigi skulu kristnir menn trúa á heiðin goð

17358 = ok eigi á sannyndi þessa sagna annan veg en svá

12776 = sem hér finnst í upphafi bókar.

At the Beginning of the Book

         -1 = Sleeping Monad/Reason

-5596 = Andlig Spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

6960 = Jarðlig Skilning – Earthly Understanding

   -1000 = Darkness

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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 “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.

² Translation

(Internet)

„But now one thing must be said to young skalds, to such as yearn to attain to the craft of poesy and to increase their store of figures with traditional metaphors; or to those who crave to acquire the faculty of discerning what is said in hidden phrase: let such an one, then, interpret this book to his instruction and pleasure. Yet one is not so to forget or discredit these traditions as to remove from poesy those ancient metaphors with which it has pleased Chief Skalds to be content; nor, on the other hand, ought Christian men to believe in heathen gods, nor in the truth of these tales otherwise than precisely as one may find here in the beginning of the book.