Sylva Sylvarum (Forest Of Forests) A Natural History 1627 by Francis Bacon, Displaying Very Early Masonic Symbolism. This Book Also Contained Bacon’s New Atlantis, the First Technocracy
This essay is a part of a project, called The Hidden Life Is Best, that attempts to explain the history and impact of the British Empire, and it’s still powerful influence on critical current events of today like covid, climate change, the war in Ukraine and Gaza and the mind-bending trash of pop culture.
Almost everything of global importance in the last 400 years began or was significantly developed in London, from modern Espionage, modern Theater, modern Propaganda, modern Science, Colonization, Imperialism-Globalism, Industrialization, Insurance, Banking and Finance, the Corporation, Big Media, Popular Music, Vaccination, Sports (soccer/tennis/golf), dominance of the English language, New Age/Occult philosophy and even Psychology, Communism and Fascism! Let’s not forget Technocracy and Freemasonry. Much of it made possible by the power of Shakespeare and The Shakespeare Effect, which preceded all of the above. How crazy is that?
Science, Freemasonry and Shakespeare
The ground of the British Empire (now the Anglo-American Empire) is Science, Freemasonry and Shakespeare. All three were born simultaneously and intertwined in the mind and by the pen of Francis Bacon. Almost every man of influence in England was a Freemason or associated with Freemasons, and the question of it’s origin linked to Shakespeare and big Science is critical to understanding the last 400 years of history and indeed, our present moment.
The British people seem to be under a ‘sciencey’ spell, with net-zero climate change hysteria, the war on farming, covid madness, 15 minute cities. I hope I’m wrong, and I know there is resistance, but from an outsider it appears that the UK government is leading the charge in the west for a technocratic future and that is not by accident.
If we add the widespread hatred in Britain for Putin and support for the war in Ukraine, the history of the UK creating Israel to the mix of madness-we can trace it all to The Shakespeare Effect. The plays of William Shakespeare, first collected in a book known as the First Folio, a book that has been called the most influential book ever written in English and the most influential secular book ever written, is saturated with propaganda for a martial elitism, nationalism and a contempt for common people. The plays feature many heroes and anti heros who are adept at putting others into a trance as Oberon did to Titania, as the witches did to Macbeth, as the Ghost did to Hamlet, as Iago did to Desdemona et al, as Petruchio did to Katharina and as Prospero did to an entire island,.
“So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all”. ~ Iago, Othello
Turning virtue into pitch is: “Get a shot for grandma”. “These poor immigrants deserve a home in Britain”. “Poor Ukrainians need protection from the evil Putin”. “Stop eating meat to sabe the planet”. My most astonishing discovery from my study of Shakespeare is that some of the plays seem to be teaching aids for Empire expansion and maintenance and proper use of subterranean propaganda. In short, Shakespeare is social alchemy.
Bacon is well-known as the father of modern Science, and that modern science was a direct outgrowth from alchemy. What’s less well known is that Bacon took alchemy from the manipulation of metal to the manipulation of minds with Shakespeare. Alchemy was always a search for power and control. Alchemy became a way to control society.
Freemasonry is closely linked to alchemy. The first sustained symbolism of Freemasonry is found in Shakespeare and in Bacon’s philosophical writings. And it so happens that the symbolism of alchemy and Freemasonry saturates Shakespeare.
Freemasonry is Gnostic, as is alchemy, which means, among other things, that it is elitist, dividing those who ‘know’ (those with the ‘Gnosis’ or knowledge) from those who don’t ‘know’ and by communicating in a secret language, they keep themselves apart. Shakespeare is filled with secret langauge.
Gnostics believe that the capacity or ability to ‘know’ is in addition only possible for a few special humans, usually as a bloodline. Gnostics believe that those few with the ‘Gnosis’ deserve to control the others, the commoners. The British Masonic Elite are provably Gnostics and thus the British Empire is a religion. The goal of Empire is complete control of the entire planet, in the form of a technocracy first envisioned in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis. Baconian Science was created specifically as a tool for the expansion of Empire, and ultimately for the establishment of technocracy, which at this very moment. is playing out in England with the government pushing a national digital ID. Britain is heavily pushing the science-heavy 15 minute surveillance cities to save us from the sciencey burning planet hoax. England and her commonwealth were all fully draconian during the science scare of Covid. Science is knowledge and “Knowledge is power” said Bacon. He meant it.
Science was power in the days of ancient Egypt as well, the ancient land that with the extreme elitist government and social structure. That’s one reason why the symbolism of ancient Egypt pervades Freemasonry.
Brave New World, the technocracy envisioned by aristocrat Aldous Huxley (the title of his book is taken from Shakespeare’s The Tempest) is not a warning, it’s a roadmap. The Shakespeare plays themselves are an alchemical roadmap.
Ultimately Empire is an Empire of the the mind and an Empire of the manipulation of the human mind. Which brings us to Shakespeare’s The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth and The Taming of The Shrew which are all about that control of others. For starters.
In the Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline, Imogen sleeps next to a dead body. After being given a sleeping potion. Princess Imogen falls into a deep sleep. She is later found unconscious beside the headless corpse of Cloten, whom her brothers have just killed. When she awakens, she believes the body to be her husband Posthumus, leading to a moment of profound grief and confusion.
Imogen experiences a nightmare-like state where she is both aware and disoriented, touching the corpse and smearing herself with Cloten’s blood, passing out on the corpse.
At the climax of the play Imogen is reunited with Posthumus, her father Cymbeline, and her brothers. The play ends in reconciliation and celebration, with Imogen restored to her rightful place as a princess
It’s trauma-based entertainment. It’s alchemy.
Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban created Shakespeare, Freemasonry and the religion of Science for Empire. Welcome to the strangest story ever told.
The Invention Of Freemasonry
There is an enormous amount of evidence that Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St Alban, the English Philosopher, Statesman and secret author of the Shakespeare plays invented Freemasonry. For starters the earliest Masonic symbolism is found in the Shakespeare plays. Those Masonic details about the plays are for the next and final installment in this series. This is the fifth part of a series of essays on Bacon as inventor of Freemasonry, Science, Shakespeare and Empire. Go here for part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4.
These essays provide evidence that the supposed mystery of the origins of Freemasonry is a lie. The implications of Bacon’s involvement in creating Freemasonry, writing Shakespeare, birthing modern Science and helping to form the world’s first corporation that colonized America are so immense as to necessitate a radical change in our understanding of the last 400 years of world history, because virtually everything connected to the British Empire must be re-evaluated, based on this evidence.
The meaning and nature of Francis Bacon as mastermind of the British Empire also vastly increases our understanding of current events, from the occult influence on the transgender-mania, to the creation of Israel, to the war in Ukraine and to Covid mania, because the impact of Freemasonry, Shakespeare and Scientism has been so widespread and so penetrating.
For one example, the unified science-heavy globally-networked theater of deceit around the laboratory-made sciencey Covid virus “pandemic”, so dramatic in design and impact, can only be explained, in whole or in part, as revealing the existence of a 400 year-old world-wide secret society of theater, with key players or allies placed in essential positions of authority over the decades. How else can such global co-ordination be explained?
The British Empire was designed to control the entire world, as evidenced by statements from Freemason and mining magnate Cecil Rhodes (the kind of guy who names a country in Africa after himself) and famous English writer HG Wells (War Of The Worlds, Island Of Dr. Moreau, The Open Conspiracy) reveal. These chaps were only following the blueprint drawn by Francis Bacon. It’s all about Empoire.
Bacon’s famous NEW ATLANTIS is the first envisioning of Technocracy and Science as a Religion. With Gnostic serpent and Masonic Tau. Motto “Anchora Fidei. Sic elevatur Filius Hominus” (Anchor of Faith. Thus the Son of Man is Lifted Up) Faith in Science elevates Man?
Another Cover For New Atlantis With A Winged Hoofed Man Abusing a Woman (NATURE) Under the Word ‘Occulta’
Corporate Bacon
Francis Bacon, as a lawyer, was also involved in the creation of the world’s first corporations, the East India Company and the Virginia Company of London that settled America at Jamestown. The technocracy Bacon prophetically envisioned in his famous book New Atlantis intends to be corporatized, with the nation state replaced by corporate feudal lords. That would be Bacon and The College of Six Days Work. The world’s first joint-stock corporation, the East India Company had it’s own imperialist military. Today, Apple’s annual revenue in 2023 amounted to $383 billion, a figure that exceeds the GDP of more than 75% of countries worldwide. The corporations will be the new feudal lords of the global technocracy. The other appropriate symblos is that they will be the priests of ancient Egypt.
Perhaps you noticed that the corporate mantra of “Trust the Science” and “Science Will Win” becoming such theatrical mindless mantras promulgated by the corporate media, and the pharmaceutical corps, encouraging and coercing you to take experimental and dangerous unneeded sciencey genetic therapies that bring billions of dollars of profit to corporations and to the private corporate banks who make billions on interest loaning governments money to buy the very genetic therapies that the Covid theater influenced so many to believe in. If it wasn’t for the creation of Scientism over the preceding century, largely by Baconian Brit scientist and Brit media, (The Globe Theater’s motto was “All The World’s A Stage”) this “Science” campaign would never have done the damage that it did. The first person to get a covid vaccine in England was named William Shakespeare. Francis Bacon, as a master of espionage and propaganda would be proud.
Bacon And Espionage
Bacon you see, was at the very center of British Intelligence at it’s inception in the Walsingham-Cecil era of Elizabethan London. The poet-philosopher-scientist-master of theater was also a master spy. I’m convinced that today, they teach Shakespeare in Spy School.
As for corporate private fractional-reserve banking, the scourge of the planet and the key to globalization, the Central Bank Of England, has it’s own ‘lodge’, the Bank of England Lodge 263, London, with records dating back to 1788. The bank’s early creators in 1696 were Fellows of Bacon’s The Royal Society Of London, (FRS) specifically a man named Abraham Hill, who mastered the science of finance as a founding member of The Royal Society.
“It was in France [at age 15-17!] that Francis had his first experience of ciphers and cryptography, which were to play such an important role not only in his later life, but also in his posthumous reputation as the shadowy figure whose authorial identity is cryptically contained in anything from the works of Shakespeare to the Rosicrucian manifesto. In this field, he was lucky to strike up an early relationship with the grand master of intelligence ciphers, Thomas Phelippes, a servant of Sir Francis Walsingham, who had been placed with the embassy to give it the benefits of his skills in languages and ciphering…What Francis learned under Thomas Phelippes remained with him for the rest of his life.”
Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart, The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (London: Victor Gollancz, 1998), p 55
Alchemist Bacon
Bacon was also an alchemist, as almost all intellectuals of his day were, and his innovation was realizing that alchemy was not only material and occult psycho-spiritual, it was ALSO occult social-psychological, changing everything. Bacon invented a new form of Gnsoticism that grew out of Gnsotic alchemy. Materialist Alchemy became psycho-Social Alchemy in Shakepseare and Freemasonry, staying purely material in Science, with the goal being the transmutation of the entire world.
...my Ends are only, to make the World my heir…”.
~Francis Bacon in a speech given to Parliament 1620.
He was extraordinarily successful. Why The Shakespeare Hoax Was So Important.
“Invest me in my motley; give me leave
To speak my mind, and I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of the infected world,
If they will patiently receive my medicine.”
~”Melancholy” Jaques, As You Like It. (Jaques is clearly a stand-in for Bacon himself, making the famous “All The World’s A Stage Speech” in the same play.)
“You stand as if a mystery thou dids’t” ~ Ben Johnson on the occasion of FB’s 60th Birthday
How Can All This Possibly Be True?
I silently hear you cry. See The Overwhelming Evidence That Francis Bacon Was Shakespeare for starters. And see The Mystery Of Francis Bacon by WT Smedley (1909) for a good biography of Bacon as Shakespeare. For a straight biography of Bacon (minus the Shakespeare naturally) see Perez Zagorin’s excellent Francis Bacon (1998).
I’ll be reviewing these books and others in a later essay
Blue Lodge Freemasonry and Initiation
I will focus exclusively on the origin of the original English ‘Blue Lodge’ and ‘Royal Arch’ Freemasonry, as overseen today by the United Grand Lodge of England. Within that frame of reference I’ll focus on the crucial, legendary and theatrical 3rd degree initiation that involves the death and rebirth ritual centering on the Freemasonic hero/god Hiram Abiff. This initiation is where Bacon clearly had a transformative influence on the Craft and where Freemasonry emerged from it’s nascent form in Scotland as a hiding place for disgraced and hunted Templars. Scroll below to the “Venus and Adonis” section for more information on the 3rd degree initiation ritual.
