Gematria of CSL vs Interests

822, Dewey:

What is the Dewey Decimal number 822?

822 would be English drama and 824 indicates English essays. As you can see and as mentioned before, the more specific the number gets, the more specific a topic is.

Source:
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
https://library.nicc.edu/c.php?g=1238185

The delicious thing is, C. S. Lewis was as a professor in Cambridge doing English Medieval and Renaissance Literature, specifically EXCLUDING drama. He hated Ben Johnson and some ...

But he knew them.

Meanwhile, C. S. Lewis is 822.

C		67
S		83		140		10
L		76		210		16
E		69		270		25
W		87		350		32
I		73		420		35
S		83		500		38

OK, but 538 isn't 822? No, but that was just the upper case actual letters. Each lower case (there are four) as well as each space (two) is 32 (more than the uppercase or simply), while each full stop is 46.

6 * 32 + 2 * 46 = 284
284 + 538 = 822

Recall, when he was a boy, he wanted to write (in English) a Greek drama called Loki bound ... all of it with stasima and the other typical parts of an Attic drama. Expressing a very English agreement with Epicure's dilemma. In a sense he spent lots of his adult life replying to what Loki would have said in that drama./HGL

"Do You Speak Jewish?"

By an US American to a couple speaking Portuguese.

Pretty obviously, the person asking wasn't referring to Yiddish, which can be described as Ashkenaz Jewish Medieval German.

She was pretty certainly referring to Djudezmo, which can be described as Sephardic Jewish Medieval Spanish.

One thing which it shares with Portuguese rather than Spanish is, no diphthongs. Perhaps not "non at all" but not the ones in PUEDO and TIEMPO, those are "podo" and "tempo" in Djudezmo.

Again, DJ is closer to Portuguese and French J, than to Spanish "J is actually ACH-Laut".

SH is still distinguished and so that's closer to Portuguese than to Spanish "X is also actually ACH-Laut, but we spell it J now" (¿verdad, Méjico?).

DZ is Z, Ç is S. More Latin American than European Spanish but distinguishing Z from S is more Portuguese than Latin American Spanish.

Also B and D and "hard" G are closer to English or Italian letters than to Spanish ones. Again, not unlike Portuguese.

And it's definitely NOT like Latin American Spanish where CALLE is sometimes KASHE, nope, it's KALYE.

So, if someone confuses Djudezmo and Portuguese, it's probably not a nincompoop, ¿de akodro?

And calling Djudezmo "Jewish" is literally just translating.

So, no, they weren't speaking Sephardic Jewish, they were speaking Portuguese, but that's a kind of mix-up that happens./HGL

(I happen to be more than a Euro short of the kaviko in this cyber, I'm off).

Does Sungenis Number St. Augustine Among Papias, Lactantius, Irenaeus, and, Not Quite a CF, Tertullian?

If I understood his live stream as it aired a few minutes ago and I just viewed with delay, his position is that the majority of Church Fathers who are NOT Pre-Millennialists did not believe in a Mass Conversion of Jews.

Now, St. Augustine is definitely not a Pre-Millennialist, and in City of God, he actually does not just believe in a Mass Conversion of Jews, but reports this as the common belief.

Here is City of God, Book XX, I'll excerpt chapter 29
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120120.htm

Chapter 29.— Of the Coming of Elias Before the Judgment, that the Jews May Be Converted to Christ by His Preaching and Explanation of Scripture.

After admonishing them to give heed to the law of Moses, as he foresaw that for a long time to come they would not understand it spiritually and rightly, he went on to say, And, behold, I will send to you Elias the Tishbite before the great and signal day of the Lord come: and he shall turn the heart of the father to the son, and the heart of a man to his next of kin, lest I come and utterly smite the earth. Malachi 4:5-6 It is a familiar theme in the conversation and heart of the faithful, that in the last days before the judgment the Jews shall believe in the true Christ, that is, our Christ, by means of this great and admirable prophet Elias who shall expound the law to them. For not without reason do we hope that before the coming of our Judge and Saviour Elias shall come, because we have good reason to believe that he is now alive; for, as Scripture most distinctly informs us, 2 Kings 2:11 he was taken up from this life in a chariot of fire. When, therefore, he has come, he shall give a spiritual explanation of the law which the Jews at present understand carnally, and shall thus turn the heart of the father to the son, that is, the heart of fathers to their children; for the Septuagint translators have frequently put the singular for the plural number. And the meaning is, that the sons, that is, the Jews, shall understand the law as the fathers, that is, the prophets, and among them Moses himself, understood it. For the heart of the fathers shall be turned to their children when the children understand the law as their fathers did; and the heart of the children shall be turned to their fathers when they have the same sentiments as the fathers. The Septuagint used the expression, and the heart of a man to his next of kin, because fathers and children are eminently neighbors to one another. Another and a preferable sense can be found in the words of the Septuagint translators, who have translated Scripture with an eye to prophecy, the sense, viz., that Elias shall turn the heart of God the Father to the Son, not certainly as if he should bring about this love of the Father for the Son, but meaning that he should make it known, and that the Jews also, who had previously hated, should then love the Son who is our Christ. For so far as regards the Jews, God has His heart turned away from our Christ, this being their conception about God and Christ. But in their case the heart of God shall be turned to the Son when they themselves shall turn in heart, and learn the love of the Father towards the Son. The words following, and the heart of a man to his next of kin, — that is, Elias shall also turn the heart of a man to his next of kin — how can we understand this better than as the heart of a man to the man Christ? For though in the form of God He is our God, yet, taking the form of a servant, He condescended to become also our next of kin. It is this, then, which Elias will do, lest, he says, I come and smite the earth utterly. For they who mind earthly things are the earth. Such are the carnal Jews until this day; and hence these murmurs of theirs against God, The wicked are pleasing to Him, and It is a vain thing to serve God.

Just in case Sungenis might be tempted to consider this as following from a carnal reading of prophecy, the very previous chapter, St. Augustine condemns the carnal reading of the Law.

When Tertullian speaks of the Millennium, as upcoming after the Second Coming, he does mention an opposing school. But when St. Augustine speaks of the upcoming conversion of Jews, he quite frankly does not mention an opposing school. On a previous occasion, he argued against the return of Elias the Thishbite in Apoc. 11, on the ground that that is a Septuagint reading. But basically to the Church Fathers, unless you go as late as Sts. Gregory and Bede, even Latin and not just Greek ones, the Septuagint was the Bible. That's why a Vulgate only stance would contradict the "consensus patrum" stipulation.

Now, check St. John of Damascus who died 749, well after Millennialism was laid aside.

An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book IV), I'll excerpt chapter 26:
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33044.htm

Chapter 26. Concerning the Antichrist.

It should be known that the Antichrist is bound to come. Every one, therefore, who confesses not that the Son of God came in the flesh and is perfect God and became perfect man, after being God, is Antichrist. 1 John 2:22 But in a peculiar and special sense he who comes at the consummation of the age is called Antichrist. First, then, it is requisite that the Gospel should be preached among all nations, as the Lord said Matthew 24:14, and then he will come to refute the impious Jews. For the Lord said to them: I have come in My Father's name and you receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. John 5:43 And the apostle says, Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved, for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. The Jews accordingly did not receive the Lord Jesus Christ who was the Son of God and God, but receive the impostor who calls himself God. For that he will assume the name of God, the angel teaches Daniel, saying these words, Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers. Daniel 11:37 And the apostle says: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition: who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits in the temple of God 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 , showing himself that he is God; in the temple of God he said; not our temple, but the old Jewish temple. For he will come not to us but to the Jews: not for Christ or the things of Christ: wherefore he is called Antichrist.

First, therefore, it is necessary that the Gospel should be preached among all nations Matthew 25:14: And then shall that wicked one be revealed, even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders , with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, whom the Lord shall consume with the word of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming. The devil himself , therefore does not become man in the way that the Lord was made man. God forbid! But he becomes man as the offspring of fornication and receives all the energy of Satan. For God, foreknowing the strangeness of the choice that he would make, allows the devil to take up his abode in him.

He is, therefore, as we said, the offspring of fornication and is nurtured in secret, and on a sudden he rises up and rebels and assumes rule. And in the beginning of his rule, or rather tyranny, he assumes the role of sanctity. But when he becomes master he persecutes the Church of God and displays all his wickedness. But he will come with signs and lying wonders 2 Thessalonians 2:9, fictitious and not real, and he will deceive and lead away from the living God those whose mind rests on an unsound and unstable foundation, so that even the elect shall, if it be possible, be made to stumble Matthew 24:24 .

But Enoch and Elias the Thesbite shall be sent and shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children , that is, the synagogue to our Lord Jesus Christ and the preaching of the apostles: and they will be destroyed by him. And the Lord shall come out of heaven, just as the holy apostles beheld Him going into heaven, perfect God and perfect man, with glory and power, and will destroy the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction, with the breath of His mouth. Acts 1:11 Let no one, therefore, look for the Lord to come from earth, but out of Heaven, as He himself has made sure 2 Thessalonians 2:8 .

In other words, St. John of Damascus also says Elias will come, and also specifies, along with Henoch. But even more, he also says, they will convert such Jews as are not impious. I think the position of Sungenis against a Mass Conversion of Jews can be dismissed. I'm not Elias, I was not born under Ahab or Omri or their predecessors, in Samaria, I did not flee from Jezebel. I will not see the Mass Conversion of Jews unless my life overlaps with their arrival, but maybe I can persuade a smaller conversion of Jews, prior to their coming. Obviously, if they are right around the corner, that means there are 7 or 3 and 1/2 years until the Second Coming, so, it means there are small chances of earthly happiness. Whichever it is depends on whether their preaching is concurrent with Antichrist's persecution or precedes it.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
16.VII.2025

Castelnuovo (Bosnia) and Lexington (Massachusetts)

The places are close to 90° apart from each other, so close that if you add exactly 90° W along the same equatorial parallel plane to the coordinates of Castelnuovo or Herceg Novi, you land between Acton and Bloomsbury, 11.9 miles being the distance between Lexington and Acton.

Now, each place was the place of a battle. The siege of Castelnuovo ended on Aug. 7th 1539. The battle of Lextington and Concord took place on April 19th 1775.

Date calculator allowed me to verify that, between these dates, there are 2828 months and 12 days.

In Castelnuovo, Machín de Munguía was killed by the Ottomans. The night before Lexington battle, Paul Revere was fortunately not killed by two English commissars.

Perhaps a reason to sing "El pendón estrellado"?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Feast of the Sacred Blood
1.VII.2025

Nations Exist, Ted Cruz, I Agree on That One

Sometimes nations divide, though, and sometimes they mix.

For instance, is the US nation (if one, some argue US has 14 nations, New Englanders and Texans being two different ones), identic to the English nation? Or did some kind of divide happen, like 1775 or even earlier?

And is the US nation just a separation of the English or is it admixture of Celtic Fringe, French, Dutch, Germans, Poles, Irish (but I already said Celtic Fringe), Cherokee, other Amerindian and Hispanic origins?* Would Cruz in 1775 more properly have been found in the 13 Colonies or in a Spanish colony?

Now, 2000 years ago, the nation of Israel was** split into two. Jews and Samarians. Jews were the population of Judaea and Galilee, Samarians of Samaria. Prophets had mentioned a demilitarisation and reunification of Judah and Ephraim, that is of Jews and Samarians. Did it happen?

Check Acts 2 and 8.

Was this ephemeral or did it last? I would say the reunited and Christian nation of Israel exists to this very day, and the modern name for them is Christian Palestinians.

If you want to dispute that, prove me wrong on the history of the region, but just to be fair, I'm not taking Netanyahu as an unbiassed and overall on all sides well-informed historian.

A mother and a daughter in Gaza were pulled out of Church while praying and killed by an IDF soldier. He was never punished, the IDF and Israel denied the incident. Church authorities however confirmed it.

About the modern state of Israel, I'd like to mention that there is another passage in the Bible than the one you miscited to Tucker Carlson. Apocalypse 11.

And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city, which is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 11:8]

We are clearly dealing with earthly Jerusalem, since it says "where their Lord also was crucified". Now, what kind of situation could Jerusalem be in if it is called spiritually "Sodom and Egypt"? Well, Jerusalem could be hosting a Pride Parade. And Jerusalem could be oppressing Israelites, for instance the Palestinians. Speaking of oppressing Israelites, some have characterised the oppression as genocide, and some have replied that it would be a weird genocide in which the victim population increased. Well, check out Exodus chapter 1, pharaos clearly tried out genocidal policies, and Israelites clearly increased nonetheless.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Corpus Christi
19.VI.2025

PS, if anyone pretends Palestinians come from the Peninsula, watch this:

Palestinians Did Not Come from Arabia: Debunking another Zionist Origin Myth
History.Culture.projects | 18 June 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-UlTACbko

* Mea culpa, Robert Sungenis, I forgot Italians, and my first meal on US soil was in an Italian restaurant in New York!
** Since about 1000 years, not since back then.

See also:
Tucker Was Right: Ted Cruz Took the Bible Out of Context on Israel
Reason & Theology | 19.VI.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpzMGnzAuYI

Who Destroyed the Régime of Czar Nicolas II?

To some degree, one can say that World War I was the autodestruction of Rome.

West Roman Emperors Francis Joseph II and Charles I against the East Roman Emperor Nicolas II.

So, World War I was a very huge thing. About Austria-Hungary with successor states obviously too.

But some have said, Czar Nicolas got destroyed by Rasputin's influence. Obviously, Rasputin was not a brigade of Austrian or Prussian soldiers.

In so far as there was an internal cause, independent of World War I, and added to it, I would prefer putting Sergei Witte in the position than Rasputin.

I agree with Lyndon LaRouche on many things. But Sergei Witte wanted to industrialise, and while this added the presence of produced goods, it neglected agriculture.

A man who wanted to describe Lenin as an evil man, which I think he was, noted there was a starvation in the Volga area. Lenin's sister and other family members were in the relief force, but Lenin said "fine, this has revolutionary potential" .... I disagree with "fine" but agree this was part of what doomed Czar Russia. Industrial Capitalism, i e Sergei Witte.

If potatoes grow badly in Ireland, perhaps those growing them could instead eat wheat, which they were also growing? Nope. The landowners wanted the usual monetary gains from selling the wheat.

In Czar Russia's case, second manmade starvation of apocalyptic proportions, between Potato Famine and Holodomor, the landowners wanted quick profits to invest in Sergei Witte's industrial ventures. While doing so, they neglected the farms.

If Rasputin made the Czar impopular with any, it was with people who were arguably part of the problem. I highly doubt any Мужик ever had less to eat because of Rasputin's advice, but when Sergei Witte told people left and right to invest into industry, I think this led to many of them neglecting the agriculture they were doing routinely, and that fields were abandoned in the process, leading to the starvation that gave the people the impression that God wasn't blessing the leaders of Russia.

I don't think either Turgot or Necker contributed as much to the bad harvests in France as Witte to those in Russia (especially Volga valley — Ukraine was more spared, as it was less industrialised, and would have been more spared in 1932—33 as well, if their good harvests, and those in Kuban, hadn't been displaced by force in order to make a giant Potemkin village of the Volga area, where the capital now was. A Potemkin village to show that yes, industrialism is fine, the Czar was simply not very good at it, Commies are better. The price of this Potemkin village is in Ukraine known as Holodomor.

In fact, if Rasputin did anything, with the people, healing the Czarevitch (or keeping him alive or even effecting nothing, but having an air of doing so) was rather an asset compared to Lewis XVI and Marie-Antoinette losing a daughter in 1787 and a Dauphin, an oldest son, in 1789.

Now, Rasputin was obviously impopular with the élite, but they could not have pulled off anything like the Russian Revolution all by themselves, without some solid misery among the people. The Bloody Sunday of 1905 (namegiver for another Bloody Sunday in 1972 and a song by US), was before Rasputin had met the Czar and while Witte was in power. Starvation, Russo-Japanese war, repression of 1905, World War I, losses on their West front (the Prussian East front), drafts during losses, all of these have some more connection to Witte than to Rasputin. Unless you argue the Czar's alliance with Serbia was Rasputin's doing, but so far I have not heard that version.

The Czarevitch was simply not anything comparable to the Mayerling drama, which led to some overreaction after Francis Ferdinand was assassinated (roughly speaking between Lincoln and Kennedy). Supporting a mystic couldn't give the Czar and Czaritsa any such aura of "Madame Déficit" as slander about jewelry gave Marie-Antoinette.

If Rasputin changed anything for the Czar family, apart from emotional support about the Czarevitch, it was possibly preparing them to meat their death in a fashion approaching martyrdom, rather than in vain bitterness. I don't know.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. John Nepomuk
16.V.2025

Pragae, in Bohemia, sancti Joannis Nepomuceni, Metropolitanae Ecclesiae Canonici; qui, frustra tentatus ut sigilli sacramentalis fidem proderet, martyrii palmam, in flumen Moldavam dejectus, emeruit.

People forget what things mean, specifically words and phrases

And while it would be good form to lightheartedly go through a number of fun but insignificant examples, that's what Chesterton would have done, I'm too tired to think of them and will get to the point.

I happen to like Liz Wheeler, who's interviewing Jimmy Akin (a likeable person with some very good takes in theology leading to his conversion and some very bad one in the case of the nature of inerrancy). So, I look her up. 35, has a husband, has two children, started podcasting in 2020.

AND:

In January 2023, following football player Damar Hamlin's in-game collapse, Wheeler promoted a conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 vaccine was responsible for a "surge" in athlete deaths and injuries.

Can you spot what's wrong, what phrase is being misused?

Conspiracy theory. A conspiracy theory means a result (usually considered unpleasant or dangerous or both by the conspiracy theorist) that is in mainstream media (including public schools as much as big newspapers) attributed to well informed decisions, chance interaction, small players, is in reality the result of some big players conspiring. If Arizona Cardinals lost a match, and someone Catholic, football fanatic and living in Phoenix said "Rockefeller has Calvinist roots, so he conspired to bribe the umpire to let the team with Catholic symbolism lose" that would be a conspiracy theory. If I replied that the match was in 2013 and a symbol of the college of cardinals losing it and so an actual judgement by God, that would not be a conspiracy theory. It may be as ridiculous as a conspiracy theory. But it is not a conspiracy theory. Because it doesn't involve an actual conspiracy about the Arizona Cardinals.

So, "Mussolini caused the death of Matteotti" is a conspiracy theory. "King Victor Emmanuel III caused the death of Matteotti" is a conspiracy theory. The latter is the one favoured by Matteotti's son, by the way, and no, Matteotti's son, like his father, is a socialist, not a Fascist. But why is it a conspiracy theory? Well, because X who "caused the death" did so by hiring some less in the limelight person to do the dirty job for him. Amerigo Dumini is no doubt less in the limelight than Il Duce. He's also less in the limelight than King Victor Emmanuel III. Il Duce could have a motive insofar as Matteotti had denounced elections. King Victor Emmanuel III could have a motive insofar as Matteotti wanted transparency on a petrol deal. When Amerigo Dumini's judges in, I think 1947, had more reasons to smear Mussolini than to smear the King who died that year sentenced him (for the second time) for the murder of Matteotti, they stated that the order was given him by Mussolini.

I would like to know what was written with notaries in Texas, or if Amerigo Dumini was bluffing, back after his release.

Freed in 1927, Amerigo Dumini left for Italian Somaliland, having been awarded a large state pension (5,000 lire). Apparently, he was still viewed as troublesome, since he was detained and interned on the Tremiti Islands. Meanwhile, he warned General Emilio De Bono that he had filed a manuscript detailing Matteotti's murder with notaries in Texas. This claim led to his release and an increase in pension to as much as 50,000 lire. He left for Italian Libya, where his pension was further increased by 2,500 lire (together with a single payment of 125,000 lire).

Well, this at least would involve either of the conspiracy theories being true, since the paying of the pension would imply that someone very important in Italy (Mussolini and Victor Emmanuel III, as Prime Minister and as King, both fit that bill) wanted the papers in Texas not to be disclosed. I wonder if they ever were, and if the judgement in 1947 was based on them, or on any statement by Dumini.

But either of these things, "Mussolini caused the death of Matteotti" and "King Victor Emmanuel III caused the death of Matteotti", is a conspiracy theory, not just because it goes beyond the obvious cause, Dumini. BUT. Because it also does so by means of a supposed criminal conspiracy.

Now, what about the statement "the COVID-19 vaccine was responsible for a "surge" in athlete deaths and injuries"? Is that a conspiracy theory? No. The COVID-19 vaccine is not supposed to be a person. Is not supposed to enter a criminal conspiracy. It is therefore very literally not a conspiracy theory. It is a medical theory. And, when it comes to personal caution, I think it's the kind of medical theory each and every person has the right to entertain and to advice others on. It's not an advice for a specific treatment, it's not medical advice that only medical practitioners can give. But right or wrong, legal or illegal, it is definitely not a conspiracy theory. People should start to remember what words mean.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Easter Octave Friday
25.IV.2025