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May 9, The next Francis Bacon Society meeting
will take place on 9th May 2008 at Senate House, in London. Guest
speaker, Mark Finnan, will be giving a talk entitled "Francis
Bacon's New Atlantis - a Vision For Our Time."
More
details may be found after scrolling down here.
In addition, the Bacon Society has a new issue
of their online Journal, Baconiana
edited by James North.
April 9, On the day that Francis Bacon left
this world we present Manes
Verulamiani, in PDF, a
collection of 32 elegies written upon his death by his peers
acknowledging him as a dramatist, poet, philosopher, statesman and
honorable judge. Special thanks goes out to Juan Schoch for
preparation of the text and Rob Foweler for the flash
design.
March 15. What's in a name? Check out
The Fish King or
The King of Herrings a
chapter from the 1917 book, Bacon, Shakespeare and
Cervantes.
February 22, Three writers offer their opinion
on Francis Carr's book, Who Wrote Don Quixote?
Michael
Buhagiar,
Mather
Walker, Lochithea
January 22, Today marks the Birthday of Sir
Francis Bacon. Three Bacon website creators have come together to
honor Bacon's work, the people in his life and related subject
matters.
Sirbacon.org is pleased to present a variety of over 40 short
moving imagery clips with soundtracks, the creative inspirations
from a dedicated Baconian, Lochithea, of www.lordverulam.org
with tech assistance by Rob Fowler, of Light-of-Truth.com
.
Enjoy the clips which can be watched in one continuous loop, about
an hour in length, with an option arrow indicating Full Screen
viewing, or they can be viewed one at a time.
Let us know what you think as we
Celebrate the Life, Words and Ideas of Sir Francis
Bacon
January 7, 2008
"If Bacon wrote Shakespeare, the Promus is
intelligible, if he did not, it is an insoluble riddle," wrote
scholar Robert Theobald.
Francis Bacon's Shakespeare notebook, The Promus, is a
storehouse of his private notes kept between 1594-96 containing
hundreds of unique Shakespeare expressions and proverbs in several
languages, jotted down prior to the publicaton and performance of
all the Shakespeare plays. Now Google offers the entire 1883 book
of Catherine Potts compilation of Bacon's
Promus of Formularies and Elegancies.
December 1, Mather Walker looks at the evidence
if Francis Bacon rewrote the translator's manuscripts of the King
James Bible. See
Francis Bacon and The King James Bible
November 20, J. G. Bennett has an essay on
Bacon's Four Idols called The
Semiotics of Bacon
October 20, A new edition of Barry Clarke's
The Shakespeare Puzzle is now available and can be
viewed and ordered from
here
October 14, New commissioned
painting of Francis Bacon emphasizes
his royal birth and Shakespeare role through symbols
October 10, Tenth Anniversary of SirBacon.org's
launch
October 3, Peter Dawkins has a new
book,
"Bacon's Shakespeare : Facts pointing to Francis Bacon as
Author of the Shakespeare poems and
plays" (To order the book, click on
the Bacon image)
and a new essay,
Ill Founded Common Arguments about
Shakespeare
September 5, From Bacon's own works to the
commentary by other writers a wonderful and new presentation has
been put together for the enjoyment of the readers of sirbacon.org
by Lochithea
in
Sir
Francis Bacon's Journals : The Rarest of Princes
can be viewed in PDF (682 pages, 4mgb)
There is also available paperback copies of the FBJournals that
can be ordered here :
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46034-8
August 20, A
Comedy of Shakespearean Identity Crisis
August 12, Various fragments of Bacon's writing
on philosophy, inventions, and personal letters, can be found in
Remains
of Sir Francis Bacon in PDF, published
in 1679, 191 pages.
July 11, The Francis Bacon Society has
published its' first online edition of its' journal
Baconiana making it the 200th edition since 1886. Read the
new editorial and fresh articles
here
There have been new developments regarding the
neglected pardon of King James I.,pardon to Sir Francis Bacon. All
British citizens, living in Britain or overseas, may directly
petition the British Prime Minister in restoring this pardon by
signing online: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/pardonsirbacon
July 4, Bacon
at Mt. Rushmore
June 5, Restore the full pardon to Sir Francis
Bacon, Viscount St. Alban that was prepared by King James I.,(but
never signed) by
signing a new petition to clear Francis Bacon's
name
May 8, Is Shakespeare Dead, Mark Twain's
last book where he wittily debunks Willliam Shakespeare as being
the author of the plays is now adapted to the stage and masterly
performed by actor Keir Cutler. Visit
this page on Google Video
April 23, A strong piece of evidence that Sir
Francis Bacon authored the Shakespeare plays is found in the
"Northumberland Manuscript". The Elizabethan manuscipt contains
both Shakespeare's name and Sir Francis Bacon's. It also mentions
by name the plays Richard II and Richard III.
Tellingly, it included the phrase 'by Francis William
Shakespeare', and the words, 'essays by the same author'.
Now a new article with fresh insights about the Manuscript by
Walter Saunders : The
Northumberland Manuscript and a Remarkable Discovery by Simon
Miles
April 23, Declaration of Reasonable Doubt --
Sponsored by the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, the Declaration
directly challenges the claim of orthodox Shakespeare scholars
that there is "no room for doubt" about the traditional
attribution of the works. It provides a concise, definitive
explanation of the reasons to doubt the case for the Stratford
man, and advocates that the authorship issue should be regarded as
legitimate in academia. Doubters can read and sign the Declaration
online, as with an online petition. The
Shakespeare Authorship Coalition
April 5, If you signed up for the free service
monitoring this page when it changes and want the service to
continue you have to re-sign up (above).
March 21, Mather Walker discovers an
obscure book that appeared in 1618 that commemerated King James on
his visit to Scotland. Anonymously written and without a printer
identifcation, the book, "Muses
Welcome" in pdf has emblem devices
found in the 1609 Shakespeare Sonnets, the 1623 First
Folio, Freemasonry and the Family of Love.
Mather Walker demonstrates in his short
essay, Muses
Welcome how this book is associated
with the hand of Francis Bacon.
March 11, The
Francis Bacon Society announces an upcoming event in London on
March 29th
February 19, The
Bucke stopped here on this day. Cosmic
Consciousness and Francis Bacon
February 14, Regarding the subject of love and
it's many sentiments, it has been misunderstood that Shakespeare
and Bacon thought differently on the matter. However, after
examining the record, it is clear they are of the same mind set.
Exactly a century ago, Edwin Reed, a great Baconian writer,
collated 35 parallelisms on the subject of love between the works
of Bacon and what is found in the plays and sonnets of
Shakespeare.
See: Bacon and
Shakespeare on Love
When Bacon was thirty-two years of age while
attending Gray's Inn Law School a Conference of Pleasure took
place in 1592 on the Queen's birthday. Francis Bacon gave a speech
expressing the true sentiments of his heart.
See : A
Conference of Pleasure
January 22, 2007
Today marks the birthday of Sir Francis Bacon.
Please take a moment to answer a
Survey
The Sublime
Prince of the Royal Secret
In the Shakespeare 2000 series,
by presenting the plays in modern English side by side with the
original, Walter Saunders and Vivien Vibert have made the work far
more accessible to the general reader and created an excellent
resource for teachers and students. The modernised versions keep
as far as possible to the spirit and the metre of the originals.
To date there are seven titles in the series, Othello being the
latest. They are all available, complete with introduction, notes,
glossary etc. and a short section on Bacon's authorship. For more
information email:
shakespeare2000@bigfoot.com
December 3, A
New Light on Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
by Mather Walker
November 28, The Francis
Bacon Society is hosting a talk by Dr. Karen Attar,
entitled:
"DURNING-LAWRENCE: Discoveries and
Development ‚ held at the Durning-Lawrence Library at the
University of London on Thursday, November 30.
Dr. Karen Attar is
the Rare Books Librarian at Senate House Library. She came to the
University in 2001 to catalogue the Durning-Lawrence Library,
about which she has since published three articles. Her research
interests are in cataloguing and in book collectors and their
libraries. Copies of one of her booklets will be available to
members, and there will be an opportunity to view a small display
of archival material.
November 14, Francis Bacon was among the
first to argue that human ingenuity can discover the hidden laws
of nature, under the metaphor of solving the encrypted Book of
Nature. He was familiar with diplomatic uses of ciphers and
presented a novel scheme for encryption; he also read ancient
myths as coded messages. Despite the skepticism of his
contemporaries, Bacon pointed to new possibilities of decryption
both for human texts and the "alphabet of nature." His concept
that nature requires interpretation and his inductive use of
tables also parallel emergent cryptanalytic methods.
See : The Clue to
the Labyrinth: Francis Bacon and the Decryption of
Nature by Peter Pesic
November 4, William
Rawley, the chaplain of Francis Bacon,
published many of Bacon's writings posthumously including the
Collection of essays found in The
Resuscitatio Part II , 1670 (
pdf 11.7MBytes in 76 pages)
October 16, The
Secret Life of an Alchemist : Francis Bacon's Real Philosophy of
Nature, based on a presentation by
University of Edinburgh Professor John Henry
October 3, Wisdom of the Ancients
Revisited : An
Appendix to
the Troilus & Cressida Puzzle
September 25, Hugo
Chavez President of Venezuela at the UN, what the media didn't
report
Sept 11, Part
IV of Troilus and Cressida by Mather
Walker
Sept 1, Barry Clarke in his new book,
"The
Shakespeare Puzzle :
New
Authorship Evidence," is generously
allowing a free complete download for a limited period
only.
August 21, Part III of Mather Walker's
five part series : THE
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA : ANOMALIES
August 10, The Troilus and Cressida Puzzle and
the Design of the First Folio: Part
II
August 1,
The Troilus and Cressida
Puzzle
and
The Design of The First
Folio by Mather Walker is
the first
installment of a new 5
part series
July 17, With the assistance of Karen Gordon, a
new edition of Virginia Fellows' The Shakespeaere Code is
now available. For more information contact 1-800-245-5445.
Here
is a book review by William House.
July 1, Overheard
June 5, Regarding Sir Thomas More,
The Great
Shakespeare Find by Rodney
Eagle
May 4, "It should be
remembered that no trace of any original manuscript of any play or
poem ascribed to Shakespeare has ever been discovered. This
association of the names [Bacon and Shakesepare] and their
conjunction on the title-page of a collection of manuscripts
ascribed to each, must be of deep interest to all students of
English literature." --from the Introduction to the
Northumberland Manuscript by Frank Burgoyne.
The Northumberland Manuscript papers discovered
in 1867, in the posseession of the Duke of Northumberland, are a
miscellaneous collection of transcripts, pamphlets, documents,
from the Elizabethan period including Leicester's Commonwealth,
speeches and essays by Francis Bacon and references to both
Shakespeare phrases and the plays Richard II and Richard
III, with the names Shakespeare or William Shakespeare and
Francis Bacon repeatedly mentioned together.
In 1904, Librarian of the Lambeth Public Libraries, Frank
J.Burgoyne, transcribed and edited this landmark collection and
added an introduction into book form.
With very special thanks to Glen Claston for providing this
digital version :
Here
is the introduction and access to the book's contents via
PDF.
Part I is 191 pages, 14.2 megabytes
Part II is 94 pages of graphics, 19.3 megabytes
April 17, Excerpt chapter from a recent book by
Stephen Mcknight, The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's
Thought : Francis
Bacon's God
April 3, Find out how Francis Bacon worked the
motif of the Holy Grail quest into the play, All's Well That
End's Well and how common sense demonstrates that Edward de
Vere could not be the possible author in the latest essay from
Mather Walker in :
The Holy Grail Allegory in All's Well That Ends Well.
March 14 The
Famous Speech of Sir Thomas More by W. S. Melsome
March 1,
Fakes
February 14, Examining the handwriting on the
manuscript pages from the play Sir
Thomas More
January 22, Today marks the 445th anniversary
of the birth of Francis Bacon. Here's what was written on
his
baptismal registration followed by some
significant quotes regarding the secrecy of this very special
baby.
January 9, Book Review :
THE TRUTH WILL OUT: UNMASKING THE
REAL SHAKESPEARE
January 3, 2006
An Excellent Shakespeare resource for teachers and students of
Shakespeare :
Jacklin Enterprises announces the sixth title
in the Shakespeare 2000 Series: Anthony and Cleopatra in Modern
English : Side by Side With
The Original Text is now
available with editorial, chronology, historical background,
introduction, text notes & glossary (271pages) by Walter
Saunders and Vivien Vibert, for more information, email :
orders@jacklin.co.za or phone +27 (0)11 265 4200
December 3, Virginia
Fellows 1914-2005
December 3, From
the Personal History of Lord Bacon, the unpublished papers
by William Hepworth Dixon
November 2, Life
of Alice Barnham, the wife of Francis
Bacon by A. Chambers Bunten
October 15, Upcoming event
in London sponsored by the Francis
Bacon Society
October 15, Upcoming US events
schedule for Peter Dawkins author of
The Shakespeare Enigma
October 2, Did Mr. James Spedding noted Bacon
biographer, really know "everything" about Francis Bacon asks
Edward
Bormann
September 3, The
Shakespeare Circle
August 2, Two new published books by Ross
Jackson explore the hidden literary and historical life of Francis
Bacon. Read about the fictional novel with historical narrative,
Shaker of the
Speare : The Francis Bacon Story and
The
Companion . Newcomers who want to find
out about Bacon's life will find the context of these books fun to
read and captivating.
July 3,
Evidence
Connecting Sir Francis Bacon with Shakespeare by Howard
Bridgewater
July 3,
Bacon dances with I-Pod
June 14, The
Esoteric Significance of the Shakespeare Play
Cymbeline
June 6, Sirbacon.org acknowledges the passing
of Marie Bauer
Hall
May 17, Mather Walker's latest essay,
Reflections on
The Story of the Learned Pig leads
to some revealing insights how the arrangement of the Shakespeare
Plays in the First Folio catalogue were designed with an
intentional purpose.
May 2, The
Story of the Learned Pig, a book
anonymously written and published in 1786, was one of the very
first publications to openly question the authorship of
Shakespeare. The book raises many questions and is narrated from
the perspective of a pig (anyone smell Bacon?) while describing
his many incarnations.
In addition here is an essay lending some insight to the book.
www.sirbacon.org/slptb.htm
And for those who want a PDF of the Learned Pig :
http://www.light-of-truth.com/The_Story_of_the_Learned_Pig.pdf
Special thanks goes out to Robbie Walker, Sheryl McCormick and Rob
Fowler for preparation of this rare text.
April 23, Today is the birthday of the man
known as William Shakespeare. It is also recorded as the same day
he passed away. Follow the Nose
April 15, Find out how Shakespeare and Francis
Bacon are connected to the Inn's of Court in London plus much more
including a reprint of Gesta Grayorum or The Prince of Purpool
the masque performed at Gray's Inn. See
Law
Sports at Gray's Inn by Basil
Brown, with text
preparation by Glen Claston
April 9, Today marks the day of Francis Bacon's
passing in 1626. Soon after his death, peers gathered together and
produced a collection of eulogies called Manes Verulamiani;
(Shades of Verulam) expressing praise to a man who was not only
known to his closest friends as a great philosopher but as a poet,
who united both drama and comedy. Thanks to Robert Fowler of
www.light-of-truth.com
who has made the following introduction
page using flash highlights and to Penn
Leary for providing the Manes Verulamiani book
online.
April 1, Tom Veal comments in a recent book
review that :
"Edward de Vere (1550-1604), 17th Earl
of Oxford (or "Oxenford", as he himself invariably spelled it),
has suffered the posthumous misfortune of becoming the object
of a cult that credits him with writing the works of
Shakespeare. In reaction to the cultists, serious historians
tend to neglect him, which is unfortunate. It's true that he
accomplished little in his life except to dissipate a
substantial fortune, but he had a remarkable start: heir to
England's oldest earldom, son-in-law of the powerful minister
William Cecil and for a while the recipient of favorable
attention from Queen Elizabeth. His failure to advance is an
interesting study in itself, colorfully punctuated by murder,
feuds (including a famous quarrel with fellow underachiever Sir
Philip Sidney), flight abroad, sexual adventures, a brief
conversion to Catholicism, treasonable intrigues and other
excitement."
Would Edward de Vere noted for his extreme
self-centeredness write a play satirising himself as seen in the
play, All's Well That End's Well, or was it maybe his very
observant 'cousin' Francis Bacon who did instead?
See : Shakespeare
Shows Up the Earl of Oxford
March 19, Ben
Jonson and Francis Bacon
March 19, The fifth title in the Shakespeare
2000 Series: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar in Modern
English : Side by Side With
The Original Text is now
available with editorial and introduction by Walter Saunders and
Vivien Vibert, for more information, email : orders@jacklin.co.za
or phone
+27 (0)11 265 4200
March 12, Penn
Leary, author, lawyer and Baconian
researcher for over fifty years has passed away.
D.W.Cooper,
explorer of consciousness and maintainer of The Invisible
College blog and long time friend and contributor to
Sirbacon.org has also passed away.
March 3, Response to the notion
"only an actor
could have written the plays."
February 14, Gerald Francis Bacon has added
some nice graphic design on his page regarding Psalm
46 & The King James Bible
Francis
Bacon, "On
Principles and Origins according to the fables of Cupid and
Coelum" and from his
book ,The Wisdom of
the Ancients, 'Cupid or the
Atom.'
Interview with Philosopher, Author and
Inventor, Arthur Young, on Unity of Purpose, First Cause,Theory
of Process with
commentary on Bacon's Viewpoint of Cupid
Bacon's Essay :
Of Love
Bacon's Essay of
"Love" compared with the Treatment of Love in
Shakespeare
January 22, 2005 The
Birthday of Sir Francis Bacon
January 22, The Good, The Bard, & The Ugly
: Correspondence
to Sirbacon.org
December 1, Bacon,
Shakespeare and Henry VIII
Listen to the restored audio file of
Maryellen McCabe's song Destiny
(Francis Bacon)
November 19, Francis Carr's new book,
Who Wrote Don
Quixote? challenges tradition with
evidence that the Spanish novel may have been an English novel
written by an Englishman.
November 1, What's in a Rabbit?
EMBLEMS FOUND IN
SHAKESPEARE AND BACON THAT ARE PUNS
October 17, Imagery,
Thought Forms & Jargon
Linda
Kauffman offers a tribute to Harvey Wheeler on the day of his
birthday
October 10, Cool
image of Francis Bacon from Frater Velado's Art
Gallery
Francis Bacon : A call for Papers on
the 400th Anniversary of Bacon's
Advancement of Learning, A
Quatercentenary Colloquium,Trinity College, Cambridge,
September 2005
Letters
of Anthony Bacon on microfilm at
Lambeth Palace Library and where to purchase them
October 1, Review of the book "Shakespeare's
Imagery and what it tells us," by
Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
New book : Shakespeare
and the American Nation
Online
books by and about Francis Bacon
September 19, Sirbacon.org bids a farewell to
scholar Harvey
Wheeler
September 19, Mark Rylance decides to end his
career as artistic
director of the Globe Theatre London
after 2005.
August 21, To
Be or Not to Be
Shakespeare :
Shakespeare Authorship and the Globe
Theatre in Today's New York Times
August 15, "To fully understand The
Tempest it is fundamental to realise that Shakespeare has
written a Mystery play, one that is based upon the Classical
Mysteries of initiation," writes Peter Dawkins in his insightful
book, The
Tempest, from his series of his
books, on The Wisdom of Shakespeare.
August 15, Visit Simon Miles' Bacon
is Shakespeare web blog
August 6, Cambridge
University and Shakespeare
July 1, Strange
Fire at the Altar of the Lord: Francis Bacon on Human
Nature
June 6 "For Bacon, no one person invented
any ideas. Knowledge from men belongs to the human species.
Therefore, men should look to the advancement of the human species
in Time and to the glorification of one man in any one time. Bacon
would reject the provincial biographical history of physics and
philosophy and the other sciences. However, during his times, he
needed to tie his scientific truth to the glorification of the
King of the new "Great Brittany.", See Regulated
Observation
May 21, It was right that the New
Atlantis should have remained unfinished, because Science
itself is never finished. To descend from the zenith of Bacon's
vision to his projected "Frame of Laws" would have been something
of an anti-climax. To-day we are hovering between the same
extremes : compulsive laws or voluntary restraint. The New
Atlantis, even in its truncated form, is a vision of which the
world still stands in need. It is government by a new kind of
aristocracy an aristocracy of Service. See
Francis Bacon and the Utopias
www.sirbacon.org/fbutopias.htm
May 14, Tonite, the Globe Theatre in London
hosts the release of a new book by Peter Dawkins,The
Shakespeare Enigma with Mark
Rylance and Peter speaking to the public with press and media
present.
The authorship of Shakespeare's poems and plays has been the
subject of endless debate. In this groundbreaking new book, the
author sheds new light on the many lingering questions about
Shakespeare and his extraordinary works. Detailed research into
Shakespeare's life and works, his contemporaries and the more
secret history of his times leads the author inexorably to
surprising conclusions. Unravelling the code and symbolism
contained within the works is a fascinating voyage of discovery
that reads like an Elizabethan political thriller.
May 3, Gerald Francis Bacon has a new
page
Heraldry (and other) Observations Within the Play Hamlet and the
1623 First Folio. Plus see the
meaning of the word Bard.
April 23, William Shaksper of Stratford on
Avon, died on this day, the day of his birthday. See the
mysterious mark recently discovered on his forehead while reading
the shocking personal comments of a former employee of the
disgraceful Shakespeare
Birth Trust in Stratford.
April 14, There is absolutely no personal
writing that was left behind by William Shaksper in his own hand.
Regarding any personal writing about theatre and the nature of
stagecraft; the same can be said for Christopher Marlowe, and next
to nothing exists for Edward de Vere. Francis Bacon however,
couldn't help himself from thinking about the stage while writing
about other subject matter. See : Bacon
and the Stage.
April 14, Take a look at a rare Authorized
Third Edition of The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke:
Now
on Auction at Christies
April 4, Letter
from Tobie Mathew to Francis Bacon discussing Galileo's
work
April 4 , Atlantis
Rising Magazine has a new article by William Henry on Francis
Bacon and the Sign of the Double A sign
up and receive the free pdf issue
March 15, Australian researcher Simon
Miles presents an in depth page regarding how Francis Bacon
signatures show up in the Shakespeare First Folio, Quartos and
Title pages. See http://www.consciousevolution.com/Rennes/signatures.htm
March 8, Shakespeare and Italy : Did
Francis Bacon visit Italy?
March 1, Francis
Bacon's Semiotics of
Science by Harvey
Wheeler
February 17, A recent book,
"Witchcraft
Medicine" acknowledges that the author
of Shakespeare ("perhaps a pseudonym of Francis Bacon's") was
knowledgeable about invocations and the use of special ointments
as seen in Macbeth. Following the excerpts from the book
are quotes from Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum and The History
of Life and Death demonstrating Bacon's familiarity with such
rituals.
February 2,
"The defenders of Stratford are making a big mistake.
By their honest display of this cornucopia of dissent, they
admit that thousands, perhaps millions of men and women have
rejected the official doctrine.What is clearly on view here is
the blatant inadequacy of the old guard's defence. Nothing they
tell us, approaches the important questions : Shakespeare's
minimal (but supposed) education, the complete absence of
manuscripts, scripts, letters, or portraits, the unnamed grave,
the absence of tributes at his death. His failure to educate
his children is not mentioned. All we are given is tortuous and
unconvincing flannel. Many of the heretics'questions are simply
left unanswered. The leading Shakespeare professors keep their
mouths shut like retreating generals, leaving television
presenters to rehash the discredited Stratford story."
Francis Carr of the Shakespeare
Authorship Information Centre
Starting this week (in the US) on February 4th, PBS will
present a 4 part series "In Search of Shakespeare." Will it be
the usual evasiveness? Check it out to see if they dare to
bring home the Bacon! http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/theshow
January 22, We observe
the birthday of Francis Bacon with the following pages
:
Quotes regarding his Royal
Birth
Time For Truth: Minding the
Shakespeare Gap
What does Francis Bacon Mean to Me?
(Submissions are still being requested)
Rolling Stone Magazine publishes article about the story of
buried treasure off Oak Island and that Francis Bacon's
writings may have been the catalyst for how to conceal
treasure. One filmmaker, Petter Amundsen claims that the
discovery of parchment will lead to the missing Shakespeare
manuscripts that once belonged to Francis Bacon.
January 15, 2004 A debate between an Oxfordian
and a Baconian can be seen here
December 14, A holiday treat from
Mather Walker as he provides
proof of Francis Bacon's authorship of
The Comedy
of Errors and along the way
presents why Bacon intended the play to be linked to Orpheus
theology during the 1594 Christmas season at the Grays Inn Law
School.
December 1, The
Hiram Legend excerpt From Alfred Dodd's
book, "Shakespeare : Creator of Freemasonry"
December 1, SECRET SHAKESPEAREAN SEAL
SREVELATIONS OF ROSICRUCIAN ARCANA Discoveries in the Shakespeare
Plays, Sonnets, and Works,Printed Circa 1586-1740, of "SECRETI
SIGILLI," Concealed Author's Marks and Signs by FRATRES ROSEAE
CRUCIS
Book Review by researcher Robert Fowler :"The
above book should be considered "required reading" for any
serious researcher who has an interest in the ciphers or secret
signatures contained in Shakespeare's works. In this book,
"Secret Shakespearean Seals", the numbers 157 and 287 are
revealed to be intricately woven into and around every
conceivable location in the Quartos and the First Folio of
Shakespeare that could be considered significant for an
author's hidden signatures. These number signatures are
explained in detail along with many facsimile examples that
show original Shakespearean images and how the signature
numbers are arrived at. Demonstrations are made that leave the
reader unable to deny that these two numbers are the Secret
Seal signatures of the "Fra Rosi Crosse", that Francis Bacon
was the likely head of that Literary Society, and that together
they played a Key role in the writing of Shakespeare 's and
others' works.It is the opinion of this cipher enthusiast that
the information covered in this book will lead to many more
discoveries and has the potential to open many new doors of
exploration for another generation of seekers. Those of us who
have read Alfred Dodd, Penn Leary, and Peter Dawkins, will find
Secret
Shakespearean Seals to be on the same level of
interest and will contribute to our overall understanding of
both Sir Francis Bacon and Shakespeare."
November 3, Mather Walker's latest essay :
The
Secrets of The Merry Wives of Windsor
October 9. Many of the Royal colleges
of science and learning could trace their origin to Francis Bacon
or his Societies, if they were interested, but so few realise
today what the world owes to the greatest man of all time. For the
man who took on "all knowledge to be his province" the following
book takes on greater appreciation with the significance that the
perceptible author of Shake-speare was a poet-dramatist, scientist
and linguist at heart.
The Bard on the Brain: Understanding The Mind Through the Art
of Shakespeare and the Science of Brain Imaging, Dana
Press, illuminates the fascinating parallels between
Shakespeare and the current quest of neuroscience to reveal the
secrets of the brain. Oxford University neurologist Dr. Paul
Matthews and noted Shakespeare scholar Jeffrey McQuain have
combined their expertise in a landmark book that addresses some of
neuroscience's most compelling questions through the lens of
Shakespeare's plays.Using famous scenes from Shakespeare as their
roadmap and state of the art brain imaging techniques as their
compass, the authors take readers on a compelling adventure into
the mysteries of the human mind. This book is written in lively
and accessible language and lets us see the inner-workings of our
own brains through Shakespeare's characters. Here's
a review of the book. followed by a
table of contents.
September 17, Here's
a PDF version of the New Atlantis....with a study
program
September 1, More on Bacon's muse
Goddess
Athena
August 18, Mock legal cases used by law
students studying for their exams the following example was found
: "William Shakespeare is charged with a felony-copyright
infringment-for copying the works of Francis Bacon. Shakespeare
seeks to represent himself. The judge tells him, "You know what
they say--he who represents himself has a fool for a client."
Shakespeare responds, " That's stupid. I don't need a lawyer."
Since the unauthorized practice of law is prohibited, can
Shakespeare be compelled to accept the assistance of a lawyer?
"--From Law in a Flash published by Aspen Law &
Business www.aspenpublishers.com
August 18, SHAKESPEARE
FOR THE EARS:
Collection of 38 plays together on 98
CDs
102 hours, 400 actors (members from the Royal Shakespeare Company)
May be ordered from Audio Partners Publishing Corp.
1-800-231-4261, www.audiopartners.com The
Complete Arkangel Shakespeare
August 1, A new book about Francis Bacon :
Knowledge
is Power by John Henry
July 1,
The Tempest uses details from a private letter from one William
Strachey to which Bacon, but not Shakspere, had access. Bacon
almost certainly drafted a report of the Virginia Company which
likewise draws on the letter.
June 1, Mather Walker examines Twelfth
Night
May 1,
Order a copy of the new Francis Bacon Slide-Show
CD
April 2, Mather Walker observes Much Ado
about Nothing on several levels and notices that it provides
the framework that allows Bacon to build a story in which he puts
(in allegory and allusion) the information he wants in the
play. Bacon is concerned with the problems relating to valid
knowledge (the Philosophical Nothing), and from the very
beginning of the play, it is carefully crafted to present those
basic scenarios of problems relating to valid knowledge into the
play Much
Ado About Nothing.
March 19, Beware the Ides of March : Francis
Bacon's opinions on war (both for and against) are also found in
the Shakespeare works.
See :
BACON, SHAKESPEARE, AND WAR by W.S. Melsome
February 25, An Emblem on the title page from
the Latin translation of Bacon's Advancement of Learning,
published in Paris in 1624
may reveal Bacon's Masonic interests and his Tudor
heritage.
February 6, Issac
Newton and Bacon's Empiricism
January 22, Francis Bacon and Queen Elizabeth
Tudor : Two inseparable souls closer in relation than British
history has allowed. On the day of Francis Bacon's birth we
present his tribute The
Felicities of Elizabeth published
25 years after his death in 1651. Some commentary follows
afterwards.
January 7, 2003 Was
Francis Bacon a Masked Musician?
December 4, "Bacon's style varied almost
as much as his handwriting; but it was influenced more by the
subject-matter than by youth or old age. Few men have shown equal
versatility in adapting their language to the slightest shade of
circumstance and purpose. His style depended upon whether he was
addressing a king, or a great nobleman, or a philosopher, or a
friend; whether he was composing a State paper, pleading in a
State trial, magnifying the Prerogative, extolling Truth,
discussing studies, exhorting a judge, sending a New Year's
present, or sounding a trumpet to prepare the way for the Kingdom
of Man over Nature. In the early Devices written during his
connection with Essex, he uses a rich exuberant style and poetic
rhythm; but he prefers the rhetorical question of appeal to the
complex period....The Essays, both early and late, abound
in pithy metaphor as their natural
illustration....."--Dr. Abbott, See :
Bacon's Style by
Theron Dixon
December 3, Acroamatic - to be
communicated orally, applied to the esoteric teachings of
Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in
distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to
outsiders or the public generally. Hence : Abstruse;
profound.
Commentators of Bacon's New Atlantis claim it is his one
important work of the imagination-- but he has put into it more of
himself, his aims, his desires, his tastes, and his ideals, than
into any other prose work we have from him, and we can see there
the essential manner of man he was at heart- a true philanthropist
of a large scale. Visit The
Old and New Atlantis
November 22, Francis
Bacon After his Fall (Part I and
II) essay by Professor Benjamin Farrington
November 14, In Francis Bacon's book The
History of the Winds there can be found a passage that signals
his fingerprint in a poem from
Love's Labour's Lost
November 6, Stanley Wells, prominent
Shakespeare scholar and chairman of the dubious Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust, (an oxymoron if there ever was one) has a new
book out that fails to enlighten us how it came to be that William
Shakespeare was a writer. Furgettaboutit! Find out what Stratford
on Avon is really all about in All's
Not Well that Stems from Stanley
October 30, Back
to the Garden : The Golden Legacy of “As You Like
It”
October 24, Who
was Shakespeare's alter ego?
October 17, Some
commentary on www.sirbacon.org as it
reaches the 5 year mark online.
October 7, Nine
Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon
October 1, "The critics can go to hell. We
don't know half enough about Lord Bacon."-Frederich
Nietzsche
September 22, In 1898 when Sidney Lee
embarked upon the task of writing his A Life of William
Shakespeare he had an unquestioning faith in the identity of
the Stratford man with the author of the plays, but as he
proceeded he was continually coming across facts which showed that
there was nothing to show that Will Shakespeare possessed the
knowledge or ability required for the writing of the Plays. He
therefore had to twist the ascertained facts to agree with
his faith. This set the tone for most orthodox Shakespeare
scholars and remains in effect today. Edward
Johnson comments.
September 12, Interview with
Sir Francis
Bacon
September 6, Tribute for a friend and
colleague : Ken
Patton 1929-2002
August 25, Mather Walker's last installment of
Compeers III
part III :
Francis Bacon and
the Secret of the Ornamental
Devices
August 16, Francis Bacon's The
History of Life and Death
August 8, Announcement : The Francis Bacon
Society will be hosting a talk by Mark Rylance (Artistic
Director and Actor for the Globe Theatre) entitled
"Shakespeare, Bacon-And Others", on Wednesday, August 28th
at The Edwin
Durning-Lawrence Library, 4pm to 5:15pm
to end at 6pm (fourth floor) at the University of London,
Senate House, Malet St, London. (Block North of the British
Musuem, Tubes Goodge St, Tottenham Ct.Rd, Northern
& Central Lines: to Russell Sq., Piccadilly
Line
Guests are welcome (No charge) and refreshments
will be provided. If interested in attending and reserving a
seat(s) contact by letter : The Secretary to the FBSociety, Flat
1, Lee House, 75a Effra Road, London SW19 8PS
August 8, Francis Bacon's The
History of the Winds
August 1, Compeers
by Night : Second Part of Part III : FrAncis BAcon & the
Secret of the Ornamental Devices by Mather
Walker Francis Bacon was a very
influential figure of his times. He mixed in courtly circles,
carried out many missions to France, is thought by some to be
behind the creation of the Rosicrucians and other more 'secret'
societies. Mather continues his look at the life of Bacon and his
associations with Freemasonry, as well as other occult groups. He
details the 'london underground' of occult knowledge, and the
contemporary figures who helped in these endeavours. Mather also
takes a look at the symbolism used by these groups to conceal and
perpetuate ancient knowledge.
July 20, A Citation from the Advancement
of Learning with
Commentary
July 12,
Francis Bacon, Slave driver or Servant of Nature?
July 4, Godfather
to the American Forefathers
July 4, Commentary and introduction by Harvey
Wheeler on Bacon's Valerius
Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature with the Annotations of
Hermes Stella.
June 19, Were emblems used to convey concealed
communications? What was Bacon's connection with the printers of
the day? Mather Walker provides an excellent overview in the first
installment of Compeers by Night Part III : FrAncis
BAcon & the Secret of the Ornamental Devices.
Introduction
Page
June 12, A curious title-page of The
Tragedy of King Richard II and some commentary about Queen
Elizabeth, Wil Shaksper and Francis Bacon regarding the author of
Richard
II
June 5, The
Impending Crisis :
Some Recent News briefs and
Commentary on the Shakespeare Authorship by Francis
Carr
May 17, British author Joy Hancox, in her
fascinating and controversial books, The Byrom Collection
(1992) and Kingdom for a Stage (2001), uncovers some
startling discoveries about Elizabethan playhouses in both their
design and those who were responsible in the designing. Her
research presents how John Dee and Francis Bacon were more
intimately involved in this process than anyone has suspected.
Mather Walker has a review.
May 6 Edwin Bormann in his book The
Secret Shakespeare presents how the spirit or the ghost in
Hamlet clearly is the personification of the natural
philosophical ideas of the spirit according to Bacon's
scientific writings. See the chapter SHAKESPEARE'S
HAMLET : a dramatic parable in the sense of Bacon's Anthropology
April 23, William Shakespeare, who spelled his
name as Shakspere, Shaxpur, Shakpr, and Shagspere, the world's
most famous front man, was born and died on this day.
Let's
hear from the Bard himself. (audio
file)
April 15, Interview : Mark
Rylance, actor and director of the Globe Theatre
April 5, Winston Churchill once described
Thomas Babington Macaulay "as the Prince of literary rogues" and
Lord Acton said that "his essays are only a pleasant reading and a
key to half the prejudices of our age." David Salmon said of
Macaulay's infamous "Essay on Bacon" that "instead of examining
all the facts and then arriving at a conclusion he proceeded to
state the reasons for it, ignoring or flouting the rest." The
University of Oxford ordered all Macaulay's works to be placed in
a special category as not trustworthy for history. Nieves Mathews
in her book, Francis Bacon, "The History of a Character
Assassination" wrote that the motive for Macaulay's slanderous
essay on Bacon was to use it as a vehicle to gain fame and
notoriety. In so doing, he left several misinformed generations
with an untruthful understanding of Bacon's fall from the
Chancellorship. Edward Johnson in his essay FRANCIS
BACON VERSUS LORD
MACAULAY presents detailed research
that exonerates Bacon from his alleged abandonment of his good
friend the Earl of Essex and unethical practice as the Lord
Chancellor, while demonstrating how Macaulay misrepresented the
historical record.
April 1, Newstory : Feeling
Forgetful? Shakespeare had a herb for it, followed by Bacon
had a herb for it.
March 18, Francis
Bacon and the Secret of the Rosicrucian
Rose by Mather Walker in Part II of
Compeers by Night. A fascinating article looking at the
Rosicrucian phenomena which first flowered over 400 years ago.
Mather Walker looks at the characters and leading men of their
age, who supported the aims of the secret fraternity of the
Rosicrucians. Mather discusses the Rosicrucian published
Manifestos, and tries to identify those responsible for publishing
them. What was the guiding force, the secret of the Rose which the
Rosicrucians extolled?
March 9, Who were the people who worked behind
the scenes with Francis Bacon? Is there a possibility of drawing
any of them out of the shadow into the light? Major speculations
about Bacon's connection with secret groups and secret societies
have centered around the Freemasons and Rosicrucians. Is there any
evidence to connect him with these groups? Join Mather Walker as
he answers these questions while peeking through the ceremonies
and initiations of Freemasonry in Part One of Compeers
by Night.
March 9, In Bathe, England at the Ustinov
Studio Anthony Holden, author of a biography on William
Shakespeare started off by telling his audience with serious
intent : "If anyone in the audience thinks that anyone
other than William Shakespeare was the author would you please
leave the room."
When asked about Shakespeare's will lacking any
references to books or manuscripts, Holden replied, "You
can take it for granted that books and manuscripts would have been
included in the will."
February 22, The
Shakespeare Myth
February 11, The first printed Quarto of
Othello came out in 1622, six years after William
Shaksper's death, and eighteen years after Edward
de Vere's death. A year later, when the
First Folio was published, new additions and improvements to the
play can be seen, demonstrating that the author of
Othello
was alive in 1623.
February 5, When Mark Twain dictated in a
personal letter :
"From away back towards the very beginning of the
Shakespear-Bacon controversy I have been on the Bacon side, and
have wanted to see our majestic Shakespear
unhorsed"
he was stating that he had a long time interest
in the matter before his "Is Shakespeare Dead" account was
published in 1909. Find out why Mather Walker considers Mark Twain
The
Greatest Baconian. Then follow the link
after the essay which leads to the rest of Twain's
letter.
January 29, One Flew Over the Shakespeare Mosh
Pit : Bard
Politics and a Press Release
January 24 , Stratfordians and Oxfordians now
have something in common they don't want to debate a Baconian in
public. The latest authorship shenanigans can be found in the
upcoming "debate" sponsored by Smithsonian
Associates in Washington, D.C. The
Stratfordians and the Oxfordians have teamed up for a debate
without having a representative from the Bacon viewpoint. In so
doing they are attempting to shield themselves and their audience
from having to face the consequences of their most feared
opponent;TRUTH. It is humorous to observe how these two ardent
foes have come together to cooperate in a time of mutual need in
order to bamboozle their singular illusions upon the public. What
fools these mortals be!
January 22, Today marks the Birthday of the
Bard : Sir Francis Bacon
"Dr. Rawley's opening statement that Francis Bacon
' was born in York House or York Place' (he uses italics
in the 1670 version to draw attention to the phrase) is
intended to provoke the reader to ascertain WHERE he was born
and who were his parents : For YORK HOUSE was the residence of
Sir Nicholas Bacon, but YORK PLACE was the Queen's Palace,
afterwards known as Whitehall. The first sentence, then raises
the question acutely : Was Francis a Bacon or a Tudor? Was he
born at York House or York Place? If anyone knew the truth, Dr.
Rawley did. He writes openly as near the truth as he dare. He
knew better than anyone else that York House was not York Place
and was never known as York Place. York Place was the name of
Queen Elizabeth's Palace in the old days."Alfred Dodd,
The Marriage of Elizabeth
Tudor
January 8, 2002 The Folger-Shakespeare Library
in Washington D.C is looking
for a new director. Since it's inception 70 years ago this
institution has quietly refrained from demonstrating a leadership
role on the Shakespeare authorship. They have pretended that the
authorship question doesn't exist at all despite having the
resources to enlighten us.
December 4, Clearing misconceptions : the
Shakespeare-Bacon viewpoints on Love
November 19, What evidence
points to Bacon as the author of the Shakespeare Plays?
November 11, Commentary on Bacon's
Wisdom of
the Ancients & Interpretation of Myths
November 4, British author Colin Wilson in his
latest book The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries
has a chapter on who was Shakespeare
October 31, A
Middle-Eastern Night's Dream
October 25, "Bacon's most characteristic ideas
find their best, their amplest expression, not in Bacon's prose,
but in Shakespeare's poetry. The crude, technical, scientific
exposition of the theory is to be found in the prose : while the
larger and more varied applications of the theory, the theory set
in many lights and colours, as it is seen reflected in the
multiplying and transforming mirror of a poet's mind, is seen in
Shakespeare." See Robert
Theobald's Bacon's Philosophy of Wonder
October 18, Book Review : The
Bacon-Shakespeare Question
October 11, "When Bacon's Essay
of Gardens and the Shakespeare play,
the Winter's
Tale are read together, written as they
both are, in that singular style of elegance, brevity, and beauty,
and depth of science, which is so markedly characteristic of this
author, whether in verse or prose, it becomes next to impossible
to doubt of his identity." Judge Nathaniel Holmes, The Authorship
of Shakespeare
October 4, "The
philosophy of "Hope," which is equally
characteristic of Bacon and Shakespeare, is not a set of common
place notions, floating in the air, any man's property who chooses
to pick them up. They are so strange and individual, so peculiar
and startling, that even James Spedding was half scandalized by
them. Bacon's mind, and surely also Bacon's hand is equally to be
recognized in both the prose and poetry", so wrote Robert Theobald
in his book, Shakespeare Studies in Baconian
Light.
September 26, Linguistic theory and language
development are considered in The
Stratfordian and Baconian Theories : In the Light of
Science
September 17, More on the History behind the
Rosicrucians & Bacon's "Advertisement
for a Holy War"
September 9, Constance Pott from her book
Francis Bacon and His Secret Society
Part I : The
Rosicrucians : Their Rules, Aims, And Method of Working
Part II : Precepts
Of the Rosicrucian Fraternity & Bacon's Influence
September 4, Meet
Shakespeare's Wife
August 28, Francis Bacon's System not only
embraced the Reformation of Physics and Physical Well-being but
the Invisible Worlds of Mental and Moral Thought and Action
inspired by his muse, Goddess
AthenA, the Spear-Shaker.
August 24, Some
letters of William Smedley, author of
The Mystery of Francis Bacon
August 22, Book reviews : Daphne du Maurier's
Golden
Lads & Hostage
to Fortune
August 17, The
Royal Society of London For Improving Natural
Knowledge
August 13, "The end of science is not to prove
a theory but to improve mankind," wrote Manly P. Hall. The
scientific goals of Francis Bacon are seen integrated with the
nature of his faith and humanity from a lecture by Professor
Benjamin Farrington : The
Christianity of Francis Bacon
August 6, Bacon's
Translations of the Psalms
August 1, Harvey Wheeler writes about a modern
applicaton of the Baconian scientific process of evidence
evaluation that is used effectively in medicine. Bacon
and Dr. Folkman’s Neo-Hermeneutics
July 20, The
Rev. James Wilmot, D.D., was the first to name Francis Bacon as
the author of Shakespeare in 1785.
July 4, Bacon
101 : A new series of essays from
Mather Walker, exploring Bacon's Novum Organum, The
Advancement of Learning and a fresh perspective on The
Tempest
June 5, In 1631 the first biography book on
Francis Bacon was published in Paris. The author was a Frenchman
named Pierre Amboise who made references to Bacon's Royal birth.
See The Life
of Francis Bacon. Commentary on the
book is found in a chapter from Granville Cuningham's
BACON'S SECRET
DISCLOSED IN CONTEMPORARY BOOKS
May 20, The
Esoteric Meaning of Twelfth Night
May 10, Francis Bacon wrote the Earl of Essex
(Robert Devereux) a letter of great significance and as remarkable
as any of his writings in which he told Essex he must mend his
ways and his attitude to the Queen. It is almost sufficient to
tell any student of psychology that Francis Bacon was the author
of the Shakespeare Plays. Only a Master-dramatist who had studied
the complex heart of humanity could have composed it. Very
specifically, with the sure touch of the psychological-dramatist,
Francis Bacon teaches his younger brother how he may gain his ends
from the Queen without appearing to force her Will in any
way...... If Essex had heeded this advice, Francis Bacon's
Idealism would have ushered in a New Age on wings of Fraternity
and Liberty, Education and Charity. See Alfred
Dodd's the Two Brothers : Politics of the Royal
Succession
May 1, Interview with the prolific British
author, Jean
Overton Fuller regarding The Tempest ,
the Virginia Colony, and Bacon's genetics.
April 23, It's that time of the year to pay
homage to that enigmatic man, William
Shaksper, whose legend well exceeded
his capability while being paid to play his
vital Falstaffian (the false spear) role in order to protect
another. Then check out the point being made in Shake, Fake &
Bake : Betty
Crocker and the Shakespeare Authorship
April 15, When Daphne du Maurier the
popular British novelist became interested in writing a book on
Francis Bacon, little did she know at the time she would end up
becoming an enthusiast about the authorship question. In the
1970's after her book was published, she became a member of the
Francis Bacon Society. Here is a review of her book
The Winding
Stair : Francis Bacon His Rise and
Fall in which she left deft
clues regarding the man behind the mask of Shakespeare.
April
1, Baconians and
Oxfordians have one thing in common : They both recognize the
impossibility that the author of the Shakespeare works was William
Shakspere of Stratford. However, the notion that Edward de Vere
was the author is simply replacing one myth with another. In the
eighty or so years since their theory was introduced, Oxfordians
have yet to provide any substantial evidence for their claims or
for their critics, while inflating what-ever evidence they
believe they have, to be more substantial than it actually is :
Much Ado About Nothing.
If your still uncertain about who wrote Shakespeare or if you just
want to have a good read, then you will find this new essay by
Jerome Harner, Why
I'm Not An Oxfordian : Bacon vs. De Vere, a Review of the
Evidence to be as illuminating
as it is entertaining. After all wasn't this the point of Francis
Bacon being a playwright?
March 25, On this day in 1621, Francis
Bacon writes a letter to the King maintaining his innocence to the
bribery charges. Further testimony is given by one of his
secretaries and head servant Thomas Bushell who later makes a
confession revealing his poor judgment in receiving gifts on
behalf of the Lord Chancellor without admitting to it at the time.
See: Bacon's
letter to King James.
March 15, When King James I allowed his Lord
Chancellor to take the fall for his own self-created political
dilemmas in 1621, it was a great travesty of justice in the course
of British history. Still to this day there is much confusion
around the blighted facts of this matter as an innocent man was
commanded to abandon his defence and admit guilt to bribery
charges, without even having a trial. Find out how these
circumstances are eventually reflected in scenes from the plays
Henry VIII and Othello in : The
Sacrifice of Francis St. Alban.
March 4, A clear historical exposition of how
Bacon's scientific method and philosophical ideas regarding the
impediments to learning and discovery have been either embraced or
misunderstood and yet still relevant today for further inquiry can
be found in Francis
Bacon and the True Ends of
Skepticism by Barbara
Friedberg.
February 20, Join the fun. A Marlovian and a
Baconian in the heat of battle in : Deja
Vu All Over Again : Resurrecting Marley Take
Two.
February 3, ORVILLE W. OWEN, M.
D. remarked that,
"Either Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare were the
same man, at least so far as the writings are concerned, or
else for once in the history of mankind, two men absolutely
dissimilar in birth, in education and in bringing up, had the
same thoughts, used the same words, piled up the same ideas,
wrote upon the same subjects, and thought, wrote, talked and
dreamed absolutely alike."
Here's a sample selection of mutual thoughts
and subjects found in the works of Bacon and Shakespeare collated
by W.F.C .Wigston in his book Francis
Bacon : Poet, Prophet, Philosopher,Versus Phantom Captain
Shakespeare The Rosicrucian Mask
January 22, 2001 Some words from
Francis Bacon on the 440th anniversary
of his birth and Sir Francis Bacon's Advancement
of Shakespeare & The 1623 First
Folio with a quote from Ben
Jonson.
BBC online edtion names sirbacon.org site, "Pick of
the Day at Web Guide, Best of the Web."
December 7,
Since the publication of The Shakespeare
Ciphers Examined (1957) by Elizebeth and William Friedman two
generations of Shakespeare scholars have heavily depended on this
book for truthful expert guidance in matters pertaining to the
Shakespeare Authorship “problem.” The Friedmans promised
in the introduction to their book to be unbiased investigators.
They even went so far as to state that anti-Stratfordians deserved
a fair hearing instead of the derision they had suffered for many
years. However, their book maintained a derisive approach which
affected the quality and the outcome of their results. Years
later, William Friedman would admit in private that he made some
mistakes but he never revised his work. Now 43 years later,
Kenneth Patton will demonstrate in detail with his new book,
Setting
The Record Straight : An Expose' of Stratfordian Anti-Baconian
Tactics (Book One ; a designated
version for the internet in 94 pages), the deliberate shortcomings
of the Friedmans research while presenting how legitimate and
intentional Baconian ciphers are in fact, inside the Shakespeare
Folio as verified by the discoveries of William Stone Booth in the
early 1900's.
December 5, Edmund
Spenser : The Man on the Stair
December 4, From the book Reminiscences of a
Baconian, Kate Prescott tells us about some of the secrets
from Bacon's
residence at Canonbury Tower
December 2, Correspondence between
King James'
daughter Elizabeth and Francis Bacon
from 1622.
December 1, BBC news reports
a
comedy of errors recently exposed in
Stratford on Avon in regard to historical landmarks that were
falsely attributed.
November 27, Insight into the mystery
surrounding Christopher Marlowe & the identity of "Monsieur le
Doux" can be found in Resurrecting
Marley.
November 22, The
syndicated adventure comic strips Liberty
Meadows & Dr. Cyborg proclaim
Francis Bacon as Shakespeare
November
15, The Shakespeare First Folio is Bacon's
magic puzzle box. The Folio symbolizes the entire realm of
Universal Nature, even going down to the sub-atomic level. Join
Mather Walker as he weaves us through The
Secrets of The First Folio.
November 7, Bacon's connection with the
Printing of the
1623 Shakespeare First Folio
November 1, Throughout Bacon's works such
as the Essays, dedications to the books Novum
Organum and Wisdom of The Ancients and some speeches;
is found the enigmatic phrase "I
cannot tell." This phrase can also be
found in several of the Shakespeare plays and was amended into the
1623 First Folio. What was the meaning behind it?
October 22, An imaginary image of
Francis
Bacon and His Contemporaries followed
by an article, Francis
Bacon's Friends & Associates
October 12, Hundreds of anecdotes and
observations dictated by Francis Bacon are found in his
Apophthegms
October 1, How
the Shakespeare Plays Fit Bacon's Life-Story in Loves Labour's
Lost, Othello, Merry Wives of Windsor, Merchant of Venice, Measure
For Measure, Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, King John, King
Henry VI, and King Lear.
September 19, Bacon
The Expert On Religious Foundations
September 9, The
Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret
details about the facts surrounding
Francis Bacon's birth
August 27, Interview with British writer
Francis
Carr who has promoted the Authorship
Question for the last 40 years.
August 17, The
Author of Shakespeare Was A Professional Lawyer
August 9, Sir Edwin Durning Lawrence author and
collector of many books on Bacon and the authorship bequeathed his
entire library to the University of London. Take
a look inside.
July 28, Bertram Theobald in his book Enter
Francis Bacon presents how Ben Jonson played a vital role as
Bacon's editor and confidant. See : Ben
Jonson and the 1623 Folio
July 4, A letter by Thomas
Jefferson writing who he considered to
be the three greatest men of all time
June 2, Edwin Reed, a prolific writer on the
authorship, presents 885 parallelisms between the writings of
Shakespeare and Bacon. See his book Bacon
vs. Shakspere.
May 24, In the book Ben
Jonson and The First Folio W.
Lansdown Goldsworthy presents how Jonson used his Masque,
Staple of News to make concealed commentary about the Court
of King James, his loyalty towards Francis Bacon,
alludes to the Earls of
Montgomery and Pembroke, Mary Fitton, Puttenham and "The Arte of
English Poesie" and his symbolic reference
to Edward de Vere, repudiating his hand in the authorship of
Shakespeare.
May, 24, The Shakespeare Ciphers Examined
(1957) by the cryptologist William Friedman, claimed that
there were no legitimate Bacon ciphers in Shakespeare. Subsequent
research about this book, illustrates that not only does the book
contain many inaccuracies, but they were deliberate in nature.
Commentary
from Baconiana.
May 24, Francis Bacon and The Shakespeare Plays
: The
Comedy of Errors, Julius Caesar, and Antony &
Cleopatra by one of the
leading authorities on Bacon and Shakespeare today, Peter
Dawkins.
May 23, They were the Knights of the Helmet, an
'invisible' order, spear-headed by that Shaker of the Spear
himself, Francis Bacon. His method : advancing the learning of his
time and all the ages with a new literature, enhancement of the
English language, expansion of the New World, using the principles
of inductive science, culminating in his ultimate goal : Universal
Enlightenment. Read about Francis Bacon and The
Knights of the Helmet.
May 21, Shakespeare
and Freemasonry
May 18, A short excerpt from The
History of the Rosicrucians
with commentary on The New Atlantis
May 16, Point Counterpoint : Rebuttal to the
Oakland Tribune Hamlet
and Eggs vs Bringing Home the Bacon
May 9, The implications of Bacon's royal birth
can be seen through his jealous nemesis Edward Coke, and the
private letters exchanged between them and Robert Cecil, his
cousin and Secretary of State; whose province it was to guard all
state secrets. The inside story of the
Francis Bacon-Edward Coke connection.
May 9, Bacon's writing : In Happie Memorie
of Elizabeth, Queen of England gives testimony to his and
Essex's concealed Tudor identites in : Last
of the Tudors.
May 9, Bacon played a key role in the success
of Parliament under the new King James reign. Before Bacon could
move up the winding stairs of the political realm he had to first
agree to a marriage with a commoner brokered by his cousin Robert
Cecil. Bacon's private letters reveal this hidden history. See :
King
James First Parliament.
April 23, "BBC Knowledge" the new British
documentary company recently broadcast a 5 hour program on
Shakespeare. In their promotion of the show they made the point
that "It hasn't always been Politicians who've kept the people of
England entertained with tales of treason, scandal, and
deception." Find
out that maybe Shakespeare was a Politician after
all.
April 23, The new London
Globe Theatre Exhibition Hall is now open to the public and the
first display board you see when entering is a succinct
synopsis on the Authorship issue and the
candidates. There hasn't been any
publicity about the new exhibition hall and nothing about the man
William Shakespeare as author is presented.
April 23, We are living in the information age
and a time when more information and knowledge is available at a
greater level than ever before. Yet in regards to William
Shakespeare we know very little and this has become very difficult
to reconcile for orthodox Strafordian scholars like the former
Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford, Stanley Wells,
and U.C. Berkeley English Professor Alan Nelson, who have
both been quoted as saying , "Shakespeare is a hard sell." This is
reflected in Stratford on Avon which has seen a sharp decline in
tourism. Bard
to the Bone gets to the bottom on the
lack of evidence.
April 9, On this day in 1626, Francis Bacon
died at the age of sixty-five. Find out about Bacon's friend the
2nd Earl of Arundel whose estate he spent his final days on and
where he wrote his last letter describing his experiment to
preserve a fowl with snow in Highgate--London
which he claimed "it succeeded excellently well."
March 21, Bacon's early years in public life
included being an advisor for the State. During this time, letters
that Bacon wrote to his Uncle Burleigh the Lord Treasurer, his
mother Queen Elizabeth, and friend Fulke Greville, illustrate the
realities of his Tudor predicament and his potential Succession to
the Throne which eventually he was forced to renounce.
see
:
Francis Bacon the
Publicist (1592-1596)
March 14, Kenneth Patton shares
an insight about Bacon's Prayer
February 14, Bacon-Shakespeare
Coincidences by Edward
Johnson
February 2, The
Semiosis of Francis Bacon’s Scientific
Empiricism by Harvey Wheeler
January 22, Francis Bacon's Birthday
January 22, Ben
Jonson's Banquet speech written for Francis Bacon's 60th
Birthday
January 22, Impeached from the Chancellorship
in order to save King James from a political scandal in 1621;
Bacon
wrote this Prayer
January 22, New
York Honors Francis Bacon
January 22, View
the 3D Bacon B+A+C+O+N=33 = Shakespeare
(Best Viewed with 3D Glasses, if you would like a free pair
of 3D glasses send us your snail address via
lawrence@sirbacon.org)
January 18, Peter Dawkins and the Francis Bacon
Research Trust have launched a New
Francis Bacon Website.
January 17, Harvey Wheeler examines
Francis
Bacon’s Case of the
Post-Nati:(1608); Foundations of
Anglo-American Constitutionalism; An Application of Critical
Constitutional Theory
January 4, 2000 The Founder of the Bacon
Society,
Constance
Pott and a Retrospective she wrote in
1902, still relevant today for authorship researchers
December 11, Sir
Walter Raleigh : Who helped him prepare
his "History of The World"?
December 3, All
is Not Gold That Glisters : Politics
& circumstances behind the "Virgin Queen"
November 19, Virginia Fellows new essay
Unlocking
the Shakespeare Riddle, Why the Bard Was Not Who We Thought he
Was PDF format from Atlantis Rising
Magazine
November 14, Was
Mozart a Baconian? British author
Francis Carr explores the evidence
November 1, Parallelisms
and the Promus--Another look at Bacon's
Shakespeare Notebook
September 8, Bridging Ancient Wisdom Themes to
the Present: The
Shakespeare-Bacon Essays of Mather Walker
August 23,
Discovery
of Early Shakespeare Quartos in Bacon's Library
August 19,
When
Shakespeare was in Love :
Francis Bacon and Marguerite of Navarre
August 15,
William
Cecil (Lord Burghley) and Robert Cecil
were Bacon's Uncle and Cousin.
Threatened by Bacon's ideas for reform and his royal birth they
were adverse towards any public advancement for Bacon.
July 29, The Prince of Purple :
Find the Ten Links
July 29, Bacon
and The Tempest
July 20, The 1624 Cipher Book
Cryptomenytices
Cryptographia and it's Title
Page
July 13, The Shakespeare-Bacon-
Overlay
and Martin Droeshout artist of the mysterious Shakespeare portrait
as seen in the 1623 Folio
July 4, The Godfather
to the American Forefathers
June 19, Don
Quixote and Francis Bacon
June 16, Divine
Elizabethae:
Queen Elizabeth and David--Shakespeare and
Solomon
(A personal letter written by Roger
Ascham to the Queen & concealed for Two-Hundred
Years)
June 5, Contemporaries compare Bacon
to Apollo
May 25, Bacon's
cultural impact on science & 17th
century Europe
May 19, The San Francisco Chronicle names
Sirbacon.org site of the week
May 18, Manly P. Hall's commentary
on Bacon's The New Atlantis
May 6, Anne
and Sir Nicholas Bacon
May 6, The
Francis Bacon Introductory Slide Show
May 1, The Earl of Essex's Secret
Birth
April 23, Celebrate
"Shakespeare's" birthday: which is the
same day he died on (in 1616) & is the exact day
Cervantes
died
April 18, Bacon
& The Mystical Roots of The Two Gentlemen of
Verona
April 11, Shakespeare's
Other Side of Midnight
April 4, Bacon
and the Rose Cross
March 31, The Temple
of the Rosy Cross
March 21, Spearshakers
of the Globe
March 14, The
Authorship Question & Beyond
February 22, The Jerry Springer Show
:
"Famous Authors Who Are Fakes"
February 20, Bacon Statue
at Gray's Inn (339k)
February 20, The
Gospel According to Francis Bacon
February 8, Commentary on Bacon's Essay
Of
Truth
January 22, Birthday of Francis
Bacon
January 22, A
Hamlet Interpretation
January 22, In
the Light & Shadow
January 22, Francis
Bacon, Macbeth, and King James
January 22, Bacon
& The Stage
January 22, Hamlet
and Francis Bacon
January 9,1999, Essex's
Plot to Win The Queen
December 5, The
Gorhambury Theatre of Masks
December 1, The
Veiled and Feathered Sunburst
November 18, The
Man Who Saw Through Time
November 12, Twickenham
Park & Love's Labour's Lost
November 6, Amusements Gallery VIII
November 5, Francis Bacon's Study
& the "Stages" of his Life (121k)
November 1, Shakespeare's Brother :
Anthony
Bacon
October 22, Bacon's Royal
Parentage (25 references)
October 13, Seven
Alarming facts about Wm. Shakespeare
October 8, Why
Bacon Suppressed His Name
October 4, Elizabeth
Wrigley, Director of Fr. Bacon
Library
October 1, Think
Different! London 1616
September 22,
Francis
Bacon & The Theatre
September 22,
Francis
Bacon & The English Language
September 11, The
Chairman of the Bacon
Society
August 26, The
Martyrdom of Francis Bacon
August
25, Drawing
of Francis Bacon
August 25, Letter
of Bacon's and Richard II
August 14,
Insight into Timon
of Athens
August 14,
Amusements Gallery VII
July 10, Mediocria
Firma, New Image of The Bacon
Family Motto on Gorhambury
Page
July 3, President
Clinton Meets the Advancement of Learning
June 24, Francis
Bacon or Francis Tudor
June 19, The Shakespeare
Sonnets Explained
June 8, The
Secret Bard
June 1, Francis Bacon Collector Edition
Phone
Cards
June 1 Amusements Gallery
I & VI
(new images added)
June 1 An Event: Shakespeare
Authorship Symposium
May 24 Shakespeare's
Notebook : The Promus
May 24 How to Become a Member of
the
Francis Bacon Society
May 24 New page for
Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
May 22, The Cypher
on the Shakespeare Statue inside Westminster Abbey
May 15, 1998, New link on "The
Man who made Shakespeare and Stratford Famous"
that go to these articles :
- Stratford upon Avon Birthplace by
Roderick
Eagle
- The Secret Service in Tudor
Times
- The 1623 Book Cryptomenytices
Cryptographiae