Thanks Jud.

Here is a summing up which I posted today on HLAS.

Gunnar

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Sun,Jul 17 2005 7:47 pm
Subject: Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Myth

Prologue

Now that the defenders of Stratfordian Orthodoxy have been exposed for
what they are and what they are not, it occurred to me this morning
that the time had come to move on to the next phase in what, for me,
has been a thirty-year effort to clear my own mind of nonsense and
stuff.

I recognize, of course, that the very concept of gematria as a means
of conveying the essence of the world-view of the ancients across
millennia must strike modern minds as lunacy. But, at one time, the
same was true of the notion that Earth was not the center of the
Universe.

The magical powers of modern technology make it appear that our
scientific savants are smarter than those who laid the foundations of
western civilization over the past few millennia. Yet, it is still
the case that we cannot possibly know what we don't know.

A point addressed by Hamlet in response to Horatio's exclamation:
"O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!" To which the
Prince replied: "And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There
are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in
your philosophy."

With that, I apologize for the sharp language of some of my earlier
messages - their object was not the individuals addressed but such
aspects of their modus operandi which, in my view, were not conducive
to clarification and eventual resolution of that greatest of all great
mysteries:

The Shakespeare Puzzle.

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The Platonic Aspect

According to the late Saga scholar Einar Pálsson (d. 1996), the
title character of the 13th century Icelandic Saga masterpiece
'Brennu-Njálssaga' ('Saga of Burnt Njáll') personified
Pythagorean Monad. As such, Njáll is introduced as a Heathen, who
converts to Christianity on its enactment by the Icelandic Althing
(Parliament) as law of the land in the year 1000 A.D.

In the saga, Njáll's heathen aspects are reflected in the
personification of the Platonic solids and time - Air, Water, Earth,
Fire, Time or, in Icelandic Loft-Vatn-Jörð-Eldr-Tími, 11110
- as three sons of Njáll, plus his son-in-law (Time) and Evil
(Earth) personified as Grímr-Helgi-Mörðr-
Skarpheðinn-Kári, 14943,
with a Platonic Great Year of 25920 calendar years rounding out the
pre-Christian mythical background against which the saga unfolds in
time.

The imagery concerns Microcosmic MAN-Beast as Creation in Time and
Space, with an island off Iceland's south coast, Þrídrangr,
5003, ('Triple Rock') symbolizing the locus of the world´s creation
aligned with three landmarks, whose location mirrors Triangle 3:4:5 -
Bergþórshváll, 7196, Miðeyjarhólmr, 6067, and Helgafell,
3027, as in 5003 + 7196 + 6067 + 3027 = 21293.

Einar Pálsson, who wrote a book in English ('The Sacred Triangle of
Pagan Iceland', 1993) on the multi-faceted symbolism associated with
Triangle 3:4:5 in the context, summarized therein the idea behind its
identification with Microcosmic MAN-Beast as Creation in Time and
Space ('The Cosmos of Rangárhverfi') as follows:

"The triangle 3:4:5 was a part thereof. Icelandic symbolism
indicates that this Cosmos was an earthly sanctuary (216,000 feet in
diameter) devoted to the gods and representing a projection on the
ground of the sacred area of the heavens." (p. 20)

The associated myth concerned Microcosmic MAN-Beast's 'race through
life', as symbolized in ancient Greece by the Heraean Games - now
known as the Olympic Games. In the context of Saga Myth, the object
of the 'race through life' was for MAN-Beast to 'shuffle off' its
'mortal coil' alias the fetters of Time and Space or Tími, 2315,
and Rúm, 2312, with a World Age held to be concluded at the end of
a Platonic Great Year, as in 25920 - 2315 - 2312 = 21293.

In Shakespeare Myth, Saga Monad, 1, and its association with the
Platonic solids and time in the context of a Platonic Great Year, as
in 1 11110 + 14943 + 25920 = 51974, were mirrored in 'Sir Francis
Bacon, Knight', 10594, as Saga Triangle 3:4:5 alias Microcosmic
MAN-Beast become Microcosmic Son of Man upon 'shuffling off' his
'mortal coil' of Time and Space, 21293.

In the Middle Ages, a line from Virgil's Fourth Eclogue, "magnus ab
integro saeclorum nascitur ordo", 20087 (Voici Qui Recommence Le Grand
Ordre Des Siècles/The mighty March of Time resumes from nil/The
great succession of centuries is born afresh.) was construed as
prophesying the Coming of Christ.

Thus was the unitary vision of the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Authors
'documented' through 'hidden poetry' on the grand themes of
Pagan/Christian Creation Myth to be brought to light in due course
through application of the Saga-Shakespeare Cipher Key which the
Icelandic sage and literary master Snorri Sturluson placed on record
some 750 years ago, embedded in a single sentence in the oldest extant
Icelandic skin manuscript.

Where I discovered and extracted it thirty years ago, as in 10594 +
21293 + 20087 = 51974.

The Augustan Reference Texts

Two Augustan texts - the Alpha lines of Virgil's Fourth Eclogue,
Cipher Value 329540, and the Omega lines of Ovid's Metamorphoses,
Cipher Value 181408) - provided a benchmark Cipher Value (329540 +
181408 = 510948) for salient 'hidden poetry' aspects of the
Shakespeare Opus.

The two Augustan texts plus translations thereof are as follows.

Virgil - Alpha:
Sicelides Musae, paulo maiora canamus!
non omnis arbusta iuvant humilesque myricae;
si canimus silvas, silvae sint consule dignae.
Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas;
magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.
iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna,
iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto.
tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo,
casta fave Lucina: tuus iam regnat Apollo.
teque adeo decus hoc aevi te consule, inibit,
Pollio, et incipient magni procedere menses;
te duce, si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri,
inrita perpetua solvent formidine terras.
ille deum vitam accipiet divisque videbit
permixtos heroas et ipse videbitur illis,
pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem.*

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* Now the last age of Cumae's prophecy has come; The great
succession of centuries is born afresh. Now too returns the Virgin,
Saturn's rule returns; A new begetting now descends from heaven's
height. O chaste Lucina, look with blessing on the boy Whose birth
will end the iron race at last and raise A golden through the world:
now your Apollo rules. And, Pollio, this glory enters time with you;
Your consulship begins the march of the great months; With you to
guide, if traces of our sin remain, They, nullified, will free the
lands from lasting fear. He will receive the life divine, and see the
gods Mingling with heroes, and himself be seen of them, And rule a
world made peaceful by his father's virtues.
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Ovid - Omega:
Iamque opus exegi, quod nec Iovis ira nec ignis
nec poterit ferrum nec edax abolere vetustas.
Cum volet, illa dies, quae nil nisi corporis huius
ius habet, incerti spatium mihi finiat aevi:
parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis
astra ferar, nomenque erit indelebile nostrum,
quaque patet domitis Romana potentia terris,
ore legar populi, perque omnia saecula fama,
si quid habent veri vatum praesagia, vivam.*

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* And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its
end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite these words: nor angry Jove,
Nor war, nor fire, nor flood, Nor venomous time that eats our lives
away. Then let that morning come, as come it will, When this disguise
I carry shall be no more, And all the treacherous years of life
undone, And yet my name shall rise to heavenly music, The deathless
music of the circling stars. As long as Rome is the Eternal City These
lines shall echo from the lips of men, As long as poetry speaks truth
on earth, That immortality is mine to wear.
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The Boy - King of the Jews

In the King James Bible, "the boy whose birth will end the iron race
at last" and who "will receive the life divine", alias The Crucified
King of the Jews, is identified in Matt. 27:37, Mark 15:26, Luke
23:38, and John 19:19 as follows: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS,
Cipher Value 16549, THE KING OF THE JEWS, 9214, THIS IS THE KING OF
THE JEWS, 13155, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS, 17710 as in
16549 + 9214 + 13155 + 17710 = 56628.

The Boy is the Once and Future King of Arthurian Myth alias Cosmic
Creative Power, which in Saga Myth is at once Creator of, and one
with, Microcosmic MAN-Beast alias Creation in Time and Space. The Boy
is Crucified Light of the World, 1000, whose mission is to "free the
lands from lasting fear [...] And rule a world made peaceful by his
father's virtues" at the end of a World Age which Hindu and Icelandic
Myth identify with the number 432,000.*

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* One explanation that has been proposed to account for the appearance
of homologous structures and often even identical motifs in the myths
and rites of widely separate cultures is psychological: namely, to
cite a formula of James G. Frazer in The Golden Bough, that such
occurrences are most likely "the effect of similar causes acting alike
on the similar constitution of the human mind in different countries
and under different skies."

There are, however, instances that cannot be accounted for in this
way, and they suggest the need for another interpretation: for
example, in India the number of years assigned to an eon is 4,320,000;
whereas in the Icelandic Poetic Edda it is declared that in Othin's
warrior hall, Valhall, there are 540 doors, through each of which, on
the "day of the war of the wolf", 800 battle-ready warriors will pass
to engage the antigods in combat. But 540 times 800 equals 432,000!
Moreover, a Chaldean priest, Berossos, writing in Greek ca. 289 B.C.,
reported that according to Mesopotamian belief 432,000 years elapsed
between the crowning of the first earthly king and the coming of the
deluge. No one, I should think, would wish to argue that these
figures could have arisen independently in India, Iceland, and
Babylon. (Joseph Campbell, The Mythic Image, Bollingen Paperbacks,
Princeton University Press, 1973, p. 72)
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The Man - Will I Am! Shake Speare!

Creation in Time and Space is generated by Monad/Cosmic Creative
Power's division into Male and Female aspects - Penis, 2801, and
Vagina, 2414 - whose World-Ending re-union on Mons Veneris, 6783,
"is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd" (Prince Hamlet in Act
III, Sc. i).*

In Shakespeare Myth, The Boy - Robin Hood's Little John - is
transformed into 'Man' (which stands for the concepts of 'hand',
'beam', and 'penis' in Saga Myth, according to Einar Pálsson) - on
Cosmic Creative Power's command, Will I Am! Shake Speare!, 9322.

As in 56628 + 1000 + 432000 + 9322 + 2801 + 2414 + 6783 = 510948,
closing a two-thousand year circle of 'hidden'
Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare 'poetry'.

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* 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."

The figure of Hamlet as a favorable starting point came by chance.
Many other avenues offered themselves, rich in strange symbols and
beckoning with great images, but the choice went to Hamlet because he
led the mind on a truly inductive quest through a familiar landscape -
and one which has the merit of its literary setting. Here is a
character deeply present to our awareness, in whom ambiguities and
uncertainties, tormented self-questioning and dispassionate insight
give a presentiment of the modern mind. His personal drama was that
he had to be a hero, but still try to avoid the role Destiny assigned
him. His lucid intellect remained above the conflict of motives - in
other words, his was and is a truly contemporary consciousness. And
yet this character whom the poet made one of us, the first unhappy
intellectual, concealed a past as a legendary being, his features
predetermined, preshaped by long-standing myth. There was a numinous
aura around him, and many clues led up to him. But it was a surprise
to find behind the mask an ancient and all-embracing cosmic power -
the original master of the dreamed-of first age of the world.

Yet in all his guises he remained strangely himself. The original
Amlóði, as his name was in Icelandic legend, shows the same
characteristics of melancholy and high intellect. He, too, is a son
dedicated to avenge his father, a speaker of cryptic but inescapable
truths, an elusive carrier of Fate who must yield once his mission is
accomplished and sink once more into concealment in the depths of time
to which he belongs: Lord of the Golden Age, the Once and Future
King.

This essay will follow the figure farther and farther afield, from the
Northland to Rome, from there to Finland, Iran, and India; he will
appear again unmistakably in Polynesian legend. Many other Dominions
and Powers will materialize to frame him within the proper order.

Amlóði was identified, in the crude and vivid imagery of the Norse,
by the ownership of a fabled mill which, in his own time, ground out
peace and plenty. Later, in decaying times, it ground out salt; and
now finally, having landed at the bottom of the sea, it is grinding
rock and sand, creating a vast whirlpool, the Maelstrom (i.e. the
grinding stream, from the [Icelandic] verb mala, "to grind"), which is
supposed to be a way to the land of the dead. This imagery stands, as
the evidence develops, for an astronomical process, the secular
shifting of the sun through the signs of the zodiac which determines
world-ages, each numbering thousands of years. Each age brings a
World Era, a Twilight of the Gods. Great structures collapse; pillars
topple which supported the great fabric; floods and cataclysms herald
the shaping of a new world. (Giorgio de Santillana, Hamlet's Mill - An
Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time, 1969; Second Paperback Edition,
David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, 1983, pp. 1-2.)

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The Saga-Shakespeare Cipher Key and Calculator are posted on the
Internet at http://www.light-of-truth.com/ gunnartomasson/ciphers.htm

--- In torahcosmos@yahoogroups.com, "nuchamber" <nuchamber@y...>
wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I want to take this opportunity to say "Thank You" to 2 special
> contributors to this forum; Gunnar Tomasson and William Meegan.
>
> William's article concerning the "Sistine Chapel" is full of key
> insights.
>
> Gunnar's works are a magnificent contribution to greater and
greater
> understanding of the ways of the spirit in human evolution.
>
> Though I haven't contribute much to the forum lately, I assure you
that
> the contributions of these 2 members have not been for nought.
>
> Thanks again, Jud (nuchamber@y...)