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.
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Events 2026 – Bacon400 – America250
2026 is the Quatercentenary of Sir Francis Bacon's death on Easter Day, 9th April 1626. The year is full of events to celebrate the life of this great man, and the great gift he gave humanity. It is a year of resurrection of his good name, for he was a singularly good man, as well as a supremely wise, intelligent and illumined man.
Sir Francis Bacon was created Viscount St Alban just before his martyrdom as a scapegoat to save those in high places who were corrupt. This makes him the second St Alban, twin to the first St Alban.
Both were martyred to save others and both were founders of Freemasonry in Britain/England – St Alban I founded Operative Freemasonry; St Alban II founded Speculative Freemasonry.
Not many realise that Francis Bacon's grand project, the Great Instauration, involves both divinity and philosophy in order to help us develop a science or knowledge of divine wisdom, the Word or will of God, that is expressed as the laws of the universe, both physical and metaphysical.
Nor is it realised by many that the Great Instauration is designed to discover the laws governing three natures – natural, human, and divine – and all for the restoration of a state of paradise on earth, with humanity being in an ever-evolving state of illumination, peace and happiness.
Nor is it known by many that Francis Bacon knew that the supreme law of the universe is love – love in action – and that a morality of love and goodness is what is required of humanity in order to live in peace.
The Gemini twinship myth is an example of the universal law of love – love in action – for it takes two to express love, and the Gemini myth is about love and friendship, reciprocated, which brings delight, the birth of light. And this is the nature of what is called 'God'.
Future Bacon400 Events include:
- 20 September 2026 – 'Anthony and Francis Bacon, Shakespeare and the intelligence network' – a talk on Zoom.
- 27 September 2026 – 'Sardinia, the Footprint of Divinity' – a talk on Zoom.
- 4-10 October 2026 – 'Living the Beauty of Golden Friendship' – a hybrid pilgrimage in Sardinia.
- 20 December 2026 – 'The Mystery of the Christmas Saturnalia and Knights of the Helmet' – a talk on Zoom.
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