WHY THE SHAKESPEARE HOAX IS SO IMPORTANT
Foul Deeds Will Rise
The action of the theatre… was carefully watched by the ancients…. and, indeed, many wise men and great philosophers have thought it to the mind as the bow to the fiddle: and certain it is that the minds of men in company are more open to affections and impressions than when alone. Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning. 1605.
“Taught in schools across the Empire, Shakespeare's work helped to imbue a sense of cultural patriotism in the Empire’s subjects. In 1841 Thomas Carlyle described Shakespeare as a “real, marketable, tangibly useful possession.” Critics have argued this was a way the British Empire tried to subordinate the cultures of the countries it occupied. Shakespeare continues to be exported, adapted and translated, across the world.” BBC Teach
All the world’s a stage. Motto of the Globe Theater
Right This Way To The Way Of The World
If it had been known that the real author of the Shakespeare plays was not a country bumpkin from Stratford-upon-Avon, the son of a leather worker with little or no education, but was instead a man who attended Trinity College, spoke multiple languages, served at the top of the Tudor and Stuart governments, had close ties to Queen Elizabeth, was a statesman and Lord Chancellor who knew every single person of any stature in London, was famous in his own time as a philosopher of Science who corresponded with Galileo and inspired Descartes, it then follows as night follows day that the plays would have been experienced and interpreted in a completely different way. Disguising the true author of the plays was critical to Shakespeare’s global success. Hiding the true author behind a man of mystery, the unknown genius from the Stratford hinterlands made the author Mythic. This mystery helped immensely in the intentional creation of a national poet, a key component of Empire, as Homer to the Greeks, Virgil to the Romans. The Bard as Mythic man became the source of an enormous patriotism and national pride. The history plays alone were designed instill such super-patriotism. The Bard became the heart of a secular religion, Bardology, designed to create an Empire. The man from Stratford became a symbol of England itself. The rise of a nobody from nowhere to become the greatest ever in the history of the world; if William did it so would the entire nation. British exceptionalism was born. Such is the power of theater.
The Myth-creating Stratford authorship hoax was was a part of early Freemasonry, evidenced by the earliest known Freemasonic symbolism indentifiable throughout the plays, according to Freemasons themselves. Freemasons played a role in the incredibles success of Shakespeare-promoting, reviewing, producing and publishing the plays and poems. Freemasonry is tightly connected to the birth of the British Empire and to modern Science, creating the scientific world view of the Enlightenment. Today’s globalism has been thoroughly documented to have begun with Freemasonry. (14)
The three, Shakespeare, Freemasonry and Science were designed to reinforce each other, to create a global Empire where man replaces God. Today we see “Trust The Science” instead of “Trust In God”.
Incredibly, one man created all three religions. Widely known as a philosopher, the “father of modern science” and as the “the patron saint of the Enlightenment” (10), and as rumored for over 400 years, he is also real author of the Shakespeare plays. His role in forming Freemasonry is less well known though many of his biggest fans have written extensively on it. The same man prophesied modern technocracy with his fable New Atlantis after he heralded the creation of transhumanism with the Rosicrucian Manifesto in 1616. All of the above are part of a Gnostic belief system. The man is Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Baron Verulam of Verulam, the smartest and most influential man who ever lived. Strange and hard to accept, the facts have been slowly revealed over the last few decades and they all line up to show Bacon forming much of recent world history. He certainly didn’t do it alone, but he wrote the screenplay and hired the actors. Almost everything I am saying others have said. I am collecting a wide range of thought and adding a few new ideas to the mix so as to expose sinister aspects of Empire and the dark heart of the Bard: social alchemy, scientism, and espionage.
“Knowledge Is Power” is Baron Verulam’s most famous quotation. Science was the power, the technological advantage, the guns and steel for empire. Along with John Dee, Walsingham, Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth and a few others, Bacon accomplished this incredible feat from the heart of British Intelligence at it’s very origin. The philosopher was a spy, a lawyer, a cheerleader of science, a poet and playwright, master of espionage, master of theater, as well as the creator of a world-spanning cult religion-Freemasonry.
None of it could not have been done without The Bard® and his great and strange Shakespeare plays, making the Shakespeare Authorship Hoax the mother of all hoaxes. As such, the Gnostic English Empire lives in your head. It’s the strangest story ever told.
Theater Of Hoaxes
It is now widely accepted and understood, even in England, that William Shakespeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon did not write the plays attributed to him. The truth about the man from Stratford has become impossible to suppress. Today, after nearly 175 years of sustained controversy it is has finally become widely known that William Shakespeare did not attend school; that his parents could not read; that his children could not read; that he wrote no letters nor received any letters; that he did not own any books; that not a single person recorded in a diary or a letter having worked with him on the plays or talked with him about writing the plays; that there is no record of him ever being paid for the plays; no one in his hometown of Stratford knew that he was a poet; that the monument erected in his honor at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford originally showed him as a grain dealer; that there is not a single surviving shred of a manuscript from the plays, and not a single word anywhere in the man from Stratford genius’ own handwriting except six signatures, three of which are on his last will, and all six of which look to have been executed by a man unused to handling a pen. Because of this overwhelming evidence that William of Stratford-upon-Avon could not possibly have written the plays, as proclaimed as such by such eminent thinkers and artists such as Whitman, Henry James and Mark Twain, the belief that William Shakespeare wrote the plays is now largely confined to academia and others with motivated beliefs. The evidence is clear: it is impossible that the Stratford man was the author. He was a front man. .
The Shakespeare Authorship Question (SAQ), as it is called, has gone from 19thc American freethinkers like Delia Bacon (no relation) and Ralph Waldo Emerson to the world stage, with books being written about the controversy even in Japan. True believers in the Myth of the Stratford Man Shakespeare Hoax are called “Stratfordians” in the ongoing debate. Stratfordians are arraigned against a now very large, highly educated and motivated group of “anti-Stratfordians”. The SAQ is now being taught in a course at the University Of London, something unthinkable even 20 years ago when challenging the authorship of the plays would have resulted in immediate termination of your employment at university. 400 years ago you might have been drawn and quartered for treason had you proclaimed it loudly enough, because the hidden authorship of the Shakespeare plays was considered a state secret, and for good reason. The Shakespeare project was the secret weapon of Empire, both home and abroad.
As Mark Twain famously said “it is easier to fool someone than to convince someone they have been fooled”. (29) Twain’s last book, published in 1906, hilariously and strenuously argues that Shakespeare was an impostor, with Twain putting forth Francis Bacon as author. When one is shown the large body of evidence that William of Stratford was illiterate, as 80% of England was at the time, coupled with the extreme complexity of the plays, their saturation with literary and historical references spanning millennia, it is easy to became “anti-Stratfordian’, and perhaps begin to see as I do, that the phenomenon of Shakespeare is The Mother Of All Hoaxes that spawned many another hoax.
(NOTE: For newcomers to the Shakespeare Authorship Question: more ‘negative’ evidence for why William Shakespeare of Stratford could not possibly have written the world-famous plays go HERE. For some of the massive amount of evidence that Francis Bacon wrote the plays go HERE)
I argue, along with many others that Francis Bacon wrote the plays. (It is good to be in the same category as Mark Twain) Space and time do not permit me to make the argument for Bacon here but I will mention the smoking gun for us “Baconians” of the SAQ: a book called the Promus Notebook found in the British Library by a man named James Spedding, who was compiling the Collected Works of Francis Bacon in the 1860’s. This book contains a collection of sayings, proverbs and quotations and it appears to be a notebook that a writer might keep as a memory aid. With over 1,500 entries, all handwritten by Bacon, more than 600 of them have been found in the Shakespeare plays. Some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines are in the Promus Notebook, even such famous ones as “to thine own self be true” and “All’s Well That Ends Well”. Here is a link for more on the Promus, which means “storehouse’ in Latin, a language with which Bacon published many of his philosophical works. I’ll also mention that to anyone familiar with Bacon’s philosophical writing, it is clear that there are innumerable “parallels” in those writings to the ideas found in the plays. In fact the evidence for Bacon’s authorship is nearly endless. “Foul deeds will rise though all the earth overwhelm them to men’s eye’s”. Nice try at hiding it all Francis. Fail. I encourage everyone to follow the links above for more evidence. Or, listen to my podcast about it, where I bury you in Bacon.
If the worldly and hyper-educated Bacon was known to be the author, then the impact of the plays would have diminished exponentially: their hidden subtexts made clear, their secret symbolism meant for adepts exposed. (Bacon himself claimed that he wrote for 'adepts')(28) The alluring pull of mystery that the plays generate would have vanished.
The Birth Of A Myth
The plays needed a mythic, mysterious origin story in order to create their intended effect, specifically designed to generate a unifying meta-Myth the people of Albion. A mysterious origin story was critical. No courtier could be a “sweet swan of Avon”, whose poetry was “not of an age, but for all time”, (25). A man who goes from rags to riches, from humble rural origins to rise to astonishing genius, to become even more than the national poet: to become a symbol of England itself. A commoner with barely an education, son of a leather worker, from the heartland, became the greatest poet and dramatist in the entire world! And such poetry! Such insight! Such characters, tragic and comic! Shakespeare became an emblem of the greatness of England itself. This Myth became part of a new religion called Bardolatry, that sprung up in the 17th c around Shakespeare. Coincidentally or not, like Jesus of Nazareth the carpenter’s son, the author of the plays needed to be a small town lad, a son of a nobody who would rise to become known as a prophet. (1,2)
The religion of Shakespeare spread throughout England.
A starting point for the new religion (besides the First Folio, published in 1623, which is where the Myth of mysterious genius began) was the Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769. Worship of the Myth reached a peak at the height of the British Empire in the early 1900’s. (17) Although during that time an American woman named Delia Bacon, was loudly and quite effectively expressing doubt in the Myth armed with her 700 page book and the friendship of Whitman, Emerson and Hawthorn, it was no matter. It was too late. Delia wound up in a mental institution. The Myth Of Shakespeare was too grand, too perfect. The Myth had done it’s work. It had created an Empire. As Thomas Carlyle points out above, the Empire even spread the new religion all over the world it had so effectively conquered England.
The Power Of Myth: To Make A Man Into A Demi-God
Myth has tremendous power. A myth is not a lie but a lie can become a myth. Our culture has combined the words myth and lie. They are very different things. Myth lives in mystery, a lie lives in secrecy.
This compelling Myth of Shakespeare began with the elaborate hoax in the introduction to the First Folio, published in 1623 now known as the “most influential book ever written in English”. This is where poems about Shakespeare were written by among others Ben Johnson, the highly regarded and brilliant playwright who was a close friend of Francis Bacon’s.
It was the first book dedicated solely to printed plays in the prestigious folio format, a size usually reserved for important religious texts like Bibles and collections of sermons. This format lent a sense of gravitas and importance to Shakespeare's works, marking them out as more than mere entertainments and establishing them as a foundational part of English literature with the 36 plays, claiming that William Shakespeare, the “sweet swan of Avon” wrote them, which was an elaborate lie. Here the hoax began, a hoax so well done that soon a world encompassing Myth of the exceptional genius of William from Stratford was born.
William from Stratford did exist, and he was involved in the theater as an actor and part owner of theaters, but he could barely write his name much less thirty-six plays, some of which are considered by many to be some of the finest literature in world history.(3)
Professor of English Charles LaPorte in his book The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century, states “The works of Shakespeare became a secular equivalent or replacement to the Bible...they made Shakespeare into a god in a very nut and bolts way” (1,2)
An English nobody had become the greatest in all the world for all time. It was exceptional. Born was a Myth powerful enough to convert believers into people of a new religion, a religion custom designed to spread a sense of English exceptionalism, previously found only in royalty and the royalty adjacent, the English aristocracy, the gentry. The great plays and the Myth of the miracle commoner genius operated on the human mind “as a bow to the fiddle”, (see above) and thus buried itself into the heart of a nation. Shakespeare became a symbol of Britain herself. Brittania, the ‘sceptered isle’ would surely then have as great a destiny as had the man idolized as “the Bard”. Why surely, the small nobody nation, barely literate, torn by strife, decades behind the Italians, the French and the Spanish, had become
“…This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea’ Tragedy Of King Richard II (22)
This newfound understanding contained in John Of Gaunt’s remarkable monologue, presaged a new self-confidence born and destined to change the world, as contained in the monologues itself, transforming backwards and ignorant nobody England into to a great Empire “Renowned for their deeds as far from home/For Christian service and true chivalry.” Here in John Gaunt’s monolgue (and so many others) was the exceptionalism, patriotism and the pride that was the reason for the hoax. The Myth that contained the multiple more myths of the plays transformed a nation, and ehre began the British Empire.
Obviously this was not happenstance and not by accident. Evidence shows that the Myth of Shakespeare was consciously created by a great Myth-maker: the very author of the plays himself, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Sir Francis Bacon. Who else? He certainly had help, but it was his ideas from an unparalleled and sinister genius.
In Francis Bacon, Professor Peter Zagorin’s recent and excellent biographical study of Bacon and his writing (non-Shakespeare, winky face) Professor Zagorin brilliantly details exactly how much and how often Empire was on Bacon’s mind, to be found all throughout his large body of writing. (Spedding’s “Collected Works” ran to 14 volumes) Besides Bacon’s astonishing prophecy of technocracy in New Atlantis, Bacon is most famous for a collection of essays, compiled in a book that he worked on for most of his life titled appropriate enough, Essays. Many of the pieces deal with the “temper of empire” with titles such as “Of Empire”, and “Of The True Greatness Of Kingdoms And Estates”. In a separate essay titled “Of The True Greatness Of The Kingdom of Britain” Bacon prophesied that “England united with Scotland would grow into one of the greatest monarchies the world had ever seen”. (5) Baron Verulam, was “convinced that England’s and Britain’s destiny lay in expansion.”(4).
More Than The Bard
For this destiny of Empire to be realized much more was needed; the Mythic Stratfordian and his plays were just a part of the plan. To pull off such a colossal ambition, Bacon would need two more religions: Freemasonry and Science. (24) Today Bacon is widely known as ‘the father of modern science”. I will soon provide in another paper the evidence I have found intending to make him known also as the “Father of Modern Freemasonry”. Some of that evidence is in this essay: “The Birth of a Religion: Freemasonry’s Scottish Origins: The Family Of Love, The Art Of Memory, The Knights Templar, King James, Poetry and Human Sacrifice”. What he accomplished with Freemasonry I consider superior and even more astonishing than the Shakespeare plays. However the two are intertwined. The earliest sustained symbolism of modern Freemasonry is found in the Shakespeare plays. Freemasons were there as well at the birth of modern Science as some of the very first members of Bacon’s The Royal Society Of London For Improving Natural Knowledge. (28)
Eminent historian Peter Gay in his classic two-part work The Enlightenment calls Bacon “the patron saint of the Enlightenment.” This model of history is widely accepted. Bacon was a visionary. (10,11) Freemasons explain to each new member that they will become “enlightened” by Freemasonry. Freemasons call themselves “Sons Of Light”, and they formed well before the earliest date given for the era known as the Enlightenment to have been widespread. The strong link between Freemasonry and the era known as “The Enlightenment” is not well known. Is it just a coincidence? Not likely.
What makes Bacon so extraordinary among the great builders of Empire was not that he took to the theater and to poetry to mold the minds of his countrymen, “as the bow to the fiddle of men’s minds”, such that they would be fit and ripe for territorial and cultural expansion. Julius Caesar had also been a writer. Perhaps that’s where Bacon picked up the idea. Bacon wrote that Caesar was the “the most excellent of all natural men”. (26) Caesar wrote prose. Bacon wrote poetry and prose. Caesar had the poet Virgil, and although his work wasn’t well known until just after Caesar, Virgil functioned for Ancient Rome as did the Bard, as a national poet of empire. Echoes of Virgil are in many of the Shakespeare plays. Caesar and Rome had a secret society/mystery religion called Mithraism. Bacon borrowed from that as well. Freemasonry has many sources, but it is closely modeled on Mithraism. What Caesar and Rome did not have, however was modern Science. This stupendous creation of Sir Francis would put Perfidious Albion into first place on the list as the greatest Empire in history, fulfilling much of the Baron’s outsized agenda, though the full scope of his ambition would require even more. Bacon outlined what was to be that more in his fable New Atlantis, and he also suggested it in the groundbreaking work that opened the door to modern science, Novum Organum. More on that below.
Bacon’s knowledge of the human psyche was truly exceptional, even just going by his book of Essays (1585-1625) and Novum Organum (1620) and his other book on science De Augmentis Scientiarum. (1623) I believe he used the writing of the plays as a sort science to study the human mind. He famously stated that he had taken “all of knowledge to be my province” in a letter he wrote to his uncle the powerful secretary of state Lord Burleigh, William Cecil. Bacon’s education was unparalleled. He was rumored to have read almost every book in England at a young age, making the irony of the Shakespeare origin myth deep and wide: instead of an untutored commoner genius the plays were written by perhaps the most educated man in history, who even had a claim to royalty; an exact inversion of the hoax, the Myth, the Big Lie of the man from Stratford. (20) Only a small part of the plays were for personal expression; they are much more ‘art as master strategy’ densely multi-leveled in meaning and symbolism.
The fact that the nine ‘history plays” in the corpus found in the First Folio are widely understood today by scholars as a form of purposeful Tudor propaganda cements the notion that the plays served an ulterior motive much different than mere entertainment, art, philosophy or propaganda. (6,7,8)
Nobody Would Have Worshipped Francis Bacon
Let’s stay with the impact of the Myth and the plays on the minds of men for a moment shall we? Consider this from noted British historian A.L. Rowse and his book “The England Of Elizabeth”:
“[Shakespeare] must have expressed what was native to the English instinct, released preferences deeper and more subtle than of the mind, this of unconscious and natural choice”.
Incredible…“native to the English instinct…deeper and more subtle than of the mind”! That’s exactly what I’m tawkin’ about. A. L. Rowse is no slouch. He published close to 100 books and “his brilliance was widely recognised” according to Wikipedia. The quote goes on:
“In that lies the tremendous vitality and power of his work. There is something mysterious about Shakespeare to the English, as not a few of them have felt.
The real mystery is the explanation of the inexhaustible vitality and veracity of all that he wrote, plays, characters, poetry or prose, for us English. So that centuries afterwards, in the stress of fighting for existence, in theaters disturbed by falling bombs and rockets, in quiet English fields while the planes go over Normandy, it is still his words that come to our lips.”
“…it is still his words that come to our lips” in times of danger. Got religion much? “While planes go over Normandy?” Got Empire much? The quote continues:
“The mystery the English feel may be that this man of centuries ago should express them so completely today, should have expressed them perhaps forever.”
This collective impact and power of the plays illustrated by Rowse would never have existed if it was known who really wrote them. Nobody would have worshipped Bacon, whose persona was the dry, conniving homosexual upwardly mobile lawyer-striver who destroyed his buddy the Earl Of Essex and flamboyantly kissed the ass of King James and his detested boyfriend the Duke of Buckingham, among other peccadilloes.
I have presented a cornucopia of facts on file that prove Bacon was Shakespeare. It won’t matter to very many people. Foundational meta-Myths are nearly impossible to dislodge or change with mere facts. They grow slowly and they lodge in the heart, a place much deeper than the head. People will defend meta-Myth with their life. That’s the whole idea, and illustrates the power of story, of theater, of language and above all of Myth.
The ‘Shakespeare Effect’ hovered over Britain to become the fuel of English exceptionalism that historically important figures like Lord Palmerston, Alfred Milner, Mackinder, Cecil Rhodes, HG Wells, Churchill and others ad nauseam imbibed and puked back out onto the planet, expressing their belief in the same exceptionalism that justified the need for a slave-trading, dope-running, gun-running imperialism: because Empire, because exceptional.
The plays were first performed in London in the 1590’s, and continued somewhat (records are sparse, so very good for the Mystery) until the Civil War, when the Puritans closed the theaters due to the open secret of rampant pedophilia associated with them. (Hey, boys in dresses uttering highly sexual dialogue might just cause some issues, ya think?) (21)
The “Shakespeare Jubilee” organized by Freemason David Garrick, was the first big presentation of the hoax Myth. Garrick no doubt recognized the Freemasonic symbolism prevalent in the plays and felt obliged by blood oath, as a lodge brother, to propagate and extol the plays as well as the man who supposedly wrote them. He thus fulfilled his role as a ‘player’: “All the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely players”. Francis Bacon, off stage, was the writer for the “players’. (meaning actors)
“The Shakespeare Jubilee, organized by David Garrick, took place in Stratford-upon-Avon between September 6th and 8th, 1769. Garrick, a renowned actor and theatre manager, [and Freemason] planned the event to celebrate the bicentenary of Shakespeare's birth. The festival included the unveiling of a new statue of Shakespeare at the town hall, and Garrick's delivery of an ode to Shakespeare, which was later restaged successfully in the Drury Lane Theatre in London. The Jubilee marked a significant moment in Stratford-upon-Avon's history and the rise of Shakespeare to national prominence. The Pageant at Drury Lane Theatre under the title The Jubilee enjoyed 90 performances. The song "Soft Flowing Avon" was composed for the Jubilee with lyrics by Garrick.”
David Garrick’s name is now on theaters across England and on the very ‘Temple Of Shakespeare’ in Hampton, on the Thames, quite near to the Royal Hampton Court Palace of Henry VIII and Elizabeth 1. Garrick is buried at Westminster Abbey with the verse: "Shakespeare and Garrick like twin stars shall shine/And earth irradiate with a beam divine”. Got religion much?"
With Garrick we see the authorship hoax becoming meta-Myth. Freemasons had much to do with this process, a subject I plan on outlining in another paper. The end result is what I call the ‘Shakespeare Effect’, an effect that continues today in multiple ways, to reverberate in England (19) as expertly portrayed in the recent feature film “The Lost King”. The Shakespeare effect began when the plays were written but it was meant for the future, went the impact of the hoax grew large. Bacon was the prophet. Bacon was the visionary. He hedged his bets with the Freemasons, now revealed as the primary cause of modern globalization in Jessica Harland Davis’ brilliant “Builders Of Empire” (23)
“To Enlarge TheEmpire Of Mankind Over The Universe”
The Shakespeare Hoax become Meta-myth is so very important today as the British Empire seems to be finally fading (the sun however has still NOT SET on the Empire, and rumors of her death have ben greatly exaggerated) because Bacon’s hyper ambitious goals went beyond English exceptionalism. Bacon meant to, and he did create yet another religion, a religion of Science. From Novum Organum, Bacon’s famous work of philosophy that launched the scientific revolution, writing here of “ambition”:
“It will, perhaps, be as well to distinguish three species and degrees of ambition. First, that of men who are anxious to enlarge their own power in their country, which is a vulgar and degenerate kind; next, that of men who strive to enlarge the power and empire of their country over mankind, which is more dignified but not less covetous; but if one were to endeavor to renew and enlarge the power and empire of mankind in general over the universe, such ambition (if it may be so termed) is both more sound and more noble than the other two. Now the empire of man over things is founded on the arts and sciences alone, for nature is only to be commanded by obeying her.” (13)
This statement from the Great Boar makes all of the facts pertaining to the Shakespeare hoax very important, not just to distinguish the truth from a hoax and a lie froming a meta-Myth, but because knowing the truth in this case has very much to do with human freedom. “The father of modern science” infamously proclaimed “Knowledge is power”. His Empire, the “dominion of the human race itself over the universe” is his real goal. He aims to conquer the stars, the universe, and God. It’s a form of Gnosticism, a new scientific Gnosticism. Bacon means to elevate Science over Religion and establish a global technocracy as governing force, envisioned in his most famous book, the astonishing New Atlantis. We must not let his dream come true. The tools for it have now become available, because of Science as a physical and a Mythic reality.
Francis Bacon knew the power of Myth. He wrote a book on the Greek Myths called Wisdom Of The Ancients. He saw them as social allegories, as warnings, as politics. He also wrote out a theory he called the “Four Idols” a categorization of the belief systems of individuals and groups, how they form and operate. The four idols are: the Idols of the Tribe, the Idols of the Cave, the Idols of the Theater and the Idols of the Marketplace. Again, from his book on Science that changed the world, Novum Organum:
The mind, hastily and without choice, imbibes and treasures up the first notices of things, from whence all the rest proceed, errors must forever prevail, and remain uncorrected. […] The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.
On the category “Idols Of The Theater” Sir Francis writes:
“Lastly, there are Idols which have immigrated into men’s minds from the various dogmas of philosophies…These I call Idols of the Theater, because in my judgment all the received systems are but so many stage plays, representing worlds of their own creation after an unreal and scenic fashion. Nor is it only of the systems now in vogue, or only of the ancient sects and philosophies, that I speak; for many more plays of the same kind may yet be composed and in like artificial manner set forth; seeing that errors the most widely different have nevertheless causes for the most part alike. Neither again do I mean this only of entire systems, but also of many principles and axioms in science, which by tradition, credulity, and negligence have come to be received.”
The Theater Of Hoaxes
As such, today we have a technocratic global world-government forming, based on a Mythic Science, which is the feeling and belief that Science is humankind’s most precious invention and most suitable for solving all human problems. “Trust The Science” to replace “Trust In God”. We have billions of people deeply afraid of a virus that is not dangerous, only because “scientists” have told them to be afraid. The same holds true of the great fear in many, especially children now, regarding the “scientific” scare of global warming. Mythic Science is itself a hoax. Science is NOT Truth. Mandating vaccines is perhaps at present the greatest scourge of the looming technocracy. Vaccines as the greatest achievement of Science is another hoax myth under the power of which we suffer. The nature of all of these Baconian-bred hoaxes will be the subject of another paper.
The Shakespeare Hoax is the mother hoax because it spawned many another hoax. Pull it apart for examination and the implications are staggering. The Shakespeare Hoax has tied the tiniest psycho-spiritual details of separate individual lives into the collective patterns of world history; it showed us the way to the New World bred by The Enlightenment, invented by one man but built by many, this man symbolized by the Freemasonic hero-architect Hiram Abiff, who has for some time now urged on his people to the building of a Theater Of Hoaxes- where all the world’s a stage and the curtain is slowly rising on a world-encompassing tragi-comedy of a technocratic dystopia.
Sophisticated Practices Of Psychological Manipulation
As Nicole Shanahan explains regarding her inability, because of “sophisticated practices of psychological manipulation”, to discuss the damage done to her child: (photo is a link)
The origin story/Big Lie turned meta-Myth was never even clearly spoken or written down, which is where this gets is so incredibly important, as we are all at risk of becoming ‘players’. The Myth of the miracle man from Stratford was merely suggested. It was created by fiat, by the elaborate literary hoax of the introduction to the First Folio (and by the remarkable quality of the contents of the book, the nature of the plays themselves, creating in the people a desire and need for the origin story). The First Folio was of 36 plays, 18 of which had not been known to exist previous to the book’s printing, with an elaborate multi page introduction containing the famous and absurd etching of the supposed author, called the Drueshout portrait. This origin story soon to become meta-Myth was created by those who knew the introduction to the First Folio and ran with it-it’s not actually in the book! It was only suggested. The introduction to a book of plays made all of them ‘players’, however many of them were initiates into the Mithraism of the day, Freemasonry.
We are creatures who need to believe. We need identity, a purpose and a path. For that reason we need stories to tell us who we are, and we are told stories from a very young age. Some stories are true and some stories are lies. The biggest and most important stories, the stories with the most impact are Myths. Myths rule the world. A Myth is NOT a lie. But a lie can become a Myth.
“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.” This cynical and famous line from As You Like It is true, but only if we have internalized a script, a story-myth that we did not write. It is a line most vicious, great and…untrue. We are not all of us “merely players”.
Better to be a writer than a player. To avoid being ‘mere players’ and instead become the writers our own living plays, we need to learn to distinguish between a Myth and a Lie.
Whatever your beliefs are, they started as a story. Foundational stories and beliefs are Myth. This includes all the so called “truths” of Science, which still take faith to believe in and are best told as stories. Myth is a story that is not untrue but it’s not always based on facts either. Myth is a story that has a powerful effect on your life. It’s made up of other stories and it is the palimpsest of your life’s approach to the world, it is a road map for the journey of your life.
A Meta-Myth, in comparison, is the the foundational story of the entire culture in which you live. Your Myth and meta-Myth must be a healthy one or you and your culture will needlessly suffer. Myths form reality, not our shared physical reality, as much as our ‘perception’ and our ‘feelings’ about physical reality. Perception is everything.
The First Folio of all 36 Shakespeare plays, are the Golden Plates of Joseph Smith, the Freemason that created Mormonism, except unlike the Golden Plates hoax, the First Folio really exists, described now as “the most important book written in the English language”. And the English language is now the language of the world.
As for one hoax breeding more hoaxes: Freud said that Psychoanalysis was born from Shakespeare. Marx quoted Shakespeare in Das Kapital. Nihilist Nietzsche adored the Bard. One massive hoax led to loads of unhealthy Myths and Mini-Meta Myths.
There’s more: the psychological effect of the Shakespeare plays themselves, perpetrated on an unaware public, are designed to lead us to Baron Verulam’s last great Work, his vision of a global technocracy and the worship of Science found in New Atlantis. We are to be the new NEW ATLANTIS, we are primed and ready to fire, in order to “enlarge the power and empire of mankind in general over the universe”, the Gnostic English Empire
I’ve cracked the code tying Scientism to the Shakespeare plays, and and to Freemasonry connecting it all. More on that in the next installment.
TO BE CONTINUED
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Footnotes 1. The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Associate Professor of English Charles LaPorte
2. William Shakespeare: The life and legacy of England’s bard https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/zfw6d6f
3. 101 Famous Authors And Greatest Writers Of All Time https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/famous-authors/
4. Francis Bacon, Peter Zagorin p 153-61. This is the single best book on Bacon’s life and philosophy. Sadly, no Shakespeare and no espionage.
5. Zagorin pg 159
6. Mangled glory: Fact and (mostly) fiction in Shakespeare’s history plays https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/historical-fact-fiction-shakespeare-historyplays/
7. Tudor Myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_myth
8. Shakespearean History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_history
9. Schoolshistory.org.uk https://schoolshistory.org.uk/topics/british-empire/questions-about-the-british-empire/ what-is-perfidious-albion/
10. The Enlightenment Peter Gay p 6
11. Shakespeare Was A Woman and Other Heresies, a book added to the thousands now extant on the authorship hoax, author Elizabeth “don’t call her an anti-vaxxer” Winkler writes “…little England could never have become Great Britain without Shakespeare”. p.13
12. A. L. Rowse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._L._Rowse
13. Novum Organum Francis Bacon 1620. A copy can be downloaded HERE pg 49
14. Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717–1927 Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs. Chapter1. A copy is downloadable HERE
15. Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science. Robert Lomas Chapters 1 and 2
16. First Folio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio
17. Garrick Jubilee shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/david-garrick-jubilee/
18. Shakespeare.org https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/david-garrick/
19. THE WAR OF THE ROSES: MYTH, PROPAGANDA AND HISTORY and/or THE NEW HISTORICISM http://www.stjohns-chs.org/english/shakespeare/warroses/wr.html
20. The Mystery of Francis Bacon, William T. Smedley p 23
21. Exploitation of Elizabethan child actors revealed https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2013-06-19-exploitation-elizabethan-child-actors-revealed
22. The Tragedy Of King Richard II (part of a famous monologue about England, comparing England to Christ, delivered by John of Gaunt)
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house
Against the envy of less happier lands;
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
this nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Feared be their breed and famous by their birth,
Renowned for their deeds as far from home
For Christian service and true chivalry
As is the sepulchre, in stubborn Jewry,
Of the world’s ransom, blessed Mary’s son;
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out – I die pronouncing it –
Like to a tenement or a pelting farm.
23. Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469613482/builders-of-empire/
24. Why Freemasonry Is A Religion https://www.patreon.com/posts/105934897?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
25. The First Folio
26. De Augments Scientiarium 1623
Francis Bacon's Alphabet of Nature and The Triple Tau https://www.academia.edu/35452164/Francis_Bacons_Alphabet_of_Nature_and_The_Triple_Tau
The Invisible College, Robert Lomas https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Invisible_College.html?id=J2tqKYNMm3YC
Twain did say something quite close I'm relieved to find out: It’s got to be about the Shakespeare Hoax: In his Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (published 2013, from a dictation on December 2, 1906), he wrote: “How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!” ... The modern I quote above version is a paraphrase that evolved over time, polished for brevity and impact
By a remarkable coincidence (not) Queen Elizabeth was known as the “Virgin Queen” and Shakespeare was sorta like Jesus.