Francis Bacon – The Man Behind the Curtain
Sir Francis Bacon was a true enigma. He was at once a lawyer, spy, cryptographer, playwright, author, statesman, judge, scientist, philosopher all rolled into one. Seldom in history has a man accomplished so many roles with aplomb in one lifetime. Yet even now, it is hard to pin down who exactly was Francis Bacon. This is because he learned from a very young age to keep his personal views to himself, with only a few trusted confidants being allowed to know his inner most thoughts. This was understandable since he lived in dangerous times where a careless word could cost a man his life. One need only look to his contemporaries Robert Dudley, the Earl of Essex, for whom Bacon acted as a secretary, and Sir Walter Raleigh who had both at one time enjoyed lofty status at the English court only to fall dramatically from grace and ultimately be executed as traitors. Indeed, Bacon himself would eventually fall from grace and be deposed as Lord Chancellor (the equivalent today of Prime Minister) in the reign of King James I on what many perceive as being trumped up charges for which Bacon willingly seemed to have taken the wrap, almost as if he were deliberately accepting a political martyrdom.
He was also very adept at concealing the authorship of many of his works including the collective works of William Shakespeare in respect of which many today view Bacon as having been the real author. He no doubt learned this lesson from his father Nicholas Bacon who as Lord Keeper within the government of King Henry VIII had secretly written a controversial pamphlet under a pseudonym, which, when discovered, saw Bacon senior’s reputation sullied with a corresponding loss of favour in the King’s eyes that would take years for Nicholas to recover from. The repercussions and lessons of such an experience were undoubtedly passed on to Nicholas Bacon’s sons including young Francis.
It should be noted that theatre in the late 16th and early 17th centuries was something looked down on by serious and respectable people who viewed plays, and the actors who acted them out, as base and frivolous. For someone who was looking to establish himself as a politician or senior government figure (Bacon was both), holding oneself out as a playwright did not look good on their curriculum vitae (CV). Hence, it makes sense that a man such as Bacon would conceal his authorship of plays and poetry and instead hide behind the curtain. However, there was another reason, much closer to home, why Francis Bacon would hide his artistic works behind frontmen and that was the strong influence of his Puritan mother Lady Anne Bacon, an ardent Calvinist, who detested plays and all similar forms of entertainment, which she viewed as crude ribaldry. Even as young men about town living in London, she would write to Francis and his older brother Anthony warning them against the dangers of the theatre. Nevertheless, there is evidence to suggest that Francis Bacon’s love for the theatre started at a very young age since he would stage at his home small plays in which he would involve the household servants. Subsequently, as a young lawyer called to the Bar in 1582 at Gray’s Inn in London, he would write and stage masques*, which he also directed.
*Masques being a form of amateur dramatic entertainment, popular among the nobility in 16th and 17th century England, which consisted of dancing and acting performed by masked players.
Gray’s Inn is one of the official Inns of Court which consist of sets of barristers (lawyers) chambers in which young barristers are trained and educated to practice at the bar of the court.
As Mrs Henry Pott describes:
“At all events, hardly had he settled down in Gray’s Inn, before the plays began to appear. From this time there are frequent allusions, in the records of the Gray’s Inn revels, to the assistance which he gave, and which seems in most cases, to have consisted in writing, as well as managing, the whole entertainment. If any names are mentioned in connection with such revels, or with the masques and devices that were performed at court, these names almost always include that of Francis Bacon. Sometimes he is the only person named in connection with these festivities.”
Bacon’s mother was well aware of her sons’ involvement in these revels and masques since in a letter she wrote to her son Anthony just before the Revels and the first performance of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors at Gray’s Inn in 1594, she exhorted him and Francis that they may not “mum, nor masque, nor sinfully revel. Who were sometimes counted first, God grant they wane** not daily and deserve to be named last.”
**Meaning to decline in strength or power as, for example, in becoming weaker in spirituality.
The fact that Shakespeare’s famous comedy play The Comedy of Errors was first performed at Gray’s Inn in 1594 may be quite telling, as it suggests that a young Francis Bacon may have had a hand in staging it. If so, it creates yet another potential link in the Bacon was Shakespeare theory. However, Mrs Pott makes the telling point that there seems to have been no great desire to enlighten the world in general as to Bacon’s connection with the theatrical world of his day, perhaps because it was felt that such a connection was derogatory to his position and reputation as a great philosopher. If Bacon were alive today (and there is a distinct possibility that he is should he be a member of the mysterious enclave of alchemists in the Pyrenees, which includes the 14th century French alchemist Nicholas Flamel among their number – see more below on this), I wonder whether like the 20th century French artist, movie director and Rosicrucian High Priest Jean Cocteau (who was alleged to have been the Head of the secretive Priory of Sion, which the C’s told us was a smokescreen) he would be a movie or TV director, since this is the visual medium that has had the most impact on people in our day and age, replacing theatre as the primary means of mass entertainment.
The Order of the Helmet
Perhaps the best known of the masques and plays performed at Gray’s Inn by Francis Bacon and his companions was one involving a fictional order of chivalry called the ‘Order of the Helmet’. The Order was modelled on the English chivalric orders of the Garter and the Bath. Many have since claimed that the Order of the Helmet was a real secret society, headed by Bacon. The play was first performed on 3 Jan. 1594, and again for twelve days in December 1594. There are those who think that the play was a cover for an initiation ceremony that was in reality an inauguration of the "Order of the Knights of the Helmet", Bacon’s secret society.
In the play, Sir Francis Bacon was made king and “Prince of Purple". Various men were then invested with the Collar of Knighthood of the Helmet, and took vows, a "Series of Charges by six High Councillors", which for some observers is reminiscent and similar to what the Societas Rosicruciana in America does in its ceremonies today. The knights vowed to keep 19 articles or charges. The name of this philosophical Order of Knights refers to the divine spear-shaker of Greek mythology, Pallas Athena, the Tenth Muse and patroness of the arts and sciences, whose helmet guards the sacred diadem of the Prince of Purple. In addition, the goddess presents helmets to her knight heroes, hence the Order of the Knights of the Helmet. These helmets were said to bestow invisibility on the wearer (like the Greek hero Perseus’s helmet which Athena gave him to wear when he entered the lair of the Gorgon Medusa) as well as being 'will helms' (the derivation of the name William or Wilhelm), meaning 'helmets of strength', a symbolism having the further cabbalistic meaning of righteousness, virtue, clear perception and judgement. All such knights are, metaphorically speaking, spear-shakers or shake-speares like Saint George, the patron saint of England. They were also 'invisible brethren', a term which notably has been used since then to describe the Rosicrucians.
As a young man in his twenties, Francis Bacon had gone on a diplomatic mission to the continent of Europe on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. Over a period of three years, he toured France visiting such places as Louvre, St. Cloud, Blois, Paris, and Poitiers. During this time, he also travelled to Germany, Italy and Spain giving him the chance to make contact with various groups including perhaps the Portuguese Knights of Christ and the secret enclave of alchemists in the Pyrenees. He visited the various royal courts, such as the court of Marguerite de Valois who was married to King Henry of Navarre. At Marguerite’s court, Francis spent time with the “Pléiade Fraternity”, which was a group of seven French intellectuals who played a major part in the French Renaissance. Quoting from Wikipedia:
“The Pléiade's "manifesto" was penned by Joachim du premiere Bellay (
La Défense et illustration de la langue française 1549). In it, Du Bellay detailed
a literary program of renewal and revolution. The group aimed to break with earlier traditions of French poetry (especially Marot and the
grands rhétoriqueurs), and, maintaining that French (like the Tuscan of Petrarch and Dante) was a worthy language for literary expression, to attempt to ennoble the French language by imitating the Ancients.”
The Order of the Knights of the Helmet with its series of charges forming a manifesto, can be viewed perhaps as an attempt by Francis Bacon to copy the Pléiade Fraternity’s manifesto by seeking to make, English a worthy language for literary expression. It could also have been the inspiration for the later Rosicrucian Manifestos, which many think Bacon either wrote or had a hand in writing. If so, it once again reveals him as having been the Man behind the Curtain
*.
*** The Man Behind the Curtain is a metaphorical expression referring to someone who operates secretly or controls events from behind the scenes. The best known modern expression is to be found in the magician figure depicted in the classic 1930’s movie The Wizard of Oz.
Francis Bacon - Man with a Mission
I shall be quoting on occasions from Mrs Henry Pott’s excellent book on Sir Francis Bacon titled Francis Bacon and His Secret Society. She too saw Bacon as the ‘Man behind the Curtain’:
“… but search the records of the time which are, up to the present date, published, and see how far you can enlighten yourselves as to any particulars of Bacon’s domestic life. It becomes after long search, impossible to resist the idea that Bacon has some great purpose to serve by keeping himself always in the background – behind the curtain. Whenever you catch a glimpse of him, “he goes away in a cloud”.
It likewise seems that the whole of his most dear and loving friends combined to conceal his true personality, to assist him to act the part of Proteus
*, and to ensure that when he did appear here, there and everywhere, he should be able to pass unrecognised. Amongst Anthony’s correspondents, Francis is rarely mentioned, but often alluded to as “
the Hermit”, the character which he himself undertook in the
Gesla Grayorum. Some short poems, especially one with the device of a hermit spurning a globe, seem also to apply to Francis Bacon, and to have been written by him.”
*Proteus was a Greek god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, whom the Greek poet Homer described as the "Old Man of the Sea", and was known for his ability to change shape and foretell the future. Interestingly, Proteus is also connected with the Hermetic art of alchemy, which is most appropriate since Bacon was known to be a practising alchemist. The link to Proteus may even carry over into Nicholas Poussin’s first version of The Shepherds of Arcadia (also called ‘Et in Arcadia Ergo’ - see image below), which depicts a river god (Proteus?) in the foreground, perhaps representing the hidden, underground stream of knowledge that the Rosicrucian’s sought to promote.
There may be no connection at all, but it is interesting that one of the two paintings that Abbé Berenger Saunière focused on in relation to solving the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau (the other being Poussin’s second version of The Shepherds of Arcadia) was the Temptation of St Anthony the Hermit by David Teniers. If both Teniers and Nicholas Poussin were secret Rosicrucians, the latter being a contemporary of Bacon, could Bacon have been viewed as both “the Hermit” and Proteus by his fellow Rosicrucians?
So, what great purpose did Bacon have that led him to hide in the background, behind the curtain as it were? Mrs Pott tells us that it was none other than the “Universal Reformation of the whole wide world” otherwise known as the Great Instauration, his great plan and program for human enlightenment and for the advancement of human knowledge, which involved a six-step reformation modelled on the biblical Six Days of Creation. What is more remarkable though is that he conceived this lofty mission whilst he was still just a mere lad of fifteen. There is no doubt Bacon was a genius and a polymath but to take upon oneself a mission to reform learning throughout the world (meaning Europe and the Near East in those days) at such a young age suggests that he had a sense of destiny about him. Could there be more to this though?
Was Sir Francis Bacon a Deep Level Punctuator?
Mrs Henry Pott was one of those who subscribed to the theory that Francis Bacon was the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. The C’s rejected this theory though when Laura raised the matter:
Q: Well, that is bizarre! Was Sir Francis Bacon the son of Elizabeth as was rumoured?
A: No.
If there was a mystery surrounding the birth of Francis Bacon, could it be that like Queen Nefertiti and Sargon the Great (who was supposedly found as a baby in a reed basket floating in the river like the Biblical Moses in Egypt) before him he was a ‘deep level punctuator’, whose origins lay with the subterranean underworld civilisation the Cs have called the Nation of the Third Eye? This is how the C’s described “deep level punctuators”:
A: The lines blur. Rothchilds are similar in a smaller way to Sargon. Deep level punctuator.
Q: (L) What is a deep level punctuator?
A: One who emerges from seeming obscurity to "make a mark" on history. Don't you wonder where they come from. Think "deep."
Q: As in underground bases?
A: Well, what a concept!
Q: (L) Is this where Helen [Nefertiti]came from?
A: Yes.
Even without any corroborating evidence, one can advance the case that Francis Bacon could have been a ‘deep level punctuator’ since I would contend that he emerged from relative obscurity to make a greater mark on history than Sargon, Nefertiti or the Rothschilds put together. Apart from writing the plays of Shakespeare and being a leading statesman, he also played a major role in establishing the modern scientific method and, in my opinion, he was the real mastermind behind the creation of what today is the United States of America – Bacon’s ‘New Atlantis’ - as eventually realised through the American Revolution of 1776. This is even before you take into account his possible leadership of the early 17th century Rosicrucians, whose manifestos he may have written. How fitting then that Bacon’s true origins could have been amongst the Atlantean refugees who had gone underground as far back as 14,000 BC, who no doubt wish to see the creation of a New Atlantis or New World Order in our own age in preparation for the coming shift to 4th density.
Although Sargon was an emperor and Nefertiti a queen of Egypt, the C’s have recently revealed that there may be as many as 2.5 million subterranean operators who are active on the surface world at any one time today, usually occupying positions of influence rather than overt positions of power. Despite the fact that Bacon would eventually become James I’s Lord Chancellor (equivalent to the role of British Prime Minister today), for most of his career he held lower-level governmental positions from which he could still exercise considerable influence. One such role, for example, was that of Secretary to the fledgling English colony of Virginia centred on Jamestown. It was Bacon who wrote its constitution, which proved to be very influential when the American Revolutionaries came to draw up the Constitution of the United States of America in 1776.
However, if he was the secret Grand Master of the early 17th century Rosicrucians, this may have been his most influential role of all. It may be no coincidence then, as Mrs Pott points out, that fifteen (15) was also the age of the “
Rosicrucian Father”, the elusive author
Johan Valentin Andreas (1586 – 1654), the German theologian, who claimed to be the author of an ancient text known as the
Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 (the
Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, published in 1616). This became one of the three founding works of Rosicrucianism. Quoting from Wikipedia:
Andreae was a prominent member of the Protestant utopian movement which began in Germany and spread across northern Europe and into Britain under the mentorship of
Samuel Hartlib and
John Amos Comenius.
The focus of this movement was the need for education and the encouragement of sciences as the key to national prosperity. But like many vaguely religious Renaissance movements at this time, the scientific ideas being promoted were often tinged with hermeticism, occultism and neo-Platonic concepts. The threats of heresy charges posed by rigid religious authorities (Protestant and Catholic) and a scholastic intellectual climate often forced these activists to hide behind fictional secret societies and write anonymously in support of their ideas, while claiming access to "secret ancient wisdom".
As you can see, Andreas had broadly the same mission as Francis Bacon where education and the encouragement of the sciences were concerned. You will note that Wikipedia disparagingly speaks of these reformist activists hiding behind fictional secret societies, which claimed access to “secret ancient wisdom”. However, the C’s have said that both the Freemasons and the Rosicrucians do have ancient esoteric knowledge in their possession, writings which they do not necessarily understand:
Q: (L) Do you mean that the information that came out, that pamphlet about "Christian Rosenkreutz," that is a purported fable, might be correct?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Well, goodness sake! The Rosicrucians advertise in magazines!!! Is this worldwide organization that promotes itself so blatantly...
A: Well, the "world-wide" order is not all inclusive.
Q: (L) Is there an inner circle of this order that is unknown?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Are the Rosicrucians connected to the Masons?
A: In a roundabout away.
Q: (L) Are the Illuminati connected to the Rosicrucians in any way?
A: Same.
Q: (L) Of the three I have named, which would be considered the one that is closest to the inner circle?
A: Not the correct concept.
Q: (L) Do the Rosicrucians have writings in their keeping that they, themselves, do not understand?
A: Yes. So do the Masons.
How the Freemasons and the Rosicrucians came across such knowledge is itself a mystery. The Freemasons may have inherited it through the Knights Templar, if indeed they were their progenitors. In the case of the Knights Templar, they may have discovered hidden Kabalistic writings during their searches in the Holy Land:
Q: Okay. The Templars were formed in Jerusalem. They were there for quite a while with no record of doing any of the things that the group supposedly intended to do. There are a lot of rumours... what were they doing in Jerusalem?
A: Templars held the secret of levitation.
Q: Is this something... and I am talking about the 9 guys in Jerusalem did they discover some document in Jerusalem that gave them this secret?
A: Yes.
Q: And is this how they were able to get so much support from certain royal houses and so forth?
A: It is time for you to study Kaballah again, but be careful!!
These Kabalistic writings may have been preserved by the Jewish group known as
the Essenes, whose roots seem to lie deep in pre-history, and were subsequently rediscovered by the Templars whilst they were in the Holy Land, judging from what the C’s said here:
Q: What about the Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls?
A: Kaballah.
As to the origins of the Kaballah, the C’s had this to say about it:
Q: (L) What is the origin of the Kaballah?
A: Channelled truths given to early pre-Mosaic Jews to use your terminology.
The reference to pre-Mosaic Jews, suggests that this could be the Hittite/Levites from which stock they told us Abraham/Moses and Nefertiti/Sarah came. So, this may be where the Freemasons (whose main ceremonies revolve around the Jewish Temple of Solomon) obtained their esoteric knowledge from but what about the Rosicrucians?
The C’s told us that the Rosicrucians are the modern-day manifestation of a mysterious group known as the Rosteem who would seem to have had their origins on the Giza Plateau since Rostau (Rose Cross) is the ancient name for Giza:
Q: (L) Well, that is not good! Are you saying that the Elohim are STS? Who were these STS beings they made a pact with?
A: Rosteem, now manifests as Rosicrucians.
Q: (L) What is their purpose?
A: As yet unrevealable to you.
And
Q: In reading the transcripts, I came across a reference to a 'pact' made by a group of STS individuals, and it was called 'Rosteem,' and that this was the origin of the Rosicrucians. In the book 'The Orion Mystery,' it talks about the fact that Giza was formerly known as RosTau, which is 'Rose Cross.' Essentially, I would like to understand the symbology of the Rose affixed to the Cross. It seems to me that the imagery of Jesus nailed to the Cross is actually the Rose affixed to the Cross. How does Jesus relate to the Rose?
A: No, it is from the Rose arose the Cross.
If the Rosteem were based at Giza as far back as the building of the Pyramids and the Sphinx temple, could they have preserved ancient knowledge that was then passed on to the Rosicrucians as their modern-day counterparts? If so, could this esoteric knowledge have been linked with the secret knowledge that the C’s said was stored at the base of the Sphinx by Atlantean survivors/descendants:
Q: Well, then, what IS the explanation for these carvings in Rosslyn Chapel?
A: Visitors yes but the Masonic creed is intertwined with ancient order of Essenes, arising out of ancient Egypt, from the secret knowledge stored at the the base of the Sphinx, as left there by "Atlantean" survivors.
If the answer is yes, does this statement also establish a link between the mysterious Rosteem and the ancient order of Essenes who arose out of ancient (meaning pre-dynastic) Egypt? Does this secret knowledge stored at the base of the Sphinx have anything to do with the capsule the C’s have confirmed is buried under the Sphinx, a time capsule which may contain information about the Atlantean civilisation and mankind’s pre-Flood history including the destruction of Kantek:
Q: They say that there is a subterranean chamber under the sphinx that leads to all the other pyramids. Is this correct?
A: Yes. But more importantly, there is a buried capsule of sorts.
Q: Has this buried capsule been found?
A: Not uncovered, but the evidence exists.
Q: Are those Egyptians over there who are banning all the other people from excavating aware of this?
A: They fear ramifications.
Perhaps this hidden chamber under the Sphinx is the same as Edgar Cayce’s hidden ‘Hall of Records’ (‘Amenti’) and the buried capsule is the depository for the Atlantean knowledge that Cayce thought would one day be found? If so, this links with what the C’s said here:
Session 14 May 1998:
Q: Anything in particular about what is going on with the pyramid, the purported preparations to open the door in the shaft, the supposed discovery of chambers under the Sphinx... What exactly IS going on there?
A: That would be long and complex. Best to refer to Cayce.
Q: So, what Cayce had to say is what is going on?
A: Essentially.
Q: Why are the Egyptian authorities being so uncooperative?
A: Mostly protective for politically motivated reasons.
This politically motivated protectiveness has recently been on full display with the discovery of a hidden, subterranean set of what the C’s described as electric storage batteries located under the Pyramid of Khafre by a group calling itself the
Khafre Research Project SAR Technology Team – see my post
(2) Session 29 March 2025 | Page 17 | Cassiopaea Forum
As Mrs Pott points out, the actual circumstances of Francis Bacon’s death are the subject of some debate. She claimed there were at least four different accounts of his death that varied both in their circumstances and the place of death. The last time I encountered such uncertainty over a man’s place and circumstances of death was in relation to
SS Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler who was responsible for the Nazis civil engineering projects and their top-secret V-weapons program as well as the infamous Bell or
Die Glocke wonder weapon that disappeared (probably with Kammler) to a secret base in Antarctica according to the Cs – for more see:
Who was this notorious & mysterious SS general, he just vanished in May '45 (warhistoryonline.com). Could Sir Francis Bacon, the Man behind the Curtain, have similarly disappeared underground, perhaps to the enclave of alchemists hidden somewhere in the Pyrenees? If so, was he simply rejoining the underground civilisation from which he originally sprang? The C’s themselves have given support to the idea of Bacon having links to the enclave of alchemists in the Pyrenees and his involvement in the mystery of Oak Island:
Q: Seeing the unseen. You mentioned once before that the "Rosicrucians act as a thief in the night." You also mentioned that I ought to dig into the Rosicrucians, and I went to the University library, and it was essentially missing...
A: Connect the Rosicrucians to your favourite island by the "beech." Horticulturally, please, and family.
Q: Oak Island?
A: Yup! Then, connect the Pyrenees to the Canaries.
And
Q: Well, this is what we are looking at! I have even discovered that Sir Francis Bacon's name is even derived from "beech," and that his Latin signature has the gematria number of 17 - and January 17 is the feast day of St. Anthony, who replaced St. Augustine in this affair somewhat... and I have connected the Rosicrucians all over the blasted planet, for crying out loud! And, who is who here? Just who are the good guys?
A: Airports are used by both.
Q: Well, what is THAT supposed to mean?
A: Transdimensional Atomic Remolecularizer
[
MJF: And the C’s have told us that there is a TDARM belonging to the Reptilians buried on Oak Island, which can facilitate teleportation, as can the Grail, Merkabah or Matriarch Stone that transported a group of Kanteekians to Earth – perhaps explaining what the C’s meant by “Airports are used by both”. The C’s have also told us that teleportation is the means by which the underworlders travel to and from their underground bases.]
So, is it so far-fetched to suggest that Bacon may have had strong links to the subterranean civilisation known as the Nation of the Third Eye who are a part of the Orion Empire and its chain of command. If Bacon was their agent, what role did he have to play? Well, we have already seen that he undertook from a young age the task of bringing about a universal reformation of the whole world through his Great Instauration. This was to be achieved not only by a plan to advance human knowledge and “enlightenment" (the buzz word for what became the ‘Age of Enlightenment’ and a word much favoured in Masonic circles) but also by creating suitable vehicles and conditions for scientific and technological advancement, as promoted in Bacon’s The New Atlantis through his ‘House of Solomon’, which would eventually be realised first through the ‘Invisible College’ - which met in secret during the English Civil War and Oliver Cromwell’s reign as Lord Protector and may even have been the English branch of the Rosicrucians - and then through The Royal Society, an institution that enjoyed the patronage of King Charles II, which would over time become a key driver of the industrial revolution of the 18th century.
Was Bacon’s mission purely philanthropic on his part or could there have been an ulterior motive lying behind it, one even he may not have been aware of? I say this because of what the C’s said here about the Orions and their long-term plans:
A: Even if speed of light travel, or "faster," were not possible, and it is, of course, there is no reason why an alien race could not construct a space "ark," living for many generations on it. They could travel great distances through time and space, looking for a suitable world for conquest. Upon finding such, they could then install this ark in a distant orbit, build bases upon various solid planes in that solar system, and proceed to patiently manipulate the chosen civilizations to develop a suitable technological infrastructure. And then, after the instituting of a long, slow, and grand mind programming project, simply step in and take it over once the situation was suitable.
Q: Is this, in fact, what has happened, or is happening?
A: It could well be, and maybe now it is the time for you to learn about the details.
Q: Well, would such a race be 3rd or 4th density in orientation?
A: Why not elements of both? [MJF: the C’s have since said that elements of the Nation of the Third Eye are bi-density beings, who are able to operate at both the 3rd and 4th density level.]
Q: What is the most likely place that such a race would have originated from?
A: Oh, maybe Orion, for example?
Was Francis Bacon one of the people tasked with sowing the seeds, like the character of Jack in the tale of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, to establish the suitable technological infrastructure the C’s spoke of that is now manifest in our own day and age? The reference to Jack and the Beanstalk here creates a connection with something the Cs once said to Ark in the session dated 31 October 1998, which in turn creates a possible link to Francis Bacon and the Rosicrucians:
Q: Well, we KNOW that! (A) Now, apparently, everything is going well, and for a while, I think I will have more time to start some real research, and I would like some advice because we don't know how long I will have this time. What would be the first priority for me to work on for now?
A: The journal, to start with. One's objectives should be outlined. The scientist usually begins with this for "fine tuning." We see more opportunities coming though. We led you to the garden, and you planted the beanstalk. Now watch it grow, Jack!
Q: (L) That doesn't mean there is going to be a giant going around saying "fee, fie, foe, fum," does it?
A: The giant is in the meaning.
Q: You mean we gotta kill a giant?
A: No.
Q: (A) I also wanted to ask if I should be more active and ask more questions in future sessions, or to ask less questions and work more on my own?
A: Questions open the doors, Arkadiusz.
Q: (L) I want to go back to this beanstalk!
A: Well, what of the fable?
Q: (L) Well, Jack got these beans and planted them and they grew. He climbed the beanstalk and figured out how to transform or kill the giant, and got the treasure, and ran away and chopped the beanstalk down so the giant couldn't get him. (F) I remember that he used the beanstalk to get to the same level with the giant. (L) Well, which does it mean? Does he use the beanstalk to rise to the level of the giant, get the treasure and live there, or does he run away with the treasure and chop down the beanstalk?
A: Take your pick.
Q: (L) Well, the essence of the story is that Jack was successful. He planted these magic beans and they REALLY grew, like OVERNIGHT! He woke up the next day and the beanstalk reached all the way to the clouds - that is how fast it was. I guess that what you have been doing in this job is planting magic beans that are gonna take off and grow like crazy and be a ladder you can climb to some giant success! If I remember correctly, there was a harp involved.
[…]
Q: I would like for you to give me a super-duper, hunky-dory, knock-me-off-my-socks clue to my treasure hunt.
A: Chevin.
Q: That's it?
A: Yes.
Q: No more?
You may well ask how does this connect to Francis Bacon and the seeds which he sowed and the C’s odd clue of the “Chevin”? In a post on the Alton Towers thread dated 21 April 2021, I wrote:
I will come back to the references to ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ later and some of the other statements. Believe me, there is an absolute treasure trove in this session, much of which I think relates to the Rosicrucians. Note how the C's say: "Tricky those Rosicrucians, tricky". This implies how clever they are in concealing things. I will show how this applies to the Shepherds of Arcadia painting and why the C's should mention "Have you overlooked North America" in the same session in a follow up post.
For now, I wish to focus on the clue they gave of "Chevin". Where is Chevin? Well, when I researched it, it took me to Yorkshire and specifically near the area where Doncaster is located.
The Chevin is the name given to the ridge on the south side of Wharfedale in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, overlooking the market town of Otley, and often known as Otley Chevin.
The origins of the name Chevin are uncertain; the earliest attestation is in an eleventh-century copy of a charter from 972 which gives the spelling scefinc, while a charter of around 1030 gives the form on Scefinge. The most probable origin, according to a range of authorities, is a Brittonic word whose modern Welsh descendant is cefn ("back", "ridge", "ridge of high land"). This word appears in other hill-names, such as Cefn Cribwr and Cefn Bryn in Glamorgan amongst many others in Wales, and also, it has been argued, The Cheviot in Northumberland, and the Cévennes in France
The Chevin is largely covered in attractive old woodland and heathland. It is a part of the Carboniferous Millstone Grit group. A Roman Road ran along the top of the Chevin, part of the road that linked Eboracum (York), Calcaria (Tadcaster) and Olicana (Ilkley), perhaps on the same route as the modern road, Yorkgate, or perhaps about 800 metres to the south.
The highest point of the Chevin is often thought to be Surprise View, however it is in fact Beacon Hill next to Yorkgate quarry which reaches 283 metres (928 ft) at grid reference SE199441 and used to be the site of a trig point. Surprise View is the more visited summit of the Chevin and offers extensive views of Otley and Wharfedale, and has an adjacent car park. It is the site of a cross erected every Easter since 1969.
Parts of the Chevin, known as the Danefield Estate, belonged to landowner Walter Fawkes and his descendants. After World War II, these areas were donated to Otley Urban District Council as a memorial to those from the Wharfe Valley who had lost their lives during the war.
The Roman Map of Britain above shows a sector of Ermine Street for which there was an alternative route. As Ermine Street extended north out of Lincoln and past Scampton an alternative course of Ermine Street curved left and formed a semicircle on a wide heading west of the Humber Estuary. The straight northerly route, traced in red on the map, between Lincoln and York was the shorter, but was not passable over the Humber Estuary during adverse weather conditions. Thus an alternative route was established (see also Roman roads in Britain). This 'alternative' route is detailed in the Antonine Itinerary and linked York (Eboracum), Castleford (Lagecium), Doncaster (Danum), Littleborough (Agelocum) and Lincoln (Lindum). Beginning at the modern Lincolnshire Showground the portion of this route in Lincolnshire is known as Till Bridge Lane, the modern A1500. The route in the Doncaster area, and again north of Castleford, is known as the Roman Ridge or Roman Rigg.
The Roman Ridge is that part of the Roman road of Ermine Street located in the Doncaster area of South Yorkshire, England. Although in places, Ermine Street follows the modern Great North Road (now numbered the A638), there is a stretch between Sunnyfields and Red House which is known as the Roman Ridge.
The Roman Ridge is colloquially known as the Roman Rigg, or ridge.
Now I am not saying this is definitive proof but if Dancar (which combines the names of the goddesses Danu and Car) is Doncaster in Yorkshire and is the place where the Philosophers (Rosicrucians) met, then this is possibly corroboration. The C's say “the Rosicrucians are tricky” but they appear to be even trickier!
I have not been able to determine where in Doncaster they may have met. In the 17th century Doncaster was not a particularly large town but it would feature in the English Civil War in the middle of the century. Gilbert Talbot, the 7th Earl of Shrewsbury owned considerable parcels of land in Yorkshire where the City of Sheffield (not far from Doncaster) was their main base. His marriage to Mary Cavendish, the daughter of Bess of Hardwick (one of the richest widows in England), would have brought even more Yorkshire properties into his property portfolio, including perhaps one in Doncaster. Doncaster was a fairly off the beaten track sort of place to host a secret meeting of Rosicrucians who didn't want to draw attention to themselves. Such a meeting in London or York might have been far more visible.
The second point I would like to draw out is the C's remarks seemingly directed to Ark:
"A: The journal, to start with. One's objectives should be outlined. The scientist usually begins with this for "fine tuning." We see more opportunities coming though. We led you to the garden, and you planted the beanstalk. Now watch it grow, Jack! "
On the surface this seems to imply that they have given Ark the clues, or seeds, now let them germinate like Jack's beans into a large beanstalk, i.e., the Unified Field Theory. However, I also think it is a reference to Sir Francis Bacon since, along with Roger Bacon, he is viewed as the father of the scientific method and empiricism, although many prefer to link this with Sir Isaac Newton one of his successors and a President of The Royal Society. Indeed, The Royal Society was in essence Bacon's brainchild. If you view Bacon's scientific methodology and the creation of The Royal Society as the start of the Age of Science and Invention, then you can see how Bacon had planted the beans/seeds leading to this. Hence, Francis Bacon could be said to be one of the true giants of science.
I subsequently added in a further post:
I thought this might have more than one meaning. I referred to Sir Francis Bacon’s role in establishing the scientific method as a second possible meaning. This is what Wikipedia has to say on the subject:
“His works are seen as developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. Most importantly, he argued science could be achieved by use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves.”
This matches up for me with the C’s statement that “One's objectives should be outlined. The scientist usually begins with this for "fine tuning.”
However, I think there is a third possible meaning to the quote and that is the idea of planting beans or seeds and watching them grow very fast into a giant beanstalk, with the emphasis very much on giant. Hence the C’s statement “A: The giant is in the meaning”.
It was Bacon who helped to lay the seeds of the British colonies in North America that would grow into the United States of America in a relatively short space of time. Here again I will support this hypothesis by quoting from Bacon’s Wikipedia entry:
Bacon played a leading role in establishing the British colonies in North America, especially in Virginia, the Carolinas and Newfoundland in northeastern Canada. His government report on "The Virginia Colony" was submitted in 1609. In 1610 Bacon and his associates received a charter from the king to form the Tresurer and the Companye of Adventurers and planter of the Cittye of London and Bristoll for the Collonye or plantacon in Newfoundland, and sent John Guy to found a colony there. Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, wrote: "Bacon, Locke and Newton. I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical and Moral Sciences".
There is yet another indirect connection to Francis Bacon in the ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ story and that is the giant's catchphrase "
Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman", which Laura refers to above, for this phrase appears in Shakespeare's play
King Lear (c 1606) in the form "
Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man." (Act 3, Scene 4). Since I have supported the theory that Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare’s plays, then this link
between King Lear and the
Jack and the Beanstalk fable may be yet another reason why the C’s chose to make a reference to Jack and the Beanstalk. In so many ways, Francis Bacon can, like Jack, be said to have sown seeds that germinated into giant beanstalks.
Francis Bacon and his Links to Freemasonry
Mrs Pott devoted a whole chapter of her book to Francis Bacon’s links to Freemasonry, in spite of the fact that English Freemasonry claims that the movement did not come into being before the early 18th century, almost a century after Bacon’s death.
Various people have over the years argued that Francis Bacon was connected with secret groups or secret societies. In particular, they believe there is evidence for his connection with one or the other of the following groups:
1. The Order of the Helmet (see above)
2. The Areopagus Club
3. The Freemasons
4. The Rosicrucians
We have alluded to Bacon’s alleged connections to the Rosicrucians but what of the Freemasons. As Mrs Pott explains, whereas the Rosicrucians were truly a secret society, Freemasonry was by way of contrast merely a society with secrets.
Many people have agreed, however, with the statement of Dame Frances Yates in her opus, the "Rosicrucian Enlightenment" where she said:
"The European phenomenon of Freemasonry almost certainly was connected with the Rosicrucian movement."
At this point I wish to quote at length from
Mathew Walker’s excellent work
Compeers by Night on Bacon’s links to Freemasonry:
Some believe Bacon hid veiled descriptions of people and events he was associated with in the Shakespeare plays. In the cult that grew around Queen Elizabeth she was often portrayed as Diana, goddess of the moon and of the hunt. As her unacknowledged son, Francis Bacon was a prince in shadow. In Henry IV, Act I, Scene 2, Falstaff says:
"...let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon; and let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal."
And the prince acquiesces, saying, "..us that are the moon's men.."
Can we identify any of these "gentlemen of the shade"? Who were these people who worked behind the scenes with Francis Bacon? Is there a possibility of drawing any of them out of the shadow into the light? Major speculations about Bacon's connection with secret groups and secret societies have centred around the Freemasons and Rosicrucians. Is there any evidence to connect him with these groups?
There have been persistent claims that Freemasonry, and to a lesser degree the Rosicrucians, were derived from the Knights Templar. But an atmosphere of confusion clouds the whole subject. There is a tangled undergrowth that needs to be cleared away before the subject can be seen clearly. The case is much the same with the subject of Bacon's association with Secret Societies as with his famous description of the knowledge of his time. There is a great need to tear the whole structure down and build it anew from the foundation up.
John Robinson presents a persuasive argument in his book, "Born in Blood" that Freemasonry was a secret society begun by the Knights Templars after they were suppressed. Interestingly, Robinson distinguishes between aspects of Freemasonic ritual he says were originated by the Templars, and others added later, and it is just in these others that there exists the major part of the agreement with many of the detailed features of Bacon's ideas. It seems the Freemasonic ritual originated by the Templars to transmit a specific body of Templar knowledge continued relatively unchanged up to the time of Francis Bacon, and Francis Bacon altered the ritual to conceal in it certain knowledge he wished to transmit to later ages.
Moreover, there is evidence the Rosicrucian Manifestos contain symbolism complementary to the knowledge Bacon concealed in the Masonic rituals. In order to make my case for this theory I will begin with the basic ideas in Bacon's works that are a prerequisite for understanding his thought.
Basic Bacon
Obviously, Bacon's main idea, around which his entire system of thought revolved, was his Great Instauration, his great plan and program for human enlightenment, and for the advancement of human knowledge. One part of his Great Instauration dealt with the idea of a ladder that stood upon the base of particulars in nature and rose up through all the steps of generalization to the "form" or essence of knowledge. Bacon called this the Ladder of the Intellect* [MJF: It is also worth noting here that one of Freemasonry’s main symbols is Jacob’s Ladder – see image below]. Other ideas within this scheme are also important, perhaps none more than: The Model of the World.
Q: Well, no I don't. That one slipped by. I will follow that one... You also once before said that when a certain 7 people assembled into a perpendicular reality, that the learning would be exponential. I am sure we are not there yet, but I am wondering if this information I have discovered about bloodlines and potential activation of DNA has any connection to that idea?
A: Build your staircase one step at a time.
And
A: A quest is successfully followed one step at a time. No need to gauge the staircase.
Central to Bacon's system of thought was the idea that he was building a model of the universe, or of the world:
"We neither dedicate nor raise a capitol or pyramid to the pride of man, but rear a holy temple in his mind, on the model of the universe, which model therefore we imitate." - Novum Organum
"For I am building in the human understanding a true model of the world" - Novum Organum
This model contained within it a twofold design that mirrored the world of his time, - the Old World cantered around the Mediterranean Sea, and the New World (America) far west of the Pillars of Hercules. Bacon adopted the phrased "Plus Ultra" [more beyond] for his motto, in contrast to the "Non Plus Ultra" [no more beyond] of the ancients, who, restricted to voyages in the Mediterranean, had the phrase "Non Plus Ultra" on the Pillars of Hercules. Thus, the frontispiece of his 1620 Novum Organum (see image below) shows a ship sailing out beyond two pillars that depict the Pillars of Hercules. **
** Could the twin pillars of Hercules have also depicted the twin pillars known as Boaz and Joachin or Jeroboam which famously stood in front of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem (see more below on this) recalling that Bacon’s work the New Atlantis concerned the building of what he termed the ‘House of Solomon’ a house of science or knowledge that would eventually be realised in the institution of the Royal Society during the reign of King Charles II?
The Old World metaphorically dealt with knowledge from the ancient world while the New World Metaphorically dealt with the future, New World of the Sciences to be discovered by Bacon's New Machine for the Intellect. The New Machine for the Intellect was the Intellectual Compass invented by Bacon to be used in guiding the Ship of Discovery to the discovery of new knowledge in the voyages on his Intellectual Globe. Moreover, in connection with this model of the world he had invented a discovery device, an intellectual compass to be used in making the discovery of new arts and sciences as one navigated on his model of the world, his - Intellectual Globe. The stratagem of his plan required that a considerable period of time should pass before this machine for the intellect was activated in order that sufficient data from nature might be gathered before the machine was put into operation.
Ancient Temples Made on the Model of the World
Bacon's holy temple on the model of the universe, or of the world, is obviously an idea from ancient knowledge. To understand this concept, we need to be familiar with the practice among the ancients of making temples on the model of the world. Two of the foremost Masonic scholars, Albert Pike, and Albert Mackey, supply information on this subject. In "Morals and Dogma" Albert Pike says:
"all the most ancient temples were intended to symbolize the Universe. Every temple was the world in miniature."
Thus, all of the most ancient temples were made on the model of the world. Pike goes on to say:
"All temples were surrounded by pillars, recording the number of the constellations, the signs of the zodiac, the cycles of the planets; and each one was a microcosm or symbol of the Universe, having for roof or ceiling the starred vault of Heaven."
MJF: Perhaps Goblekli Tepe and Stonehenge were amongst the earliest examples of this reflection of the universe?
All temples were originally open at the top, having for roof the sky. Twelve pillars described the belt of the zodiac. Whatever the number of the pillars, they were mystical everywhere."
Mackey says the form was sometimes in the shape of a cross, emblematic of the four elements of which the earth is composed, and sometimes circular, but more generally an oval, as a representation of the mundane egg, which, in the ancient systems, was a symbol of the world. In the Zoroasteric mysteries of Persia, the temple of initiation was circular, being made to represent the universe; and the sun in the east, with the surrounding zodiac, formed an indispensable part of the ceremony of reception. In the Celtic mysteries of the Druids, the temple of initiation was either oval, to represent the mundane egg - or circular because the circle was a symbol of the universe*. In the great mysteries of Eleusis, which were celebrated at Athens, St. Chrysostom along with other authorities says the temple of initiation was symbolic of the universe. This last information is particularly significant since Bacon allegorizes the Mysteries of Eleusis in the introductory play to the First Folio - The Tempest, and The Tempest is intimately connected with the symbolism of Freemasonry.
*Could this be why Knights Templar churches and chapels were often circular in design rather than cruciform as was, and is still, the norm for Christian churches?
Continued in Part 2
. My late maternal grandmother was one such who ruled over her family with an iron rod until her premature death in her mid-fifties. She was as tough as they come and even though her sons were champion boxers, she was not beyond given them a clout when she thought they had it coming to them. She would have had no time for today's snow flakes.
