Mysterious Bacon

“I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart: I have, though in a despised weed, procured the good of all men.”

From a Prayer by Lord Bacon, Chancellor of England.

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.

Knighted 23 July 1603; created Baron Verulam of Verulam 12 July 1618, and Viscount St Alban 27 January 1621. The two titles are cryptic.

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.

The Gemini Saints, St Alban I and St Alban II.

Because Francis Bacon was titled Viscount Saint Alban, there are two saints called Alban – the Romano-British Saint Alban (d. 306), who founded Craft Freemasonry, and the English-British Viscount Saint Alban (d. 1626), who founded Speculative Freemasonry. Both underwent a martyrdom in order to protect another person – St Alban I physically, by being beheaded, and St Alban II psychologically, by sacrificing his "good name".

Our "good name" is our God-name, wherein 'God' is love. This good name lies in our heart.

Head and heart, outer and inner, strength and wisdom, are symbolic of the twin Great Pillars, Boaz and Jachin, and hence of the Gemini ('Twins').