Essays (Hermes)

Essays (Hermes)

“The essential form of knowledge… is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being
and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.”
Francis Bacon: Cupid and Coelum, On Principles and Origins
The essays listed below are authored by Peter Dawkins unless otherwise stated.
  • Advancement of Learning Secrets
    Description of the highly symbolic and meaningful frontispiece to the 1640 English edition of Francis Bacon’s Advancement and Proficience of Learning.
  • The Magnificence of the Great Instauration
    An in-depth account of Sir Francis Bacon's Great Instauration or Six Days Work to create a loving, wise and illumined Paradise on earth.
  • New Atlantis: A Work Unfinished
    Original English text of Francis Bacon's New Atlantis.
  • Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
    A commentary on Francis Bacon's utopian novel concerning the Island of Bensalem and Salomon's House—the Rosicrucian College of the Six Days Work.
  • Hidden Truth brought forth by Time
    The profound significance of the title page emblem of the first edition of Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis.
  • Timely Truths Revealed
    Biblical, historical and esoteric truths concerning the ancient proverbs, “Time brings forth the hidden Truth” and “Truth is the daughter of Time".
  • The Secret Signature
    The AA Sigil of the Mystery Schools and Secret Signature of Sir Francis Bacon, Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians.
  • Baconian-Rosicrucian Ciphers
    An introduction to the cryptography used by Francis Bacon and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic fraternity.
  • The Fra Rosie Cross Cipher 287
    The veracity of the cipher 287 of the Rosicrucian Fraternity that signs various books of the 16th and 17th centuries, including the Shakespeare works.
  • Rosicrucian Matters & Mathematics
    An account of how the Rosicrucian Fraternity came into being, its work, its mathematics, and its Gemini keyholders, Bacon and Shakespeare.
  • Secrets of the Rosy Cross
    The meanings behind the symbolism of the Fraternity of the Golden and Rosy Cross and its association with Francis Bacon and John Dee.
  • Geocosmology, Hermeticism & the Great Instauration
    A description of Geocosmology as a Hermetic science of the mysteries and an important part of Francis Bacon’s Great Instauration.
  • Something from Nothing
    The great philosophical question, answered by the great philosophers, scientists, religions and mystery schools, including Sir Francis Bacon and John Dee.
  • Pantheism
    The Orphic, Platonic, Kabbalistic and Christian Pantheism of the philosopher Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban, Lord Chancellor.
  • The European Myth and Mystery
    The myths that describe Europe’s role in the world and the mysteries or sacred dramas that reveal how that role is best acted out and assist its performance.
  • The British Landscape Zodiac
    Description of the zodiacal pattern laid out across Britain, invested with myth and used by subsequent cultures, including Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians.
  • Discovery of the British Landscape Zodiac
    The discovery by Peter Dawkins of the landscape zodiac of ancient Britain, created by the Celtic Britons and enhanced and used by subsequent cultures.
  • Canonbury Place & Tower
    Background history of Canonbury, its Freemasonic connections and its use by the poet-philosopher-lawyer and Lord Chancellor, Francis Bacon.
  • Bacon’s Mount & Rose Cross Layout of Gorhambury Park
    A description of the Freemasonic-Rosicrucian geometry underlying Sir Francis Bacon’s layout of Gorhambury Park and of its key structures and focal points.
  • The Mystery of Oak Island: Part 1, The Treasure Hunt
    An account of the treasure-hunt that has taken place since 1795 on Oak Island, Nova Scotia—an island containing one of the great mysteries of history.
  • The Mystery of Oak Island: Part 2, The Navigators
    History of the early colonisation of Virginia, Nova Scotia and Oak Island, the Virginia and Newfoundland Companies, and the role of Francis Bacon.
  • The Mystery of Oak Island: Part 3, Swan Secrets
    The Rosy Cross wisdom and plan associated with Oak Island, Nova Scotia, New Atlantis, Francis Bacon, John Dee, Shakespeare and Philalethes.
  • Royston, Heart of the 13th Sign of the British Zodiac
    Extract from ‘The British Zodiac’ study paper, describing the landscape zodiac of Britain first laid out by the Ancient Britons and used by subsequent societies, including the 16th/17th century Rosicrucians.
  • Rosslyn Chapel & the Sinclairs
    An account of Rosslyn Chapel, Castle and Glen, the connection with the Sinclairs, Freemasons and Rosicrucians, and the design and symbolism of the Chapel.
  • The Three Great Lights of Freemasonry
    A short description of the ancient theonyms of the Three Great Lights of Freemasonry and their connection with the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
  • The Two Ways of Seeing Truth
    The two fundamental ways of seeing truth as known to, described and used in the wisdom traditions, religions, symbolism and mystery schools of initiation.
  • The Other Self: A Kabbalistic Viewpoint
    The difference between the paneem or ‘face to face’ way and the a’hoor or ‘back view’ way of presenting the cabalistic Tree of Life.
  • The Cosmos
    A description of the wisdom and meaning of the Cosmos, the Universe in which we live, microcosmic and macrocosmic, individual and universal.