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.BACON'S "SECRET SOCIETY": THE EPHRATA CONNECTION
by Linda S. Schrigner, et al
SECTION III — SLIDES AND RESEARCH ON BACON AND
AMERICA
by Linda S. Schrigner
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SECTION III — SLIDES AND RESEARCH ON BACON AND
AMERICA
by Linda S. Schrigner
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Note: For larger view, right click on image and "View Image" separately. It may also be printed as a separate attachment to this page. It was John Heydon between 1658 and 1664 who publicly broadcast that he was a Rosicrucian, according to Frances Yates, (The Rosicrucian Enlightenment: "From Invisible College to the Royal Society") and, further, Heydon pointed out: ". . . as clearly as possible the parallels between Bacon's New Atlantis, and the Fama Fraternitatis, through which the wise men of Bacon's House of Solomon become the wise men 'of the Society of the Rosie Crucians'. . . ." |
There is one other
important Rosicrucian connection with Bacon and Early American colonial
and revolutionary leaders. The Royal Society, that Colonial Americans
are known to have joined on their trips to Europe, is traced by well known
historians, to Rosicrucianism. . . . I first learned about the Royal
Society of deists in elementary school 8th Grade! It
was included in our textbook, on the topic of American Founding Father
members of the Royal Society and Benjamin Franklin's subsequent founding
of the American Philosophic Society in 1743, that was first known as the
"Leather Apron Club" that was founded in 1727. Both Franklin and
Jefferson, and other Americans, were members of the Royal Society and,
also, the American Philosophic Society established by Franklin. Peter
Miller, too, even long before he led the Ephrata Cloister, and a
very good friend of General George Washington, was a noted member of the
American Philosophic Society.
Frances A. Yates, who has written much profound, Rosicrucian history, wrote in The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972), that the Invisible College and its "public-spirited plans", or the concept of it was as an "old ludibrium", an old parable or "old joke about invisibility always associated with the R.C. Brothers and their college." She suggests that it was possibly a reference, understood to be serious, that also was used by Robert Boyle in two letters (1646 and 1647) specifically about the Royal Society, in order to identify a "chain of tradition leading from the Rosicrucian movement to the antecedents of the Royal Society." Yates makes a very detailed, evidentiary explanation in ...Enlightenment, that provides a deeper understanding of the public appearance that Bacon was the primary Rosicrucian impetus via the Royal Society. However, the Rosicrucian objective of colonializing America involved many more individuals than Bacon alone. I think it would be accurate that it was the Royal Society may be understood as being what Manly P. Hall called "Bacon's 'Secret Society', ad derived from the House of Solomon (please see side-bar, also). Yates wrote: "As the natural philosophers moved towards the consummation of the Royal Society [in meetings of 1648-1659], they had to be very careful. Religious passions were still high, and a dreaded witch-scare might start at any moment to stop their efforts. So they drop [Dr. John] Dee, and make their Baconianism as innocuous as possible." |
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