<<Puttenham seems completely unaware of
the existence of public theaters, but is only
concerned
with
performances before the monarch:
That for Tragedy, the Lord of Buckhurst, and Master Edward
Ferrys
for such doings as
I have seen of theirs do deserve the highest price:
Th'Earl of Oxford and Master
Edwardes
of her Majesty's Chapel
for Comedy and Interlude.
The oddity on the list is the name "Edward Ferrys." No gentleman of that
name is known to
have written plays or even poetry in 16th-Century
England, but an earlier
reference in Puttenham sheds some light:
In king Edward the sixths time ... Edward Ferrys ... wrate for the
most part to the
stage, in Tragedy and sometime in Comedy or Interlude,
wherein he gave the
king so much good recreation,
as he had thereby many good rewards.
It seems likely that Puttenham is referring to George Ferrers, a
lawyer,
courtier, and poet of the mid-16th Century, who was the Lord of
Misrule
(the supervisor of court entertainments) under Edward VI, and
who
contributed to court entertainments in Elizabeth's time.
Unfortunately,
not one tragedy or other play by George Ferrers is known to us
even by
name; however, if we can judge by the extra attention Puttenham
devotes
to him, the lost dramatic output of Ferrers was more impressive
to
Puttenham than the lost output of
Oxford.>>
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Ferris Bueller
What is the name of the painting Cameron stares at at the Art
Institute?
It is "Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte" and was by
Georges SEURAT
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What SEURAT left out of
'La Grande Jatte'
CHICAGO - The pink-skirted woman was changed from a single
woman to a mother; the bustle on the strolling woman's costume was
exaggerated, and the monkey was a last-minute addition.
These are just a few of the surprises visitors take away
from the Art Institute of Chicago's exhibition,
"SEURAT and the Making of 'La Grande Jatte.'
"
The title, of course, refers to one of the
museum's most
beloved paintings: the
enormous, heavily populated tableau
of
Sunday loungers on a Paris isle that has
captivated
viewers from Stephen
Sondheim to Ferris Bueller.
"Sometimes familiarity is a bit numbing. You think you know
the
picture, but there's a plot to discover," says Douglas
Druick,
cocurator of the exhibit. "We tried to construct a process
whereby
visitors would come to the realization and appreciation of a
picture
we're told is great, and we know is great, but in a way that
turns the
head back into heart."
SEURAT, for many art
historians, is the anti-Impressionist. When "La
Grande Jatte" was
first exhibited at the Eighth Impressionist
Exhibition in 1886,
everything about the painting - its size, the
extensive preparation
that went into it, the almost frozen effect of
the scene - was viewed
as a repudiation of Impressionist ideals
such as spontaneity and
movement.
One of the striking evolutions in SEURAT's own style is his use of
color.
He dropped out of art school after just a year and a half-long
before
he'd studied color at all - and his early works are nearly all
crayon
sketches. Even in those drawings, SEURAT was less interested
in details
than forms, and he strove to achieve a heightened contrast
by placing
light and dark areas next to each other.
It was a strategy that he soon carried over into his color
experiments,
learning how complementary colors - blue and orange, or
red and
green - can intensify each other, how dabs of primary colors
can mix
in the eye of the beholder, and how the light and dark
contrasts he'd
worked with in black and white could translate.
Many of his early works are Impressionist, though he was
more
drawn to working-class subjects than his contemporaries were.
And
in some of his landscapes, which clearly borrowed
Impressionist
subjects and composition, he was already starting to
develop his
distinctive pointillist style (a term that, the exhibition
explains,
comes from the French word for "stitch" and refers
to
the accumulation of paint daubs - many of them horizontal
or vertical strokes - not just a flurry of dots).
The climax of the show, of course, is the room devoted to the
final
work, whose full title is "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
(1884)."
The enormous painting, reframed and reglazed, hangs alone,
while
curved walls display some 40 sketches, studies, and
preparatory
paintings. The collection illustrates how SEURAT obsessively worked
over every
detail of the scene he'd created, devoting numerous
studies to the
landscape, or to individual characters.
For example, an early version of the woman in the pink skirt
is
childless. Instead, a man approaches her, flirting with her in
a
manner she may or may not welcome. Even in that sketch,
there's room for myriad interpretations.
In the final painting, the man is gone,
and the
pink-skirted woman leads a small girl by the hand.
"She and the child are a family unit, and the child with the
white
costume - the most brilliant of all the costumes - stands as a
pillar
of innocence amidst adults," notes Druick. Looking at the
painting
together with all the studies, he adds, is "like seeing a film, and
then
seeing the outtakes on DVD - the shot ending this way, or that
way."
The woman with the monkey, whose oversize bustle creates
an
almost absurd profile, has been described as a "kept
woman,"
although only one commentator in SEURAT's day called her that. Her
outfit
is very proper and would have been worn by middle-class
women. The
speculation is based on the fact that, in paintings,
the appearance of
a monkey can symbolize profligacy.
This exhibit dances around such theories, choosing instead
to
celebrate the scene's ambiguity. In the end, it's
remarkable
as much for its timelessness - the solid, motionless
forms
that evoke Greek friezes - as its specificity of time and
place.
"It's like a great canvas of the history of social rituals," says
Druick.
"It's lifeless and frozen, and yet of the moment at the same
time.
Oil on canvas, 1884-86; 207.6 x 308 cm;
Helen Birch
Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926.224
"Bedlam," "scandal," and "hilarity" were among the
epithets
used to describe what is now considered Georges SEURAT's
greatest work, and one of the
most remarkable paintings of
the 19th century, when it was first
exhibited in Paris. SEURAT
labored extensively over A Sunday on La Grande Jatte-1884,
reworking
the original as well as completing numerous
preliminary drawings and
oil sketches (the Art Institute has
one such sketch and two drawings).
With what resembles
scientific precision, he tackled the issues of
color, light, and
form. Inspired by research in optical and color
theory, he
juxtaposed tiny dots of colors that, through optical
blending,
form a single and, SEURAT believed, more brilliantly
luminous
hue in the viewer's eye. To make the experience of
the
painting even more intense, he surrounded it with a frame
of
painted dots, which in turn he enclosed with a pure
white,
wooden frame, which is how the painting is exhibited today.
"SEURAT's Grande Jatte is
one of those rare works of art that stand
alone; its transcendence is
instinctively recognized by everyone. What
makes this transcendence so
mysterious is that the theme of the work is
not some profound emotion or
momentous event, but the most banal of
workaday scenes: Parisians enjoying an
afternoon in a local park.
Stranger still, when he painted it, SEURAT was a mere 25
(with only seven more years to live), a young man with
a scientific theory to prove; this is hardly the recipe for
success.
His theory was optical: the conviction that painting in dots,
known as
pointillism would produce a brighter color.
"SEURAT spent two years
painting this picture, concentrating
painstakingly on the landscape of the
park before focusing on the
people; always their shapes, never their
personalities. Individuals did
not interest him, only their formal elegance.
There is no untidiness in
SEURAT;
all is beautifully balanced. The park was quite a noisy place:
a man blows his bugle, children run around, there are dogs. Yet
the
impression we receive is of silence, of control, of nothing
disordered.
I think it is this that makes La Grande Jatte so moving to us who
live
in such a disordered world: SEURAT's control. There is an
intellectual
clarity here that sets him free to paint this small park with
an
astonishing poetry. Even if the people in the park are pairs or
groups,
they still seem alone in their concision of form - alone but not
lonely.
No figure encroaches on another's space: all coexist in peace.
"This is a world both real and unreal - a sacred world. We are
often
harried by life's pressures and its speed, and many of us think
at
times: Stop the world, I want to get off! In this painting,
SEURAT has "stopped
the world," and it reveals itself
as beautiful, sunlit, and silent - it is SEURAT's world,
from which we would never want to get off."
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"SAAT RUHE" : (German) sowing peace
SEURAT, HA
"Putting it Together" (from Sunday in the Park with George -
1984).
Based on the famous George SEURAT pointillistic painting "A
Sunday
Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", the fictitious story
line
concerns George, a painter, who thinks he has to choose between his
art
and his lover, Dot, because he feels he cannot balance both in his
life.
In the second act George's great-grandson (also an artist) comes back
to
the island with similar problems. "Putting it Together" is sung
by
George (the great-grandson) at a cocktail party after a showing of
his
latest work on the island, and describes the challenges of
achieving
an artistic vision and making the right personal connections
to promote his art.
<<When Stephen Sondheim adapted Aristophanes'
Frogs
for a performance in the Yale swimming pool in
1974,
the "Brek-ek-ek-ex co-ax co-ax," chant was
familiar
to Yale students; the croaking chorus was
sung
while Charon was rowing Dionysus across the
pool.>>
"Comedy Tonight" (from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum
-1962) - Based on the plays of the Greek playwright Plautus, the
show
portrays the farcical story of a young hero, named Hero, who has
fallen
in love with a COURTESAN. He enlists his conniving slave, Pseudolos,
to
get the girl for him in exchange for his freedom. "Comedy Tonight"
is
the opening number, performed in the classical manner of a Greek
chorus commenting on the action that is about to ensue, and is sung
by Prologus (who becomes Pseudolos) and the
Proteans.
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"ARETHUSA"
"SATURA HÊ" : (Latin)
SATIRE, of a COURTESAN
"One can read SATURA as an elegy for Western Literary
Modernism
itself, for the passing of a great era."-Harold Bloom
'Daphnis, the fields' delight, the shepherds' love,
Renown'd on
earth and deifi'd above;
Whose flocks excelled the fairest on the
plains,
But less than he himself surpassed the swains."
1590s Sir Philip
Sidney,
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
Mary
Sidney, Countess of Pembroke,
A Dialogue betweene two Shepheards,
Thenot and
Piers, in praise of Astrea.
The bas-relief of Les Bergers d'Arcadie was executed
by Léon Vaudoyer
(1803-1872), whilst the bust of
Poussin, above it, is signed "P.
Lemoyne".
.
1832 Jean Pierre Jacques Auguste de
Labouisse-Rochefort,
Voyages à Rennes-les-Bains, containing the opening
words
"From your happy Alphaeus, Oh darling ARETHUSA!"
(possibly written in 1803).
Labouisse-Rochefort compared
the landscape of Rennes-les-Bains
with
Arcadia.
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Phantom of the Opera - Gaston
Leroux
Chapter V: A Visit to Box Five
Right on top of the cliff, lost in M. Lenepveu's copper ceiling,
figures
grinned and grimaced, laughed and jeered at MM. Richard
and
Moncharmin's distress. And yet these figures were usually
VERy
serious. Their names were Isis, Amphitrite, Hebe,
Pandora, Psyche,
Thetis, Pomona, Daphne, Clytie, Galatea
and
ARETHUSA. Yes,
ARETHUSA herself and Pandora,
whom we
all know by her box, looked down upon the two new
managers of the
Opera, who ended by clutching at some piece of
wreckage and from there stared
silently at Box Five on the grand
TIER.
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"
ARETHUSA"
"
THRU A
SEA"
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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur
Golding)
The Story of
[A]RETHUSE &
[A]LPHEYS
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http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=ARBU&photoID=arbu_3v.jpg
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Coins/Arethusa.html
<<Ancient Syracusan coins featuring the image of [A]RETHUS[A]
, patron
nymph of Syracuse. ARETHUSA was a naiad (a water nymph) who
frolicked in
the vicinity of Olympia and who was desired and pursued by the
river-god
[A]lpheios. She appealed for assistance from Artemis,
goddess of the
moon & hunt and the protector of women (the
Roman Diana). Aretemis
transformed her into *an underground stream*
emerging as a freshwater
spring on the Sicilian island of Ortygia, the
future site of Syracuse.
Undaunted, [A]lpheios diverted his
river's flow underground to
follow
[A]RETHUS[A], and both of their waters now
mingle
eternally in the Fountain of
[A]RETHUS[A] in Ortygia.
Aeneid -
Virgil ** BOOK III
There lies an isle once call'd th' Ortygian
land.
ALPHeus, as old fame reports, has
found
From Greece a secret passage under
ground,
By love to beauteous [A]RETHUS[A] led;
And, mingling here, they roll in the same sacred bed.
[A]RETHUS[A]'s image on coins is usually
accompanied by dolphins, which
were common in the sea around Ortygia in
classical times. The coins of
ARETHUSA are arguably
the most beautiful minted by the ancient
Greeks.
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"ARETHUSA"
TRUE'S AHA
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens ** CHAPTER XLIII
"This," said Mr. Skimpole, "is my Beauty daughter, ARETHUSA--plays
and sings odds and
ends like her father. This is my Sentiment
daughter, LAURA--plays a
little but don't sing. This is my
Comedy daughter, Kitty--sings
a little but don't play.
We all draw a little and
compose a little,
and none of us have any idea of time or
money."
"That bad man!" said the Comedy daughter.
"At
the VERy time when he knew papa was lying ill by his
wallflowers, looking at
the blue sky," Laura complained.
"And when the smell of HAY was in the air!"
said ARETHUSA.
"It showed a want of poetry in the
man," Mr. Skimpole
assented,
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Othello, The Moor of Venice Act 1, Scene 3
IAGO Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we ARE THUS
or thus. Our
bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we
will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply
it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it
sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and
corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives
had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and
baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions:
but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our
unbitted lusts, whereof I take
this
that you call love to be a
sect or scion.
Act 2, Scene 3
OTHELLO How comes it, Michael, you ARE THUS
forgot?
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Much Ado About Nothing Act 5, Scene 1
DON PEDRO: Who have you offended, masters, that you ARE THUS
bound to
your answer? this learned constable is
too cunning to be understood: what's
your
offence?
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King Henry VI, Part iii Act 1, Scene 2
YORK You Edward, shall unto my Lord Cobham,
With whom the Kentishmen
will willingly rise:
In them I trust; for they are soldiers,
Witty,
courteous, liberal, full of spirit.
While you ARE THUS employ'd, what resteth
more,
But that I seek occasion how to rise,
And yet the king not privy to
my drift,
Nor any of the house of Lancaster?
[Enter a Messenger]
But, stay: what news? Why comest thou in such
post?
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The Winter's Tale Act 2, Scene 3
<<'AA' is an important signature of the Rosicrucian
fraternity,
used since the time of the
Ancient
Egyptians.>>
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"AA
NEFER" was bull :-) in which
the
soul of Osiris was said to be
incarnated!
[Larousse Encyclopedia
of Mythology
p.44]
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The DOUBLE AA (_Folio_) headpiece:
Vpon the Lines and
Life of the Famous
Scenicke
Poet, Master WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. -
H.H.
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The DOUBLE
AA (_Faerie Queene_)
headpiece.
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<<The
History of the Order of the Amaranth dates back to the time of
the Reign of
Christina, Queen of Sweden, in the year 1653. Christina
was the only daughter
of GUSTAVUS Adolphus (1594-1632) King of Sweden.
[The Order of the Amaranth is a fraternal organization composed
of
Master Masons and their properly qualified female relatives.]
Records show that Queen Christina created the order of the
Amaranth,
to honour the Lady [A]marant[A]...The Jewel was about the size of
a
half-a-crown, (English money) or the size of an American silver
Dollar,
it was made of Gold, with a Round Wreath wrought and enameled
like a
Laurel, and in the centre two letters in the form of an A, reversed,
&
set with a cluster of Diamonds. The 2 A's represented the First &
Last
letters of the name [A]marant[A], and about the wreath was
written
"dolco nella memoria" which means "sweet is the
memory".>>
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The DOUBLE
AA (_Venus & Adonis_)
headpiece:
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/new.html---------------------------------------------------------------
<
http://www.sirbacon.org/aasonnet%20copy.gif>
<
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1501-1600/hakluyt/plant.htm>
<
http://www.bartleby.com/3/1/33.html#txt7>
<<In this elaborate frontispiece from 'Generall Historie,'
Elizabeth
as Virginia is in the left panel wearing a crown with breasts
bared
as the symbol of her virginity. The three royals are Anne,
James and
Charles. Bacon's double AA symbol from the
double AA
headpieces
in the Shakespeare works is
represented in a crown
decorating one of the 'General Historie' maps.
'Hidden forms of the light and dark "A A" device present themselves
in
even stranger places, such as within the crown of the royal
insignia,
in one of the maps from Captain John Smith's 'Generall
Historie of
Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles (1624).' Later
editions of
this book restore the royal insignia back to it's proper
form, making
this a unique occurrence of this artifact. An image of
this device is
pictured below. The dark "A" is turned upside
down to avoid notice>>
A-A = OX-Ford =
Bull-beck
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[A]lice's [A]dventures
underground
A A
=> "underground
stream"
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http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lava.html There
are three types of lava and lava
flows:
pillow,
pahoehoe, and *
AA*
*AA* is characterized by a rough,
jagged,
spinose, and generally clinkery
surface.
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Ennosigee feu du CENTRE DE TERRE,
Fera trembler autour de cité NEUUE
Deux grâds rochers long têps feront la
guerre,
Puis Arethuse rougira
nouueau fleuue.
Nostradamus 1.87
** Earthshaking fire from the centre of the EARTH will
cause
tremors around the New City. Two great
rocks will war
for a long time, then [A]RETHUS[A] will redden a new
river.
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"ARETHUSA"
"EARTH:USA"
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Religio Medici - Thomas Browne
<<Heresies perish not with their Authors, but, like the
river
[A]RETHUS[A], though they lose their currents in
one
place,
they rise up again in
another.>>
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<<"
[A]RCADI[A]
was known as the source of the River ALPHaeus,
the
"underground stream" which figures
prominently
in Coleridge's poetry
& in esoteric literature.>>
"Where ALPH, the sacred river,
ran
Through caverns measureless to
man
Down to a sunless
sea."
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"(S)ALEPH" River => "OX"
Ford 10/6
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FREDERICK Barbarossa drowns under
the weight of his own
armor
in the SALEPH river on June 10, 1190
EXACTLY 45 years after his meetings with BREAKSPEAR (Pope Adrian
IV)
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Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 1
DUKE. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Have you
not
heard speak of MARIANA,
the sister of FREDERICK,
the great soldier who miscarried at sea?
The Comedy of
Errors Act 3, Scene 1
DROMIO OF EPHESUS Maud,
BRIDGET, (=>
BRIDGET)
MARIAN, CICEL, (=>
CECIL)
Gillian, GINN! (=> "children of fire
having
the power of assuming various
formes")
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http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/aa/alpha.html
<<The BOAR, a symbol of Apollo, the divine SWINEHERD,
is said to imprint the
ground with the sign of 'AA'..."
Bacon, from his "Masculine Birth of
Time"...
"Why, even country bumpkins have
proverbs
which are apt expressions of TRUTH.
A PIG might print the letter A with his snout in the mud, but
you
would not on that account expect it to go on to compose a
tragedy.">>
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Odyssey - Homer (tr. Samuel Butler) BOOK XIII
"Go at once to the SWINEHERD
who is in charge of your PIGS; he has
been always well affected towards
you, and is devoted to Penelope
and your son; you will
find him feeding his PIGS near
the
rock that is called RAVEN by the fountain [A]RETHUS[A]"
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Euripides - IPHIGENIA AT AULIS - translated by E. P. Coleridge
Enter
CHORUS OF WOMEN OF CHALCIS.
To the sandy beach of sea-coast Aulis I came after a
voyage
through the tides of Euripus, leaving Chalcis on its narrow
firth,
my city which feedeth the waters of far-famed [A]RETHUS[A] near the
sea,
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Moby Dick - Melville CHAPTER 41
<<It has been believed by some whalemen, that the Nor' West
Passage,
so long a problem to man, was never a problem to the
whale.
So that here, in the real living experience of living
men,
the prodigies related in old times of the inland Strello mountain
in
Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the
wrecks of
ships floated up to the surface); and that still more
wonderful story of the
[A]RETHUS[A] fountain near Syracuse
(whose
waters were believed to have come from the Holy Land by
an underground
passage); these fabulous narrations are almost
fully equalled by
the realities of the
whalemen.>>
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Sir Laurence Gardner
Nexus Magazine, Volume 6, Number 5
(August-September 1999).
<<The Church held such enormous financial, political and
military
power that the Grail adherents became an "underground
stream",living
in fear of their lives at every turn. They were not only
heretics:
they were singled out for punishment as sorcerers and
necromancers.
And since they did not conform to papal dictates,
Satanists!>>
<<In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Queen of
the
Fairies is Titania, whose name represents the pre-Olympian god-race
of
the Titans. In particular, she is the Moon Goddess Diana. Their
king,
Oberon, however, had an historical base, being inspired by an
ancestor
of Shakespeare's colleague Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of
Oxford.
He was a founding member of Elizabeth Tudor's 16th-century
Court
Poetry & Magic Syndicate - along with Francis Bacon, John
Dee,
Edmund Spenser and others of the Rosicrucian "underground
stream"
who aided and guided much of Shakespeare's work.
Edward de Vere was, at that time, Lord High Chancellor of
England
- as had been many generations of his forebears, including
Albrey,
the 12th-century Prince of Anjou & Guisnes, whose titular
name,
Albe-Righ, meant Elf King. Despite their loyalty to
Elizabeth,
the Syndicate knew that the House of Tudor had no prior
right
to the English throne, having simply taken it, by
might
of the sword, from the preceding House of Plantagenet.
That apart, the Plantagenets themselves were a junior branch of
the
House of Anjou, whose senior branch was the House of Vere.
Indeed,
in 1861, the noted royal historian Baron Thomas Babington
Macaulay
described the Veres as "the longest and most illustrious line
of
nobles that England has ever seen". Their ancestry was
jointly
Pictish and Merovingian, descending from the ancient Grail
House
of Scythia. Here was a true kingly line of the
Elven
Race, and it was for this reason that Oberon (a variant
of
Aubrey/Albrey, the historical Elf King) became
Shakespeare's
King of the Fairies. Such was the translatory nature of
all
Rosicrucian symbology, whether portrayed in stories,
artwork,
watermarks or the Tarot.
Some time earlier, in 1408, Edward de Vere's ancestor, Richard
(Lord
Chamberlain and 11th Earl of Oxford), had been invested as a Knight
of
the Garter by King Henry IV at Windsor Castle. Also invested at the
same
time was King Sigismund of Hungary, who had revived the ancient
Egyptian Order of the Dragon - within which Richard de Vere
held the hereditary distinction of Lord Draconis.
One way or another, the nursery tales which emanated from
the
"underground stream" were stories of lost brides & usurped kingship
-
based upon the subjugation of the Grail
Bloodline
by the Church of Rome and, in later
times,
by the sectarian Puritans of the Protestant
movement.>>
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EDWARD BEAR & the SWAN named POOH
<<If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin,
you
may remember that he once had a SWAN (or the SWAN had Christopher
Robin,
I don't know which) and that he used to call this SWAN Pooh. That was
a
long time ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us,
as
we didn't think the SWAN would want it any more. Well, when EDWARD
BEAR
said that he would like an exciting name all to himself,
Christopher
Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he
was
Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was.>> -- A.A.
Milne
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"ARETHUSA"
"URSA
HEAT"
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PEOPLE OF THE BEAR
Edmund: My father compounded with my mother under the DRAGON'S
TAIL;
and my nativity was under
URSA
MAJOR;
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http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/metis.htm
<<The Sicambrians, ancestors of the Franks, were known as the
"PEOPLE
OF THE BEAR" for their
worship of the BEAR-goddess
[A]RDUIN[A]. The word
"[A]RCADI[A]" comes from
Arkas, patron god of that area of Greece, the
son of the nymph Callisto,
sister of the huntress Artemis. Callisto's
constellation is also known to
many as URSA MAJOR, the Great BEAR. The
name "Arthur" comes from the Celtic
arth, related to "Ursus" -- namely,
"BEAR." In legend, the Merovingians were said to be
descended from the
Trojans, and Homer reports that Troy was founded by
a colony of
Arcadians. The "Prieure documents" claim that the Arcadians
were
descended from BENjamites driven out of Palestine by their
fellow
Israelites for idolatry. "[A]RCADI[A]" was also known as the source of
the
River ALPHaeus, the "underground
stream" which figures prominently
in Coleridge's poetry and in esoteric
literature. The Merovingians
were "sacred kings" who reigned but did not
rule, leaving the secular
governing function to chancellors known as the
Mayors of the Palace.
It was one of these Mayors, Pepin the Fat, who founded
the dynasty
that came to supplant them -- the
Carolingians.>>
<<Ean Begg feels [the Prieure] is connected with many of the
Black
Virgin sites all over Europe. If the organization's full
name is
the Prieure de Notre Dame du Sion, and if it is site of ORVAL
is
connected to the worship of the
BEAR-goddess
[A]RDUIN[A],
venerated
by the Sicambrian Franks of the area and their Merovingian
kings.
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Mary
[A]RDUIN[A] of ARDENNES
http://www.taliesin.clara.net/sidhi.htm#Arduina
Celtic goddess of woodlands, wild life, the hunt and the
moon;
Guardian
and Eponym of the ARDENNES Forest
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KING CHLODIO "NEVER CUT HIS HAIR" [like Henry
Wriothesley]
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http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/metis.htm
<<Up until recently, little was known about the Merovingian kings,
as
they inhabited that historical epoch derided as the Dark Ages.
The
founder of the royal line, Merovech, was said to be of two fathers
--
his mother, already pregnant by KING CHLODIO, was seduced while
swimming
in the ocean by a QUINOTAUR, whatever that was, and Merovech was
formed
somehow by the commingling of Frankish blood and that of the
mysterious
aquatic creature. Like the Nazoreans of old, the Merovingian
monarchs
NEVER CUT THEIR HAIR and bore a distinctive birthmark -- said to
be
a red cross over the shoulder blades. Their robes were fringed
with
tassels which were said to carry magical curative powers. They
were
known as occult adepts, and in one Merovingian tomb was found
such
items as a golden bull's head, a crystal ball, and several
golden
miniature bees. Strangely, many skulls of these monarchs
appear
to have been ritually incised; i.e.,
trepanned.>>
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Dagobert II murdered by POISON POURED IN THE
EAR
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http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/metis.htm
<<One of the great Merovingian kings, Clovis, struck a deal with
the
newly nascent Roman church. He would subdue their enemies, the
Arian
Visigoths and the pagan Lombards, in return for baptism into the
faith
and recognition of his right to rule a new Roman empire as
"Novus
Constantinus." Yet one of his descendants, Dagobert II, was murdered
by
A LANCE PIERCED THROUGH HIS EYE (or POISON POURED IN THE EAR --
accounts
vary) at the orders of Pepin. The church endorsed the
assassination,
flatly betrayed its pact with Clovis, and in turn recognized
the family
of usurpers as legitimate, culminating with the crowning of
Charlemagne
as Holy Roman Emperor. It was thought that the Merovingian
lineage was
extinguished; in any case it was excised from the history books.
But
there is some evidence that Dagobert's son, Siegebert IV, survived
and
that a Merovingian principality continued to be ruled in Septimania
by
Guillem de Gellone, a descendant & ancestor of
GODROI de
BOUILLION.>>
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http://home.fireplug.net/~rshand/streams/scripts/sion.html
<<The earliest roots of the Prieure de SION are in some sort of
Hermetic
or Gnostic society led by a man named Ormus. This individual is said
to
have reconciled paganism and Christianity. The story of SION only
comes
into focus in the Middle Ages. In 1070, a group of monks from
Calabria,
Italy, led by one Prince URSUS, founded the Abbey of ORVAL in France
near Stenay, in
the ARDENNES. These monks are said
to have formed
the basis for the the ORDRE de SION, into which they were
'folded'
in 1099 by GODROI de
BOUILLION." - Jon. Vankin and John
Whalen
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Forest of Arden =>
ARDENNES
duke (S)e(NIO)r
=> SION
OLIVER =>
ORVEIL
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November
28, 1582 William Shagspere & Anne Hathwey of
Stratford
[November 28, 1660 founding FELLOW of the Royal
Society]
November 27, 1582 Tues. Wm Shaxpere & Anna Whateley of
Temple Grafton
November 27, 1095 Tues. Pope Urban launches 1st
Crusade
[Templars]
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