© Gunnar Tómasson

2 March 2016

A Monumental “Art of the Fugue”

(Giorgio de Santillana)

This is meant to be only an essay. It is a first reconnaissance of a realm well-nigh unexplored and uncharted. From whichever way one enters it, one is caught in the same bewildering circular complexity, as in a labyrinth, for it has no deductive order in the abstract sense, but instead resembles an organism tightly closed in itself, or even better, a monumental „Art of the Fugue.“

Fugue – Style of Composition, not Fixed Structure

(Wikipedia)

Most fugues open with a short main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice (after the first voice is finished stating the subject, a second voice repeats the subject at a different pitch, and other voices repeat in the same way); when each voice has entered, the exposition is complete. This is often followed by a connecting passage, or episode, developed from previously heard material; further „entries“ of the subject then are heard in related keys. Episodes (if applicable) and entries are usually alternated until the „final entry“ of the subject, by which point the music has returned to the opening key, or tonic, which is often followed by closing material, the coda.[3][9] In this sense, a fugue is a style of composition, rather than a fixed structure.

Examples of Fugue Cipher Compositions

(See below.)

The cumulative Cipher Value of the First folio text of the encounter in Act I, Sc. v between Prince Hamlet and the Ghost of his Father can be parsed at successive points so as to relate the dialogue to associated „hidden poetry“ (Snorri Sturluson‘s term) on its underlying prophetic aspects.

Five such sub-Cipher Values are marked towards the right margin, the first three of which are spelled out to illustrate the fugue-style of cipher compositions in the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare tradition.

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Murther most foule, as in the best it is.

(Hamlet, First Folio, Act I, Sc. v)

1658168

       9462 = Enter Ghost and Hamlet.

Hamlet

22112 = Where wilt thou lead me? speak; Ile go no further.

Ghost

2883 = Marke me.

Hamlet

3756 = I will.

Ghost

11748 = My hower is almost come,

22142 = When I to sulphurous and tormenting Flames

10942 = Must render up my selfe.

Hamlet

7778 = Alas poore Ghost.

Ghost

19231 = Pitty me not, but lend thy serious hearing

10823 = To what I shall unfold.

Hamlet

9425 = Speake, I am bound to heare.

Ghost

21689 = So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt heare.

Hamlet

3270 = What?

Ghost

10539 = I am thy Fathers Spirit,

19489 = Doom’d for a certaine terme to walke the night;

15474 = And for the day confin’d to fast in Fiers,

19868 = Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature

10839 = Are burnt and purg’d away?                                                 = 231470 [1]

7855 = But that I am forbid

18785 = To tell the secrets of my Prison-House,

20467 = I could a Tale unfold, whose lightest word

25179 = Would harrow up thy soule, freeze thy young blood,

27383 = Make thy two eyes like Starres, start from their Spheres,

16795 = Thy knotty and combined locks to part,

15570 = And each particular haire to stand an end,

20558 = Like Quilles upon the fretfull Porpentine:

17082 = But this eternall blason must not be

19562 = To eares of flesh and bloud; list Hamlet, oh list,

16884 = If thou didst ever thy deare Father love.                                         = 437590 [2]

Hamlet

3459 = Oh Heaven!

Ghost

22153 = Revenge his foule and most unnaturall Murther.

Hamlet

4660 = Murther?

Ghost

18629 = Murther most foule, as in the best it is;

20891 = But this most foule, strange, and unnaturall.

Hamlet

11813 = Hast, hast me to know it,

15426 = That with wings as swift

17684 = As meditation, or the thoughts of Love,

11099 = May sweepe to my Revenge.                                                                 = 563404 [3]

Ghost

5591 = I finde thee apt;

20490 = And duller should’st thou be then the fat weede

18672 = That rots it selfe in ease, on Lethe Wharfe,

18843 = Would’st thou not stirre in this.                                                             = 627000 [4]

     7499 = Now Hamlet heare:

19608 = It’s given out, that sleeping in mine Orchard,

21032 = A Serpent stung me: so the whole eare of Denmarke,

13077 = Is by a forged processe of my death

18982 = Rankly abus’d: But know thou Noble youth,

18951 = The Serpent that did sting thy Fathers life,

13593 = Now weares his Crowne.

Hamlet

15252 = O my Propheticke soule: mine Uncle?

Ghost

19142 = I that incestuous, that adulterate Beast

29730 = With witchcraft of his wits, hath Traitorous guifts.

21415 = Oh wicked Wit, and Gifts, that have the power

22656 = So to seduce? Won to to this shamefull Lust

22351 = The will of my most seeming vertuous Queene.

17021 = Oh Hamlet, what a falling oft was there,

18901 = From me, whose love was of that dignity,

21371 = That it went hand in hand, even with the Vow

13881 = I made to her in Marriage; and to decline

25184 = Upon a wretch, whose Naturall gifts were poore

24348 = To those of mine. But Vertue, as it never wil be moved,

21122 = Though Lewdnesse court it in a shape of Heaven:

17577 = So Lust, though to a radiant Angell link’d,

20657 = Will sate it selfe in a Celestiall bed & prey on Garbage.               = 1050350 [5]

20310 = But soft, me thinkes I sent the Mornings Ayre;

18535 = Briefe let me be: Sleeping within mine Orchard,

17248 = My custome alwayes in the afternoone;

19016 = Upon my secure hower thy Uncle stole

17466 = With iuyce of cursed Hebenon in a Violl,

16672 = And in the Porches of mine eares did poure

18685 = The leaperous Distilment; whose effect

17290 = Holds such an enmity with bloud of Man,

25233 = That swift as Quick-silver, it courses through

15783 = The naturall Gates and Allies of the Body;

19585 = And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset

16801 = And curd, like aygre droppings into Milke,

18159 = The thin and wholsome blood: so did it mine;

15969 = And a most instant tetter bak’d about,

22687 = Most Lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,

7531 = All my smooth Body.

16992 = Thus was I, sleeping, by a Brothers hand,

19671 = Of Life, of Crowne, and Queene at once dispatcht;

18043 = Cut off even in the Blossomes of my Sinne,

16349 = Unhouzzled, disappointed, unnaneld,

18018 = No reckoning made, but sent to my account

15902 = With all my imperfections on my head;

16946 = Oh horrible, Oh horrible, most horrible;

17164 = If thou hast nature in thee beare it not;

13314 = Let not the Royall Bed of Denmarke be

15607 = A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.

22022 = But howsoever thou pursuest this Act,

22240 = Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contrive

19204 = Against thy Mother ought; leave her to heaven,

19764 = And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge,

19266 = To pricke and sting her. Fare thee well at once;

22305 = The Glow-worme showes the Matine to be neere,

15555 = And gins to pale his uneffectuall Fire:

   12486 = Adue, adue, Hamlet; remember me.   Exit.

1658168

[1]

231470 = …Are burnt and purged away?

25920 = Platonic Great Year – Motion of equinoctial points around the Zodiac.

438097 = The Milano Crime Sheet¹

-2118 = TIME – End of

3321 = Dies Irae – Day of Wrath

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale – The Last Judgement – St. Peter´s Sistine Chapel.

7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in God’s Image

     100 = The End

714889²

[2]

-1 = Monad‘s Murder

1612 = Hell

438097 = The Milano Crime Sheet¹

   -2118 = TIME – End of

437590 – If thou didst euer thy dear Father loue.

[3]

1861 = Mary

3394 = Jesus

1000 = Light of the World

529042 = The Devil and Jesus³

13031 = International Monetary Fund¹

9948 = Harvard University¹

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland¹

-2118 = TIME – End of

     100 = The End

563404 – May sweepe to my Revenge.

NB. May sweepe to my Revenge = 11099 = Il Giudizio Universale – The Last Judgement

¹ Message posted to friends, 26 February 2014:

While visiting Iceland last August, I met with Pétur Halldórsson over coffee at the Cafe Milano in Reykjavík. We discussed matters of mutual interest, including what my Saga Cipher work might possibly “mean“.

I took a napkin and, for emphasis, wrote down the number 438097, which I have posted [previously].

This is the final cumulative sum of a very large number of [contemporary] names of individuals, institutions, dates and events, including two famous murder cases, a sex scandal in high places, and presumptive lies told in connection therewith.

As I recall it, I first put this number on record in an [earlier] message, explaining that I would not be providing any further details on it. That remains my position for the time being.

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.

² To be or not to be; that is the question.

(Hamlet, Act III, Sc. i – First Folio)

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.

714889

³ The Devil‘s Temptation of Jesus

(Matt. Ch. 4:1-11, King James Bible 1611)

28613 = Then was Jesus led vp of the Spirit into the Wildernesse,

11214 = to bee tempted of the deuill.

20530 = And when hee had fasted forty dayes and forty nights,

13181 = hee was afterward an hungred.

16482 = And when the tempter came to him, hee said,

10566 = If thou be the Sonne of God,

15281 = command that these stones bee made bread.

18472 = But he answered, and said, It is written,

11833 = Man shall not liue by bread alone,

26509 = but by euery Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

20924 = Then the deuill taketh him vp into the holy Citie,

16520 = and setteth him on a pinacle of the Temple,

8004 = And saith vnto him,

20580 = If thou bee the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe:

28489 = For it is written, He shall giue his Angels charge concerning thee,

15292 = & in their handes they shall beare thee vp,

22323 = lest at any time thou dash thy foote against a stone.

19606 = Jesus said vnto him, It is written againe,

17802 = Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

25356 = Againe the Deuill taketh him vp into an exceeding high mountaine,

20642 = and sheweth him all the kingdomes of the world

8143 = and the glory of them:

8004 = And saith vnto him,

14684 = All these things will I give thee

19710 = if thou wilt fall downe and worship me.

12627 = Then saith Jesus vnto him,

17837 = Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written,

18110 = Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,

13398 = and him onely shalt thou serue.

11082 = Then the deuill leaveth him,

17228 = and behold, Angels came and ministred vnto him.

529042

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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