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From: "Al Brooks"

> Dante? How is there anything but 
> the most remote connection between 
> a 'dark ages' literary figure to transhumanism? 

For verily I see, and hence narrate it,
The stars already near to bring the time,
>From every hindrance safe, and every bar,
Within which a Five-hundred, Ten, and Five,
One sent from God, shall slay the thievish woman
And that same giant who is sinning with her.
And peradventure my dark utterance,
Like Themis and the Sphinx, may less persuade thee,
Since, in their mode, it clouds the intellect;
But soon the facts shall be the Naiades
Who shall this difficult enigma solve,
Without destruction of the flocks and harvests.
(Dante, La Divina Commedia, Purgatorio XXXIII)

J+E+S+U+S = 10+5+100+300+100 = 515
But how did Dante know that 515 = JESUS, 
since the letter 'J' became a letter much later?

Let us ask the Naiades ...