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Francis Bacon and His Secret Authorship
by A Phoenix
Francis Bacon and His Secret Authorship of the Second Rosicrucian Manifesto the Confessio Fraternatatis (1615) which Reveals the actor William Shakspere of Stratford is an Imposter.
Francis_Bacon_and_his_Secret_Authorship.pdf
Rosicrucian Manifesto reveals Shakspere the Actor as an Imposter Video:
Shakespeare and Freemasonry: The Two-Sided Coin
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.
Review of Alfred Dodd, Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story
by Christina G. Waldman
June 1, 2026
Review of Alfred Dodd, Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story, 2 vols in 1 (London: Rider, 1986 [vol 1, The Age of Elizabeth, (London: Rider, 1949 [1910]); vol 2, The Age of James, [London: Century Hutchinson, 1986]). 580 pp.
The first duty of a biographer is to get his facts right, not merely the facts he wishes to be known, but all the facts, to suppress none and to slur over nothing; and not to be afraid lest an untoward discovery might falsify his prepossessions.
Alfred Dodd, Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story, p. 10
A stated goal of Alfred Dodd (1879‒1953), an English man of letters, in writing Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story, was to provide a truer, more personal portrait of Bacon than previously provided. “I have found more than sufficient evidence to satisfy me personally that Francis Bacon’s actual achievements were wider and deeper than traditional scholarship is disposed to admit.” (13) By 1949, Dodd had already published extensively on Bacon-Shakespeare topics. His Shakespeare’s Sonnet-Diary would see ten printings (Liverpool: Daily Post Printers, first pub. 1931). The first edition of Life Story was published in 1910. For the 1949 edition, Dodd had intended to add a second volume, The Age of James. However, he suffered a severe stroke in 1949, necessitating the postponement of the publication of volume 2 until 1986 (see Irene Rowland’s note, front matter, and Edward D. Johnson’s foreword to volume 2).
Samuel Schoenbaum and his Shakespeare Lives (1970)
by SirBacon.org
A.Phoenix breaks down the misleading research of Stratfordian biographer Sam Schoenbaum
Francis Bacon Portrait Restoration, Gray’s Inn & Bacon400 (Video)
By SirBacon.org
There are Baconian moments that simply feel special — and this is one of them.
This remarkable video follows the careful restoration of a treasured portrait of Sir Francis Bacon for Bacon400, revealing the extraordinary skill, patience, and reverence involved in bringing history back to life. From delicate cleaning and repair to its return to Gray’s Inn Hall, the journey is genuinely fascinating.
Even for those long familiar with Bacon, there is something moving about seeing his face emerge again through the hands of modern conservators. Highly recommended viewing.
Thank you to Plowden & Smith for this fascinating video! Their video and description are below:
Francis Bacon Portrait Restoration and Displayed at Gray’s Inn
We were honoured to be asked by the Francis Bacon Society to restore their treasured portrait of Sir Francis Bacon for #Bacon400 the 400th anniversary of Sir Francis Bacon’s death in 1626.
The portrait now hangs in Hall at @HonSocGraysInn where Katherine Gwyn, Archivist and Records Manager at Gray’s Inn, and Sally Gibbins, Principal at the Francis Bacon Society, talk about the importance of the portrait, and Bacon himself, to the Inn.
Our Paintings Conservator, Lily Down, shares her insights into the treatment of the painting from removing the artwork from its frame, the importance of cleaning the painting while keeping areas of damage safe, repairing the tear, and in-painting the areas of loss to make the painting complete.
00:00 – Introduction to Gray’s Inn
00:55 – Gray’s Inn Portrait Collection
02:20 – The legacy of Sir Francis Bacon
03:04 – Bacon400 and the portrait’s history
04:35 – Painting Conservation – Introduction
05:29 – Painting Conservation – Facing and cleaning the artwork
06:46 – Painting Conservation – Mending the tear
07:30 – Painting Conservation – Filling and in-painting
08:32 – Painting Conservation – Re-framing
09:51 – The portrait back at Gray’s Inn
Shakespeare and Freemasonry: The Two-Sided Coin
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.
Review of Alfred Dodd, Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story
by Christina G. Waldman
June 1, 2026
Review of Alfred Dodd, Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story, 2 vols in 1 (London: Rider, 1986 [vol 1, The Age of Elizabeth, (London: Rider, 1949 [1910]); vol 2, The Age of James, [London: Century Hutchinson, 1986]). 580 pp.
The first duty of a biographer is to get his facts right, not merely the facts he wishes to be known, but all the facts, to suppress none and to slur over nothing; and not to be afraid lest an untoward discovery might falsify his prepossessions.
Alfred Dodd, Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story, p. 10
A stated goal of Alfred Dodd (1879‒1953), an English man of letters, in writing Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story, was to provide a truer, more personal portrait of Bacon than previously provided. “I have found more than sufficient evidence to satisfy me personally that Francis Bacon’s actual achievements were wider and deeper than traditional scholarship is disposed to admit.” (13) By 1949, Dodd had already published extensively on Bacon-Shakespeare topics. His Shakespeare’s Sonnet-Diary would see ten printings (Liverpool: Daily Post Printers, first pub. 1931). The first edition of Life Story was published in 1910. For the 1949 edition, Dodd had intended to add a second volume, The Age of James. However, he suffered a severe stroke in 1949, necessitating the postponement of the publication of volume 2 until 1986 (see Irene Rowland’s note, front matter, and Edward D. Johnson’s foreword to volume 2).
Samuel Schoenbaum and his Shakespeare Lives (1970)
by SirBacon.org
A.Phoenix breaks down the misleading research of Stratfordian biographer Sam Schoenbaum
Francis Bacon Portrait Restoration, Gray’s Inn & Bacon400 (Video)
By SirBacon.org
There are Baconian moments that simply feel special — and this is one of them.
This remarkable video follows the careful restoration of a treasured portrait of Sir Francis Bacon for Bacon400, revealing the extraordinary skill, patience, and reverence involved in bringing history back to life. From delicate cleaning and repair to its return to Gray’s Inn Hall, the journey is genuinely fascinating.
Even for those long familiar with Bacon, there is something moving about seeing his face emerge again through the hands of modern conservators. Highly recommended viewing.
Thank you to Plowden & Smith for this fascinating video! Their video and description are below:
Francis Bacon Portrait Restoration and Displayed at Gray’s Inn
We were honoured to be asked by the Francis Bacon Society to restore their treasured portrait of Sir Francis Bacon for #Bacon400 the 400th anniversary of Sir Francis Bacon’s death in 1626.
The portrait now hangs in Hall at @HonSocGraysInn where Katherine Gwyn, Archivist and Records Manager at Gray’s Inn, and Sally Gibbins, Principal at the Francis Bacon Society, talk about the importance of the portrait, and Bacon himself, to the Inn.
Our Paintings Conservator, Lily Down, shares her insights into the treatment of the painting from removing the artwork from its frame, the importance of cleaning the painting while keeping areas of damage safe, repairing the tear, and in-painting the areas of loss to make the painting complete.
00:00 – Introduction to Gray’s Inn
00:55 – Gray’s Inn Portrait Collection
02:20 – The legacy of Sir Francis Bacon
03:04 – Bacon400 and the portrait’s history
04:35 – Painting Conservation – Introduction
05:29 – Painting Conservation – Facing and cleaning the artwork
06:46 – Painting Conservation – Mending the tear
07:30 – Painting Conservation – Filling and in-painting
08:32 – Painting Conservation – Re-framing
09:51 – The portrait back at Gray’s Inn
Idols of the Marketplace: Weaponised Words and Narratives
by Michael Taylor
“But the Idols of the Marketplace are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names.”
Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism 59 (1620)
Aphorism 59 from Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum directly addresses his view of the “most troublesome” of the fallacies he categorised in his four Idols – are the idols of the marketplace:
“There are also Idols formed by the intercourse and association of men with each other, which I call Idols of the Market Place, on account of the commerce and consort of men there. For it is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.”
Idols of the marketplace are fallacies created by public discourse – people simply talking to people, as well as institutions communicating with the public through any means. Either way, people and institutions using and mis-using language and creating misunderstandings and false conclusions in the minds of others, is the basis for this idol, and deserves close analysis because of its pervasiveness – it is literally happening every day, to everyone on the planet, across all languages.
It deserves close analysis because we literally live in a sea of communication, and our (true or false) conclusions about reality are primarily formed by this sea influencing our worldview. No matter how much we seek to limit our access to this endless sea, any discourse between one person and another is an opportunity for misunderstandings to be communicated and accepted by the listener or reader.
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SirBacon.org celebrates the Birthday of William Shakespeare (aka William Shaksper)
Sirbacon.org celebrates the Birthday of William Shakespeare (aka William Shaksper) the world’s most famous literary decoy with a new book & Video from A. Phoenix :
Becoming Shakespeare : The Making of a Genius
New A Phoenix work:
Based on a groundbreaking and revelatory new literary biography covering the virtually unknown part of Bacon’s early life and exploring the extraordinary developing mind that culminated in the Shakespeare works. It reveals Bacon’s royal origins and highlights how his formative years were heavily influenced by the formidably creative, intellectual and political environment of his foster family. Francis Bacon was writing poetry and drama from a very early age, developing his craft behind a series of literary masks as he became Shakespeare.
Read: Becoming Shakespeare: The Making of a Genius
Short video highlighting the key points:
