SECTION III — SLIDES AND RESEARCH ON BACON AND
AMERICA
by Linda S. Schrigner
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Penn had the capability of providing a place
for people of all religions and esoteric beliefs and practices, where he
and Rosicrucians would be able to foster and protect them from prejudice
and discrimination. It was when Penn's father the Admiral died, that
King Charles II paid his personal money debt still owed to the elder William
Penn, in the form of his son's inheritance, by giving Penn the wooded lands
of what came to be Penn's colony in America. The King named it "Pennsylvania,"
and made William Penn the Governor or ruler of the land.
This made it possible for William Penn to establish a colony where all faiths teaching of a divine power greater than themselves, could live in peace. When Rosicrucian Van Bebber purchased 1000 acres, the scene was set for the Pietist perfecti to establish a Chapter of Perfection in America by 1694. William Penn's Rosicrucian ties in Europe played a very important role in preparing for the early Rosicrucians to journey to the American colonies. There can be little doubt of Penn's own secret fraternal ties with the network of European perfecti that sponsored the early Rosicrucian spiritual mission in America. |