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[[File:Francis Bacon.jpg|thumb|alt=caption|Francis Bacon]] | [[File:Francis Bacon.jpg|thumb|alt=caption|Francis Bacon]] | ||
Francis Bacon (1561–1626), was a philosopher, statesman, essayist and literary master, an embodiment of the Ascended Master Saint Germain. Bacon, who has been called the greatest mind the West ever produced, is known as the father of inductive reasoning and the scientific method, which to a great degree are responsible for the age of technology in which we now live. He foreknew that only applied science could free the masses from human misery and the drudgery of sheer survival in order that they might seek a higher spirituality they once knew. | Francis Bacon (1561–1626), was a philosopher, statesman, essayist and literary master, an embodiment of the Ascended Master [[Saint Germain]]. Bacon, who has been called the greatest mind the West ever produced, is known as the father of inductive reasoning and the scientific method, which to a great degree are responsible for the age of technology in which we now live. He foreknew that only applied science could free the masses from human misery and the drudgery of sheer survival in order that they might seek a higher spirituality they once knew. | ||
“The Great Instauration” (meaning the great restoration after decay, lapse or dilapidation) was his formula to change “the whole wide world.” He first conceived of the concept as a boy, and when he later crystallized it in his 1607 book by the same name, it launched the English Renaissance. | “The Great Instauration” (meaning the great restoration after decay, lapse or dilapidation) was his formula to change “the whole wide world.” He first conceived of the concept as a boy, and when he later crystallized it in his 1607 book by the same name, it launched the English Renaissance. | ||
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So, too, was Bacon behind many of the political ideas on which Western civilization is based. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jeremy Bentham took Bacon as their ideological starting point. His revolutionary principles are the engine that has driven the American nation. They are the very essence of the can-do spirit. “Men are not animals erect,” Bacon averred, “but immortal Gods. The Creator has given us souls equal to all the world, and yet satiable not even with a world.” | So, too, was Bacon behind many of the political ideas on which Western civilization is based. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jeremy Bentham took Bacon as their ideological starting point. His revolutionary principles are the engine that has driven the American nation. They are the very essence of the can-do spirit. “Men are not animals erect,” Bacon averred, “but immortal Gods. The Creator has given us souls equal to all the world, and yet satiable not even with a world.” | ||
Francis Bacon also promoted the colonization of the New World, for he knew that it was there that his ideas could take deepest root and come to fullest flower. He convinced James I to charter Newfoundland and was an officer in the Virginia Company, which sponsored the settlement of Jamestown, England’s first permanent colony in America. He also founded Freemasonry, a fraternity dedicated to the freedom and enlightenment of mankind, whose members played a large part in founding the new nation. | Francis Bacon also promoted the colonization of the New World, for he knew that it was there that his ideas could take deepest root and come to fullest flower. He convinced James I to charter Newfoundland and was an officer in the Virginia Company, which sponsored the settlement of Jamestown, England’s first permanent colony in America. He also founded [[Freemasonry]], a fraternity dedicated to the freedom and enlightenment of mankind, whose members played a large part in founding the new nation. | ||
== Life story in cipher == | |||
Yet he could have been an even greater boon to England and the whole world had he been allowed to fulfill his destiny. The same ciphers which run throughout the Shakespearean plays also run through Francis Bacon’s own works and those of many of his circle of friends. Both ciphers contain his true life story, the musings of his soul, and anything he wished to bequeath to future generations but could not publish openly for fear of the queen. | Yet he could have been an even greater boon to England and the whole world had he been allowed to fulfill his destiny. The same ciphers which run throughout the Shakespearean plays also run through Francis Bacon’s own works and those of many of his circle of friends. Both ciphers contain his true life story, the musings of his soul, and anything he wished to bequeath to future generations but could not publish openly for fear of the queen. | ||
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In the end, he determined not to rebel against his mother or later, against her ill-fitted successor, James I. Fortunately for the world, Francis determined to pursue his goal of universal enlightenment in the avenues of literature and science, as adviser to the throne, supporter of colonization, and founder of secret societies, thereby reestablishing the thread of contact with the ancient mystery schools. The outlet of his wounded spirit was his cipher writing in which he poured out his longings to a future age. | In the end, he determined not to rebel against his mother or later, against her ill-fitted successor, James I. Fortunately for the world, Francis determined to pursue his goal of universal enlightenment in the avenues of literature and science, as adviser to the throne, supporter of colonization, and founder of secret societies, thereby reestablishing the thread of contact with the ancient mystery schools. The outlet of his wounded spirit was his cipher writing in which he poured out his longings to a future age. | ||
Toward the end of his life, Bacon was persecuted and went unrecognized for his manifold talents. | == Final years == | ||
Toward the end of his life, Bacon was persecuted and went unrecognized for his manifold talents. He is said to have died in 1626, but some have claimed that he secretly lived in Europe for a time after that. Triumphing over circumstances which would have destroyed lesser men, his soul entered the ritual of the ascension from the Rakoczy Mansion, retreat of the [[Great Divine Director]], on May 1 1684. | |||
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