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.
Disguising The Author Was Critical To Shakespeare’s Success
If it had been known that the real author of the Shakespeare plays was NOT a country rustic with little to no education, but was instead an extremely educated, powerful Tudor insider who had attended Trinity College, spoke multiple languages, served at the top of the Tudor and Stuart governments, had close ties to Queen Elizabeth and King James, was Attorney General and Lord Chancellor and known to every single person of stature in London and famous throughout Europe in his time as a philosopher of Science, it follows then as night follows day that the plays would have been experienced in a completely different way.
The story that the author of the plays was an unknown from the hinterlands made Shakespeare Mythic, and prevented a true analysis and understanding of the plays, because art is always based on biography and life experience. As such, scholars have spent centuries trying to tie the plays to Stratford-upon-Avon and to Shakespeare’s personal life, scratching their heads and always coming up short, because there is zero connection of William Shakespeare’s life to the plays. Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s hometown, where he was born, lived and died, today the largest tourist attraction in all of England, is not mentioned a single time in any of the plays or poems.
The incredible story of the uneducated rustic William Shakespeare, born of illiterate parents, raised three days travel from London where few could read, who created unparalleled works of densely layered genius made possible only by divine intervention, is of such incredible power that it made Shakespeare Mythic, a great man of such mysterious and profound genius that he became a source of great national pride, doubling his plays capacity for stirring an enormous patriotic fervor.
A ‘national poet’ was born, a key component of any Empire, as Homer was to the Greeks and Virgil was to the Romans. The adulation of William Shakespeare eventually became so intense, with a worship that remains to this day, that it can be called a secular religion nicknamed Bardolatry. This apotheosis of the poet was intentional and as designed, because Empire needed a poet of the people.
The Shakespeare play’s systematic distortions of history to glorify the Tudor regime, an understanding of the plays that is now now a staple of Shakespeare scholarship and a distortion peculiar to the Shakespeare plays, coupled with the their glorification of war and powerful ennobling of ‘this scepter’d isle’, England herself, are just a few points among very many for this contention.
Francis Bacon was hot for Empire as Professor Perez Zagorin notes in his recent and excellent study of Bacon and his work.* A new Empire would need new myths sprung from a new heart-center, a national idol. A front man would be needed, because nobody worships scheming, aristocratic lawyers. Nobody would have ever worshipped Francis Bacon.
The Mythic man from Stratford was such a profound creation that he became a symbol of England herself. The rise of the brilliant nobody from the heart of “this precious stone set in the silver sea” to become the greatest poet and dramatist in the history of the entire world, why, such would be the destiny of an entire nation! British exceptionalism was born.
Therein lies the power of theater, the power of the word, and the power of poetry. Plato tried to warn us.
Right This Way To The Way Of The World
A hidden component of the Shakespeare authorship hoax, one of the keys to it’s enormous success, is that the Shakespeare plays are a part of early Freemasonry, as evidenced by all the Masonic symbolism buried throughout the plays, according to Freemasons themselves. The Shakespeare plays happen to be the earliest known consistent public use of Masonic symbolism anywhere. Freemasons did not announce themselves to the world until 1717 in London, whilst the plays were first published and performed in the 1590’s. How is it possible then, that they are so full of Masonic symbolism? Why do Freemasons love Shakespeare?
Freemasons played a key role in the success of the Shakespeare phenomenon by promoting, reviewing, producing and publishing the plays and poems. For instance David Garrick, a man forever associated with Shakespeare, a key creator of Bardolatry, a tireless promoter of the Bard whose name is on many theaters today was a Freemason. Bardolatry’s beginning is considered to be Garrick’s elaborate, famous “Shakespeare Jubilee” of 1769.
Freemasonry itself is inseparable from the birth and growth of the British Empire, in ways that have only recently been brought to light, as well as to the creation of modern Science, via the Royal Society, which led to our current science-first world view, that started with The Enlightenment Era. ‘Enlightenment’ is a key Masonic concept. Coincidence? Not likely.
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, with the goal of creating a technocratic world Empire where man replaces God. Today we everywhere hear “Trust The Science” instead of “Trust In God”.
The real author of the Shakespeare plays and creator of Freemasonry and modern science was Gnostic, and he was also envisioned the world’s first technocracy in his famous book titled “New Atlantis”. This is the story of our lives.
This man invented modern Freemasonry from the shards of the mystery religion of Mithras, the legacy of the Knights Templars, the poetry of Du Bartas, the Family Of Love and the myth of Hiram Abiff for starters. It is possibly his greatest creation. He was the man who would be King. He lives inside your head.
Yes, incredibly, one man created three new religions. Widely known as a philosopher, the “father of modern science” and as the “the patron saint of the Enlightenment” (10), he has been rumored for over 400 years to be the 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 heralded the creation of transhumanism with his Rosicrucian Manifesto hoax of 1616 which was deeply tied to New Atlantis, the first technocracy.
All of the above religions are part of a Gnostic belief system.
The man of which I speak, probably the smartest and most influential man who ever lived®, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), was known to his peers as Baron Verulam of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. This is a strange story and hard to accept, yet many of the hard facts underpinning this tale have been slowly revealed over the last few decades and even centuries and they all line up to show that Bacon formed much of recent world history. He certainly didn’t do it alone, but he imagined it, and he taught it to his adepts and initiates.
Almost everything I am saying others have said. I have collected a wide range of evidence and the opinions and research of others, adding some new ideas of my own, that exposes the dark heart of the Bard as social alchemy, scientism, espionage and Empire.
“Knowledge Is Power” is Baron von Bacon’s most famous quotation. The actual quote is “Knowledge itself is power”, giving ‘knowledge’ it’s clear Gnostic meaning, a knowledge which also means Baconian Scientism, a science of power that fueled the technological advantage enjoyed by Enlightenment England, providing the coal, the ships, the guns and steel for empire from the factories of the industrial revolution that due to Baron von Bacon’s effective and enthusiastic cheerleading for science, began in England.
Along with John Dee, Francis Walsingham, Lord Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth and a few other geniuses, Bacon accomplished his incredible feat from the very heart of British Intelligence before it was even British, still just England, soon to be known as Perfidious Albion. The philosopher was a master spy, a lawyer, a cheerleader of science, a phenomenal poet, a psychologist non-pareil and an absolute master of Theater.
The world-spanning cult religion of Freemasonry tied everything together.
None of it could not have been done without the great and very strange Shakespeare plays and Bardolatry. This makes the Shakespeare Authorship Hoax the mother of all hoaxes. This is the strangest story ever told.
Theater Of Hoaxes: Shakespeare Is Bacon Is Prospero
“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
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 now become impossible to suppress. Today, after nearly 175 years of sustained controversy it 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’s own handwriting except six signatures, three of which are on his last will, and all six 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 such learned, dense plays, and declared as truth by such eminent thinkers as Whitman, Henry James and Mark Twain, the belief that William Shakespeare wrote the plays is now largely confined to academia and to other Shakespeare professionals with motivated belief. The evidence is extremely clear: it is impossible that the Stratford man was the author of the plays. He was only 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 any university. Four hundred years ago you might have even 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 the Shakespeare hoax as The Mother Of All Hoaxes that spawned many another hoax.
(NOTE: For newcomers to the Shakespeare Authorship Question: for more ‘negative’ evidence for why William Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon 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 and here)
All The World’s A Stage. The Motto Of The Globe Theater
I argue, along with many others that Francis Bacon wrote the plays. (It’s good to be in a category with 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 looks to be a notebook that a writer keeps as a memory aid. It contains over 1,500 entries, all handwritten by Bacon, a fact not in dispute, and more than 600 have been found in the Shakespeare plays, many as exact and direct quotes. 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 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 eyes”. Nice try at hiding it all Francis. Fail. I encourage everyone to follow the links above 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 and powerful pull of mystery that the plays generate would have vanished completely.
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 for the people of Albion. No high ranking courtier could be a “sweet swan of Avon”, whose poetry was “not of an age, but for all time”. And such poetry! Such insight! Such characters, such tragedy such comedy! Not coincidentally, like Jesus of Nazareth the carpenter’s son, the author of the plays was a small town lad, a son of a nobody who would rise to become known as a prophet. (1,2) The similarity helped 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 the mysterious English genius began) was the previously mentioned Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769. The Myth and worship reached a peak at the height of the British Empire in the early 1900’s. (17) Although in the 1850’s an American woman named Delia Bacon loudly and quite effectively began expressing doubt in the Hoax while armed with her 700 page book and the friendship of Whitman, Emerson and Hawthorn, it was way 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, Empire then spread Bardolatry over the entire world after it had 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 two very different things. Myth lives in mystery, a lie lives in secrecy.
This compelling Myth of Shakespeare began with the elaborate hoax found in the introduction to the First Folio, published in 1623. This book is now known as the “most influential book ever written in English”. This is where poems about Shakespeare lauding his genius first appeared. Shakespeare had been dead for 7 years. None were written while he was alive. The laudatory poems were written by among others Ben Johnson, the highly regarded, brilliant playwright who happened to be 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, establishing them as a foundational to English literature with the 36 plays, claiming that William Shakespeare, the “sweet swan of Avon” wrote them. Here the hoax began in earnest, a hoax so well done that soon enough the Myth of the exceptional genius of the commoner William from Stratford engulfed the world. All the world’s a stage.
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 considered to be 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)
The great plays plus the Myth of the miracle commoner-genius operated on the human mind “as a bow to the fiddle” (see epigraph at top) and thus they became buried into the heart of a nation. Brittania, the ‘sceptered isle’ would surely have as great a destiny as had the man idolized as “the Bard”. The small nobody nation, barely literate, torn by strife, decades behind the Italians, the French and the Spanish, would 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’ John of Gaunt, The Tragedy Of King Richard II (22)
This newfound understanding contained in John of Gaunt’s remarkable monologue from Richard II presaged a new self-confidence destined to change the world, contained in many monologues, a confidence that transformed a backwards and ignorant nobody and nowhere England into a great Empire “Renowned for their deeds as far from home/For Christian service and true chivalry.” Here in John Gaunt’s monologue (and so many others) was the exceptionalism, patriotism and the pride that was the very reason for the hoax. The Myth that contained other myths (the plays themselves became modern myths) transformed a nation, and then the world. Here began the British Empire.
Obviously this was not not by accident. Evidence shows that it was consciously created by a great Myth-maker: the very author of the plays himself, Baron Verulam. Who else? He certainly had help, but it was his ideas from an unparalleled and sinister genius. The evidence for Bacon as author of the plays dwarfs all the other contenders like Oxford or Marlowe at al., who may have helped but Francis brought home the Bacon.
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” of Bacon 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 the destiny of Empire to be realized, much more would be 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 Freemasons were 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. This strong link between Freemasonry and “The Enlightenment” is not well known. Is it just a coincidence? Probably. Not.
What makes Bacon so extraordinary among the great builders of Empire was not that he took to theater and 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 Augustus had the poet Virgil, and 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, meanwhile suggesting 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 first book on science The Advancement Of Learning (1605) re-released in Latin as De Augmentis Scientiarum. (1623) I believe that he used the writing of the plays as a 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 deep irony of the Shakespeare origin myth that much deeper and wider: 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- thus, an exact inversion of the hoax, the Big Lie of the man from Stratford. (20) Only parts of the plays were for personal expression; they are much more ‘art as master strategy’ and are 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 or philosophy. (6,7,8)
Nobody Would Have Worshipped Francis Bacon
Let’s stay with the impact of the plays and the Myth 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. A. L. Rowse is no slouch. He published close to 100 books and “his brilliance was widely recognised” according to Wikipedia.
“[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”.
So….“native to the English instinct…deeper and more subtle than of the mind”! That’s exactly what I’m tawkin’ about. 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 such that historically important figures like Lord Palmerston, Alfred Milner, Mackinder, Cecil Rhodes, HG Wells, Churchill, Kipling and others ad nauseam imbibed exceptionalism and puked it back out onto the planet, expressing their belief in an exceptionalism that justified the need for a slave-trading, dope-running, gun-running imperialism: because exceptional, because England, because Empire,
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”.
The Jubilee 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 I. 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 has still NOT SET on the Empire however, and rumors of her death have been 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 forming 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 invented. 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 building his vision have now become available, because of Science as technology, as a physical and a Mythic reality.
