Bacon’s philosophical scheme, The Great Instauration or Six Days Work, is still not fully understood and practised in the way intended. To do so could bring enormous benefits to the world and help create a 'New Atlantis' or Golden Age.
Bacon not only headed the Rosy Cross Fraternity (Rosicrucians) but his Great Instauration is based on ancient wisdom and biblical and cabalistic principles. A study and knowledge of this is a major gateway into the true but veiled ever-living Wisdom Tradition. The aim is to discover truth.
Both Divinity and Poetry (Drama) play major roles in the Great Instauration. Shakespeare is not only an important part of this but the Shakespeare Authorship enigma was set up to train us in what Bacon calls the Art of Discovery, so that eventually we might discover and know the Author of All.
Bacon was a man of mystery and secrets, both of necessity and choice. Partly because of this, and because he had to act the role of a martyr to truth like the first St Alban before him, his name and memory have been slandered. This hurt needs to be redressed. The truth needs to be known, as does all truth.
GATEWAYS TO WISDOM
Welcome to this website about the philosophy, life and work of Sir Francis Bacon and the ‘Shakespeare’ Rosicrucian Fraternity—and in particular the wisdom of which they were the light-bearers, preservers and transmitters. It is this wisdom which is of particular use to us today, and which is increasingly being rediscovered and revealed.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was given the unique and cryptic titles of Baron Verulam of Verulam and Viscount St Alban.
At one time he considered writing under the pseudonym of Hermes Stella, in imitation of Hermes Trismegistus.
He was identified by those who possessed 'the eye of the eagle' as Fra. CRC, Father of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, and Elias the Artist, the "great light" prophesied by Paracelsus, who would renovate the arts and sciences, teach the transmutation of all the metals, and reveal many things.
Bacon himself wrote that he was "the herald of the new age". Such a herald, like the biblical prophet Elijah, is a preparer of the way, who helps initiate and make us ready for the Greater Light that will appear when we are doing the work required – the labour of love.
The most critical, decisive moment for this to happen on a worldwide scale is right now, as we begin to enter the long-prophesied new Great Age.
For this, Bacon gave us two things to help us: (1) an Art of Discovery—the training for which is a "game of hide and seek"; and (2) a morally-based philosophical and scientific project called ‘The Great Instauration’, whose design is based on the underlying wisdom of the Six Days of Creation (Genesis 1). The aim is to create 'light', or delight, happiness, and a paradise on earth for all to enjoy. Such light or delight is also known as 'illumination'.
The primary game of hide and seek for this training in the Art of Discovery is that of the Shakespeare Authorship. To discover the true author and authors of the Shakespeare works (poems, sonnets and plays) will train us to be able to discover the Author of Authors of all Creation, so that then we can become true and effective co-creators and helpers in the universal scheme of enlightenment, which is pure delight.
The name "William Shakespeare" is a pseudonym, and refers to an illumined person who is able to inspire others with the wisdom that the illumined person knows as a result of his or her illumination.
The illumined men were known as the Knights of the Golden Helmet. The golden helmet symbolises the knight's illumination, and is bestowed upon the knight by the goddess Pallas Athena.
'William', from the German, Wil-helm, means 'Golden helmet'.
'Shakespeare' is the descriptive name and meaning of Pallas Athena, who 'shakes' her 'spear' of inspiring light (wisdom knowledge) at the 'dragons' of ignorance and vice, to inspire them with the wisdom to think and do better.
The myth of Pallas Athena's birth is a symbolic description of someone becoming illumined. Such illumined souls are the true Rosicrucians.
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FBRT YouTube Videos
All the video recordings of FBRT talks by Peter Dawkins marking last year's Quatercentenary of the Twin 1623 Bacon-Shakespeare Folios are now available for public viewing on the FBRT YouTube channel:
- ‘The 1623 Twin Rosicrucian Publications, Keys to the Rosicrucian Mysteries’
- ‘The Golden Key to the Rosicrucian Mysteries & Labour of Love’
- ‘The Silver Key to the Rosicrucian Mysteries & Labour of Love’
- ‘Opening the Door to the Rosicrucian Hermetic Mystery’
Also available on YouTube is the Rosy Cross Blazing Star talk (specially recorded for presentation on St Alban’s Day, 22 June 2024), which reveals how the English Magian Society of the Golden and Rosy Cross, by working in conjunction with the great conjunctions and oppositions of Saturn and Jupiter in the heavens, created a ‘Blazing Star’ that has effected the world powerfully ever since, and especially during its Quatercentenary which is even now coming to a close as we enter the new Great Age.
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2024 Upcoming Events
- 14-15 September 2024: ‘Pericles: The Hero’s Journey’ – a Wisdom of Shakespeare weekend.
- 22 September 2024: 'Cryptic Meanings of Rosicrucian Headpieces and other such emblems' – Zoom talk.
- 20, 21, 22 October 2024 – three Zoom talks, two by Peter Dawkins, one by Julia Cleave, as part of the 'Milan & Prospero’s Magic' Shakespeare-Pilgrimage hybrid event.*
- 9-10 November 2024: 'The All-Seeing Eye' – weekend training event in the brow chakra of the 'Grail Land' landscape temple.
- 22 December 2024: 'Cryptic Meanings of Baconian Frontispieces and Title Pages' – Zoom talk.
*(A hybrid event is via talks on Zoom, on-site visits, and feed-back from those who are able to be on-site.)
2024 Quatercentenary
Like 2023, the year 2024 is an important Quatercentenary, this time of the once-famous cipher book, Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae, which was published in 1624 and contains keys to the still famous twin Folios, De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum and Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, published in 1623.
Just as the 1623 Saturn-Jupiter great conjunction twinned the previous 1603 great conjunction, so 1624 twinned the 1604 celestial phenomena that announced Elias the Artist (also known as Fra. Christian Rosicrosse) and the Rosicrucian work to the world. Their Quatercentenaries 400 years later have a particularly strong vibrational effect on the whole world. There are mathematical, cryptic, symbolic, hermetic, astrological, philosophical and scientific reasons for all this.
Associated websites (recommended)
Zoence: Pathways to Wisdom
The Francis Bacon Society
A. Phoenix Research Papers (Academia.edu – A. Phoenix)
Sir Francis Bacon’s New Advancement of Learning
Spearshaker Productions
Jono Freeman YouTube Channel
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