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.
Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam of Verulam, Viscount St Alban
Philosopher, Lawyer, Statesman, Historian, Intelligencer, Cryptographer, Author, Essayist, Poet, Intellectual Reformer, Instaurator of the Royal Society and modern science.
Francis Rosicrosse, Elias the Artist
Sir Francis Bacon, aka Francis Rosicrosse, was the “great light”, Elias the Artist, herald of the new Age now dawning. Such a herald, like the biblical prophet Elijah, is a preparer of the way, who helps us prepare for and experience the Greater Light that will appear "at the end of the Age".
The Great Instauration
Francis Bacon gifted to the world a scientific project known as ‘The Great Instauration’, so that we might discover the great truths or laws of life, physical and metaphysical, and put them to good use for the help, upliftment and enlightenment of the whole world.
Art of Discovery
Francis Bacon also gave us an Art of Discovery by means of which we might be trained in the art of discovering these great truths, the greatest of which he pointed out was love – love in action – the supreme law of the universe.
Shakespeare
Francis Bacon, with the help of others, provided the Shakespeare works, to show us human nature, good and bad, as if in a mirror, and thus wake us up to how hate, lies, greed and cruelty hurt and destroy our souls, our culture and our civilisations, whilst love and friendship nurture, support, help, rescue, sustain and transform us into creative, happy and enlightened human beings.
Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism
Francis Bacon, with the help of others, reformed and reconstituted the Acception core of Craft Freemasonry as Speculative Freemasonry so as to provide a training school in morals, by means of which the higher Rosicrucian degrees of enlightenment might be reached, wherein love, friendship and charity is the primary practice. For this reason, he was given the title Viscount St Alban, named after the saint who founded and was First Grand Master of English (British) Freemasonry.
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FBRT Participation in the Mysteries
Since the 1990s the FBRT has been performing its part in the Dionysian Mysteries of Europe. Europe takes its name from the classical myth of Europa and the Bull, which is a simplified version of the Dionysian myth and its mysteries. Dionysus was known to the Romans as Bacchus, and Bacon's name in Italian is 'Baco', which was also a name of Bacchus in Italian.
Orpheus was a great initiate and reformer of the earlier Dionysian Mysteries, and hence they also became known as the Orphic Mysteries. The Orphic-Dionysian Mysteries are a key to Francis Bacon's work, as also to that of the Rosicrucians whom he inspired and led.
In classical times, one of the primary places for the training of initiates in the Orphic-Dionysian Mysteries was Eleusis in Greece, where the Eleusinian Mysteries were practised. There, the initiate was symbolised as a boar (which is Bacon's heraldic crest), rather than the more usual bull symbolism. The initiate 'boar', in performing his sacrificial labour of love, psychologically died and, with the help of Pallas Athena, the Spear-shaker, was resurrected or reborn as Dionysus, the Swan. (The equivalent Mysteries for women symbolised the female initiate as a sow.)
The Mysteries are enacted upon the stage of the world, which in this instance is the stage of Europe, wherein the British Isles represents Europa and the European mainland represents the Bull. Also represented in the landscape is the Swan, both macrocosmically and microcosmically.
In terms of the British landscape zodiac that covers most of England and Wales, this year the FBRT is offering three educational events at three special 'Shakespeare' locations under the overall name, 'The Swan Flight along the Milky Way'.
Information about the British landscape zodiac can be found in the essays, ‘The British Landscape Zodiac’ and ‘Discovery of the British Landscape Zodiac’.
Information about Europe and Dionysian Mysteries can be found in the essay 'The European Myth and Mystery.
In terms of the landscape of Europe, this year the FBRT focused on Corsica, the sacral chakra of the Swan of Europe, for which the hybrid pilgrimage event ('Procreating the Beauty of Golden Friendship') has now occurred. Next year the FBRT will be focusing on Sardinia, the root chakra of the Swan of Europe.
The Solar Festival Zoom Talks
Another Mystery is that of Time, which affects us all. In this Mystery of mysteries, the eight solar (fire) festivals of each year – the solstices, equinoxes and quarterdays – are of immense importance.
Ever since the Trust's inception in 1980, the FBRT has been celebrating these solar festivals with an event of some kind, public or private. This year we are continuing with solstice and equinox Zoom talks – see Events.
FBRT YouTube Channel
At the top of this FBRT website homepage is a small grey button that will take you to the FBRT YouTube channel. It is the middle button of the three buttons that are displayed next to the larger button that takes you to the FBRT Friends Area.
All the 2023 and 2024 Quatercentenary Zoom talks are now available on the FBRT YouTube channel.
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 Bacon.org
Spearshaker Productions
Jono Freeman YouTube Channel
Light of Truth
The Shakespeare Foundation
To Be Or Not to Be
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