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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Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam of Verulam, Viscount St Alban,
and the Society of the Golden and Rosy Cross which he led as their President.
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The website is organised with three main sections, according to Bacon's tripartite division of the sciences (History, Poetry, Philosophy): -
- Bacon - dealing with history, which relates to memory
- Shakespeare - dealing with poetry, which relates to imagination
- Hermes - dealing with philosophy, which relates to reason
Plus a section on the Mysteries, in which Bacon and the Rosicrucians were deeply involved.
Plus Resources (Books, Videos, Essays, Works of Art), Events (past, present and future), FBRT Friendship (benefits, how to join, subscriptions, how to donate), and a section About Us (who we are, how to contact us, cookie and privacy policies, etc.).
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Events 2026 – Bacon400 – America250
2026 is the Quatercentenary of Sir Francis Bacon's death on Easter Day, 9th April 1626. Throughout the year there will be many events to commemorate and celebrate the life of this great man, to both honour him and to enable more people to become aware of what he did for humanity and the huge debt that we owe him.
Just as Easter Day celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we are hoping that the 2026 Quatercentenary of Sir Francis Bacon's death will prove a resurrection for Bacon's good name and memory, and for the recognition that the last title bestowed on him (Viscount St Alban), which occurred just before his political and psychological martyrdom as a scapegoat to save the king and his favourite (plus others), makes him the second St Alban, a twin to the first St Alban.
For this reason, the first 2026 Bacon400 celebratory event will be a special St Alban II pilgrimage in London on 20 January 2026, during which we will visit some key sites in London associated with Bacon, including Temple Church, the round church of the Knights Templar, the Inner Temple for a private celebratory lunch, and Temple Bar, symbol of the democratic judicial balance between the government and the people. The Inner Temple is twin to Gray's Inn, where Bacon had his lawyer's chambers, and we aim to celebrate twinship! Another example of twinship is that of government and people, wherein their friendship and judiciously balanced interdependence is crucial to democracy.
On 25 January 2026 there will be a public talk on Zoom about 'Freemasonic Twinship and the Two Alban Saints'.
On 8 February 2026 there will be a public talk on Zoom about the Immortalising Power of the Shakespeare Folio Preface, Part 2. The first part was given on 21 December 2025. Recordings of this first talk are available to those who book the second talk of the two-part series.
On 9 April 2026, the Quatercentenary of Francis Bacon's death in 1623, there will be a celebratory event at St Michael's Church, St Albans, with two 'twin' talks by Sir Mark Rylance and Peter Dawkins.
On 4 July 2026 there will be a celebratory day event at the Parish Centre of St Michael's Church, St Albans. The 4 July 2026 marks not only the 250th anniversary of the United States of America but also the 46th anniversary of the Francis Bacon Research Trust. This is another twinship mystery, seemingly coincidental, but who believes such coincidences are entirely accidental?
Then there will be the 2026 FBRT equinox-solstice talks on Zoom, which are specially designed to help resurrect the deeper meanings behind all this.
See Events for details, including booking, of all these FBRT events, and more.
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