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Hide-and-Seek F.B.R.T. = 6.2.17.19. = 44 Such numerology and symbolism as presented above is purely a game such as children play.[1] It can be used to both conceal and reveal things. Its purpose here is merely to show that even simple things can have many levels of meaning, if the author wishes it to be so. But if the author desires others to discover those meanings, then either they must be explained openly or a language provided, together with ‘signposts’, by which the meanings may be discovered and interpreted correctly. Traditional wisdom describes God, the ‘All-Good’, the Universal Being and Creator of all that is, as playing such a game. Solomon describes this game of hide-and-seek in his Book of Proverbs: ‘It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the glory of kings is to search it out.’[2] The English philosopher Francis Bacon comments on this, remarking that it is ‘as if the Divine Nature, according to the innocent and sweet play of children, which hide themselves to the end they may be found, took delight to hide his works to the end they might be found out, and of his indulgence and goodness to mankind had chosen the soul of man to be his play-fellow in this game’.[3] Hermetic, or Ancient Egyptian wisdom, describes this as the Divine being hidden in all things, such that all forms of life, natural and human, are but symbols of truth, and their spirits but ciphers of the divine wisdom. The key to understanding this is to be able to recognise and interpret the symbolism and cipher. The picture on the ‘Index’ page of this website acts as an index to Bacon's Great Instauration and the Ageless Wisdom upon which it is based, as we understand it. The picture and the subsequent pictures that the first picture leads to are all symbolic of deep truths. Their designs are Cabalistic and Hermetic. Position, geometry and relationship are all part of the symbolism. Go now to the Index picture and search it carefully with the cursor:-
Read also the book, Building Paradise, which describes the Great Instauration or ‘Freemasonic and Rosicrucian Six Days’ Work’ in a detailed and complementary way to this website:-
© Peter Dawkins, FBRT, 2006 1. The numerology is an example of Elizabethan/Baconian Simple Cipher, in which letters equal numbers (e.g. A = 1, B = 2, etc.) and which employs cipher reduction (e.g. 44 = 4 + 4 = 8). The Elizabethan alphabet has twenty-four letters. 2. Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, The Preface (1640). The Francis Bacon Research Trust |