Procreating the Beauty of Golden Friendship
2025-05-13 12:00 - 2025-05-18 12:00 (Europe/London)
Shakespeare Mystery in Corsica
A hybrid event, led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins – part pilgrimage and part talks, attunements and sharing on Zoom.
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’.
For our purposes, this Isle of Beauty can be seen as equating mythically with Illyria, on the shores of which the twins, Viola and Sebastian, are cast after being separated in a shipwreck, as described in the Shakespeare play, Twelfth Night.
Historically Illyria is the name of an ancient region of the Western Balkans, but mythologically, which is how Shakespeare uses the name, it means ‘Land of the Stars’ or ‘Land of Freedom’.
In a Greek legend, Illyr, ancestor of the Illyrians, was the son of Cadmus and Harmonia, with his name meaning ‘beautiful like the Sun-Star’. When born, he was left by a river, where he was found and raised by a serpent.
These ‘Illyrian’ legends, myths and Twelfth Night all refer symbolically to the setting free of the mortal psyche so as to be reborn and raised as an immortal soul, a shining star of beauty. This describes the whole purpose of this hybrid pilgrimage, wherein we are working with the sacral chakra of the landscape ‘Swan’ of Europe in order to procreate the golden child of beauty whose nature is love expressed as friendship.
This hybrid Mystery of Shakespeare 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 in this instance being Europe.
Due to the mountainous terrain of Corsica and the practicalities involved, the pilgrimage in Corsica is being carried out by a small core-group of friends who are linked with and supported by other friends who are 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

11 May 2025 – Zoom talk, ‘Corsica, the Illyrian Isle of Beauty’.
13-18 May 2025 – Corsica pilgrimage, with Zoom meetings.
24 May 2025 – Zoom meeting – Corsica pilgrimage summary.
25 May 2025 – Zoom meeting – general sharing and conclusion.

TWO TYPES OF PARTICIPANTS

Virtual pilgrims: attendees of Zoom talk ‘Corsica, the Illyrian Isle of Beauty’ and event Zoom meetings, and who carry out a pilgrimage in their own chosen area.
Corsica pilgrims: the pre-selected core-group who will pilgrimage in Corsica and participate in all the Zoom meetings. (This core-group is a closed group.)

COST

Virtual pilgrims – £45 per person (inclusive of Corsica Zoom talk and meetings).

BOOKING
Please contact FBRT for booking, payment and other details.
RECOMMENDED READING
The Wisdom of Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, by Peter Dawkins.

The Milky Way Shakespeare North
2025-06-07 10:00 - 2025-06-08 16:00 | Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prospero Place, Prescot, L34 3AB, United Kingdom
This weekend event, led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins, will take place on Saturday in Prescot, Merseyside, and on Sunday in St Helens, Merseyside.
In Prescot we will visit the Shakespeare North Playhouse, a new playhouse that opened in 2022. This 21st century playhouse is built near to the site and in commemoration of an earlier 16th century Elizabethan playhouse that was built and owned by Richard Harrington, the tenant of Prescot Hall and younger brother of Percival Harrington, the deputy steward of Prescot.
This Tudor playhouse, built sometime between 1593-5, was located on the edge of Knowsley Hall estate, the chief residence of the Stanley family, Earls of Derby and stewards of Prescot, who maintained their own acting company until 1609, which is also when the playhouse ceased its theatrical use.
As no architectural plans survive for the original Prescot Playhouse, the new theatre’s layout is based on the 1629 design by Inigo Jones for the Cockpit-in-Court theatre in the Palace of Whitehall, London.
On Saturday 7th June we will have a guided Heritage tour of the Shakespeare North Playhouse in the morning, followed by lunch. In the afternoon there will be talks followed by a performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the evening.
The next day, on Sunday morning we will explore the Witches’ Brew Animal Trail in Prescot town centre, to see if we can find the sculptures of the animals that were included in the witches’ brew of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
After this, we will travel to nearby St Helens where the phenomenal award-winning Dream sculpture is located, which we will visit. This soaring white sculpture is near the northern crossing point of the Milky Way meridian and the ecliptic of the landscape zodiac of Britain (England and Wales), which is the cusp of Gemini-Taurus in the celestial zodiac in the sky.
The Dream sculpture, created by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, is a white dolomite-coated pillar 66 feet (20 metres) tall, sited on an old spoil tip, now a hillock in a landscaped park that has replaced the defunct Sutton Manor Colliery. The Dream’s title is ‘Ex Terra Lucem’ (‘From the ground, light’), and symbolises a beam of light rising out of the dark coalmine below. It is cast with the neck, head and face of a young woman with her eyes closed in meditation, dreaming of a brighter future.
This weekend event will be honouring this idea, with its hope for a brighter future.
Number of attendees for this event is limited (max.15).
Event Fee = £175 per person
(Event fee includes ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’ talk, talks on site, theatre guided tour, Saturday lunch, play performance, and administration. Cost does not include travel, accommodation, refreshments, and other meals required.)
To book, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
On acceptance of the booking and payment made, a link to a recording of the Zoom talk, ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’, will be sent to you. This talk is essential for understanding the reason for this event and the other two events in this triple Shakespeare Mystery.
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.)

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.
Payment can be made online via the PayPal donate button.
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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.

Swan Flight along the Milky Way
2025-09-25 00:00
Triple Shakespeare Mystery
This triple Shakespeare Mystery is comprised of three separate but interlinked Shakespeare Mystery events in the three locations where England’s Shakespeare theatres are located along the Milky Way of the landscape zodiac of Britain (England and Wales): –

7-8 June 2025 – ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare North‘
25-28 September 2025 – ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare Swans’
25 October 2025 – ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare South’

The British landscape zodiac, known to the 16th/17th century English Rosicrucians. The three locations – Prescot, Stratford-upon-Avon and London – are in key positions in the landscape zodiac, and were carefully chosen so as to echo the outstanding stellar phenomena that occurred sequentially in the sky during the 32-year period, 1572-1604. The purpose of this ‘echoing’ was part of the Hermetic science* that the English Rosicrucians, like other European Magian societies, practised.
The first and last of these locations mark the two places where the Milky Way galactic meridian appears to cross the ecliptic of the Zodiac. The middle one marks the star Deneb in the Cygnus (Swan) constellation.
*“As above so below, as below so above, for the doing of the Great Work.”
Quadruple Shakespeare Insights
The ‘Swan Flight along the Milky Way’ series of events is being supported by four FBRT talks on Zoom at the equinoxes and solstices, each of which provides in-depth information about this great mystery that was performed by the Rosy Cross Society for the benefit of the whole wide world: –

Sunday 23 March 2025 – ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare‘
Sunday 22 June 2025 – ‘The Gemini-Shakespeare Blazing Star Period’
Sunday 21 Sept. 2025 – ‘The Shakespeare Gemini’
Sunday 21 Dec. 2025 – ‘The Immortalising Power of the Shakespeare Folio Preface‘

A recording of the first talk, ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’, is provided free for those who book for one or more of the events, as it serves as a necessary introduction.
A recording of each talk is also being made available for a fee of £15.
The displayed picture is a panoramic image of our Milky Way, by AstroAnthony. Wikimedia Commons: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

The Milky Way Shakespeare Swans
2025-09-25 18:00 - 2025-09-28 13:00 | Warwick Arms Hotel, 17 High St,, Warwick, CV34 4AT, United Kingdom
This extended weekend event, led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins, will take place in England’s ‘Shakespeare Country’, the Cygnus (Swan) area of the British landscape zodiac.
During this extended weekend, we will be based in Warwick and visiting Warwick Castle, Kenilworth Castle, and Stratford-upon-Avon with its Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
The ‘Shakespeare Country’ represents Cygnus (the Swan) in the landscape zodiac of Britain/England. It is composed of two Swans, twins, as per the Gemini myth. One Gemini Swan is born immortal, the other mortal, but by helping each other as loving friends they both become immortal-mortals. Warwick is the head of the ‘immortal’ Swan, with Kenilworth its beak and the Rollright Stone Circle its root or tail. Stratford-upon-Avon is the root/tail of the ‘mortal’ Swan – the Swan that is immortalised by means of the self-sacrifice of its immortal twin.
The Gemini are the spear-shaking Shakespeares. In the 16th/17th centuries, certain human beings acted out this ages-old mystery that lies enshrined in the landscape.
The event will start in the evening of Thursday 25 September.
On Friday 26 September we will visit Warwick Castle, home of the Dudley earls of Warwick in Tudor times, and of Fulke Greville in Jacobean times. We will also visit Kenilworth Castle, the once-palatial residence of the Earl of Leicester.
In the time of Queen Elizabeth I, the Earl of Warwick was Ambrose Dudley, the elder brother of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the Queen’s favourite, to whom the Queen granted Kenilworth Castle. The Dudley brothers and Fulke Greville were intricately involved in the Rosicrucian Shakespeare project.
In 1575 the lavish Kenilworth Entertainment took place, with both theatrical entertainment and jousting on a grand scale that echoed Edward I’s revival of the Arthurian Knights of the Round Table. It was this grand entertainment, followed by its twin, the Woodstock Entertainment, which raised the annual Accession Day Tournaments of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign to a highly elaborate theatrical level as part of the Rosicrucian Shakespeare project.
It was at the Woodstock Entertainment that the Faerie Queen made her first publicly recorded appearance in English literature and drama. Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Midsummer Night’s Dream derive inspiration and elements from these two entertainments.
On Saturday 27 September we will visit Stratford-upon-Avon, home of the actor William Shakespeare and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where we will explore the geomantic arrangement of the town, visiting Holy Trinity Church, burial place of the actor William Shakespeare and location of the Shakespeare Monument with its revealing esoteric message. In the evening we will visit the Royal Shakespeare Theatre for an RSC performance of the Shakespeare play, Measure for Measure.
On Sunday 28 September, after a concluding morning talk and sharing, there will be an optional visit to the Rollright Stones, wherein lies an even older ‘Shakespeare’ story.
The number of attendees for this event is limited.
Event Fee = £548 + accommodation (optional)
(Event fee includes ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’ Zoom talk, other talks elsewhere and on site, Fri/Sat lunches, Thu/Fri/Sat evening meals, entrance fees to Warwick and Kenilworth Castles, RSC ‘A’ ticket, and administration costs. The fee does not include travel, drink and accommodation.)
If needed, help can be given in finding suitable overnight accommodation.
To book, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
On acceptance of the booking and payment made, a link to a recording of the Zoom talk, ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’, will be sent to you. This talk is essential for understanding the reason for this event and the other two events in this Milky Way Shakespeare Mystery.
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.)

The Milky Way Shakespeare South
2025-10-25 10:00 - 19:00 | Canonbury Tower, 6 Canonbury Place, Islington, London, N1 2NY, United Kingdom
This Saturday all-day event, led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins, will take place in London, with talks, guidance and visits to places connected with the Shakespeare Mystery.
The day will start with a private visit to and talk in Canonbury Tower, Islington, part of the Tudor Manor House of Canonbury, where many Freemasonic and Rosicrucian ‘Shakespeare’ secrets can be revealed.
After lunch in The Canonbury Tavern, we will make an educational pilgrimage southwards to St John’s Gate, St Bartholomew’s Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral, then across the river to the Shakespeare Globe Theatre on the south bank, culminating with a meal and talk in a private room in The Anchor, Bankside, Southwark.
Bankside, containing the Globe theatre and the Anchor pub, is not far from the White Tower of London on Bryn Gwynt (‘the White Hill’), which for the Celts seems to have marked the southern crossing point of the Milky Way meridian and the ecliptic of the landscape zodiac of Britain (England and Wales), which is the cusp of Sagittarius-Scorpio in the celestial zodiac in the sky.
The number of attendees for this event is limited.
Event Fee = £90 per person
(Event fee includes ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’ Zoom talk, morning and evening talks, guided tour of Canonbury Tower, guided educational walk, private room bookings, administration costs. The fee does not include travel, food, drink and accommodation.)
To book, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
On acceptance of the booking and payment made, a link to a recording of the Zoom talk, ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’, will be sent to you. This talk is essential for understanding the reason for this event and the other two events in this Milky Way Shakespeare Mystery.
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.)

The Healing Power of Archetypal Patterns
2025-11-22 10:00 - 2025-11-23 18:00 | Bonnington House, Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston, Edinburgh, EH27 8BB, United Kingdom
How to help rebalance, heal and uplift the environment and oneself.
Bonnington House, Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston, Edinburgh, Scotland
This weekend event, led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins, will introduce participants to the key archetypal patterns within nature and ourselves, which are pivotal to creating and maintaining good health and harmony.
These patterns are not only creative but also life-enhancing. They rebalance, heal and uplift not only ourselves and our immediate environment, but also all forms of life in nature and the universe. They help us and all nature to evolve and develop an ever-greater intelligence and ability to accomplish greater things.
They are what are known traditionally as the forms of the supreme metaphysical laws of the universe. To use them is to use those supreme laws, but they can only be used in the right ways, which requires love and intelligence.
These patterns are archetypal and apply to all life, but to understand and know them can lead to insights into the more individual patterns that can heal our own personal imbalances and illnesses.
During this weekend we will also look at and experience something of the ‘Grail Land’ landscape temple, of which Bonnington/Jupiter Artland forms a key part of its brow chakra, and also the landscape zodiacs of Scotland, Ireland and Britain (England and Wales), with their ability to ‘sound’ the sacred Aum and connect with the light body of the planet.
We will share what we know about the importance of these natural energy forms in connection with the world’s evolution, and offer suggestions as to how we can best help. In fact, just by participating in this weekend event we will be helping.
For further information and booking, see ‘The Healing Power of Archetypal Patterns‘ pdf.

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.

Pilgrimage in London – The first of many celebrations for Sir Francis Bacon in 2026
2026-01-20 10:00 - 16:30
A pilgrimage to places connected with Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban.
A 2026 Bacon400 Celebration led by Peter Dawkins and Jonathan Tod.
Please come and join us for this special pilgrimage celebrating Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban. 2026 is the Quatercentenary of the death and burial of Francis Bacon, and this pilgrimage is the inner or more private beginning of the public celebrations which will unfold over the course of the year.
The 2026 Bacon400 London pilgrimage will start at St Martin-in-the-Fields, where Francis Bacon was baptised on 25 January 1561, then proceed to the site of York House, Bacon’s London home when growing up and then later when he was Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor.
After this we will walk to the site of Essex House, where the Shakespeare Circle used to meet. Essex House (previously Leicester House) was built on the site of the Outer Temple of the Knights Templar.
Following this, we will walk through to Middle Temple Fountain Court, on the south side of which is Middle Temple Hall, where the Shakespeare play, Twelfth Night, was enacted.
We will then proceed to the Inner Temple, where we will visit Temple Church, the round church of the Knights Templar.
After this, we will have a celebratory lunch in the Luncheon Room of the Inner Temple, which has been reserved for our private use.
After lunch we will walk to the site of Temple Bar, marked by the Temple Bar Memorial, and then proceed eastwards along Fleet Street, crossing the River Fleet, and ascending Ludgate Hill to St Paul’s Cathedral and the relocated Temple Bar Archway designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
The Inner Temple Inn of Court twins Gray’s Inn of Court, where Francis Bacon had his lawyer’s chambers and of which he was Treasurer for many years. Twinship is the key to everything, and we aim to celebrate twinship!
Another example of twinship is that of government and people, wherein their friendship and judiciously balanced interdependence is crucial to democracy.
Temple Bar, as originally positioned, is where the Liberty of Westminster meets the Liberty of the City of London. Temple Bar is thus symbolic of the democratic judicial balance between the government and the people, which underlies our constitutional democracy.
Yet another twinship is that of the two eminent personages called St Alban – the 3rd/4th century Romano-British St Alban and the 16th/17th century English Viscount St Alban.
This pilgrimage is designed to inaugurate a St Alban II pilgrimage route, which will twin the St Alban I pilgrimage route.
The St Alban I pilgrimage route starts in London and ends at St Alban’s Cathedral, which marks the burial place of the Romano-British St Alban and contains the saint’s shrine.
The St Alban II pilgrimage route will also start in London (this pilgrimage marks the first steps on the route) and will end at St Michael’s Church, St Albans, where Viscount St Alban’s body was buried in the chancel vault, with an enigmatic sculpted memorial monument placed in the chancel above.
There will be a pre-pilgrimage talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins at 5pm (GMT) on Sunday 18 January. This will be private, for those who participate in this pilgrimage.
For further information and booking, please contact the Organiser (FBRT).
Photo: Tilman2007. Wikimedia Commons: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

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.

Bacon, Author of the Modern World?
2026-04-09 18:00 - 21:00 | St Michael’s Church, St Michael’s Street, St Albans, Herts., England, St Michael's Church, St Michael's Street,, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 4SL, United Kingdom
An evening exploration with Mark Rylance & Peter Dawkins.
Sir Francis Bacon died on the 9th April 1626. Join Mark Rylance and Peter Dawkins on the same day 400 years later to reflect on his life and contribution to the world as we know it today.
Mark and Peter will be exploring Bacon as a polymath and playwright, and offering a fresh examination of Bacon and the famous Shakespeare question.
They will discuss the legacy of Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam of Verulam, Viscount St Alban; his impact on the modern world, the ongoing debate into his authorship of the Shakespeare’s works, the meaningfulness of the titles given him, and his burial in St Michael’s Church and the monument commemorating him.
An interval drink is included, and proceeds from the event will go towards the restoration fund for Bacon’s memorial in St Michael’s chancel.
Tickets available via Eventbrite (£33.22).
This evening event will be preceded by a St Alban mini-pilgrimage from St Alban’s Cathedral to St Michael’s Church, from 3pm to 4pm (i.e. 15:00-16:00), to celebrate the two saints called Alban.

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).

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, the Second St Alban: The Bacon Memorial & Rosy Cross Navigation Line
2026-07-04 10:30 - 17:30 | St Michael’s Church Parish Centre, St Michael’s Street, St Albans, AL3 4SL, England.
A special day event led by Peter Dawkins.
During the day we will discuss why Francis Bacon was given the two titles Baron Verulam of Verulam and Viscount St Alban, and delve into the profound symbolism of Francis Bacon’s Memorial in St Michael’s Church, St Albans.
Peter will also reveal what he knows about the Gemini Rosy Cross Navigation Line that traverses the Atlantic Ocean to Oak Island, Nova Scotia, and Jamestown, Virginia, and originates from two places: (1) St Alban’s Shrine in St Alban’s cathedral, passing via St Michael’s Church, St Albans, and (2) Bacon’s Mount in Prae Woods, Gorhambury, passing via Old Gorhambury House.
Peter will also show how this navigation line links with a vast ‘Solomon’s Temple’ geometric ley line structure laid out by early colonists who were Freemasons, together with American indigenous elders who made friends with the Freemasons. Peter will also explain how he was given this information and a map showing the geometric structure.
Besides talks and discussions on these matters, the idea is to visit St Michael’s Church and Bacon’s Mount, to see if we can experience the Gemini Rosy Cross Navigation Line, which exists as a double ley line, hence the Gemini annotation. (Gemini is Latin for ‘Twins’.)
For information and booking, please contact the FBRT Secretary:
Email: sarah@fbrt.org.uk. Tel: 01295 678 623.

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.

Living the Beauty of Golden Friendship
2026-10-04 14:00 - 2026-10-10 12:00
Shakespeare Mystery in Sardinia
A hybrid mystery event, led by Peter & Sarah Dawkins & Jonathon Tod – part pilgrimage and part talks, attunements and sharing on Zoom, in which we shall play our parts as actors on the stage of the world.
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 2500-3000BC. 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

27 September 2026 – Zoom talk, ‘Sardinia, the Footprint of Divinity‘.
4-10 October 2026 – Sardinia pilgrimage.
1 November 2026 – Zoom meeting – general sharing and Samhain conclusion.

TWO TYPES OF PARTICIPANTS

Virtual pilgrims: attendees of Zoom talk and Zoom meeting, 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 Zoom meeting.

COST

Virtual pilgrims – £50 per person.
Sardinia pilgrims sharing in twinned or double rooms – £2,150 per person.
Sardinia pilgrims in single rooms – £2,600 per person.

All costs are inclusive of Zoom talk and Zoom meeting.
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 Connection between Hercules and Ophiuchus
2026-10-18 17:30 - 19:30
Talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins
Who is Hercules? Who is Ophiuchus? Why are they in the same zodiac sign of Scorpio?
In this talk on Zoom, Peter will give his insights into their deeper meanings and how they are connected with each of us.
The talk will be given in English, with German translation by Heidemarie Faldorf.
Time will be given after the talk for questions and answers.
Further information and booking on Zoence Academy website.
The picture is from ‘Urania’s Mirror; or. A View of the Heavens’, by Jehoshaphat Aspin, c.1825.

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.

Tetrahedral Pyramids in Francis Bacon’s Rosicrucian Work
2027-03-21 17:00 - 18:30
A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins explaining the use and symbolism of two tetrahedral 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 taken up by the Magian societies of Europe, especially by those in the German States, and spread abroad, first to North America, then to South America, and eventually to the whole world. It is a work that aims at reforming the world so as restore 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.
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 Bride-Gemini headpiece printed in the 1624 Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae by Gustavus Selenus, a pseudonym of Augustus II, the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
