God's Final Battle - 6
Francis Bacon And The Secret Orders
CHAPTER 6
FRANCIS BACON AND THE SECRET ORDERS
Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace!
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
Of all the characters found in the last thousand years of our world’s histories, Sir Francis Bacon is among the most enigmatic. Historians widely agree that he is the father of modern science. Yet it is what the historians do not say about him that will be of greatest interest to us here.
Bacon was born in the year 1561. It is clear from a careful discerning of a number of important sources that Bacon was in fact of royal birth, being a Tudor rather than a Bacon. He was the bastard son of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, the first Earl of Leicester.
The history books will not divulge this truth to you, yet it is the most logical conclusion based on the sum of the evidence we have in hand. For one, there is significant evidence that Queen Elizabeth was pregnant in late 1560 and early 1561. Additionally, there are many extant hints at Bacon’s true parentage. For example, Bacon’s first biography, written by Pierre Amboise and published in 1631, states that his ancestors had “left so many marks of their greatness in history that honour and dignity seem to have been at all times the spoil of his family.”[26] Bacon was further described as being “born in the purple and brought up with the expectation of a great career.” Born in the purple was an old English idiom referring to royal birth.
What’s more, at his wedding in 1606, Bacon was dressed from top to toe in purple.[27] Such attire would have been strictly reserved by law to the royal family of England. Without doubt, the British royalty and other high-class individuals of Bacon’s day seemed to know something about the man’s provenance which has been lost to us.
And yet, a royal birth was far from the only secret which Sir Francis Bacon would bear throughout his life.
At the age of fourteen, after learning of his true parentage, the young Francis had an encounter which would forever change him. He recounts the tale in his own secret personal cipher, as deciphered by Orville W. Owen and quoted here by Peter Dawkins, founder-principal of the Francis Bacon Research Trust.
And now it is time for us to tell you how we found the way to conceal these ciphers.
One night, when a youth, while we were reading the Holy Scriptures of our great God, something compelled us to turn to the Proverbs and read that passage of Solomon, the King, wherein he affirmeth “that the glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of a king is to find it out.” And we thought how odd and strange it read, and attentively looked into the subtlety of the passage.
As we read and pondered the wise words and lofty language of this precious book of love, there comes a flame of fire which fills all the room and obscures our eyes with its celestial glory. And from it swells a heavenly voice that, lifting our mind above her human bounds, ravisheth our soul with its sweet, heavenly music. And thus it spake:
“My son, fear not, but take thy fortunes and thy honours up. Be that thou knowest thou art, then thou art as great as that thou fearest. Thou art not what thou seemest. At thy birth the front of heaven was full of fiery shapes; the goats ran from the mountains, and the herds were strangely clamorous to the freighted fields. These signs have marked thee extraordinary, and all the courses of thy life will show thou art not in the roll of common men.
Where is the living, clipt in by the sea that chides the banks of England, Scotland and Wales, who will call thee pupil, or will read to thee? And bring him out that is but woman’s son, [who] will trace thee in the tedious ways of art and hold thee pace in deep experiment.
Be thou not, therefore, afraid of greatness, I charge thee. Some men become great by advancement, vain and favour of their prince; some have greatness thrust upon them by the world; and some achieve greatness by reason of their wit; for there is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to glorious fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries.
In such a sea thou art now afloat, and thou must take the current when it serves, or lose thy ventures. Thy fates open their hands to thee. Decline them not, but let thy blood and spirit embrace them, and climb the height of virtue’s sacred hill, where endless honour shall be made thy mead.
Remember that thou hast just read, that the Divine Majesty takes delight to hide His works, according to the innocent play of children, to have them found out. Surely for thee to follow the example of the Most High God cannot be censured?
Therefore put away any popular applause and, after the manner of Solomon the King, compose a history of thy times and fold it into enigmatical writings and cunning mixtures of the Theatre, mingled as the colours in a painter’s shell, and it will in due course of time be found.
For there shall be born in the world (not in years, but in ages) a man whose pliant and obedient mind we, of the supernatural world, will take special heed, by all possible endeavor, to frame and mould into a pipe for thy fingers to sound what stop thy please; and this man either led or driven, as we point the way, will yield himself a disciple of thine, and will search and seek out thy disordered and confused strings and roots with some peril and unsafety to himself.
– Peter Dawkins (The Great Vision)[28]
To the discerning mind, this encounter is full of statements latent with added meaning. It is safe to say that this heavenly voice was quite real, yet not from God. But regardless, this same spirit is what drove Bacon from that day onward to the mission which would become his life’s work.
At sixteen years old, Bacon was sent to Paris by the Queen, where he studied Egyptian and Greek philosophy, as well as the ancient esoteric mysteries and their ritual rites. Importantly, while in France, Bacon developed an admiration for the French language, which at the time was far more advanced than the primitive English of his native land. Here, too, Bacon was apparently initiated into the mysterious Order of the Knights Templar, marking the beginnings of his involvement with secret societies.
Upon his return to England, Bacon founded a secret literary society which would eventually bud forth into the Rosicrucian Order (a new secret society blending Christianity with occult mysticism). The literary society Bacon had formed around himself would become known as the Knights of the Helmet, thanks to a masque performed during the 1594 Christmas season which employed this name. The performance itself was a thinly veiled announcement of Bacon’s new secret order and their planned course of action; namely, attacking ignorance and defending truth and virtue (as they saw it).
As odd as it may sound to the common ear, it was the Order of the Knights of the Helmet, and primarily Lord Bacon himself, who would be responsible for the overwhelming majority (if not the entirety) of the works of the famed playwright William Shakespeare. I will provide a few key pieces of supporting evidence, but for a more thorough proof of this claim I recommend you visit the relevant end notes and especially that you make use of the body of knowledge found on The Francis Bacon Research Trust website.[29]
Now, you should know that Wikipedia, the most exacting arbiter of truth to be found in our modern age, labels this idea a fringe theory. Fair enough. But it is a fringe theory which happens to provide a much better explanation of the facts than the accepted tale we have been asked to swallow as a matter of history.
First of all, it is most curious to discover that the name Shakespeare first appeared as Shake-speare for the early plays which bore his name. The hyphen was later removed, most likely because it made the whole gambit a bit too obvious.
Bacon and his Knights of the Helmet had taken as their chief inspiration the Greek goddess Pallas Athena, the spear shaker. Her helmet (referenced in the name of their order) was a symbol of secrecy since it granted her invisibility when she slid it down into place. She was well known to the ancients as the goddess who shook her spear in the eyes of ignorance, which just so happens to be precisely what the Knights of the Helmet purported to do. What better way to secretly share their occult doctrines than from behind the mask of a man named Shakespeare, a clever play on the spear shaker herself. This was their chance to shake a lance at the dragon of ignorance.
What’s more, the famous first Shakespeare Folio – published seven years after Shakespeare’s death but three years before Bacon’s – contains a double A headpiece, which is a well-known signature of the mystery schools. The two A’s represent Apollo and Athena, the two primary muses, who were in fact both known as spear shakers in the classical tradition. For the AA hieroglyph, one of the letters was typically shaded, denoting a light and a dark side.
The nearly identical Gemini headpiece, containing the double A’s, is also found in a book which is among the acknowledged library of Sir Francis Bacon. This work was a combination of two books on Hebrew Grammar which was published in France around 1576, when the young Francis Bacon was studying there, and contained the Gemini headpiece on one of two extra pages at the back of the book.
Now, a courtier such as Sir Francis Bacon would have been well-versed in the intrigues of the royal court, while the Stratford man could hardly have been acquainted with such things. Furthermore, Bacon was an accomplished lawyer, and it has been noted by many a Shakespearian scholar that the plays are overflowing with legal phrases and explanations. And yet, not one legal error has been found throughout the works.
There is much evidence to the effect that Shakespeare was not capable, either from the standpoint of education or experience, of writing the documents with which the ages have credited him … the only known examples of his handwriting are the signatures on his will. Realizing this, the reader should ponder upon the remarkable fact that despite all the plays which he is supposed to have written, not one scrap of his handwriting is available, outside of scrawling signatures which show the writer to be absolutely unacquainted with the use of a pen.
— Manly P. Hall[30]
Hall’s arguments more or less hit the primary areas of doubt amongst many scholars. Mark Twain himself was convinced by such facts that the Stratford man simply could not have written the plays, and Twain was not the sort of man to state an opinion which had not been carefully thought out and researched. Twain found the legal knowledge betrayed by the plays especially telling. Walt Whitman and Sigmund Freud are among Twain’s contemporaries who likewise held to the Baconian view.
I myself also find the presence of multiple ciphers in the First Folio to be strong evidence for Baconian authorship. Several of the ciphers have been at least partly deciphered. And Lord Bacon’s cryptographic prowess is well known since he wrote about the practice in several places.
Bacon’s cipher number for himself was 33, and there are many Shakespearian anomalies associated with this number. An example is the 33 times the word “Francis” appears upon one single page of Henry IV, Part 1 in the Shakespeare Folio. As can be readily observed by a casual reading, achieving this end required the use of excessively awkward composition.
Interestingly, the Shakespeare plays had a massive impact in refining English for suitable future use on the world stage, adding some 20,000 new words to the nascent language. This advancement, of course, was right in line with Bacon’s own goals. A strong language would be needed for the future envisioned by Bacon and his enlightened companions.
In addition to being the father of Rosicrucianism, Bacon is also understood by those in the modern mystery schools to be the proper father of Freemasonry. And it was apparently Bacon himself who decided upon the 33 degrees of initiation within that Order.
Now, Bacon was not a Catholic. Instead, he wore a convenient protestant mask, but his intercourse with demons should make his true choice of sides rather clear. We must be discerning. Occult orders such as the Rosicrucians often seek to hide their true intentions beneath a shield of religious piety. And the Jesuits are perhaps the craftiest of all in this respect.
Despite his allegiance to protestant England, Bacon’s closest companion for much of his life was a Jesuit named Tobey Matthew. There is even a cipher in the Shakespeare Folio which reads “F. Bacon, Tobey, Two Alike;” a not-so-subtle nod to the friendship between the two men. Their close friendship began at Gray’s Inn, the home of the Knights of the Helmet, and so it appears that Matthew was a part of Bacon’s tight-knit literary society, at least for a time, though at this point in his life he was not yet a Catholic.
In 1604, Matthew traveled to France and Italy, becoming a Roman Catholic during the voyage and apparently a member of the Jesuit Order as well. He attempted to return to England in 1608 but could not make the oath of allegiance to King James, and so he was banished from the nation. He was allowed to return in 1617 and he stayed for a time with Bacon, translating some of his works into Italian.
In a 1623 letter to Bacon, Tobey (now back on the continent) wrote, “The most prodigious wit that I knew of my nation, and of this side of the sea, is of your Lordship’s name, though he be known by another.”
Now, at their heart, all the secret orders are Luciferean, doing the bidding of their dark lord. And so, Rosicrucians and Freemasons and Jesuits and Illuminati are not all that different in the end. There are many paths to Satan, but only one to God. Still, that is not my primary point here. Instead, I mean simply to make plain the connection between Bacon and the Jesuits. For it may prove to be of importance as we examine other details along the path of history leading to our own present day.
The early seventeenth century saw the colonization of the New World begin in earnest. Bacon very much played a role in this effort, though he did not visit the continent himself. Instead, he worked from England to seed the fertile soil of America with members of the secret societies, the keepers of the mysteries. A Newfoundland six cent stamp from 1910 acknowledges Bacon as the “Guiding Spirit in Colonization Scheme” of 1610.
Bacon understood the ancient plan for the new continent – a topic we will uncover in the following chapter – and its importance for the philosophic commonwealth of nations envisioned by all the many seekers of man’s wisdom. And perhaps it was primarily for this reason that he grasped the existential importance of his mission to refine and reform the English language. For it was to be the language of not only the New World but also the New Atlantis.
Bacon even went so far as to write a novel – apparently never completed, though there are whispers that the occult societies have the rest of it – on his vision for the new society. The work was published after his death as The New Atlantis: Or, Voyage to the Land of the Rosicrucians. The scientist in him was able to see through time and glimpse the technologies that would arise in the New World; buildings half a mile high, flying machines, advanced medicines, and more. The accuracy of prediction is uncanny. Or perhaps he was merely given glimpses of old technologies from the original Atlantis which were planned to be rebirthed one last time at the end of the age? We cannot know for sure.
From the day of the muse’s visitation, Bacon labored for the seemingly singular purpose of accomplishing the mission which had been declared to him. He stewarded the occult mysteries through his Rosicrucian and Freemasonic Orders, both of which would cast their seeds upon the shores of the New World. And through his legendary plays he shook more than just a lance at the dragon of ignorance, though all was accomplished from beneath Pallas Athena’s helmet of invisibility.
Curiously, King James I referred to Bacon in correspondence by the names Solomon and Apollo. The muse, we may recall, had instructed Bacon to imitate King Solomon. But what of Apollo? Is the use of this name to be taken as mere coincidence?
Whatever the case, Bacon was a man of mythic proportions. He channeled Pallas Athena through the bard that would become his alter ego. And he was in many ways a forerunner for the soon-coming Apollo, heralding the New Atlantis across the sea which was to be his kingdom.