Sir Francis Bacon’s Founding Role in the Democratic Constitution of the USA
This talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins is designed to help explain a little more about why Sir Francis Bacon is honoured as the father of American constitutionalism, as well as being honoured as the father of the scientific method and of American esoteric spirituality.
To be thus honoured includes Bacon’s role in the Virginia Company, his writing of the 2nd and 3rd Charters of the Virginia Company which gradually democratised the government of the settlers and their descendants, and his founding influence on the Constitutions of Freemasonry which are echoed, as far as it was possible, by the Constitution of the USA.
The talk will also deal with the reasons why Sir Francis Bacon was created Viscount St Alban (i.e. St Alban II), which twinned him with the first St Alban (i.e. St Alban I), the founder of Operative Freemasonry in Roman Britain.
Shortly after Bacon’s death on 9th April 1626, Bacon’s New Atlantis was published by his chaplain and literary executor, William Rawley. This utopian story outlines the ideal kind of society Bacon envisaged, a society governed by a College of Freemasons and Rosicrucians who practised his Great Instauration, a project by means of which humanity could eventually come to know, by experience, the laws and nature of all things divine, human and natural. The talk will touch on this story, as it is important and relevant, and contains many secrets.
Cost £15. To book, please contact the FBRT Secretary:
Email: sarah@fbrt.org.uk. Tel: 01295 678 623.
On receipt of payment, the Zoom link will be sent to you.
For those who attend the talk, there will be time for questions, answers and insights after the talk. This post-talk sharing is usually full of extra information.
A recording of the talk (but not of the sharing afterwards) can be made available for attendees if requested, as also for those who pay for the talk but do not attend it live on Zoom. Please contact the FBRT Secretary.