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Hi everyone , Yesterday, I came across the following article about Gorhambury . I have not even read it yet, but on the face of it, it seems very interesting. https://www.stalbanshistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1932_02_with_copyright_notice.pdf

Hi Eric, Great post and you are correct. York Place was the old name for Whitehall Palace that was changed after the fall of its previous occupent Wolsey, and they are I believe as shown on the engraving. This makes the statement by Bacon's chaplain William Rawley in his biography all the more intriguing when he states that Bacon was born in York House OR York Place. Rawley obviously knew the difference, one being the old name for the royal palace, York Place and the other being the Lord Keeper Bacon's residence York House. Curiously Bacon mentions this (as a clue?) in his Henry VIII "You must no more call it York Place—that is past: For since the Cardinal fell that title's lost; 'Tis now the King's, and called Whitehall." Shakespeare's Henry VIII., Act IV., sc. 1.

A tour de force, A.P. You bring clarity to complexity. I can't help but feel inspired by the purposefulness of the writing.

A Phoenix will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that York Place is the old name for Whitehall. This change of name is referenced in one of the Shakespeare plays, but I forget which one... I'm fairly sure that part of Whitehall Palace/York Place is visible on the extreme left of the picture. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

I only have the Burton-Taylor film to go on, but it's amazing how passionately alive the two central characters in the play are, and to think of SFB in his early sixties revising this work of his youth into a timeless tussle between male and female archetypes. Wow, indeed!

Hi A. Phoenix. Thanks for putting two and two together and naming Ubaldini as the calligrapher who designed Lady Lumley's book of the Gorhambury sententiae. Makes a lot of sense. You really are on the cutting edge of Baconian research.

In this scene, the language is so easy to understand. No pensive philosophy or classical references - rather, a matter-of-fact evocation of domestic servants in a flap prior to the arrival of their demanding master.

Enthralling... I can't see where this is going but I'm enjoying getting there.

Alan Green gave a similar talk in 2014 in which he elaborates on his "sonnets pyramid" which is not as sophisticated as Rob's. The relevant bit is from 2.50 - 6.00. Apologies if this has been posted before. Who is Alan W Green? https://www.resonancescience.org/alan-green

More York Place Information In keeping with his Rosicrucian master Dr Rawley delivers as much of the truth as he is able via a Baconian method of delivery, at once enigmatical and disclosed, or simultaneously concealed and revealed, that can be read by those possessing a penetrating intellect or eyes to see, to enable them to pierce the carefully constructed veil, a method he employs in the very first sentence of his Life of Bacon: FRANCIS BACON, the Glory, of his Age, and Nation; The Adorner, and Ornament, of Learning; Was born, in York House, or York Place, in the Strand; On the 22th Day of January; In the Year of our Lord, 1560. His Father, was that Famous Counseller, to Queen Elizabeth; The Second Propp of the Kingdome, in his Time; Sir Nicholas Bacon, Knight, Lord Keeper, of the Great Seal, of England; A Lord, of Known Prudence, Sufficiency, Moderation, and Integrity. His Mother, was Anne Cook, one of the Daughters, of Sir Anthony Cooke; unto whom, the Erudition, of King Edward, the Sixth, had been committed: A choyce Lady, and Eminent, for Piety, Vertue, and Learning; Being exquisitely Skilled, for a Woman, in the Greek, and Latin, Tongues. These being the Parents, you may easily imagine, what the Issue, was like to be; Having had, whatsoever, Nature, or Breeding, could put into Him. It will be observed that curiously Dr Rawley pointedly says that Bacon was born at York House or York Place, which are two separate buildings, and as he was perfectly aware carried absolutely different meanings and implications for the filial antecedents concerning the secret life of the man who had entrusted him with them. In Elizabethan England the mansion York House on the Strand was the official residence of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England the office first held in the Elizabethan reign by Sir Nicholas Bacon who occupied it for some twenty years from 1559 until his death in 1579. The York House mansion was set within grounds adjacent to those of York Place (now known to us as the Palace of Whitehall comprising government buildings including the Cabinet Office and Ministry of Defence), Queen Elizabeth’s Palace, the main residence of English monarchs from the early sixteenth century. York Place was originally the official residence of the Archbishops of York from the middle of the thirteenth century. It was rebuilt and extensively expanded in the fifteenth century by Cardinal Wolsey and rivalled Lambeth Palace and surpassed the king’s royal palaces as the greatest house in London. When Henry VIII removed Wolsey from power in 1530 (depicted by Bacon in his Shakespeare play Henry VIII) he acquired York Place as a replacement for the broken-down fire-ravaged Palace of Westminster as his main London residence, and afterwards re-named it Whitehall. He spent a vast fortune on redesigning and greatly extending York Place during his lifetime turning it into the largest palace in Europe with somewhere in the region of one thousand five hundred rooms. After their first secret wedding which took place on 14 November 1532 Henry VIII formally married his second wife Anne Boleyn on 25 January 1533 at the Palace and died there in 1547. On her accession in 1558 Elizabeth inherited York Palace and on appointing Sir Nicholas Bacon as her Lord Keeper of the Great Seal he moved into the adjacent York House in the following year. Of course, Dr Rawley who lived and spent several years with Bacon at York House when he was Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor of England knew the difference between York House and York Place, the royal residence of Queen Elizabeth, and was privy to the secret of his royal birth. He had gone as close to the heels of truth as he might dare by directly suggesting there was some kind of mystery regarding his birth by pointing to York Place, the royal palace of Queen Elizabeth, secret royal mother of Francis Bacon.

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Really interesting post(s), Luis. Thanks!

Handwriting The handwriting of Francis Bacon on the outer cover of the Bacon-Shakespeare Manuscript (formerly known as the Northumberland Manuscript) which originally contained his two Shakespeare plays Richard II and Richard III. #FrancisBacon #Shakespeare #Handwriting #Rosicrucians #Freemasons

The Taming of the Shrew - A Bacon Family Affair The radically altered version of the play revised and amended for the publication of the First Folio when virtually all those persons alluded to in play were dead (with the exception of the ill and dying Sir Nicholas Bacon Junior who died in 1624), was in part a hilarious practical family joke by a philosopher-poet who could never pass by a jest. Lampooning the Bacon family scribe Petruccio Ubaldini and his conceivably real or imagined designs on Katherine Cooke Killigrew, with the part of Bianca modelled on her sister Lady Anne Bacon, and Petruccio’s father given the name of Antonio after Anthony Bacon, two of whose servants had the same Christian names as his elder half-brothers Nicholas and Nathaniel Bacon. In the final analysis, The Taming of the Shrew is a Bacon family affair, written by the supreme family poet, Francis Bacon. Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45576461/Francis_Bacons_Unrecognised_Cambridge_Manuscript_and_The_Taming_of_The_Shrew Video: https://youtu.be/EXMUhRzrOxw #TamingoftheShrew #Cambridge #FrancisBacon #Shakespeare

Family Gathering He we have in this scene a very special gathering of characters. The swaggering and ludicrous Peturuccio, modelled on the calligrapher and scribe Petruccio Ubaldini, who was commissioned by Sir Nicholas Bacon to produce the illustrated manuscript of the sententiae on the gallery walls at Gorhambury for Lady Lumely and commissioned by Lady Bacon to copy out in fine Italian script the Cultivated Cosmographical Garden composed by a young Francis Bacon prefaced by Greek and Latin verses from herself her other Cooke sisters, including her sister Katherine, refracted through the character of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew. In the play where Katherine had a sister named Bianca, from which we can anagrammatically derive AN BAC, a contraction of Anne Bacon, the Christian name of whose son, Anthony Bacon, is used in the play for Petruccio’s father. And if all this was not enough, two of Petruccio’s servants are named Nicholas and Nathaniel the Christian names of Bacon’s elder half-brother Sir Nicholas and Sir Nathaniel Bacon, from Sir Nicholas Bacon’s first marriage, whose elite social standing as part of the self-important landed gentry is brilliantly subverted by our supreme poet presenting and portraying them as being from the lower classes depicted as lowly berated servants serving their master Petruccio at his country house. Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45576461/Francis_Bacons_Unrecognised_Cambridge_Manuscript_and_The_Taming_of_The_Shrew Video: https://youtu.be/EXMUhRzrOxw #TamingoftheShrew #Cambridge #FrancisBacon #Shakespeare

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45576461/Francis_Bacons_Unrecognised_Cambridge_Manuscript_and_The_Taming_of_The_Shrew Video: https://youtu.be/EXMUhRzrOxw #TamingoftheShrew #Cambridge #FrancisBacon #Shakespeare

Following the wedding of Petruccio and Katherine we meet these servants in Act 4 Scene I at Petruccio’s country house. His servant Grumio arrives at Petruccio’s house complaining how cold it is and prepares to light a fire as they and the other servants prepare for the arrival of their master and new mistress. Grumio instructs Curtis to make sure that the servants all look smart and are correctly adorned in their uniforms. When the newly wedded couple arrive Petruccio is angry his servants are not outside to meet him and immediately begins to insult and abuse them. He orders his servants to bring him supper and continues to act rudely and aggressively. He kicks one of the servants and rails at the others as he continues to verbally and physical abuse those around him, among them Nathaniel and Nicholas: Paper: https://www.academia.edu/45576461/Francis_Bacons_Unrecognised_Cambridge_Manuscript_and_The_Taming_of_The_Shrew Video: https://youtu.be/EXMUhRzrOxw #TamingoftheShrew #Cambridge #FrancisBacon #Shakespeare

Is York Place next door to York House? I think I remember that they were near each other, or something like that.

Its very interesting.

Great summary - so helpful. Thanks A. Phoenix!

Hmmm, you say, "...no causal connection..." Would you be open to the concept that on some level, everything is connected? Maybe not casually, but on a deeper level. I could say the connection is on a spiritual level, or merely scientific quantum entanglement. Whatever it is, we may be more connected to and through time and space than we can imagine. Leonardo DeVinci said, "Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." There are religions and philosophies where achieving a state of an interconnected awareness with the Universe and everything in it is the goal. "Nirvana is often described as the realization of the true nature of reality, which is empty of inherent existence and dependent on causes and conditions. In other words, everything is connected and nothing exists independently." And there are religions and philosophies where everything is separate, and not connected at all. I remember hearing somewhere years ago that from the time we are born we are learning to become separate from everything else. The separation is an illusion we have until we die. Synchronicity is a ton of fun, that is for sure. It doesn't matter whether things are connected or not for the person experiencing it as real. "Right place, right time" is what I tend to say. As an evolutionary skill the ability to make connections is how we survive. We have to connect everything, make some sense of it all, and find the best path through it all. For the serious scientific Baconians, let me share a definition: Quantum physics: a branch of science that studies the nature and behavior of matter and energy at the smallest scales. It reveals that everything in the universe is interconnected and interdependent, and that reality is not as solid or stable as it appears. It also challenges the notions of causality, locality, and identity that underlie the illusion of separation

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40274/40274-h/40274-h.htm#textVI "Maps of Old London" by Adam and Charles Black, 1908 The detail above plainly shows the close proximity of Whitehall (York Place) and York House. 1543. Note the Isle of Dogs on the right projecting from the south side of the Thames. 1543. See if you can spot No. 47, "St John's Hospital".

Dear Friends, In this new topic I will talk about something that may be a bit controversial: the numerical (cryptographic substitution) cipher that was used by the Bavarian Illuminati. I recently started a thread on Twitter about this subject, but as Twitter puts limits on the size of the posts, it isn't always the best way to communicate our ideas, particularly if we have many things to say about it and we don't have that blue checkmark in front of our username. 😅 So... here it goes. In 2008 I found that the Bavarian Illuminati used a curious cryptographic substitution cipher (in their "Novice" degree) in which the letters of the alphabet were replaced by their corresponding values, so that a word, name or phrase could be concealed from the uninitiated. For example, the name "Spartacus" (Weishaupt's alias in the Illuminati Order) would have been written as "18.15.12.17.19.12.10.20.18." using this cipher. (From "A History of Secret Societies" by Arkon Daraul) As you may have noticed, this cipher is adapted to the Elizabethan English alphabet with 24 letters (since I=J and U=V). According to Terry Melanson in "Perfectibilists - The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati", page 230: «This cypher might very well have been composed solely in the mind of Weishaupt, but the similarity to a known Rosicrucian cypher used by Francis Bacon, and his "Rosicrosse Literary Society", is too close to ignore. It seems to be a cross between the "Simple Cypher" and the "Kaye Cypher" (1) (see "Numerological Cypher Chart" at SirBacon.org, URL: http://www.sirbacon.org/links/doddnum.html). Perhaps it was used in Freemasonry as well, for the Illuminati were not using the cypher until after its members — Weishaupt included — began joining Masonic Lodges.» (1) In my view it would be more correct to state that it seems to be a cross between the "Simple" and the "Reverse" cipher, since in the cipher of the Illuminati the first half of the alphabet (A-M) follows a reverse order, while the second half (N-Z) follows the simple/ordinal sequence. When I found this cipher I was amazed to know that no one was using it. I mean... at that time I was reading so many theories about the "evil Illuminati who control the world", while at the same time I thought it was more than surprising that no one, not even the most ferocious conspiracy theorists, were giving it the slightest attention. There were many rumors that the Great Seal of the United States contained "Illuminati" symbology as well, and yet, no one was trying to "decode" it with the numerical cipher of the Illuminati. How strange was that? So I had this 'rebellious' thought, even though I was always extremely skeptic about most theories about the Illuminati: "dammit, no one is talking about this cipher — how about if I use it to decode the mottos and phrases contained in the Great Seal?". I say this was a 'rebellious' thought for the simple reason that the numerical cipher of the Illuminati was never used — as far as I know — as a cipher of Gematria, adding the values of the letters in a word or phrase, but as a cryptographic substitution cipher, replacing the letters by their corresponding values. However, that was precisely what was the most tempting about this cipher. What would happen if we used it as a cipher of Gematria? So I gave it a try. And I was completely overwhelmed with what I saw. 👀 There's an immensity of 13's in the Great Seal of the United States: — 13 stars above the eagle; — 13 steps on the pyramid; — 13 letters in "ANNUIT COEPTIS"; — 13 letters in "E PLURIBUS UNUM"; — 13 vertical bars on the shield; — etc. You get the idea. Now... only two mottos in the Great Seal have exactly 13 letters. And coincidentally, their value according to the Illuminati cipher is 169, or 13×13. — "ANNUIT COEPTIS" (13 letters) = 169 = 13×13 — "E PLURIBUS UNUM" (13 letters) = 169 = 13×13 The motto "IN GOD WE TRUST" has 12 letters and sums 168. That motto is exactly above a large "ONE" at the centre of the reverse of the 1 Dollar bill, and if we add "ONE" (i.e. 1) to 12 and 168, we will have 13 and 169, which is 13×13. There are exactly 13 instances of the letter N in the reverse side of the 1 Dollar bill, and in the Illuminati cipher, "N"=13: Count all the letters on the reverse side of the 1 Dollar bill: — "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" = 24 letters — five times the word "ONE", one at each corners and one at the centre = 15 letters — "ONE DOLLAR" = 9 letters — "IN GOD WE TRUST" = 12 letters — "ANNUIT COEPTIS" = 13 letters — "NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM" = 17 letters — "MDCCLXXVI" = 9 letters — "THE GREAT SEAL" = 12 letters — "OF THE UNITED STATES" = 17 letters — "E PLURIBUS UNUM" = 13 letters Total sum: 24+15+9+12+13+17+9+12+17+13 = 141 Apparently there wouldn't be anything of interest to say about this number, if we would limit ourselves to associate any of this to the Bavarian Illuminati only. And that's precisely where it gets interesting. In fact, I only started studying the works of Francis Bacon, the Shakespeare authorship question, and Rosicrucianism, after I found the Illuminati cipher and applied it to the Great Seal of the United States. Besides, there's a whole riddle around the life of Sir Francis Bacon, Rosicrucianism and the Illuminati that I find most curious: — Athena Parthenos, the Virgin Spear-Shaker; — Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen; — All the numerical codes connecting Bacon, Shakespeare and Athena; — The use of "Athenian" (i.e. related to Athena) symbolism by Bacon, Rosicrucians, the Illuminati, etc. — The US "Statue of Liberty", which officially represents Libertas, the Goddess of Freedom, but I suspect that has a strong connection to Athena, the Goddess of Reason; — The Georgia Guidestones, with its anonymous Rosicrucian "sponsor" (R. C. Christian) and its mentions to an "Age of Reason"; — Bacon's Great Instauration, related to the all-important process of the Perfectibility of Man; — All the Baconian-inspired symbolism in Freemasonry; — The connection of the USA to Bacon's New Atlantis... Eventually, studying the works of Francis Bacon also led me to an inevitable conclusion: what if there were traces of a Baconian-Rosicrucian-Illuminati "conspiracy" to make the United States the "New Atlantis", and those traces could be found with the numerical cipher of the Illuminati? Just think a bit about it: the Illuminati used a cipher that was a cross between the Baconian "Simple" and "Reverse" ciphers, so why not using it in this same context? So what makes the number 141 relevant in this case? It is in fact extremely relevant, for the simple fact that, applying the Illuminati cipher, it matches the value of "FRANCIS BACON", "NEW ATLANTIS", and also... "LET THERE BE LIGHT". (!!!) * * * In my Baconian studies, I also found that there was a Newfoundland stamp which reads "Lord Bacon - The Guiding Spirit in Colonization Scheme". Curiously, this is a postage stamp corresponding to Six Cents — which reminds me Lord Bacon's ultimate goal of the Perfectibility of Man through a mention to the Six Days' Work in New Atlantis. Remember that, in mathematical terms, 6 is often called a "perfect" number. Note too that there are two numbers "6" and one word "six" (in "Six Cents"). Maybe there's nothing to this, but... at this time I'm not quite sure of anything. 😅 Also: "GUIDING SPIRIT OF COLONIZATION SCHEME" has 33 letters (="BACON" in the Simple cipher) and sums 349 in the Illuminati cipher, matching the value of "FAMA FRATERNITATIS ROSAE CRUCIS". Likewise, "LORD BACON" adds to 102 which matches "GREAT SEAL". As for 157's and 287's that I found with the Illuminati cipher, I'll leave just a few: — "VIRGINIA COMPANIE" = 157 ("companie" is the old spelling of "company" in Elizabethan English) — "SALOMON'S HOUSE" = 157 (as it is spelled - amongst a variety of other alternative spellings - in Bacon's "New Atlantis") — "UNITED STATES OF ATLANTIS" = 287 (a play on words, viewing the U.S.A. as Francis Bacon's New Atlantis) And as a bonus... note that in the United States' Declaration of Independence, in the paragraph starting with "We, therefore" there are three phrases that are written with a different letter type: — "WE, THEREFORE" = 132 = "SIX, SIX SIX" = "NEW JERUSALEM" — "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" = 252 = "PERFECT, PERFECT, PERFECT" — "FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES" = 287 (nothing to add!) What are your opinions about this? Too paranoid? LOL. Or did you see any value in these findings? L.G.

I don’t know if it means anything (?)but I immediately recognised the outfit on Nicholas Bacon in this publication, to the negative picture of the Shakespeare Funerary Monument that I found yesterday, which we know is from before 1896. Look at the lapels and buttons. Different collars (and face!)

Castalian Spring has been writing a series of essays on Bacon's Essays for some time, at Blogging Bacon, on Medium. There are two new ones as of yesterday (May 27). Please share with others who are interested. Thanks! https://medium.com/essaying-bacon

Well, I apologize. I just accidentally deleted two comments with one click: the "empty" comment--which I was trying to get rid of--and the one responding to Light-of-Truth's recent comment on Castalian Stream's blogpost on Bacon and mindfulness--which I meant to keep. Basically, I was just suggesting that Bacon's "maze metaphor" was very apt, for it can seem to a person who is stuck ruminating on problems that there is no solution, like a person lost in a maze who can't see around corners or over walls (like a corn maze, perhaps, or Daedelus in the mythological labyrinth). That person's vision is narrow. I thought Patch Adams had good advice when he said, "If you focus on the problem, you'll never see past it to the solution." (in the movie "Patch Adams," with Patch played by Robin Williams). If you say "mindfulness," people can relate. I like how Castalian Spring makes Bacon's wisdom relevant to readers today. (Regarding Castalian Spring's essay, "Francis Bacon on Staying Present" (based on Bacon's essay, "Of the Moderation of Cares"). Thanks, Light-of-Truth, for taking the time to read it and comment!

Here's a detail showing the proximity of the Bacon residence (York House) and Robert Devereux's home (Essex House):

The book jacket designers of the Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works chose a painting of London seen from the top of Southwark Cathedral by an anonymous, possibly Dutch artist around 1630. This painting resides in the Museum of London. https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/103403.html The painting is based on an engraving by Claes Janszoon Visscher (1587 – 1652) who was a Dutch engraver, mapmaker, and publisher. Whereas the painting uses distorted perspective, Visscher's panoramic print (1616) gives us a much better idea of Francis Bacon's London. The image is just under 15 MB so best to download to view it at full size.

Hi Kate No luck in finding a good shot of the windows behind the monument. And no idea when the windows were installed. The Seven Ages windows appear to be NOT directly behind and above the monument, but further to the left (?). This article was all I could find: http://theshakespeareblog.com/2014/08/holy-trinitys-american-tributes-to-shakespeare-in-glass/ But as you can see, these are different to the "Shakespeare" windows: The information about these windows must be there somewhere...

Francis Bacon’s Handwriting found in an early manuscript version of the Shakespeare play Henry IV. Paper: https://www.academia.edu/85225460/Francis_Bacon_and_the_so_called_Dering_Manuscript_of_Henry_IV_the_Unique_and_Earliest_Known_Manuscript_of_a_Shakespeare_play_or_the_Holy_Grail_of_Shakespeare_Scholarship_a_Shakespeare_Manuscript_c_1596_Originating_from_Bacons_Literary_Workshop_and_Corrected_in_his_Hand Video: https://youtu.be/-7nzkrGEKeI

Great Work, Kate.

Yes, thank you, Tom. Could you also post the link to your ‘Wolfpack’ interview and, are there any plans to offer your screenwriting course online?

Luis, try to distance yourself from the negative word "conspiracy", that is not an accurate concept in my mind. Bacon's Rosicrucian plan is amazingly beautiful, his New Atlantis is to become a perfect manifestation of his dream. All of our dreams come true. Many will call it evil or be afraid of the numbers, those who are profane, in the darkness. Power hungry and greedy will always fight the Light. The United States was designed to be the New Atlantis. We are still working out the details and hope it turns out right. It's crazy today, hope we still have time to secure it. I am one who is on the Rosicrucian team of Bacon, using my number skills and my "Will" to help every human being and every living thing on Earth to thrive in Peace and Love. 141? I was born in 1960, the first line of Sonnet 141: http://www.light-of-truth.com/pyramid-GMT.php#Sonnet141 LET THERE BE LIGHT!

Sure! The text I quoted is just a footnote, but the main text that footnote refers to is this: In fact I forgot to mention the original source of the numerical cipher, Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens, where the cipher appears like this: "The well-known cipher of the Order of the Illuminati" There are slight variations of this cipher where some letters seem to have been exchanged, as in Der Ächte Illuminat: Comparing these two cipher tables, some details can be noticed: namely that (1) "Z" and "X" seem to have been exchanged in the second table, and (2) the letter "V" is given the value 21, while in the first table it would be given the value 20, according to the traditional tables for the 24-letter alphabet. In fact, after searching the publicly available documents of the Illuminati and looking through many instances of ciphered words/phrases, I noticed a consistent pattern in which "U" and "V" were always given the value 20, "W" was given the value 21, and "X" and "Z" were given the values 22 and 24, so it is the first table that should be taken as reference for the cipher of the Illuminati. Anyway... there's something else about this second table. 🧐 Notice the middle column: in the Illuminati cipher, the letters "C-B-A-N-O" have consecutive values, since the first half of the alphabet follows a reverse numerical order. How curious is that?!

BAC is 33, I like that. F BACON is 66. I like that too. We who travel the number hints need not ever think of paranoia or sanity. Just accept yourself that we are bouncing in waves in a large mysterious ocean lost at sea in some ways, like the dolphin swimming free with joy. Our purpose is to "peek" beyond the veil. 🙂

"We tend, in the moment, to see the entire world through the lens of our worries and concerns. In doing this, the whole world for us becomes coloured, or darkened, by our concerns: a fearful world, full of potential danger, an angry world, full of outrages, etc. This immersion in our affects also suggests a “certain perpetuity” to our worries: they seem enormous to us right now, like we couldn’t see out of them." It is a great article, but I will take the other side and say that some of us see the world with eyes that receive the beauty and magic of life. That said, even we manic happy-clappy souls have stressors to overcome. 🙂 https://medium.com/essaying-bacon/francis-bacon-on-staying-present-b3099d047ae7 Don’t we all do this? Bacon suggests already what modern psychology confirms: unproductive rumination, both product and stimulus to anxiety, is very common, seemingly as much in the 16th-17th centuries as today: for who is there amongst us that cares no more than suffices either to resolve of a course or to conclude upon an impossibility, and does not still chew over the same things, and tread a maze in the same thoughts, and vanishes in them without issue or conclusion …? It’s a good question. The answer would direct us to people who either do resolve upon a course of action, and then put their mind at rest, or else explore all alternative responses, to such an extent that it becomes clear that there is no possible issue or conclusion. It is a good question. The answer above does not convince me so much. "...there is no possible issue or conclusion?" Huh??

I've been trying to match the ruins to the old drawings and engravings. Its not easy. This shows some in-between: http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/places-s/st-albans/gorhambury.htm EDIT: We are looking at this place.

What an incredible link Eric. Perhaps you could find out its whereabouts by asking them at Gorhambury, it was obviously there at one time. Not a very welcome prospect for Stratfordians which reminds us of the 8 Shakespeare Quartos that were found there as well. See Lawrence's great article on this: https://sirbacon.org/links/gorhambury.html

Shakespeare's London: 'Oldest' map of Elizabethan era English capital featuring Tower of London and original St Paul's Cathedral is discovered in house clearance https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9529109/Elizabethan-era-map-London-featuring-Tower-London-discovered-house-clearance.html

Earliest Elizabethan map of London found https://deveresociety.co.uk/earliest-elizabethan-map-of-london-found/ Apologies for this reproduction being in left and right halves. Hope you can download, zoom in and 'fly' over 1575 London. Cartographers: Francois de Braun, Georg & Franz Hogenberg. Londinium ferocissimi Angliae Regni metropolis This derivative of Braun and Hogenberg's 1572 map of London was published in Belle Forest's "La Cosographie universelle de tout le bonds". The map's title features at the top of the plate, flanked by Tudor and city arms. Descriptive notes in French appear at the bottom left and bottom right, with figures of merchants at the bottom centre. The map is similar in detail to the "Copperplate Map", the earliest printed map of London of which no complete copy survives. Merchant ships, cranes, mills, bull and bear baiting pits, the large tennis courts at Westminster and the stags in the gardens, elegant churches and livery halls testify to the high quality of life enjoyed by its citizens.