A Line In Hamlet’s Speech Taken From Masonic Ritual

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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Shakespeare Sonnet 55 : Francis Bacon’s Ode to Hiram Abiff

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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Honorificabilitudinitatibus: Bacon’s Magical Word

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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Bacon’s Use of Gematria and the 26 Letter Alphabet

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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Bacon’s Use of Gematria and the 26 Letter Alphabet

Is Shakespeare Dead? Exposing the Shakespeare Conspiracy


Is Shakespeare Dead? Exposing the Shakespeare Conspiracy

This is the first episode of a 4-part TV series which delves into every aspect of the Shakespeare Authorship Issue.

Part 1 of this series exposes the fact that there there is no hard evidence to support the traditional claim that the man from Stratford was involved with the authorship of the plays and poems attributed to the name “William Shakespeare”.

Furthermore, the first episode presents compelling evidence that the man who is assumed to be the author of the Shakespearean works was illiterate and unschooled–and therefore, couldn’t possibly have been the Real Author.

Based on Richard Allan Wagner’s book:
“The Lost Secret of William Shakespeare”