by Richard Allan Wagner
September 1, 2026
The Predicament
The fundamental predicament with Shakespeare Sonnet 126 is that it’s not a sonnet—it’s an anti-sonnet.
Having only 12 lines consisting of 6 pairs of rhyming couplets, it breaks all of the rules that govern the
sonnet structure (whether it be Petrarchan or Shakespearean). It’s definitely an anomaly. Why is it there
and, more importantly, who wrote it?
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by Richard Allan Wagner
July 4, 2026
Prologue
Before there was such a thing as Freemasonry there was the Order of Operative Masons—these were the craft stone masons who built the magnificent cathedrals and castles of Europe, and were the first labor force to organize as a guild. As a condition of payment, Operative Masons were obliged to carve personal, identifying marks into the structures on which they labored.
“Elizabeth Winkler is emblematic of Willful Ignorance disguised as Intellectual Curiosity—a convenient offramp leading to that region of the mind best described as the Bacon Blind Spot,” states Richard Allan Wagner in his latest piece, Only Bacon Would do That.
by Richard Allan Wagner
Hamlet’s “To Be or Not to Be” speech is, possibly, the last place people would expect to find a line from Masonic ritual—yet, word-for-word, there it is—hiding like an “undiscovered” treasure as countless actors throughout the centuries have unwittingly spoken the words without gleaning the full measure of their meaning or origin.
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by Richard Allan Wagner
When I was initiated into the Freemasonic Fraternity, I was immediately struck by the uncanny similarity between the words in Masonic Ritual and the words in the Shakespearean plays and sonnets. It’s as if those words had been forged in the same crucible. Furthermore, many parallels of Masonic language and symbolism, as well as specific bits of business in Masonic Ritual, show up again-and-again throughout the pages of Shakespeare, the most important of which is to be found in Sonnet 55. Actually, the wording of Sonnet 55, unlike the other 153 sonnets, is designed to serve as a bridge connecting Freemasonry with Shakespeare.
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by Richard Allan Wagner
The word that seems to have loomed most prominently in Francis Bacon’s mind was the 27 letter Latin word honorificabilitudinitatibus (Act 5, Scene 1 of Love’s Labor’s Lost). Although the word had been toyed with by many of Bacon’s predecessors, it was destined to be his magical word—his, and his alone. We can see evidence of his tinkering with roots of the word in his Promus: honoris, honores, honorem, honorificabo, and in his parchment folder (now known as the Northumberland Manuscript) we see honorificabilitudini. Why was Bacon so drawn to the word? What special properties did it possess?
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by Richard Allan Wagner
Question: “When did the English Language adopt the 26 Letter Alphabet?” Go to any online search engine and ask that question. Invariably, the answer will be: “Around the mid-16th century.” Now ask any Baconian scholar: “Did Francis Bacon work with a 26 Letter alphabet or a 24 Letter alphabet?” For many the answer will be: “A 24 letter alphabet.” Why the discrepancy?
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by Richard Allan Wagner
“Francis Bacon appears to have been a miser when it came to the use of acrostic cipher signatures. Of the acrostics he devised, I think there is one that surpasses all of the others.” Read more:
by Richard Allan Wagner
“The Real Othello – Murder by Proxy–a New Perspective” by Richard Allan Wagner.“
Rick Wagner’s Video Episode II : Is Shakespeare Dead? Exposing the Shakespeare Conspiracy!
This is the SECOND episode of a 6-part TV series which delves into every aspect of the Shakespeare Authorship Issue.
Part 2 of this series exposes the fact that most of what people think they know about the author Shakespeare, is based on fraudulent evidence created by Stratfordian authorship conspirators.
