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, Poet, Lawyer, Statesman, Historian, Intelligencer, Cryptographer, Author, Essayist, 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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Gemini Swans
Francis Bacon and his brother Anthony were deeply involved in the English Society of the Golden and Rosy Cross.
The Society enacted a great Hermetic Mystery whose timing was initiated and guided by the Saturn-Jupiter great conjunctions and oppositions, plus some other very timely and meaningful stellar phenomena associated with the Milky Way.
The Bacon brothers worked together as the Gemini (‘Twins’), who in classical myth were known as Swans and Spear-shakers (or Shake-speares). Both brothers were poets.
So this year the FBRT is offering three special educational events at three important 'Gemini Shakespeare' locations on the Milky Way of the British landscape zodiac, in honour and remembrance of what was achieved by the Bacon brothers and their Rosy Cross friends.
All three events can be found in the calendar under the overall name, 'The Swan Flight along the Milky Way'. (See Events.)
Talks on Zoom are also being given about these mysteries. (See Events.)
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.
FBRT YouTube Channel
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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