© Gunnar Tómasson

26 August 2017

Introduction

(Wikipedia)

The Tempest is a play by  William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are shipwrecked and marooned on the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio’s lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso’s son, Ferdinand.

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I. Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare

(Dedication, Eulogy, First Folio 1623)

37438

11150 = To the memory of my beloved,

5329 = The AVTHOR

10685 = MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

867 = AND

9407 = what he hath left us.

37438

II. The AVTHOR MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

(Construction G. T.)

16014

       1 = Monad

1654 = ION

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

-1000 = Darkness

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

16014

III. Ben Jonson and Snorri Sturluson

(Dedication, Eulogy, First Folio 1623)

37438

1000 = Light of the World

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

Metamorphosis

(See INSERT)

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God’s Image

2307 = 23 September – 7th month old-style

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

2600 = FINIS*

What he hath left us.

11931 = Saga Cipher – Táknmálslykill Reykholtsmáldaga

37438

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Prince Hamlet’s Metamorphosis

(Act II, Sc. ii)

Claudius

Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Moreover that we much did long to see you,

The need we have to use you did provoke

Our hasty sending. Something have you heard

Of Hamlet’s transformation. So I call it,

Sith nor th’ exterior nor the inward man

Resembles that it was.

Comment

In the context of Creation Myth, as here construed, Prince Hamlet’s “transformation” through his encounter with his Father’s Ghost represents “metamorphosis” as in the “transformation” of Saul/Paul on the Road to Damascus and of Simon Peter/Simon bar Iona in Matt. 16:17.

It is a revelatory “transformation” of Man’s Consciousness to Cosmic Consciousness. In the case of Moses come down from Mount Sinai, the exterior aspect of this inward “transformation” is noted in Exodus 34:35, “they saw that his face was radiant”.

In Saga Myth, the like “transformation” of Snorri is represented as “murder” of the Old Snorri and “birth” of Snorri fólgsnarjarl or Snorri HIDDEN Earl, where Jarl/Earl is mythical Procreative Instrument of Cosmic Creative Power. The Cipher Value of Snorri fólgsnarjarl is 10148, as in 2728 + 3420 + 4000 = 10148, as in Miranda, 2728, and Ferdinand, 3420, made One Flesh by Flaming Sword, 4000, symbol of Cosmic Creative Power.

In the next section, Ben Jonson concludes his “remembrances” of Shakespeare with the words, “hee redeemed his vices, with his vertues. There was ever more in him to be praysed, then to be pardoned.” This is construed to refer to Prince Hamlet’s Mortal Coil/Spirit duality as manifested in the case of Ben Jonson’s “late” AVTHOR.

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IV. Ben Jonson‘s Remembrances of Shakespeare

(Private Diary, Discoveries)

516432

19116 = I remember, the Players have often mentioned it

22552 = as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing,

21394 = (whatsoever he penn’d) hee never blotted out line.

22406 = My answer hath beene, would he had blotted a thousand.

18121 = Which they thought a malevolent speech.

24813 = I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance,

15271 = who choose that circumstance

22022 = to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted.

22162 = And to justifie mine owne candor, for I lov’d the man,

25930 = and doe honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any.

19837 = Hee was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature;

10140 = had an excellent Phantsie;

17853 = brave notions, and gentle expressions;

18375 = wherein hee flow’d with that facility

23484 = that sometime it was necessary he should be stop’d:

  23469 = Sufflaminandus erat; as Augustus said of Haterius.

18146 = His wit was in his owne power;

16400 = would the rule of it had beene so too.

27845 = Many times hee fell into those things, could not escape laughter:

24385 = As when hee said in the person of Cæsar, one speaking to him:

13195 = Cæsar thou dost me wrong.

3946 = Hee replyed:

21881 = Cæsar did never wrong, but with just cause:

18145 = and such like; which were ridiculous.

20502 = But hee redeemed his vices, with his vertues.

25042 = There was ever more in him to be praysed, then to be pardoned.

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Fighting in Prince Hamlet’s Heart

The “record” reveals “rivalry” between Ben Jonson and Shakespeare arising from “jealousy” on Jonson’s part towards a superior talent. The “record” is here construed to have been contrived to reflect in “real” life mythical “strife” between what Snorri Sturluson termed “Jarðlig skilning” or Earthly Understanding (Ordinary Consciousness) and “Andlig spekðin“ or Spiritual Wisdom (Cosmic Consciousness).

In ancient Creation Myth, there is both a Personal and Cosmic aspect to this “strife“. In Act V, Sc. ii, Prince Hamlet (“carrier“ of both aspects) describes it as “a kinde of fighting in [his] heart“:

Enter Hamlet and Horatio.

Hamlet:

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

You doe remember all the Circumstance.                               

Horatio:

Remember it my Lord?

Hamlet:

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

That would not let me sleepe; me thought I lay

Worse then the mutines in the Bilboes, rashly,

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

Our indiscretion sometimes serues us well,

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

There’s a Diuinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will.

Horatio:

That is most certaine.

The Tempest

As noted in the Introduction, Prospero‘s machinations [serve to] bring about the revelation of Antonio’s lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso’s son, Ferdinand.“ The“union“ between Miranda and Ferdinand by means of Cosmic Creative Power attests to success of Prospero‘s efforts in this respect. As for the King‘s “redemption“, in Hamlet‘s last scene it is represented by the “union“ in “death“ of usurper King Claudius, 4470, and Queen Gertrude, 4520 as in 4470 + 4520 = 8990, as in Miranda‘s Brave New World, 8990.

In the next section, The Tempest is construed as the framework within which the success of Prospero’s “machinations”/Prince Hamlet’s “mission” is presented as Omega to Light of the World’s Crucifixion in Man-Beast’s “heart” at Alpha, as per the King James Bible 1611, on the one hand, and the last sentence of the Advent of Christianity Section of Brennu-Njálssaga.

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V. The Tempest – Crucifixion – Advent of Christianity

(First Folio, King James Bible 1611, Brennu-Njálssaga)

106504

First Folio

  5950 = The Tempest

Crucifixion

  1000 = Light of the World

-4000 = Dark Sword/Man-Beast

King James Bible, 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

Light of the World‘s Mission

(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

Christianity become Law of the Land

(Brennu-Njálssaga, Ch. 105)

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

106504

VI. Francis Bacon’s “General Characteristics”

Code word PLUMMET – 4371 – WILL I AM

(HALLECKS’S NEW ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1913)

482409

Will I AM

  1000 = Light of the World

16078 = In Bacon’s sentences we may often find

23483 = remarkable condensation of thought in few words.

22895 = A modern essayist has taken seven pages to express,

26817 = or rather to obscure, the ideas in these three lines from Bacon:–

30236 = „Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,

30225 = repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,

26605 = but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.“

18575 = His works abound in illustrations,

12292 = analogies, and striking imagery;

17008 = But unlike the great Elizabethan poets,

22680 = he appeals more to cold intellect than to the feelings.

25186 = We are often pleased with his intellectual ingenuity,

22554 = for instance, in likening the Schoolmen to spiders,

17711 = spinning such stuff as webs are made of

16588 = „out of no great quantity of matter.“

12095 = He resembles the Elizabethans

20444 = in preferring magnificent to commonplace images.

9978 = It has been often noticed

22022 = that if he essays to write of buildings in general,

12443 = he prefers to describe palaces.

24325 = His knowledge of the intellectual side of human nature

19654 = is especially remarkable, but, unlike Shakespeare,

14015 = Bacon never drops his plummet

17500 = into the emotional depths of the soul.

482409

I/III + IV + V + VI = 37438 + 516432 + 106504 + 482409 = 1142783

VII. My Charmes Ile breake, their Sences Ile restore

And deeper then did euer PLUMMET sound

Ile drowne my booke.

 (The Tempest, Act V, Sc. i, First Folio)

1142783

  19042 = Enter Prospero (in his Magicke robes) and Ariel.

Prospero

15368 = Now do’s my Proiect gather to a head:

19423 = My charmes cracke not: my Spirits obey, and Time

21225 = Goes upright with his carriage; how’s the day?

Ariel

19816 = On the sixt hower, at which time, my Lord

15623 = You said our worke should cease.

Prospero

4250 = I did say so,

21770 = When first I rais’d the Tempest: say my Spirit,

16751 = How fares the King, and ‘s followers?

Ariel

7666 = Confin’d together

15388 = In the same fashion, as you gave in charge,

19427 = Just as you left them; all prisoners Sir

22044 = In the Line-grove which weather-fends your Cell,

19182 = They cannot boudge till your release; The King,

20172 = His Brother, and yours, abide all three distracted,

15913 = And the remainder mourning over them,

18980 = Brim full of sorrow, and dismay: but chiefly

21938 = Him that you term’d, Sir, the good old Lord Gonzallo,

25492 = His teares runs downe his beard like winters drops

25314 = From eaves of reeds: your charm so strongly works ’em

19560 = That if you now beheld them, your affections

9453 = Would become tender.

Prospero

14311 = Dost thou thinke so, Spirit?

Ariel

14479 = Mine would, Sir, were I humane.

Prospero

4984 = And mine shall.

20119 = Hast thou (which art but aire) a touch, a feeling

17692 = Of their afflictions, and shall not my selfe,

19176 = One of their kinde, that rellish all as sharpely,

20310 = Passion as they, be kindlier mov’d then thou art?

27099 = Thogh with their high wrongs I am strook to th’ quick,

19196 = Yet, with my nobler reason, gainst my furie

14422 = Doe I take part: the rarer Action is

19963 = In vertue, then in vengeance: they, being penitent,

18701 = The sole drift of my purpose doth extend

19904 = Not a frowne further: Goe, release them Ariell,

19197 = My Charmes Ile breake, their sences Ile restore,

11286 = And they shall be themselves.

Ariel

10223 = Ile fetch them, Sir.                        Exit.

Prospero

19671 = Ye Elves of hils, brooks, stading lakes & groves,  [text: stāding]

21781 = And ye, that on the sands with printlesse foote

15355 = Doe chase the ebbing-Neptune, and doe flie him

18559 = When he comes backe: you demy-Puppets, that

21219 = By Moone-shine doe the greene sowre Ringlets make,

23846 = Whereof the Ewe not bites: and you, whose pastime

20191 = Is to make midnight-Mushrumps, that rejoyce

18871 = To heare the solemne Curfewe, by whose ayde

16242 = (Weake Masters though ye be) I have bedymn’d

24732 = The Noone-tide Sun, call’d forth the mutenous windes,

20131 = And twixt the greene Sea, and the azur’d vault

21995 = Set roaring warre: To the dread ratling Thunder

19875 = Have I given fire, and rifted Joves stowt Oke

25796 = With his owne Bolt: The strong bass’d promontorie

17910 = Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluckt up

14410 = The Pyne and Cedar.  Graves at my command

19453 = Have wak’d their sleepers, op’d, and let ’em forth

19097 = By my so potent Art.  But this rough Magicke

15146 = I heere abjure: and when I have requir’d

19551 = Some heavenly Musicke (which even now I do)

19620 = To worke mine end upon their Sences, that

16897 = This Ayrie-charme is for, I’le breake my staffe,

15226 = Bury it certaine fadomes in the earth,

16147 = And deeper then did ever Plummet sound

8638 = Ile drowne my booke.

7565 = Solemne musicke.

1142783

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