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 wisdom, philosophy, life and work of Sir Francis Bacon and the Rosicrucian 'Spear-shaker' Fraternity.
Francis 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 us prepare for and experience the Greater Light that will appear "at the end of time". He did not act alone.
The Baconian-Rosicrucian work is called 'The Great Instauration' – the reformation and building anew of all arts and sciences, based upon the proper foundations of Wisdom (the 'Word') and Truth (Knowledge of the Wisdom/Word).
This is a world-wide work of discovery, which enables us to experience and know the Greater Light, and be illumined by it.
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—a process that also teaches us how to discover the Divine Author or Authors (the Laws and Intelligences) of the Universe.
- 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, and all drama consists of mysteries, of which there are many levels or degrees.
Drama is Poetry in motion, and it is such Poetry that builds the ‘Pyramid’ of Science – a science that is knowledge of the Wisdom or Word that creates, sustains and transforms the Universe, and which inspires the Poetry (and each of us).
Poetry (“Poesie”) is Part 4 of the six-part Great Instauration. Bacon describes this as the “Ladder of the Intellect”, which we climb degree by degree, or as the “Thread of the Labyrinth”, with many clues provided for us to find our way.
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22 December 2024: 'Cryptic Meanings of Rosicrucian Tailpieces and other such emblems' – illustrated talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins. This talk will be the last of the series celebrating the Quatercentenary of the publication in 1624 of the great cipher manual, Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae.
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- ‘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’
- 'The Rosy Cross Blazing Star, Then and Now'
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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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