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The Great Code Napoleon is based on his digest of law. He prevented the depopulation of England. A Founder of new States, the Virginias and the Carolinas, thus making the New World English instead of Spanish. He acted as bell-ringer to all Sciences and taught experiment.

Francis Bacon Cuffs Baconian Masonry
When Francis Bacon returned to England he introduced Masonry in its present organised Form of a "Free and Accepted Brotherhood." He compiled the Masonic Ritual, was Founder, Father and First Grand Master.
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PS Review of Freemasonry

The Uncrowned King

"Many biographers have written about Francis Bacon. He has been weighed, explained, criticised by many types of minds; his character has been mercilessly dissected and his personality exposed to the passers-by on the world's butchers' stalls. He has been discussed by men of different tempers in full biographies, essays, sketches and newspaper articles, by men who make their approaches from totally different standpoints and arrive at totally different conclusions." - - Alfred Dodd, 1946

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Mark Twain: Is Shakespeare Dead?

Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. He is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations.

During his lifetime, he became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists and European royalty enjoying immense public popularity, with his keen wit and incisive satire earning him praise from both critics and peers.
His only Baconian work Is Shakespeare Dead? has met with immense popularity.

“Born irreverent,” scrawled Mark Twain on a scratch pad, “like all other people I have ever known or heard of, I am hoping to remain so while there are any reverent irreverences left to make fun of.” - From a manuscript of Samuel L. Clemens, in the collection of the F. J. Meine.

Alfred Dodd

Alfred Dodd PortraitAlfred Dodd (1853-1940?) past Master of the Craft, author of The Secret Shakespeare, Immortal Master, The Marriage of Elizabeth Tudor, Shakespeare: Creator of Freemasonry, and Editor of Shake-speare's Sonnet-Diary.

Alfred Dodd having discovered the Secrets of the Sonnets, that was veiled in Allegory and illustrated by Symbol, considered it to be for the honour of the Fraternities, the Benefit of Humanity, and the Vindication of Genius, that the true Sonnet arrangement and interpretation should be made known to all the world.

"I was a Stratfordian until the autumn of 1929...until Francis Bacon revealed his personality to me in the Sonnets, thoroughly unexpectedly and to my utter consternation."

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Elizabeth Wells Gallup

"In which sort of things it is the manner of men, first to wonder that such Elizabeth Wells Gallup Portraitthing should be possible, and after it is found out, to wonder again how the world should miss it so long." Valerius Terminus

"The discovery of the existence of the Bi-literal Cipher
of Francis Bacon, found embodied in his works, and the
deciphering of what it tells, has been a work arduous, exhausting and prolonged." Unique in her mastery of this exhausting and prolonged task, Mrs. Gallup delved for things hidden, the mysterious, elusive and unexpected, a fascination for many minds, as it had for her own. She convinced that "the proofs are overwhelming and irresistible that Bacon was the author of the delightful lines attributed to Spenser, the fantastic conceits of Peele and Greene, the historical romances of Marlowe, the immortal plays and poems put forth in Shakespeare's name, as well as the Anatomy of Melancholy of Burton.

Elizabeth Wells Gallup (1848-1934) was an American educator; studied at Michigan State Normal College, the Sorbonne and the University of Marburg. She taught in Michigan for almost twenty years and later became a high school principal.

She worked for about twenty years, deciphering sixty-one books which
had been published between 1579 and 1671. Her work was largely sponsored by Colonel George Fabyan at his Riverside Laboratories in Geneva, Illinois.

A conlusion of her Baconian Creed, as that of Dalia Bacon, was that if Mrs. Gallup invented her story, she would surely have written of the Actor Shaksper; then her book would have been in every library in the world and she would have had not only honor and renown, but wealth. As it is, having told the truth as she found it, she has been ridiculed, is unknown except to a few, and has little of this world's goods.

Baconian Creed

Baconian CreedThe person named Will Shaksper existed. He was the actor; he was the man who married Hathaway; he was son to John Shaksper; he was a father to his children; he was the resident of Stratford.

He was not, definitely, without doubt, the author of the Shakespearean literature that entails the plays and sonnets sealed with the name Shake-Speare, with or without the hyphen.

That 99,99% of researchers, historian, biographers, scholars, students and plain old readers, intertwine two names to one individual, is a travesty to Shaksper’s memory and work as an actor of his time, and a dishonourable and intentional attempt, to bury the truth from William Shake-Speare’s paintings of the English language that came down to us through Francis Bacon's Quill.

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Delia Bacon Salter

Delia Bacon SalterChelsea, 8 June, 1853.
My Dear Madam,
Will you kindly dispense with the ceremony of being called on (by sickly people, in this hot weather), and come to us on Friday evening to tea at 7. I will try to secure Mr. Spedding at the same time; and we will deliberate what is to be done in your Shakspere affair. A river steamer will bring you within a gunshot of us. You pronounce Chainie Row and get out at Cadogan Pier, which is your fast landing place in Chelsea. Except Mrs. C. and the chance of Spedding, there will be nobody here.
Yours very sincerely,
T. Carlyle.

“My visit to Mr. Carlyle was very rich. I wish you could have heard him laugh. Once or twice I thought he would have taken the roof of the house off. At first they were perfectly stunned he and the gentleman [Spedding] he had invited to meet me.

“They turned black in the face at my presumption. “Do you mean to say,” so and so, said Mr. Carlyle, with his strong emphasis; and I said that I did; and they both looked at me with staring eyes, speechless for want of words in which to convey their sense of my audacity.

“At length Mr. Carlyle came down on me with such a volley. I did not mind it the least. I told him he did not know what was in the Plays if he said that, and no one could know who believed that that booby wrote them. It was then that he began to shriek. You could have heard him a mile. I told him too that I should not think of questioning his authority in such a case if it were not with me a matter of knowledge. I did not advance it as an opinion.

“They began to be a little moved with my coolness at length, and before the meeting was over they agreed to hold themselves in a state of readiness to receive what I had to say on the subject. I left my introductory statement with him. In the course of two or three days he wrote to me to ask permission to show my paper to Mr. Monckton Milnes, who had expressed a wish to see it, inviting me to come there again very soon. He told me I had left a beautiful handkerchief there, which Mrs. Carlyle would keep till I came. He also enclosed to me a letter of introduction to Mr. Collier, which he had taken the pains to obtain for me from another literary gentleman. I have not yet sent it. That was five weeks ago.”

To our own countrywoman, Delia Bacon, belongs the everlasting honor, and also, alas! in the long line of the world's benefactors, the crown of martyrdom - - Edwin Reed: Brief for Plaintiff, Bacon vs Shakespeare, 1892

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Chariots of Verulam

Gorhambury RuinsThe author of the Shakespeare plays was a linguist, many of the Plays being based on Greek, Spanish, and Italian productions which had not then been translated into English. Latin and French were seemingly as familiar to him as a mother tongue. It is thus apparent that not less than five foreign languages, living and dead, were included in his repertory.

Latin: The Comedy of Errors was founded upon the Menæchmi of Plautus, a comic poet, who wrote about 200 B.C. The first translation of the Latin work into English, was made in 1595, subsequently to the appearance of the Shakespeare play, and without any resemblance to it “in any peculiarity of language, of names, or of any other matter, however slight.” - Verplanck.

“His frequent use of Latin derivatives in their radical sense shows a somewhat thoughtful and observant study of that language.” - Richard Grant White.

Greek: Timon of Athens was drawn partly from Plutarch and partly from Lucian, the latter author not having been translated into English earlier than 1638 (White), fifteen years after the publication of the play. Helena’s pathetic lament over a lost friendship in Midsummer Night’s Dream (III., 2) had its prototype in an un-translated Greek poem by St. Gregory of Nazianzus, published at Venice in 1504. - Gibbons’ Decline and Fall, Chap, xxvii.

Italian: An Italian novel, written by Giraldi Cinthio and first printed in 1565, furnished the incidents for the story of Othello. The author of the play “read it probably in the original, for no English translation of his time is known.” - Gervinus.

“He was, without doubt, quite able to read Italian.” - Richard Grant White

French: One entire scene and parts of others in Henry V., are in French. Plowden’s French Commentaries, containing the celebrated case of Hales vs. Petit, which was satirized by the grave-diggers, were translated into English for the first time more than half a century after Hamlet was written.

Spanish: The poet drew some of his materials for the Two Gentlemen of Verona from the Spanish romance of Montemayor, entitled The Diana, which was translated into English in 1582, the translation, however, not being printed till 1598. “The resemblances are too minute to be accidental.” - Halliwell-Phillipps.

As the play was produced previously to 1593, it follows that the author read either the translation in manuscript or the Spanish original. The latter supposition, particularly in view of his other linguistic acquirements, is more probable. An unknown play, based on the same story and played before the Queen in 1585, was doubtless the Two Gentlemen of Verona in an earlier form.

"Every person is like a sheet of glass, with its surface differently cut, so as differently to receive, reflect, and retract the rays of light that fall upon it. This could be called the miracle of being, yet, why should we strive to be accepted and crave to be seen, since any sheet of glass, if not handled with care, can shatter?" - - Lochithea

Chariots of Verulam and also St. Albans ~ Verulamium

Britain's Bacon - His Royal Society

"A man talking, shows more clearly his conditions, than does his face."
Socrates

Royal SocietyThis Society, as is well known, originated in certain informal meetings during the Civil Wars (according to Dr. Wallis in 1645), though it did not receive its Charter of Incorporation till 1662.

Bishop Sprat, its earliest historian, in a work written in 1667, speaks of Bacon, as having “had the true imagination of the whole extent of this enterprise, as it is now set on foot.” And then he proceeds: “In whose books there are everywhere scattered the best arguments, that can be produced for the defence of Experimental Philosophy; and the best directions that are needful to promote it. All which he has already adorned with so much art; that if my desires could have prevailed with some excellent friends of mine, who engaged me to this work: there should have been no other Preface to the History of the Royal Society, but some of his writings.”

"Many men punish in others the same things in which themselves are offenders." - -Socrates

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The Favourites

How can you ask me
Not to vibrate sweetest pleasure?
Or not thrill the deepest
Notes of my heart?
How can this be asked?

Many instances might be produced of Favourites, who without being chargable with any great Crime, have been ruined by their own insolence and Presumption; only Peircy Gaveston, the two Spencers, and even Cardinal Woolsey himself, are instances in our History, not to mention any latter.

Robert DudleyRobert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1533-1588) fifth son of John, Duke of Northumberland, and brother of Lord Guildfordb Dudley, the husband of Lady Jane Grey.

His mind was ever “at his command, and flexible to all the puffs and variations of fortune”. He could not have been Elizabeth’s favourite, without the sovereign grace of self-control, nor without the, to her, more serviceable attribute of flexibility.

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George Villiers, Earl of Buckingham (1592-1628)George Villiers

A preface to the patent of creation of Sir George Villiers leaves my quill. His creation of Lord Blechley of Blechley, and of Viscount Villiers, Blechley being his own name and I like the sound of the name better than Whaddon: but the name will be hid, for he shall be called Viscount Villiers. - - Stephens, Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, 1734

Lord Bacon's Letters

Manuscripts

In Selden’s Table-talk he is made to affirm that, whatever may be said of great memories, no man will trust his memory when writing what is to be given to the world - - De Augmentis, Book V.

A complete Collection of Bacon's letters in chronological order and also those undated. Since any letter from Alice Barnham would be rare to find, it is given seperately here. >> Letter from Alice.

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Baconian hush-hush

Sir John HaywardSir John Hayward, historiographer of Chelsea College, was a celebrated historian and biographer, in this, and the preceding reign; and was particularly admired for his style.

He wrote the lives of the three Norman Kings, and also the lives of Henry IV., and Edward VI. Some political reflections in the life of Henry IV., which offended Queen Elizabeth, were the occasion of his suffering a tedious imprisonment.

The Queen asked Francis Bacon, who was then of her Counsel Learned in the law, if he discovered any treason in that book. He told her Majesty that he saw no treason in it, but much felony. The Queen bid him explain himself. Upon which he told her, that he had stolen his political remarks from Tacitus. This discovery was thought to have prevented his being put to the rack. There are however discrepencies in Bacon's Apologie on the subject.

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Bacon’s memory is stabbed, racked, hacked, twisted, tortured, scarified, scorched, charred and carbonised; and all in order that a literary rope-dancer may amuse himself and his readers at Bacon’s expense - - Journal of the Bacon Society, No. 1, June 1886.

Francis Bacon was sheeky hush-hush - - Neil Puttenham

He could at once imagine like a poet and execute like a clerk of the works - - James Spedding

Most of all Sr Francis Bacon’s Writings which have the freshest, and most savoury form and aptest utterances, that (as I suppose) our Tongue can bear - - Edmund Bolton, 1822

Bacon belongs not to mathematical or natural science, but to literature and to moral science in its most extensive acceptation to the realm of imagination, of wit, of eloquence, of aesthetics, of history, of jurisprudence, of political philosophy, of logic, of metaphysics, and the investigation of the powers and operations of the human mind,” and (as he might have added) the order, operation, and Mind of Nature. - - George L. Craik, LL.D.: Hist, of Eng. Lit. and Language, New York, 1862

Bacon Vicount St Alban doth far better for my Capacity distinguish them into Causes, second or scatter’d, and into Causes confederate, and knit together. In this point consisteth the principle Difficulty and mystery of Historical Office, and not only Difficulty and Mystery, but Felicity also, according to that of the Poet: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. - - Rawlinson’s MSS. First published by Anthony Hall, Oxford, 1822; Hypercritica. 239

How long a time lies in one little word! - - Richard II 1.3.213, Bolingbroke to Richard, who has just reduced the term of his banishment

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his lifetime - - James M. Barrie

Though Bacon never mentions the name of Shakespeare, he does refer to one of his plays, thus in his charge against Mr. Oliver St. John we have “and, for your comparison with Richard II., I see you follow the example of them, that brought him upon the stage in Queen Elizabeth’s time.”  - - Thos. W. White: Our English Homer, p. 136

You are Mistaken, insatiable thief of my writings, who think a poet can be made for the mere expense which copying, and a cheap volume cost. The applause of the world is not acquired for six or even ten sesterces. Seek out for this purpose verses treasured up, and unpublished efforts, known only to one person, and which the father himself of the virgin sheet, that has been worn and scrubbed by bushy chins, keeps sealed up in his desk. A well known book cannot change its master. But if there is one to be found yet unpolished by the pumice-stone, yet unadorned with bosses and cover, buy it: I have such by me, and no one shall know it. Whoever recites another’s compositions, and seeks for fame, must buy, not a book, but the author’s silence - - Martial: Epigram LXVI

In 1609 Shakespeare’s Sonnets appeared, with the intimation that Shakespeare was not really the name of the author, but was the noted weed in which he kept invention; and in the same year Troilus and Cressida was published with the announcement [in the preface] that the Shakespearian Plays were the property of certain grand possessors - - Judge Webb: The Mystery of William Shakespeare, p. 73

To the Queen’s birthday of this year [Nov. 17, 1598] belongs an anecdote which shows what ingenuity Essex displayed in annoying his rival. As was the custom of the day, the leading courtiers tilted at the ring in honour of her Majesty, and each Knight was required to appear in some disguise. It was known, however, that Sir Walter Raleigh would ride in his own uniform of orange-tawny medley, trimmed with black budge of lamb’s wool. Essex, to vex him, came to the lists with a body-guard of two thousand retainers all dressed in orange-tawny, so that Raleigh and his men seemed only an insignificant division of Essex’s splendid retinue - - Geo. Brandes: William Shakespeare, A Critical Study, p. 254

I am haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world. The more I turn him round and round the more he so affects me. I can only express my general sense by saying I find it almost as impossible to conceive that Bacon wrote the plays as to conceive that the man from Stratford did - - Henry James, 1903

Be not wrapped up in the past, there is an actual present lying all about you; look up and behold it in its grandeur. Turn away from the broken cisterns of traditional science, and quaff the pure waters that flow sparkling and fresh forever from the unfathomable fountain of the creation. Go to nature and listen to her many voices, consider her ways and learn her doings; so shall you bend her to your will. For knowledge is power - - Bacon's Great Instauration

Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body; therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs - - Bacon's Essay XXXIX. Of Custom and Education

Nay himself with long and continual counterfeiting and with often telling a lie, was turned (by habit) almost into the thing he seemed to be, and from a liar to a believer - - Francis Bacon, History of King Henry VII.

Like one who having unto truth, by telling oft, made such a sinner of his memory to credit his own lie, he did believe he was indeed the Duke - - Shakespeare's Tempest

Thoughts without good acts are poor things - - Francis Bacon

A man who is learning must be content to believe what he is told - - Advancement, Bk ii

The real significance of the Promus consists in the enormous proportion of notes which Bacon could not possibly have used in his acknowledged writings; the colloquialisms, dramatic repartees, turns of expression, proverbs, etc. Any biographer of Bacon, whatever his notions as to the Shakespearean Authorship, may be reasonably expected to offer some explanation of this queer assortment of oddments, and to find out, if possible, what use Bacon made of them; and then our case becomes urgent - - R. M. Theobald, Esq., Past Secretary of the Bacon Society of London

The question why Bacon, if he were the composer of the
Shakespeare Plays, did not acknowledge the authorship, is not difficult to answer. His birth, his position and his ambition forbade him, the nephew of Lord Burleigh, the future Lord Chancellor of England,
to put his name on a play-bill.

In the interest of his family and of his political career, the secret must be so strictly preserved that mere anonymity would not be sufficient. A live man-of-straw, a responsible official representative known to every one, was required. No person could be better fitted for such a purpose than an actor, wise enough to understand and appreciate what was to his own advantage. Perhaps this "Johannes Factotum" of Greene's did not know the name of his benefactor.

But even if he did know the name, it was obviously to his interest to keep from the world, and particularly from his gossiping companions, a secret which brought him money and fame - - Allgemeine Zeitung

I shall publish my philosophy by two different methods simultaneously. One in a book or set of books openly for all, and another in a book or set of books enigmatically for a few or for those only who have or may have in the future sufficient sharpness or discernment to pierce the veil - - De Augmentis

Some time after Bacon’s death (probably in 1627), in accordance with this provision of the will, Mr. Bosvile, or (as he is better known) Sir William Boswell, British Minister to Holland, having being in possession of the manuscripts, carried them with him to the Hague, and there committed them to his learned friend, Isaac Grüter, for publication. Grüter took the matter in hand, but determined first of all to reissue for Continental readers the works of Bacon which had previously been printed in England.

In 1653 Grüter finally gave to the world, in a book printed at Amsterdam and entitled Francisci Baconi de Verulamio Scripta in Naturali et Universali Philosophia, nineteen of the manuscripts with which he had been entrusted by Boswell.

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It is not granted man to love and be wise - - Bacon's
Advancement of Learning (1603-05).

To be wise and love
Exceeds man’s might; that dwells
with gods above.
Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2 (1609).

It was Publilius Syrus, a Roman mimographer of the time of Julius Caesar, who said that “it is scarcely possible for a god to love and be wise.” Bacon and the author of the Plays both quote the saying approvingly, but both also change its application (as above) from gods to men. Bacon’s Promus bears two dates, namely: December 5, 1594, at which time, or thereabouts, it was begun, and January 27, 1595/96, when (probably after a brief interval) work upon it was resumed - - Edwin Reed: Bacon vs Shakspere, 1905.

Atlas was represented in Atlantis by a sacred central mountain, topped with a temple and surrounded by three concentric circles of water, like Mount Meru of Hindu tradition. Atlantis represented a previous condition of the world, or that part of the world called Atlantis, which began as a paradise with humanity enjoying a golden age, but which then fell into corruption and disintegration, to be finally destroyed by a flood. The New Atlantis signifies the restoration of the world to a new paradisiacal state and golden age, which is what the Baconian project, The Great Instauration, is all about - - Peter Dawkins

In a letter from Sir Thomas Bodley (originally published in Bacon’s Remains, 1648, pp. 85-87, but is missing from BL Sloane Manuscript 3078), “to Sir Francis Bacon, about his Cogitata et Visa, wherein he declareth his opinion freely touching the same,” the writer, who has evidently a great affection for the old learning, is somewhat scandalised by Bacon’s revolutionary sentiments, and thinks that if we “come babes ad regnum naturae, as we are willed by Scriptures to come ad regnum coelorum, there is nothing more certain than that it would instantly bring us to Barbarism, and after many thousand years leave us more unprovided of theoricall furniture than we are at this present.”

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Ignoto

With all this confusion what are we to believe in regard to Ignoto? Was he sometimes Raleigh, sometimes Barnfield, sometimes Dyer, sometimes Greville, and sometimes Shakespeare, or some one else? Or was he a single person who “loved better to be a poet than to be counted so;” and who affected to hoodwink the above-named Greville writing to him in 1596: “For poets I can commend none, being resolved to be ever a stranger to them.”

And here let us note a bit of internal evidence that Bacon wrote the little poem in praise of the Faerie Queene signed Ignoto. One couplet of it is as follows: “For when men know the goodness of the wine, ‘tis needless for the host to have a sign.” No. 517 of Bacon’s Promus of Formularies and Elegancies is this: “Good wine needs no bush.” The word “bush” as applied to wine is thus defined by Webster: “A branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus) hung out at vintners’ doors, or as a tavern sign; hence a tavern sign, or the tavern itself.” And in Shakespeare’s As You Like It: “If it be true that good wine needs no bush, ‘tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.”

We leave the reader to put this and that together; argument or comment is superfluous.

Moral philosophy It is well known that Aristotle wrote: He errs political, not moral, philosophy. Bearing this in mind, there could have been a misinterpretation toward Socrates’ sayings: “What goodness ensueth of the knowledge of moral philosophy” when these two quotations were put to print:

Bacon’s Advancement Of Learning:
Is not the opinion of Aristotle worthy to be regarded, where he saith that young men are not auditors of moral philosophy, because they are not settled from the boiling heat of their affections, nor attempered by time and experience.

Shakespeare’s Troilus And Cressida, Act II. Sc.3.:
Not much
Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought
Unfit to hear moral philosophy.

The errors and foibles of this great man were, no doubt, exaggerated by the malice of his enemies, and they have died with him; but his writings will exercise an influence for good on mankind as long as our language lasts; and his “name and memory,” which he proudly bequeathed “to foreign nations and to his own countrymen, after some time passed over,” will long be regarded as one of the most valuable inheritances of this ancient and honourable legal society, Gray’s Inn - - Thornbury

It would almost appear that, in Bacon, the genius of prose, in Shakspeare, of poetry, came into the world in person: in one, an understanding, the highest, clearest, most searching, and methodical; and, in the other, an imagination of unbounded creative capacity - - H. Barnard, 1862