a painting was hung
Art Neuendorffer
Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh
To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie
A little *NEARer* Spenser to make room
For Shakespeare in your threefold, *FOURfold tomb*
To lodge *ALL FOUR* in *ONE BED* make a shift
Until Doomsday, for hardly will a fifth
Betwixt this day and that by fate be slain
For whom your curtains may be drawn again.
If your precedency in death doth bar
A *FOURTH* place in your sacred sepulcher,
Under this carved marble of thine own
[SL]eep rare tragedian Shakespeare, sleep alone,
[T]hy unmolested peace, unshared cave,
[P]ossess as lord not tenant of thy grave,
That unto us and others it may be
Honor hereafter to be laid by thee.
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http://www.lengerke.org/crest.html
<<In the 17th century, four letters accompanied
the FALCON in the four corners of the shield:
P.T.S.L.
They mean:
'Post Tenebras Spero Lucem' After the darkness hope for light.
'Post Tenebras Sequitur Lux' After the darkness comes the light.
'Pulsis Tenebris Satior Lux' After the darkness is dispelled,
brighter light follows.
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<<On the occasion of the Shakespeare Jubilee, in the summer of
1769, a painting was hung before the windows of the room where
the dramatist was supposed to have been born; it displayed
the image of *the sun breaking through clouds* >>
-- p.517 _Shakespeare_ by Peter Ackroyd
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"Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"
A Glory Breaking Through a Cloud and
an Eye in a Triangle Surrounded with a Glory
http://www.greatseal.com/symbols/glory.html
http://www.greatseal.com/symbols/blazon.html
<<The glory is the only symbol found on both sides of the Great Seal.
A glory emanates from the constellation of stars over the eagle's head,
and a glory surrounds an eye in a triangle in the zenith of an
unfinished pyramid.
"Glory" is a heraldic term for a circle of rays, an emanation of light --
gold or yellow in color -- similar to the halo used by artists to depict
angelic beings.
In the official description of the Great Seal, the glory is "breaking
through a cloud" over the head of an eagle on the obverse side. Many
early illustrations depicted the light rays extending beyond the cloud.
Unfortunately, the glory no longer shines so brightly. The current
Great Seal die (similar to the image seen on the one-dollar bill)
is technically incorrect, because the rays are blocked by the cloud.
Although the cloud is usually depicted as several cloud puffs, this
symbolic element is referred to in the singular. The number of cloud
puffs is not specified. It is for the artist or engraver to decide.
The first Great Seal committee included a cloud in its design for the
reverse side.
The first Great Seal committee (1776) specified: "the Eye of Providence
in a radiant Triangle whose Glory extends over the Shield and beyond the
Figures." Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson had similar ideas that
became the committee's choice for a reverse. Referring to themes and
symbols from Exodus, their design showed the Red Sea overwhelming
Pharaoh, with "Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Cloud, expressive
of the divine Presence and Command, beaming on Moses."
(Motto: "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God")
"And God went before them, by day in a pillar of a cloud to show
them the way, and at night in a pillar of fire." (Exodus 13:21)
From the beginning, then, the founders emphasized the importance of this
divine light by including it on both sides of their initial design. They
also incorporated a glory (or similar element) into both sides of the
subsequent designs submitted by the second and third committees.>>
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Thomas Shelton and Hamet Benengeli
by Francis Carr
http://www.sirbacon.org/links/carrq.html
http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/legend01/falcon.htm
THE FIRST EDITION OF "DON QUIXOTE." 1605
<<We see a hooded FALCON resting on the gloved hand of a man
hidden from view. Swirling shapes, possibly mist, on one side only,
stress the fact that the FALCONer is hidden, just out of sight.
Around the arm and the bird is the inscription:
Post Tenebras Spero Lucem
after darkness I hope for light.
Beneath the FALCON a lion is keeping his eye on the bird.
It could be said that both the lion and the FALCON hope for light
after the darkness, for the clear light of day after the dark
night, or a time of impaired vision. The lion could symbolise
England; the FALCON could be Cervantes. Who is the FALCONer?
The inscription takes us to Chapter 68 of the 2nd Part of Don Quixote,
in which the knight tells Sancho Panza that he too hopes for light:
O hard heart! oh ungodly Squire! oh ill given bread, and favours ill
placed which I bestowed, and thought to have more & more conferred
upon thee . . . for I Post Tenebras Spero Lucem. I understand
not that, said Sancho, only I know that whilest I am sleeping,
I neither feare nor hope, have neither paine nor pleasure.
In Cervantes' text, Quixote follows the words in Latin with a
translation into the vernacular: "after darkness I expect light".
Sancho, however, still says "I don't understand that".
Shelton's version makes sense. It seems that Cervantes' explanation has
been added to help the reader, but it is a mistake, as it makes Sancho's
reply incomprehensible. Was Cervantes' text a translation of Shelton?>>
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http://pages.prodigy.com/Christstory/falcon.htm
<<When FALCONS are pictured wearing a hood, they symbolize prisoners;
that treasure which is hidden in jars of clay [2 Cor 4:6-7] or stifled
by ignorance and sin [Is 58:9-11;John 1:4-5];or communion with and hope
in the light which is Christ in spite of the surrounding night [2 Sam
22:29; Psa 112:4; Is 42:16; John 8:12]. As Micah wrote, contemplating
the destruction of Israel,"when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in the
darkness, the LORD will be a light to me." [Micah 7:8] Renaissance
printers used the logo of a hooded FALCON along with the words
"Post Tenebras Spero Lucem" (After darkness I hope for light).>>
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STay Passenger, why goest thou by so fast?
Read if thou canst whom envious death hath PLaST,
with in this MONVMENT SHAKSPEARE
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P L a S T
[P]ost [L]ucem [S]pero [T]enebras
(After the light HOPE for darkness )
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 3, Scene 1
BOTTOM: Some man or other must present WALL: and let him
have some *PLaSTer* , or some loam, or some rough-cast
about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his
fingers thus, and through that cranny shall
Pyramus and Thisby WHISPER.
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Post Tenebras SPEro Lucem
Job (Vulgate) 17:12
noctem VERtErunt in diem et rursum Post Tenebras Spero Lucem
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The Legend of the FALCON Crest
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~lenker/lengerke/crest.html
<<Once upon a time a very demanding German princess had two ladies
in waiting, Isidore and Adelaide, and she loved them very much. The
princess disliked all knights that courted the young women. One day,
a handsome & brave knight appeared and soon became the favorite of
both Isidore & Adelaide. The princess tried to keep the knight away
from her ladies, and he became very disheartened. The only joy
left to him was FALCONry. He possessed a beautiful white
FALCON which be had raised himself and which he used
to carry on his arm. Even more than his FALCON,
however, he loved Adelaide. The princess became aware
of this secret love, and so did Isidore, who herself
had passionately fallen in love with the knight.
One day when Adelaide was kneeling down before the little altar in
her chambers, the evening sun cast a ray on the window sill and on
the little FALCON who was perched there. The FALCON wore
a purple velvet cap, on which was written, embroidered with pearls:
P.T.S.L. (Post Tenebras Spero Lucem)
(After the darkness hope for light). Adelaide recognized the bird,
and so did Isidore who happened to witness this event and she
selfishly reported it to the princess. On the first official occasion
the princess announced her desire for an engagement between
the owner of the FALCON and the now very happy Adelaide.
From that point on the FALCON only took its food
from Adelaide's hand a picture of the FALCON
was to be seen on the shield of the knight.>>
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Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens"
<<The stone was uneven and broken, and the letters
were straggling and irregular, but the following
fragment of an inscription was clearly to be deciphered:--
[cross] B I L S T
u m
P S H I
S. M.
ARK
Mr. Pickwick's eyes sparkled with delight>>
. . . . . . .
<< Mr. Blotton, with a mean desire to tarnish
the lustre of the immortal name of Pickwick, actually
undertook a journey to COBHAM in person, and on his return,
sarcastically observed in an oration at the club, that he had
seen the man from whom the stone was purchased; that the man
presumed the stone to be ancient, but solemnly denied the
antiquity of the inscription--inasmuch as he represented it
to have been rudely carved by himself in an idle mood,
and to display letters intended to bear neither
more or less than the simple construction of--
'BIL. STumPS, HIS MARK'; and that
Mr. STumPS, being little in the habit of original composition,
and more accustomed to be guided by the sound
of words than by the strict rules of orthography,
had omitted the concluding 'L' of his Christian name.>>
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B I L S T(um)P S H I
I H S P(mu)T S L I B
[ I. H. S. ] __ [P. T. S. L.] ______ [ I. B. ]
In Hoc Signo Post Tenebras Spero Lucem IACHIN BOAZ
[http://www.sirbacon.org/gallery/elingen.html] Ionson Ben
<<The secret signs, grips and password of the first degree [Masonry]
are explained as well as the meaning of BOAZ, the left-hand pillar
in the Porchway of Solomon's Temple..Again the candidate is
conducted around the Temple, new signs and passwords revealed,
and a white apron with two rosettes. This time he learns the
meaning of the right hand pillar of Solomon's Temple, "JACHIN"
and is permitted to extend his
"researches into the hidden mysteries of science and nature".>>
http://home.fireplug.net/~rshand/streams/masons/mrituals.html
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_Ulysses_ begins at sunrise (3:33 LMT) Thursday June 16, 1904.
(Almost 300 years after Oxford's Thursday death.)
S. P.
T. L.
a (u)
t (m)
e p
<<STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD,
bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
A YELLOW dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him
by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
-- Introibo ad altare Dei .>>
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_Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen_ by William Hazlitt
http://www.bartleby.com/27/18.html
<<Yet I would rather have seen Chaucer in company with the author of
the 'Decameron,' and have heard them exchange their best stories
together-the 'Squire's Tale' against the story of the "FALCON,'>>
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THE STRATFORD-ON-AVON BIRTHPLACE By Roderick L. Eagle
<<"Mr. Collet's description of the premises as "shabby" and "mean" is
confirmed by a German visitor named Moritz in 1782 who described the
"birthplace" as being "the worst, and one that made least appearance
of all the houses in Stratford." It is only in recent years that
the present "Birthplace" Trustees have refrained from exhibiting
"an old oak chair" in which Shakespeare was said to have sat when
carousing at the FALCON Inn at Bidford, in spite of the fact
that no proof exists that he ever entered the inn.">>
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Gray FALCON => the PEREGRINE FALCON.
http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptdynasties.html
<<The hieroglyph of MENES or AHA ('The Fighter')
the First King of the First Dynasty is thought to feature
mud brick paneling (early Palace facade) topped by an unknown
structure with a curved roof. From a modern point of view this might
seem to refer to the royal aviaries of AHA, where the mace or fighting
stick substitutes for a perch and the arched hieroglyph a "pigeon hole"
for the PEREGRINE FALCON to enter. Something quite similar in
design to the AHA hieroglyph (a protected enclosure for a female)
is also seen on the macehead of Narmer.>>
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"fighting [spear] substitutes for a perch"
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"Gold on a BEND sable, a spear of the first, and for his crest or
cognizance a FALCON, his wings displayed argent, standing on a
wreathe of his colors, supporting a spear gold steeled as aforesaid."
Shakspere Blazon & Coat of Arms
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From: A Visit to Edinburgh and Lodge Canongate Kilwinning #2.
Wor. James T. Watson, Jr.
http://www.freemason.org/scrl/monthly/edinburg.htm :
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<<The "Royal Mile" leads from this castle to Holyrood Castle,
home of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1561-1567.>>
[ Webster's Biographical Dictionary and the DNB assign
Thomas Sackville as Grandmaster Freemason 1561-1567.]
<<The initiative in forming the Grand Lodge of Scotland was taken
by this Lodge. One of its members, William St. Clair of Rosslyn
became first Grand Master.
The Lodge motto, "POST NUBILE PHOEBUS" (After the clouds
the sun), refers to dawn and ancient sun worship.>>
["ancient sun worship" => obelisks => Baalbek.]
<<The Annual Festival is held on St. John the Baptist's Day,
June 24th.>>
[ June 24, 1604 => Oxford's death ]
<<The present Lodge building was consecrated in December, 1736, and is
the oldest building in the world built for Masonic purposes. On entering
the Lodge room, one is instantly drawn drawn to what appear to be four
alcoves contining statues, two on the north wall and two on the south.
When approached, they are found to be cleverly executed mural paintings
of Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott on the north wall and Robert Burns
and WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE on the south. These works were completed by
an unknown artist in 1833.>>
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Art Neuendorffer
David L. Webb
Art Neuendorffer <aneuendor...@comcast.net>
(aneuendor...@comicass.nut) wrote:
[...]
> <<On the occasion of the Shakespeare Jubilee, in the summer of
> 1769, a painting was hung
But Art -- you evidently have not been keeping up with the news.
Almost two weeks ago two paintings were REMOVED from where they were
hung. And rather than Arden Garden, perhaps you should try grepping New
Garden (or at any rate a Slavic equivalent thereof). You are really
astonishingly slow on the uptake sometimes, Art!
[Screenfuls of lunatic logorrhea snipped]
Art Neuendorffer
>><<On the occasion of the Shakespeare Jubilee,
>>in the summer of 1769, a painting was hung
>
David L. Webb wrote:
> But Art -- you evidently have not been keeping up with the news.
> Almost two weeks ago two paintings were REMOVED from where they were
> hung. And rather than Arden Garden, perhaps you should try grepping New
> Garden (or at any rate a Slavic equivalent thereof). You are really
> astonishingly slow on the uptake sometimes, Art!
The Rembrandt that got away from you, Dave?
Portrait of Father is reportedly worth 3.6 million euros ($5.1 million
Cdn). It had previously been stolen a decade ago and recovered in Spain.
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SAD : garden, orchard, plantation
(Slovak, Croatian, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish)
SAD : awakened, cold, cold air, coldness, frost (Tibetan)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13310
SAD : SHAKE, dust shaken out, thump (Gaelic, Scottish)
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Jan 9, 2006 ? BELGRADE (Reuters) - Two masked gunmen broke into
a museum in the Serb city of Novi Sad on Sunday, tied up
employees with *SCOTCH* tape and stole four paintings,
including 17th century works by Rembrandt and Rubens.
According to TV Panonija, the museum has no video-surveillance
equipment available and is guarded by only one security guard.
Novi Sad City Museum director Drago Njegovan said the paintings were
worth several million euros but were far too well known to be sold.
The Rembrandt, a portrait of the artist's father valued
at $4.4 million, had been stolen once before in 1983
and found two years later in Spain.
Also stolen were Ruben's "Portrait of a Shadow", also from
the 17th century, one painting by Pier Francesco Mola,
and one by an unknown German-Dutch 16th century painter.
"Gentlemen, return the paintings, you will never manage
to sell them, they are in EVERy encyclopaedia," Njegovan said.
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Two thieves broke into a museum in a northern Serbian city, snatching
four valuable paintings, including works by Rembrandt and Rubens.
Police in the city of Novi Sad, 50 kilometres north of the capital
of Belgrade, say the masked robbers entered the City Museum early
Sunday morning and tied up the guards.
Police official Stevan Krstic said the stolen pieces include Rembrandt
Van Rijn's Portrait of Father, Peter Paul Rubens' Seneca, a miniature
by Italian baroque painter Pier Francesco Mola and another oil
painting by an anonymous 16th-century Dutch painter.
The City Museum exhibits fine and applied arts from the 17th-to the
mid-20th century.
Krstic said the two guards were not hurt.
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Art Neuendorffer