© Gunnar Tómasson

Bastille Day

14 July 2017

Preface

Jacob’s Ladder

(Gen. Ch. 28)

28:10

And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

28:11

And hee lighted upon a certaine place, and taried there all night, because the sunne was set; and hee tooke of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillowes, and lay downe in that place to sleepe.

28:12

And he dreamed, and beholde a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and beholde the Angels of God ascending and descending on it.

28:13

And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seede;

28:14

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the West, and to the East, and to the North and to the South: and in thee, and in thy seed, shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

28:15

And, behold, I am with thee, and will keepe thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee againe into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

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Victor Hugo and Jorge Luis Borges

I. Victor Hugo

1187886

  727273 = The Infinite in One Spirit – Appendix

  460613 = The Vast Dawn of Jesus Christ – Appendix

1187886

II. The Dawning of Jesus Christ

 (Construction G. T.)

12599

Father of All

        1 = Monad

2568 = Alföðr – Gylfaginning

Jacob’s Ladder

  5015 = Eight Natural Notes Descending

  5015 = Eight Natural Notes Ascending

12599

I + II = 1187886 + 12599 = 1200485

III. Jorge Luis Borges

1200485

1043730 = Pierre Menard, Autor del Quijote – Appendix

  156755 = The Infinite in One Spirit – Construction G.T.

1200485

IV. The Infinite in One Spirit

(Construction G. T.)

156755

A

The Stratfordian

        1 = Monad

1000 = Light of the World

Alpha

 (Holy Trinity Church)

19949 = STAY PASSENGER WHY GOEST THOU BY SO FAST

22679 = READ IF THOU CANST WHOM ENVIOUS DEATH HATH PLAST

24267 = WITH IN THIS MONUMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME

20503 = QUICK NATURE DIDE WHOSE NAME DOTH DECK YS TOMBE

20150 = FAR MORE THEN COST: SIEH ALL YT HE HATH WRITT

21760 = LEAVES LIVING ART BUT PAGE TO SERVE HIS WITT

Omega

-2118 = Time, End of

3321 = Dies Irae – Day of Wrath

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale – The Last Judgement. Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel

 14144 = Quod me nutrit, me destruit. – What nourishes me, destroys me.*

156755

* Stratfordian Dead and Buried

10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.

2502 = 25 April – 2nd month old-style

1616 = 1616 A.D.

14144

B

Myth and Reality

Archetype

11384 = Christopher Marlowe

-1000 = Darkness

The Infinite

 6306 = Prometheus – Providence

In One Spirit

10039 = The Spirit of Jesus

4946 = Socrates

1654 = ION

3412 = Platon

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

6537 = Victor Hugo

8279 = Jorge Luis Borges

8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

156755

C

Mind of God

  3916 = Mind of God

28878 = The Same*

5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

20887 = The Other*

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding

* Platonic concepts – based on three π values:

mathematical π ; 22/7; 256/81.

Platonic Solids

  11110 = Jörð-Vatn-Loft-Eldr-Tími – Earth-Water-Air-Fire Time

Personified

  14943 = Mörðr-Helgi-Grímr-Skarpheðinn-Kári – Killers of Höskuldr Hvítanessgoði/Saga Christ

Prophecy

The Gates of Hell

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland

Abominations

11587 = Character Assassination

5881 = Níðingsverk – Barbarity

7750 = Psychiatric Rape

6603 = Mannorðsmorð – Vicious Slander

16439 = Criminal Obstruction of Justice

156755

D

The Spirit of Jesus

Saga Dream

  10622 = Hann heitir Vígsterkr. – His name is Fortinbras.

Historical Dream

  8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

6529 = The Gates of Hell 

20143 = The Spirit of Jesus is now with you.

1806 = 18 August – 6th month old-style

1978 = 1978 A.D.

Seat of The Lower Emotions

 2487 = Anus

Spirit‘s Crucifixion

(KJB 1611)

16777 = THIS IS IESVS THE KING OF THE IEWES – Matt. 27:37

9442 = THE KING OF THE IEWES – Mark 15:26

13383 = THIS IS THE KING OF THE IEWES – Luke 23:38

17938 = IESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE IEWES – John 19:19

 Spirit Come and Gone

 (Matt. 10:34)

  19148 = Thinke not that I am come to send peace on earth;

  15592 = I came not to send peace but a sword.

156755

V. Catching the Conscience of the King

(Hamlet, Act III, Sc. ii. First folio.)

515600

  7583 = Enter Lucianus.

Hamlet

19072 = This is one Lucianus nephew to the King.

Ophelia

12427 = You are a good Chorus, my Lord.

Hamlet

21348 = I could interpret betweene you and your loue:

14896 = if I could see the Puppets dallying.

Ophelia

12893 = You are keene my Lord, you are keene.

Hamlet

20845 = It would cost you a groaning, to take off my edge.

Ophelia

11861 = Still better and worse.

Hamlet

11226 = So you mistake Husbands.

19156 = Begin Murderer.  Pox, leaue thy damnable Faces, and begin.

21025 = Come, the croaking Rauen doth bellow for Reuenge.

Lucianus

11065 = Thoughts blacke, hands apt,

11381 = Drugges fit, and Time agreeing:

18259 = Confederate season, else, no Creature seeing:

22354 = Thou mixture ranke, of Midnight Weeds collected,

20066 = With Hecats ban, thrice blasted, thrice infected,

16669 = Thy naturall Magicke, and dire propertie,

17501 = On wholsome life, vsurpe immediately.

15543 = Powres the poyson in his eares.

Hamlet

16634 = He poysons him i’th Garden for’s estate:

7711 = His name’s Gonzago:

21814 = the Story is extant and writ in choyce Italian.

7610 = You shall see anon

24793 = how the Murtherer gets the loue of Gonzago’s wife.

Ophelia

6561 = The King rises.

Hamlet

14245 = What, frighted with false fire.

Queene

8414 = How fares my Lord?

Polonius

6848 = Giue o’re the Play.

King

10045 = Giue me some Light.  Away.

All

14262 = Lights, Lights, Lights.                       Exeunt.

8919 = Manet Hamlet & Horatio.

Hamlet

17145 = Why let the strucken Deere go weepe,

8782 = The Hart vngalled play:

22955 = For some must watch, while some must sleepe;

13692 = So runnes the world away.

515600

VI. The Mousetrap – Shakespeare Prophecy

So runnes the world away.

(Construction G. T.)

515600

Alpha

(Venus and Adonis, 1593)

20165 = Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo

16408 = Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.*

* Let base conceited wits admire vile things;

Fair Phoebus lead me to the Muses‘ springs.

Abomination of Desolation

(Contemporary history)

The Gates of Hell

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands = 30125

Right Measure of Man

Persecuted

  8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

Modes 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

International Monetary Fund

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 University

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.  = 438097¹

Omega

(Ben Jonson – First Folio)

10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon – Returns

515600

VII. The Vast Dawn of Jesus Christ

(Construction G. T.)

A

15362

  7284 = Jesus Christ

The Vast Dawn

  5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding

360 = Devil’s Circle

Morning Has Broken

  6008 = Homo Sapiens

  3074 = I AM YOU

15362

B

The First Dawn

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

2307 = 23 September

1241 = 1241 A.D. – Date of Snorri Sturluson’s ‘Murder’

Morning Has Broken

4392 = Bastille Day

1405 = 14 July – 5th month old-style

2017 = 2017 A.D.

15362

C

Casus Belli

(1976 A.D.)

 8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

4646 = Wisdom

28878 = Platonic Same

14471 = Principles of Economic Analysis

Brutal Force

-11121 = Paul Anthony Samuelson

-4119 = Ignorance

-20887 = Platonic Other

-15021 = Foundations of Economic Analysis

At Play‘s End

   1000 = Light

Old World ‘run‘ away

   8990 = Brave New World

15362

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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 “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.

Appendix

Victor Hugo

The Infinite in One Spirit

727273

12305 = There are men, oceans in reality.

24406 = These waves; this ebb and flow; this terrible go-and-come;

24078 = this noise of every gust; these lights and shadows;

17744 = these vegetations belonging to the gulf;

19067 = this democracy of clouds in full hurricane;

8986 = these eagles in the foam;

18305 = these wonderful gatherings of stars

27054 = reflected in one knows not what mysterious crowd

15106 = by millions of luminous specks,

16232 = heads confused with the innumerable;

24588 = those grand errant lightnings which seem to watch;

26421 = these huge sobs; these monsters glimpsed at; this roaring;

30393 = disturbing these nights of darkness; these furies; these frenzies;

23668 = these tempests; these rocks, these shipwrecks,

14659 = these fleets crushing each other;

24015 = these human thunders mixed with divine thunders,

9712 = this blood in the abyss;

23287 = then these graces, these sweetnesses, these fêtes;

18946 = these gay white veils, these fishing boats,

22914 = these songs in the uproar, these splendid ports,

25011 = this smoke of the earth, these towns in the horizon,

25175 = this deep blue of water and sky, this useful sharpness,

28541 = this bitterness which renders the universe wholesome,

27456 = this rough salt without which all would putrefy,

20594 = these angers and assuagings, this whole in one,

14943 = this unexpected in the immutable,

24179 = this vast marvel of monotony, inexhaustibly varied,

14548 = this level after that earthquake,

26387 = these hells and these paradises of immensity eternally agitated,

14387 = this infinite, this unfathomable –

14906 = all this can exist in one spirit;

16452 = and then this spirit is called genius,

22608 = and you have Æschylus, you have Isaiah, you have Juvenal,

22905 = you have Dante, you have Michael Angelo, you have Shakespeare;

27295 = and looking at these minds is the same thing as to look at the ocean.

727273

The Vast Dawn of Jesus Christ

460613

14764 = While in the engulfing process

16973 = the flaming pleiad of the men of brutal force

15919 = descends deeper and deeper into the abyss

25085 = with the sinister pallor of approaching disappearance,

14338 = at the other extremity of space,

19166 = where the last cloud is about to fade away,

22942 = in the deep heaven of the future, henceforth to be azure,

22452 = rises in radiancy the sacred group of true stars –

21752 = Orpheus, Hermes, Job, Homer, Æschylus, Isaiah, Ezekiel,

27914 = Hippocrates, Phidias, Socrates, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle,

31754 = Archimedes, Euclid, Pythagoras, Lucretius, Plautus, Juvenal, Tacitus,

28351 = Saint Paul, John of Patmos, Tertullian, Pelagius, Dante, Gutenberg,

30624 = Joan of Arc, Christopher Columbus, Luther, Michael, Angelo, Copernicus,

26702 = Galileo, Rabelais, Calderon, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Kepler,

28664 = Milton, Moliѐre. Newton, Descartes, Kant, Piranesi, Beccaria, Diderot,

25406 = Voltaire, Beethoven, Fulton, Montgolfier, Washington.

31241 = And this marvellous constellation, at each instant more luminous,

29467 = dazzling as a glory of celestial diamonds, shines in the clear horizon,

27099 = and ascending mingles with the vast dawn of Jesus Christ.

460613   

Jorge Luis Borges

Pierre Menard, Autor del Quijote

1043730

20677 = Es una revelación cotejar el Don Quijote de Menard

19728 = con el de Cervantes. Éste, por ejemplo, escribió

20456 = (Don Quijote, primera parte, noveno capítulo):

19897 = … la verdad, cuya madre es la historia, émula del tiempo,

18982 = depósito de las acciones, testigo de lo pasado,

24627 =  ejemplo y aviso de lo presente, advertencia de lo por venir.

22785 = Redactada en el siglo diecisiete, redactada por el “ingenio lego”

30157 = Cervantes, esa enumeración es un mero elogio retórico de la historia.

8683 = Menard, en cambio, escribe:

19897 = … la verdad, cuya madre es la historia, émula del tiempo,

18982 = depósito de las acciones, testigo de lo pasado,

24627 =  ejemplo y aviso de lo presente, advertencia de lo por venir.

18005 = La historia, madre de la verdad; la idea es asombrosa.

16511 = Menard, contemporáneo de William James,

19664 = no define la historia como una indagación de la realidad

9734 = sino como su origen.

19824 = La verdad histórica, para él, no es lo que sucedió;

14978 = es lo que juzgamos que sucedió.

9746 = Las cláusulas finales —

24627 = ejemplo y aviso de lo presente, advertencia de lo por venir—

12961 = son descaradamente pragmáticas.

20952 = También es vívido el contraste de los estilos.

19629 = El estilo arcaizante de Menard —extranjero al fin—

9447 = adolece de alguna afectación.

19564 = No así el del precursor, que maneja con desenfado

13860 = el espanol corriente de su época.

24502 = No hay ejercicio intelectual que no sea finalmente inútil.

31902 = Una doctrina es al principio una descripción verosímil del universo;

16455 = giran los anos y es un mero capítulo —

14202 = cuando no un párrafo o un nombre—

10872 = de la historia de la filosofía.

19761 = En la literatura, esa caducidad es aún más notoria.

22280 = El Quijote —me dijo Menard— fue ante todo un libro agradable;

18422 = ahora es una ocasión de brindis patriótico,

19432 = de soberbia gramatical, de obscenas ediciones de lujo.

20301 = La gloria es una incomprensión y quizá la peor.

22526 = Nada tienen de nuevo esas comprobaciones nihilistas;

24881 = lo singular es la decisión que de ellas derivó Pierre Menard.

12945 = Resolvió adelantarse a la vanidad

15436 = que aguarda todas las fatigas del hombre;

22475 = acometió una empresa complejísima y de antemano fútil.

16435 = Dedicó sus escrúpulos y vigilias

22036 = a repetir en un idioma ajeno un libro preexistente.

13445 = Multiplicó los borradores;

27145 = corrigió tenazmente y desgarró miles de páginas manuscritas.

14930 = No permitió que fueran examinadas

17885 = por nadie y cuidó que no le sobrevivieran.

18028 = En vano he procurado reconstruirlas.

22520 = He reflexionado que es lícito ver en el Quijote “final”

11694 = una especie de palimpsesto,

18977 = en el que deben traslucirse los rastros —

13554 = Tenues pero no indescifrables—

17318 = de la “previa” escritura de nuestro amigo.

20057 = Desgraciadamente, sólo un segundo Pierre Menard,

15519 = invirtiendo el trabajo del anterior,

18795 = podría exhumar y resucitar esas Troyas…

1043730

Translation

It is a revelation to compare Menard’s Don Quixote with Cervantes’. The latter, for example, wrote (part one, chapter nine):

. . . truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future’s counselor. Written in the seventeenth century, written by the “lay genius” Cervantes, this enumeration is a mere rhetorical praise of history. Menard, on the other hand, writes:

. . . truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future’s counselor.

History, the mother of truth: the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of William James, does not define history as an inquiry into reality but as its origin. Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened. The final phrases—exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future’s counselor —are brazenly pragmatic.

The contrast in style is also vivid. The archaic style of Menard—quite foreign, after all—suffers from a certain affectation. Not so that of his forerunner, who handles with ease the current Spanish of his time.

There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter—if not a paragraph or a name—in the history of philosophy. In literature, this eventual caducity is even more notorious. The Quixote —Menard told me—was, above all, an entertaining book; now it is the occasion for patriotic toasts, grammatical insolence and obscene de luxe editions. Fame is a form of incomprehension, perhaps the worst.

There is nothing new in these nihilistic verifications; what is singular is the determination Menard derived from them. He decided to anticipate the vanity awaiting all man’s efforts; he set himself to an undertaking which was exceedingly complex and, from the very beginning, futile. He dedicated his scruples and his sleepless nights to repeating an already extant book in an alien tongue. He multiplied draft upon draft, revised tenaciously and tore up thousands of manuscript pages.1 He did not let anyone examine these drafts and took care they should not survive him. In vain have I tried to reconstruct them.

I have reflected that it is permissible to see in this “final” Quixote a kind of palimpsest, through which the traces—tenuous but not indecipherable—of our friend’s “previous” writing should be translucently visible. Unfortunately, only a second Pierre Menard, inverting the other’s work, would be able to exhume and revive those lost Troys.