Milan and the Swan of Europe
2024-10-20 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London)
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about the importance of Milan in terms of Europe and the Swan landscape temple of Europe, including its significance in terms of the three ‘Great Pillars’ of Europe – the Gallic Axis, Swan Line, and Nilotic Meridian – and the Herculean Line that links them in a special way.
Peter will also show how all this is part of the enactment of the Europa and Bull Myth (or Dionysian Mystery) on a grand scale, which is happening right now, and how pilgrimage helps.
This the first of three talks given as part of the Milan & Prospero’s Magic hybrid event.
The talk can be attended by non-participants in the hybrid event, as well as participants.
For those who attend the talk, there will be time for a questions-answers-insights discussion after the talk.
The talk will be recorded and made available to event participants and those who book the talk.
(The discussion session after the talk will not be recorded.)
Cost of individual talk = £25.
Cost for all three talks = £60.
For further information and booking, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).

The Alchemy in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest
2024-10-21 17:00 - 19:00
A talk on Zoom by Julia Cleave about the alchemy in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest.
During the play we discover that Prospero is a magus who has acquired the wisdom to become a master of nature. The play shows how he demonstrates and develops his mastery by means of acting as a hierophant, teaching, testing and transforming the various characters as a redeemer and saviour of human souls. But the whole play is a mastery in itself, showing that Shakespeare was a supreme magus of alchemy, the universal science or chemistry of all.
This the second of three talks given as part of the Milan & Prospero’s Magic hybrid event.
The talk can be attended by non-participants in the hybrid event, as well as participants.
For those who attend the talk, there will be time for a questions-answers-insights discussion after the talk.
The talk will be recorded and made available to event participants and those who book the talk.
(The discussion session after the talk will not be recorded.)
Cost of individual talk = £25.
Cost for all three talks = £60.
For further information and booking, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
Also recommended: the e-book, The Wisdom of Shakespeare in The Tempest, by Peter Dawkins.

Milan, the Dukedom of Prospero, the Magus
2024-10-22 17:00 - 19:00
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about why, in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, Milan was chosen as the dukedom of Prospero, and the science of the mystery connected with this.
In the Shakespeare play, The Tempest, Prospero is the Duke of Milan. During the play we discover that Prospero is a magus – a magician in the initiatory sense, who has acquired the wisdom to become a master of nature. The play shows how he demonstrates and develops his mastery by means of acting as a hierophant, teaching, testing and transforming the various characters as a redeemer and saviour of human souls. These characters represent the various levels of humanity, from the basest and most corrupt, to the most virtuous and pure in heart.
Why Prospero was made the Duke of Milan, rather than of another place, is part of the Mystery – a Mystery that concerns the whole of Europe in particular and the whole world in general, and is of particular relevance at this momentous and dangerous time in world history.
This the third of three talks given as part of the Milan & Prospero’s Magic hybrid event.
The talk can be attended by non-participants in the hybrid event, as well as participants.
For those who attend the talk, there will be time for a questions-answers-insights discussion after the talk.
The talk will be recorded and made available to event participants and those who book the talk.
(The discussion session after the talk will not be recorded.)
Cost of individual talk = £25.
Cost for all three talks = £60.
For further information and booking, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
Also recommended: the e-book, The Wisdom of Shakespeare in The Tempest, by Peter Dawkins.

Cryptic Meanings of Rosicrucian Tailpieces and other such Emblems
2024-12-22 17:00 - 18:30
This illustrated talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins is the last of the series of talks on Rosicrucian Cryptography that are being given in 2024 to celebrate the Quatercentenary of the publication in 1624 of the great cipher manual, Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae (‘Cryptomenytics and Cryptography’), which gives a multitude of cryptographic keys to decrypting the Bacon-Shakespeare-Rosicrucian publications and correspondence.
As before, the main focus will be on the hidden meanings of the cryptographic pictures and their associated ciphers, but dealing this time with the deeply symbolic tailpieces (graphic endpieces) and highly revealing end page of Cryptomenytices.
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 information.
To book, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
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 Milky Way Shakespeare
2025-03-23 17:00 - 18:30
Talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about the three key Shakespeare Theatre locations in England that were indicated by certain stellar phenomena in the heavens during the Elizabethan-Jacobean era and brought into being in the British landscape zodiac on earth.
The British landscape zodiac, which was first identified and laid out by the ancient Britons, and used by the initiates and rulers of successive cultures, was known to the 16th/17th century English Rosicrucians. As the extraordinary stellar phenomena occurred in the Milky Way during the Elizabethan-Jacobean times, so the English Rosy Cross Shakespeare fraternity set out to establish its counterpart on earth in the British (English) landscape zodiac, knowing that if they were successful, great things could occur.
These three Shakespeare Theatre locations exist today, and are thriving and helping to spread the Shakespeare inspiration, artistry, education and entertainment throughout the world.
As the ancient axiom says, “Time brings forth the hidden truth,” so it is now the right time for the deeper reason to be known more publicly as to why this huge success has occurred – the reason being a science that the world has largely forgotten or ignored, or never appreciated or knew.
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.
To book, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
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).
Details about the British landscape zodiac:

The British Landscape Zodiac
Discovery of the British Landscape Zodiac

The displayed picture is a panoramic image of our Milky Way, by AstroAnthony.
Wikimedia Commons: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Corsica, the Illyrian Isle of Beauty
2025-05-11 17:00 - 19:00
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about the importance of Corsica in the Swan of Europe landscape temple, and how it is part of the Europa and Bull Mystery, from which Europe derives its name.
The Europa and Bull Mystery is another way of describing the Dionysian Mystery – a Mystery that underlies the Christian Mystery, wherein the ascended Jesus, like Orpheus before him, is symbolised as a Swan.
Corsica is known as the Isle of Beauty, a ‘Mountain in the Sea’. It is in fact an island composed of a great mountain range made up geologically of a crystalline western part and a schistose north-eastern part, with a central heart mountain called Monte d’Oro, ‘Mountain of Gold’.
This talk on Zoom acts as a precursor to the Shakespeare Mystery in Corsica hybrid event, Procreating the Beauty of Golden Friendship. However, 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 a questions-answers-insights discussion after the talk.
The talk will be recorded, but not the discussion session afterwards.
Cost = £25 per person.
(For those participating in the Corsica Shakespeare Mystery hybrid event, the cost of the talk is included in the hybrid event fee.)
To book, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).

The Gemini-Shakespeare Blazing Star Period
2025-06-22 17:00 - 18:30
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about how the Shakespeare project was brought into being according to an ancient Hermetic science, wherein the planetary and stellar phenomena in the sky were suitably echoed on earth according to the cryptic signs given.
The Shakespeare project was a key part of the Rosicrucian project, which worked Hermetically with a hexagrammatic Solomon’s Seal sketched out in the sky by a series of Saturn-Jupiter conjunctions and oppositions so as to create a metaphysical Blazing Star. So successful has this project been, that it has had a worldwide transformational effect on humanity.
The Shakespeare fraternity of the time not only created the Shakespeare works – the poems, sonnets and plays – but also operated a fundamental universal law, as figuratively described by the Gemini myth, by acting out the myth for real.
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.
To book, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
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 Shakespeare Gemini
2025-09-21 17:00 - 18:30
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins, in which the Shakespeare Gemini – the consortium of ‘twin’ poets and actors – plus their patrons, helpers and muses, will be more fully identified, with key signs and historical backgrounds.
The Shakespeare work was a great work and, like all great works, required many players, men and women, playing many parts. The main roles were those of the Gemini ‘twins’, men and women, with many sets of ‘twins’ involved.
The Shakespeare project constitutes what is still an on-going grand experiment, inaugurated so as to test out the working and practical effects of what is probably the most fundamental law of the universe, a law that has been described as the Double Truth, which the Gemini myth describes metaphorically.
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.
To book, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
If booking accepted, on receipt of payment, the Zoom link will be sent to you.
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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 Francis Bacon’s Hebraicum Alphabethum (‘Hebrew Alphabet’) that was made for him when he was in Paris in 1576.

The Immortalising Power of the Shakespeare Folio Preface – Part 1
2025-12-21 17:00 - 18:30
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins, about how the 11-page 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.
After 400 years, this immortalising effect can be readily seen, with the Shakespeare plays enacted all over the world, with William Shakespeare himself being renowned worldwide as the immortal author, with innumerable books, essays and scholarly treatises written about the plays and the man, and Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, attracting thousands of visitors every year from all over the world.
“Immortalising” in this context refers to the man and his works being so famous that he will never be forgotten, always revered, with his works being everlasting, enduring for ages to come. But “immortalising” can also refer to illumination, to our natural souls or psyches becoming illumined through labours of love and knowing the wisdom or truth as a result.
The illumined soul is known as the celestial soul. The celestial soul is the mortal natural soul (psyche) who has become an immortalised celestial soul – the immortal-mortal. We can each achieve this little by little, like a burning candle transmuting its flame into light. Like the burning candle, we can exist as both the candle and the light at the same time.
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.
To book, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
If booking accepted, on receipt of payment, the Zoom link will be sent to you.
Payment can be made online via the PayPal donate button.
Donate online with PayPal

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 Dionysus headpiece printed in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio.

Freemasonic Twinship and the Two Alban Saints
2026-01-25 17:00 - 18:30
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
2026-03-22 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, and how their roles were adopted by the Bacon brothers, Francis and Anthony.
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.
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 headpiece printed in the 1593 Shakespeare poem Venus and Adonis.

The Hidden Foundation of Democracy in North America
2026-09-20 17:00 - 18:30
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about the role of Sir Francis Bacon and the Virginia and Newfoundland Companies in the colonisation of Newfoundland, Virginia, Nova Scotia and Oak Island, and in the foundation of democracy in North America.
Such a role involved the Freemasons and Rosicrucians – especially the latter, who practised the Hermetic-Magian science of “As above so below, as below so above, for the doing of the Great Work.”
Powerful signs in the starry heavens of the sky, which took place from 1572 to 1604, confirmed to the magi of the English Society of the Golden and Rosy Cross what should be done on earth, both in England and in the world, so as to suitably echo the heavenly signs.
The Shakespeare poetic works, Bacon’s philosophical works, and Bacon’s New Atlantis, are involved in all of this.

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-Bride headpiece printed in the 1594 Shakespeare poem Venus and Adonis.

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.

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.
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-Spearshakers headpiece printed in Francis Bacon’s 1623 De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum and in the tributes to Francis Bacon, Manes Verulamiani, published in 1626.
