The Poet's Nom de Plume
In these forcible words the Poet declares his duality...the soul apart from its instrument the brain or mind. The phrase is the correct interpretation of the Phallic Symbols - Poetic Creation - to be seen in the Print of Shake-Speare in the 1623 Great Folio.
The "ear" is not an ear and the cheek-lines represent something else, known to students as the Ship of Athene because it carried all the Heroes of the Greek World.
Sonnet XXXVI
Francis Bacon to his Dramatic Personality...Shake-Speare: "I may not ever acknowledge Thee."
Let me confess that we Two must be Twain,
Although our undivided loves are One: *
So shall those Blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help by me be borne alone.
In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a separable spite,
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
Lest my ** Bewailed Guilt should do thee shame,
Nor thou with Public Kindness honour me,
Unless thou take that Homer from thy Name:
But do not so: I love thee in such sort
As thou being mine, mine is thy "Good Report."
* Pallas Athene
** "Bewailed Guilt" = the fact that he had pleaded guilty to charges of bribery and had been convicted.
Poems
Written by
Will. Shake-Speare.
Gent.
Printed in London by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by John Benson,
dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-Yard. 1640.
The above Title was attached to the book which contained for the first time for public consumption the Sonnets of Shakespeare. The Quarto numbered 1609 from which they were taken was a secret Masonic Book and remained unknown to the world for several generations.
In the Benson Medley the Sonnets were arranged in quite a different order and in groups with headings of a literary and impersonal character. Between the hitherto unknown Sonnet-groups were sandwiched well-known poems of Shakespeare. Such was the way in which the unknown Sonnets were introduced to the world and gradually became accepted as part of the Shakespearean Canon in the absence of manuscripts.
"An examination of this book shows convincingly that it was another effort to place on record, by secret methods, the true facts of the authorship of 'Shakespeare.' The portrait is a hideous thing very much resembling the Droeshout Mask in the 1623 Folio...but the real interest is in the verse...just as Jonson in his quizzical verse facing the Droeshout engraving, calls the effigy a 'figure,' not a portrait, so it is here described as a 'Shadowe.' Notice the question mark after 'Shakespeare's' and twice in the second line.
"But the chief object of these lines is to give us the following piece of Cypher information:
Text of Poem 282 = Francis Bacon (K)
W.M. Sculpsit 10
292= Wm. Shakespeare (K)
"What could be plainer than this? How many more hints of this kind will be necessary before we open our eyes to the truth?" - - B. G. Theobald, Francis Bacon Concealed and Revealed, p. 289-300.
To Freemasons in particular and litterateurs in general.
Writers like A. E. Waite and L. Vibert assert that the Three Craft Degrees were made in the 1717-23-38 Era with the Royal Arch and Higher Degrees still later, created by unknown men in an unknown decade, also that Dr. Anderson de-christianised the trinitarian beliefs of the Feudal operatives and introduced a new cult which was evolved by the New 1717 Grand Lodge.
"I am confident these assertions are false and cannot be established by proof." - - Alfred Dodd
Modern Freemasonry was created as an Ethical System by William Shake-Speare shortly before 1589. Its progress as an Organised Body is told in the 1623 Shakespeare Folio. It did not evolve from a rude illiterate class of labourers, navvies, plasterers and stone masons - strugglers for a bare pittance and crushed by Church and State - whose right to organise was denied by Parliament and whose Lodge organisation was crushed out of existence by State Edicts from 1350.
There was no organised body of operative masons in Queen Elizabeth's reign. Their lodges had disappeared years earlier by an edict of 1425.
Francis Bacon conceived the idea of resurrecting the Operative Craft of Temple Builders on an Ethical Basis which did not centre round actual work and wages and was therefore outside the law which forbade meetings respecting such things.
It was he who created the Rituals. They did not "evolve." With a band of Law Students at Gray's Inn he organised the first Ethical Craft Lodges, the Arch and Higher Degrees, at Twickenham Park.
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"My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still breeding thoughts." - Richard II
The Works
The following are just some examples of Masonry in Shake-Speare's works:
Love's Labour's Lost. The story he buries in this play [Act iv. S. iii] "spend a minutes time in pruning me." When the verbiage of the comedy is cut away we find the Genesis of the Craft revealed. The play was written in 1589 and "W.S." left Stratford in 1587.
The Tempest. The literary imagery again in this play is purely Masonic. In these plays are to be found not only the words of Three Degrees and the "So Mot Yt Be" of the Regius Poem but the Installed Master's Word, etc.
Craft in 1723. The emergence was the Centenary of the 1623 Folio, the preface of which describes, for the first time in print, a person a being A Worthy Fellow and associates him as The Author with Seven Set-Squares printed above the name "the Sign of the Master who rules."
The Oracle. In a Freemason's Lodge the Oracle that speaks with authority on things Masonic is a Worshipful Master: "And there is in this business more than Nature was ever conduct of: Some Oracle must rectify our knowledge." - - Tempest Act v, S. i, L. 242.
Shake-Speare's Monument at Westminster Abbey
This was erected 124 years after Shaksper's death in 1616 under the auspices of the third Earl of Burlington, Dr. Richard Mead and Alexander Pope. The Ben Jonson and Gay Memorials were erected about the same time. They are splendid examples as secret proofs of the survival of Francis Bacon's Secret Literary School, and the then powerful prevailing influence of English Art of Rosicrosse-Masonry.
The Memorials adjoin each other. Jonson's "H" signifies that he is a Bacon's Man, while Gay, a famous Wit, is so placed that a winged cherub averts his face, disdainfully quizzical, while lifting a veil from Gay's head to enable him to see Francis Bacon in a Noted Weed (Disguised) as Shake-Speare, which, as a Rosicrosse jest, amuses him: Hence the lines on the Gay Monument, "Life is a jest and all things show it; I thought so once but now I know it."
The letters total 56 = Fr. Bacon. Three Player's Masks are carved above Gay's bust, the only eye that can see the Shake-Speare Monument, being blinded by a scarf.
The uninstructed world, similarly, looks elsewhere, completely in the dark. But Gay as one of the Fraternity knows the hidden truth and laughs.
"In general appearance, cast of features and expression, the Shake-Speare Memorial resembles Bacon in the National Portrait Gallery and the 1645 Cartoon. The slight, somewhat frail body conforms with what is known of his personal appearance. The crossed legs - the sign of the Cross - have a Rosicrucian significance." - - Sir Robert Rice, Hamlet and Horatio.
Very significantly, "near the foot is the Grave of an obscure derelict said to have sought sanctuary of the Abbey and to have borne the name of TUDOR." - - Parker Woodward.
Over the head of Shake-Speare is inscribed, "Gulielmo Shakespeare, Anno Post Mortem CXXIV, Amor Publicus Posuit." Here again the count of letters is 56 = Fr. Bacon.
The Scroll on the Westminster Monument
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The persons responsible for the Monument (presumably Alexander Pope as the leading litterateur of the age) altered a passage from The Tempest spelling several words differently, putting an apostrophe instead of "e" in "Towers" - though there was ample space for the "e" - and actually deleting ten words.
Courtesy of sirbacon.org
This was done to make the letters count exactly 157 = Fra Rosi Crosse; to give in complete words 33 = Bacon; to FELL through the lines the Rosicrosse-Mason password, "Our Francis."
The word "rack" was altered to "wreck" to complete an enfolded message, "Our Francis in a Noted Weed." Hence the significance of the Gay Memorial with its jest at the people - Scholars and mere sight seers alike - those "dull and speechless tribes" - who visit the shrine and worship, in their ignorance, the Unknown God of Literature, Francis Bacon, veiled by a Mask.
The Square and Compasses with Francis Bacon
Bibliography
- The Personal Poems of Francis Bacon, Shake-speare's Sonnet Diary, Alfred Dodd Edition. 1931
- Hamlet and Horatio, Sir Robert Rice
- The Droeshout Portrait, William Stone Booth
- The Greatest Literary Problems, J. Phinney Baxter
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Posted: 30th March 2008 ~ Lord Verulam