©Gunnar Tómasson

29 December 2017

Background

Francis Bacon and Don Quixote de la Mancha

A

„It is impossible to help but notice now and then that Armado [of Shakespeare’s ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’] is extraordinarily like Don Quixote in his consistent overestimate of himself and in his insistence on imagining himself a superhuman storybook hero. […]

„There is something rather pleasant in the thought that Shakespeare might be borrowing from Miguel de Cervantes, the Spanish author of the Don Quixote saga, since Cervantes was almost an exact contemporary of Shakespeare’s and by all odds one of the few writers, on the basis of Don Quixote alone, worthy of being mentioned in the same breath with Shakespeare.

„There is only one catch, but that is a fatal one. The first part of Don Quixote was published in 1605, a dozen years at least after Love’s Labor’s Lost was written.“ (Isaac Asimov, Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare, Avenel Books, New York, 1978, Vol, I, pp. 431-2.)

B

„Another curious case of cryptography was presented to the public in 1917 by one of the best of the SHAKESPEARE scholars, Dr. Alfred von Weber Ebenhoff of Vienna.  Employing the same systems previously applied to the works of Bacon, he began to examine the works of Cervantes…. Pursuing the investigation, he discovered overwhelming material evidence: the first English translation of Don Quixote bears corrections in Bacon’s hand.  He concluded that this English version was the original of the novel and that Cervantes had published a Spanish translation of it.“ (J. Duchaussoy, Bacon, Shakespeare ou Saint-Germain?, Paris, La Colombe, 1962, p. 122 – in Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, New York, 1989, p. 406.)

C

Which may explain a thing or two.

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I. The Infinite Existing in One Spirit

(Victor Hugo. William Shakespeare)

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

II. The Murder of Snorri Sturluson

(Íslendingasaga, Ch. 151)

872813

24923 = Þeir Kolbeinn ungi ok Gizurr fundust í þann tíma á Kili

16169 = ok gerðu ráð sín, þau er síðan kómu fram.

17253 = Þetta sumar var veginn Kolr inn auðgi.

12973 = Árni, er beiskr var kallaðr, vá hann.

22206 = Síðan hljóp hann til Gizurar, ok tók hann við honum.

22202 = Þá er Gizurr kom af Kili, stefndi hann mönnum at sér.

18989 = Váru þar fyrir þeir bræðr, Klængr ok Ormr,

14052 = Loftr byskupsson, Árni óreiða.

11988 = Helt hann þá upp bréfum þeim,

16109 = er þeir Eyvindr ok Árni höfðu út haft.

20569 = Var þar á, að Gizurr skyldi Snorra láta utan fara,

17397 = hvárt er honum þætti ljúft eða leitt,

16385 = eða drepa hann at öðrum kosti fyrir þat,

15013 = er hann hafði farit út í banni konungs.

20247 = Kallaði Hákon konungr Snorra landráðamann við sik.

25991 = Sagði Gizurr, at hann vildi með engu móti brjóta bréf konungs,

23272 = en kvaðst vita, at Snorri myndi eigi ónauðigr utan fara.

21724 = Kveðst Gizurr þá vildu til fara ok taka Snorra.

15578 = Ormr vildi ekki vera í þessi ráðagerð,

11324 = ok reið hann heim á Breiðabólstað.

10444 = Gizurr dró þá lið saman

21132 = ok sendi þá bræðr vestr til Borgarfjarðar á njósn,

8421 = Árna beisk ok Svart.

18469 = En Gizurr reið frá liðinu með sjau tigi manna,

28447 = en Loft byskupsson lét hann vera fyrir því liðinu, er síðar fór.

20530 = Klængr reið á Kjalarnes eftir liði ok svá upp í herað.

29224 = Gizurr kom í Reykjaholt um nóttina eftir Mauritíusmessu.

20587 = Brutu þeir upp skemmuna, er Snorri svaf í.

23045 = En hann hljóp upp ok ór skemmunni í in litlu húsin,

9688 = er váru við skemmuna.

19023 = Fann hann þar Arnbjörn prest ok talaði við hann.

17663 = Réðu þeir þat, at Snorri gekk í kjallarann,

17668 = er var undir loftinu þar í húsunum.

21242 = Þeir Gizurr fóru at leita Snorra um húsin.

28547 = Þá fann Gizurr Arnbjörn prest ok spurði, hvar Snorri væri.

8875 = Hann kvaðst eigi vita.

22694 = Gizurr kvað þá eigi sættast mega, ef þeir fyndist eigi.

15638 = Prestr kvað vera mega, at hann fyndist,

12692 = ef honum væri griðum heitit.

22884 = Eftir þat urðu þeir varir við, hvar Snorri var.

25600 = Ok gengu þeir í kjallarann Markús Marðarson, Símon knútr,

26492 = Árni beiskr, Þorsteinn Guðinason, Þórarinn Ásgrímsson.

13048 = Símon knútr bað Árna höggva hann.

12169 = „Eigi skal höggva,” sagði Snorri.

8594 = „Högg þú,” sagði Símon.

12169 = „Eigi skal höggva,” sagði Snorri.

16079 = Eftir þat veitti Árni honum banasár,

17385 = ok báðir þeir Þorsteinn unnu á honum.

872813

III. The Infinite in History

(Construction G. T.)

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The Infinite

           1 = Monad

727273 = The Infinite in One Spirit – # I

The Sacred Triangle

Of Pagan Iceland

7196 = Bergþórshváll

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr

3027 = Helgafell

Coming of Christ

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

One Spirit

10039 = The Spirit of Jesus

One Spirit in History

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

8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

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

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

878864

 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.

878864

V. Prince Hamlet – The Infinite in One Spirit

(Construction G. T.)

878864

727273 = The Infinite in One Spirit – # I

Gnostic Spirit

Jesus Patibilis – Passible 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

Hell

1825 = Death

6529 = The Gates of Hell

Dream

1806 = 18 August – 6^th month old-style

1978 = 1978 A.D.

8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

Shepherd

  20143 = ‟The Spirit of Jesus is now with you.‟

Coming of Christ

 4000 = Flaming Sword

    100 = The End

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VI. But this rough Magicke I heere abjure

 (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 vpright 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 gaue in charge,

19427 = Just as you left them; all prisoners Sir

22044 = In the Line-groue 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 ouer 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 eaues 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 mou’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 themselues.

Ariel

10223 = Ile fetch them, Sir.                        Exit.

Prospero

19671 = Ye Elues of hils, brooks, stāding lakes & groues, [ā= a]

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 haue 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 = Haue I given fire, and rifted Joves stowt Oke

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

17910 = Haue I made shake, and by the spurs pluckt vp

14410 = The Pyne and Cedar.  Graues 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.

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VII. Abomination of Desolation¹

This rough Magicke – Extreme Persecution

(Contemporary history)

468222

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 – Jesting 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

468222

VIII. Some Heauenly Musicke

(Construction G. T.)

148083

Alpha

4946 = Socrates

Movement of Equinoctial Points

Around the Zodiac

4956 = Aquarius

3577 = Pisces

2443 = Aries

4611 = Taurus

2514 = Gemini

2589 = Cancer

1392 = Leo

3180 = Virgo

1939 = Libra

4594 = Scorpio

6729 = Sagittarius

6795 = Capricornus

Omega

1000 = LIGHT

To worke mine end upon their Sences, that

This Ayrie-charme is for:

The Last Pope²

13831 = In persecutione extrema S.R.E.

12051 = sedebit Petrus Romanus,

22136 = qui pascet oues in multis tribulationibus:

26227 = quibus transactis ciuitas septicollis diruetur,

22573 = & Iudex tremêdus iudicabit populum suum.

2600 = Finis.

148083

VI + VII + VIII = 1142783 + 468222 + 148083 = 1759088

 IX. Murder most foule, as in the best it is.

(Construction G. T.)

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Murder

 872813 = # II/III

Spirit in History

 878864 = # IV/V

Goya

 6892 = Los Caprichos

-2118 =  Time, End of

Coming of Christ

 4000 = Flaming Sword

Reason Awakened

        1 = Reason/Monad

Knowledge Increased

(Dan. 12:4)

 -6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding

  5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

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X. Don Quixote de la Mancha Comes to his Senses,

Makes his Will and Dies.

(Don Quixote, Vol, II.)

1759088

14836 = With this he closed his will,

12775 = and a faintness coming over him

20949 = he stretched himself out at full length on the bed.

20696 = All were in a flutter and made haste to relieve him,

17463 = and during the three days he lived after that

22342 = on which he made his will he fainted away very often.

15040 = The house was all in confusion;

20167 = but still the niece ate and the housekeeper drank

12398 = and Sancho Panza enjoyed himself;

18758 = for inheriting property wipes out

20781 = or softens down in the heir the feeling of grief

17226 = the dead man might be expected to leave behind him.

13029 = At last Don Quixote´s end came,

15239 = after he had received all the sacraments,

12542 = and had in full and forcible terms

21686 = expressed his detestation of books of chivalry.

15082 = The notary was there at the time,

14460 = and he said that in no book of chivalry

13365 = had he ever read of any knight-errant

9282 = dying in his bed so calmly

16455 = and so like a Christian as Don Quixote,

22293 = who amid the tears and lamentations of all present

17458 = yielded up his spirit, that is to say died.

19094 = On perceiving it the curate begged the notary

22174 = to bear witness that Alonso Quixano the Good,

15873 = commonly called Don Quixote de la Mancha,

15939 = had passed away from his present life,

20237 = and died naturally; and said he desired his testimony

25487 = in order to remove the possibility of any other author

20902 = save Cid Hamet Benengeli bringing him to life again falsely

24582 = and making interminable stories out of his achievements.

23169 = Such was the end of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha,

24671 = whose village Cid Hamet would not indicate precisely,

23243 = in order to leave all the towns and villages of La Mancha

24798 = to contend among themselves for the right to adopt him

7370 = and claim him as a son,

20405 = as the seven cities of Greece contended for Homer.

15277 = The lamentation of Sancho and the niece

13314 = and housekeeper are omitted here,

17685 = as well as the epitaphs upon his tomb;

22950 = Samson Carrasco, however, put the following:

11623 = A doughty gentleman lies here;

11939 = A stranger all his life to fear;

14963 = Not in his death could Death prevail,

16017 = In that lost hour, to make him quail.

15296 = He for the world but little cared;

17159 = And at his feats the world was scared;

10863 = A crazy man his life he passed,

12887 = But in his senses died at last.                   

15030 = And said most sage Cid Hamet to his pen:

25477 = “Rest here, hung up by this brass wire, upon this shelf,

3107 = O my pen,

24819 = whether of skilful make or clumsy cut I know not;

15421 = here shalt thou remain long ages hence,

26534 = unless presumptuous or malignant story-tellers

13437 = take thee down to profane thee.

15759 = But ere they touch thee warn them,

14863 = and, as best thou canst, say to them:

15774 = Hold off! Ye weaklings; hold your hands!

9994 = Adventure it let none,

14681 = For this emprise, my lord the king,

9772 = Was meant for me alone.                        

20431 = For me alone was Don Quixote born, and I for him;

16582 = it was his to act; mine to write;

14828 = we two together make but one,

18035 = notwithstanding and in spite of that

17503 = pretended Tordesillesque writer

19555 = who has ventured or would venture

23657 = with his great, coarse, ill-trimmed ostrich quill

21786 = to write the achievements of my valiant knight;

29557 = no burden for his shoulders, nor subject for his frozen wit:

24780 = whom, if perchance thou shouldst come to know him,

23130 = thou shalt warn to leave at rest where they lie

20061 = the weary mouldering bones of Don Quixote,

15642 = and not to attempt to carry him off,

20023 = in opposition to all the privileges of death,

18967 = to Old Castile, making him rise from his grave

15460 = where in reality and truth he lies

11232 = stretched at full length,

25488 = powerless to make any third expedition or new sally;

14435 = for the two that he has already made,

16864 = so much to the enjoyment and approval

20027 = of everybody to whom they have become known,

18913 = in this as well as in foreign countries,

18064 = are quite sufficient for the purpose

22418 = of turning into ridicule the whole of those made

17651 = by the whole set of the knights-errant;

23655 = and so doing shalt thou discharge thy Christian calling,

24714 = giving good counsel to one that bears ill-will to thee.

10679 = And I shall remain satisfied,

13432 = and proud to have been the first

23688 = who has ever enjoined the fruit of his writings

10819 = as fully as he could desire;

19183 = for my desire has been no other than to deliver

15638 = over to the detestation of mankind

21030 = the false and foolish tales of the books of chivalry,

21948 = which, thanks to that of my true Don Quixote,

12020 = are even now tottering,

15745 = and doubtless doomed to fall forever.

 4541 = Farewell.

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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 “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.

²Malachy’s Last Pope Prophecy

In extreme persecution, the seat of the Holy Roman Church

will be occupied by Peter the Roman,

who will feed the sheep through many tribulations;

when they are over, the city of seven hills will be destroyed,

and the terrible or fearsome Judge will judge his people. The End.