© Gunnar Tómasson

20 May 2017

Foreword

The Rosetta Stone enabled scholars to “read” Egyptian hieroglyphics and, today, it is a piece of cake for graduate students to “read” the writings of the ancient Egyptians.

But, while the Saga Cipher unlocks “hidden poetry” of in the Platonic/neo-Platonic tradition, its Rosetta Stone-like novelty scares “serious” scholars from taking it seriously.

And, of course, one can lead a horse to water but one cannot make it drink.

The Shakespeare Authors – Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere/Oxenford, and Ben Jonson – routinely used deliberate typos in otherwise correct text to signal the presence of “hidden poetry” within it.

This morning I had occasion to consult a major work on Francis Bacon, which I purchased in London back in November 1986.

Among other things, a typo – secretely instead of secretly – drew my attention to the text below, shown here with Cipher Values included.

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I. Was Bacon’s “death” on Easter Morning 1626 real or symbolic?

(Alfred Dodd, Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story, p. 554)

238290

  24319 = Whether Francis Bacon “passed” over to the Continent

20842 = to find a sanctuary with the ex-Queen of Bohemia,

19217 = then in Holland, and other Continental friends,

23728 = or whether he “passed” through the Gates of Death in 1626,

27240 = is, perhaps, as I have said, of little moment at this length of time.

16342 = If he did go abroad and was buried secretely

28275 = by the Rosicrucians as some well-informed persons assert,

21829 = we can say that in such an event there surely is

21973 = “some corner of a Foreign Field that is forever England” –

9302 = a very special corner

  25223 = in which lies concealed “the Richest Dust” in the world.

238290

In the context of Saga-Shakespeare Myth, “strife” within the “heart” of the apostle Peter is resolved on Easter Morning. The roots of the “strife” are spelled out in Matt. 16:13-23, as shown below.

II. Blessed art thou Simon bar Iona

(Matt. 16:13-20, King James Bible, 1611)

394811

16:13

23675 = When Iesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi,

11616 = he asked his disciples, saying,

17235 = Whom doe men say, that I, the sonne of man, am?

16:14

22774 = And they said, Some say that thou art Iohn the Baptist,

23541 = some Elias, and others Ieremias, or one of  the Prophets.

16:15

19313 = He saith vnto them, But whom say ye that I am?

16:16

14266 = And Simon Peter answered, and said,

19943 = Thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God.

16:17

16129 = And Iesus answered, and said vnto him,

13647 = Blessed art thou Simon Bar Iona:

20799 = for flesh and blood hath not reueiled it vnto thee,

13923 = but my Father which is in heauen.

16:18

19578 = And I say also vnto thee, that thou art Peter,

19317 = and vpon this rocke I will build my Church:

20444 = and the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it.

16:19

24422 = And I will giue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen:

27217 = and whatsoeuer thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heauen:

28617 = whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heauen.

16:20

11853 = Then charged hee his disciples

  26502 = that they should tel no man that he was Iesus the Christ.

394811

III. Get thee behind mee, Satan.

(Matt. 16:21-23.)

199022

16:21

29661 = From that time foorth began Iesus to shew vnto his disciples,

18499 = how that he must goe vnto Hierusalem,

26389 = and suffer many things of the Elders and chiefe Priests & Scribes,

14138 = and be killed, and be raised againe the third day.

16:22

19850 = Then Peter tooke him, and began to rebuke him, saying,

22014 = Be it farre from thee Lord: This shal not be vnto thee.

16:23

14777 = But he turned, and said vnto Peter,

20644 = Get thee behind mee, Satan, thou art an offence vnto me:

23056 = for thou sauourest not the things that be of God,

    9994 = but those that be of men.

199022

The “strife” is between Spiritual Wisdom imparted by revelation – Simon bar Iona – and pre-revelatory Earthly Understanding – Simon Peter.

In Shakespeare’s play, the “strife” is portrayed as between Spirit (Virgin Ophelia) and its Mortal Frame (Prince Hamlet) at the level of Man.

In Saga Myth, Man’s quest to resolve the “strife” is one with Snorri Sturluson´s Quest for the Holy Grail as symbolized by the imagery of Brennu-Njálssaga.

IV. Snorri Sturluson and the Quest for the Holy Grail

(Saga-Shakespeare Myth)

53741

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

Brennu-Njálssaga

Including Section on Christianity

Alpha

  6257 = Mörðr hét maðr. – Man was named Mörðr.

12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi. – There was a change of Chieftains in Norway.

Omega

11274 = Fara menn við þat heim af þingi. – Then people go home from Althing.

13530 = Ok lýk ek þar Brennu-Njálssögu. – And there I end Saga of Burnt Njáll.

“Strife” Resolved

  5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding

53741

I + II + III + IV = 238290 + 394811 + 199022 + 53741 = 885864

Resolution of the “strife” perfects Man’s Creation in God’s Image

or Man as Microcosmos.

V. To be or not to be; that is the Quest ION.

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

885864

    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.

Ophelia

15437 = My Lord, I haue Remembrances of yours,

14927 = That I haue longed long to re-deliuer.

12985 = I pray you now, receiue them.

Hamlet

12520 = No, no, I neuer gaue you ought.

Ophelia

19402 = My honor’d Lord, I know right well you did,

24384 = And with them words of so sweet breath compos’d,

19172 = As made the things more rich, then perfume left:

14959 = Take these againe, for to the Noble minde

24436 = Rich gifts wax poore, when giuers proue vnkinde.

5753 = There my Lord.

Man in God‘s Image Perfected

    7000 = Microcosmos

885864

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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