Foreign Thank you for joining Wars of the Roses and this is the architect of the new age by Joel disha FRC an article taken from rosicrucian digest volume 25 number five June 1947. the architect of the new age by Joe disha FRC Francis Bacon began one of his essays
Thus what is truth suggesting pilate and would not stay for an answer most people who inquire as to the truth about Francis Bacon are as impatient as pilate in regard to the answer themselves are insufficiently interested to make the necessary search for the facts and often exhibit a bristling
Attitude the moment their previous viewpoints are in danger of being corrected the difficulty is many times multiplied when an attempt is made to write informatively and comprehensively of one whose activities have been too great to bring within a narrow Focus Alexander the Great was Francis Bacon’s
Youthful ideal and he early set out to imitate him but with a very significant difference Bacon’s aim was to take the minds of men captive and so completely and subtly did he succeed in his undertaking that hundreds of thousands made captive are knowing allegiance to him have never been aware
Of him as their master early in life he became imbued with the thought of the greatest benefactor of mankind was the one who could show man how to regain his rightful place in the realm of nature although he judged this to be the purpose of learning he
Recognized that in his own day the deficiencies of learning far outweighed its advantages and that men were coming more and more under the dominance of wrong Masters and methods he himself left Cambridge without his degree because of his disappointment with its educational aims an altogether new method was necessary
Before learning could produce works for the benefit of man free him from the entanglements of his own thinking and lead him away from disputation over non-essentials how to accomplish this was a task greater than that which confronted the mythical Hercules in many ways his own country was just emerging
From a state of barbarism all kinds of vicious and superstitious ideas inhabited the minds of his countrymen even the knowledge which the past had had lay locked away in languages which people could not read they had no language of their own into which foreign books could be translated
While in France as a Young Man bacon had seen how the French language had been created by a small group of men and he conceived the idea of a similar possibility at home with a medium of communication a small group fired with enthusiasm for his ideal and a knowledge of fundamental
Laws and principles he knew that his end could be accomplished fortunately he had already contacted the ancient rosicrucians and from them learned those laws of Life which were to be the core of his philosophic teachings at that time as well he received the specific commission to Institute a cycle of
Rosicrucian activity in England from this time on virtually everything he did tended to fill out some aspect of his overall plan of insinuating his new philosophy into the minds and Natures of his countrymen there were more dangers involved than we today can possibly appreciate the 30 years from 1579 saw
Tremendous activity in All Phases of English life and at the close of the period an unexcelled language was the englishman’s own furthermore everything to be known was accessible in that language such an unparalleled accomplishment is without precedent and could never have happened without design evidence of mastership
Is one thing to recognize that the mind of man is little disciplined it is another to Fashion a method by which it can be fed with truth so that it may learn to discipline itself one has only to read the Fable of Orpheus as bacon interprets it in the wisdom of the
Ancients to satisfy himself that here was a man who envisaged great things and one has but to continue such reading by a careful examination of those fruitful 30 years of History following 1579 in England to assure himself that a great dream was actually being made manifest with orpheus’s playing all nature became
Reconciled and harmonious then at a blast upon a horn orpheus’s music and the Peace of nature were submerged once more in DIN and chaos men’s uncontrolled appetites and passions are not stilled for long and the would-be benefactor finds his work negative and Tom apart by the very ones
He intended to be his beneficiaries whatever we imagine the purpose of philosophy to be or however unrelated to day-to-day living bacon thought it well represented in the figure of Orpheus insinuating into men’s Minds the love of virtue and Peace by means of eloquence and persuasion thus forming men into
Societies bringing them under laws and regulations and making them forget their unbridled passions and affections so long as they hearken to precepts and submit to discipline to one acquainted only with the usual facts of Bacon’s Life as a lawyer and Statesman as they are set forth in school texts William
Joseph Long’s comparison of bacon to one of the Architects of the Middle Ages would seem not in the least to apply nonetheless it is always a mistake to judge one aspect of a man’s life to have been his whole concern it would be the greatest of mistakes in the case of
Bacon in his own words he sought to work as God works secretly for the benefit of mankind he spoke of his intention to do this hinting that some of his knowledge was to be imparted openly and that some of it would be reserved held back for those capable of receiving it
We must expect then many surprises from such a man whose ideas were not only original but were on a plane which is non-existent to the average man and envisaged only dimly by great minds this is proved to be true in the lens terratio magna or the great restoration of true philosophy
It is not surprising that little Minds have misjudged bacon to have been attempting something here similar to what they would have attempted in the same circumstances actually he sought something far different and this fact is evident in the division of the Lauren storatio into six parts it is reiterated
In the reference in the new Atlantis to the College of six days work and it is made altogether plain in the fact that every least thing he did was contributory to his great aim to sweep away the species philosophy of the schoolmen and to restore to individual
Man a complete and workable knowledge of ontology this suggests why Scholars have never been able to fit Francis Bacon and his plan into the purview of their limited knowledge unable to credit anyone with a vision such as his they have approached him from obvious and incorrect premises and so have neglected
Many seemingly unrelated Elements which would otherwise have given proper perspective to his work it is some measure of the man in itself to realize that 300 years have been necessary for a competent view of him bacon and Rosicrucianism in order to assess rightly the part bacon played not only in instituting the Elizabethan
Renaissance but also in laying the foundation for our modern world we should be well grounded in philosophy mysticism cryptography psychology and Science and should be equipped as well with a Viewpoint capable of seeing a unified connection at the center between circumstances and events which lie widely scattered on the surface in other
Words to The rosiecrucian Francis Bacon’s plan as well as everything he wrote and did to bring it into operation is consistently rosicrucian this is nowhere more evident than in three widely separated bits of evidence the rosicrucian manifestos the new Atlantis and the Shakespeare’s play The Tempest although the world considered them as
Entirely unrelated without any connection with each other one can discover upon careful analysis that they are intimately connected consistent with themselves and proclaiming in almost every line their single source of emanation in each case however Scholars have mistakenly thought them to be pronouncements of something about to take place in widely unrelated Fields
Whereas in reality they were statements of what already was being accomplished in several Departments of one overall activity it is impossible to take any constructive phase of the Elizabethan scene and proceed very far in its consideration without finding it subtly connected with Francis Bacon it is perhaps true as Charles Fort wrote that
One measures a circle beginning anywhere yet it is much more easily accomplished by first establishing the center if we are unprepared to do the latter we are forced to the way of the former and for 300 years Scholars have been going round and round the circle of the Elizabethan World subjecting each phase
Of it to minute examination coming only to half explanations and incomplete answers only occasionally has someone glimpsed the center and drawn the circle around it it is at times discouraging that this is so but the cosmic has decreed that we can never accept the larger view until we have rightly earned
It it is true that many assertions far-fetched and incapable of proof have been made regarding Francis Bacon’s activities this has necessarily been so because the time which will bring truth to light has not yet been fulfilled the new Atlantis carried the motto with time the hidden truth will appear tempura
Pate occulta Veritas as well as because many related things have not yet been recognized as belonging together detailed re-examination of the farmer and the confessio referred to as the rosiecrucian manifestos in the past has engendered only greater confusion and bewilderment because students have been too literal and undiscerning to penetrate the intended
Ambiguity of these writings a re-reading of the manifestos in connection with the Tempest and the new Atlantis should be sufficient to establish the fact of there being phases of the insta ratio Magna under Bacon’s Direction furthermore a study of Bacon’s labor in England to bring an esoteric activity safely into exoteric
Manifestation as well as a tracing out of his connections and activities while on the continent will I believe place all of these seemingly unrelated elements into acceptable juxtaposition prominent Associates during his stay in France as a Young Man bacon had made contacts with many who were adepts hermeticists and Mystics for
One thing through his foster brother Anthony he knew either directly or indirectly boccolini whose 77 advertisement of ragugli di pamasso was incorporated in the farmer boccolini’s work dealt with the diseases of society in it the god Apollo calls upon the wise men of Greece to examine into the state
Of society and prescribe a remedy their conclusion is that the age is too corrupt for Cura curiously the title of boccolini’s book is suggested in the greater sizes Holden by Apollo at Parnassus published in England by George Withers wherein the Lord varulum Francis Bacon is set down as the chancellor of
Parnassus and is made Apollo’s representative to preside over the learning of his age another one of the men with whom bacon was intimately Associated was Henry IV of France who came from the strongly Mystic and staunchly Protestant Kingdom of Navarre the French hermeticist Barnard in his letter de occulta philosophia printed in
Leiden Holland in 1601 asked all mystical philosophers to make known their art to Henry forth this is much more significant than it would seem for at least one present-day traveler to the kingdom of Navarre reports that during a brief stay there he was permitted to enter a veritable
Rosicrucian Lodge room where in a well-thumbed and much annotated copy of the first folio of Shakespeare’s plays lay open to view Shakespeare’s play loves labor loss deals with a bit of contemporary French history its setting is the park at Navarre and Henry margarite and other equally important personages appear
Thinly veiled as its characters this play as Alfred Dodd points out conceals the Genesis of the Masonic fraternity and Andrea the now famous rosicrucian manifestos the farmer fraternitatis or the proclamation of the confraternity of the very laudable order of the Rose cry and also the confessio fraternitatives or the confession of the laudable
Confraternity of the very honorable Rose cross were printed in Germany in 1614 and 1615 although on very good authority The Farmer at least was said to have been in circulation much earlier research regarding the anonymous author finally settled upon Johann Valentin Andrea only to end in his vigorous
Denial of having had anything to do with it to one familiar with Bacon’s philosophy as well as that of the Brotherhood described in the new Atlantis the conception as well as the wording of the manifestos seems strangely and familiarly baconian interesting in this connection is the only known portrait of Andrea it
Presents an old man in skullcap rough and robe flanked by Masonic symbols and encircled by cryptic Shields or Coats of Arms under the portrait are these words seen here two of the shields near the head of the picture carry initials one being F the other B over the head of the portrait
Itself are these cryptic words Deo conetsus nunchwam confuses the word connectsus prevents what would otherwise be an easy translation it is printed as though it might be three words thus conetsus and taken as such suggests a neat riddle the Khan Whispers Coney the common Elizabethan word for
Rabbit and often used in emblems and headpieces to represent bacon and sus the Latin for saw a word used cryptically to signify a Freemason if this hint is right the phrase is to be read to God the Coney and the sower never confusing apply to the matter in hand it is a
Straightforward direction to the beholder do not be puzzled it says because Andrea’s name is here for this is a picture of Francis Bacon Solomon’s house the new Atlantis while being similar to other familiar works of utopian nature was nevertheless designed to be of serious and practical use Bacon’s
Chaplain Raleigh indicates this in his preface address to the reader this Fable my Lord devised to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college instituted for the interpreting of Nature and the producing of great and marvelous works for the benefit of men under the name of
Solomon’s house or the College of the six days works and even so far his lordship hath proceeded as to finish that part certainly the model is more vast and high than can possibly be imitated in all things notwithstanding most things therein now within men’s power to effect that the scope of
Endeavor of the Brotherhood of Solomon’s house embraced the universe is indicated by its being called the College of the six days work as well as by the words of the father of Solomon’s house regarding it the end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions
Of things and the enlarging of the sounds of human Empire to the affecting of all things possible the similarity of scope interest and manner of working between the Brotherhood of the new Atlantis and that of the manifestos is striking this is further suggested in the cave of
Solomon’s house and the tomb of CRC it is significantly reiterated by the fact that paracelsus’s works were said to be in crc’s Tomb before they were written and by the fact that some Unwritten books of the New Testament were likewise said to be in possession of the brothers
Of Solomon’s house the identity of the two organizations is still further emphasized by the Cherub seals used by the Brotherhood of Solomon’s house and the signature of the farmer under the shadow of thy Wings Jehovah but perhaps most pointed of all is the statement that the brothers of Solomon’s
House dwelt in God’s bosom a Land Unknown and the Brethren of the rosy cross had a temple or building although one hundred thousand people had very near seen and beheld the same shall forever remain untouched undestroved and hidden from the Wicked World this last suggests a deeper vein of Truth running
More tellingly through the Affairs of men than is ordinarily suspected as AE wait has written the true history of the rosicrucians beneath the broad tide of human history that flowed this stealthy undercurrence of the secret societies which frequently drown in the depths the changes that take place on the surface truth’s Temple
The obscurity evident in the manifestos could thus be justified and the link between them and the new Atlantis and the Tempest could be understood as having been purposely submerged the fact that the whole matter of the manifestos was by many believed to be a hoax is of itself evidence that what was intended
By them lay too deep and too far apart from the aims of the commonality to be in the least degree appreciate it never seems to occur to some Minds that Hidden Treasures either of the heart or head have to be delved for and do not lie scattered where any casual
Passerby May pick them up rather in this field only the spiritually awakened could read rightly the intent of such matter and follow its direction those who otherwise and were disappointed consequently mistook their inability to make contact with the order as ipso facto evidence that it did not exist and
That therefore it must be a hoax today in strangely similar ways truth still has its Temple unseen and unsuspected by the hundreds of thousands who passed it hourly thus it is that scientific literalists and unenlightened dogmatists have missed the import of these three pieces of writing not alone in not inducing the inner
Truth which each individually contains but also in failing to discover the pattern which knits these writings together and shows them forth as parts of a genuine esoteric tradition esoteric literature it is to be remembered as altogether pertinent to this consideration that John Hayden issued the new Atlantis
Under the title A Voyage to the land of the rosicrucians thus for all time identifying Bacon’s work as truly rosicrucian it is equally of moment to note that the Royal Society of London which came into existence around 1660 took its rise from the invisible rosicrucians working at Temple house in
Gorhambury and so apt clear shadowed forth in the new Atlantis that all of this is of a peace is abundantly evident when we turn to the Tempest which has been aptly called Shakespeare’s mystery play it has been many times remarked as significant that the last Shakespearean
Effort should be so like in setting and character that of Francis Bacon’s new Atlantis which came toward the close of his career we must remember that Shakespeare’s plays are not Classics either because they are 300 years old or because he wrote them they are Classics for the reason that
They have stood the test of time as well as because they have something fundamental to tell as Lena Ashwell writes of them in her book Reflections from Shakespeare they light up the deeps of human consciousness revealing us to ourselves warning us against evil helping us to live showing us Heights
Attainable in the Tempest we see dramatized a beautiful allegory in which Ferdinand a Shipwrecked Prince is prepared for marriage with Miranda the princess under the benevolent guidance of Prospero all of the elements of esoteric wisdom and foreknowledge Associated both with the Brethren of Solomon’s house and with those of the
Rosy cross are present in this play and exhibited as existing for the benefit of man when man has prepared himself to make the proper use of them this is immediately made plain in the play by letting Ferdinand represent the mind of man Miranda whose meaning is admirable or admiration that wisdom or science
Which dwells in a secret unknown place and Prospero the higher forces which guide the mind of man to that secret wisdom Miranda as we first discover her beautiful and admirable is nevertheless incomplete her true qualities are still dormant and unawakened and must remain so until the mind of man has been
Touched by her beauty and adds the complementary element which will manifest the perfect hole Prospero has brought Ferdinand to this Mystic Isle for further test and Perfection the mind of man must be taught many lessons and be well tried before it is even ready to know what it wants or to recognize that
Which is most admirable so to Ferdinand is given the heavy task of menial labor indicating that the senses of man must be disciplined before they can be devoted to the highest ends of wisdom and science but Prospero speeds the preparation and blesses the union of the mind of man with Divine wisdom showing
All the forces of nature ready to celebrate such a marriage it is only after the marriage has been accomplished that is after true learning has been restored to her rightful place in the mind of man the Prospero breaks his staff and drowns his book here is a perfect example of the models
Which bacon had promised to the world through his new method models by which every man might find the way to truth so that the mind of man should no longer be filled with Superstition and disputation but by rightly interrogating could become wedded to True wisdom and thus
Produce that which would glorify God and benefit his own estate again it has been suggested that the Tempest may be read as a kind of initiation by which Mortals are passed through ceremonies and experiences which will fit them to be perfect mates for divine wisdom thus Prospero would stand as the
Initiator Miranda would still represent Divine wisdom caliban man’s untamed and rebellious desires and aerial the master in charge in this initiation there are three planes or degrees the first that of Temptation here men are beguiled by their Untamed desires caliban being a loose anagram for cannibal they are led by Ariel into
The mire and approach prospero’s cave to murder the Divine image in man defile wisdom Miranda and so rule the Earth in other words they are bent on entering the Kingdom of Heaven by force they put on hairy garments symbolic of their descent into Incarnation and are hunted by spiritual hounds they represent those
Individuals who become arrested in their Spiritual Development who fail to evolve spiritually and in successive lifetimes lapse into the Maya and are said in the language of spiritual science to be doomed to the Nirvana of annihilation the second degree shows us those Mortals who have come out of the Maya but are
Still lost in a Wilderness mist they are cast onto a purgatorial Isle and they’re undergo the ancient ritual test of famine thirst and loneliness they are searching for the King’s son that is for the Lost word or for truth they wrestle with their accusing consciences and are at last brought out
Of the Mist into the clear air and to the very threshold of the Temple of the Holy Spirit the third degree is the story of the king’s lost son the mind of man is symbolically represented as having worked its way out of the confusing mist of disputation and false desire even up
To the summit of the Mystic Isle where Divine wisdom can be recognized and claimed for its own unified viewpoint all of Shakespeare’s plays with their deep esoteric import bespeak not only the unified Viewpoint of bacon and Shakespeare but sound esoteric depths as well they direct the thought immediately
To the mystery schools of ancient times from which these fundamental teachings have been handed down Rob them of their inner core of esoteric matter and you take from them that which constitutes their greatness who one each Bear’s clear-cut marks of a single design and continuous study of them enforces the
Conclusion that they were part of one great purpose which was ethical educational and spiritual in nature further that their author sought to justify the ways of God to man that there was a perfect order and purpose in the world that a true Brotherhood did exist in God’s bosomal and unknown that
Deity was a fact in immortality No Illusion as yet we know no more of Shakespeare than we know of Francis Bacon both worked as God works and when we have rightly assessed the worth of one we shall know the true value of the other we shall then in truth be adepts
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