© Gunnar Tómasson

16 May 2017

I. There’s hope left, then.

You that haue so grac’d monsters, may like men.

(Ben Jonson, First folio, 1616)

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4830 = Prologve.

17241 = Though neede make many Poets, and some such

16774 = As art, and nature haue not betterd much;

21897 = Yet ours, for want, hath not so lou’d the stage,

17415 = As he dare serue th’ill customes of the age:

17601 = Or purchase your delight at such a rate,

17203 = As, for it, he himselfe must iustly hate.

17208 = To make a child, now swadled, to proceede

17110 = Man, and then shoote vp, in one beard, and weede,

28348 = Past threescore yeeres: or, with three rustie swords,

20685 = And helpe of some few foot-and-halfe-foote words,

19196 = Fight ouer Yorke, and Lancasters long iarres:

23205 = And in the tyring-house bring wounds, to scarres.

18225 = He rather prayes, you will be pleas’d to see

17173 = One such, to day, as other playes should be,

22710 = Where neither Chorus wafts you ore the seas;

23368 = Nor creaking throne comes downe, the boyes to please;

15984 = Nor nimble squibbe is seene, to make afear’d

18357 = The gentlewomen; nor roul’d bullet heard

22546 = To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous drumme

22563 = Rumbles, to tell you when the storme doth come;

16095 = But deedes, and language, such as men doe vse:

19810 = And persons, such as Comoedie would chuse,

19926 = When she would shew an Image of the times,

23846 = And sport with humane follies, not with crimes.

17988 = Except, we make ‘hem such by louing still

23677 = Our popular errors, when we know th’are ill.

18285 = I meane such errors, as you’ll all confesse

16660 = By laughing at them, they deserue no lesse:

22972 = Which when you heartily doe, there’s hope left, then,

18924 = You, that haue so grac’d monsters, may like men.

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II. Man, wretched Man, thou shalt be taught to know

Who bears within himself the inborn Cause of Woe.

(Nicholas Rowe, The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, 1707)

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22268 = Man, wretched Man, thou shalt be taught to know,

23953 = Who bears within himself the inborn Cause of Woe.

16941 = Unhappy Race!  that never yet could tell

20275 = How near their Good and Happiness they dwell.

17740 = Depriv’d of Sense, they neither hear nor see;

16072 = Fetter’d in Vice, they seek not to be free,

17950 = But stupid to their own sad Fate agree.

25196 = Like pond’rous Rolling-stones, oppress’d with Ill,

21053 = The Weight that loads ’em makes ’em roll on still,

15792 = Bereft of Choice, and Freedom of the Will.

18066 = For native Strife in ev’ry Bosom reigns,

17850 = And secretly an impious War maintains:

19029 = Provoke not THIS, but let the Combat cease,

16118 = And ev’ry yielding Passion sue for Peace.

23006 = Wouldst thou, great Jove, thou Father of Mankind,

16365 = Reveal the Demon for that Task assign’d,

20915 = The wretched Race an End to Woes would find.

13682 = And yet be bold, O Man, Divine thou art,

15669 = And of the Gods Celestial Essence Part.

16846 = Nor sacred Nature is from thee conceal’d,

18826 = But to thy Race her mystick Rules reveal’d.

17583 = These if to know thou happily attain,

19994 = Soon shalt thou perfect be in all that I ordain.

23807 = Thy wounded Soul to Health thou shalt restore,

14688 = And free from ev’ry Pain she felt before.

18437 = Abstain, I warn, from Meats unclean and foul,

16826 = So keep thy Body pure, so free thy Soul;

17633 = So rightly judge; thy Reason, so, maintain;

18256 = Reason which Heav’n did for thy Guide ordain,

16921 = Let that best Reason ever hold the Rein.

16695 = Then if this mortal Body thou forsake,

16669 = And thy glad Flight to the pure Æther take,

17175 = Among the Gods exalted shalt thou shine,

14884 = Immortal, Incorruptible, Divine:

19453 = The Tyrant Death securely shalt thou brave,

16300 = And scorn the dark Dominion of the Grave.

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III. a. Horace‘s Monument – Sweet Swan of Avon

 (Construction)

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15415 = Exegi monumentum aere perennius
15971 = regalique situ pyramidum altius,

18183 = quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens
16667 = possit diruere aut innumerabilis
15808 = annorum series et fuga temporum.
16838 = Non omnis moriar multaque pars mei
17125 = vitabit Libitinam; usque ego postera
15977 = crescam laude recens.  Dum Capitolium
16702 = scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex,
17493 = dicar, qua violens obstrepit Aufidus
17316 = et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestium
19190 = regnavit populorum, ex humili potens,
14596 = princeps Aeolium carmen ad Italos
15421 = deduxisse modos.  Sume superbiam
15021 = quaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica
15259 = lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam.*

Humble Origins

   -1000 = Darkness (of Ignorance)

Horace’s Pride

    4000 = Flaming Sword

Slays

   -4119 = Ignorance

New Man

  10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon

      100 = THE END

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*  I have created a monument more lasting than bronze and loftier than the royal pyramids, a monument which neither the biting rain nor the raging North Wind can destroy, nor can the countless years and the passing of the seasons.  I will not entirely die and a great part of me will avoid Libitina, the goddess of Death; I will grow greater and greater in times to come, kept fresh by praise.  So long as the high priest climbs the stairs of the Capitolium, accompanied by the silent Vestal Virgin, I, now powerful but from humble origins, will be said to be the first to have brought Aeolian song to Latin meter where the raging Aufidius roars and where parched Daunus ruled over the country folk.  Embrace my pride, deservedly earned, Muse, and willingly crown me with Apollo’s laurel.

III. b. New breed of Men sent down from heaven

Return of Baldr

(Construction)

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    4000 = Flaming Sword

Slays

   -4119 = Ignorance

New Breed of Men

    1739 = Baldr

Sent down from Heaven

(Virgil, Fourth Eclogue)

16609 = Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas;

20087 = Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.

18681 = Iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna,

18584 = Iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto.

20229 = Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum

18431 = Desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo,

17698 = Casta fave Lucina: tuus iam regnat Apollo.

18480 = Teque adeo decus hoc aevi te consule, inibit,

18919 = Pollio, et incipient magni procedere menses;

22004 = Te duce, si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri,

20495 = Inrita perpetua solvent formidine terras.

18330 = Ille deum vitam accipiet divisque videbit

20448 = Permixtos heroas et ipse videbitur illis

22153 = Pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem.*

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* Now the last age by Cumae’s Sibyl sung has come and gone, and the majestic roll of circling centuries begins anew: justice returns, returns old Saturn’s reign, with a new breed of men send down from heaven.  Only do thou, at the boy’s birth in whom the iron shall cease, the golden race arise, befriend him, chaste Lucina; ‘tis thine own Apollo reigns.

And in thy consulate, this glorious age, O Pollio, shall begin, and the months enter on their mighty march.  Under thy guidance, whatso tracks remain of our old wickedness, once done away, shall free the earth from never-ceasing fear.  He shall receive the life of gods, and see heroes with gods commingling, and himself be seen of them, and with his father’s worth reign o’er a world of peace.

I + II + III = 597822 + 658933 + 272768 = 1529523

IV. Ben Jonson’s Commendatory Ode

(First folio, 1623)

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11150 = To the memory of my beloved,

5329 = The AVTHOR

10685 = MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

867 = AND

9407 = what he hath left us.

17316 = To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name,

13629 = Am I thus ample to thy Booke, and Fame:

20670 = While I confesse thy writings to be such,

19164 = As neither Man, nor Muse, can praise too much.

21369 = ‘Tis true, and all mens suffrage. But these wayes

20516 = Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise;

17686 = For seeliest Ignorance on these may light,

23213 = Which, when it sounds at best, but eccho’s right;

17565 = Or blinde Affection, which doth ne’re advance

19375 = The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;

18692 = Or crafty Malice, might pretend this praise,

19456 = And thinke to ruine, where it seem’d to raise.

18294 = These are, as some infamous Baud, or Whore,

23199 = Should praise a Matron: – What could hurt her more?

18170 = But thou art proofe against them, and indeed

16465 = Above th’ill fortune of them, or the need.

16324 = I, therefore, will begin. Soule of the Age!

20370 = The applause! delight! the wonder of our Stage!

18434 = My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by

16611 = Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lye

15597 = A little further, to make thee a roome:

17952 = Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe,

19673 = And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live,

19194 = And we have wits to read, and praise to give.

18259 = That I not mixe thee so, my braine excuses, –

22232 = I meane with great, but disproportion’d Muses;

19760 = For if I thought my judgement were of yeeres,

21584 = I should commit thee surely with thy peeres,

23104 = And tell, how farre thou didst our Lily out-shine,

19727 = Or sporting Kid, or Marlowes mighty line.

21016 = And though thou hadst small Latine, and lesse Greeke,

21296 = From thence to honour thee, I would not seeke

20635 = For names; but call forth thund’ring Æschilus,

14527 = Euripides, and Sophocles to us,

15939 = Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead,

15425 = To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread

19665 = And shake a Stage: Or, when thy Sockes were on,

14842 = Leave thee alone for the comparison

18781 = Of all that insolent Greece or haughtie Rome

20033 = Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.

21540 = Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe

18910 = To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe.

14789 = He was not of an age, but for all time!

19879 = And all the Muses still were in their prime,

17867 = When, like Apollo, he came forth to warme

16143 = Our eares, or like a Mercury to charme!

19768 = Nature her selfe was proud of his designes,

18609 = And joy’d to weare the dressing of his lines!

22712 = Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,

20715 = As, since, she will vouchsafe no other Wit.

16006 = The merry Greeke, tart Aristophanes,

22701 = Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please;

12944 = But antiquated, and deserted lye,

15906 = As they were not of Natures family.

17575 = Yet must I not give Nature all; Thy Art,

16885 = My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part:

17709 = For though the Poets matter, Nature be,

16202 = His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he,

24373 = Who casts to write a living line, must sweat

18045 = (such as thine are) and strike the second heat

17403 = Upon the Muses anvile: turne the same,

19618 = (And himselfe with it) that he thinkes to frame;

16266 = Or, for the lawrell, he may gaine a scorne,

15633 = For a good Poet’s made, as well as borne.

21914 = And such wert thou. Looke how the fathers face

15715 = Lives in his issue, even so, the race

20651 = Of Shakespeares minde and manners brightly shines

17328 = In his well torned and true-filed lines:

15712 = In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance,

14757 = As brandish’t at the eyes of Ignorance.

21616 = Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were

17318 = To see thee in our waters yet appeare,

19678 = And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames,

14184 = That so did take Eliza and our James!

15161 = But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere

14530 = Advanc’d, and made a Constellation there!

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.

 4692 = BEN: IONSON

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V + VI + VII = 62677 + 468222 + 998624 = 1529523

V. And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.

(King James Bible, 1611)

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Alpha

16777 = THIS IS JESVS THE KING OF THE JEWES – Matt. 27:37
9442 = THE KING OF THE JEWES – Mark 15:26

13383 = THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWES – Luke 23:38
17938 = JESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWES – John 19:19

Omega

  5137 = Judgement Day

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VI. Abomination of Desolation¹

(Contemporary history)

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The Gates of Hell

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland = 30125

Persecuted

  8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

Means of Persecution

11587 = Character Assassination

5881 = Níðingsverk – Barbarity

7750 = Psychiatric Rape

6603 = Mannorðsmorð – Vicious Slander

16439 = Criminal Obstruction of Justice

Persecutors – Pontius Pilates

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. = 438097¹

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VII. Wherefore was that cry?

The Queene (my lord) is dead.

(Macbeth, Act V, Sc. v, First Folio)

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18403 = Enter Macbeth, Seyton, & Souldiers, with,

8343 = Drum and Colours.

Macbeth

21757 = Hang out our Banners on the outward walls,

23086 = The Cry is still, they come: our Castles strength

19926 = Will laugh a Siedge to scorne: Heere let them lye,

13600 = Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp:

25999 = Were they not forc’d with those that should be ours,

18203 = We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard,

20078 = And beate them backward home.  What is that noyse?

11226 = A Cry within of Women.

Seyton

15780 = It is the cry of women, my good Lord.

Macbeth

17369 = I haue almost forgot the taste of Feares:

18952 = The time ha’s beene, my sences would haue cool’d

15646 = To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire

22673 = Would at a dismall Treatise rowze, and stirre

23924 = As life were in’t.  I haue supt full with horrors,

23242 = Direnesse familiar to my slaughterous thought

21957 = Cannot once start me.  Wherefore was that cry?

Seyton

9748 = The Queene (my Lord) is dead.

Macbeth

12050 = She should haue dy’de heereafter;

20111 = There would haue beene a time for such a word:

22689 = To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow,

17099 = Creepes in this petty pace from day to day,

15476 = To the last Syllable of Recorded time:

17611 = And all our yesterdayes, haue lighted Fooles

19767 = The way to dusty death.  Out, out, breefe Candle,

18629 = Life’s but a walking Shadow, a poore Player,

23287 = That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage,

13957 = And then is heard no more.  It is a Tale

15789 = Told by an Ideot, full of sound and fury

8516 = Signifying nothing.

7575 = Enter a Messenger.

24832 = Thou com’st to vse thy Tongue: thy Story quickly.

Messenger

7775 = Gracious my Lord,

19101 = I should report that which I say I saw,

14701 = But know not how to doo’t.

Macbeth

6670 = Well, say sir.

Messenger

15838 = As I did stand my watch vpon the Hill

18364 = I look’d toward Byrnane, and anon me thought

10243 = The Wood began to moue.

Macbeth

5340 = Lyar, and Slaue.

Messenger

18076 = Let me endure your wrath, if’t be not so:

20255 = Within this three Mile may you see it coming.

8345 = I say, a mouing Groue.

Macbeth

10055 = If thou speak’st fhlse,²

18528 = Vpon the next Tree shall thou hang aliue

17658 = Till Famine cling thee: If thy speech be sooth,

16291 = I care not if thou dost for me as much.

13224 = I pull in Resolution, and begin

17039 = To doubt th’Equiuocation of the Fiend,

22333 = That lies like truth.  Feare not till Byrnane Wood

16360 = Do come to Dunsinane, and now a Wood

18605 = Comes toward Dunsinane.  Arme, arme, and out,

16608 = If this which he auouches, do’s appeare,

18415 = There is nor flying hence, nor tarrying here.

12872 = I ‘ginne to be a-weary of the Sun,

24373 = And wish th’estate o’ th’world were now vndon.

20301 = Ring the Alarum Bell, blow Winde, come wracke,

23954 = At least wee’l dye with Harnesse on our backe.               Exeunt.

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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 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

² fhlse – First Folio text.