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BACON'S "SECRET SOCIETY": THE EPHRATA CONNECTION
by Linda S. Schrigner, et al.
SECTION 1 — BACKGROUND OF SECRET SOCIETY
by Linda S. Schrigner
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SECTION 1 — BACKGROUND OF SECRET SOCIETY
by Linda S. Schrigner
01
| During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the church and
state together governed England and other countries in Europe. The
state enforced the laws of the church. To break the laws of the church
was considered heresy and was punishable by torture and/or death. Therefore,
for anyone to be a member of a movement like the Rosicrucians in those
days was dangerous.
A classic example is Sir Walter Raleigh [1552?-1618] : Manly P. Hall stated in Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, “. . . he was a member of a secret society or body of men who were already moving irresistibly forward under the banner of democracy, and for that affiliation he died a felon’s death. The actual reason for Raleigh’s death sentence was his refusal to reveal the identity either of that great political organization of which he was a member or his confreres who were fighting the dogma of faith and the divine right of kings.And Hall states elsewhere in Collected Writings Vol. 2, “Raleigh was not executed because of his depredations against the King of Spain, but because he was a member of Bacon’s secret society. Every effort was made to torture him into naming the mysterious power that was rising in England, but he died without speaking.” |
![Sir Walter Raleigh [1552?-1618]](01_Sir_Walter_Raleigh.jpg) |
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