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.
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 charitable use for the help, upliftment and enlightenment of the whole world.
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 – by means of which the whole universe is continually being created, sustained, transformed and transmuted into the pure light of knowledge.
Bacon also, 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 as to how we might be better persons and do good in the world.
Bacon also, 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 and friendship is the primary practice.
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2025 Events
Events during 2025 will include talks on Zoom at the equinoxes and solstices, as in previous years, plus a Triple Shakespeare Mystery comprised of three on-site events at special 'Shakespeare' locations in the English landscape. The adverts for these can be found on this website (see Events).
New & Revised Web Pages
A new web page has been added to this website. It is called 'The Art of Discovery' and can be found in the Hermes section.
The webpage 'Cryptic Titles' ('Bacon' section) has been revised and rewritten, to make the titles much clearer in their meaning.
FBRT YouTube Videos
All the video recordings of the 2023 FBRT illustrated talks on Zoom by Peter Dawkins are available for public viewing on the FBRT YouTube channel:
- ‘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'
The video recordings of the 2024 FBRT illustrated talks on Zoom by Peter Dawkins re. the great cipher manual, Cryptomenitices et Cryptographiae, are available to those who have paid for them, and are in the process of being made available to all FBRT Friends for free.
Video recordings of the 2024 Milan talks are available only to those who pay or have paid for them. Email FBRT .
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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 Bacon.org
Spearshaker Productions
Jono Freeman YouTube Channel
Light of Truth
The Shakespeare Foundation
To Be Or Not to Be
Philosophy: Its Origin, Purpose and Destiny (Alexander Sachon) – see VI. Francis Bacon, Godfather of the Scientific Age.
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