Francis Bacon’s Founding Role in the Democratic Constitution of the USA
2026-07-04 10:30 - 17:30 (Europe/London) | 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.

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.
18 October 2026 – Zoom meeting – general sharing and 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.
