SALOMON-ici
Art Neuendorffer
pauperes commilitones Christi templique *SALOMON-ici*
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Lyra wrote
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<<...it reminded me of a fascinating true tale
. of a Renaissance man who created moving statues,
. talking statues and other wonders.
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The most famous garden designer of the late Renaissance,
whose legacy is still apparent in England,
. was a French Huguenot hydraulic engineer,
. *SALOMON* de Caus.
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. Like John Dee and Robert Fludd, de Caus was fascinated
by automata and other mechanical devices - moving statues
and figures of animals, doors which opened and closed of
their own accord, mysteriously operating waterworks, a host
of seemingly magical phenomena which were in fact
technologically produced and today
would be classified as 'special effects'.
.
. But while Dee and Fludd were interested in the
adaptation of such machinery for the theatre, de Caus
devised his inventions for the garden."
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"Among his most impressive achievements was the creation
of 'elaborate gardens and waterworks in the grounds
of Richmond palace in association with Inigo Jones'."
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(at Heidelberg Castle) "... grottoes were constructed
to house automata. These automata - mechanical giants,
speaking statues, organs which sounded notes in response
to air or water pressure - were intended not only to
awe spectators, but also to serve a talismanic function.
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Thus, once again, did magic and science fuse to create
the foundations of modern technological development."
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(The Elixir and the Stone, Baigent and Leigh)>>
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. *SALOMON* de Caus (1576-1626)
http://www.gardenvisit.com/b/caus1.htm
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<<Elder brother of Isaac de Caus, born in Northern France. As a
Huguenot he spent much of his life as a refugee. He visited Italy
(c1595) and saw the famous Mannerist garden at Pratolino. This gave him
an enthusiasm for water works and *SALOMON* de Caus became famous as a
hydraulic engineer. In England he designed a garden on the site now
occupied by the Maritime Museum in Greenwich Park and also the garden
of Somerset House (now occupied by a building by Sir William Chambers).
In Germany he designed the famous Garden of the Palatinate in
Heidleberg, which is ruined but survives. *SALOMON* de Caus wrote books
on La Perspective avec la raison des ombres et miroirs (1612) and Les
Raisons des forces mouvantes (1615).>>
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Terry Ross wrote:
> There were hundreds of thousands of English Bibles printed during
> Shakespeare's lifetime, most of which have not come down to us.
> Roger Stritmatter thinks there were at least three different people
> who left marks in Oxford's Bible, one of whom was Oxford himself.
> I think there were at least four different people,
> none of who can be shown to have been Oxford.
> Consider one of the more interesting annotations:
>
> 1 Kings 8.63 reads,
>
> "And *SALOMON* offred a sacrifice of peace offrings which he offred
> vnto the Lorde, to wit, two and twentie thousande beeues, and
> an hundreth and twentie thousande shepe: so the king
> & all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lorde."
>
> In the margin of Oxford's Bible, someone has written this:
>
> oxen - 22000
> shepe 1220000
>
> OK, "two and twentie thousande beeues" may equal "oxen - 22000",
> but how does "an hundreth and twentie thousande shepe" equal
> "shepe 1220000"? We know that Oxford was constantly in
> money trouble, but is there any reason to think he didn't
> know the difference between a hundred and twenty
> thousand; and one million, two hundred twenty thousand?
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. Love's Labour's Lost (1600 Quarto) Act 1, Scene 2
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Boy. Which the base vulgar do call three.
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Arma. TRUE.
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Boy. Why sir is this such a peece of studie? Now heere is
three studied ere yele thrice wincke: and how easie it is to
put yeeres to the worde three, and studie three yeeres in two
wordes, the dauncing Horse will tell you.
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Arm. A most fine Figure.
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Boy. To proue you a CYPHER.
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Arm. I will hereupon confesse I am in loue: and as it is
base for a Souldier to loue; so am I in loue with a base wench.
If drawing my Sword against the humor of affection, would
deliuer me from the reprobate thought of it, I would take
Desire prisoner, and ransome him to anie French Courtier
for a new deuisde cursie. I thinke scorne to sigh, mee thinks
I should outsweare Cupid. Comfort mee Boy, What great
men haue bin in loue?
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Boy. Hercules Maister.
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Arm. Most sweete Hercules: more authoritie deare Boy,
name more; and sweete my childe let them be men of good
repute and carriage.
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Boy. SAMPSON Maister, he was a man of good carriage,
great carriage: for he carried the Towne-gates on his backe
like a PORTER: and he was in loue.
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Arm. O wel knit SAMPSON, strong ioynted SAMPSON; I do excel
thee in my rapier, a much as thou didst me in carying gates.
I am in loue too. Who was SAMPSONs loue my deare Moth?
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Boy. A Woman, Maister.
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Arm. Of what complexion?
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Boy. Of all the foure, or the three,
or the two, or one of the foure.
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Arm. Tell me precisely of what complexion?
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Boy. Of the sea-water GREENE sir.
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Arm. Is that one of the foure complexions?
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Boy. As I haue read sir, and the best of them too.
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Arm. GREENE in deede is the colour of Louers: but to
haue a loue of that colour, mee thinkes SAMPSON had small
reason for it. He surely affected her for her wit.
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Boy. It was so sir, for she had a GREENE WIT.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ar. Villaine,
. thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou be pardoned.
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Clo. Well sir I hope when I do it,
. I shall do it on a full stomacke.
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Ar. Thou shalt be heauely punished.
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Clo. I am more bound to you then your FELLOWES,
. for they are but lightly rewarded.
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Ar. Take away this villaine, shut him vp.
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Boy. Come you transgressing slaue, away.
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Clo. Let me not be pent vp sir, I will fast being loose.
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Boy. No sir, that were fast and loose: thou shalt to prison.
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Clo. Well, if euer I do see the merry dayes
. of desolation that I haue seene, some shall see.
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Boy. What shall some see?
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Clo. Nay nothing M. Moth, but what they looke vppon.
It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their wordes, and
therfore I will say nothing: I thanke God I haue as litle pa-
tience as an other man, & therfore I can be quiet. Exit.
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Arm. I do affect the verie ground (which is base) where her
shoo (which is baser) guided by her foote (which is basest)
doth tread. I shall be forsworne (which is a great argument
of falsehood) if I loue. And how can that be TRUE loue, which
is falsely attempted? Loue is a familiar; Loue is a Diuell.
There is no euill angel but Loue, yet was SAMPSON so temp-
ted, and he had an excellent strength: Yet was *SALOMON* so
seduced, and he had a very good wit. Cupids Butshaft is too
hard for Hercules Clubb, and therefore too much oddes for a
Spaniards Rapier: The first and second cause will not serue
my turne: the Passado he respects not, the Duella he regards
not; his disgrace is to be called Boy, but his glorie is to sub-
due men. Adue Valoure, rust Rapier, be still Drum, for your
manager is in loue; yea he loueth. Assist me some extempo-
rall God of Rime, for I am sure I shall turne Sonnet.
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. Lord Mayors of London
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1189 Henry FITZAILWYN serving 23 years [ ] Richard I,
1212 Roger FITZALAN serving 3 years [ ] Children's crusade
1215 Serlo LE MERCER [ ] Magna Carta at Runnymede
1215 William HARDEL [ ]
1216 James ALDERMAN [ ] King John dies, succeeded by Henry III
1217 *SALOMON* DE BASING [ ]
1218 Serlo LE MERCER serving 4 years second term [ ]
Newgate prison founded, Henry III crowned
(1220)
1222 Richard RENGER serving 5 years [ ] St George's Day
established as national holiday in England
1227 Roger LE DUKE serving 4 years [ ] Henry II declares himself of age
1231 Andrew BUCKEREL serving 7 years [ ] Coal first mined in Newcastle
1238 Richard RENGER second term
1239 William JOYNIER
1240 Gerard BAT [ ]
1240 Reginald DE BUNGHEYE [ ]
1241 Ralph ASHWY serving 3 years [ ]
1244 Michael TOVY serving 2 years [ ] First "Dunmow Flitch" competition
1246 John GISORS [ ]
1246 Peter FITZALAN [ ]
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The Cook's Tale
THE COOK'S PROLOGUE
The cook of londoun, whil the REVE spak,
For joye him thoughte he clawed him on the bak.
Ha! ha! quod he, for cristes passion,
This millere hadde a sharp conclusion
Upon his argument of herbergage!
Wel seyde *SALOMON* in his langage,
-- Ne bryng nat EVERy man into thyn hous; --
For herberwynge by nyghte is perilous.
Wel oghte a man avysed for to be
Whom that he broghte into his pryvetee.
I pray to god, so yeve me sorwe and care
If *EVERE*, sitthe I highte hogge of ware,
Herde I a millere bettre yset a-werk.
He hadde a jape of malice in the derk.
But God forbede that we stynte heere;
And therfore, if ye vouche-sauf to heere
A tale of me, that am a povre man,
I wol yow telle, as wel as *EVERE* I kan,
A litel jape that fil in oure citee.
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http://www.voxcd.com/haydn.html
Franz Joseph Haydn
Born 1732 Died 1809
<<In 1790, Nicholas the Magnificent died. His successor, Anton, had
little interest in music, and while he was wise enough to retain
Haydn's services, he ultimately dismissed all but a few musicians.
Suddenly, the maestro was left with little to occupy his time.
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If Haydn had any concern for his future at that moment, he needn't
have.
It didn't take long for the news to spread that Papa Haydn was out of
work. In almost no time, Johann Peter *SALOMON* had arrived on the
maestro's doorstep with an offer. *SALOMON*, an impresario and
violinist
from London, promised Haydn that if he would simply visit England,
compose some music for public concerts and make personal appearances,
he would return home a wealthy man. *SALOMON* knew what he was talking
about. Haydn's arrival in London generated tremendous excitement-this
was a city filled with music, and the newspapers heralded the great
master's arrival with long poems and articles. Haydn was
embraced by London society, and lionized EVERywhere he went.>>
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. Edmund Spenser _The Man on the Stair_
. http://www.sirbacon.org/mspenser.htm
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Monument to Spenser in Westminster Abbey as in the Works,
. 1679 Edition by MATHER WALKER
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*The Father of SALOMON's House* was further described as wearing a
black
robe with a beard that was cut round and was of the same color as his
hair although somewhat lighter. This matches exactly the Van Somer
portrait of Francis Bacon at middle age. Bacon is wearing a black robe.
He has his beard cut round, and it is of the same color as his hair
although somewhat lighter. So the Rosicrucian in The New Atlantis
matches both the man who addressed the Paris group and the contemporary
description of Francis Bacon. Although the people at the gathering in
Paris are described as all of "mature years", no description is given
of
the age of the man who addressed them. Bacon would have been quite
young
at the time. The text of the address was Bacon's. I think Bacon was
describing an actual event, and was the person who addressed the Paris
group. The allusion indicates it was in the role of a teacher and
authority figure of the Rosicrucians that Bacon addressed them. These
people, described as distinguished and mature, were patiently awaiting
his appearance. Who were these people who accepted young Francis Bacon
as an authority figure, and in what capacity was he addressing them?
What group of people was capable of recognizing the 16-year-old
Francis Bacon as the extraordinary being that he really was?
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In his book, "The Sufis", Idries Shah said The Rosicrucian Fraternity
had it derivation from the Sufi order of "The Path of the Rose".
Certainly all three of these: The Rosicrucian Fraternity; much of
Bacon's thought; and the Shakespeare corpus, have a Sufi tinge. In his
"Novum Organum", Bacon, as was his custom, began with an idea
originated
by someone else, then modified, *PERFECTED* & reworked it to suit his
own needs. Bacon utilized a Ladder of Generalization (The Ladder of The
Intellect) in connection with a mechanism which enabled the inquirer
to proceed from the almost infinite diversity of nature up to a very
limited number of basic qualities. (The Alphabet of Nature). It was
this
very restricted terminus to the operation that made an inquiry machine
feasible. The idea of The Ladder of The Intellect originated from a man
who, according to Idries Shah, was a Sufi. This man was Raymon Lull,
a medieval philosopher and mystic who, as a result of a vision he had
on a mountain top, tried to formulate a universal art of discovery.
Moreover, In "Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz",
Cambridge 1952, Professor R.A. Nicholso points out that certain
portions of the Shakespearean corpus have an uncanny resemblance
to passages in earlier Sufi material. The play, "The Taming of
the Shrew" is Sufi doctrine through and through (see my essay
on the play). And Idries Shah also says there is much material
that seems to come from Sufi sources in the plays.>>
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Art Neuendorffer