BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Francis Bacon Research Trust - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.fbrt.org.uk
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Francis Bacon Research Trust
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20250330T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20251026T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20260329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20261025T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20270328T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20271031T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260705T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260705T183000
DTSTAMP:20260526T185549
CREATED:20260520T154548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260520T162027Z
UID:4996-1783270800-1783276200@www.fbrt.org.uk
SUMMARY:Sir Francis Bacon’s Founding Role in the Democratic Constitution of the USA
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo 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. \nThe 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. \nShortly 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. \nCost £15. To book\, please contact the FBRT Secretary: \nEmail: sarah@fbrt.org.uk.  Tel: 01295 678 623. \nOn receipt of payment\, the Zoom link will be sent to you. \nFor 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.  \nA 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. \nThe displayed picture is a coloured version of the AA-Gemini headpiece printed in Francis Bacon’s Hebraicum Alphabethum (‘Hebrew Alphabet’) that was made for him when he was in Paris in 1576.
URL:https://www.fbrt.org.uk/event/sir-francis-bacons-founding-role-in-the-democratic-constitution-of-the-usa/
CATEGORIES:Zoom talk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fbrt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AA-Gemini-headpiece_Hebraicum_colour.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="FBRT":MAILTO:info@fbrt.org.uk
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR