The Mystery of the Two Johns, Baptist and Beloved
2026-06-21 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/London)
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.
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).

Swan Flight through the Seven Heavens of the Rosicrucian Mysteries: Fourth Heaven
2026-06-25 18:00 - 2026-06-29 20:00
This hybrid event will be a 3-day site visit in Germany, to Lüneburg and Rosengarten, led by Oliver and Heidemarie Falldorf with Sarah Dawkins (26-28 June), with two Zoom talks by Peter Dawkins (25 June and 29 June) and a day-pilgrimage in England (27 June) facilitated by Donna Duncombe.
The event will be introduced with a talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins on Thursday 25 June (6pm UK time), explaining the whys and wherefores of the event and the symbolic meaning of salt. (See ‘The Fourth Level of the Seven-Stepped Pyramid & Meaning of Salt in the Mystery Traditions‘.)
A second talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins will be on Monday 29 June (6pm UK time), giving some information about the 3-sided pyramid in Francis Bacon’s philosophy – a philosophy adopted by German Magian societies and other such societies across Europe. (See ‘The Three-sided Pyramids in Francis Bacon’s Work‘.)
This will be followed by a sharing of the experiences of the weekend and a discussion on a suitable date still to be arranged.
Talks on Zoom by Peter Dawkins will be in English, with concurrent translation into German by Heidemarie Falldorf.
Talks by Heidemarie and Oliver Falldorf on site will be in German, but translated into English, transcribed and shared for reading.
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2026 is the seventh year of a 12-year ‘end of time’ period (2020-2031), referred to as the Jupiter-Kalki-Kali cycle, in which the world is being severely tested, so as to bring about a repentance sufficient for divine mercy or grace to rescue human hearts, minds and souls. During this time it is possible for human consciousness to be raised an octave, note by note, so as to be suitably inspired to do the right things, the things that are needed to build a better world.
To help this process, we are enacting a mystery in the landscape of Europe, the throat chakra of the world, in which the international Swan landscape temple of mainland Europe, together with the more localised ‘Shakespeare Country’ Swan landscape temple in the British landscape zodiac play key roles. As the Swan flies metaphorically higher and higher, it sounds the creative Word. This is the ‘Swan Flight’ and ‘Swan Song’.
The octave consists of seven full notes and five half-notes. Each full note is a level of the metaphorical/metaphysical ‘Pyramid’ that is being raised on the ‘Foundation Stone’ of the Exterland Zodiac, a landscape zodiac centred on the Externsteine in Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany, which functions as the throat chakra of the Swan of Europe.
The raising of the Pyramid symbolises the flight of the Swan and raising of consciousness, which in turn is associated with the landscape stretching between the Exterland Zodiac, the throat chakra of the Swan of Europe, and the area of Schleswig, the alta-major chakra of the Swan of Europe. This is a landscape replete with castles, palaces, parks and gardens full of Renaissance and Baroque Freemasonic-Rosicrucian symbolism.
The octave began in 2020 with the half-note E♭. 2021 sounded the first full note E, which signified the first level of the Pyramid. 2022 sounded the second full note F, which signified the second level of the Pyramid. 2024 sounded the third full note G, which signified the third level of the Pyramid. For the fourth level, the note A will be sounded and the fourth level of the Pyramid established. This ‘Swan Flight’ event of Zoom talks and site visits celebrates this fourth level.
In the European Mystery story, the Swan is born as a result of the love affair of Europa and the Bull, who are represented in the landscape by the British Isles (Europa) and mainland Europe (Bull). The Europa and Bull myth is the Dionysian myth, wherein the bull-calf, child of the bull and cow incarnatory symbolic forms of the god Zeus and goddess Athena (Britannia), is attacked by Titanic forces and torn apart, but with its heart rescued by Pallas Athena, helped by Zeus, and raised to become the Swan, Dionysus. Europe is acting out this myth right now.
For further details, choices, costs and booking, see: Swan Flight : The Fourth Heaven.
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).

Francis Bacon’s Founding Role in the Democratic Constitution of the USA
2026-07-04 10:30 - 17:30 | St Michael’s Parish Centre, St Michael’s Street, St Albans, Herts, England.
Come and join us at St Michael’s Church Parish Centre, St Albans, for this day event celebrating the 46th Anniversary of the FBRT and the 250th Anniversary of the Independence of the USA.
During the day we will delve into Sir Francis Bacon’s inspirational, guiding and practical role in founding democracy in North America, wherein (ideally) all men and women are considered to be created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, including the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, with a guarantee of freedom of speech and faith, and the right of every citizen to vote.
We shall look at Bacon’s role in the Virginia Company and his writing of the 2nd and 3rd Charters of the Virginia Company which gradually democratised the government of the settlers and their descendants.
We shall also investigate why Francis Bacon was created Viscount St Alban (i.e. St Alban II), and his connection as the founder and first Grand Master of Speculative Freemasonry in England, and how and why the Constitutions of Freemasonry are echoed as far as it turned out possible to do by the Constitution of the USA.
We shall also look at Bacon’s New Atlantis utopia, wherein he outlined the kind of society he was envisaging, who were practising his Great Instauration and governed by a College of initiates – Freemasons and Rosicrucians – who always acted ethically, morally, charitably, and how freedom, properly understood, is an integral part of this.
We shall also look at the symbolism of Francis Bacon’s Memorial Monument in St Michael’s Church, which stands in the chancel above the crypt in which his body was placed when he died, and how it links in a special way with St Alban’s Shrine (i.e. St Alban I) in St Alban’s Cathedral, and with Jamestown on the coast of Virginia, USA, where the first Virginia Company colonists settled.
For information and booking, please contact the FBRT Secretary:
Email: sarah@fbrt.org.uk. Tel: 01295 678 623.

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.

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).

Living the Beauty of Golden Friendship
2026-10-04 14:00 - 2026-10-10 12:00
Shakespeare Mystery in Sardinia
A hybrid event, led by Peter & Sarah Dawkins & Jonathon Tod – part pilgrimage and part talks, attunements and sharing on Zoom.
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 we will visit were built by ‘the Nuraghe’ (‘the shining ones’) between 2500-3000BC. The Nuraghe were navigators, mathematicians and astronomers.
This hybrid event is part of a sequence of events in which we are working with the Dionysian Mystery of Europe, wherein metaphorically the Bull (or Boar) becomes the Swan, which is a symbolic way of describing the transformation and transmutation of the mortal psyche into an immortal soul.
As Shakespeare says, “we are all actors performing on the stage of the world.” The stage for the Dionysian Mystery is Europe, and the stage for this particular pilgrimage is Sardinia, the root chakra of the Swan landscape temple of Europe.
So far we have pilgrimaged in all the Swan chakras except the root chakra. By performing this Sardinia pilgrimage, we will be bringing the heavenly love-wisdom energy right down to the root of the Swan, so that the kundalini earth energy of the Swan can be awoken, respond in love, and rise up the spine of the Swan to sound the Word and bring illumination.
In this, we work with the Hermetic wisdom, “As above so below, as below so above, for the doing of the Great Work”, and with the lemniscate life process movement of energy through the body, in this case the landscape body of the Swan of Europe. In doing all this, we make friends not only with other human beings but also with nature, including the landscape and the sky above.
The aim of this pilgrimage is to pilgrimage from the north to the south of the island of Sardinia, visiting various sites and temples used by the ancients who knew something of how to work with the energies of the land. We will link with and be supported by other friends who will be carrying out pilgrimages and attunements elsewhere. In this way, via pilgrimage, attunement, meditation, prayer and friendship, the aim of the Mystery event as expressed in its title can be achieved.
PROGRAMME (to be confirmed)

27 September 2026 – Zoom talk about Sardinia.
4-10 October 2026 – Sardinia pilgrimage, with Zoom meetings.
18 October 2026 – Zoom meeting – general sharing and conclusion.

TWO TYPES OF PARTICIPANTS

Virtual pilgrims: attendees of Zoom talk and event Zoom meetings, and who carry out a pilgrimage in their own chosen area.
Sardinia pilgrims: the travelling pilgrims who will pilgrimage in Sardinia and participate in the Zoom talk and all the Zoom meetings.

COST (to be confirmed)

Virtual pilgrims – £50 per person (inclusive of Sardinia meetings and Zoom talk).
Sardinia pilgrims sharing in twinned or double rooms – £2,150 per person
Sardinia pilgrims in single rooms – £2,600 per person

BOOKING
If you are interested in joining this pilgrimage, either as a Sardinia pilgrim or a virtual pilgrim, then please let us know: info@fbrt.org.uk.

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.
