© Gunnar Tómasson

12 March 2017

I. And God said, Let there be light.

And there was light.

 (Shakespeares Sonnets, 1609)

1881639

Sonnet 1

  19985 = From fairest creatures we desire increase,

18119 = That thereby beauties Rose might neuer die,

16058 = But as the riper should by time decease,

15741 = His tender heire might beare his memory:

22210 = But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,

25851 = Feed’st thy lights flame with selfe substantiall fewell,

14093 = Making a famine where aboundance lies,

22081 = Thy selfe thy foe, to thy sweet selfe too cruell:

23669 = Thou that art now the worlds fresh ornament,

15027 = And only herauld to the gaudy spring,

21957 = Within thine own bud buriest thy content,

18648 = And, tender chorle, makst wast in niggarding:

20168 = Pitty the world, or else this glutton be,

  18054 = To eate the worlds due, by the graue and thee. =

271661

Sonnet 7

19288 = Loe in the Orient when the gracious light,

15837 = Lifts vp his burning head, each vnder eye

17188 = Doth homage to his new appearing sight,

19133 = Seruing with lookes his sacred maiesty,

17351 = And hauing climb’d the steepe vp heauenly hill,

17647 = Resembling strong youth in his middle age,

18670 = Yet mortall lookes adore his beauty still,

14997 = Attending on his goulden pilgrimage:

22160 = But when from high-most pich with wery car,

12291 = Like feeble age he reeleth from the day,

19626 = The eyes (fore dutious) now conuerted are

19670 = From his low tract and looke an other way:

18341 = So thou,thy selfe out-going in thy noon:

18931 = Vnlok’d on diest vnlesse thou get a sonne.

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Sonnet 38

20302 = How can my Muse want subiect to inuent

25184 = While thou dost breath that poor’st into my verse,

20713 = Thine owne sweet argument, to excellent,

15780 = For euery vulgar paper to rehearse:

17576 = Oh giue thy selfe the thankes if ought in me,

19896 = Worthy perusal stand against thy sight,

22383 = For who’s so dumbe that cannot write to thee,

22345 = When thou thy selfe dost giue inuention light?

23070 = Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth

19892 = Then those old nine which rimers inuocate,

17495 = And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth

17195 = Eternal numbers to out-liue long date.

21113 = If my slight Muse doe please these curious daies,

16968 = The paine be mine, but thine shal be the praise.

279912

Sonnet 43

  20351 = When most I winke then doe mine eyes best see,

20262 = For all the day they view things vnrespected,

19695 = But when I sleepe, in dreames they looke on thee,

17000 = And darkely bright, are bright in darke directed.

25354 = Then thou whose shaddow shaddowes doth make bright,

25288 = How would thy shadowes forme, forme happy show,

19785 = To the cleere day with thy much cleerer light,

19088 = When to vn-seeing eyes thy shade shines so?

17035 = How would (I say) mine eyes be blessed made,

13558 = By looking on thee in the liuing day ?

18421 = When in dead night their faire imperfect shade,

22452 = Through heauy sleepe on sightlesse eyes doth stay?

16387 = All dayes are nights to see till I see thee,

  21878 = And nights bright daies when dreams do shew thee me,

276554

Sonnet 60

  21623 = Like as the waues make towards the pibled shore,

18271 = So do our minuites hasten to their end,

20062 = Each changing place with that which goes before,

19565 = In sequent toile all forwards do contend.

14474 = Natiuity once in the maine of light.

24991 = Crawles to maturity, wherewith being crown’d,

17778 = Crooked eclipses gainst his glory fight,

20187 = And time that gaue, doth now his gift confound.

21643 = Time doth transfixe the florish set on youth,

17533 = And delues the paralels in beauties brow,

18854 = Feedes on the rarities of natures truth,

21278 = And nothing stands but for his sieth to mow.

19109 = And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand

  21292 = Praising thy worth, dispight his cruell hand.

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Sonnet 88

  19390 = VVhen thou shalt be dispode to set me light,

15501 = And place my merrit in the eie of skorne,

16242 = Vpon thy side, against my selfe ile fight,

27707 = And proue thee virtuous, though thou art forsworne:

22944 = With mine owne weakenesse being best acquainted,

18026 = Vpon thy part I can set downe a story

17679 = Of faults conceald, wherein I am attainted:

21302 = That thou in loosing me shall win much glory:

12381 = And I by this wil be a gainer too,

18115 = For bending all my louing thoughts on thee,

14789 = The iniuries that to my selfe I doe,

13031 = Doing thee vantage, duble vantage me.

15020 = Such is my loue, to thee I so belong,

  21914 = That for thy right, my selfe will beare all wrong.

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Sonnet 100

  24769 = VVhere art thou Muse that thou forgetst so long,

20878 = To speake of that which giues thee all thy might?

25423 = Spendst thou thy furie on some worthlesse songe,

21327 = Darkning thy powre to lend base subiects light.

20767 = Returne forgetfull Muse, and straight redeeme,

16672 = In gentle numbers time so idely spent,

18277 = Sing to the eare that doth thy laies esteeme,

17044 = And giues thy pen both skill and argument.

21803 = Rise resty Muse, my loues sweet face suruay,

15956 = If time haue any wrincle grauen there,

8543 = If any, be a Satire to decay,

19670 = And make times spoiles dispised euery where.

19931 = Giue my loue fame faster then time wasts life,

  20621 = So thou preuenst his sieth, and crooked knife.

271681

Sonnets # 1, 7 , 38, 43, 60, 88, 100 =

271661 + 251130 + 279912 + 276554 + 276660 + 254041 + 271681 = 1881639

(The Cipher Value 1881639 will be addressed separately.)

II. To be, or not to be, that is the Question¹

(Hamlet, Act III, Sc. i, First folio, 1623)

714889

    5415 = Enter Hamlet.

Hamlet

18050 = To be, or not to be, that is the Question:

19549 = Whether ’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer

23467 = The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune,

17893 = Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles,

16211 = And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe

13853 = No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end

20133 = The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes

19800 = That Flesh is heyre too?  ‘Tis a consummation

17421 = Deuoutly to be wish’d. To dye to sleepe,

19236 = To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there’s the rub,

19794 = For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come,

21218 = When we haue shufflel’d off this mortall coile,

20087 = Must giue vs pawse. There’s the respect

13898 = That makes Calamity of so long life:

24656 = For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time,

24952 = The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely,

18734 = The pangs of dispriz’d Loue, the Lawes delay,

16768 = The insolence of Office, and the Spurnes

20720 = That patient merit of the vnworthy takes,

17879 = When he himselfe might his Quietus make

21696 = With a bare Bodkin? Who would these Fardles beare

17807 = To grunt and sweat vnder a weary life,

17426 = But that the dread of something after death,

21935 = The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne

20927 = No Traueller returnes, Puzels the will,

19000 = And makes vs rather beare those illes we haue,

20119 = Then flye to others that we know not of.

20260 = Thus Conscience does make Cowards of vs all,

18787 = And thus the Natiue hew of Resolution

21086 = Is sicklied o’re, with the pale cast of Thought,

17836 = And enterprizes of great pith and moment,

22968 = With this regard their Currants turne away,

18723 = And loose the name of Action.  Soft you now,

16746 = The faire Ophelia? Nimph, in thy Orizons

9726 = Be all my sinnes remembred.

Ophelia

5047 = Good my Lord,

17675 = How does your Honor for this many a day?

Hamlet

  17391 = I humbly thanke you: well, well, well.

714889

III + IV + V = 16290 + 468222 + 230377 = 714889

III. The Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland

(Einar Pálsson)

16290

  7196 = Bergþórshváll – Site of Burning of Njáll

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr – Mid-island islet

  3027 = Helgafell – Holy Mountain

16290

IV. Abomination of Desolation²

– The Gates of Hell

(Contemporary history)

468222

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

468222

V. Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets

(Ben Jonson, First Folio Ode, Omega)

230377

Shine Forth

  22500 = Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage

19541 = Or influence, chide or cheere the drooping Stage;

24007 = Which, since thy flight frō hence, hath mourn’d like night,

18824 = And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.

Thou Starre of Poets

    3045 = LOGOS

Thy Volumes Light

  25851 = Feed’st thy lights flame with selfe substantiall fewell, – Sonnet # 1

19288 = Loe in the Orient when the gracious light, – Sonnet # 7

22345 = When thou thy selfe dost giue inuention light? – Sonnet # 38

19785 = To the cleere day with thy much cleerer light, – Sonnet # 43

14474 = Natiuity once in the maine of light. – Sonnet # 60

19390 = VVhen thou shalt be dispode to set me light, – Sonnet # 60

  21327 = Darkning thy powre to lend base subiects light. – Sonnet # 100

230377

VI. There’s a Diuinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will

(Hamlet, Act V. Sc. ii)

230377

  10220 = Enter Hamlet and Horatio.

Hamlet:

21839 = So much for this Sir; now let me see the other,

16054 = You doe remember all the Circumstance.                           

Horatio:

8051 = Remember it my Lord?

Hamlet:

18534 = Sir, in my heart there was a kinde of fighting,

20604 = That would not let me sleepe; me thought I lay

21219 = Worse then the mutines in the Bilboes, rashly,

19510 = (And praise be rashnesse for it) let vs know,

23382 = Our indiscretion sometimes serues us well,

24730 = When our deare plots do paule, and that should teach vs

17706 = There’s a Diuinity that shapes our ends,

16093 = Rough-hew them how we will.

Horatio:

  10353 = That is most certaine.

228295

Lesson Learned

    2082 = FAITH

230377

VII. A Kinde of Fighting in Hamlet‘s Heart

(Ancient Creation Myth)

950022

228295 = A Kinde of Fighting in Hamlet‘s Heart

The Tragedie of Hamlet

    1000 = Light of the World – incarnate in:

-4000 = Dark Sword – Satan/Man-Beast

9838 = Christopher Morley – Christopher Marlowe‘s Demonic Aspect

Prince of Denmarke

714889 = To be or not to be, that is the Question.

950022

VIII. The Death of the first Modern Atheist

(Thomas Beard, Theatre of God‘s Judgements, 1593)³

950022

  23840 = Not inferior to any of the former in Atheism and Impiety,

31001 = and equal to all in manner of punishment, was one of our own nation,

26589 = of fresh and late memory called Marlowe, by profession a scholar,

26420 = brought up from his youth in the University of Cambridge,

27057 = but by practice a playwright and a Poet of scurrility, who,

21592 = by giving too large a swing to his own wit,

20536 = and suffering his lust to have the full reins,

30598 = fell (not without just desert) to that outrage and extremity,

14588 = that he denied God and His son Christ,

22968 = and not only in word blasphemed against the Trinity,

27484 = but also (as it is credibly reported) wrote books against it,

18494 = affirming our Saviour to be but a deceiver,

23120 = and Moses to be but a conjurer and seducer of the people,

18777 = and the Holy Bible to be but vain and idle stories

14561 = and all religion but a device of policy.

30888 = But see what a hook the Lord put in the nostrils of this barking dog.

18348 = It so fell out, that in London streets

26022 = as he purposed to stab one whom he sought a grudge unto

29723 = with his dagger, the other party, perceiving so, avoided the stroke,

19453 = that withal catching hold of his wrist,

15178 = he stabbed his own dagger into his head,

29364 = in such sort, that notwithstanding all the means of surgery

23541 = that could be wrought, he shortly after died thereof.

16081 = The manner of his death being so terrible

20303 = (for he even cursed and blasphemed to his last gasp,

27420 = and together with his breath an oath flew out of his mouth)

24514 = that it was not only a manifest sign of God’s judgement,

24979 = but also an horrible and fearful terror to all that beheld him.

22339 = But herein did the justice of God most notably appear,

13983 = in that he compelled his own hand

18035 = which had written those blasphemies

17123 = to be the instrument to punish him,

18497 = and that in his brain, which had devised the same.

17792 = I would to God (and I pray it from my heart)

28829 = that all atheists in this realm, and in all the world beside, would,

21316 = by the remembrance and consideration of this example,

16788 = either forsake their horrible impiety,

24251 = or that they might in like manner come to destruction;

20363 = and so that abominable sin which so flourished

10282 = among men of greatest name,

22734 = might either be quite extinguished and rooted out,

15942 = or at least smothered, and kept under,

  28309 = that it durst not show its head any more in the world’s eye.

950022

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¹The Once And Future King

(Giorgio de 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.)

²Abomination 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.

³ Marlowe – The first modern atheist.

Wikipedia: It was in the Theatre of Judgement that first appeared an account of Christopher Marlowe’s death; Beard takes Marlowe to be the first modern atheist.