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, plus new wisdom discovered thanks largely to Francis Bacon who gave us the means to do so.
Bacon, aka Francis Rosicrosse—the “great light” Elias the Artist prophesied by Paracelsus—was the herald of the new age now dawning. Such a herald, like the biblical prophet Elijah, is a preparer of the way, who helps to prepare us for the Greater Light that will appear "at the end of time" when we discover the Truth.
To help us, Bacon gave us an Art of Discovery, the training for which is a "game of hide and seek". There are several levels of the game of hide and seek in this training programme:
- The Scientific Programme, wherein we learn to test out our speculations, to see if they are true or not, and whether they have any practical value or not.
- The Shakespeare Experience, wherein we can discover truths concerning our desires, thoughts and actions, and their results, and begin to see the real truth to aim for.
- The Shakespeare Authorship Question, whereby we can discover the true author or authors of the Shakespeare works—the poems, sonnets and plays—and thereby discover the Author of All.
- Freemasonry, wherein by searching for the Lost Word we are trained in the morality necessary to find it.
- Rosicrucianism, wherein by operating the Word we have found, we can discover even greater truths, and ultimately the Truth of all truths.
All this is drama, whereby we are the actors on the stage of the world, as Shakespeare describes it, and all drama consists of Mysteries, of which there are many levels or degrees.
Drama is Poetry in motion, and it is Poetry that builds the ‘Pyramid’ of Philosophy and Science, which Science is the knowledge of the Wisdom of the Divinity which inspires the Poetry, and creates, sustains and transforms the Universe.
Poetry (“Poesie”) is Part 4 of the six-part Great Instauration, which Bacon aptly describes as the “Ladder of the Intellect”.
Another apt name he gives this Part 4 is “Thread of the Labyrinth,” for many clues are provided for us to find our way.
Latest News
2024 Quatercentenary
The solstice-equinox talks on Zoom this year are designed to celebrate the Quatercentenary of the great cipher manual, Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae, and to reveal some of the clues to solve the Mystery of the Shakespeare Authorship and the deeper Wisdom underlying it.
There will also be a special event in Milan, with pre-event talks on Zoom, concerning the Mystery of the Shakespeare play, The Tempest, and of Milan, and of Prospero, Duke of Milan, and of the magic that can be performed to help the world.
2024 Upcoming Events
- 22 September 2024: 'Cryptic Meanings of Rosicrucian Headpieces and other such emblems' – Zoom talk by Peter Dawkins.
- 20 October 2024: 'Milan and the Swan of Europe'– Zoom talk by Peter Dawkins.
- 21 October 2024: 'Alchemy in Shakespeare's Play, The Tempest’ – Zoom talk by Julia Cleave.
- 22 October 2024: ‘Milan, The Dukedom of Prospero, the Magus’ – Zoom talk by Peter Dawkins.
- 24-28 October 2024: 'Milan & Prospero’s Magic' – Shakespeare-Mystery-Pilgrimage hybrid event.
- 9-10 November 2024: 'The All-Seeing Eye' – weekend event at Jupiter Artland, Bonnington, in the brow chakra of the 'Grail Land'* landscape temple, during which we will visit Rosslyn Chapel, which twins Bonnington.
- 22 December 2024: 'Cryptic Meanings of Rosicrucian Tailpieces and other such emblems' – Zoom talk by Peter Dawkins.
*For information on the Grail Land, see 'The European Myth and Mystery' essay on this website, and the Zoence webpage 'The Grail Land of Europe'.
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 which reveals how the Elizabethan-Jacobean Society of the Golden and Rosy Cross (i.e. the original Rosicrucians) worked with the great conjunctions and oppositions of Saturn and Jupiter in the heavens, marrying heaven and earth and thereby creating a ‘Blazing Star’ whose 'light' has effected the world powerfully ever since.
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New Essay
The essay, The 1623 Revelation of the Baconian-Rosicrucian Great Instauration by Peter Dawkins, is now available via this homepage (click link) or in the Essays section of this website. The essay describes the significance of the twinning of the 1623 publications, the Shakespeare First Folio and Francis Bacon’s De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum.
Portraits
This website displays many key illustrations of interest, including some portraits, which can be found via the Resources dropdown menu. But for all known portraits of Francis Bacon painted from life, a good presentation can be found on Sir Bacon.org.
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
Light of Truth
Philosophy: Its Origin, Purpose and Destiny (Alexander Sachon) – see VI. Francis Bacon, Godfather of the Scientific Age.
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