.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
60a
| Frances Yates had traced
the Royal Society of London back to its earlier existence in the Palatinate
(western Germany today), where pioneering mathematician and Rosicrucian
from England, Dr. John Dee, also court astrologer and confident of Queen
Elizabeth I, was the driving force in preparation for the Age of
Enlightenment. He was the equivalent of an Imperator R+C in the Reformation
period, and there is also no doubt of his association with the young Francis
Bacon according to notations in his personal diary.
However, political enemies of Dee's humanitarian efforts found a way to slander him, in order to ruin his good name and block further public accomplishments. Dee's name and involvement in England had to be suppressed by his own brethren as part of the establishment of the London Royal Society, even long after Dee's death. The Society gave no public evidence of any earlier or existing Rosicrucian connections, although it was established in London for the same Rosicrucian objectives of the earlier Bohemian Brethren. Therefore, in the interests of fulfilling a greater humanitarian need for educating as many individuals as possible in an understanding of "natural philosophy," Francis Bacon took on the responsibility of public notoriety as Lord Chancellor over the American colonies in the Age of Enlightenment, while carrying out a plan for a colony of philosopher leaders, as he allegorized in New Atlantis and as Plato had written of in Republic. John Dee's name was suppressed in Rosicrucian history for over 300 years. Eventually, Bacon, too, would be scandalized by enemies of freedom, but not before much was already accomplished in Europe and America. The New Atlantis was not published until the year after Bacon died, in 1627. In its original version were found the significant parallels with the 16th Century Rosicrucian manifestos, as pointed out much later by John Heydon. |
![Dr. John Dee [1527-1608]](60a_John_Dee.jpg)
Dr. John Dee [1527-1608] |
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