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.
The website is designed with a dropdown menu, with each name being a section.
Bacon, Shakespeare, Hermes, echo Bacon's tripartite division of the sciences (History, Poetry, Philosophy).
Mysteries concern the deeper aspects of what Bacon delved into or was involved with.
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The logo of the Francis Bacon Research Trust consists of a golden rose blossoming from the heart of a green fleur-de-lis and radiating golden rays of light. Underlying the design is an equal-armed cross.
The rose signifies intelligence, the true soul, blossoming in beauty from the heart of the cross of wisdom.
The rose is symbolic of the heart of the mortal human soul, which blossoms in beauty from the knowledge gained by living in harmony with the immortal wisdom.
The cross is symbolic of the immortal wisdom, which is love, and of wisdom’s four stages of the life process – namely, impulse, desire, thought, action.
When done with love, the life process becomes good impulse, goodwill, good thought, good action, wherein good means loving. The result is the blossoming of the rose.
The marriage of wisdom (the cross) and knowledge (the rose) produces the light of delight, which shines from the heart.
When the heart rose is raised to the crown in an offering of love, the individual soul is united with the universal soul, which is the second marriage.
This crown consciousness is represented by the fleur-de-lis.
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'Life of Sir Francis Bacon' has been revised, updated and augmented. (See Resources/Essays.)
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, and to enable more people to become aware of what he did for humanity and the huge debt that we owe him.
Sir Francis Bacon was created Viscount St Alban just before his martyrdom as a scapegoat to save those in high places who were corrupt. This makes him the second St Alban, twin to the first St Alban.
Both were martyred to save others and both were founders of Freemasonry in Britain/England – St Alban I founded Craft Freemasonry; St Alban II founded Speculative Freemasonry.
Not many realise that Bacon's grand project, the 'Great Instauration', involves both divinity and philosophy in order to help us develop a science or knowledge of divine wisdom, the laws of the universe, of which the summary (universal) law is love in action. It is a moral philosophy and science based on love, designed to help all humanity and nature.
Bacon400 Events include:
- 20 January 2026 - St Alban II pilgrimage in London. For those who join the pilgrimage, there will be a pre-pilgrimage Zoom talk on Sunday 18 January 2026.
- 25 January 2026 - talk on Zoom about 'Freemasonic Twinship and the Two Alban Saints'.
- 8 February 2026 - talk on Zoom about the 'Immortalising Power of the Shakespeare Folio Preface, Part 2'.
- 9 April 2026, the Quatercentenary of Francis Bacon's death in 1623 - a celebratory event at St Michael's Church, St Albans, with talks by Sir Mark Rylance and Peter Dawkins.
- 4 July 2026 - celebratory day event at the Parish Centre of St Michael's Church, St Albans.
- 4-10 October 2026 - 'Living the Beauty of Golden Friendship' pilgrimage in Sardinia.
We will also continue to give FBRT equinox-solstice talks on Zoom, to help celebrate this vitally important solar rhythm. See Events for details.
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