41. Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon, 1st and Only Viscount of St. Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher,

statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.

Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as

philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. His dedication brought him into a rare historical

group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

His works established and popularized deductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian

method or simply, the scientific method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural

marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions

of proper methodology today.

Francis Bacon, by en.wikipedia.org

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Francis Bacon was an alchemist and a Rosicrucian. He was also the real author of the plays of William

Shakespeare. Possibly along with his brother Antony or/and his group of "Good Pens".

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One year after the publication of the first Great "Shakespearian" Folio, a remarkable volume on cryptograms and

ciphers was published. The title page of the work is reproduced here. The year of its publication (1624) was during the

Rosicrucian controversy. The translation of the title page is as follows: "The Cryptomenysis and Cryptography of

Gustavus Selenus in the nine books, to which is added a clear explanation of the System of Steganography of John

Trithemius, Abbot of Spanheim and Herbipolis, a man of admirable genius. Interspersed with worthy inventions of the

Author and others, 1624."

The author of this volume was believed to be Augustus, Duke of Brunswick. The symbols and emblems ornamenting the

title page, however, are conclusive evidence that the Rosicrucians were behind its publication. At the bottom of the

picture is a nobleman placing his hat on another man's head. In the two side panels are striking and subtle

"Shakespearian" allusions. On the left is a nobleman (possibly Bacon) handing a paper to another man of mean

appearance who carries in his hand a spear. At the right, the man who previously carried the spear is shown in the

costume of an actor, wearing spurs and blowing a horn. The allusion to the actor blowing his horn and the figure

carrying the spear suggest much, especially as spear is the last syllable of the name "Shakespeare."

The Secret Teachings of All Ages, by Manly P. Hall, 1928 AD

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The whole Shakespearean authorship debate has been going on for centuries, so I won't try to convince you

about that. But what I will convince you of is that the author of Shakespeare's works (whether Shakespeare,

Bacon, or another) was certainly an alchemist, as is clear from alchemical references in many of

Shakespeare's plays, and most obviously in his poem: The Phoenix and the Turtle (Dove).

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LET the bird of loudest lay,

On the sole Arabian tree,

Herald sad and trumpet be,

To whose sound chaste wings obey.

But thou shrieking harbinger,

Foul precurrer of the fiend,

Augur of the fever's end,

To this troop come thou not near!

From this session interdict

Every fowl of tyrant wing,

Save the eagle, feather'd king:

Keep the obsequy so strict.

Let the priest in surplice white,

That defunctive music can,

Be the death-divining swan,

Lest the requiem lack his right.

And thou treble-dated crow,

That thy sable gender makest

With the breath thou givest and takest,

'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.

Here the anthem doth commence:

Love and constancy is dead;

Phoenix and the turtle fled