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 has 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.
Titled mysteriously and uniquely as Viscount St Alban, and signing himself as "Francis St Alban", Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was not only a recognised genius and man of many parts, but also, as he himself claimed, "the herald of the new age"—the new age now dawning, which could be a golden age if we but choose to help make it so.
Such a herald, like Elijah or “Elias the Artist”, is a preparer of the way, who helps initiate and make us ready for the Greater Light that will appear when we are ready and doing the work required.
For this, Bacon gave us two things: (1) an Art of Discovery—the training for which is a "game of hide and seek"; and (2) a morally-based philosophical and scientific project called ‘The Great Instauration’, whose design is based on the underlying wisdom of the Six Days of Creation (Genesis 1).
400 years – the Quatercentenary of anything, is of particular importance, as it announces the beginning of building a Temple of Light upon a fourfold Foundation of Wisdom. This is beginning right now.
- 2004 was the Quatercentenary of the 1604 planetary conjunctions and stellar 'explosions' (nova in Cygnus and supernova in Ophiuchus) that was the signal for the Rosicrucians to announce publicly their proposed Reformation of the Whole Wide World by means of the Arts and Sciences.
- 2011 was the Quatercentenary of the 1611 publication of the King James Authorised Version of the Holy Bible, containing profound cryptography of many secret things awaiting their time to be revealed.
- 2020 was the Quatercentenary of the 1620 publication of Francis Bacon's Great Instauration and New Method, by means of which the Reformation of the World might be accomplished.
- 2023 will be the Quatercentenary of the 1623 publication of the Shakespeare First Folio and Bacon's much extended Latin version of the Advancement of Learning, the two together acting like Spear-shaking Gemini twins.
- 2024 will be the Quatercentenary of the 1624 publication of the great cipher book, Cryptomenitices et Cryptographiae, compiled by Gustavus Selenus, the Duke of Brunswick, aided by Francis Bacon, which contains keys to the ciphers used in the Shakespeare Folio, the King James AV Holy Bible, books by Bacon and the Rosicrucians, and much else besides.
- 2026 will be the Quatercentenary of the 'death' and 'resurrection' of Francis Bacon on Easter Day 1626, followed by the publication of Bacon's Natural History and New Atlantis, which sets out symbolic, cryptic, philosophical and scientific details of how the new world could be.
- And more 'beyond'.
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'The Sweet Swans of Avon' – Come to a special evening at Guy's Cliffe, Warwick, on Tuesday 9th August (7.30 pm) to learn about the Sweet Swans of Avon, with talks by Peter Dawkins about why the Shakespeare focus was made at Stratford upon Avon and how the bigger landscape known as 'Shakespeare Country' has two Swans – the Gemini – laid out geomantically. Guy’s Cliffe plays a major role in this.
The next Zoom talk in the 'Bacon and the Mysteries' series will be 'The Rosicrucian Mysteries' on Sun. 25 Sept. 2022. See Events page for details. For joining details, contact organiser.
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