Francis Bacon
Where each worldview places it
Grand Master of the Rosicrucians in England and a major force in creating Freemasonry. He was the 'father' of materialist science and of the Royal Society and co-creator of British intelligence[1].
- Aliases
- Sir Francis BaconLord ChancellorBaron VerulamViscount of St Albans
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Lineage
- Probably the son of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, sent to foster parents[2].
- Dates
- knighted 1603
- Lord Chancellor 1618
- The New Atlantis 1607 (author's date)[3]
- Author's claims · 9
- 01He probably wrote the Shakespeare plays and encoded secret knowledge in them. His name appears 21 times on page 56 of the 1623 Folio, a Tarot code[5].
- 02He edited the King James Bible with Fludd, with deliberate errors, and removed the Books of Maccabees[5].
- 03The New Atlantis proposed an Invisible College dictating events and was "the Agenda for America"[6].
- 04He was a member of the Order of the Helmet and the Ancient Arabic Order, and inspired the Puritan emigration[7].
- 05In And the Truth Bacon is "a Brotherhood member of high rank", Grand Chancellor under Elizabeth I and James I, "a Grand Commander of the Brotherhood Order called the Rosicrucians" and "very much involved in the underground operations of the Knights Templar traditions"[4].
- 06"It is likely that Francis Bacon was a force behind" the transformation into Speculative Freemasonry[4].
- 07He wrote the Shakespeare plays himself, hiding his code number 33 in them, and his The New Atlantis set out the Brotherhood's plan for America, whose colonisation he pushed with Dee and Raleigh[8].
- 08He belonged to the early English Rosicrucian Society with John Dee[9].
- 09William Romaine Newbold, a University of Pennsylvania professor, claimed to have partly decoded the Roger Bacon manuscript[10].