SHAKESPEARE's EPITAPH

GEMATRIC STUDIES

WILLIAM

I. Introduction

II. Gematric Properties

III. WILLIAM – IESUS CHRISTUS

IV. ADAM MARIA– WILLIAM MAN

I. Introduction

1.      The Roman gematric system gave the Latin language immortality. Shakespeare felt he might achieve the same for the English language. He wanted to do so for the Christian era. He did not only want to connect the pre-christian with the Christian era, but also the different epochs of British history, the Celtic, Roman, the Anglo-Saxon and the Norman epochs and to reconcile the old with the new faith.

2.      In this sense Shakespeare considered his name WILLIAM to comprise the continuity and changes of history in an ideal way. It was especially William the Conqueror who enriched the nation with the French language.

II. Gematric Properties

1.      WILLIAM is a word of inversion. The initial letter W and the final letter M are consistent inversions in accordance with their inverted numerical values 21 and 12. Furthermore, the letters IL change to LI.

2.      Shakespeare based his gematric calculations on 24 letters. The only new letter is the W which represents 21 as inversion of 12 with somwhat better logic than X, which in itself also shows the inversions of V an A.

3.      The combined numeric and factoral values are:

 

W

I

L

L

I

A

M

sm

NV

21

9

11

11

9

1

12

74

FV

10

6

11

11

6

1

7

52

sm

31

15

22

22

15

2

19

126

72:54 = 18*(4:3)

3:4 letter have the inverted NS+FS ratio 4:3.

4.      The two inverted numbers 12 and 21 can be represented by two semicircles: The starting point is named 1, the opposite point 2:

The complete circle can be understood as a disc that either stands fixed in one place or turns round its axis as shown in the next two figures:

SUN and EARTH serve as a model for this: The earth seems to be moveless and the sun seems to move during daytime form 1 to 2 and during the dark of night form 2 to 1. But in reality it's the earth that moves around its axis so that during day 1 moves towards 2 and 2 towards 1. During night half of the earth is averted from the sun which is the fixed star.

5.      INVERSION signifies completeness of two halves forming a whole and complementation of one half by the second half as the mirror image of the first half. Inversion means both change and circular progression.

The axis that divides a circle into two halves consists of 3 points and 2 radial lines which makes 5 elements. As one radial line is delimited by two points, the 5 diametric elements are complemented by 3+3 radial elements.

If WILLIAM is divided according to the inverted letters IL-LI, the NS are 41+33 = 74. Thus the single digits 4+1 and 3+3 show the double aspect of 5 diametric and 6 radial elements:

III. WILLIAM – IESUS CHRISTUS

1.      There are two gematric connections between WILLIAM and IESUS CHRISTUS. The first consists in the identity of the 4value sum 182 of WILLIAM with the NS of IESUS (70) CHRISTUS (112):

 

NS

FS

sm

FV1

FV2

sm

tot.

WILLIAM

74

52

126

39

17

56

182

126 = 18*7

The average NV+FV of the 7 letters of WILLIAM is 18.

2.      The second connection is provided by the NS+FS 126 of WILLIAM and 294 of IESUS CHRISTUS:

 

NS

FS

sm

IESUS

70

36

106

CHRISTUS

112

76

188

 

182

112

294

294:126 = 42*(7:3) = 420

The average NV+FV of the 20 letters of the three names is 21.

The ratio 7:3 indicates the 7 points of the hexagon and the 3 corner points of the tetractys.

IV. ADAM MARIA– WILLIAM MAN

1.      After the first couple ADAM and EVA had sinned, all mankind lived in remoteness from God. It was the Virgin MARIA who reverted mankind's unredeemed state by consenting to become the mother of the Son of God. As she was greeted AVE (in Latin translation) by the angel and obeyed God's will, she turned EVA's sin of disobedience.

Another symbolic change is to be found in the inversion of the last letters AM of ADAM into the first letters MA of MARIA. It means that MARIA brought forth the second ADAM, IESUS CHRISTUS.

When Shakespeare, in his epitaph, says BLESTE BE THE MAN, he associates the English word MAN with MARIA's merit to transform the unredeemed state of mankind into the redeemed state of every Christian. If Jesus Christ is the perfect MAN, the Virgin Mary is the perfect WOMAN:

The unredeemed state of mankind can be compared to the EARTH's half rotation that makes dark what was illuminated by the SUN before. The Virgin Mary completed the EARTH's revolution by giving birth to the SON of God:

2.      Just as the Latin letter X with the NV 21 is composed of V (20) and A (1), and EVA is changed to AVE, accordingly the original place of X is taken by W which is formed if the A is turned from top to bottom. We might say that X represents the old and W the new order:

 

3.      Both letters M and W stand for the Virgin Mary. The name WILLIAM retains the final letters of ADAM. So Shakespeare allows MARIA, the perfect WOMAN, to transform his imperfect state of ADAM into a true follower of Jesus Christ, the perfect MAN.

 

 

Written: June 2014

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