The Immortal Bard
He used the word Shake-Speare as a pen-name, taking it from the Goddess Pallas Athene - the Shaker of the Spear of Knowledge at the Serpent of Ignorance.
No one has been more maligned and abused than Francis Bacon. The lie against his name has sunk deep into the souls of men. Macaulay is largely responsible with his brilliantly shallow Essay for the criminal slander which alleges him to be a corrupt judge and a cold hearted hypocrite. It is repeated in elementary school readers. We were taught to believe the lie in our childhood. Few are aware that biographers like Montagu, Spedding and Dixon - irrespective of the testimony of contemporary writers like Ben Jonson, Aubrey and Bushel - long ago refuted this infamous fiction.
The Rosicrucians
While Bacon was on the Continent, he had become initiated into the Mysteries, the Knights Templar, that evolved the Rosicrucian Fraternity and the Masonic Brotherhood.
The Rosicrucians were a learned and beneficent Order whose avowed objects were the restoration of Science and Art and the alleviation of human misery.
They produced educational works, many anonymously. Such books bore the Seal of the Rosicrosse - a count of letters, 157 or 287. The anonymous author usually signed it with a number corresponding to the letters in his name. Bacon's cypher number was 33...
B A C O N
2 1 3 14 13 = 33
Hilyard Miniature
The young Bacon must have possessed
an extraordinary personality to have
so impressed the artist that he wrote
in Latin round the miniature
"Could I but paint his mind."
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