Qui non risere parenti, nec deus hunc mensa ...

a) Principles of Interpretation

1. The true poet strives for truth with poetical means. Poetical truth can mean everything that illuminates human dignity, everything that raises human existence beyond the visible world of the senses and materialism. The truthfulness of the poet must not be doubted. What he has to say must be regarded with deep respect. The literary interpreter must not presume to be wiser than the poet, he must beware of standing above the poet's consciousness and self-knowledge.

2. There is no alternative to truth and truthfulness. The interpreter should constrict himself to finding out and describing what the poet considers to be true. And he must concede that he does not know everything about the poet's background of knowledge and VISIONS.

3. As to Vergil's eclogue 4 there is a conincidence of his prediction of a SAVIOUR child and the factual birth of CHRIST, eternal son of the eternal father, "CAELO DIMITTITUR ALTO" (l.7). For those who believe in Jesus Christ there can be no doubt that Virgil's vision was brought about by divine providence. In fact, human history is also a planful history of divine salvation, so secular history was prepared and gradually led towards the advent of the heavenly SAVIOUR. Vergil will have drawn on common notions and knowledge, but also been inspired by personal mystical experience.

4. By means of the VESTA-Cult the initiated had a clear notion of the one GOD in THREE PERSONS. This notion and the providential development of a close interrelationship between letters and numbers – leading to gematrical constructions – enabled the poets to express all spiritual meaning on a high METAPHORICAL level by making methodical use of the world of MYTHOLOGY, of symoblism and imagery. For Vergil MYTHOLOGY fulfils the same function as the PROPHESIES of the BIBLE. Mythological persons and stories have had their intrinsic value, but gain their ultimate meaning in their metaphorical transformation and orientation towards the grand New Order of DIVINE SALVATION. In the face of the the poet's immense gematric efforts subservient MYTHOLOGY itself is CRUSHED to DUST.

5. One aspect of gematric construction is that words belonging together are chosen in such way as to be an integral part of other constructional aspects.

6. In this sense the last sentence of eclogue 4 will be interpreted. It will be shown that Vergil modelled his gematric construction on aspects of the SATOR-Square.

b) Contextual and Gematric Analysis

Incipe, parve puer, RISU cognoscere matrem;

matri longa decem tulerunt fastidia menses.

Incipe, parve puer:

Begin, little boy, to recognise your mother with a smile:

Ten months caused your mother long inconveniences.

Begin, little boy:

QUI NON RISERE PARENTI,

NEC DEUS HUNC MENSA DEA NEC DIGNATA CUBILI EST.

Those who have not smiled at their parent:

Neither a GOD has considered him worthy of his table nor a GODDESS of her bed.

1. The relation between the Saviour Child and his mother is already introduced in lines 8-10 when LUCINA, the goddess of birth delivery, is implored for help. In line 8 the KEYWORD PUERO occurs for the first time.

Between this first mention of relationship and its emphatic conclusion in the last four lines there is gradual development:

· 11-17: Preview of the Child's glorious future.

· 18-25: The Child is addressed with PUER. He is told what miraculous signs of the new Golden Age will happen during the first days of his life.

· 26-36: The text continues addressing the boy, imagining him at an age when he learns to read. The keyword PARENTIS – of the father – is introduced. The Golden Age is unterrupted for some time.

· 37-45: The newborn Child is shown his life as a grown-up. The Golden Age revives.

· 46-52: The boy is called upon to embark on his reign, ushered in by tremendous perturbations of the earth and the sea. Two lines start with ASPICE.

· 53-59: The poet wishes to live to see this glorious Golden Age. PATER and MATER appear in a different context.

· 60-63: All structural elements and keywords are combined and united.

2. Gematrically, there are ratios and relations not only in single contextual units, but also in a wider context or are even selected from the whole text. This, for example, applies to the grammatical forms of MATER and PARENS:

	line	NS	FS	sm		line	NS	FS	sm	SM	SM	GS
MATREM	60	66	56	122	PARENTIS	26	97	77	174	163	133	296
MATRI	61	58	50	108	PARENTI	62	79	69	148	137	119	256
	121	124	106	230		88	176	146	322	300	252	552
230:322 = 46(5:7); 252:300 = 12(21:25); 296:256 = 8(37:32*)
121:88 = 11(11:8) = 1119 = 209; 552 = 24*23

552 is NS+FS 303+249 of the SATOR Square. 249 could be put together by 124+(56+69). The NS ratio 37+32 can be counted 8 times in the SQ:

The multiplication numbers 24*23, added as 24+23 = 47 indicate the NS of DEUS. – GOD. Vergil takes up this idea by two further parallel extensions:

Divisibility by 23 is again achieved if PUERO (l.8) PUER (l.18) and PATRIIS (l.17) are assigned to the key terms MATER and PATER:

	NS	FS	sm		NS	FS	sm	SM	SM	GS
PUERO	71	48	119	PATRIIS	88	65
PUER	57	39	96
sm	128	87	215		88	65	153	216	152	368
M-EM, M-I	124	106	230	P-IS, P-I	176	146	322	300	252	552
	252	193	445		264	211	475	516	404	920
368:552 = 823(2:3) = 1845; 128:124 = 4(32:31) = 463; 88:176 = 88(1:2)
216:300 = 12(18:25) = 1243; 152:216 = 8*(19:27)

Divisibility by 23 is achieved for a third time if the two repeated phrases ASPICE and INCIPE PARVE PUER and also the parallelisms RISU DEA CUBILI and RISERE DEUS MENSA are included:

	NS	FS	sm		NS	FS	sm	SM	SM	GS
ASPICE	51	31	82	ASPICE	51	31	82
INCIPE	54	41	95	INCIPE	54	41	95
PARVE	58	40	98	PARVE	58	40	98
PUER	57	39	96	PUER	57	39	96
RISU	64	40	104	RISERE	71	58	129
DEA	10	10	20	DEUS	47	26	73
CUBILI	54	37	91	MENSA	49	34	83
	348	238	586		387	269	656	735	507	1242
Mater	252	193	445	Pater	264	211	475	516	404	920
sm	600	431	1031		651	480	1131	1251	911	2162
1242:920 = 223(27:20) = 46*47

Now the added factors 24*23 = 552 of the SQ have become the real factor, parallel to the inclusion of DEUS. (24+23)+26 can be found in a numbered DR:

The numeration numbers are continued in the extension part of the right figure (4,5,6). The frame numbers have to be read as (23+1)+23, with the central point attributed to one half.

The single digits of the factors 46*47 can be assigned to the 21 elements of the DR: 10 lines, 4 triangular areas and 7 points of the DR. In fact, the total number of words is 11 for the maternal and 10 for the paternal part. 83 is the sum of numbers 1-7 (28) and 1-10 (55), 73 of the respective FS (27+46).

3. 23 is the NV+FV of two letters: O (14+9) and P (15+8). There are 13 P and only 1 O in the 21 words. This is obviously intended to turn special attention to the word PUERO. Its NS+FS is 71+48 = 119 = 7*17. The three numbers 71, 7, 17 are factors of the NS of the whole poem: 25347 = 3*7*17*71. PUERO is dative, meaning TO THE BOY. So it appears that eclogue 4 is especially dedicated to the Expected Saviour Boy.

4. It has become evident so far that Vergil wanted to represent both parents in a complementary way. Four words PUERO (8), PUER (18), PATRIIS (17), PARENTIS (26) introduced in the first half of the poem have the NS+FS 313+229 = 542 = 2*271 = FW 273, compared to 303+249 = 552 of the SATOR Square. The difference between the FS and NS is 84. The single digits of 542 have their geometric correspondence in the figure of the hexagonal rhombus:

273 is the NS of the PATER NOSTER Cross in the SQ and 229 its FS. Of the 24 letters 5 do not belong to the 8 different letters of the SQ. The gematric equivalents of 19+5/5+19 are TE/ET belonging to the TENET-Cross.

The NS+FS of the 19 letters is 246+193 = 439 (diff. 53), a prime number. 12 of 19 NV are prime, their NS is 136 = 8*17, the sum of numbers 1-16. Half the sum is achieved by 4 R, the other half by NATA and TEEE. The 25 letters of the SQ fall into 8 different letters and the rest of 17, the respective NS being the inverted numbers 102+201. In summary, the NS of prime and composite SQ-letters are 136+110 = 246, the FS 136+57 = 193, the NS+FS 272+167 = 439.

246 is twice the NS+FS 69+54 of SATOR ROTAS – Creator, thou turnst the wheel.

The difference between the FS 36 and NS 67 of the 5 remaining letters is 31. The single digits of 53 and 31 signify a correspondence of 5:3 radial elements to 3:1 area units of the two concentric tetraktys circles:

The 12 prime letters doubled from 136 to 272 together with the NS+FS 270 of the other half of 12 letters are the two constitutive numbers for their sum 542.

5. 542 subtracted from 2162 leaves 1620 = 10*9*18. An examination of the 21-4 = 17 words shows a similar gradual development as has been shown above:

	NS	FS	sm		NS	FS	sm	SM	SM	GS
MATREM	66	56	122	PARENTI	79	69	148
MATRI	58	50	108
	124	106	230		79	69	148	203	175	378
RISU	64	40	104	RISERE	71	58	129	135	98	233
	188	146	334		150	127	277	338	273	611
DEA	10	10	20	DEUS	47	26	73	57	36	93
	198	156	354		197	153	350	395	309	704
175:203 = 7(25:29); 273:338 = 13(21:26) = 13*47 = 611
354:350 = 2(177:175) = 2352 = 23211 = 64*11

198+197 are constitutive numbers of their sum 395 = 79*5, 156:153 = 3*(52:51) are ratio numbers, which are the two principal relationships between numbers.

64*11 shows that RISU is in the centre of the 7 words. 47 has been shown above as the main factor of the 21 words: The ratios thus are 5:16 words and the NS+FS 47*(13:33) = 47*46. 21:26 means the difference 21 between the FS 26 and NS 47 of DEUS.

MATRI forms an NS+FS ratio with MATREM PARENTI: 108:(122+148) = 108:270 = 54*(2:5).

6. The next step of extension adds twice the NS+FS 115+79 = 194 of PARVE PUER:

4 words	198	156	354	3 words	197	153	350	395	309	704
2 words	115	79	194	2 words	115	79	194	230	158	388
	313	235	548		312	232	544	625	467	1092
1092 = 4273 = 4(1321) = 8413; 194 = 2*97

273 has been shown above to be the NS+FS of the PATER NOSTER Cross. 13:21 elements of the DR represent the ratio of 1:3 area units of the tetraktys circles:

84+13 is the NS of the inner SQ:

7. For the final extension twice ASPICE INCIPE and CUBILI MENSA are needed:

	NS	FS	sm		NS	FS	sm
ASPICE	51	31	82	ASPICE	51	31	82
INCIPE	54	41	95	INCIPE	54	41	95
CUBILI	54	37	91	MENSA	49	34	83
	159	109	268		154	106	260
268:260 = 4(67:65) = 4132 = 2*264 = 528

264 is the NS 143 = 11*13 + FS 121 = 11*11 of PATER NOSTER, an anagram of SQ-letters. Vergil may have connected ASPICE INCIPE with the happy rewards of MENSA CUBILI which he will be granted after a life of fame and glorious deeds.

The final addition now is:

6 words	313	235	548	5 words	312	232	544	625	467	1092
3 words	159	109	268	3 words	154	106	260	313	215	528
	472	344	816		466	338	804	938	682	1620
816:804 = (8102):(4201)

As has been said above 102 is the NS of the 8 different letters of the SQ and 201 the NS of the 17 other letters. In this context Vergil wanted to underline the complementary relationship of MATER and PATER.

Written: December 2021

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