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<<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'
 
  By Amanda Paulson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
    http://csmonitor.com/2004/0709/p13s02-alar.html
 
  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.
  It invites you to get involved with so many figures."
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      A Sunday on La Grande Jatte-1884
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/eurptg/28pc_seurat.html
 
  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.
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     Text from "Sister Wendy's American Masterpieces":
   http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/seurat/jatte.jpg.html
 
 "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
            ATREUS, HA
            "ARETHUSA"
             TARA'S HUE
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Sondheim! A Choral Celebration - Arranged by Mac Huff
http://www.bellevuechamberchorus.net/Research/20thCentury/Music/SondheimAChoralCelebration.htm
 
"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
 
     Eugenio Montale's _SATURA_
http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall99/satura.htm
 
"One can read SATURA as an elegy for Western Literary Modernism
  itself, for the passing of a great era."-Harold Bloom
 
       SATURA Prize (for poetry)
http://www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au/satura.htm
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   http://smithpp0.tripod.com/psp/id17.html
.
   _ET IN ARCADIA EGO_ by Paul Smith.
.
The first appearance of the 'Tomb in Arcadia'
  appeared in Virgil's Eclogues V, 42ff:
.
  "A lasting monument to Daphnis raise
 With this inscription to record his praise;
 
'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
 
PAULINA: You, that ARE THUS so tender O'ER his follies,
    Will nEVER do him good, not one of you.
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   http://www.fbrt.org.uk/pages/essays/essay-ciphers.html
 
<<'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.
           http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/aa/alpha.html
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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
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      <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>>
 
  <http://www.all-things-bacon.com/gifs/oak.ht1.gif>
  <http://www.all-things-bacon.com/gifs/snailkiss.gif>
  <http://www.all-things-bacon.com/intro.html>
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                 A = alpha/aleph = bull/ox
                   A =  "stream" (Danish)
 
                     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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<<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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__       TOTHEO    [N] li       _     <E B E  (G)  ____ ETTERO
__       FTHESE__- [I] nS       -     U<I>N  (G)  ____ SONNET
__       SMrWha_-  [L] LH      [a]    P <P> I__ [N] __ESSEA
__       NDthat____[E] T _   [E|r] -  N <I> T__ [I] E<P>ROM
__       ISEDB  Y O u   ___  [R|e]    V <E> R   [L]<I> VING
       <P>OEtW  I s h  _____ [E|t] _  H [T] H _ [E]   WELLW
       <I>ShIN-(G)a _____  [d V e]    N [T] u ______ ReRINS
       <E>tTIN (G)fort----_______     H [T] t
 
                 Asteroid #197: ARETe
                            ×2
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                 Asteroid #394: [A]RDUIN[A]
 
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      KING CHLODIO "NEVER CUT HIS HAIR" [like Henry Wriothesley]
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<<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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<<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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                    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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