How Francis Bacon, Patron Saint Of The Enlightenment, Created Freemasonry

The Enlightenemnt Era and Scientism

(NOTE: This essay will be serialized because of the enormous amount of evidence that proves Bacon created Freemasonry )

Few things have had as much influence on the modern world as has Freemasonry, an organization that emerged fully formed from total secrecy on the Summer Solstice-St. John’s Day, June 24th, 1717 in London. From there it spread all over the world just as did the British Army, an army that has invaded 180 countries, leaving Freemasonry behind in most of them. Point of fact, as we will ultimately see, Freemasonry might be the number one reason for the success of the the British Empire.

This essay will examine the evidence that Francis Bacon (1561-1626) (also known by his gentry titles of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Alban) created ‘Blue Lodge’ British Freemasonry, deriving it from various esoteric sources, with it’s extensive symbolism, ritual and remarkable decentralized semi-independent structure.

Baron Verulam is primarily known as a groundbreaking philosopher of Science who first envisioned technocracy in his short novel New Atlantis. He is also known as a Statesman, as former Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England, as a paiderastos, as a historian, gardener and as William Shakespeare.

Esteemed historian of the Enlightenment Peter Gay labels Bacon the “patron saint of the Enlightenment”, with general agreement among historians that he deserves such a remarkable reputation.

By the way, Freemasons are promised ‘enlightenment’ when they join The Craft, as Freemasons call their religion, er… fraternal organization. As we will see, this concordance of Freemasonry with the name of an entire era is certainly not a coincidence.

Bacon’s writing, published in the early 1600’s, encouraged a new “scientific” way of thinking. He effectively promulgated a method of viewing and understanding the natural world based on the gathering of data. This Baconian data was to be examined using inductive reasoning to bring forth conclusions, or 'truths' that were to be judged by their potential to produce something "useful". This Baconian ‘inductive method’ is now our dominant way of thinking, distinct from the dialectical logic of Scholasticism, the school of thought then practiced in all European universities since Thomas Aquinas, that strives to merge Christian theology with Aristotle and ancient philosophy’s more deductive, dialectical approach.

Bacon's time period, officially labeled the Renaissance, was still somewhat Medieval/Feudal in England, evidenced by knights testing themselves in jousting contests in Whitehall Palace for the glory of Queen Elizabeth I, while Baron Verulam was outlining his groundbreaking methodology.

Bacon corresponded with Galileo and influenced Descartes and Liebniz. His secretary Thomas Hobbes, aothor of Leviathon traveled throughout Europe after Bacon’s death in 1626, spreading his ideas. Now known as “the father of empiricism” Bacon directly influenced the ‘Empiricists’ John Locke and David Hume, both of whom denied that the human mind contained ‘innate ideas’, arguing instead that the mind was a ‘tabula rasa’ at birth and all knowledge was empirical knowledge. Bacon in a letter stated that his philsophy “would end metaphysics”.

Dominate Nature: The Birth Of Scientism, The World As A Machine

What was really new in Bacon's methodology was his clearly stated intention to ‘dominate’ nature. Baron Francis was a highly gifted rhetorician and his call for a new science was heeded far and wide- his two most important works were published in Latin. Famed historian of the Renaissance Dame Frances Yates states this in describing his influence:

“…the real significance of Bacon lay in the persuasive power of the language in which he urged the advancement of knowledge”.

Viscount Bacon loved the word dominion, and rather than attempting to understand humanity as part of a living whole, Bacon’s new methodology, lacking in metaphysics, eventually resulted in the modern understanding of the world as a machine that could be manipulated with enough observation, experimentation and data. Here we witness here the birth of Scientism, the newest and fastest growing religion, “the new universal Church” of mankind that few know to which they are a part. Mathematician Alexander Grothendieck defines Scientism as:

Whatever can be expressed in quantitative terms, or can be repeated under laboratory conditions, is an object of scientific knowledge and ipso facto valid and acceptable. In other words, truth (with its traditional value content) is identical with knowledge, that is, with scientific knowledge. Science and the technology derived from science, and they alone, will solve mankind’s problems. This applies equally to purely human problems, notably to psychological, moral, social, and political problems -Alexander Grothendieck “The New Universal Church”

Bacon’s cheerleading for a new Science led directly to the formation of the Royal Society Of London For The Improvement of Natural Knowledge, the first organization devoted to experimental Science. It is still influential and still based in London. At the Royal Society’s inception (1640-1660) it was a dues-based organization (like Freemasonry) open by invitation only (like Freemasonry) and chartered by King Charles II (The United Grand Lodge of Freemasonry must be headed by Royalty). Some of the Royal Society’s very first members are well known today such as the architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral Sir Christopher Wren, and Sir Robert Boyle who discovered of the inverse law of gasses known as Boyle’s law. Wren, and possibly Boyle, were early Freemasons. Scotsman and early Freemason Sir Robert Moray, spy, scientist, and friend of King Charles II, also played a key role at the origin of The Royal Society.

The Royal Society proudly proclaimed, in their first written history titled The History Of the Royal Society (1667), that Francis Bacon was their inspiration, stating that Bacon was their “Moses”.

The frontispiece/etching to the The History Of the Royal Society depicts Bacon, King Charles and then President of the Royal Society Viscount Brouncker surrounded by objects useful for scientific exploration alongside heavy Freemasonic symbolism, 45 years before The Craft announced it’s existence. We see Masonic pillars and arches, Masonic black and white tiled floor, compasses, squares and again the proximity to royalty that has always accompanied Freemasonry.

Bacon is pointing to the splayed cross of the Knight’s Templar, a major influence on Freemasonry, holding some sort of magickal bag, while Brouckner points to the letters RO that might be suggesting Rosicrucian.

NOBODY except Freemasons understood such symbolism then, symbolism which served as a signal to fellow Freemasons that the “new science” was Freemasonic and deserved their support. Such important visual signaling is why a ‘history’ of the Society was created only five years after being chartered by King Charles.

The Enlightenment was in full swing by the mid 1700’s, about 100 years after the start of Bacon’s groundbreaking influence. Philosophers like David Hume, highly influenced by John Locke and Bacon’s Royal Society, began openly mocking Scholasticism and religious faith, something unthinkable in Bacon's day. Bacon’s own writing still used the then-needed cover of the suggestion of a belief in a benevolent creator God, with Christ as redeemer, as do the Rosicrucian manifestos (1614-1616).

God, the soul and and metaphysics were immune to data collection. At any rate, with the rise of the belief in ‘tabula rasa’ the human soul seems to have disappeared from natural philosophy, or science.

It soon became a commonplace belief that society (and the world) should ‘progress’, based on ‘reason’, and that social life should improve and have goals beyond personal spiritual redemption based on ‘revealed truth’ of scripture. The myth of human progress began.

Interestingly enough, there is some evidence that John Locke, a Fellow of The Royal Society, was a Freemason (before Masonry going public). David Hume himself was surrounded by Freemasons in the city of Freemasonry, Edinburgh.

As mentioned, Freemasons promise their new members ‘enlightenment’. Is it just a coincidence that the Enlightenment era was named after that which was promised a Freemason. One could relaitically date the beginning of the Enlightenment with Freemasonry going public in 1717. At any rate they both emerged at roughly the same time? Did the Freemasons manage to name an entire Era after themselves? It appears to be so.

The Origin Of The Term “Enlightenment Era”

The term "Enlightenment" was first used by philosopher Immanuel Kant in an essay published in 1784 titled "An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?" Kant described the era as a period of intellectual awakening, emphasizing reason, individual freedom, and critical thinking, naming and defining it as "Aufklärung" (Enlightenment).

Kant, it just so happens, was a such a fan of Francis Bacon that he dedicated his epochal work of philosophy, Critique of Pure Reason (1781) to Bacon, acknowledging Bacon’s influence on the development of scientific thought.

Francis Bacon’s writing is suffused with the use of the term ‘light’

According to Professor Peter Zagorin, author of the single best book on Bacon’s life and philosophy (until mine is finished 😃) states: “…it is noticeable how often Bacon found in the image of light his best symbol for the beauty and value of knowledge and truth”.

Two examples of Bacon’s use of light, from amongst a plethora, will illustrate Prof. Zagorin’s statement. The following are from Bacon’s most famous book, his prophecy of technocracy, New Atlantis:

• “For the several employments and offices of our fellows, we have twelve that sail into foreign countries under the names of other nations (for our own we conceal); who bring us the books, and abstracts, and patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we call Merchants of Light.”

• “Then after diverse meetings and consults of our whole number…we have three that take care, out of them, to direct new experiments, of a higher light, more penetrating into nature than the former. These we call Lamps.”

Freemasons, by the way, call themselves “Sons of Light”

“Secret” Friendship

Kant’s best friends were two English merchants named Joseph Greene and Robert Motherly. The three were very close, with Greene and Motherly working together in the German city of Konigsberg where Kant lived, and all sharing a love for the philosophy of Hume and Rousseau. (Rousseau’s favorite philosopher BTW was Francis Bacon) Greene and Kant together famously went over every single sentence of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason before its 1781 publication.

Freemasonry was very popular among merchants in Konigsberg. The German Grand National Mother Lodge of Freemasonry, “The Three Globes,” established in Berlin by 1744, had an influence in Königsberg, and English merchants were very often involved in Masonic lodges due to the advantage it gave them in their international networks.

Kant gave the Enlightenment era it's name and his two best friends were English merchants, and English merchants were heavily involved in Freemasonry. Kant and his friends even had a champagne glass etched to mark their “secret” friendship with the words:

Secrecy in love and sincerity

In Friendship

Emanuel Kant M.A.

Anthony Schorn

Joseph Green

Robert Motherby

all Happy together notwithstanding what happened in the World

August of 30th 1763

The Enlightenment Room, Room #1: The Missing Bacon

The Enlightenment Room, is Room #1 at the British Museum. It is actually three gargantuan rooms room filled to the max with data: objects and specimens, artworks and reports collected from all over the world for two centuries. The entire room is in effect a massive homage to Baron Verulam, yet in these massive rooms there is not one single mention of Bacon or Freemasonry. John Dee’s obsidian Aztec human-sacrifice mirror is there, along with his crystal scrying ball with which he talked to ‘demons’, along with his other accoutrements all nicely arranged in a display case in the center of the rooms. But no Francis Bacon?

John Dee's Magickal Accoutrements, British Museum

It is quite odd, is it not, that the man known as “the patron saint of the Enlightenment”, friend and counsellor of Queen Elizabeth I, Lord Chancellor of England under King James, known all over the world as the father of modern Science, should be absent from the British Museum’s Enlightenment Room? What?? Was there was just no room for the chap in the three gargantuan rooms?

Or is it that The Hidden Life Is Best?

Luckily, the nerve center of world Freemasonry, the enormous temple-like United Grand Lodge Of England, is just a short walk away from the British Museum.

The United Grand Lodge of England

Room #1, The Enlightenment Room, British Museum

Bacon’s focus on data-does it not sound so very modern and familiar, 400 years later? Our leading tech-bro scientist businessmen like Musk, Theil, Andreeson, Karp et. al. along with Palantir, Google and Facebook, the AI startups etc. etc. etc., along with the agencies of espionage to which they are all closely affiliated are only modern Baconians: hungry for and obsessed by data and absent of human soul.

Will they find the soul eventually? One would certainly hope so but one has one’s doubts. A new book did just appear:

God Exists, Science Insists: PW Talks with Olivier Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bolloré

Francis Bacon also had much to do with forming both the modern corporation and the modern intelligence agency, both of which live on data. Bacon most famous quote is “Knowledge is power”. The new iteration tech-bto, intelligence agencie corporate mantra is: “Data is knowledge is power”. Thanks Francis.

Bacon wrote often of "dominion" and believed that humanity could conquer the universe. For this to occor, logically then the techological scientific elite must have total tyrannical control of the commoner, so clearly illustrated in Bacon’s New Atlantis. The quest for absolute Baconian dominion proceeds apace, thanks to hipster tech bros, intelligence agencies and their favorite president of the moment.

In Peter Theil’s most recent interview he name-dropped Francis Bacon and “Baconian Science’ three times, sorely lamenting that it appeared to be that he, Peter Thiel, would not live forever. Meanwhile he clearly had great difficulty endorsing the idea that humanity as a whole should survive. If Peter can’t live forever, why should humanity survive? That seemed to be the message.

Bacon dreamed of prolonging human life indefinitely. How very Gnostic of these lads.

Science as War As Dominion

The usefulness of Baconian Science “for the relief of man’s estate” as Bacon termed it, not by coincidence turned out to be quite “useful” for making England into an all powerful nation, by creating the implements of war needed for establishing Francis Bacon's great dream of Empire. England was soon making the best guns in the world, mining the most coal, and building the best ships to became the largest empire in human history. London and Manchester saw the world’s first factories as the industrial revolution, directly traceable to Baconian Science, produced the iron and steel products bought by English slave plantations abroad, to grow the sugar and cotton that came back to England for the textile and rum trade. England grew fabulously wealthy.

Baconian Science had no problem with slave colonies. Was there just no data available? Francis Bacon sat on the board of the Virginia Company that founded Jamestown where transatlantic slavery in America reportedly began.

Freemasons, the “fraternal organization” “dedicated to “charity” and to “making good men better” played a disproportionate role in the shipping and sale of human beings in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Enlightenment?