Bacon-Shakespeare Secret Republican Father of the Modern World

[Rob at 007]

Read the new fascinating article on SirBacon.org's What's New page by A. Phoenix!

"Both Bacon and Shakespeare (obviously treated separately by orthodox scholars) have very largely been presented as conservative political thinkers whereas more recently several modern scholars have finally begun to partly recognise the republican themes running through both the canons, which completely revolutionises and transforms our understanding of the first philosopher-poet of the modern world."

A. Phoenix Archives - Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning - SirBacon.org

[A Phoenix]

Hi Rob,

Writing the essay on Lord Bacon the secret republican father of the United States of America and the rest of the modern world, who by secret engines with his Rosicrucian-Freemasonry Brotherhood are set on the universal reformation of the whole world, was a very emotional experience and your kind and generous response heightened that emotion. 

The Tempest which opens the Shakespeare First Folio is a thinly disguised dramatic portrayal of the founding of the New World and his utopian manifesto the New Atlantis (or, Land of the Rosicrucians) the philosophical-scientific blueprint for what became the United States of America, the first modern republican-democracy and leader of the free world. 

It was this moment led by Bacon-Shakespeare, Brother of the Rosy Cross, that represents a demarcation, a  crucial before and after point in history-the Bacon-Shakespeare moment, that forever changed the future direction and destiny of mankind. 

When this is finally openly and fully revealed to the rest of humankind Bacon will rise again phoenix-like and his fame and greatness will spread to each and every corner of the globe-and we, our children, and our children's children, will honour his name, and bless heaven. 

Edited May 7, 2022 by A Phoenix

[A Phoenix]

                                     FRANCIS BACON-SHAKESPEARE FATHER OF THE MODERN REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC WESTERN WORLD

In his recent masterly and groundbreaking edition of Bacon’s History of Henry VII Professor Weinberger reveals its importance to the rise of modern republicanism and the politics of progress which ingeniously presents a picture of a modern democratic state that now characterises the western hemisphere and much of the rest of the world:    

The History is a window to the spirit of modern politics and government…secularism, utilitarianism, republicanism, and democracy....

    It presumes that Bacon had a reason for making the History so hard to penetrate. Obviously, he must have meant for many readers-perhaps most-to misunderstand it in some way. Why on earth would he want to do this? For the following reasons. Bacon wanted to pave the way for a society based on modern science and technological progress. Such a society would be essentially egalitarian, because the efforts of the few, scientists and inventors, would serve the desires of the many… But he lived in a monarchy and could not wish it away, and so he had to use the existing forms of political power as a means to his own ends. This meant advising monarchs to do what he knew was, in the long run, not in their interests-certainly tricky and even dangerous.

   …the truly discerning and daring will understand, when they add everything up, that the History actually shows the way to a world in which kings are no longer necessary.

[Jerry Weinberger, ed., Francis Bacon The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996), pp. 213, 218.]

[Light-of-Truth]

One of Bacon's (and Shakespeares) eternal significance is how everything he did is important in every age. Today, as it was in the early 1600's. Same stories, different players. Same lessons learned. A Truth, even if only a minute...

If we learn from the past, we can plan for the future. But the numbers are totally in the flock of sheep. They live in whatever episode of the same thing that happens over and over, and over again for centuries!

How do we unleash what Bacon left to those who most need it???

 

 

 

[A Phoenix]

FRANCIS BACON HERCULEAN PHILOSOPHER AND SCIENTIST OF THE MODERN WORLD WHOSE EFFORTS WILL BENEFIT HUMANITY UNTIL THE END OF TIME

It is clear from his acknowledged writings and his Shakespeare plays that Bacon was fascinated by the figure and myth of Hercules and he evidently saw himself as a kind of Herculean philosopher and scientist whose immense efforts would benefit mankind and the future direction of the world and it appears others saw him in the same image. In his long and detailed article ‘Beyond Hercules: Bacon and the Scientist as Hero’, Steadman observes ‘Bacon’s heroic ideal, his conception of the scientist as a benefactor, laboring through power of knowledge and charity for the greater good of man and the greater glory of God provided him with a standard of measurement whereby he might judge and revalue the older, more conventional conceptions of heroism’. A way of exploring this heroic topoi was through the ‘images of the voyager and the magician’, the voyages of Odysseus, the Argonauts, and Columbus. The magico-scientist-philosopher Prospero in Shakespeare’s play (or Rosicrucian manifesto) The Tempest ‘represents an idealized type of the magician-hero (and he is also, incidentally, a voyager) and like ‘Bacon’s magus, Prospero is a benefactor. He too realizes that knowledge is power, and he uses his power well.’ Bacon’s Great Instauration was heroic and ‘the motto Plus ultra not only evoked the image of Hercules, a proverbial symbol of Virtus Heroica, but pointed the way toward a nobler mode of conquest.’ The scientist ‘as Bacon conceived him was active and contemplative hero’:

That near-contemporaries, spokesmen for the “new philosophy” during the last three quarters of the century, should hail Bacon himself in heroic terms was no more than poetic justice. For Rawley, he was a man of “divine understanding”. For the contributors to the Manes Verulamiani he was “Verulamius Heros”-“noster Heros [qui] traderet scientias Aeternitati”; the Columbus who has conquered a New World with new arts.…Comenius linked him with Campanella as a “Hercules, who has debelled monsters and purged the Augean stables” through his attacks on Aristotelian philosophy. Gassendi lauded his “heroic daring”…To the University of Oxford he seemed “a literary Hercules, who has further advanced the pillars of learning, deemed by others immovable.” For Cowley he resembled Moses, who had led “our wandering Praedecessors” through the wilderness to the border of the “blest promis’d Land”. For Leibniz he was “divini ingenii vir.”1

1. John M. Steadman, ‘Beyond Hercules: Bacon and the Scientist as Hero’, in The

    Legacy Of Francis Bacon, ed., William A Sessions (Atlanta, Georgia: Georgia

    State University, 1971), pp. 30-1, 44, 46.

[Eric Roberts]

Just found this article from Baconiana in the 1950s by Manley P Hall. See pages 6-10 if interested. 🙂

https://sirbacon.org/archives/baconiana/1953_Baconiana_No 145.pdf

[A Phoenix]

Hi Eric,

Thank you for putting up this post.

I have just read this interesting and illuminating article by the American philosopher and prolifc author Manley P. Hall who fully understood that FB was the secret founder of what became the United States of America built upon the scientific blueprint of his New Atlantis (or, Land of the Rosicrucians) and that the Great One was the secret author of the Shakespeare works. 

I have copies of a number of Manly P. Hall's works which cover the interrelated subjects of FB, Shakespeare and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonry Brotherhood and their hidden influence in England, Europe and the USA, which are one way or another, very revealing and thought provoking.   

[Light-of-Truth]

Hmmm, I'm assuming most of us already Know that MANLEY PALMER HALL is 157 Simple cipher.

http://www.light-of-truth.com/ciphers.html

I like the 313 as well.

I Googled "Universal Reformation" this morning, not the first time at all.

The Hall(s) have been great teachers to me, I've barely read much at all but connect for sure. 🙂

The closer we get to the old school core of whoever the RC is today, the closer we get to being a part 0f Bacon's Truth being Universally known.

 

[Kate]

A reminder to use the link I recently posted in A Gift of a Link.  As well as 8000 books free online it also has all the Rosicrucian Digests ever printed and Manly P Halls newsletters.

I’m always on the lookout for some mention or link that no one else has ever found over the years. Today I listened (well I’m at 55 mins) to this from a Jefferson appreciation society. I wonder if looking more carefully over Jefferson’s archived documents could yield something? Jefferson was a Rosicrucian and avid Shakespeare fan. 
 

The Sage of Monticello and the Sweet Swan of Avon.

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[Light-of-Truth]

Jefferson also had a bust of Bacon in his home at Monticello (so I have heard). 🙂

Thanks for the reminder. I do plan to take advantage of the gift you shared, Kate!

[A Phoenix]

PRESDIENT THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS HERO BACON (SHAKESPEARE) 

 See A. Phoenix, 'The Folger Shakespeare Library: A Secret Baconian-Rosicrcucian-Freemasonic Institution', pp. 25-26, 34. 

https://www.academia.edu/83873203/The_Folger_Shakespeare_Library_A_Secret_Baconian_Rosicrucian_Freemasonic_Institution

[Light-of-Truth]

1 hour ago, A Phoenix said:

PRESDIENT THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS HERO BACON (SHAKESPEARE) 

 See A. Phoenix, 'The Folger Shakespeare Library: A Secret Baconian-Rosicrcucian-Freemasonic Institution', pp. 25-26, 34. 

https://www.academia.edu/83873203/The_Folger_Shakespeare_Library_A_Secret_Baconian_Rosicrucian_Freemasonic_Institution

From your paper on page 26, A. Phoenix:

Believed by many to be secretly closely associated with the Rosicrucian-Freemasonry
Brotherhood, President Jefferson shared with his hero Lord Bacon, an extraordinary
knowledge of secret writing. He was familiar with Bacon’s comments on ciphers in
The Advancement of Learning which Bacon afterwards greatly expanded upon in De
Augmentis Scientiarum and possibly the comments of his editor Tenison about the bi-
literal cipher and his statement those who were familiar with Bacon’s writings would
know if he were the author whether his name be to it or not (meaning his Shakespeare
works). Such was the importance of Jefferson’s construction of one original cipher it
earned for him the title of Father of American Cryptography:

One cipher system invented before the telegraph was so far ahead of its time, and so much in
the spirit of the later inventions, that it deserves to be classed with them. Indeed, it deserves
the front rank among them, for this system was beyond doubt the most remarkable of all. So
well-conceived was it that today, more than a century and a half of rapid technological
progress after its invention, it remains in active use.
But then it was invented by a remarkable man...Thomas Jefferson. He called it his “wheel
cypher,” and it seems likely that he invented it either during 1790 to 1793 or during 1797 to
1800....
.....It was not rediscovered among his papers in the Library of Congress until 1922,
coincidentally the year the U.S. Army adopted an almost identical device that had been
independently invented. Later, other branches of the American government used the Jefferson
system, generally slightly modified, and it often defeated the best efforts of the 20th-century
cryptanalysts who tried to break it down! To this day the Navy uses it. This is a remarkable
longevity. So important is his system that it confers upon Jefferson the title of Father of
American Cryptography. And so original is it that it sets Jefferson upon a pedestal far more
prominent than those accorded to men like Vigenère and Cardano, whose names are usually
thought to be household words in the history of secret writing.

 

Hmmmm, ".....It was not rediscovered among his papers in the Library of Congress until 1922, coincidentally the year the U.S. Army adopted an almost identical device that had been independently invented."

A coincidence? LOL

Good secrets live in the shadows. Maybe the independently invented device was based on a whisper passed down for generations.

[Lawrence Gerald]

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/bacon-newton-locke-and-the-origins-of-the-modern-age-a-personalized-bibliographic-overview/