© Gunnar Tómasson

28 April 2018

Meaning of the Poem

http://www.shakespearestudyguide.com/Phoenix.html

The hidden, or symbolic, meaning of “The Phoenix and the Turtle” is open to interpretation. In other words, what or whom the birds symbolize is a matter for the reader to decide. Some readers believe the birds represent Queen Elizabeth I and the Second Earl of Essex, Robert Devereux (1566 or 1567-1601). Devereux had distinguished himself in a military campaign in The Netherlands against the Spanish in 1586 and went on to become a favorite of the queen. But he provoked her ire when he took part in a Portugal campaign without her consent and then, in 1590, married the widow of writer Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586).

However, he regained her favor after leading an English force against France in 1591 and enhanced his position at court by uncovering an alleged murder plot against the queen in 1594. But after he participated in further military exploits against the Spanish in 1596 and 1597, he fell in disfavor because of his unruliness and ambition, and on one occasion the queen even slapped him. On a campaign against rebels in Ireland, he suffered a defeat and made an objectionable truce. Consequently, Elizabeth stripped him of his estates and political offices. In 1601, he led a failed uprising against the queen and was executed for treason in the Tower of London.

Interpreted against this background, the poem could mean that the love between Elizabeth and Essex simply burned itself out, like the phoenix and the dove in the poem. However, distinguished critic G.B. Harrison, editor of Shakespeare: The Complete Works maintains that the exact meaning of the poem (if one was intended by Shakespeare) may never be revealed because its symbolism was apparently known only to a select inner circle in Shakespeare’s time. “Until these persons and events are discovered,” Harrison says, “The Phoenix and the Turtle will remain an enigma” (Shakespeare: The Complete Works. New York: Harcourt, 1952. Page 1590).

Hypothesis

G. B. Harrison knew The Secret

(Testing the Hypothesis)

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21662 = “Until these persons and events are discovered,

21021 = The Phoenix and the Turtle will remain an enigma”

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As in

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Saga-Shakespeare Myth

15621 = The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Cosmic Time

25920 = Platonic Great Year

Consummation

Devoutly to be wished

(Hamlet, Act III, Sc. i)

  6783 = Mons Veneris

Death

 -2646 = Hamlet

-2949 = Ophelia

Transformation

(Matt. 16:17)

-5975 = Simon Peter

5829 = Simon bar Iona

FINIS

   100 = The End

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QED 

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The Phoenix and the Turtle

Construction G. T.

Section One

I. Synopsis – First Folio text

(Act I, Sc. v and Act V, Sc. ii)

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Alpha

Hamlet

20575 = Rest, rest perturbed Spirit:  so Gentlemen,

17151 = With all my loue I doe commend me to you;

14938 = And what so poore a man as Hamlet is

20468 = May doe t’expresse his loue and friending to you,

22259 = God willing shall not lacke:  let vs goe in together;

20453 = And still your fingers on your lippes I pray,

19677 = The time is out of ioynt: Oh cursed spight,

18055 = That euer I was borne to set it right.

15109 = Nay, come let’s goe together.                    Exeunt.

Omega

10220 = Enter Hamlet and Horatio.

Hamlet:

21839 = So much for this Sir; now let me see the other,

16054 = You doe remember all the Circumstance.                           

Horatio:

8051 = Remember it my Lord?

Hamlet:

18534 = Sir, in my heart there was a kinde of fighting,

20604 = That would not let me sleepe; me thought I lay

21219 = Worse then the mutines in the Bilboes, rashly,

19510 = (And praise be rashnesse for it) let vs know,

23382 = Our indiscretion sometimes serues us well,

24730 = When our deare plots do paule, and that should teach vs

17706 = There’s a Diuinity that shapes our ends,

16093 = Rough-hew them how we will.

Horatio:

10353 = That is most certaine.

The Diuinity:

Zodiac 13^th House

5763 = Ophiuchus – Serpent Holder

Cosmic Creative Power

4000 = Flaming Sword

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II. Blessed art thou, Simon bar Iona

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

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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.

The Keyes of the Kingdome

11931 = Saga Cipher Key

The Liuing God

       1 = Monad

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Section Two

III. The First Essay of a New Brytish Poet

(Robert Chester, Love‘s Martyr etc.)

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17995 = Love’s Martyr: or Rosalins Complaint.

19747 = Allegorically shadowing the truth of Loue,

20738 = in the constant Fate of the Phoenix and Turtle.

21255 = A Poeme enterlaced with much varietie and raritie;

23424 = now first translated out of the venerable Italian

16791 = Torquato Caeliano, by Robert Chester.

20230 = With the true legend of famous King Arthur

14413 = the last of the nine Worthies,

19247 = being the first Essay of a new Brytish Poet:

21515 = collected out of diuerse Authenticall Records.

19141 = To these are added some new compositions

14433 = of seuerall moderne Writers

26120 = whose names are subscribed to their seuerall workes,

24893 = vpon the first subiect viz. the Phoenix and Turtle.

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IV. Brytish Poet Successor to Snorri Sturluson

(Saga-Shakespeare Myth)

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Poet

 4884 = Reykjaholt – Snorri’s Estate

Poet-Ape

 -4000 = Dark Sword – Man-Beast

Poet

Serpent Holder

(Minerva Britanna, 1612, # 34)

 11922 = Ex malis moribus bonæ leges.                                

15049 = To the most iudicious, and learned,

10594 = Sir FRANCIS BACON, Knight.

21993 = The Viper here, that stung the sheepheard swaine,

15505 = (While careles of himselfe asleepe he lay,)

20621 = With Hysope caught, is cut by him in twaine,

18154 = Her fat might take, the poison quite away,

20149 = And heale his wound, that wonder tis to see,

19232 = Such soveraigne helpe, should in a Serpent be.

20053 = By this same Leach, is meant the virtuous King,

20110 = Who can with cunning, out of manners ill,

20557 = Make wholesome lawes, and take away the sting,

28164 = Wherewith foule vice, doth greeue the virtuous still:

20037 = Or can prevent, by quicke and wise foresight,

16918 = Infection ere, it gathers farther might.

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V. Prince Hamlet and His Mission

(Act I, Sc. v)

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The Liuing God

       1 = Monad

Hamlet/His Son

 888 = IESOUS – Greek gematria value

Son’s Mission

18729 = Oh all you host of heauen!  Oh Earth; what els?

15857 = And shall I couple Hell?  Oh fie:  hold my heart;

21200 = And you my sinnewes, grow not instant Old;

9827 = But beare me stiffely vp:

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I/II + III/IV + V = 406743 + 279942 + 66502 = 753187

Section Three

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

(Act III, Sc. i)

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The Quest

2646 = Hamlet

25920 = Platonic Great Year

2949 = Ophelia

6783 = Mons Veneris

I humbly thanke you: well, well, welll

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.

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INSERT

Aristotle

Love is One soul in Two bodies

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VII. The Phoenix and The Turtle – A

(1640 text)

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11825 = Let the bird of lowest lay

9394 = On the sole Arabian tree,

10650 = Herauld sad and trumpet be,

17044 = To whose sound, chast wings obay.

12936 = But thou shriking harbinger,

12651 = Foule precurrer of the fiend,

10751 = Augour of the feavers end,

17191 = To this Troope come thou not neere.

14486 = From this Session interdict

13173 = Euery foule of Tyrant wing,

10186 = Saue the Eagle feathered King,

13608 = Keepe the obsequie so strict.

17176 = Let the Priest in Surplis white,

12554 = That defunctive Musicke can,

11044 = Be the death divining Swan,

14083 = Lest the Requiem lack his right.

12097 = And thou treble dated Crow,

11115 = That thy sable gender mak’st

18243 = With the breath thou giv’st and tak’st,

18496 = ‘Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.

11742 = Here the Anthem doth commence:

10521 = Love and constancie is dead,

11567 = Poenix and the Turtle Fled,

11301 = In a mutuall flame from hence.

14494 = So they loved as love in twaine,

10134 = Had the essence but in one,

14220 = Two distincts but in none,

14698 = Number there in love was slaine.

14208 = Hearts remote, yet not asunder,

13229 = Distance and no space was seene

16795 = Twixt thy Turtle and his Queene,

14048 = But in them it were a wonder.

13753 = So betweene them Love did shine,

15604 = That the Turtle saw his right,

12148 = Flaming in the Phoenix sight,

13063 = Either was the others mine.

14456 = Propertie was thus appalled,

14248 = That the selfe was not the same,

11500 = Single Natures double name,

15408 = Neither two nor one was called.

12549 = Reason in it selfe confounded,

15629 = Saw division grow together,

15500 = To themselves yet either neither,

16333 = Simple were so well compounded.

15835 = That it cried how true a twaine,

12896 = Seemeth this concordant one,

12609 = Loue hath Reason, Reason none,

12909 = If what parts can so remaine.

14593 = Whereupon it made this Threne,

11525 = To the Phoenix and the Dove,

15236 = Co-supreames and starres of Love,

16360 = As Chorus to their tragique Scene.

The Liuing God

       1 = Monad

Rome Settlement Myth

5321 = Romulus

Cosmic Time

25920 = Platonic Great Year

Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland

Pagan‘s Path to Christianity

7196 = Bergþórshváll

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr

3027 = Helgafell – Holy Mountain

Consummation

Death

-2646 = Hamlet

-2949 = Ophelia

Resurrection

(Remus = 3436 = Messiah)

3436 = Messiah

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VIII. The Phoenix and The Turtle – B

(1895 text)

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11101 = Let the bird of loudest lay,

9394 = On the sole Arabian tree,

9701 = Herald sad and trumpet be,

17427 = To whose sound chaste wings obey.

13164 = But thou shrieking harbinger,

12423 = Foul precurrer of the fiend,

10018 = Augur of the fever’s end,

16580 = To this troop come thou not near.

14486 = From this session interdict

13894 = Every fowl of tyrant wing,

9958 = Save the eagle, feather’d king:

13152 = Keep the obsequy so strict.

16957 = Let the priest in surplice white

11877 = That defunctive music can,

11044 = Be the death-divining swan,

14083 = Lest the requiem lack his right.

12097 = And thou treble-dated crow,

11115 = That thy sable gender mak’st

18243 = With the breath thou giv’st and tak’st,

18496 = ‘Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.

11742 = Here the anthem doth commence:

10293 = Love and constancy is dead;

11943 = Phoenix and the turtle fled

10797 = In a mutual flame from hence.

14038 = So they lov’d, as love in twain

10134 = Had the essence but in one;

15812 = Two distincts, division none:

14470 = Number there in love was slain.

14208 = Hearts remote, yet not asunder;

13001 = Distance, and no space was seen

16370 = ‘Twixt the turtle and his queen:

14048 = But in them it were a wonder.

13525 = So between them love did shine,

15604 = That the turtle saw his right

12148 = Flaming in the phoenix’ sight;

13063 = Either was the other’s mine.

14000 = Property was thus appall’d,

14020 = That the self was not the same;

11500 = Single nature’s double name

15180 = Neither two nor one was call’d.

12321 = Reason, in itself confounded,

15629 = Saw division grow together;

15500 = To themselves yet either neither,

16333 = Simple were so well compounded.

15607 = That it cried, ‘How true a twain

12896 = Seemeth this concordant one!

12609 = Love hath reason, reason none,

12681 = If what parts can so remain.’

14593 = Whereupon it made this threne

11525 = To the phoenix and the dove,

14114 = Co-supremes and stars of love,

14862 = As chorus to their tragic scene.

Saga-Shakespeare Creation Myth

1000 = Light of the World

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

The Phoenix and The Dove

2646 = Hamlet

2949 = Ophelia

End of Time

-2118 = TIME

Creation Perfected

Symbolized by St. Peter‘s Basilica

37575 = Façade Inscription on its completion in 1612¹

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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

¹Façade inscription

23501 = IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS
14074 = ROMANVS PONT. MAX. AN. MDCXII PONT. VII.*
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*Paul V Borghèse, pape, a fait ceci en l’an 1612,

en l’honneur du prince des apôtres.