Francis Bacon Research Trust

Freemasonic Twinship and the Two Alban Saints
2026-01-25 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/London)
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about the universal law of twinship, or friendship, and how it manifested in the foundational legends of Freemasonry concerning the two saints called Alban and the two types of Freemasonry, Craft and Speculative.
The two saints called Alban are the Romano-Celtic officer, whose name is veiled as ‘Alban’, and Sir Francis Bacon, who was given the title Viscount St Alban.
The first St Alban is reputed to be the founder and first Grand Master of Craft Freemasonry in England (Roman Britain), whilst the second St Alban is cryptically recognised as the founder and first Grand Master of Speculative Freemasonry in England c.1300 years later.
We shall also look at the meaning of the place or places associated with the St Alban legends, the shrines or monuments erected in their memory and how they connect with each other, and the Freemasonic and Rosicrucian wisdom knowledge underlying all this.
For those who attend this Zoom talk, there will be time for questions, answers and insights after the talk.

To book, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
If booking accepted, on receipt of payment, the Zoom link will be sent to you.
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 Organiser (FBRT).
The displayed picture is a coloured version of the AA-Gemini headpiece printed in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio.

The Immortalising Power of the Shakespeare Folio Preface – Part 2
2026-02-08 17:00 - 18:30
Part 2 of a 2-part series of talks on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about how the Preface of the 1623 Shakespeare Folio enshrines a deep Kabbalistic and Biblical wisdom, with cryptic wording and graphics, all with the potency and intention to immortalise the Shakespeare plays and William Shakespeare himself, as an example of the immortalising process described in the classical Gemini myth.
As we learnt in the previous talk, the Preface of the Shakespeare First Folio consists of ten printed pages that are designed to act as a Temple of the Mysteries, analogous to Solomon’s Temple, wherein the very first page of the Folio, the “To the Reader” portrait verse by “B.I.”, which precedes the ten-page Preface, has a dual purpose, acting as the twin Great Pillars, Boaz and Jachin, and as the guardian or doorkeeper, Ben Jonson.
The “To the Reader” portrait verse precedes the Shakespeare Folio title page that is the actual door to the Temple. This title page door contains, in a veiled way, a cryptic summary of what lies within. As the doorkeeper tells us, in order to open the door and enter the Temple, we have to learn how to see and to read both the text and the illustrations.
As explained in the previous talk, the ten pages of the Preface, which follow on from the Folio’s “To the Reader” page, represent the 10 Sephiroth or Emanations of the Tree of Life as experienced on the Middle Path through the Temple. The previous talk dealt with the doorway, doorkeeper, door, and first half of the Holy Place of the Temple.
In this talk we shall enter the second half of the Holy Place of the Shakespeare Folio Preface Temple, wherein lies the Altar of Incense marking the heart of the Temple. After this we shall enter the Holy of Holies, wherein lies the Ark of the Covenant and Oracle.
After 400 years, the immortalising effect can be readily seen, with the mortal actor William Shakspere from Stratford-upon-Avon raised up to be, in people’s minds, the immortal author William Shakespeare. In other words, the Gemini effect has been well proven in this grand scientific experiment.
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 this Part 2 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.
A recording of Part 1 of this 2-part series is also available to those who book this Part 2 talk. The cost for a link to the recording of Part 1 is £15.
The cost for links to recordings of both talks, Part 1 and Part 2, is £30.
The headpiece is a coloured version of the Dionysus headpiece printed in the 1623 Shakespeare Folio.

Emerging from the Tunnel of Darkness
2026-03-08 17:00 - 19:00
2026: the Seventh Year in the 12-Year Jupiter-Kalki-Kali Cycle
Talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins.
What are the challenges, opportunities and tasks for 2026? Indeed, what is 2026 in the 12-year Jupiter-Kalki-Kali cycle? What sound is it associated with? What creative energy will it produce? What response is likely to ensue? Are we indeed emerging from the tunnel of darkness?
Peter will give some of his insights about these questions.
The talk will be given in English, with German translation by Heidemarie Falldorf.
Time will be given after the talk for questions and answers.
Cost £25. 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.

The New Atlantis Bensalem and Rosicrucian College of the Six Days Work
2026-04-19 17:00 - 18:30
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about the New Atlantis of Francis Bacon’s utopian novel, and what it really means and the places it cryptically points to in the world.
We shall also look at what all this means today, and how New Atlantis is not only an account of what took place 400+ years ago but also a prophecy for the times we live in now.
New Atlantis has a mystical relationship with the Old Atlantis, as referred to by Plato, and as described in myths and legends. The two stories contain the idea of death and resurrection, and the means by which this can happen.
To book, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
If booking accepted, on receipt of payment, the Zoom link will be sent to you.
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 Organiser (FBRT).
The displayed picture is a coloured version of the Gemini-Bacony-Bride headpiece printed in the 1609 Shake-speares Sonnets.

The Mystery of the Two Johns, Baptist and Beloved
2026-06-21 17:00 - 18:30
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about the mystery of John the Baptist and John the Beloved, the different roles they played whilst sharing the same name, and the eternal wisdom and divine law of which they are manifestations – a law that involves all of us.
This mystery involves the Double Truth of polarity, twinship, and initiation, with its lesser and greater mysteries.
The mystery also involves Time, with its daily, annual, and larger cycles of time, such as a Great Age, and the poles of time and process of life – a process in which we are all engaged, all of the time.
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 this 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.
The displayed picture is a coloured version of the AA headpiece printed on the dedication page of the Shakespeare poem Venus and Adonis (1594).

The Fourth Level of the Seven-Stepped Pyramid & Meaning of Salt in the Mystery Traditions
2026-06-25 18:00 - 19:30
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins explaining the background to what we call the “Swan Flight through the Seven Heavens of the Rosicrucian Mysteries”, why the hybrid pilgrimage to Lüneburg and Rosengarten in northern Germany is taking place, and the symbolic meaning of salt.
Peter will talk about the Swan landscape temple of Europe, and particularly about the Exterland Zodiac centred on the Externsteine in Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany, which forms the Swan’s throat chakra, and the seven areas north of the Exterland that culminate in the area focused on Gottorf Castle, which forms the Swan’s alta-major chakra.
Peter will explain how these seven areas of landscape correspond to the seven levels of a seven-stepped pyramid, how these symbolise the traditional seven heavens of soul consciousness, and how we are in the process of discovering that certain places in these seven areas of Germany became focal points of the Rosicrucians during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Peter will also summarise how and why we have been instructed to establish a metaphorical pyramid ‘rising’ from the Exterland Zodiac by visiting these key Rosicrucian places at key times in the years 2020-2032, and what it means in terms of Swan consciousness, and indeed what the Swan symbolises.
Peter will then talk about the meaning of salt, as understood in the Mystery traditions, and why the visit to Lüneburg, a town built on top of a massive salt dome, is so important as a marker for the fourth level of the pyramid, or fourth heaven of soul consciousness.
The talk will be in English, with concurrent translation into German by Heidemarie Falldorf.
This talk on Zoom forms part of the hybrid ‘Fourth Heaven’ event and is open to participants and non-participants.
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.
A recording of the talk 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.
The displayed picture is a coloured version of the Bride-Gemini headpiece printed in the 1624 Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae by Gustavus Selenus (Augustus II, the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg).

The Three-sided Pyramids in Francis Bacon’s Work
2026-06-29 18:00 - 19:30
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins explaining the use and symbolism of the two three-sided pyramids in the philosopher Sir Francis Bacon’s ‘Great Instauration’ – the work that is designed to bring about a “total reconstruction of the sciences, arts, and all human knowledge raised on proper foundations”.
Peter will explain how this is a Rosy Cross (or Rosicrucian) work, which was spread abroad and taken up by the Magian-come-Rosicrucian societies of Europe, especially by those in the German States – a work that restores a state of paradise upon earth, but coupled with the illumination of mankind, wherein humanity knows the truth because it practices truth, which truth is love in action.
The talk will be in English, with concurrent translation into German by Heidemarie Falldorf.
This talk on Zoom forms part of the hybrid ‘Fourth Heaven’ event and is open to participants and non-participants.
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.
A recording of the talk 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.
The displayed picture is a coloured version of the Bride-Gemini headpiece printed in the 1624 Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae by Gustavus Selenus (Augustus II, the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg).

Sir Francis Bacon’s Founding Role in the Democratic Constitution of the USA
2026-07-05 17:00 - 18:30
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.
The 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.

Anthony and Francis Bacon, Shakespeare and the intelligence network
2026-09-20 17:00 - 18:30
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about the role of the Bacon brothers, Anthony and Francis, in the Shakespeare project and intelligence network.
Both Francis and Anthony Bacon were poets, both received an in-depth Renaissance education and training, both were initiates of the Rosicrucian fraternity, and both were involved in the Elizabethan intelligence network, all of which supplied much of the inspiration, source material, detailed information and assistance required in the composing of the Shakespeare poems, sonnets and plays.
Moreover, both brothers were extremely close friends, who were devoted to each other and dedicated to their grand purpose.
Many things about Anthony Bacon are not widely known, as he was a secret person, so one of the purposes of this talk is make known more widely some of the little known or more hidden things about Anthony.

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 this 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.
The displayed picture is a coloured version of the AA-Gemini-Bride headpiece printed on the title page of the Shakespeare poem Venus and Adonis (1594).

Sardinia, the Footprint of Divinity
2026-09-27 17:00 - 19:00
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about the importance of Sardinia in the Swan of Europe landscape temple, and how it is part of the Europa and Bull Mystery from which Europe derives its name.
Sardinia was considered a sacred mountain prior to the last flood and the creation of the Mediterranean Sea. It was formerly joined with Corsica and mainland Europe. It is an island of beauty with 7000 ancient temples and sanctuaries. Many of the temples were built by the Nuraghe (‘the shining ones’) between 2500-3000 BC. The Nuraghe were navigators, mathematicians and astronomers.
Sardinia was called Ichnusa by the Greeks, meaning ‘footprint’, because the island is shaped like a footprint. The Greeks also called the island Argyrophleps, meaning “veins of silver”, because of its rich ancient silver mines.
Sardinia, the Silver Isle, is the twin of Corsica, the Golden Isle, whose heart mountain is Monte d’Oro, ‘Mountain of Gold’. The friendship between the two is like an amalgam of silver and gold – a golden friendship, silver-tinged.
This talk on Zoom acts as a precursor to the Shakespeare Mystery in Sardinia hybrid event, ‘Living the Beauty of Golden Friendship’. The talk can be attended by anyone interested in the subject, as well as by participants in the hybrid event.
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.

Time = 17:00-19:00 (UK time)
(inclusive of talk plus questions, answers and insights after the talk.)
Cost = £25 per person.
(For those participating in the Sardinia Shakespeare Mystery hybrid event, the cost of the talk is included in the hybrid event fee.)
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.
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.
The photo is of the Nuraghe Santu Antine, Sardinia.

The Mystery of the Christmas Saturnalia and Knights of the Helmet
2026-12-20 17:00 - 18:30
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about midwinter’s Saturnalia and Twelve Days of Christmas, including that of 1594/5 when Gray’s Inn hosted a grand entertainment during which the Shakespeare play, Comedy of Errors, was enacted, followed by the masque, The Order of the Knights of the Helmet.
This “Gesta Grayorum”, as it was called in Latin, announced and made public many things previously kept secret, including the hint that the Knights of the Helmet are the true Spearshakers, or Shakespeares, who, like St George, shake their spears of inspiration at the dragons of ignorance, so that the dragons might come to know the truth.

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 this 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.
The displayed picture is a coloured version of the AA-Gemini-Spearshakers headpiece printed in Francis Bacon’s 1623 De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum and in the 1627 Manes Verulamiani tributes to Francis Bacon.
