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SUMMARY:Francis Bacon’s Founding Role in the Democratic Constitution of the USA
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDuring 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. \nWe 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. \nWe 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. \nWe 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. \nWe 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. \nFor information and booking\, please contact the FBRT Secretary:\nEmail: sarah@fbrt.org.uk. Tel: 01295 678 623.
URL:https://www.fbrt.org.uk/event/francis-bacons-founding-role-in-the-democratic-constitution-of-the-usa/
LOCATION:St Michael’s Parish Centre\, St Michael’s Street\, St Albans\, Herts\, England.
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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