THE

SECWT

COUNT SAINT-
GE

by

Dr. Raymond Bernard

 Republished 1998
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c o P.O Box 724

Escondido, California 920
 Ns more baf I ting and perplexing cRerapter ever puzzled hiBtorieng ttan that
. sneerdoes Individual biro suddenly appeared out of the urétnovo ar the' begiaoing
of the elghteenth. century, and , of ter flitterigg through the courta ofrEurope
a great:er part of . thls century, ehen for d1sappegred as zaystex1oug1y aS b0 fl¥8t
appealed. Uho he waa, where he caae ftoa, what was th.s n£sslon, and there he
weñt afte* he was last seen, knows or even ventures to guegs. 8e 1B a
nobody perfect enigme.

Obviously of royal birth, though got the lgst

as he. claimed, he. dealt wLth the, crowned heads he1t• of cfte houae of: Rakoc•y
of Europe as equals , . and they
accepted hta as siich , conalderlng hla bo th as I rlend and eounsellOE , . whether It
wos the uofortuogte Louis KV, whose death-at tne guillotine he unsuccessfully
tried . to prevent , Emperor Frederlck the. Great , called him ”the man who
who
never d1es ," or the Russ1an soya1ty. . Be. ayst1Cled .thea all and kep t the 9fin-
Gering about his identity, which was a constant subject of convezsat1on aOd
«onder In the eouxt:s of Europe, as was also his age Whl0h mas euspecced to be
much greater than his youthf ml appearance would Indicate•
While he .used many nemes, which'he changed to suit the'occasion; ’that moat
ccsmooly aseuated , though as f1c t1 t1ous as the z'est , vas that of' Swint-
Count:
Cermain, the aloh cal edept who was the'marvel of Louis court on the
XV's
eve of the French Revolution, whose coming he predl eted and which he was
at
present, after his feigned death in 1784.
In che f ollowing.. pages , we shall atiienpt to put together and reconstruct
the following eoattered fragments of the loog and mysterious 'life of ’.thls
adept, which started io the slxteeuth century ao6 continued og until the
twentieth, dtizlng wh1ch. the he used
a series o£ names ; and while his- true name Is Fteucls
*i:dor , son of Queen Ellaabech and last of the Tudor s, the name under which he was
for:oun durIng the early part of his long 11fe was eha t of Franc1s Bacon, since he
teas an. adopted ,son of Lord and Lady Baeon, though his wr ltlngs appeared un5er
many assumed o&mes, as Sfiakespeare„ Christopher Marlowe, Spencer, Nontaignc,
£urto0, Cervantee and others. Later. in his ltfe, ef'ter his ’feigned death in
En¿1and and. passage to the Continent , he adop ted an enlgaatl"cal' s tyle of vrri ting
soSer various feigned names, as Valentine.Audraes ; Comte de Osballs , - etc. , In
cider to conceal hls. IdenVjty; and from a philosopher , poet and draaatls t as lie
was In Englafid , he now bee se a Ros lcxuclan philosopher.

There iu #-wtdespread:belieC emong.modern occult organixatiogs, as.the

Tbeoeop1zt cat Soc1ety. and the "I Aa" Novezaent , tbat 5a1nt:-Gezma1n 1s st111 a11ve
ae one of the great masters of tbe'se ordere. ’Aceoiding to
the’BrazIlisn’Theo- aophtcsl Society, he is now living in the Subterranean
World as a member of *o advanced clviliaatloo tRat exista these. Charles A.
Marcoux, of &ubaurface Resegrzh Cezter„ 1311 West fheryl.Road, Photdix,
Arizona, ’claims to .have con-
.tacted hla add .wrot9 the ..present thought . "I want to comment to your one thing
which may be of interest, zonceruing Couot-Saint-Gemain. Such a party has
coutatted me,on:eeveze1.occasions, at least.he claimed to be Count Saint-
GermsiA." Barbara Moore,. a Ruseian-born phyelcieA living iñ England, claims
to'have met him some yeare ,ago, learniQg from him tbe secret of rejuvenation,
es’#id elso the femous Freochwomen, Nlnon de L'Enc1os, who, at rhe age of 90,
 looked like a young womaQ aod was so beautiful that many suitors eought ber hmod
in marriage. In 1933, the head of a Co-Masonic iQ SaQ Jose, Costa Rica, told
the writer that he had received a letter from him, as the world leader of this
Order, comiog from
”Carpathimo Mountains. Menly E.11, his biographer, aleo told tke author that io
 1925, S$iut-Gtra&in waB $een at a Mesozic conveotlon 10 Prmmct. A Freuoh atudeot
Of Shot-Germai0, Paul M&sson, in s letter to tbe writer dated December 12,
1959, wrote:

it -Of nOt}-'cds ’the- Comte de 5s I -Gezzaa In. You ab1 kaovt ‘ oJ° course that
”t6tr '1a°ño authe^cfc' racord of’SaiDt-Ge ir'é death. He simply
dliappeéred the-histotttal Prencfi scene--he who was credited with havlng,
aingle-teAbedly, engineered the Peench Sevolutlonl

‘ ° ' “ '"I itin' interested In ltte biography you are wr LU rig about‘ Saint main; and
oAiy hope yoñ will not mise some of the highlights of his career end his re-
ñarksble Achievements, such as his mastery of all the European lauguagen, which
7hé'spoke flñertly' and without eAy aci4nt; his being one of thé best’ ewozdeméu
of his day; his cechniquñ with the vio Ibn wh1ch waa only equalled 'later , but never
surpassed, by Paganlnl ; and ehe fact thac he sae a high adep t 1s boxoe out by
aicpie tee tlmooy to h1s reaarkable 'powers o I mind .

”He could write t:wo different letters at the seme time, using both hen
a, (Ge tould sigo.write the smse letter with baod, each being such aD exact
copy
oi the otber that wheo one was placed over tbe otber andéeld up to a light,
they u°:e found to be identical, down to the last detail.) Bls. ability to
repeat wnrd I or word the contents of a nwspaper he had read several days before
1s poe1tive proof to uy miod tbat he was aQ initiate oI ao occult sthool based oo
Oriented
ttsching9. \Ou may remember in Rudyard llp1ing'e 'Kim,' how the adept trainc5 the
.youngs ters ' mndg and posters of conoeneyatlon by the well-known ' slngle
glance ’ prsetics. _ The ;s ae. ceehnlque o9s used .by. the Japanesé to develop the '
plc ture holding’.. ,abllley of the1r sples during hold ifar II and was later the
Ioundaticu foi the teeming given the Russlan master spies aster the eeme war,
and is the key to the remarkable success of their espionage system.

An adep.t in the 'single-glance' technique is able to walk swiftly through

a roomful of people, aud.in the few seooñds it takes him to leave, fie will
harp gaiQed eQough ioformatioo of a. most-detailed.kind, which will require him
several fl°urs of typlug wheo reodere his report. IO tbie'brief instant of
time, ha
wili have, lucredibly rough,!bad enough'tlme to impress on his inner mental
ncrcin for ipetaoce the eptire-contents of a›letter wAlch a man aittiag*io ar
erm:fair was slowly reading, Iv additIog'to-qozIgg thé detaWed fâctal features
of a u:ore
of persona in the room, the amall detaile oi their dress, etc. 7ou say
remecbcr thst Robert oudlet In . his autobiography, sticceds£ully :pzace1ced* thls -
slngle- gl,ance;syet r{th his eoO,_aad his gematkable‹feats of
clalioyiie .% ”te e- were'bimpIy
’ By tote way, d1d
It §e be eeen in the GrIk.OolleMloa liH*v¥ort c Alt was iImtad'’by tial
.
a, u. d„ : entl t;1ed The...Pol1sh Rider.'’ (this qlcTure.. â ppedes In’
Ger'aany de 6cbelia, hich Saint-Germain, or’Irancff-Bâooñ,
ehe ’.Po.1;lsh.
Mo aucen de i&ySj. I bought.a large copy aO‹Faent iz 'to Barbara^MoofS--
’P8tjl0Wa, thle i 'ure,
ay re;neaber the high booes. Well, I do not'kâéw of any CO8BRQC OO :re
cheek
te r eve}. having been, made Saint—Geraa1n cas presumed eo
by anyone: Thls lfi have been of- Polish ancesicy , alehou h no rééosd
probabl@ dire to the I act
cLoefi zones But SinCG tñ9re is a large Slavic e1emeut'ia PoJqnd,
of S.la:-Ge a3n
b
however, that Saint-Germaio wae oot $ European, but wee mo Asiatic, probably
Tibetem or Mongolian. He wae seot to Europe on a secret mi9siog aod with hia
fsotastically developed powers, mental eod oocult, he was to bring about the
dowofell of an effete mooarchy and effect an actual RenaiessDce oI the free end
liberated bumeD epirit. (Author's gote: The writer doea not agree with Mr.
Massog that Saint-Germein was oC.Asiatic origin, for certainly his face sbowe no
Nongolian characteristics, which it should if he was of Tibetem or ChiQese
ancestry. Io fact, tbere la even reason to believe, as Mademe Blevatsky says in
her faCs OnUeilad, when speaking about tbe "Pehliog" or European who was the
marvel of the Tibetan lemaearies during the gineteeQth century, when he resided
there, that he was an 8 Jisbmom, whose mastery of languages emezed everyone.
Who elee was he thaQ Francie Bacoo, author of the Shakespeare plays7)

"He succeeded admirably in his outer work, as testified to this day by

the great democracy that Praoce typifies. Hia ioner work, however, will oever
be knowo by the profane, as it deals with the occult and wes manifested iQ the
seoret schools of that time, Qotably tho9e of the Freemasons. Cagliostro was
ooe of Saint Germain's disciples aQd weot to Polaod to learn the elchemlcal art
(ac:ordin¿ to Dr. Marc haven). Later oo, Cagllostro himself beceme very active
in Free- masonry and founded the ' Egyptian RI te of Freeaasonry , ' opening the fire t
1o5g e In Lyons , France.

"I have all the information on the secret Rite; and if you can read French,
you are welcome to read it one day. In there you will £ind a description of the
rejuvemetiDg elixir which Cagliostro used to restore youth to aging individuals.
I have all the detaile of this strange operation, which consists of an almost
forty day fast, during which ooly distilled water wae used as the only liquid,
togtthcr with an elixir celled the 'Master's White Drops.' On the 33rd day, one
will ba seized with a paroxyem of evacuation from all channels of one's body,
together with great persplration through the pores of the skin. Oo the 35tfi
day, one'° hair sod skin will be shed, followed by the loss of all one's teeth.
On the 37th day, new skio will commence to form, and new teeth will start to
grow. 0o the 40th day, a complete regeneration and rejuvenation will have been
effected. Tne book says that if ooe repea:s thls secret operation every fifty
years, oQe's P*y°I«M Immortality will be secured. Now that I am rereading this
chapter os she Cagliostro method of rejuvenation, it calls to my miod a similar
treatment re:om-
mended for the Indian sage , Ghandl , and Chi ch was accordIng co the ancient pre-
scription of the age-old Ayuvedic method of treating disease and restoring health,
pr ac tleed In India sInce the It mortal . Ghand:£ never tr led this treatment , but
I can note maQy pointa of resemblmoce between the Indian method mod that of
Cagliostro." (Author's note: However, according to aQ article io the "New
Yorl Times," thls method of rejuveoatioo was gucceasfully applied to an aging
follower ot Ghandl under the guldance of a
178 year-old yog1, who was a spec1a11s t In this
science, who himself looked oo older theo a man of forty. The method started
with a 40 day fast to diseolve away accumulated deposits, as well as the use
of
certain rejuvenatlng herbs employed since time immemorial by the Ayuvedic school
of medl cone , Including the I amous Fo-ti Tleng, a varie ty of hydrocotyle aelarlea,
wh1ch is believed to regeoerate the endocrine glands.)

In the following pages, we shall consider the loQg life of the

mysterious lndlvldu8l who durIng the lat ter part of his long life used the name of
Count- Germaln, who was believed In oecust cm cles to be a "reincarnation" of
Franels
Bacon, though, as clearly indicated by Udny In his ”Later incarnations ct Franc1s
Bacon, It was a habit of Rosicrucian philosophers to uodergo feigned deaths in o0
country, only to later reappear in other countries under a uew name rod an al-
tered appearance. Thus dld Bacon reappear In Europe as Count Saint-Germaln, af ter
removing his goat ee and a1terlng his appearance.
 Rather than present the biography of thia 2oog-lived aâejt in
chronological ordeT, tommenciQg with his birth ss:’the son:of QueeQ Elizabeth aod
reviewing his life as Francis Bacon, we will fitst cons1der:the later Saint-
Germain phase oI his life, efter whish we wMl conslder bls earlier phaae as
author of the Shake- speare playa. [or, being a zysterioua iodividual„ we are
justified "in employing
.the method of retrogressive '"traclog of identity;" nether thao that
of.’the' “
ordioary biographqr. •

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(Publlsher ' s No te . Charles A. Narcoux, of Subsurface” Research Center , as
mentioned In ehe beg Inning of thls Forewo rd is now deceased . He died on
September 23, 1983. )
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 CHAPTER 0kE

TEE NAN OF fS'l'ERY

Count Saint-Germaln

Franels Bacon - Valen tlne Andreas - the Polish Rlder - Comte de Gaball s -
Prince Rakoczy - Slgnor Gua1d1 -. Count Saint-0ermaln: These- were various
aliases employed by the Nan of Mystery to conceal. his true orlgln as Frane1s
Tudor , Prlnce of England , and rlgheful heir to The' Engllsh throne. Could he have
preserved ehle secrecy In order to pro tece his life from assassInation by
aspirants for the English throoe, knowing too well the cupidfty aAd baseness
of those I llled with such ambl tion, durIng his llf elong
association wlth the Eng11sh Court and service as Lord Chaocellor, which he
depicted ln the histbrical Shakespeare plays he wrote7

Since hls royal birth was only too apparent, and could not be denied since
tt was evideoced by hia entire .make-up and:maoner of speech asd behavior, his
favorite alibi was that he was a prince, but of a Wungarlen rather than English
royal houae beiog the son of Prince Rakocay, last heir of this royal line of
Transylvqpia. With this confesslon, he coQveniently avoided.further questioning
did resulting embartasment, without denyiQg the fact thet he was a dispoesessed
orioce and.a throoeless king--this throne being in Huogary tather thaQ io
Eoglaod.

The most sympathetic book on this enigmatical character'who baffled and

con- f used the conventional . biographer , was that of the Theosophl cal vrrlter , I. Cooper-
Oakley, be Comte de St Gerna! n the Serve I o f Kinqc. In this book, as usual,
Saiot-Germain receives kinder treatment by a woman biographer thao by one of
his owo sex. Referring to. his complete mysteriousness; which baffled everyone,
sha
quotes from the papers of Bentinck vaQ Rhoon, daced April 18, 1760, who said:
"No one kQew who he was,. a fact which did not astonish me: in a country like
Englaod, where there are practically no secret police, but which did
astonish'me was that in France it was not known either "

Along the same line, Andrew Laog, i'n hls’JCstoicnl atezies, wrote,
nay- ing: "l am not aware that he has anywhere left his trail in of£1clal
documents; he livee in more or less legendary documents alone. He is”a will-
o'-the-wisp of the memolr writers of the eighte'enth ceotury. Whenever ’you
think you have a chance of findtog him ln good autheQtlc State papers, he
gives you the slip."

Napoleon III, puzzled and interested by what’ he had heard about the
9ecret of the life of Couot Saint-Germain, Instructed one of his librarians to
search for and collect all that could be found about 51m in archiveG and
documeQts of the latter part of the eighteentb century. This was dooe, and a
great number of papers, formlng an eQormous dossier, was deposited io the
library of the pre- Lecture of the police. The Fremce-Prussian lJar and the
Commune intervened, and the part of the building in whlch the dossier was kept
was burnt. Magre, iu his fieturtt of the Nag? comments on thls say Ing: “ "Thue once
ag am an ’ ace ident ' up- beld the ancient law that decrees that the life of an
adept must alwaye be sur- rounded with mystery."

Until Gustav Berthold Volz conducted his exhaustlve research in the

nine- teen-twenties, Count Saint - Germain remained the man of mystery whom
Frederick the Great candidly ackoowledged him to be in his history o/ the
Soflen IoRrs’ Per, describing him as "one of the most enigmarical personages
of the elghteenth
century," as Grlllot de Givry also pronounced his to be In hla Vttehem/t NO9*c
and A I yMr;y .

Mrs. Cooper-0akley, convinced thgt Count Salnt-Germaio was still alive,

industriously followed hls traces wherever she could find them; aQd as
aggiDst the idea that he is a legendaty figure, records of him were found 1o
the French National Record Office, the Frenc5 Record Office of Foreign
Affairs, the Dutch Palace Archives of Berll0, the Palace end State Archives
io Vienna aod the State Archives in Copenhagen.

AS to the mystery of Aie or1g*o-end birth, ae mentioned above, Salot-

Germain, to conceal h1s secret , c1alaed to be the e1deet ”soo oJ° Pz•1ace Rakoczy of
Transy1- vania. IO Pgzie he sae "Saint-Gemain," in Londoo, "The Herquis of the
Black CzOss7, io Ubbergen he was CountSurmount; in Italy, "Count Bellemare;" Ig
Vent ce, he was "Harqu1s de Mootf errat;" In Pisa, he waa "Chevalier Schoenlng;"
in Genoa he was General Soltikov; eAd at Nuremberg he was General Welldone,
a RusslaQ general, which hooor. was bestowed oo-him by Count AleseI”Orlov,
Supreme Commander of the Russt an Expedition ln the Archlpelage for his
contrIbution to the Russian war effort by providing for his fleet "Saint-
Germain tea," later
known as Russt an tea, a herbal comb ination he or kgmated which acted as a n:Old
laxative and wae cooeidered as a uoiveragl panacea. 2e also uded• the neme of
Tzarogy„ obviously an eDagram,of Rokdczy, under which neme he'sometimes appeared.

Salot-GermaiQ was first éeen in 1710 in Veéice, appearlng thed to ’the

French embasasdress, Madame de Gergi; ae a mso about 45 years of age; aDd
when she later set him iz Paris 50’yeara later; he did'not seem a day older,
leadiQg
her to thiuk that he was hls son. She concluded that his remarkable
presemation ot youth wes due to his use of a rejuveQatiog herbal elixir which
he géve her
et their.first meeting, amd whick elso-preserved her youtb, ’ae'we shall see
below. ’

Where Salut-Germsin came from when first seen'in Venice, nobody knows. how-

which we find a- descrlption of an almos t Identical Individual In" Venice In 16.8.7,

twenty—three years bedore , who used tHe name of- S1gnor Gu&d1 and who , when
quest1oned about his ldentity, immediatâly left ’town. Like Saint-Germaln, he
was an art conno1seur and
had a collectlon of remarkable paintings . Nanly Hall and
o thers suspect the ldentl th ot the "sober slgnor ," . as he was known, with Count
Saint-Germai0. We can then trace him back to the Polisb Rider who, ig 1670,
delivered co Abbe Nonf aueon de Millars certain remarkable Ros1cruelan df scourses
whlch vexe publ1 s hed ynder the t ltte of Route. de . Otis, abook thae only a
geoius.u1th unusual. intelligence and capacity to conceeJ’hIa identity mod ’style
of wrlting could orijimite, aQd this wes 46 years after his feigned death in
England as Francls Bacon In 1624.

there exists ’an’ autographed letter in his hend.preserved in the British

Museum, which was dated November 22; 1735, proving.that he was then at The
’Wague.
Baron von Gleichen's secretary, to meeting him lD Holland in
testified
1739. On December 9, 1745, Horace Walpole stated that he wae Said to have been
in Logdon foc two years. was during the rebellion of Charles Edward, the
This
Young Pretender, which led to Saint-Germain, who,was uoder suepicio0, beiog
apprehended, but he was later telegeed when it was proven that he was ’lnoodent.
Concerning thls incident, Walpole, in his letters, wrote:

"The other day , chey seized

Germaln. He has been here these aO odd man who goes by the nsme of Court Saint-
two years, and w111 oot tell who he ie, or
whence, bct professes’ that he not go by h1s right osme. He sings, plays
does the vlo 11n wonder £u11y, oo’ IS mad and not very sensible . . , The Pr Ince
composes , Wales hue had uosatiated of abou t htm, but In Vain. "
curioslLy
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 In England, Sa1nt-Germaln befriended the famous writer, Bulwer Lytton, whom
he iostructed in Rosicrucianlsm, and who wrote Sis famous novel, Zsnoxi, with
Saint-Germ&ig as the central character, whom he represented as a Rosicrucian
adept, au berbaliet who possessed the secret of prolonging life.

Aocordiog to Saint-GermaiQ's own accounts, he was in lodia twice subse-

quently to 1745; and a letter written by him ln 1773 described the secood of
these jouroeye made io the company of Watson aod Clive io 1755. In this
letter he meotlo0s bavlng a aon, who was probably Bacon's soo who played eA
importsot role in American colonl*ation and io the early history of Virginia.
There are confirmed rumore that he had a retreat in the Himalayas to which he
periodicelly retired. Re was probably a practitioner of yoga and was seen in
yoge'postures at certain occaeions.

Who he was, where he ceme from, and his origin remained a perpetual enigma
that puzzled Europe throughout the elghteenth century. Writing on "The Man of
Mystery" in her book, H tñ o/ tAe’”HRgi, E. H. Butler says on thls point:

"That eo strikiog a personality ehould escape identificatioQ was a

challenge, since it represented a gap ln contemporary knowledge which, like any
other void, had to be filled. Salnt-Germain obeyed thie law of nature Theo he
declared hiD- self to be Rskoczy. Before that day dawoed, he deepeQed the
mystery. He vouid descrlbe his childhood 10 glowing colors, portrayiQg himself
with a large suite, waodering on spleQdid terraces iQ a glorious climate; aG if
(said the Beron Gieichen) he were heir to the throâe of the king o'f Granda at
the time of the Moors. To Madame de Genlis, then a girl of fourteen, ln the
presence of her skeptical motber, he told a moving atory of waoderiQg through
the forests at the
age of seven with a pr1ce upon his head , accompanied by his tu tor and nearing a
miniature of the mother he was never to see again lO a bracelet around his
vrist. To prove 1t, he showed the miniature. Thls false claim to royal blood
(as the
Chlld ' G mother took it to be) might have been oearer the truth thao she
were he .Indeed thought a Mkocay. (Author's comment: 'Here we have a concealed
revela-
tion of his royal origin as the son of Queen Ellzabet h, a "mo ther he was never
to see again," sInce af eer his b1rth she turned htm to Lady Bacon to rat se as
her own son, to replace her own Inf an t who died ; and The "pr1ee upon his head"
re.ferred to the fact thar he was a PriQce of England, which, if permttted to be
knowD, would result ln his assassination by aspirants for the throne. Ig shc-£,
he eorrectly deecrlbed hlmself as a , king dented his throne , at thout s tatlng In
Chieh country this throne exlsted.)

Disappearing from one county to reappear in'aoother without'any kind of

explanation, be certainly covered the greater part of Europe in his early
llfe- time , and was . eupposeA. to . have gone much further. He himself c1almed to
have been 1n India; otbers declared that he told them he had been to Persia,
Turkcy,
Japan and Chioa; 10 which country, accordiog to a not very reliable memoir
writer , he had ref used. to give any me at all. Zhe wonderfully vivid desert.p-
tions he gave of oriental countries In his conversations left weigbt to the
be11eC ttzat ke was f•azaI11at• rtth thea.

A stroog tradition exists that he was ao extremely powerful and

lnflceotial Int tlate , who founded more than one sect and was connee bed with thea all
. .5e1nt- Germaln himself t;old the Duke of Boulllon (evidently maklrig I un of the
1nc1den*)
that more than two hundred persons'in Paris, belong1ng to a society presided over
by the Duke of Boulllon, had desired his acquaintance because ’they believed him
to be a Has ter; and it is categorically affirmed’ that he was choseQ as a repre-
sentatlve of the great Masonic ConfereQce in Paris in 1785, a year after his
death . ”
 During the elghteenth ceQtury, Sgint-Germaln sojourned with tWe’royalty of
Eut•ope and bone c¥eden£1a1s to 8daJ.t h1a 1nto the aost excluslve cm ches of
Europeao mobility. Durlng the reign of Peter the Great, he was In:.Russ la;
and
from 1737 to 1742, in the court of the Shah of Persia ag an honored guest.
From Persia to France and from Calcutta to Rome, he was koown and respected
iQ royal courts. We have mentioned %hat Walpole boew him in Loodon:1n:1745
and
Clive in lodia in’1756. Mademe d'Adhemar alleges she met him ir’-Paris In
1789, I lve years of tel his supposed death, while other persons claimed they held
con- versatiooe watt fiio.1n the esrly oineteenth century, aod. some io: the
twentieth century„ Re was.oQ familiar and intimate.terms with the.qrowned
heeds of Europe and was thé hooored frieéd of many.distinguished personages
of all natiooe.
Fredetich the Great, Voltaire, Nad&pe.de Pompgdoqr, Rousseau snd Cbathem'eIl
knew hIm personally, end rivalled each other in curiosity as to the origin of
this mystery meD. Writing oo Saint-Gemain's multi-colored life, Uoa Birch, In
"The Nine teeneh Century" .(January,. 1908) urote:

"Be was a Jacobite agen't iQ LoQdon, a,conspirator lQ St.. Petersburg and

an alchemist end coQooisseur of palntln e in’ Paris, aQd a Russias general at
Naples. We find him fiddling in the music room of Versailles, gossipping with
Rorace Walpole in Loodoo, sitting in Frederick thé Great#e library at BerliQ
aod con- ducting illumiolst meetings lo caverns by the Rhine."

In 1.757, Saint-Germa1n appeared In Par 1s and vas soon re eelved ad Court ,

where he mystified everyone by his incognlte aod poasesaion of unusual
powers. On thls aub3 ect, Butler; In her book above referred to , wr1 tes:

"He was also such'a brllllent cooversatioQalist reconteur; ao widely

traveled, so deeply reed, ao learned, so light--hearted, ’so urbane, mod with
all so lavish and so splendid, .that he out9hone.even his own diamonds
and’spark1iQg precious stones. No't only did he attaiQ to a prestige" fame mod
power unpara- lleled in that cyoical, skeptical and sophisticated society, but
he maintained that positioQ for a period of three yeare uoder the eyes of the
great and in the peoetratlQg tays of the fierce light that beats upoo a throne.
FIrJt insinu- ating himself into the good graces of Madame de Pompedour,
he.made the coQquest of the king by virtue of. his lQhereot power to fascioate,
to'sétertaiñ, to charm, persuade aod convince. Louis XV, pereAnlally iQ the
last stages of boredom,
and hard lQdeed to astonish-ot impress, waa nevertheless takeQ out of himself
wheo thie remarkable newcomer trensfomed one of his flawed dlmsonds into a
stone without blemlsh, añd'worth more thao three times its original price.

"The man was obviously a heard , and a aos t dls tlngu1s hed one ac that .
Mlracles of this the, however, becsme stale :by:repetitlon; and it wâs ’one of
the secrets of Salnt-Germain's success that .he.aimed at’ interesrihg:'the intellect
of hls patrons qu lte as much as arousIng their emotions. He made pupils of them,
one and all. Louis XV was soon. whiling away his hours of endul In a, labâcatory
fltted up'for that-purpose at Irlsoon. Like everyoQe else who ever took part. in
Saint-Gerasat.n’ se cr e t proeesses , he was. convinced that: there atas blg money. In
them, aod that they were worth backiQg. He aisigned to the inventor or discov-
erer apartments in the castle of Chembord, so that he might perfect his
inventions to the iocaleulable benefit of the French.dyeing industry eDd of the
finances of the kingdom, then in a parlous state.

The sclntillating star at Court, who was admitted to the petit aowpsra
of the king and to the private apartments of the favorite; the brilllsot
scientist who was to revolutionize industry aod stabilize finaoce; the
woQderful sage who poaseseed the eecret of perpetual rejuvenation ’emd might
perhaps impart 1t to a chosen few, wielded (and indeed it was a foregone
conclus1on that he would) oo
negliglble iofluence in the political sphere. More thao one member of the French

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Cab1net consulted him about affairs of state aod even acted upon his advioe.
Saiot-Germaln was said to be responsible for the fall of the Cootroller
Geoerel of Finance, Etienne de Slllhoutte io 1759. He had made himself
prominent enough and trusted enougb to be charged with a secret mission to
the Rague in 1760 iD connection with overtures of peace with England which
were ln the air at that time."

SalQt-Germain's abilltles as a statesman and diplomat eeemed to have been

highly appreciated by Louis XV, as were his achievements aa a cfiemlat end
eQnob- ler of gems, which led Louls to give him a suite of rooms in his
resideoce, where he spent wbole evenings at Versailles with tbe royal femlly.
TiriQg of the var with EogleAd and wishiog to secretly negotiate peace,
Louts'selected Saint- Germaio as tbe Ideal person to go to The Hague on a
secret diplomatic mission to tbe Eogllsh zepreseotatives there, for the purpose
of arraQging peace.

But siooe the mission had beeo entrusted to him without the knowledge of
the N1n1seer of Foreign Aff alrs , the Du c de Cho1s end, and s Once the French
ambas- sador at The ttague , d 'Af I ry , also had not been Inf ormed abou t It , when
Salnt- Geraaln eerie chere and sought to execute Lou1s ' s orders , d 'Af Grey .demanded a
royel order agalns t film, for his arrest , wiileh th= weak-willed Loud s d ld not ref use .

D'Affrey, accordingly, communicated the order for his arrest to the

Grand Pene lonary ot Hollend, who brought Ie to the at ten tion of the St ates-
General assembled under The presldency of Bentinek. However , the fat ter , who was a
I r tend of Sam c*Gerinaln , sent htm . word of 1 t In advance , so glvlng him time to
flee to Englaod, where, however„he was not permitted to, remalo aod forced to
£1nd refuge ln Germany. Thus ended hls e:I:Ior t to help Loud s and end the war
between England and France. But ehoug h unsuecess fu1 as a peacemaker on chls
occas ton , due to che j eat.ousy and oppost elon of ChoIss eu1 and d 'Aff rey, he was
more successful in arranglQg a treaty of peace betweeo GermaQy and Austria in
1761, aod 1u the events in Russia, in which he took pert, which, in 1764,
placed Catherine on the thtooe.

Saint-Gemain had
cr1 t1cs who ml sunders tood and maligned htm, ae he had
friends who app rec dated htm, 11ke ++ou is XV. One of his er1t1cs was the Dan1sli
statesman, Couot Charles Wernstedt, wlm, vritiag ln Silesia on November 25,
1779, said:

We have the ootorious adventurer Salnt-Germain here.. Re is the completest

charLatao, fool, rattle-pate, w1nd-bag and in a oertaio sense, swlndler, that
the world has seen for aany a long year . Our pr Once esteems and hono rs htm y•1th
eel his might’aod heart: ’ In do1ng so, is following hia loboV inclination
he
for that of person.” (Warostedt probably jealous of him.)
type was

The French savant . Th:tebaulc, in his "Souvenir s,” however ,

was sore sympa-
thetlc, though equally lncreduloup, when he said:
"7he
adventurer history of Count of Saiot-Germaln dlsplays a Cleverer and more cautious
(than Gagllostro) eAd nothing to offend the sense of honor. Nothing
dlshonest, every thing marvelous , never any thing mean or s candulous . ”

Kauderbach,
who had been both dazzled and puzzled by Saint-Germaln at first,
on April 4, wrote from The Hague to Gount Wackerbath-Salmour:..
1760,
such ThlS Sam t-C•e raaln has Cold us so
thac
man one can listeo to him with nothing but
y gross and palpable fairy stories,
braggIngs amuse one. This man eouldn ’ C disgust on a second occasion, unless
decelve a chlld'of ten years, let
alone enlightened men. i rega-d hla as an adveneur er of the f:irst water who is
at the end of his tether, and I shall be very much surprised if doesn't end
he tragically.”

The Danish statesman Count Berostorff, in a private letter wrltten In 1779,

sald:

"I was neither his friend nor his admirer...I reserve my judgment, but I
confess tbet I still incline stroogly to distrust a man whose personality ’remains
a perpetual riddle, who was forever making preposterous statements,
continually chaoglng his neme, sometimes posiog-as an adept; ® Others as a
great gentleman whom providence had-blessed more rioh1y than most."

Voltaire, perhaps sarcastically, wiote to his friend, Frederick the Great,

of him, "ñe is a man who never dies and kuows everything." Frederick probably
got the.expreseion, "the maQ who never dles," from Voltaire, who undoubtedly
used lt in a sarcastic seQse.

The Pros scan ambassador In Dresden, Alvensleben, was ano ther crltlc of
Saint-Germaln, vrho i: wrltlng to Freder tek on June 25, 177.7, eald:

"He is a highly gifted man with a very alert mind, but completely without
judgment, aod he has ogly galoed his singular reputation by the lowest and
basest.flatter o'f which a man is capable, as well as by his outstanding elo-
quence, especially if oge lets oneself be carried'away by the fervor aOd
enthu- siam wltb which he cao express himself...Inordinate vanity is'the
mainsprlng driving his whole meohao1sm...He is stlmulatlog aod entertaining in
society, so long as he is ooly oarruting. But as soon as he tries to develop
his owo ideas, his whole veekness showe itself. 9Gt woe to him who would
contradict him."

In ear casm, the Damsh adairat Count DanneskJ old , vrrl t Ing to Saint—Gernaln
I roa Ams terdam on Apr11 27, 17.6.0, s aid:

"I em well aware, Monsieur, thet you are the greatest lord on earth."

Prince Goldzy , the bus st an ambas sador In London, vrrl ting to Kauderb ack on
April l , 1760, remarked:

"As for me. I, like yourself, thlnk hlm somewhat of g fool."

But Saiot-Germaio had appreciators as well as critiCs emong the

stateameo
’ of Europe. Bentinck von Rhoon, the Dutch etatesman,’on March 14, 1760, said of
htm:

"Yorke.apoke of him as beiog a very cheerful and very polite man. ’His
con- versatlon pleased me very much, being exceedingly brilliant, varied °sDd
full of detail about various countries he had visited. I was exceedingly
pleased with his judgment of persons and places knowo to me; his menoers were
exceediQgly polite aod went to prove that he was a maD brought up in the best
society."

Sypesteyo, in his fC&MioeJ Nemoir&, also writes of him appreciatively as

follows:

"Saint-Germain was in many respects a remarkable man; and whenever he was

personally known, he left a favorable impressioQ behiod, and the remembrance
of many good aod sometimes noble deeds. Many a poor father of a femily, many
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a charitable institution, was helped by him In secret...Not one bad nor ooe
dis- hooorable action was ever koowu of him, and so he inspired sympathy
everywhere."

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 The Russian drmmatlat, Chekov, in his "Queen of Spades" refers to a book oD
occult sciences written by Saiot-Germaio wheQ ln St. Petersburg early ir the
eighteenth centwTg, when he orgmoized secret societies which probably played an
important role in bringing on t5e Rusaiao Revolution, .just as his FreemasoQic
aooleties paved'the way for the French and American Revolutions.

.in her Snne›iirs n/ be And:oiitaI be , the Counters D' Adhemar described the
Count as follows:

It was iu i743 that the rumor spread that a foreigner, enormously rtch,
judging by the magnificence oi his jewelry, had just a*r*ved at Versailles.
Where he ceme from, no one has'ever been able to flod out. Mie flgure wae well-
knit and graceful, his hands delicate, his feet small and his shapely legs eo-
hanced by well-fitting.stockings. his nether garments, which fitted very
closely, suggested a rare perfection of form. Eis emile showed magnificent tseth;
a
pretty dimple marked bis chin. His hair was black zud his glante soft and
pene- trating. And, oh, what eyes' Never have I seen their likei ñe looked
abdut [orty-f1ve years old. He was often to be met within the royal
apartments, where he had unrestricted admission at the begioDiQg of 1768."

Count SaiQt-Germain-wae recognized as an outBtandiQg scholar of his day,

so usually overlooked aQd disregarded by hlstoriane to such &ñ extent'thet he
has become en almost mythical figure. His linguistic proficiency verged oQ'the
superoatur&1 for he spoke most modern languages, and many sncieot aQd Oriental
ones, without any accent and as only oQe born io^the respective countries would
talk. He epoke .German, Eogliafi, Iteliao, Portugese, SpsDiah, Frenoh, Greek,
Latio, Saoskrit, Arabic and Chinese Equally well;-rod ’with such fluency that when
he visited lemda where these. languages were spokeo, he was Accepted as ’a
Qative.

"Learned," writes one author. about hlm, "apeak{Qg every civilized language
admirably" a great music1an, an excellent chemist, he played the part of a
prodigy aod played lt to perfectioQ. Mademe de Pompadour extolls the genius
of Saiot-Germaio a9 follows:

A thorough knowledge of all languages, ancledt end moderQ, a prodigous

memory, erudttioo, of whgch gllmpses could be caught betweeQ the Caprices of
his conversation which was alwaye amusing and occasionally ver engaglng, aâ
inex- haustible skill in varying the tone aQd subjects of his converse, io
beiog always fresh aQd in infusing the unexpected ioto the most trivial
discourses made him a superb speaker. Sometlmes he recounted aQecdotee of.the
court of Velois or of princes still more remote, with such precise accuracy in
every detail as almost to create the illusion that he-bad beeQ an eyewitoese
of'what he narrated . He had traveled che whole world over , and the king letit n
drilling ear to the narratives of his .voyages ovet Asia aQd Affica and to his
tales about the courts of Russia, Turkey and Australia. fle appeared to’be
ñore intimately acquainted wlth the secxet o:I each eourc . than the charge d ' at I
airs of the king.”

Accotdlng to out vlew that Saint-Germain was formerly Francis Bacon, son
of Queen Elizabeth, who spe0t.most of his time at the English court and was
Lord Chancellor under King James, we cao understand not o'nly his unusual
understanding Oj Court etiquette aod psychology, as dlsplayed in the historical
SheAespeare plays he wrote, but elso his extraordinary capacity to deal with
the trowoed heads of Europe which he displayed during the eighteenth century,
a talent which la dlf I lCult to
acqume when no t inborn as It was In h1s ease. For hé not only
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treated kings ou a basis of equa1ity„ but possessed a natural royal bearinB
which was no t affected and lemedlaeely noclcable wherever he went , which won for
h1m, wltheut aoy special effort on hls part, the friendship of European roy&1ty.

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mystery of hia life as "the secret oi kings."

The following ie an accouot of Saint-Germain's yoothlul ’appearance by those

who krtev hla: "Saint-Germain 1s of medium. height and hae elegant mannere. Rls
features are regular; his compleaioo brown, his hair black; his face oobile
aod full of genlua; Sia oazriage bears tbe imprese sAd the nobility eoDrDo0
oDly to
the great. The Count dresses simply but with taete. Els ooly luxury cooaists
of a large number of dSeconds , with which he 1s f airly covered; he weare thee on
every fioger; and they are eet 1n.h1e snuffboxes and his watches. Ooe
evening
he appeared at court with shoe-buckles, whicb Herr von Contaut, en expert i0
precious stones, estimated as worth 200,000 fzancc.

"The Count Saint-Germein accompanled on the piaoo without muaic oot only
every eong but the most difficult oonosrtC, played on various lnstrumeots.
Remeau was much impressed with the playing of this dilettemte, Bnd especially
struck by his improvising.

"The Count paints beautifully in oils, but that'which mekes his

paintings so remarkable is a particular color, a secret, which he has
discovered, mod
whtch lenda to the. palntlng. an extraordinary. brilliance. Yanloo , Who never tires
In his admiration of thy surprising colorIng, has often requea ted the Count to
let h1m paz c1clpete In .the secret. The latter, however, 'will no t divulge It .

"One can; I thin#, well assert that a portion of his miracles Is due to
his boowledge of physics and chemistry, in which sciences he is well grounded.
At all events it is palpable that his koowledge hae laid the seeds for him of
sound good hee]th; a life which will, or which Sas, overstepped the ordinary
time allotted to men; mod has also endowed hlm with the meens of preventing
the ravages of time from affecting. the bpdy. Among other statements
concerning the Counc'a astouoding qualities, made to the Favorite by Hme: de
Gérgy after her first meetiQ8 wiCh the CguQt, after a lapse of years, wes that
’during’ her first stay in Penice, she recelved from him an elixir which for
fully a quarter of a ceotury, preserved unaltered the youthful chams she
possessed at 26. Elderly gentlemen, whom hademe de Pompadour questioned
concerolug this pecu11ar'iucident, gave ’the assurance that the staodiog still
of. time in the aging aQd preeervatioQ of the youthful appearance of Eme. de
Gergy, supported by the testimony of these old meo, would make it'appear st1ll
more probable."

Io the reelm of music, he was a maeter. While at Versaillee, he gave

con- cet•ts -oa. tote v1o11n aztd at 1eaat once du +•B h1s eventfu1' 1ICe , he
conducted a symphony orchestra without*a score. ’ In Loodon his muaizsl
compositions were publlehed, , lncludlng his earllest English song, "Oh, UouldsI
though Riiow Uhat
Secret Charms." In 1760 he composed a great:.many new songé;’ and’ in. 1780 a
set of solos for. the violin. It was Reid of him: "He was en iodustrious sod
capable artist and attracted a great deal of fashionable attention to himself
both as composer aod executmot." He played excellently several musical
instru- ments. It ie generally. agreed he was a musician of note, both as a
concert per-
:foraer , whose lip rovlsatlons and playing were not only praised by the French
composes, Remeau; but were found among the papers of Tschaikovsky at the time
of hle decease. The incident of the great Ruesian compoeer getting possession
of his eOmposl t lons was related In the I ollowing descr1ption of his s tay In
Russla:
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St. palnter, Petersburg, Saint-Germain lived with Count Rotari, the famous
who bof was the painter of the beautiful portraits which are in the
Pelace. Peter- Saint-Germain wee a splendid violinist. He 'played like
orchestra.' aO
some aIr N. Pyliaeff hae seen (he cannot remember where now) a piece of
music, the herp, dedicated to Countess Ostermano by Saint-Germain's
for
owo

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hmod signed. It 1s bound beautifully in red maroquin. the date is about
1760... About the music slgned by Saint-Germaln, N. Pyiaeff now recollects
that it belooged to hig himsel[: He bought it at some sale mod had it for some
time.
Then he gave in to the [amous composer Peter Tschaikovsky as a present. It
must now be emong Techaikovsky's papers. But since the great musician had
little order, Pyiae£f thiDks it ver7 " ikely that [t could be fou0d."

The Couot was embidexterous to›such an extent that he could.write the aeme
article with botb heods simultsoeously. When the two pieces of paper were
afterwazde placed ooe. upon the other with the light behiod 2hem; the writing
og one sheet exactly covered the writlng of the other. He could repeat pages
of priot oo o0e zeadiog. To ptove that the two lobee of his braig could work
inde- pendeQtly, be wrote a low letter with his right hand and a set of
mystical verses with his left. Also he sang beautifully.

J. Cooper-Oakley, io her blography of Saint-Germain, referred to above,

who was the most undecs t:and Ing of his a‹im1rers , s aid of htm:

"Among the streoge mysterious beiogs with whom the eighteenth century
was so richly endowed, no.one has commended such uQ1vers&l commeot and
attention than the mystic who wes knowo by the Oame of Court-Germein. A hero
of romance, a charlataQ, a.sw1ndler aod an adventurer, rich and varied were
the nsmee that were showered on him. Hated by the man, loved aod
reverenced:.by the-few, time has oot li5ted the veil whlch screened his true
mission from the vulgar specu- lators of the perlod. TheQ, as Qow, the
occultist was dubbed tharlataD by the ignoimot; only some men and womeo here
aod there realized the power of whldh he stood possessed. The friend end
couocillor of kings end prioces,.aQ eQemy to ministers who were skilled in
deceptioQ, he brought his. great knowledge to help
the West, to stave off io eome small measure the storm clouds that were
gathering so thickly around some nations. Alas! @ib words of warning fell on
deafened ears, aod his advice went all unheeded."

Mademe Blavatsky, another of Saint-Germain's women appreclators, denounced

the claim tbat he was an adventurer by saying: "Do charlatans' enjoy the
confi- deoce and admiration of the.cleverest statesmen aud oobles. of Europe
for long years7"

IQ hooor of Saint-Germaio, whose picture, as Prince Rakoczy, he placed on

the frootispieceo£ his $100 book oQ Rosicrucianism, Alchemy, Masonry end other
occult scieQces, Manly Hall writes:

"When asked once about himself, he.replied-that his father was the-Secret
Doctr me and his mother che by s terles. St . Germaln was thoroughly.:convereanc
with the priooiples of Or1ent&1 couceotration, upon’ several occasions haviog been
seeo seated etch his feet crossed and hands f olded In the posture o:I 'a Hindu
Buddha. He had a retreat in the Himalayas to which he retired. périodVcally
from the world . On one occas £on, he declared that he would remain In -India
I or eighty-five years and theo return to the sceqe of his European.labors. ‹At
various times he admitted that he was obeying the orders of a power -hig5er
aod greater than himself. What he dld not ’say was that this superior power
wae the Hystery School which had sent hlm into the world to accomplish a
definite mis-
s low. The Comte de St . Germa-(n and Sir Francis Bacon are the two greases t emla-
saries sent into the world by the Secret Brotherhood in tbe last thousand years.
(Hall here evideotly fears to adm1t that they were both *he same individual, in
spite of the fact that io other writings he to Bacon's feigned death and
refers
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mysterlous disappearance. Could sucb a brilliant mind, whiCh produced both the
works that go by his name and the Shakespeare playa, plus countless other lit-
eratary masterpieces under different fictitious names, suddenly cease all

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activities as his generally believed by those who accept the fact that hls
death in 1624 in Englaod was felgned, since he waa not later found in his
gravel
Could he have veniahed completely and abandoned the vork he labored with a new
appearance, seeking to realize ideals he had formerly presented in literary,
philosophical and drematlc Iorm2)

"The pr lnclples disseminated by the Comte de S t. -Germaln were undoubtedly

Rosh.cruclan In origin end' permeated with the doctrines of the Gno s tics. The
Gomte was’ the-moviog spirit of Rosicruoiani9m during the eighteenth century--
possibly tñe actual head of the order--and ie’'suspected of being the great power
behind the French Revolution. There ia-also’ reason to believe that Lord
Bulwer Lyt ton' e :f aaoua novel, Soix›n? , was actually 'concerned with the life and
activi- ties of St:. Gernaln. He 1s
general.ly regarded as an lnipor cant I lgure In the early actlvltlee ot che
Freemasons."

Aocordlog to Butler, the readiog of Samoni made a'great lmpression on

Medame Blavatsky aud constltuted the germ of the TheoBopSical movement that she
later started. The ceotrel figure of this book is a Rosicruciao adept who
possessed
a deep knowledge of the'rejuvenating power of herbs'emd the art of prolongiQg
life, end who played an important role in the Frenoh Revolution--so who
else could this Seve been but Saint-Germain, whom its author, Bulwer
Lytton, koew persooallyt- Cooceroiog Saint-Germain, Manly Hell writes
further ig a meAoer that could well apply to Fraocie Bacon:

"Againet the background of lgnorance mod purposeless pedantry stands out

sharply mod clearly. the luminous persooelity of the Comte de St.-Germeio. Master
of the old wisdom,.wise in forgotten truthe; proficient io all ’the curious
arts of eDtiqulty, learoed beyond any other man o£ the moderA world, the
mysterious Gomte persoui[ied in his owo iocredible achievements the
metaphysical traditions of fifty ceoturles. A thousand timea the qiestlons
bave'been asked: Where dld St.-Germain secure his astoQishing knowledge of
Qaturel law2 how did he per- petuate himself from century to century, defylQg
the natural corruption which brings priQoe, frlest and pauper alike to a
common endt St. Germain was the mouthpiece eDd represeQtative of the.
brotherhood of philosophers which had des- cended in an unbroken line from the
hierophants of Greece and Egypt. He had teceived the Logos. By his wisdom he
had confounded the elders. The life of one mao puts to n8ught the scholastic
smugness o£ two thousand years."

This seems to be exactly what Francis Bacon, founder of modern science

and ioductlve mod experimeQtal philosophy, who liberated humad thought from
nearly two thousand years of sterile Aristotelian scholastlcism, had
accomplished.
After his ’felgned :death in EnglaQd, Bacon appeared in’Europe as leader of :the
Rosicruciem and Freemasonlc movements he previouqly star'ted iQ his bome
county. After laboring during othe sevdnteeoth and eighteeoth ceQturies in
Europe, at the beginnlng of the.niReteenth century, he departed for thâ Fbr
East, where he re- mained duriog:this century. B&con ând Saint-Germalo wére
the smAe mar at two different states of his long life. While he was able to
alter his appearance, his s t ature , which was much more dlf 11cult to altex,
rema lned unchanged ; and
th1s const1tuces telltale ev1dence of h19 1dent1ty uader h1s cwo success1ve
appearances during the three centuries of his known life, the a{xteenth, seven-
teenth and e1ghteenth.

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SAINT-GERNAIN ' S GREAT SECRET:

THE ART OF REJUVENA’1’I0N

Bulwer Lyttoo, when he described Saint-Germain in his phllosophicst novel,

ZAmoni, referred to him as both a Rosicrucian adept and a herbalist who had prO-
I ound knowledge of the occult‘ vlr tues of herb a, by which knowledge.,he achieved
his apparent miracles Including the indefinite .prolongation of youth and ltfe ,
which wac o0e of’ the great goals of the Rocicrucians, who were callpd
,the."logg- lisere." Ee was believed by all to possess a mysterious herbal
elixir, by memos of which he preserved his you th and prolonged his 11f e.

Saint-Gemaln's medical knowlédge of herbaliam was held 10 high estimation

by his admirers; and "Saiot-Germain’tea" sti1l.bearg his neme as a record of
this'fact. ’ It Is a mild laxatlve and contains senna; and was regarded.gs a
peAacea since it ’purifies the'1ntestines and overcomes autointoxicatlon which i*
ehe bask c eausé of mose disease. As” we have already -tndlcated ,. It was later
called "Russian tea," because during the Rqsslao expedition to the
Archipelago, it was supplied by htm in bulk to'the ’ffeet, helping keep the
meo well, whereas oLhezw1se , c11aat1c advers1t1es vould pzobab1y .aake.. thea e1ck. .
for th1s serv1ce he
was aade ‘a Russldn general who . called h1a*elf General .Uelldone, a naae which
probably referred to his ‘coritribution to the Russpan navy . He more the o£f 1cial
uniform oi a Russian general whân he met his fri'end, Count Orloff, supreme
com- taaader of- tke exped1c1oa, at
t2ureaburg 1n 1774•

Saiut-Germain's fame ab’ a” herballst was, however, due not only to his
laxa- tive tea, but to his mysterlous rejuvenatlng ellxir which he used
himself.and which he guarded iñ’’secre'cy. This was coQsidered to constitute the
secret of his perpetual youth, as indicated by his experiment with Madame de Gergy.
who. remained unchanged' for’ fifty years’ berween her flrst meeting with htm in
Venice in 1710 and their later meetiQg in.Paris a half a century later, as dld
the. Oouot him- self. When Madmme de Gerry first met him, io 1710, he looked
like a’maQ of
forty-five, and when she met him fifty years later, he.looked not a day older.
Word:spréad; aâd his secret of perpetual youth wa9 than attributed to.hie pos-
sessioo of a marvelous rejuvenating herbal elixir, which was the coveted
secret of: tbe'alchedical philosophers of whom he was supposed to be a leading
A'dept, if not their grand master.

Those who knew him tgtimetely believed that his perennial youth wa9 not
natural but due to his posseaslon. of a great secret;. and thls soere t waa his
pos sesston of the I ablé d Ellxlx of Life of the Roslcm clank , by meana o£ wMch he
was ablé to resist the ravages of time and remain unaffected. by its pssaage
through thâ centuries, from the sixteenth when he wgs born until the twégtieth,
wheQ he was lést ’eeen, as youthful and vigorous as ever!., JenoiQgb, lâ hls
book on the’ Rositrucians; mentlons sucha herb&l elixir as one of the secret
possess-
ions of this order of sages„ which, when ooce given to an old women, caused
her to bedome young again and to manifest all the symptoms aQd tralts of a
young woman. A similar rejuvenatlon probably occurred in the case of the aged
Madame de Gergy, who appeared like a young woman due to her fifty years' use
of Séint- Germaio's rejuvenat1og. elixir.

Ano ther woman who ,was . re3 uvenaeed by Saint-Germaln, or rather preserved in
a state of cootinued youth from her girlhood uotil'the age of oinety, when she
was so youthful aod beautiful that many suitors sought her hend, uot knowing
her

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real age, was the celebrated Frenehwoaan, Nmon de L’ Enclos, who met Saint-GermaiQ
when she was young . He of I ered her the choIce among three gluts: the gift of
wealth, the gif t ot beauty and the gif t oI perpe tual youth. She wisely chose the
latter gift, sioce lt bestows on one the other Be then imparted to her hie
two.
Great Secret, the secret of rema1ning young.forever. This consi sted :tn
probably
the eame reJ uvenatlng herbal elixir that he gave Nad vie de Gergy many years
before. Just as it preserved the youthful appearance that the Mademe had 1n her
twenties, when he later met her in her seveoties years later,. so it enabled
fitty
Nlnon de L' Encloa , when ahe tae f If ty, to look 11ke a girl of 18; and preserved
her in the se e youthful state’’fer forty years longer, until she was 90, when ehe
looled:éo young and beeutifu1 the: her.owo oephew fell in'love rlth her so
mefly that he'uds on the verge of committing’ $uiclde} But he was only eem
aseog many
desperate sultors 'who sought'her ñand. . .

Just what did Saiot-Germain give Ninon’ de ['Enclos that kept her young at
the age of 90T It was such a powerful rejuvenator that it is s8id.that when
one takea it, ooe's teeth and hair fa11'out and are replaced ’fi/ new perfect
teeth aod new hair of natural color. Since it'is so pnwerfu: in'lts action,
most people who have'tried it got frightened and discontinued -i s use.
Howevet, iZ they had
persevered , as Nlnon d:Id , they would probably I Ind c mat ' é• int-Gernsaln ' aarvelous
herbal elixir would make them young agaiQ as it kept’ Madge de Gergy. •ad Nioon
de L' Enclos young i and as It kept himself young •

Manly Hall notes that Saint-Germaiâ gave muCh attention to the rejuv,enating
properties of mandrake i known as " the herb of the sor cerers ," sInce they used It
to restore youth. In the book, Vé Uyatic ionk , therr is mention sf a
Russian gentleman in his 7O'a who:looked no older than a man of forty.
Inyeati- gatioQ revealed that he was a steady user of’ this rejuvenating herb
which, like Saint-Germaln's tee, acts as an intestinal cleanser, ooly more
powerful in its actioo. It is slmllar to giQseng, the rejuvenating herb ci
the. Chinese, which, due to its manlike appearance, like mandrake, has beeo
called the "man plgDt."

The yogis of India use hydrocotyle asiatica, especially its

poteot'variety koowo as fo-ti tleng, for purposes of prolonging youthful
vigor of body and brain. Could Sa1ot-Germaio have learned about this herb
Ruriog his visit to India and dcd he Include It In hi s reJ uvenat Eng ellxlr? And s
Ince he spoke Chinese and 1s claimed to have vz ,1 ted C.h1na, dld he not know about
the red uve- natlng: power of glnseng and have
included thls herb tool As a her balls t, and an
expert in the art of rejuvenat1oo,-he probably'made a special study gf the
re- juyeoatlug'herbs of*the Far East wheo he visited the Orieot.

Modern endocrlnologists are agreed that the endocrine glands hold the
secret of youth. They are vigorous in youth and their degeneration in later
years brings on seoility. If these glands may be vitalized ahd regenerated by
the action of certain herbs, as g'iosezg, which seems to be an activator of the
gonads aod to prevent sterility, then these herbs should tend to produce
rejuvenation.
It iS probable that Saint-Germain gathered from all parts of the world rejuve-
nating herbe that accomplish just this'aod combined them Into a super potent
herbal elixir for the purpose of preservlng and res to ring youth. For a de tailed
descrlp tion of these red uvenatlng herbs , read the art ter ' s book' &srbnl SI Mrs o f
£?/e .

A third roman who met Count Sa1nt-ceraa In and was red uvenated was the Rue s lan
born phy s1 clan , Barbara door e-P ataleeua , a specfallat In xejuvenatlon who s
cudled with the physiologist, Boglemetz. She based her method by which she
resisted tbe agiog process on her interpretation of the fact that the Count was
never seen to eat, even at ro ya1 dInner tables , when he diver ted hls hos t ' s at
tentlon I rom t:his fact by his endless aneedotes and
brilllant conversat lots. Af ter living on a

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stricWy vegetarian diet of raw foods, Barbara lived for nine years on daodelior
juioe sAd then on water aud honey for many years, tak' g no food . During
solid
this tlme, she dlsplayed remarkable eoergy in mountain climbing for months at a
time. Lately she came first iQ loQg dlstance races which are now a fad in
Englmod. her method of rejuvenation seemed consist in coQservatioo of dlges t—
to
ive energy ordinarily wasted io the digestioo, as s lmllaclon and excretion . of ex-
ceesive aod uooeoessary foods. She claims both proteins amd starches are
that eotirely unnecessary.
Prom the above it appe.ars Saiot-Germain found more open-minded followers
that
emo0g womeo than emong men, just as his most sympathetic biographer, Cooper-
Oakley, was a woman, as also was E. M. Butler, whose deep sympathy for htm 1s
hidden behind a s uperf 1ct at. eyulct sm that her academic position as a Cambridge
professor requires.

Willemans, in hia 8isto of BoaicVdi niaw, wrote about Sa1ot-Germain as

"According to the Yeselmony of all who knew Sa1nt-Geczaaln 1at1aately , he has

left the reputation of being a marvelous person. In the ordinary man he
awakened distrust. A curious detail of. his life is that he never ate in the
presence oI others. Thanks to his complete chastity aQd to the use of his
'Elixir of Life, he presented features aston1shlngly unchanged. Except
toward the end of his 1if0
he seemed oo older than a mao of forty years.”

The general opinioQ of the time waa that Saiet-Germaio was several
centuries of age. Questioned about this by Louis XV, Saint-Germaio replied:
"Sire, I sometimes emuee myself; oot by making it belleved, but by allowing it
to be be- lieved, that I have lived in aocient timea." On this statement,
Witteméns com- ments: "Thls emusemeot was, nevertheless, more active thao
passive, for his con- temporaries related that he gave all kinds of oarratiOos
about past centuries,
as if he had lived in them."

Saint-Germaln's. physical perfection. aod perpetual youth wae probably due to

his vsery tr ie t. diet , as well as his marvelous herbal elixir , plus his vlo lable
chastity and his diet or. lack of diet. Me is generally regarded as being a
strict vegetariao who ate no meat aod drank no wiQe; and Qever deviated from
these principles as did thp ill-fated Thomas Parr, the English vegetarian who,
wheo over 150 years of age and in perfect health, partook to his:pa1ace to dine
with him, paying with his like for this traosgression. Saiut-Germain was
’smarter, for by his brilliant conyersation and fascinating anecdotes he was
able to divert the mind of his royal host ftoo the fact that he ate and drank
nothlng’ of the lavlsh epread placed before htm.

One miter said of'him, "@e always dined alooe emd very slmply. Ris wants
were very few. It was impossible while at Anspach to persuade him to dioe at the
Prlnce's table." However, since nobody ever saw him dine, 1s no proof
there
that he ate at all. was be'one of those long-lived adepte lived wl£hou t eat-
who
Ing a state achieved by some long-llved. yogls In the Himalayas? (7hesé yoga s
, claimed to llve without eating, drinking, defecating or urinating. Barbara
are
Moore-Pataleewa, the Russian woman physician referred to above as abstaining from
solid food for years, found that Ser stomaofi contracted to nearly the size of
the rest of the alimentary ca0al, eo that intake of solid food beceme
Impossible,
while inteati0al excretions were reduced to the point of disappearance. The
resulting cooservation of glandular secretions, hormones and other vltal substances
ordloarily lost io the intestinal excretloQs are to have been a major
believed factor responsible for the rejuvenating effects
over shorter or longer
of fasting periods. )

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 All of Saint-Germain's biographers are agreed oQ the point that he was
Qever seen to eat. Wheo iovited to the most sumptuous repaszs at the tables
of kiogs, Saiot-Germain resolutely refused to eat aoy food.

Salnt-Germai0 ie described as looking like a mau of middle age, or at leaet

seealng so , even If muGh older , due to his poseesslng Che secret of eternal
youth, the goal of the aluhemical philosophers of whom was supposed eo have
he
been an outstending adept • ltte face was devoId of wrinkles j aod be was free from
any physioel infirmity, enjoying at all tlmes perfect and undeviating heelth.
That he'former1y wore a goatee when he was Francis Bacon, but Ghaved it to concea1
his identity when he adopted the name of Count Saiot-Germain; 1s b the
’indicated fact that once, after a period of oonfinemeot, when CaseDova he
visited him, found hla a1zh a partly regrown beard .

lished In London In 1749 and translated by John Campbell froa the f'•erman of Dr .
Cohausen, we xead . the I ollowing wh1Ch sheds auch light on the Han of Sys tery,
who was a Ros1czuc1an adept , oz ratheC the true I ouader of° the order:

"The adepts are obliged to coQcea1 themselves €oi the sake of safety,
and... having powex no t only of prolonging their llves, but also of renovating‘
thelx bodies,’ they’taLe care to use it with'the utmo'st discretion, and Instead of
ñ king a display of thls prerogatlve; they manage-it with the highést secrecy--
the true cause of the world's being so much in’:’doubt about this matter. 8eoce’
it comes to paas that through an adept is possessed of greater wealth than is
6&ntmioed in
the mloes of Peru, yet he always lives io so moderate s manner, as to ayoid all
suspicion, and ao 1s Oever to be discovered; unless by some unfortunaté
accident."

In thls same book, the t oI lowIng aceounc 1s given of such an adept , who sent
by the name of S lgnor Gualdl , but who was re all y Count Sa1nt*Germaln:

"There happened In the year 1687 an odd accld ent at Venice, chat made a
great s tlr then, and which 1 think deserves to be rescued froa obllvlon. Zhe
great I reedom and ease with Chi ch at.1 persons , who make a good appearance , llve
ln that city, 1s known suf f intently i to all who are acquainted with lc. Such
will no t I here:fore be surprlsed chat a s tr anger, who sent by the naae of Slgnor
Gua1d1, and who aade a conslderable f lgure cfiere , eras adml tted Into the. best
company, I hough nobody knew. who or what he was . lie remained‘ at Venice some
months, aod three. thiQgs were remarked in hls conducr. The ftrst was, that he
had a email collection of fioe-'pictures, which he readily showed, to so#body.that
desired it; the next, that he was perfeoily versed in eli arts and,sciences,
and
spoke on every subject with”such teadiness and sagacity, as astonished all who
heard him; and it was ln the thlrd place observed, that he'oever vrote or re-
celved any leeter; never deslred any credl t , or made use oI b111s of . exchange , but
pald for . everything In ready money, and lived decently though no t In‘ splendor .

"Thie Bentleman met one day aC a coffee-house with a VenetiaQ nobleman, who
was ao extraordinarily good judge ’of pittures. He had heard of Signor Guald1'e
collection, and expressed his eatisfaotion, by telling him, that he had never
seen a finer coQsiderlng the number of ’pieces of which it consisted, he cast
hla eye
by cheAce over the chamber door, where hung a piiture of ’this stranger. The
Venetian looked upon It , and chen upon htm. ’ Zhls ptcture was drauo for you ,
Sir'? he said to Signor Gualdi, to which the other made no aguwer, but lOw
made a
bow. 'You look,' continued the Veoetlan, 'like a man of fifty, yet I koow
the picture to be of the hand of Titlâo, who was &een dead oQe hundred and
thirty years. How is thls posslbleT'
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 "'It is not easy,' sald Slgoor Gualdl gravely, 'to know all thiugs that are
possible; but there is certainly no crime ig my being like a picture drawn by

"The Vene tlan easfly perceived by his manner of speaking that he had given
the stranger of I ense, and therefore took h1s leave. Re could not forbear
Ing of thls In the evening speak- to soae o:g h1s I r1ende , wko zeso1ved to
saclsf- y thea-
selves by looking upon the pltture the next day. In order to have’ an opportunity
of doing so , ehey to the coffee-house about the time that Signor Gue]di was
wenc
cogt to oome thither; and not meeting w1th him, one of them who bad often con-
versed with him went to his lodgings to lnquire after him, fie heard thst he
where had set out an hour before for Vienna. This affair mede noise, . and found
a great a place In all the newspapers of that time."

AczordiQg to Nanly H&11, this 'sober' Signor Gualdi was none other than
Saiot- Germaio, who, 23 year9 later, was seeo in Veoice again by Nadame Gergy in
1710.
It is well boowA that he wes an art collector aod paiQter himself, whoee art
collection eoriched the halls of the Freoch king with his pictures, including
paiQtiogs by Valasquez and Murillo.

JeQniogs, ln hia be goai c na, Weir #itgs and ater£ea, gives a

dif- ferent version of the above incideQt. Signor Gualdi iQvited a friend
sod h19 beautlful youog daughter to look at his art collection. Struck by his
youth aQd beauty and Ignorant of hls age , the young lady was lnf atuat ed with
hlm, wh1ch remlnde one of a s1m:Star Inc ident deser lbed by Butter Lyt ton In
Safari

JeoDlogs gives the following account of Signor Gualdl:

'A straQger who arrived in Venice oQe summer, toward the eQd of the seven-
teenth century, aod who'took up his resldence in ooe of the best sections of the
city, by the considerable figure which he made, and through his owo manners,
which were polished, composed and elegant, was admitted into the beet company--
this though he came with no lntroductions, nor did anybody exactly know who or
what he was. bis figure was exceedingly elegant aQd well-proportioQed„ his face
oval and long, his forehead ample and pele, and the intellectual faculties were
surpris- iogly brought out, aDd iQ distioguiehed prominences Eis heir was loQg,
dark sod flowing;. his smile ioexpresaibly fascinatiQg, yet sad; the deep light
of his eyes seemed laden, to the attention of those notigg him, with the
sentiments and ex- periences of all tbe historical perlods. But his
conversation, wheo the chose to converse; and his attaioments eAd knowledge,
were marvelous; though too much, yet not with an ostentatious reticence. Me
weot by the name of Signor Gualdi aod was looked upon as a plain iQteresting
character; in short, one to make an observer speculate concerning him.

Thls gentleman remained at Venice for some Orion chs , . and was known by ehe
name of 'The Sober Signor' "emong the common people, on account of the
regularity Of hi9 life, the composed simplicity of his manners, and'the
quietoess of his
costume; for he always wore dark clothes and those of a plain, unpreteQding style.

"Signor GueIdI met, shortly after his arrival at Venice one day, at Che
cof- I eehouse vrhlch he was ln the habIt of Arequentlng , a Venetlan nobleman of so ct
able manners , who was very bond of are , and this paid used co engage In sundry d1s-
cussioQs; and they had many conversatioos concerning the various objects and
pur- suits which were interesting to both of them. Acquaintance ripened into
friendly
es teem; and the nobleman luvs ted S1gnor Gua1d1 to his prlvat e house , whereas--I-or
he was a widower--Slguor Gualdi first met the nobleman's daughter, a very beau-
tiful young maiden of eighteen, o[ much grace and intelligence, and of great
accomglistments.
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 "The oobleuan's daughter was just introduced at her father's house from a
convent, or pension, where ahe had been educated by the nuns. This youog
lady, in short, from coostantly being ln hie society, aQd l1s:eQing to h1s
loterestiQg narrativee, gradually fell in love with the mysterious stranger,
much for the reasons of Desdemona; though Signor Gualdi was Qo swarthy Moor,
but only a well- educated gentlemmo--a thinker rather than the desires to be a
doer. At times, iodeed, his counteQaQce seemed to grow spleodid aQd.magicei in
expression; and he boasted certainly wondrous dlecourse; and a straQge end
weird facoinatioQ would grow up about him, as it were, when he beceme more
then usually pleased, communi- cative and aoimated.

"Altogether, when you were thlQking about him, he seemed a puzzling person,
and of rare gifts; though wben mixing oQly with the crowd, you would scarcely
dietlogulsh him from the orowd; uor would you observe him, unlese there was some-
thlog romaotically akin to him in you excited by his talk. ñe was eventually
suspected of being one of the strange people, or Rosicruciems, or Ever-Livers,
of whom we are treatiQg. Thié was from myaterlous circumetazoes afterwards
in relatioQ to him, aod which aré in priQt."

Theo follows a description of the yisit of the father and the young lady
to hls art collection and their being struck by a pa1Qting placed in an
iuconspicu- oue place Aear the door, which .bore a distinct likeness to SaiAt-
Germain, though it was evideQtly the work bf ad old master end dooe over a
century ago. WbeQ bis atteotion was oalled to tkis paintiag, he ’beceme
embarraeeed aod excused himself, and was no longer seen in that towo, much to
the sorrow of the young lady.

rdIng to Hadame de Poapadoux , SaInc-Gernatn claimed to possess the secret

of eternal your, «hich enabled htm to pas s through the centuries wlthou t ageing •
It Was for reason chat Frederick the Creat called htm "the aan who:- never
th1s
dies." Zhla belted In his physical tenor tellty , Chi was quite widespread, was
ch
supported by his you eMul appearance In spite of his lncredlble and unknown age,
which . he never w=-veiled to anyone , always evading a d1re ct answer to thls ques-
octo genar lan Nadame de Gergy , wldow of the French ambassa-
dor In Venice, as we have already indicated, declared she had seeo the Cougt
there In 1710 1oolctng abouc Forty-/1ve years of age , and when she met film In
,
Paris fifty yeare later, he looked not a day older; and. she oaturally eupposed
htm to be hla pyre son. And ve have also referred to the fact that she, too,
thanks to Che red uvenatlng herbal elixir which .S alnt-Germaln had given her when
they £1rat aec , preserved her youth during thi9 period. We quote the 'fol-
a1so
lovlng aCcount of thi9 iaoideot from one of the earliest records about Saint-
Germaln (recoxds about h1m’exteOding.from 1710, when he was first seeo io Venice
tl0t11 . 1822 when last seen, prior his departure for Tibet):
to
"There appeared at
the Court (of Louis XV) In these days a very estraord1-
nary m&o, who called himself Count Saint-Germaln. At first he dls tlngu1shed hla-
eelf through his and great d lvers1ty of talents , -but In ano ther res-
clevernese
peet he soon aroused the greatest astonishmeot.

'The old councess de Gergy ,

band to Vent ce, where he had the who I If ty years earher had acc.ompan1ed her hus-
Germaln at N e. de Pompadour ' s . appointment of ambasssdor, lately met Saint-
For soae time she watched the s :ranger with
signs of the greater surprise , 1s which wa6 mixed not a 11ctle fear. Finally,
t
unable to control her exc1tement, she approached the Mount more
out of curiosity
than In I ear.
 bii
father was you have the kindness to me," sald the Couocess, "whether your
tell in Ve0lce i0 the year
l7l0t"
 'No, Madame;" replied the Couot unconcerned.
"It 1s ver much longer siuce
I lost my father, but I myself was living at the end the last mod the begio-
of niDg of thls century. I had the honor to pay you *hen, and you were ki-nd
court esough to mdmire a few Barcarolez Of my we used to slug togetciex .”
Composing which

”Forg.ive me, but tbat Is Impossible. The Couot Saint-Germaio I koew 1n

those'days was at lea9t 45 years old; and you, at the outside, that age at
are
present ," the counter s replied . "Flf ey syear ago ," she continued , "I w8G 8B-
bassadresa at Vent ce, and I remember seeing you there looking 3ust as you do now,
only somé what riper In age perhaps , for you have grown younger since then."

Bowing low, the Count answered wlth

dlgnity: "I have always thought myaelf
happy io/being able to make myself agreeable to ladies"
the

Madmre de Gergy continued: "You then called yourself the Marquis Belletti."

The Count bowed again and replbed: "And Countes s de Gergy' s memory 1 s st 111
ae good as It was £ £f ty years ago."

The Countess smiled emd said: "That I owe to an elixir you gave me at our
first meetiog. You are really an extraordinary men."

The Count aesuued a grave expression and said: "Did thls Harqu1s Ballett1
have a bad reputatlon7"

"On the cootrary," replied the CouQtess, "he was in very.good society."

Tbe Gount shrugged his shoulders expressively saying, "Well, as no ooe com-
plains o€ Sim, I adopt him willlpgly as ®7 grandfatler."

Sioce Count Saint-Germain cculd not explain to her how he could be the
secs person and not his or I aeher, he avolded f ur ther dis cussion on the su§3eet
by remarking w1ch a smile , "Nadame , I am very olfi .''

"But then you must be. nearly.a hundred years old,' added thq CouQtess.
u ' it ! ' “
That is no t lmpos sible was the Coune ' s enl g matt cal. reply.

Countess d'Adhemar was present during’ the entire’ conversatlon aod vouches
for lts accuracy in every detail.

Other evidences of Saint-Germain's great age .ere affo-ded by the memoirs

ef Nadame de Hau s se t , lady-In-eat ting to Nadamd de Pompadour, who no te down . the
ensuing conversation that took place be tween the Nadame ar 1 the t?«:ant , when sb.e
took the opportunity to que.tion him about hls age, which guests.:, as usual,
he cleverly avoid.:d answering. The lncldent
occurred when Sr._nt-Ge . .:aln' was de=-- crlblng h1storleal evencs of the remote pas t
with a v1v1dn:s s w*: .'.c h aed•.. even the aos t incredulous belleve that he mus t have
been an eye-w1 tr:ess o that he des- cribed . Ref err Ing to thls
I act , liadame de Potnpadour . laugh›•d and. asked , "Appar- ently you have seen It all
your set'i?"

To this the Count replied: "I have a very good memory, anc I have studied
-
Freoch history io detail. I sometimes amuse myself not by moACng people
believe, but by niloinp them to believe that I have lived in the oldeet times:"

"Still you uever say how old you really are, and you claim to be ver old,"
replied the Hsdeme, addiog, "The Countess de Gergy, who was smbassadress fifty

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years sgo, I believe in Venice, declared that she knew you the0 looking just as
you do now. ”

"It is perfectly true, Mademe, that I made the acquaintance of the Gouotess
de Gergy a long time ago,” the Court replied.
"But according to her, you must be over a'hundred year9 old now," the
Msdeme
sald.

"That is'not impossible," he replied 1augh*"B."but, as I admit, it 1s even

more pOesible that the revered lady is talking nonsense."

It was through such subterfuges and evasions that'he perpetually avoided

any definite statement about hls age aod kept his sécret iotact, to the
consterna- tion and wonderment of hi6 inquirers. It was answers like he gave to
Madame de Pompadour that led Gustav Bord to write to Saint-GerBaio that "he
allows a cer- tain my-tery to hover about him, a mystery which awakens
curiosity god sympathy. Being a virtuoso ln the art of misleading, he says
nothing that’ is uotrue, but he koowe how (by silence rather thaa by learned
discussloos) to ’let people believe the mrs':aken legende that are current about
him. Be has the rare gift of.remain- ing silent and profiting Dy It."

Let us ztow return to Nadaae de Itaus set ’ s s tot•y.

"You gave Hadame de Gergy ," pressed Madame de Pompadour , "an elixir sur-
prislog in its effects. She claims that for a loug time she appeared to be
no older than frenzy-four. Uhy should
you not give some to the king?"

Sabou-Geraa1n allowed an expresslori o£ * elgned terror 'to spread over h1. s

I ace, said , ' W, itadame , I shoul5 be mad Ind eed co take It Into my head to g:Ive
ehe king an unknown drug. "

:The following is an ezazple of the mlschievous and enlgmatical manner with

which Saiot-Germain kept everyone guessing about hls age:

"The9e silly Parisi&os," he once told Gleichen, "believe that I ’mo 500 years
old, and I confirmed them in that belief, for I see that they get g lot Of
pleasure out of it. Not but what I em immeasurably older than I appear." (From
Gleizhen's "Souvenirs," whlch was f1rst published io 1818.)

As for the far-fetched and exaggerated claims ’circu1'ating to the fgct that
Saint-Germain pretended to have been present at the Cougcil of Nicea, and to
have couverBed with Chrlst, etc., these ozigioated in en impezsouator nicknamed
Lord Gower , vtho Inerodu cé d h1msel:I to“ Part sIan socue ty as Count Salnt Geraaln,
and they were not made by the real Saint-Germain who, bedause”of his
unchanging
youth down through the centuries, was believed to’ possess the pbiloeopher's stoQe
aQd the Elixir of Life, eDd from this developed puerlle anecdotes of old ladies
takiog too much of tLe Elixir and becoming little girls, babies or even
embryos.

The following conversation is reported between Saint-Germain mod:Countess

de Genlis, then a child of ten:

“Ooe evenlng, at a party, Saint-Germain accompanied several Italiao airs

for the young Countess, afterwards so celebrated under the nsme of Countess'de
Genlls , when aged cen yeax s .
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 "When she fioished eiogiQg, the CouQt said to het: 'In five or six
years, you will have a very beautlful voice, which you will preserve for a
long time.

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COOtfE SAINT'-GEBNAIN AS A RGS TCRI CIAN AOEP7

ScIat-Gezo\atn' a 11I1at1tah1c vec1th, w1tkbut any appafieat” source oC 1ocooe

Aod vitRout dealing with b*Ake or beakers, wss a puczle. Be must be so eIche-
mtat wbo poasesaed the aecret oC’ tbe t:caosaut:at1ozt of‘ metals aod t:he art1€1a1aZ
czeatloa of gold out of baser meta2a. Por nearly a century, he consorted at the
of Euññpo and ehough iil€houc Any. external souéca of Incoae , he
abounded with gold end was adorned with ea array of pzocloue dlaaonda and gear
vbt.ch werea staff part oC h1a pr1vete co11ec tion, aod were the ta1tc of all
Buxope.’ At:“ h1a hâyqueca , gueets cede sezve& w1£h aooouoceaegt ñazdB studded v1tft
d1 inds of precious valtio• SOnce he traveled continually and. had no handed
property ñ é ' laheé ltanee (for he wee not really he1é to the- Royal house of 5akoczy
•s he jiretendé d) i edd his origin aad fant2y were unknown, the source of his bound-
less weal'th In spfi te of lila being wlthou t Income and rocHved nothing fé ovi banks
--•aea ayscery to alz, 1ead1ng to the betted tbat he vaa aa elctzem£st

Saim-Geraa£n wae believed co be able to tranaaute mercury Into gold , wh1ch

modern aclentls ts are nov able to do by aeans of the cyclotron, or atoa-aaeshlng
aachlne. If he was not able to make gold froa baaer aetals there would be no
explanation of the aource of hla unlimited wealth. Re tae not only credited with
the pover of naktng gold but to posaeas a seeret process by which he was able to
Improve the quality of diamonds and precious atones , so that ehey were worth
many t4mea their original value. Louis XV wan par tlcularly Interested In thla
achievement of hla t for he ss In It a ray to vaatly Increase hla wealth.

Saint-Gemmio's large collection o£ jewels end precious dlemonda, aocozding

to Barog Glolcben, included en opal of monstrous siae, ss large es $Q egg. It
is claimed that through bis secret koowledge of chemistry thet bc was able to
chmoge stones thet he put on the place-cards of his banquets were claimed to
beve beeQ vortb thouaaoda of dollars each.

In conf lraaclon of the current belief thae Saint-Gernaln’s wealth was self-
created through alche Ical proceseea, Casanova relates an Incident In which Saint
—8eraa1u changed a tuelve-Vol pleee Into one of pure gold . Uben Casonova
d1atrna tfu2ly remarked that he felt cure that Sa1nt-C•etra1n aubetl tuced one cola
for the other , the lat:ter replied: ”Those who are capable of entertaining doubts
of my rock are not worthy to speak to ae ." And he doned che I tallan out.

Another meeting with Casanova occurred when the latter caae to visit hla In
Belgium. He found hon conf lned In a house whoch he dld not leave for a consider-
able period of time, while engaged In chemical experlaents and In the preparation
of herbal elixirs . Zhe detaile of thls vlalt were aa f olloue On arriving In
Belgium, Caaenova as some grooas walking spirited horaes back and forth. Be
aaked the grooa co whoa the f me animals belonged and waa told: "To the Count
Saint-Geraato, che edept who has been here a aonth and never goes out. Everybody
who paesea thcougb tfte place oaocs to see hla, but be oakee k1mself v1s1b1e to
no ono."

Thls was suf 11cient to excite the curlos1ty of Casenova, who wrote reques t-
£ng en appointment . Re recelved che I ollowing reply: "The gravlcy of wy occu-
pation compels we to exclude everyone, but In your ease I VIII make an exception
Come whenever you like, sDd you will be ehowA lo. You need oot mention my
nsme nor your ovn. I do not ask you to share oy repast, for my food is Qot
suitable
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to o$berg to- y•u 1eest oC• all, th your appetite £8‘ sTtat it- aseé t¥/ be •" ” (Tk18
atg§t coatradIce thee 1dea tbat be 1lved w1Ckouc eat1o@ choogh 1”t” doea not prove

'- , , ; ..-. , ' • -

AE nine o ’ clock, Casanova called and found that the Ceunt had grown a beard
two.. 1acbes. 1oog... .U}tea Caaano a told h£a I:bat- he -'suf£exed f¥oe ao acute
dlBeaee, tbe Count 1ov1tqd bra tqj cemaln I:or. tceataent¿ saylag he-xoulé› prepare
'gl£teeo p111a-srh1ah In. three..days, step1d restore. tka‹ Ita1laa to.'perfect - h9a1th•
_. . ,':„-, . . •. ’''--
.’, 7t:vaO 8 commoo be11ef.iu the eighteenth:century thet 6airt-Gemaia’pozseasod
*S’el0hemical powder which could transmute baeer metals into gold. Wf£t€ug#*of
his contemporaries credit him with having accomplished the feet of
transmutation on.two occaeioUs.. The rqois-dp Valbelle, Waiting.Sslat-
Nato io his labor- atery., £ound ...ehe at.chemt9t -busy . wtth tits _furnaces. He
asked the 'Marquis -‘toI ‘ a s11vez, -s1zt-€ aoc. p1ece, -’aged.›cqv,ez1ng 1t oleh
a .b1ack. eubstaoce; expoaeé It ”to the head of'a small.ileme. ’,M.:de
ValbellS:eao’the coin cheRge:color until lt turoed.bright red: -Some-sinutes
after„.wheo 10 hedrcooled a:U ttle, the'mdept took’tt.out of the cooling
veseel.gnd,returoed i.t •to the Marquis: •The pfece'waa
no longer .silver but oC ttte,..purest hold .’Z aoaaqtat1on kad beea coap1e5e-. 7Ite
Countess d 'Adhemar had . posaeseloo .of .thls contr. until 1786 when ‘it was scolen' from
her. aeqretary. „, „z. '

’la6ebted Cor ay

kaow1edge of .oe1t1ng.4eve1a! to ay .second journey, fco‹ Iad1a." “ Jt1e s 11 1zs ch is-

1stzy eoab1ed ft:to. to„ p»,epare. coaae61cs. wh1cIz won Js1m ' the Pavoz• oC”
tfte 1ad1es of che.. French coure, che dlscove of see.methods! o£
tanning and dyelng,’ the en-' nobllng of precious gems , e tc.

Saint-Gemalg *s.feme.asean elthemist, which'-waa believed to be^the secret

his remarkable agd.apparently inexhaustible wea1£h;’whi1é without âg appatéot
source oJ In,come, led: courtiers. xrleh depleted for tunes at ehe court of Lou1s 2tP
co envla lon magnificent aultlpllcatlon of their gold by his aid'; While gyandenea
of uncerealn age-, had , dreams , of youth res tered by
hle° battled elixirs. lte poss- essed and dlstr1buted-.the zaost ’ pzec1ous
and pr1ce1ess géme thick It res be1 yed
he had the power.,to Amke out of coBmon sloâée by his 9ecret'koowledgé of'chémistrr.
Medeme de Pompadour eaid: "This e1ngular can pasaed for being fabulously rich,
end he distributed di&mouds.m)B jewels with astooisbing.liberality."

Aaong tttoeé.“who. believed 1a Sa1at-Cezzaala’ s.‹capactt as -aa ' â1cheozMt ”

wees tHe Memburg.edyogste.Dresser, who, on.October:23¿alI78’,'iote -to’ Bacon
’Uffel;/ Judge of. the .Cour.t . of ,Appeal bn Cellei: be th Freemasons,' In bthe
following manner about che adiep t .he . dis coverqd: . , . ,

I gust gtre youe . Jcalleney news off a..u1ngMar 'phenomena. A man' cal1-
éo -
In Saliit-GeNaln, who. re£useg.,to. -aake koowñ his. or1gsnd ,’'‘Is ' lodging' tiere
the hote1 Keiserhof. He lives In.g&agt„sty1e...and yet he•Oeyer 're'ceive’s
shy litters of” dred1t. ke wr1tes day. end Mghñ, carr1es
.oa a tozrespondé'ztce w1tfi the greatest czowaed Steads , but does not, cede to clx 1n
society, endepc 'that' of thé
Countesa Bentiock éAd the.French mioigters. It is very'diffftulf to get to koow
hia. ' Bé ia'an &meteur\in the natural scieocesv lms ctudi d uatGre, God" it is
thanks to the koowlédge he hae received that be is now 182 years of age and
looka like a mao of forty. In tbe strictest confldeQce, he told a friend of
mine that he posses9éd cectaln dtops,by which.he. achieves, all h1e . resu1ts , even Ebe
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traas- mutation of metalB. In h1e' presencé'he transfo ed.a copper coin into:tha
finest 6ilvei, pooT leathet ioto ’the best English'varIaty,. and semi-precious
stoues iQto
dlamondB At the same . Time , , he is .cont lnuaLly alone and by no means éspanalvé.

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 Be has a auperflulep nfi-. alT' Ends of gt Id and st lver coins , Which Loñ t" dé i2_
.. they . had j us.c be n£ntsd• i..And. yet: lie gete no remittances firom anjñ ne ; now has
he any Introductions to ehe aer chants . How does all Shia come' about7 Could It
be that thla aan 1s one of chose whoa we have been seeklng?"

_ ..Th9a. 4Id: one Freenasona write co another. ' USthout any encbufageinent of 'Salnt-

V1eoaa 1a . t6 .•.fonndat1on of . the-' Society of AB1at1C BJ-ochere and- the-EaIgbts oC

Light, ard that he was also partly responsible for the group in Prance koom ae
tbe:Philbethes; of wh*cb the•Prlnce of 8esee, Condorzet aod Cagliostro were
said
.tq bq:,members. -
,flot:ooly did Saimt-Germaio’koow-the’secrét of the trsAemutation’of metals,
-also of lncreaslog che size aod brl11iaâoe'of pearls and dismoâds. -Graft
,Zapt Cob1ene wrote.,oo Apr11. .6, -1763, to ¥aua1ta thaC he ada1z•ed h1za, wkezt he. aet
blm at Brueselu; oof.only for tha-tra0emutatiog of iroâ'i0to ’gold, ’whfth he
mthieved, but alao for the.preparati0n of dyes, tolors for paintiég and
leather.
Salnt-9eraaln erqcted tae for les 1st vhloh his new proceseee of dyelng were applied ,
one at .Touynal foz the . dyeing of milk, .â oo,L -and wood ; and for - the préparatlon of
s ,e tless co1ors„ mod.another later ia’0emsrAy wltG'the cooperâtior of’ I'jIncé
Charles oI Eesae, for the dyeing of ellk aod other fabrics, thus laylng'the-’
foundatlon for the great modero industry of colored materi&1s. The evidence
for
his, ak111. £n chea.tp!try -ts : indisputab’ le.- .

In bthe I lead of aedtclne, he compounded a herbal e1lx1f ah:tch he dlstrlbu ted

gratultously to the poor end , by- meanB. of- wh1ch, upon the tes claony of PrInce
Charles of Hesse, he. prolonged .his. own Elf e. Iz la -claimed t:hdt flemé r derived
his theory,of.animel megoetism from.SalntWermain, with whom 5e- studied'when
the
1atter was 1n V1enzta.

If :Saint-Remain was once Frances bacon, who- I ounded Row leruelanl so and Free-
aaeonry. In., England: under the name of the Society of.. Ro slcrnsm Fre&iasone , then
we ñey suppoge thet he contlnued to. develop the work:of these societies wheQ he
aséumed the 0&me of Saint-Germa1g„ In.fact, ss their leader. -That
wae"exaotly
what ,he. d1d , etarting:with,the Maoifestoee whtch'he’ issued uoderfthe
Roslpruolsn
Francis in;Germany„while stlll’io:England ’udder the neme'of
Baepn duElng. che .f frs t quar c9r. of t:he seventeenth ' cefitury.

"' l4eAly Hall says :that Saint-Germain waé an fmportant figure'in the early”his-
tory of Freemasonry, just as he was its when hu was Francis Bacon, as
founder
claimed by Nicolaic› This is.indicated iz
maconz'y
e ar e , by; Bacpn',s. biographer; Dodd ,. who -shows that“ thé 5hak es p plays ar é
. „ . .. . .. , .
.
sypibp,l;£sm and were' evidently wr1 tteñ b9 a Freeuasoa; 1f. .no t by.
the’founder of Freemasonry , Fr ancls Dodd 'clé las“ that ' thé tldkQown ant.hor
Bacon. Bacon, purposely put ioto them,. in
of the Shakespeare playa, who wae Frmocis
Otyp tic form„ the essential symbolism of FréemasoéFy, proving thet their author
was a Freemason :and undoub tedly the founder of ‘thé order. ' In Nrs. Henry .Pot t’ a
look, Songeby she poInt s out that Bacon was the
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founder of both Freenasonry
or8aoiza£iOn;-.whose alma pf
ssitution of monarchy, by
the
of a literary got[ety„ koowo
and Rosicruclanlsu, uhleh were origIQally a aiogle
political reform through the replaciént’ of the,iO-
new system ’of+democrazy were hidden beIi1sd...the
as that-of the Ro’eicruGse-Fre aéona.

Hall %howp that Fraocis Imcod

was the orlglnaeoñ - of this socue ty, which dld
au nd was orlglnally unlted oleh Freenasonry aB
Rosicrucian coming-:4rom. the royal emblem
of
Bacon, whoBe real name waa Francis Tudor, son
no t eAtedate ’the sixteenth century,
the Roslcruase Freeaasona, the vord
the House of Tudor , of which Prancls
of ’Queen Elizabeth, was the lest

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surviving member, whlch was the rose eAd the rrose.
. , ’’’’:’- - -
Hall states (hat there were no Rosicrucigns or any society by this oeme
before Francis Bacon originated the,.ord.er.. as a ..Freenaaon1e organization, nox can
any modern soclety bdar1ng,.the me "Rosl,cru n''..claim descent .£rou any - ant-ert.or
€ratetoity: For RosicrurteDiem gas FreAcia Bacon'w.creation. Re griqtugted„the
word.’ ’It existed iq Its original form oaly so long.as.it was his,expressioo; -
aOd tbe claims of ’the miây Rbsizrucia0 societios,tTiatsprung up later,-cLejuning-
des-
cezrc from a'supposed. original secret-sect are not.substeptiated. oseokreutz,
the legendary Founder Of bthe order, was metely one of, Bacoo'c symbolic repre-
sensations, sfnce hfé or'lcally he.never e*isted.
, .... -. .. › .. ,.. - ., , . , ., , . . .. -
“ TtiaV ChrisI:1añ RpsenJeu tz .was a aaak. of Fxanc.{s Bacon, lts. true , flounder ,
who was the author bf ’t5eRosicrucian Min festoes, ’the ”Confeesio"’and "Fama
Fraternt tat 1s," which he sent to Germany and ,Chich wexe .pub11sh_ed In 1615 by
Valentine An‹freas , a. CpNari. theologian whqse nd ,.he used ñn. connection w1Th
hue
Rost couch writings , indicated by the/ollowtog statement .by :U1.ctemans , In
1s Rosenkreut z, .says
his
that hd was ”known lii . his 1 aaé p incarnations as -S lr ,incls Bacon and. as Coune
Sa1nt*Gereialn , and wds the gieat ioitiator of the West.,.He has -opene‹j the
portals
O# 1Tt1t1at1oa to .tlie aéeke¥s .f'ot•..,e»oter1c. tz•u tit. .As y -creator of rifle expsx1-
mental .m, é thod , he , m, as led selencii. logo,. .,qu..i.t.e .n e w, wa..ys ... Finally .,he
founJd a
so c fety, Freemasonry, Intended . to be. a parvlst of the SysterYes , .a eehool of
brotherhood aod tolerance. In spite of many difficuLtiee; obstacles and parti&l
de:Seats , tke Order of Ros1crucl‹a%' Lad , In laEge. meaeure, accompLlshed its task
vihen the French R“evolutlon. broké out., Zhe.,:ñ rder.. of Freemasons , yhlcii. had -re-
celved the splritUal heritage fom the Rosicr ?i s, counted at the.end of .the
eighteeoth century’ JZ,3.75 ’active lodges.distributed through .the entiTe
with about world, 21, 300 £I00' eieâbers . ftésonry was the. only Ans tltuClon In ,:chat
time
aspiriQg to truth,'sdfence and 5 ustlee, whence emerged In reallt y;- a new so cle by. ”

That Count Saint-Geroaio was the secret leader of Freemasonry during•the

eightéénth century, continuing’ the work he commenced as Frapcls Bacoo, when
founder‘ of the order, 1s 1nd1cated by his at tending many Masonlc convent tons .
Hiiags of London oI bered by sale a Nasonl e alnute book In. wh1eh the slgnatures . of
Oougt Saint- and Marquls de Lafayette both appear, ,Many of the illus-
Germain
trious persons'with’ whom the Count assoelated were Freemasons , as
were the Found- lng Fathers ot the Perlcan Repiiblle , 1ni:1ud1ng dashing hon,
Franklin and o thera. Franklin pub119 hed a’ book on Fi-eemasonry. Ref err Ing to his
Fxeemasonl c aetlvl- ties, Wittemans again writes:

S abut-Gd%alri had not only cho een Eqrope, .whee he resided lo nearly.. every
country, as' a the8ter for Fia operatloos; he slso. went to Africa and twite
to India, working for the accompli9hmeât of a fixed.plan for helping.the
world,.
whl-ch dld qoé under.stañd htm,‘ doing ‘good .ever here and er;v1nc1n8. as 1nexh&us t:1-
b1e chac1ty.”

From the: tlae- ’that. he wEo ce the Roslcruc1an ttanif-eseoes and 1ssued 'the
through Valentine Andreas io ?ermaoy i0 ’l6i6, eight years before his feigned
death In England.. and passage eo the Continent , Frané ls Bacon was the aovlng

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spirit’ of Rosizruc1anism.during.the eighteeeth century, hs he was its founder
during the seventeenth, ae.well .as -the leader of.Freemasonry. He is suspected
of having been the great power.behind tbe .Ftenz5 Revolution, which his
secret societies brought on, tbough 1ntendimg'lt' to*1ead to ideelistlc
reformation of society and no t to a Reign ot Terror.

That . Salnt-Geraaio, was

an lmpor tant f lgure In Freemasonry and probably the
secret ch1eC oJ° the so c1e ty
1s Indicated by the fact that he rat sed Prince Charles

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AlezeAder of Lorraine, theQ Governor-Geoetal of’ the Austriem Netherlands, the
protector of £remiesoory in Belgium, to the grade of Knight of the Rose-Crolx.

Salnt-Ger rain 1s sald to have taught his philosophy at Piasonle "aseeablSea;

and by bo th Freemasons and Roslcroclans be was regarded as their colon chief .
As he waa the - leader of Freenasoñ ry, ao he was the moving spirit of Roslcruclen
is0 during tbe eighteenth century, who strove to briog about unity among the
dif- ferent Rosicrucian organizations that sprang up in the eighteenth-
deotury. Me
was present at the Msebgic Conveotioo of Feb. 15, 1785 at UilEelmgbad, gnd
there eodeavâred ’to recoocile the Roeicrucians with the Illuminati, the
Kabb&lists and the aumemitariana. He wae aleo io touch with the chief
Eoslzruci&n orders in Geromoy aod Austria at thls time, particularly with the
Asiatic Brothere and the Koigbts of Llght, as well as with the Msrtiniets of
Parie aod with the Templars.

In evidegte that Saint-Germaio, or, ae he was previously c&lled, Frmocis

Bacoo; mas the true founder of’Rosicrucimoism, who. was symbolically repreâéoted
uñder the form of the mythical figure o£ Christian Rosenkreutz, is the
statement iu the Roelcruciao Manifestoes that"be was born in 1378 and lived
106 years, wh1sh'meaot that he died iz 1484. I£'is claimed that when has tomb
was opened 120 years later, it was found to cootaio the wools of Paraceleus;
which is im- possible, eioce the latter was born in 1493,'and hence hie
wr'itings could not have gotteo i0to tbé tomb of a man wbo died nioe years
previously. This would indicate that the story of Christian Rosenkreutz was
allegoric&l, oot historic&1,

points out that all attempts of modero sa-called Rosicrucian societies to

trace their descent to an ancient Rosicrucian order are unsupported by facts.
For; as we have already indlcated, Franois'Bacon, lasf of the Tudors, whose
roy&l in- signia wae the roee sAd the cross, wee the £irst Roslcruclem, snd
the rose and the cross wae his personal emblem 8nd was never used by soy
secret 9ociéty or occult order previously.

In'the light of the above, the mysterious book that appeared at about the
ease the ae the Roslcruclan Ganttestoes , 27ts test Veddtn9 o f flu tic Min Rooen-
kt•euIz , vh1ch was pub11shed by Valentine Andreas In Germany while Francis Bacon
was Stlll In England , was undoubtedly a product of Becon’ s .secret eoelegy. This
book was first published in Strasbourgh io 1616, a year after the appearance of
the Hedlf estoes , chough Matte clalae Its orlglnal draf t was mltten In 1602-3,
but did oot come to light'tntil 1661, when published as a Baconien revision.

The Rosicrucian Maolfestoes were a logical continuation of the work for

political reform that Bacoo initiated when he wrote the Shakespeare plays with
the aim of destroying in the publit mind the belief io'the divine right of
klQgs aQd the adoration of royalty end the monerchial institution, in'order to
psycho- logically prepare thé world for the democratic revolution which lt was
the aim of his RosiczuclaQ-Freemasonic societies ’to usher ln. The hanifestoes
first an- nounced publicelly the ideals of the French aod AmericaQ Revolutions:
Liberty, Frateroity aod Equality, which later led to the Paris Commune aDd the
Russian
Revolution. These ideale became the cry of.the French revolutioniets, but un-
fortuoately the terrorists took over and what started under thé banoer of
iBeel- lsm by Saint-Germain's,secret Freemaeonic Societies wae cooverted into the
’bloody massacre of the Reign of Terror which he labored so long at the French
court to prevent, but failed in the attempt. Thus his plems for the
inauguration of a new deaocratlc age, I or which he worked for over a cenzué y ,
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monarchy and replace it by a Oew polltical system based o0 the ideals of human
freedom and equality, were temporarily thwarted as the Reign of Terror was
followed by the Napoleonic regime; and in place of a frivolous king, oeme
there power-mad will tar1st who .d1d no t hesl tate to plunge Europe- Into a to
blood shed resliae his vain ambitloos.

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 Saint-Germain foresmm ’’the bloody 'Re1gn”o’f Terror and though he was the
power behind ehe French Revolu tion, he trléd tits best to save his •7o f r tends
from suffering, since he felt a personal responsibility for the eveots that
were to ensue. . -ID 1774 he gave serious warnings not only to Gountess d Adheomt,
the friend of Earle Antoines te , and co the Count de l'taucepas , whom he called a
frivolous and incapable mlnlster," but also directl to the Queen, predicting
to her the aparchy that would lead to ”the overthrow of royalty. It was after
hie supposed death at Eckeroforde in Sthleswig in 1784 that ’be shéwed himself
to the unfor
tunate Marie Autolne t te and others on several occartons and wee 1 iedl-
ately recognized. We again warned Merie Antoinette iu l7B8, stating that the
Bourbons would be swept from all the thrones, revolGtioo was going to break
out would give place, under the eneuiog dictatorship of poli€ica1 orators, to
a
deb t of several bMiltons.

0o the eve of the Revolution, he showed himself to the ”Couot de

Haurepas, Minlster of Louis KV, who declined to let him see, the king, sod
to whom he made the following prophetic pxonounceeent:

"In opposl0g yourself to my seeing the monarch, you are wreokiQg the
mon- archy; for I have but a limited time to give to FreAce, and when that
is psst, I shall not be seem.5ere.again unt1l three;geoerations havejgone
down to the
grave. I told thé Queen all'that I sm petmltted to tell her; uy reve1atlozts to
the king would have been more complete...I have nothing to reproach myself with
when horrible anarchy devas tates France. -Expec t no homage I roa pos termcy,
frivolous and incapable cloister. You will be ranked among those who ceuse the
ruiu of.empires."

Tbus did Saiot-Germaiu; the secret power behind the Fiench Revolutlon,
fore- see and predict events that were to happeo sioce he was in intimate touCh
with those who were to bring them to pass, who were the memb.ers of. bia secret
so- cieties whlch precipitated the revolution. His stétement th%£ FrgQce would
not see him for three generations agrees with another prophecy he made about
his dis- appearing...from Europe early In ›che”’n1neteent h ceñ tury and not reappearing
.for 85 yéars , which pred Action .he fulf llled 'by his é rJp to Tlbet wheré . he
spent nose
of the olneteenth century duriog which he Gas abseot from the Ruropeao sceQe of

; ,. ,
Saint-Cermaln cried his best to save the llves of he I rlend s , Louds XV and
Narle Antoine tte, from . Otie gul-lloTlné ' by advldliig them .to flee and .cave them-
selvgs, from their fare af a time ’when'thé posslbillty of revolution seemed
remoté. ’His warniogs, however, fell on deaf ears, ahd thé royal couple ended
their lives ou the guillotiQe because they failed to heed it. Had Louis XV
prof-:tted by Saint-Germaln’ s prophe tie warnings , the loss of has head and the
Reign of Terror alght Havel béen averted .
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Saint-Germain also predictéd tbe various political.éñd. soci&1 chaoges that
would occur in Frsnce'from tbe time of the ReVolutlon”’to..the Napoleonic Era,
iudicatlog that he wae;well aoquaiated with 'ihe intéroal_pOlItiqs of this oation
and of the impending s toro, which he lnté dded to be the blur th-pangs of the b1rt:k
0 a new deaocrat1c era which hls soclé ty soeie tlae worked to realize and wh1ch
he hoped to make as bloodless as possiblé. ’

Marie Aotogoette was much disturbed by the.direful nature of Saiot-

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Germain's prophecies end questioned Medâme'd'Adhemar as to her opinion of their
signifi- caoze. Mademe replied, "they are diRaaying, but certainly they csnnot
affect your Majesty."

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 Medsme d'Adhemar also recounts a dramatic incident. SalntVermain
to meet the good lady at the Church of the Recottets about the hour of eight
O'Clock mass. Hsdeme weot to the appointed place lo her seda0 chair aod re-
corded the following conversation between herself aOd the adept, who ther
prophesied the coming of the French Revolutlor ag follows:

SAINT-GERHAIN: "I em Caueandra, prophet of evil, flademe, he who sows the

wind reaps t5e whirlw£od. I osn do nothing. Hy hmods are tied by a stronger
pover thao ayselC."

MADAME: "Will you see the

Queent" SAP-GERHAI I: "No , she 1s

dooaed. " NADAl'tE:"Doomed to that?"

SAINT-GERMAIW: "Death."

NADAHE: "And you - you too t"

SAINT-GERMAIN: "Yes-llke Cazotte. Return to the pelace. Tell the Queen

to take Steed of hez•self , that thls day v111 be CateZ rto her•"

MADAME: "But N. de Lafayettet..."

SAINT-GERHAIN: "A balloon Inflated with wind . Even now, they are settling
what to do alt h htm, whether he shall be an lnscruvient or a vletlm. By noon all
will be decided . Zhe hour of repose 1s past, and che decrees of Providence must
be ful I 111ed. "

NADAHE: "that do they want?"

SAIWT-GERMAIN: "The complete ruin of the Bourbons. They will expel them
from all thrones they occupy and in less thmo a century,’they will return in
eel tfielr different branches to the renks of private citizeQe. FreAce as a
kiogdom, empire aod mixed government w1l1 be tormented, agitated, toro. From
the hands of class tyrent9, she will pass to those who are smbltloue and
without merlt."

Hademe d'Adhemar, who presemed deny anecdotes of the llfe of'this

"wonder men" copied fiDm ooe of Saint-Germain's letters the followiQg
prophetic veroe predictiQg the dowofall o1 the French empire: ”

"The tlme is fast apptoaching when.imprudent Prance,

Surrounded by misfortune she might have 9pared
herself, Will call to mind such hell as
Deo£epainted, ’
Falling shall we see eoeptre, ceuser" scales,
Towers ‘and eseu tcheons, even the wh1 te . flag,
Great streams of blood are flowing in each' towo;
Sobs only do I hear , . and ealles see.
OA all sides civil discord loudly roars
And utteriog cries, on all sides virtue flees
As from the Assembly votes of deatb arise.
Great God, who cao reply to'murderous judges7
Aod on whet brows august I see the swords descend'"

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The seed that Saint-Germeln, as Francis Bacon, planted when he wrote the

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 historical Shakespeare plays with the object or preparing the public miQd for
the democratic revolution, aod which ñis secret 2oeicruclan emd Freemaaonic
societies nurtured, thus ceme into blossomiQg in the'polltical revolutions thet
swept through Europe, duriog the latter part of:the elghteenth century, causing
the thrones of kiQga to totter and the rise of modern democracy as a new
political doctrioe of which he was the master-mi'nd mod which his Freemasonic
eocieties labored to realize. Thle aohlevemeQt was the underlying motive of his
whole like and varied gctivitiee in the courte of Europe. The Dnited Statee of
Ameyiza, its Declaration of Indepeodence aod Conatitutioo, were creations
of.his Nesonic fol- lowers who were the founders of thie nation, of which he
was:the tzue-father, as he was the father of modern democracy in general. ’The
Maaonio symbols still
fouod on the American dollar is .mute evidence of the fact thet:Freema9oury;.
wbich order he first patablished, to which George Washingtoo, BeQjamio’Frankl1n
and other Founding Fathers belonged, was the:power ’.behind the AmericeD Revolution
and the founding of American democracy.

Just aa Fraocla Bacoe, in hie "New Atlantic' predicted:in the sixteenth

century the rise of a o‹ew’scientific civilisation-aQd its inventions; euch as ’the
submarlne, airplane, automobile, etc., so later as Saiot-Germain, in the eight-
eenth century,: he predlcted the,coming of steem locomotion and the’’atésm8hip.
Once, while holding a.discussion with some hesonic followers, he suddenly
left, saying he hed to go to Germany to prepare for these inventlons; emd’ he
also pre- dicted his jouroey to the Himalayas at the begioning of the
followlog century, and that he would remain there exactly eighty-five years.
Frenz Graeffoér, iQ his gscoIJoct%ns o/ 7ienmm, recalls the iQcident above
described as follows:

"Saint-Germaio then gradually passed into a eolemA mood. For a few

seconds he bezsme.rigid as a statue; hia eyee, which were always expressive-
beyond words, becmae dull a0d colorless. Presently, however, hie whole being
became re- dnlmaced. He made a movement with his hand as I t In st.gnal of.
.departure, then sald:

"I em leaving; do not visit me. Ooce agaln you will see me.- Tomoriow
oight I mA off. I am much oeeded io Constantinople; tben ln England, there to
prepare two ioveotions which you will have in the next century--traios aod
steamboats.
These will be needed.in Germany. The seasons will gradually ohange--first the
’spring theo the summer. It is the gradual cessation of time Itself, as the
anooudcement of the end of the:cycle. I see it all. Astrologers and eeteozolo-
g-Ls ts know nothing, be1:teve me . One needs' to have s tudled the Pyram‘id a as I
have studied. Toward the egd of this century I shell-4isappear out of Europe
and betake'myseIf to'the region of the Himalayas. .I will rest. I must rest.
Exactly iQ efgbty-five yeats will people again set eyes on.me. Farewell.'"
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 ChAPTER FOUR

T@E PEIGNES DEATH'0F COURT SAINT GERMAIM

AND EIS LATER APPEARANCES

The laat days of Saint-GeNaln' s long llfe were divided betuñ en his ex-
perimeotel reeearch work in alchemy while residing at the estate of his disciple,
prioce Charlee of Resse; and the mystery school at LoulseAluug Schleswig,
in The following
where philosopRlcel and political problems were under discussion.
faotq are knowo about his last daya, p*ior to his feigned death 1°784, wh11e
io
staying with Prince Charles, which occurred exactly 160 years after h1s Set gned
death In England In 1624 when he was know as Francis Bacon.

The last days of his knowo life were divided between a stay at the home of
the Nargrave of Brandenburg-Anspaeh and that of prlnee Charles of Hésse-Cassel.
It-was at Trie9dorf that he met,:aod was invited:by; the Margrave to lodge wleh
at wh1ch time. he introduced himself as a Russian general, Graf T*arogy,
which Invitation he accepted on condition chat he may II-ve hl s own way In his own
apartment, quietly aAd at peace. He desired no servant-aAd dined as simply as
possible io his own room which fie eeldom left. His needs were extremely few,
and he. avolded all genesal socletyi 1t was lapoa slble to persuade hla to dine at
the Nargrave'e table.

One day he s homed the far grave an 1nv1tation he received froa hls friend ,
Graf ’Alexia Orloff, a Russiaâ geQeral, whom he had’ formerly met in St.
Petersburg In 1762, durIng . his .stay In Russla under the reign of
Peter 'II I, liavlng let t ehere when Catherine I I came to the throne •
Orlof I had J ust returned from Italy and want ed to geet htm at
Nurenburg , while passIng through . The Ndrgrave and Graf Tzarogy went to
NureQburg, where Orloff met him wich open arms. At this time he appeared to
his host for the flrst tlme in the uniform of a Russian general. Concerning
this phase of his life, Butler, in her book previously re- ferred to, says:
•

"The interest thus aroused in the Xargrave developed into a frieodly

patroQ- age which, as so ofteo with Saiot-Germgin's’ relatiooships, held
e1emeots'of dis- cipleship with it. Although indefetlguably experimenting wlth
dyes aud skine, and always urgiog those around him to do the eeme oA the
principles he laid’ dowo, aod although alao trylog to lntereet his patron in
’the financial aspects of these experiments, he was a qulet, courteous,
considerate and very retiring guest at the castle of Trlesdorf, where he was
given rooms on the ground floor. He would emerge ln the eveoing to converse
enchantiugly and sometimes mysteriously, but would never conseQt to be present
at the table of his host; for the diet to
which he seemed to have adhered to so religiously throughout his life did not
admit of meals in public. His needs were the simplest and his clrcumetanceJ
greatly reduced. He then went under the neme of Count Tzarogy, under which
that his real Aeme was Prince Rakoczy, prior to the confession that he was
the laet of that royal and unhappy line.

"However, the Margrave found that this claim was not substantiated, for,
during a journey to Italy the followiQg year (1775), the Mergrave was full of
the story of the recluse of Triesdorf aQd began to put questions about
Rakoczys, only to be told that all three were dead; aod that the mysterious
visltor was
the notorious SaiQt-GermaiQ, son of a tax-collector of San Germaoo, an adventurer
and woree, fooling the world under ooe allas after another. The disillusiooed
Margrave sent Gemxiogeo to coofront the guest oo his return, but the former
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not shake him. He owoed to all the allases except Soltikov, but stuck to the
etory of belng Rakoczy, and declared that he had adopted differeQt nemes to
throw off the scent the enemy pursuing hlw ab the pretender to the Traosylvanla
throne." (Anchor ' s no te: lie mfigh I have aoze properly sald the English throne.
) He also duty maintained that whatever we he had froa
the to time adopted , he had never d1sgraced any of thea, Yolz
says:

"As long as he waa connected rich the Nargrave , :he never uttered a slngle
wish, never recelved anything of the sl lghtest value, nevex lnteef ered In any-
thing eñ at dcd not concern hla • htm his extremely eleple aode of Elf e, mls
wants were very llmited. Uhen he had.. money, he shared It with the poor."

Sabut-Geraaln' a s tay. with ehe Nargrave came to an end at ter the fat ter' s re-
turn from Italy , refusIng to coenunlcate Frith htm escep t through Get iungen, and
demanding his letters. back, ltls gues t . surrendered: all excepI: one, which he sé ld
he had given co 0r1oI f ; and ref usIng the of fer to s tay qule tly at ScWabach, he
made off into the unkoowo.

Three yeers later, in 1779, Saint-Germain appeared lo Schleswig to his

f r lend , Prince Charles of Hesse-Casse1, a well-knoun Freemason, who become his
patrou-and lnvited him to stay with him at his home at Eckernforde. Uninterested
at the outset io Saint-Ge in'e Inventioos ln improving the arts of dyeing,
smelting, e0nobli0g meta1e’aQd purifying precious stooes, he was gradually won
over'by his earneetness’a0d bezeme his pupil like Louis X7. Wheo he first come
to Schleswig; Saint-Germaio said he was eighty-éight years ’of age, saying he
was the son of Prince Bakoczy:and’that the ’had be'en educated in the house of the
last of rhe Medici. Rrince:Charles belleved'him implicitly and fitted him'up a
factory at Eckernforde, while paylng a doctor naaed Lossau a handsome annual ln—
come to dispeose his guest's medlcal discoveries.

In cooversatioo with his patroQ, Saint-Germain showed himself to be an

avowed materialist, whose great aim was to benefit humaQity. He proQouoced
hIm- self an atheist, opposed -Chr1s tramty and spoke In derogatory terms of
Jesus; but when he realized that thls distressed his frieod, he promised oever
to touch upon che topic aga£n.

I t 1s claimed that .he dled at Eckernf orde on February 27, 1.784, a£ t er con-
tracting rheumatiem due to the damp rooms In which he lived there, causing his
health to fall ooticeably; and was buried there on the second of March, his
death havi0g beeo entered in the parish register. It was a great loss and
grief’ to . the Prlnce of Hesse-Cassel, who, in his "Memoirs," wro'te:

"He was perhaps oâe of the greatest sages who hes'evei lived. He loved
humanity; he desired money only iu order'to give to the poor. He. even loved
aoimals, and his heart was occupied ohly wlth the happioese of others. He be-
lieved he could make manklnd’happy’by prdcurlnB for them oew pleésures,.
lovelier cloths and colors; and glorious dolors cost Cost nothing. I’ have
never known a man with a clearet mind, and at the seme time he was possessed
of a learniog,
especially io history, that I have rarely found. He had been iu s}1 the
countries of Europe...but France seemed to be the land whlch he loved best."

The mock funeral of .Francis .Bacon and hls depar cure I or Germany was I
ollowed by ano ther I elgned death of thls same enlgmatlca1 Ind lvldual over a
century and
a half later, under tbe name of Count Saint-Germain. For while it is genetally
believed that SalQt-Germaio died oQ the estate of Prinoe Charles of Eesse-
Cassel lo 1784, accordiog to Manly Rail; "The strange circumstances connected
with his passing lead us to suspect that tt was a mock funeral similar to that
giveo the
E0glieh adept, Lord Bacon." This is iodlcated by the following report gbout
his passing: "Great uncertaiQty and vagueoess surrouod hls latter days, tor oo
coo- fideoce csA be reposed in the announcement of the death of one illuminate
by aoother, for, as is’ well knowo, all meaQs to secure the end were in their
code justifiable, eAd it may have been to the interests of the society that
Saint- Germaio should have beeo thought dead."

Oo thia.. subject, Madame Blavatsky remarked: "Is it oot absurd to euppose

thet if he really dled at the.time and plaoe menLiooed,.he would have been
laid in the grouod without the pomp and cetemooy, the official
supereisioo,’the police registratioo, which:atteud the funerals of men of his
rank and Qotorietyt Where are these data7 He paBeed out of public sight more
than a century ago, and posi- tive proof that.he.was living several.years after.
1764. he is said to'have had a
most impprtant private conference with the Empress of Russia 1a 1785 “or 1786 aod
eo have appeared to the P,r mcess . of Lambelle when she stood before” the Tribunal ,
a few=momeots before g5e was struck down with a bullét; and a butcher-boy cut
off her head; aod to Jeanne Dubarry, the mistress of Louia X7, as she walted on
her scaffold at Parle for the stroke of the guillotine in the Days of Terror of
1793."

Though the churcb register at Eckernforde shows. that Saint-Germain died

lQ that towD wbile.a guest of Charles ñf Reese, his protector end disciple,
he.was oeyertheless,eeen by many people and ’ia maQy places since, both during
tRe nine- teenth oeotury aod during the early part of the twentieth century.
@1s presence wae reportdd at a MasoQic coovention io Paliq and VilhemsDad
in]785, on the authority of dlstioguished historleos:’ And in 1788, Couot de
Chelons declared to Countes s d 'Adhemar ehae , on returning from his embassy In -
Vent ce , he had talked With hlm .In the Plaza of S t. Naik late on the night .of his
.departure as 8inbaesa- doc to Postuga1.

The CouQtess d'Adhemar wrote,in her memoirs that she had talked more thao
six times with the Count since'1784. The first time occurred lo 1785 iQ Paris,
at a chapel of the PrBociscans, after he had written her”to give her oew
:waro- iQgs coQterniog the dangers that awalted the royal couple. Ee then
repeated to’ her orally that the downfall oS the monarchy had become
lQevitable; and he fore- told the triumph zQd also the rapid fall of the Duc
d'0r1eaos. At the end of the long conversation which she then had with htm, she
asked hlm when ahe would see htm again. Re replied ; "Five tlaes store ."

Thls’ ptedictlon was fulfilled. One year before her death, the Countess
wro te, In a no te dated Hay l2, 1821: "1 have again eeen. Saint—Cerzialn, and to
my greatest amazement, at the death oi the Queen (October 16, 1793), at the
coming of the 18th Drumaire (Nov. Q, 1799), on the morniog of tbe death
of’Duc d ’ EngheIn (Star ch 15,
1804) , In the month. of January, l815„ . and on the eve . of the
murder of the Duc de Berri (1820)." Thls made five times that she saw:him
after his supposed death in 1784, just as he predicted she would. After
recounting Saint-Germain's five poatbunous’ appeareAces, the Counters added,
'I await the sixth visit wheo God wills."

The ’Encyclopedia Brittanica stated that Count Salnt-Germain is'said to have

atteoded a Masonic conference several years after his death had been
reported. Audrey Lang 1s among those who doub t that Saint -Germaln really d led In 17.84
as officially supposed, wrlting: "Did Salot-Germain really die in the palace
of
Prloce Charlee of @esse about 1780-857 Did he, on the other hand, escape from
the French prison where Grosley thought he saw him during the RevolutionT Was
be
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knowo to Lord Lytton about l760T...Is fie the myster1ous NuSCovite adviser of the
Dalai Lsma7 Who koows7 He 1s a wi11-o'-the-w1ep of the memoir-writers of the
elghteeneh century ." (flitsto moot ñ yaterfis) .

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 Aftet hia feigoed de8th, Saint-Germain disappeared from the Europeeo
stage as mysterlously as he appeared, and as he vanished from Engl&nd after
his feigned death ln 1624, leaving bebiod tbe priceless. heritage o€ his
philosophical works aod tbe Shakespeare plays. Nothing is )uoown with positive
certainty about where ha ve•t after he left the houae of Prioce Charles.
Having accomplished hia mis-
s ton, he- vanished . Froa ehe "henoms de hon Tempg!' of Charles of Heese,‘ e-- gain
ueztalg particulars couceroi0g the last years before tbe disappearance'of the
adept. Charles was deeply interested i0 occult aod Masonic mysteries, eDd a
secret gooiety, of which ’he was the leading.epirit, held oczâsiooal meetings
on his. estate. After:studyIng: fragments left by Gharlee, Caglioetro believed he
was initiated ioto Eg tian Freemasonry by Saint-Germain, who attended aome
of'theee mee tangs and .he conf ldpd. aore In Charles than In oehera he la
reported to have known. ConcernIng Sa£nt—Gervialn' e reappearances zf ter hle supposed
death In
1.784 Butler writes:

.."If he ever sald (which As doub tful) . that . hls mpproachlng d1ssolutlon was In
reality a preparation for a forthcoming rejuveoatlon, he wes talkiQg %ore like
ao adept &od a sage than a mystery-monger.. Accordlog to Luchet (a' very
suspect source) his at raculous ascens ton was proclaimed at the moment of his
burlal.
A ouroal . published ln d785 declared that aany still believed he was alive, and
would soon .appear amongs t them • 'the Freemasons seea to have been of the serie
opinion, sOnce ehey called htm to , the . Conference In 17.85. Hadame de Gen11s
maintained she saw htm In Ylenna In 1g21. "

In 1845, in memoirs emanating from Vlenoa, more about Saint-Germain's

post- humous life 1s related iQ the form of a prophecy the sage made to
Franz’Graffer, the author, which .we have quoted before, pzedlctiQg his
'voyage to the Eimalayaa sod bis eighty-five year. residence in the Far East,
which prediction, according to Madame Blavetsky„ who was there at the time,
was fulfilled. .She waa oae of hia most outstanding adBlzers. Bucler believes
that he was the inspiration of her Theosopby and.the only.real ooe:in its
Pantheon of Masters. Conceroing him ahe vrote: ."The Cogte de Paint-Germaio.
was.certainly' the greatest Oriental Adept Europe has seeo during the last
centurles." While there is no evidence
that Blavatsky met him, Butler claims that it was Saint-Germain, ugder the
figure of Lyt ton’ s Wnoxii t hat made a powerful lmpres s on her and Inf lueneed
her future 1:Pte.

But ZAnonC waa not the only one of .pdame DlaVatsky's indirect 'cootécts
’ ’ wlth Saint-Germâin. Another occurred wben ahe traveled:to Tibet in the
latter' part of the oiQeteeQth century, when she heard rumors:of:the arrival
thete, ’eérl- ier in the ceétury;’of an EQglishman whose uousual mastery over
languages made him the marvel of the lemaseries. He was koowo Co haye
mastered eyery art and
atiencei He joined the Brotherhood of Khelin. J91s probably red to Andr evt Lang' s
question, pzevioualy quoted, ai to whether he was.'the mys terloua adviser who then
appeared to the”Dalai Lsme. In her Jafs CvsiT&d,„Mgdeme Blavatsky writes on this
subje'cf:

Khelan waf famous throughouf'the land; aod one’ of the most lemous of the
'Btotbers' was a Pehling (an Engllshman) who had arrlved one day during the early
part of the gineteenth century from the West. He spoke. every language,
inzlu4log Tibetan, end knew every axe and science , says the tradition. His
sanctity, a ,the phenomena produced by htm, caused hlm eo be proclaimed' a ’ Shaberon
at ter a .g9sidence. of a
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few years. his memory lives to the present day amoug the Tibetan9, but his meme
is a eecret wlch the Shsmberons slo0e." (Concerning this statement. by
Blavatsky, Udny , author of .Water Inyazmations of Iran 've Bacon, says: ”The
name of thls myeterious
European (for that is what Pehllng real1y'means) ueed be no.aezret those Who
koow that that great man; Count SaiQt-Germain, went to ’the Him&layas

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abouc 1800. ”)

The identity of,thia Mysterious European visitor to Tlbet durlog the

early part of tbe nineteeoth century with Fraocls Bacon and 'Count Saiut-
Germain 1s indicated by the fact that all three possessed unu8ual commsod
over’ languages sod 'koew every art añd science.' OO this point, Udny; 1z his
Later Jxermo5ione
of frRncia. Bcoou, writes:

"Thls alone 1s:. almos c enough to:. Identify htm oleh Saint-Germaln, of whom we
xead In As Contr de Sa And Germz?n: "The Count speaks French, Eng11sh, I callan,
Spanish, mod Portuguese equally perfectly, so muoh 9o that when he converses
wlth 8Ey of the lQhabitauts of the. above couotries lQ their mother
tongue;^they were unable.to dlscover the slightest foreign accent. -The
learned eDd t5e
Oriental scholars have proved the koowledge of the Count St. Germain. 'The former
found hiD more apt in the language of Homer and Virgil then themselves; with the
latter he spoke SaQskrit, Chinese aod Arabic io such a maoner as to”sbow them
that he had some-lengthy stay:io Asla; aud:that the'l4nguages of the East were
but poorly learned.Lo the.colleges of Louis theiGzeat and Montaigoe:"

IC Saint-Geczaaln .seas alive dur1ng tlie alneceenth cen8uzy , iaost of vhlch Clae
was spent in Tibet; where he certainly must have perfected hiWself’ in the'art of
rejuveuatloQ in which Tibetan yogiz aod lemes are masters, cer'taioly he
should be alive, youthful and healthy in the.twentieth century aa well. Haoy
hold the belief that he is still alive aod eome olaim to have seen him,
spokeo to him
received 1ett#rg.from him, or received other types. of commuQlcation. Manly
Call, one of the greatest students of. hie biography, etated that Sa1nt-
Germaio was seen at a haeonic convention io Franoe as late es 1925; ’and eight
years later,
the head of a Co-Masonic eocle ty In S an Jose,- Cos to Rlea, told the wr1ter that he
hM received o 1ecter Ezka. his and that he was the world head of thls order,
coming from the Caipathian MouotalQa. ‹Barbara Moote-Pataleewa, a Russiao phy9i-
cisA residing in England and a specialist in rejuvenation, claims she ooce met
him personally, as Nioon de L'Enc1os, whom he taught his secret of the
preserva- tion of youth, enabling her to look llke a young woman ar thd age of
ninety, had
.done prevlously. ...

There is a wldespread belief among Theosophists aod other occult

societies that Saint-Germaiu is still living. Hrs. Ballard, founder of the
"I Am" move- ment, claims to have received communicatidns from him as the
teacher of her order The Theosophica1 wrlter, Leadbeater, In his bo‹ik, 'I've Nac
Iérc and the
*°**, Rublisbed-in 1925; describes as follows a persooal ueetipg with 51m in Rome:

the
M&ster, the Coñbe de St. Germain, called sometimes Prince Rakocay. I met ’him
. under qulte ordlnary cm cuastances (at thou t anj prevloqs appointment , and , as
though by ehdnce) walking down the Corso In Rome, dressed J ust ae any I tallan
gentleman at ght be (Author ' s no te : Zhl s reminds one of his previous gu1s e as
SIgnor Gualdl over two hundred yeare previously . ) He took ne up lneo the gardens
of the Pioziañ Will, and we sat for sore thao ’au hour talking about the (Theo-
sophlcal) Soc1ety - and Its vrork.

”Though he is not'especially tall (Author's note: Correct, sioce both

FT8Ot•1e Bacon and SaInt-Gemaln were father short }n s tature) , he has the ex-
quisite comtesy and dlgnity of a, grand selgneur of the elghceenth century. We
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feel at oQce that he belongs to a very old and noble family (Author's note:
The
House of Tudor , ass son of Queen El:tzabeth) . HIs eyes are large and brown, and
are f111ed sr1ctt tendernee s and humor , though there 1s in theei a g11nt of power ,
and the splendor ’of hie preseQce impells men to make obeisance. @is face 1s
olive-canned ; his egose cut beown hair 1s parted In the center and brushed back

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from the forehead, aod he has a short and pointed beard. (Author's note: as
he had when Francis Bacon, thougb he shaved it as 5aint-GermalQ.) Ofteo he
wears a dark uniform wlth faciQgs of good lace--ofteo also a magnificent red
military
cloak--sod these accentuate his soldier-like appearance. (Author's note: We may
recall that 5e appeared iQ the'uniform of a Russian geQersl when he met Orlo€f
in Nureoburg.); 2e usually resides iQ an eAcieot castle in Eastern Europe, tbat
belonged to his femily foz’qe0turies. (Author's dote: Probably in the
Carpathian Mountaioa from where the letter wae sent that the head of tbe Co-
Masonic Society iQ SaQ Jose, Costa Rica, received.)

/6rster the Cogte de St. Germaig (was) kndwn in history in the eighteeotfi
ceotury, whom we sometimes call Waater Rakoczy; as the laet oGrvivor of the
roy&1 house. (Author:'s ’note: - False, as this wzs Saiot-Germein'a subterfuge to
conceal his identity aa Prince of England.) fe was Francis Bacon, Lord Verulum
in thé seventeenth century...Re is.also much.cogcerued with the political
situation iu Europe .eAd the growth of moder0 physical sc1ence." (4uthor's
note:’ *Bacon's’in- ductive philosophy gave rise to the development of the
moderg scientific era in place of the medieval age whlch preceded it, ’while his
Freemasonic-activities, terminating in the Freoch Revolutlon, gave birth :to
modero democracy.)

£oanentt.rig on Leadbeater’ s statements ,- E. H. Butter, £n her book already zm

feared to , says:

'It would.be a hard heart indeed which could not rejoice at this
apotheosis of Saiot-Germaio by which he has regained, mod mote them regained,
his prlstioe splendor at the Court of Versailles...Por lndirectly he was
himself very largely responsible for the Theosophical MovemeQt. The vitality of
his ’pereoñâlity after death led to a further life in literature; for he was no
other thén the. title- hero of Bulwer LyttoQ's novel ZAmoni. Thls fell in
Hadame Blavats '9 hmods fairly early lo her career; it affected her
profoundly, mod the fact that 2enoQi was res}ly Salnt-Gemaio was probably well
koowñ in the circles in which she aoved . Hence her
ldentlf lcatlon of the Matte r with one of the Adep t s, s Ince .£0
is in this guise that Bulwer Lytton portrayed him.“

If Saiot-Germai» is still alive, the question arises asm where he is.

ould he be in the Himalayas as a member of the "Great White Lodge" of
Theoeophi- ca1 Nassers , of whom he 1s consRd ered onef 7hat would be a very
dangerous place to be 0ow. in view of the he'avy fallout over the eutire Himalayas
r.eg1on produced by RqseieA hydrogen bomb explosions in neârby Siberla.
Certainly lt’ would be a poor wag to further extend his longevity to breathe
radioaotively contaminated
alr.

There would eeem to be much more logic in the claim that he'has entered the
Stlbt rranean Uorld to escape bo th f rom xadloactlvl ty and other d lsadvantagea of
the earth's uurfaoe as well as once and for all enjoy peece of mind and live
with- out fear that.his llfe might be eodangered by some pretender’ to the
¥nglioh
throoe wese his greât'sétret revealed that he waa a soQ of ’Queen £lizabeth,emd
therefore a legitimate Prince of England. Now he can'Iive io peace and no longer
have.to tra#el from place to place under' assured names . The Brazilian Theosophl-
cal Society, has a large temple dedicated to "Agharta" (the Subterranean
which
World) at Sao Lourenzo, Mioas Gerais, Brazil, maintain that Saint-Germain is
now living in the Subterraoeao World together with other great masters. Charles
A. 1'4arcous t of Subsuxf ace Resear Uh Cencer In Phoenix, Arizona, who has devoted
twenty years to searching for ao eotrauce to the Subterranean World, wrote to
the
author some time ago:’ "I want to comment concerning one thing that may be of
interest, pertaining to Count-Germain. Such a perty has oo0tacted me on several
occ asi ons
' ' » ’at lemst he claimed to be Count Saint-Germaio. As you may
koow, the
I movement claims to have gotteo all their informatioo from Saint-Germaio,
Am corresponds with 9ome of my findings.'
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 C i-I A P T E R F 1 V E

DID SAINT-GERMAIN'IN THE 18TM CENTDRY CRRATE

TM DEMOCRATIC RESOLUTION, JDST AS, WREN ’FRANCIS
’
BAGOH; RE CREATRD TBE:’SCIENTI£IC ’REVOLUTIONS '

The interesting information contained i0 this chapter was supplied by a

profound student of Saint-Germaig, Paul Masson, an American resident in Brazil.
the .fo1lowlng w£11 explaln why Hr. Masson conslders Count Saint-Gdrualn ae the
Bastermiod behind. the.Frenth Revolution, es well as the Amerlcaâ Revolution--
which Seve .birth eo. adderñ democracy • Zhls great ‘achleveaé nt" wés ac coaplls hed by
t"he air of his Freemasonlc and Rosicrucian societies wlileh he : founded In England
when he waB Francis Bacon. He wrote thecshgkéspeare plays to destroy io the
public alnd the belief . In the . dtvlne. right of kings and to prepare It for the
Democratlt Revolution which caused the thrones of Europe's :k1nge to totter sod to
be replaced by:republican 'governments.

In support of his clalm that. Saint-Germ&ir "single-hemde'dly" engineered the

French Revolution, by the aid of his secret societies, though he never inteided
that the terrorists take over, Mr. MaSGOo supplied the following interestiog
evideooe io a.letter to the wrlter oz Dec. 28th, 1959, which lncluded mâDy
other interesting facts.about the great- Roslcruclao edept.

Speaking about a friegd he knew in, France'who claimed that when he'went
to school’ thére,was a fellow-student in his. class called Comte de Saint-
Genâain, Mr. Mas9on say.s:‹'- :

"Regardiog the statementiof,’my friend inrNioe that he lad a fellow-student

in his class nemed the Comte de.Saint-Germain, chie struck me as very
strange. Dnfortunately, I could get no iutthez loformatioo from my frleod;
bec&use he knew nothing of the historical Paint-Germain whom we know. My
friend was not a student of occul£ism,. and be.yond. the statement he made, he
coild add nothlog further.

"Your ’statement that ’5alzt-Germain's secret societies brought on the

Prenoh Revo1ut;tofi merely conf mms .the oni 1 made abou t Sa1nt-Gernaln' s work- He was
iQdefetlgable id the creat1on ot Nasoâic lodges all over’€uzope. His work
was to^llberale !the'’h an apirit from centuries of mental oppression. The
Jesuits were hle bitter eoemiee. Is it a mere coincidence that the Jesuitical
Order was suppreseed In 1775 and remained outlawed for the next.forty yeareT
I hold it was Saint-Germaiñ's Jork. ’ Carl Remus says: . *'

"Satât-Ge am traveled mu ch throughout Euyope, and even made.. two 3ourneys

to visit the Shah of'Persia. A. concrete part of his work appears›to heve
been the fouâdlng of Masonic lodges in many cities, a work far more difficult
then now, aod in'some countries ooly possible through the personal favor he-
enjoyed in royal clrcles.'

"Saint-Germiin had a triple work to perform. -The first res to work wtth
individuals who were to be initiated in the inner mysteries aceordl0g to
their spirltual development, after which they would in turo help Saint-
Germain. Thus Cagliostro, his most famous pupil, founded lodges of Egyptian
Freemasonry.
Aâother of Sai0t-Germaio's pupils was said to be Friedrich Anton Nesmer; aod
his speelal work was to s tlmula te lnteres t In occut t medlclue artd mesmer4aa. Heemer

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founded an occult socle ty known as che "Order of Unlver sat Harmony. "

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 "Secondly, his work was with the iQtellectual class, aod he did thla in
the most thorough maoner possible by virtually creating armies of freemasons.
Tñese intelllgeot men, whose previous creed-incrusted minds had been magically
traoe- fomed into keen meQ of speculative thought aod logic, by the power of
the Master, were the leaven which gradually transformed the entire
intelleotuel climate o{ FraQce, first giving rise to the 'Eocyclopedists,'
whose contributors were such famous men as Voltaire, Rousseau, Grimm, @olbaoh,
Ducloe aod other femous men, aQd then like a veritable mental tidal wave,
overwhelmed the reet of the country, to the gaping astonishment of the
neighboring countries, England, Germemy eDd Italy. The Vaticao, witb its tene
of thousands of servile agents, found itself powerless to stem the rising
intellectual tide of freedom, aod found
It self compelled to 1s sue anathemas against che new order and excovmunlcate all
those who became Freemasons. One can, If man he was, dld It; and It was Salnt-
Germaln'

"Els third work, and probably the most izportsot, was with the schools of
esotericlsm, suoh as the Orders of Illuminati and t5e Rosicrucians. Profmoe
history can give us no account of his activities in this field, beyond the
merest guesses and speoulatlons of those who kAew nothing of the work he did.
But, aa his aotivitieo in this special sphere increased, there apriog up
spurious 'orders,' also calling themselves Rosicruciens and IllumiAeti (the
latter being the xachlavelliao creatioQ of an obscure German professor in a
small German university). His well-conceived echeme was to dmogle before the
Freemasons of Germemy the hope of occult powers aod koowledge by joinlQg his
Order. Professor Weishaupt, [or that was his Deme, was eo successful in his
endeavor, far beyond
his wildest dreams, that his 'adepts' numbered in the huQdreds of thousands of
the upper-class Germans, and to a lesser extent, in the rest of Europe.
Finally, as his trowolQg achievement, eveo Frederick the Great, KiQg of
Prussia, applled for admission to his Order, to whom he made clear his
stupendous scheme, which was to control Freemasoory, bring on a bloo*7
*evolution in France and then con- quer the country in a bloodless coup.
Frederick the Great put a stop to this colossal plao. Ikyt Because the King
of Prussia was an inltlate and a very good friend of Gount Saint-Germain, a
true Freemason, and kept his vows, made in all of Saint—Gernaln' s lodges , to
revere llf e and ablde by the hlgh aoral standard s which the lodges Inculcated .

"The spurlous occult socletiee exlst to this very day. In 1928, I made ao
effort to contact the real Rosicruclan Society, when I was in the United
States. Io less than six months, I unearthed eight Rosicruci&o societies aod
orders, all of them claiming to be the genuine one. I know of only two of
them that are Still fuoctiouing, i.e., the AMORC (Lewis Spencer's very, very
spurious order), oow carried og by his heirs, and the Nax Helndel Rosicruciao
Soclety. MaR Eeindel, by the way, was a disciple of Rudolf Steiner, the
Theosophist, and
broke away from his teacher to find bis own order. Was Steioer a true
Rosicrucian'

I read Comte dv lbs bits vhen I was a mere boy, and dld not unders eand any-
thing abou t hps Sylphs, lJndlnes and S alaaander s . I learned later, however , chat
one must have the key in order to read the book correctly. I know ao 'adept'
who has th1s key, aod who, by the way, knows more about Sa1nt-Germain than
probably anyooe living in the Western World. When I meet him again, I shall
ask him for more information on the subject. By the way, Bulwer Lyttoo's
ZmVni, the biography of a great adept, I hold is a popular account of many of
Saiot- Germain's actlvlties in the eighteenth century. Zanoni, in the book,
is a high Ros1crucisn adept, together with his €rierd and seoior, the adept
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Hejnour. But why should Bulwer Lytton boow anything about Saint-Germain that
others do not know7 Slmply this: Lord Lytton's father fouoded aD occult order
in Englaod sod
knew intimately many of the European initlates of the time. In one of his books,

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be Vomit gace, 9ulwer Lytton mentions a subterranean country inhabited by an
advaoced race which can control a secret. power which Bu wer calls 'Vril.' You
have probablyresd thebook. Io his Strongs Sky Bulwer gives an account of a
blaCk maglclem who had found the secrets of mixing certain herbs which
completely rejuveoate the body.”

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TME MYSTERY OF FRANCIS 8AC0N

Ao-Accouot of SalDt-Germain's Early-Life in Englmod’

We sñall:see’here that Saint-Germalo as not oQly the leader of Freeme9onzy

and Roshcruclanlsm In Europe duelng the elghteenth century, bue he was the
actual founder. o£ .Wheae Orders during the sixteenth, when he was known as Francls
Bacon, , before h£m feigned death In England and hfis traveling to Germany i where
he to te under the .naae o£ Valentine Andreas ;- dnd to whom he cent che Bos1cruclan
Henlfes toea .for publlcatlon soae nine yeare before ht.e supposed death 1624.

Pzancla .Bacon (under which name we ehall refer co Colint Saint-Germaln dur-
.log the. eest of chin..book) .waa undoub tedly one of the greasest geniuses who
11 ed during the past thoueaod yeara. Borm at the close of che ’HeSIeva1 Age,
which was an outgrowth of‘ the exper laeneal aeshod , he originated as part of the
1n6uctlve pkl1oaopky of his .'! lovuai Orgaaua," wb1ch revo1ut1on1zed huézaa thought.

Parallel eo. h£s .contra.buttons to science and philosophy were his Seupendous
literary creations under varloue feigned oames, most f&mous smong which was
that of SheAeepeare, which created the Elizabethan Renaissance in llterature.
Aod in addition, he. was i:tie founder of a new political sysMem which we call
democraC2 , which he ushered m through.thp work-o£. his secret.freemasonic emd
Rosicruciao societies , which he founded and of which he was the leader . And in
addltion , he
was an alchemicsl edept who possessed the secret of everlasting youth that’
en- abled him to live oo loog after his contemporaries, who believed him deed,
die- appeared ; He was then reborn , Phpenlx-like, In Europe as Count Saint-
Gemaln, to léad the.secret societies.he or18lnated when he was Francis Bacon:
Rére are the highlights in the life-history of thia Man of Mystery:

-Re waa the soo of Queen’Eltaabeth and her legitimate husbemd, E l'of
Leicester, whose true neme was Francis Tudot, PrlnJe of Wales and heir to the
English throne . The royal insignia of ehe house of Tudor, of which he w9p the
lggt su iying member,‹was'the'Roee-and the-Cross. He used thls later ’aâ a
persooel’emb1em'io-relatiân.fo the secret sozietj he established,
orlglñelly
tc0owa aa Lbat .o£.::,cbe Bos1afusse-.£¥eeaae. ona... ’ ”
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The:above facts-will explain ’the mysterious s ec rec y
’ : ’ * : '
th at S alo t- Geimain malotsioed reggrdiug.5is or1gio and his pârents.
Por -he had a sword of Dsmoclee hgogiog over die hemd by a thin string, for
should it become koowo that he was a Prince of England , his llfe would be
endangered by asplrant s for ehe throne who would prefer to see him out of the
way.

Sis mother, Queen Elizabeth, turned him over to’ Levy Bacon, after he
was born, io'pIace of her owo'infant who died; and he was.raised as her owo
child sod celled PrsoCls ’Bacon, later Fraocis ViszouDt St. Albao.

Re wrote tbe Shakespeare plays while a young atruggliQg lawyer, whioh

brought him a râveoue he badly needed:’ Me was the genius who created mo9t out-
standing literary masterpieces of the Elizabethan period; eod it was he wbo
gave the EQglish language ite preseQt fom through hue chief works, the plays be
wrote which appeared uoder the name of Shakespeare, and the Ring Jemes
ttanelatlon of the Bible,'whlch he edited.
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 Regarding his editing the tzanslatioos of the king Jemes version of the
Bible in 1616, after fifty-four learQed men prepared them, he was
commlsaiooed by James to do this job, which he did to perfection, putting
these translations together aod editing them in his own matchless style.

Io addition to the Shakespeare plays, he also wrote the plays of

Christopher Dlarlowe, which memy authorities have suspected to have a oommou
authorship aod some drew the erroneous conclusion that Marlowe wrote the playe
of Shakespeare.
AmoQg his other anooymous literature productions were Spenser's "Fairie Queen,"
Montaigne's "Eesaye," Burton's"AQato°7 °* Delanzholy" aod-Cerventes' "Doé
Quixote.

be fo,unded Nreemasoory and-Bosicruzianism a9 seoreDcotieties.for’politioel

and re1igious:reform. After his feigned death ib EAglaeé..ié 1626, at the age
of
.6S, like other .Illuminated Brothers; he reappeared in aoother part of the
world (C•ermany) , where he . cpntlnded htm work 2 or humanity ' under -d new .naae
(Vdlenttne Andrews). IO a rare print by Valentine Andreas, published twenty
years after his burial as .Bacon, he As dept cted wlch a long, beard a.t the age :uI,.
80 i In '.place of the goaeee he .woEe . In England . ('£etér as fibttnt.
Saint-Germaln he was 4eard1ese. I HIS. burla1 place'in England waa nevé f I ound . Under
the: me of Valentine 'Andreas , he wroteihe .Roalcruclan Mamfeetoes
'which he'secrerl :seot to 1emmny.to be'pub-
listed there i0,-1615, olne years before' his feigned death mod:depBrtuie fbr
the oontineot. When he reached there, he continued to issue his writings
under the oame nmme. He was the mythlcal Chrigfl Rosédkreutz, .the
shpposed founder

ered.to„Abbe:Honfaucoñ dv Vi1'lars’cet't ’ occult'dtecourees Which were'subee-

quently published In 1752 onder” th e am m e’ o£ "C ém t M.de Gabalisr" -'
. ’. . '- , • - , ,
He later,uaed: the:name of tbe devout'PFince Fiancis Rakocz7 of the toyal
house of Zranaylvanla, •oho underiieñf a feigned déath :1n 1735 , añd who’ iras ,‘ of
course, a distinct lndiv1Auai. ’ In 'the lattér'part’of’the seVenteenth' century;
BacoQ appeared in Veoice as Slgoor Gualdi; and in 1710 agaiQ as Gount Saint-
Germaio, which oame he zetei$edtthrdughout thls tentGfy, though usigg other
oemes as wel1,”éâ ’the occasion required. .v N. ) .'7

.0u, Fébruary ;2Z, 1784 ,. he sent . zl-trough anotliei 'be lghed :deach at -ackeref iirde,
under ‹the name of,. Count Saunt-Germa In Jht'le v1sñ 't1og his d £selple . dnd f mend;
Prince Charles ‹if Hesse-Cassel . As 1.n the , caste -of. 'mls :bur1añ . as .Pranals' Bacon,
his grave was later found to be empty. A year later, in 1785, he was seen
attend-
Ing a Hasonla co Terence, latex , . In 1821, . Countess d ' Adhenay .sun .hy bn .Yienna
prior' to his .depar.t ure lot .Tibet , where hey -spent most of ehe.mine teentli'"ceñ tury.
He-later returned.and. was seen as 1924 ac, :a Masonic epnverit ton In Fline ,
late.as Maoly:Hall. ’ ,c. v. z?
to h1s blographer and admirer ,

Slr Francis Bacon, Bacon of Verulan , VIscount of St . Alb ana , Lord ltlgh Chan-
cellor of England, was the legitimate child of a secret marriage qf’Q eo. Eliza-
bech’aAd her’ favoiité, Dudley, Earl of Léitestér.- Ris'yo'unger brother was
Robert the ill-fated ’Earl Robert 'Devereux, whoss embition%' top the crowo were
of Essex,
founded on more than va2n'pretense. Bacon s fatber, the Eérl ’of Leicester, wgs
poisoned, if oot with the conseot, at least with the knowledge of his wide, Queen
Ellzabeth. The cone name of Francis Bacon, therefpre, waâ’Fiancis Tudor, Prirce
of Wales, and :the.’ legitimate he’1r to, the croWn of Eâgland.
 One of the most Inf ormatlve z•orks on Bacon ' s parentage 1s a book by Alf red
Being an exhaust:Ave Inquiry Into
her alleged marriage wlth the Earl of Leicester and the Blr ths of her Tuo Sons ,

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Francis Bacon and The Earl of Essea; An his tor 1 cat research based on one of ehe
themes In ’ Shakespeare’ s Sonnets ’ . "

Writing on the relation of "The Virgln Queen" who was "a secret wife
and mother" and "Francis Bacon, the last of the Zudors," Dodd uri tes: "The fact of
Francis Baoon's parentage--the legltimate son ’of Queeo Elizabeth and therefore
the legal heir eo ehe Ohrone--1s lndubltable, supported as It 1s , no t only by a
Iss of clreuns tanelal ev ldence but° by such dfreet cestlaony as Lelees ter' s
l,etter to Phlllip of Spain, which One. Devente von Euriow discovered among the
Spap$sh Seate Azchlvea , begging Phlillp eo use his ln£ luence with the Queen
El1 zabech co secure his public acknowledgement as Pr wee Consort ."

Dodd found the atory of Bscon's parentage concealed in the.Shakespeare

Son- nets, which'have beeo eepecl&lly rearranged io an uoAatural order, but
wbeo they are properly arranged In thelr coirect sequence , the. aerostlc ressage Of
Bacon' s royal aocestry 1s clearly revealed. On this subject, Dodd mites:

"I was given to understand that the SOoDets constitute a Diary of

Emotion-- touching maoy themes--the writer bei0g Fraoois Bacoo. Some-of
the'themes dealt with state matters and royal secrets. They were therefore
iesued.under.a.pen name to veil his'identity: William Shake-speare. The
Soonets were.mixed according'to a definite plan, aod I was s5own the correct
order. There was pur- poseful coofusion to ssve their suppression by the
Censor, their true meaning
being obscured.

"The most startling revelation was the assertion that Francis Bacon was
the concealed soo of QueeQ Elizabeth Tudor, who ’had beeo privately married
to Robert Dudley, Earl\of'Leicester and by hi@ had two sons, koowo to
history as. Francis Bacon and the Earl of Essex, che younger
son • Readers Sof the appended
Sonnets will fi0d several cantos written by the eldest coQcealed son craving
for royal recognition from his mother, the Queeo. The story is told also of
the tragâdy of Sussex and the part played by the principles: the mother and
her two sons."

Mrs. E. Gallup, in her "Bi-1atera1 Cypher of Francis Bacon," says that

Elizabeth carried Robert, 2arl o(’Leicester, anQ had two soos, Fiancls Tudor,
oamed FraQcis Bacon, and Robert Earl of Essex, who tried to get rid of his
mother,’Elizabeth, and become ring hf England, for which reason she executed
him.

Wheo Frmocis Bacon’ discovered tbe coâspirecy that was being mought’
against his £ather, who was poisoned with his mother's knowledge and consent,
and also agaiQst his brother Easex, by his owo mother, Elizabeth, under the
lofluence of Cecil, hls respect for her was destroyed, and her previous regard
for him turged ioto bitter hatred; and hence forth she refused to recognize his
abilities aod literary genius, which immortalized her name io the his:ory of
literature because of the works produced during her reign.

There ie a reWarkeble resemblance between the pictures of Francie Baoon

aod hie brother Earl of Esse'x, and of both of them to their father, Earl of
leicester. Their picturés also show a marked resemblance to their mother,
Queen Elizabeth. OQ the other hand, there is no resemblance between the
physiognomy
of Francls Bacon and chat of Lord and Lad y Bacon, his :f oster-parent s.

In Alf red indie ' s be SeI f—Named VG IU Shake-Speca•e , ie was s rated thae
when Queen Elizabeth was ooly e princess, she was imprisoned in the Tower by
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sister, Queen Nary, at the seme time her favorite, Robert Dudley, later Earl
as
of Leicester, was also imprisoned, 1559. She is said to have secretly married
in
Dudley in the house of Lord Pembroke, after the death of Dudley's wlfe, Amy

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Robsart. The childreQ born of t5is marriage were Francis Tudor, called
Francls Baco0 because glven to Lady Bacon after birth and raised by her, aod
the Earl of Essex.

Queen Ellzabeth had threat.ened Francls’ death If he ever d:Lvu1ged the tae t
of his being her son, which she had angrily conf es sed to htm when he had greatly
displeased her. Pte was then about four tedn years of age, and aLl t he wlenesaes
of tbe EarVof Leicester'a ’secret marriage with her were dead, emd all demon-
etratiog papers'had beeo destroyed.

It was the intention of the queen to dispose of the child, Francis, but
the entreaties of her faithful councilor, Sir Nicholas Bacoo, caused her to-
deflect mom thls course. SOnce, at the t Anne of Francls' . blr th, .
Lady, Anne Bacon was also confined, but with a child who was born dead , Francis
was subscltuted for Anne’ s dead son and was ralsed by her w lchou t lmowledge of his
true parentage .

Francls Bacon was therefore the adopted neme of Francis ludor, 9on of Queen
‘Ellzabe th, who was xalsed by Lady bacon as her own .son • Unite Ellzabe t,h had
much affection [or the child, she”was forced by her positioo to conceal her
lnterest ’lest’ thie awaken. suspiCion that could cause the life of her, child to
be endangered by' rival aspirants for the throne, In case It. became known that he
was really a Prlnce of England .

Thete exists ln the Britlsh Museum a0 engraving depictlng the coofiQemeQt

of Queen Ellzabeth. As was customary at a royal Air:h, the eotire court was
presen:, but'they weie bound-to secrecy conceroiog the event on paio of death.
Thls was kept as a state ’secret. Later,Francis’ Bacon discovered it, but he
too feared to openly express 'thls secret ; though , as Dodd so . convlnc lngly shows ,
he concealed
. It ln Shakfispéare Sonñ e t s whlcii he vrro te .

The Queen’ and the Earl oi léicester were'marr1ed privately four moqths prior
to the birth of their ehild. ’At the age of fifteen, Francis accidentally
learned the secret of his birt5 and was sent to France iQ the entourage of the
French court. Ee then visited the very scenes which he later immortalized in the
Shakespeare plays during his trip to Spain and Italy, visiting Verona, Padua
and Florence. Wbile at the Freoch court, he fell in love with Marguerite of
Navarre who was theo taking stéps to be divorced'from her husbâod; aod to the
end-of his life, he’bitterly regretted the loss: @e latei wrote "Romeo and
Juliet" as an autobiography of this experience, just as "Hamlet" (the
philosopher-prince) was
equally au£ob lographlcal.

-:Under no conditions would ehe Queen be Induced to Acknowledge Francla pub-

licly as her son and heir’ to the throne,.and all such attempts failed. Accord-
iog to uooffici&l reports, he was compelled to keep the knowledge a seoret at
the peril of hIs'1ife and to swear that'he would make no claim to the throne.

The Queen's intimacy rith Leicester resulted in smother child knowo to

history as the Earl of-Essex. The two men koew each other as brothers; end an
examtm tion o:I thelr photo graphs shows a marked resemblance to :each other and
also ‹to their father, Eâr1 of Leicester. (On the other hand, there is no re-
semblance ’berweeu the physiognomy'of Francis Bacon and that of Lord or Lady Bacon,
his foster-pareQts: But between the pictures of Bacon and his mother, Queen
Elizabeth, there is a strong resemblance also.)

The two heirs of the

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throne agreed between them that if ever Essex should
be ackoowledged King of England , Fr ancl s should have a f ree hand to devo te hla-
self tO his literary and philosophical activlties aQd ideals. When Essex was
condemned [or treason, Fraocls had oo fear that his brother would actually go to

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he had in his po6sesaion, she would refuse to sign the death warrant. But the
riog dld not come. The ministers pressed the Queen for her signatur'e. As a
matter oi fact, Essex had sent the rlog, relying on the Queeo's promise; but
the Couo- teas of Nottingham kept tt back, and so caueed the desth of
Elizabeth's son. On tier death bed , ehe Countes s sent I or the Queen and conf eesed
her guilt. i t As a
matter of record that the horrified and enraged Queen shook the dying wogao
on her bed, screaming at her: "God may Corgive you, but I never can." For
his- torians to declare that Eaeex was the Queeo's lover is absurd. All the
facts poiot to thls: That the love of Elizabeth for Essex wes that of a
mother for a spoiled child. Felse pride oQ the part of each led to tragedy in
their lives. Elizabeth slgned the death warrant for Essex, aoâ her soQ was
executed for treason. When Elizabeth realized the error of her actions, she
collapsed aod died'short1y afterwards from grief.

The tragic significance of. the celebrated case’ of treason brought by

the crown against the Earl of Essex becomes more uQderstandable when we
realize that Elizabeth forced Francis Bacon to prosecute his owo brother, her
son. Bacon oever would have consented to do thia had 5e oot been glven the
most solemn assurance that Eesex would be pardoned in che end.

@e did not like tbe job of haviog to prosecute Essex, but he did so
because he believed hls mother, the Queeo, would refuse to sigo the death
warremt, for his brother. But he misjudged. She dld. His brother was
executed by the order of Sis motherl This perfify Bacon added to his list of
injuries, the record of which he incorporated iQ his secret cipher story
hldden io his Shakesperiao writings. WheQ he dlscovered the conspiracy that
was being wrought against. him, his brother and his [ather by Elizabeth, under
the influence of (ecil, his res- pect for bis mother was:destroyed, and her
regard for him wss turned to bitter hatred, aod henceforth she refused to
recognize hls abilities.

Queen Elizabeth had a violent temper aod in one of her fits of rage„ she
in- advertently revealed to bacoQ the truth about his royal parentage, the
knowledge of which altered the entire course of his life. He believed that
before her death Elizabeth wou1d acknowledge htm; and It was w1ch thls hope that
he as plxed to the hand of Pr kneesa Nar guer1te of Navarre •

From his earliest years, Bacon was in frequent contact'with the

Elizabethan Court and with hie mother, Queen Elizabeth. She is koowo to have
had a special fondness for the child, wbom ahe affectionately called her
"little Lord Keeper." As a youog boy, Bacon exhibited unusual intellectual
precocity, aod when yet in his early teeQs, had a thorough grasp of classica1
and modern litetature in various lmoguages, and evinced aQ lnterest iâ the
drama and stagd. A maeque which he had written was performéd'before the
queen'aQd her court by a company of youthful players uoder Bacon's leadership.
Sater, ai a young lavyer, he per- formed the masques he wrote, which was then
g common practice for his colleaguee tO do, at Gray's Inn, where Shakespeare's
troupe also had a performance. The two meQ met, made an agreemenr, aud
hdnceforth Bacon's dramatic writings were Curned over to Shakespeare, to be
performed by him under his owo name, while Bacon, a struggling young lawyer
who wza t5eo in financial straits, was given a badly needed royalty from the
plays he wrote, which Shakespeare acted.

Bacon was educated ae Oxf ord. By his s lxteen th year , he beeerie so dIs-
satiefied with the scholastic docttines of this institution that he
requested that he be removed on the grounds that there was nothing further
that the uni-
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versity could teach him. Re was the cause of consteAt embarrasment aod
bewilder- ment to his professors who found it impossible to cope with his
brilliaot in- tellect.

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 Almost immediately after he left Oxford, Bacon was attached to the suite of
the esbassador to France aod resided some time oQ the contineQt. As we have
mentioned above, lt was during this time th&t he developed an iQfatuation for
the Princess Nsrguerite of Navarre. The policies of state prevented the
marriage, sod Bacoo, broken-hearted, returned to England. Though he later
married, Marguerlte remaioed to the end the one great love of his 11fe.

Fiodiog life of a courtier uobearable, Bacou established himself at

Gray's InQ at LoQdon, aod set himse1{ up as a lawyer. Although possessed of
legal bri1liaoce„ he had great difficulty to:secure patronage and
recognition, eDd years o[ struggle followed, as if fate consplced to force
obscurlty upoQ him.
Though idealized by Elizabeth as a child, he wms ignored by her when he grew
up, though for many years, for some mysterious reasoo the world failed zo
uoder- staud, he was a "Queen's pensioner" aQd lived on an iocome
reoeived'from Eliza- beth. It was not until his mother's death in 1603 that
his fortunes improved, and he was permitted to advance to his rightful
positloo in the English court.

Durlng these years of obscurity, Bacon spent much time oo the study of
law, in whlch he becmme a recognizea authority, publishing a number of legal
tracts and laying the foundation for our present system of legal
jurisprudeoce. He also de.oted himself to litarary'work, suiting the
Shakespeare plays with a view to Introducing his Ideas . In. a form - appealInc to
the aasses , while to scholar s
he presented his ideas In phllosophlcal works , his f frs t printed book of thls
type, the Eacay c being s till regalded as one of the great books of Eng11sh
11terature.

Wheo James l ascended the throne, Sacon received the advancement he

justly deserved. @e res first ko2ghted, then giveo the Baronv of Verulam and
finally was created Viscount St. Alfiaos. Ma reached the peak of his public
career when he was named Chancellor of England , the hlghes t honor that could be
conf erred on
htm by t he king . As Lord iihanrcello , bacon became what des tiny had or1 g inally
ordained him to be, but which his mother prevented; the virtual ruler of England
aod the most powerful man in the reaim.

’Duriog these years of political advancement, many of his most learned

works flowed from his pen, including the âdUQncemeut’o/ ieornC and his
masterpiece, Rons OrgQmwm, a new instrument of reasrn which made poesible the
birth of modern science, inventioo aQd civilizaticn. These works
zevolutioQized human thought aQd won for Bacon the justly earned title of 'the
father of moderQ science:" He was regarded as a:reborn’Plato io whom all
learniQg was complete; and the excel- fence of his 11 terary style was .matched by the
brilliance ot his scholarshlp and
ezudlct on . Even the re cords of hls cour t pleadings and mlscellaneous leg a1
papers possessed uQexcelled lltesazy style. Mis prose was poetic, each word
carefully chosen and every phrase’ beautifully rounded. It was in tribute to
his literary skill that King James traoslation of the,Bib1e when this was
delivered to him by the traoslatoza,

During this period of political prominence, Bacon found his opportunity to

practically realize his dream of an utopian com@onwealth in America, where he
hoped to establlsh a new system of government, different from the monarchial
one Of which he was then the head, and based on the principles of democracy, of
which idea he was the originator and prooagator, which he sought to accomplish
through the secret societies of Fteemasonry which he organized and of which he
was the leader. Bacoo ioitiated vatious colonization groups'that went to the
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to establish there hls scheme of a New Civilization based on. the ideals of his
8eU gtZgntCs. On this subject, Mamy Hall remarks: '"Among ñis numerous
activities, Lord Bacon was responsible for the distribution of land grants in
the oew world of America. It was his task to divide this territory among
certain

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The New AtiQntia, one of the most idealistic fragments of his wrltings,
is believed:to’fiave been inspired by hls visioo of the opportuQities of the
New World. ’Here the.P1aton1c empire of the philosophlc elect could be re-
eetablished and men could live together lQ a camaraderie of knowledge. “AmoQg
those who went forth to the New World to establish colonies of the realized
New Atlantis was Bacon's owo son, who led a colonization group to Virgioia,
where he achieved prominence as a leader in thls field.

At an early age, Francie became imbued with the New learning then
spreading from Greece to Italy and FraQce. @e then conceived the idea of
teaching to the common people, through the medlum of the dreme, the cardinal
virtues in great epics of moral passion similar in principle to the way truths
were presented to the masses in myths, which embodied the wisdom of the
ancieQts. And while he mote for the masses t5e plays that bore the name of
Shakespeare, at the seme time he created the immortal philosophical works that
inaugurated a oew era in hum8o thought, which bore the name of Francis Bacon.
Thus he lived a double life as a dr aaatls t under a pen name and a phllosopher
under his real name , though even thls was no t real , for his true name was Francis
Tudor , PrInce of Uales ,
last in the liâe oi Tudor9, ’the royal house of England, who was the rightful
heir to the English throne.

Io Ellzabethan days, the language of culture was Latio. There was

virtually Qo English l8Dguage save barbarous couQtry dialects. The customs and
manners of the people were rude and coarse; Francis Bacon set upon'h1mself to
accomplish
the Herculean task of giviQg England a language, building up a vocabulary and
re- fining the ethical standards of the masses. Re speot all the money he could
make in his profession ae a lavyer to further his hrmanltarian aims, as did
also Lady Bacoo, his foster-mother and Anthony Bacon, his foster-brother, who
were fired. with the same ideals. This hidden work was that of the secret
societies of fraternities.heestabllshdd among his friends and followers.

thus Bacon played to perfection at the same time tñe tole of a

philosopher, a political ruler (as Lord Chancellor), a great scieQtist and a
literary genius, which won for him the title of "the noblest birth of time."
But it was inevita- ble that so brilliant aod humanitarian a man should have
many enemies, and persons envious of him, especially in a day of treasons and
stratagems. Indeed it would have beeu a miracle if he escaped persecution,
even though at this time
he was considered as the stra1ghtest man ln the House of Commons by all the
Free-
holders of Eogland.
At James' first parliament, he was returoed by two constituences, always a
rare honor. It was a tribute to 'his virtue and ability, which were unlversally
recognized. At fifty-one he was made Attorney-General, and then successively,
Lord Keeper, Lord Chancellor, and a Peer of the Realm. He held the office of
Lord [eeper for three years, and at the age of sixty he was created ViscouQt
St. Alban. Tet within three years after receiving this honor, England's
greatest Chancellor fell--a catastrophe so surprisingly dramatic that its equal
can ooly be found in the Shakespearian tragedles.

It is a tangled tele the deceit, hypocrisy and corruption rampaot in the

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Gourc. Lord St. Alban waa falsely accused of taking bribes and pervertiog
Justice in the Chancery Division by his polltlcal enemies who wanted to get rid
of him, who coyeted his position and who despised his uprightness aQd
intellectual geoius. Bacon was so taken aback by this plot against hlm that his
health was broken as a result. (However, he later recovered.)

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power was brokeo. Be was found guilty by a jury of his peers, or, more
correctly, by a jury of jealous men who feared his power. Yet until this
trial, Bacon's record showed htm to be a model ot hones ty; and ehe
itcyo Lopedio I trim.oa summing up the
case , etates delml tely that a r evlew . of Bacon' s entire legal career does
not Indicate that any declston which he ever aade was Influenced b7 personal mo tives
or personal advantage, and his declstons could be sustained by
any aodern cour t of law as J us t and equitable , and brllllantlY arrlved at .

The court that convicted Bacon stripped hlm of his estates rod honors,
but these were restored to him by the king himself, who also forgave the
fines im- posed by the court. It has beeo sald that he never again sat in
Parliament, but this iB disputed. During the latter years OE his life in
fnp ,’he was called back on at le as t one oceas
ton when his ) udgment and knowledge were- consldered
oecessary for the preservatioo of the State.

Enjoying the respec: of his kind and honored throughout Europe for his
scholarship, Bacon retired to his estate at Gorhambury and devoted the
remainder of his koowo life to scientific aod literary pursuits. Klng’James
declared in a letter to Bacon that as great as were his services to the State,
his benefits to maokiod have'been still greater. It was iodeed fortunate that
he retired from politics to have more time to complete his priceless
contributions to human
tmow1edge.

When the false accusations of brlbery were brought against him, Bacon
pre- pared his defenee. The King, full of Year of ruin aQd revolution,
begged him to plead guil'7 ’lest the Throoe be jeopardized, end finally
commanded him to enter a plea o€ izty. Bacon submitted. To humiliate
him, Bacon's enemies
demanded that he plead guilty to each par.ticu1ar charge leveled against him. As
there was oo way bf escape, he could Qot draw back. The truth is that Lord
St. AlbaQ pleaded guilty to technical carelessness only, not to crime;
catless- nese, too, when he was new to the office, his registrars, his
secretaries and hi9 clerks.

After his fall, Bacon's enemies took over power: Dissatisfied suitors were
encouraged to aecure a reversal of his judgments, aAd attempts were' made to set
aside hls verdicts, though not oQe was reversed, emd they stsDd sound in law
aod in fact today as they did'originally. That alooe should acquit Bacoo from
the common'verdict passed by elementary history books.

A ruioed oan, socially and politlcally, and in financial reverses, Bacon

turoed to his literary work. Withio five years he turoed out work gfter work of
prose, philosophy and numerous secret worka that appeared uoder assumed names.
Re compiled the Shakespearlan Folio and published it secretly so'that-it
should not be tarn:£shed by his personal dls
grace. , Ee also completed his personal poems , ShWespeere ’s Some-tc wh lch contain
the secret of hls true personall ty i his royal blrth, and the unknown his tory of. his
11fe . These sonnets were £frs t sold only to the Brothers of the
Masonic and Rosicrucian orders, of which he was fouDder and leeder. He
requested the Brothers not to divulge the secrets of his birth, life and
death. Ben JoQson belleved in his innocence. A note is extant of Bacon's
interview with the Kiog in which Bacon declares that he is ready to make ao
oblatioQ of himse1[ for tbe King. It is believed that be assumed the name
Shakespeare as a penname taken from the Goddess Pallas Athene--the Shaker
of tbe Spear of Koowledge at the SerpeQt of Igoorauce--but it 1s more probable
that the nmne was derived from the actor to whom he turoed over his playa for
their production and under whose name'they appeared.
Francls Bacon played an important role in maoy othet activities. He was
the
founder of the Royal Society for Science. He was deeply interested in the col-
onization of the New World. It is due to him that the Atlantic seaboard was
English rather than Freoch or SpaQish. He influenced profoundly EQglish prose
through hls fsaQya, English philosoph7 through his philosophical books,
including fts New JtJQntia, Comm Orgznum, âduevement o§ Leeming, etc., and
English literature through his various literary creations that appeared under
the oemes of Marlowe, Shakespeare sod others. @e organized the Roslcrosse
Llterar7 Society that helped him in all his literary uodertakings, "his
literary compeers by nlght," which handled the publication of hia works under
the nsmesof Shakespeare and operated thelr owo printing press, which ueed as
ite seal the double letters A, which we find hidden iQ the frontpieces of
various Shakespearian works tbat
it published. It'is iQteresting to note that similar pictorial symbols
appear in front of the King Jsmee ttanslation of the Bible aod the first
Folio of the
Shakespeariem plays, indicating a common Baconian guthorshlp.

Concerning Francis Bacon as the founder of the Royal Society, 1.

D"Israeli's "Second Series of Curiosities of llterature end Sacred History"
says that Francls Bacon founded the Royal Society, which was in working order
before the Charter was granted by Charles I. A history of the Royal Society by
two of 1ts officials says It began io 1616, the year of Shakespeare's death.
It 1s interesting zo note that the Royal Society refuses to allow a perusal of
some o'f its papers,
and the place where the Rawley Maouscripts are kept is a aecret, also the
place and ciTcumstances of Bacon's death aod burial place are unknowo
generally.

No oobler humanitarian has blessed mankind wlth his gifts during the past
two thousand years thao Fraocis BacoQ, yet oo mao has been more misunderstood
aQd slandered. Pope called him the "greatest, wisest aod meanest of
meokind”--
but how could the greatest aQd wisest alao be the meaneatt It is claimed that
he was uograteful to his brother, Essex, by persecuting him for treasoQ, but he
was ordered by Elizabeth to do this, in spite of hls entreaties to be relieved.
The Queen insisted, aud assigQed to him in the first trial--despite his protests
and pleading in Essex's behalf--that part of the arraignment which had to dQ
with Essex's followers hiring players to play the Shakespeare play of Richard
II, which infuriated Ellzabeth, who regarded it ae seditious, and she wantbd to
find out
who was the real author. If Bacon refused to perform an official duty, he
would have beeo forced to adm1t his own part iz’ the conspiracy, confess his
authorship of Richard II and the other Plays, and go to the block with Essex.
This would
not help Essex, his brother, for whose life he pleaded with the Queen, his
mother.

Next it was claimed he accepted bribery, confessed to it and was

convicted of bartering out justice for money. There is evidence that some of
his subordi- nates accepted bribes, but he distinctly denies thst he accepted
any, or received any. The reason for bis dowofell wac an uoscrupulous meD
nemed Buckingham, the King's favorite, who saw an opportunity to sell 9acon's
position to the highest bidder, &nd so prevailed on the king to depose him.
Not to plead guilty might have meant imprisonment and perhaps the block.

Says Donnelly, in INe Great Ptogr , "He bowed his oeck to the storm
which he could neither avert nor control; biding his time, he took his secret
ap- peal to 'foreign nations, the oext ages and to his own countrymen after
some time be passed. And he turned patiently away, with the burden of a great
injustice and a mlghty eorrow upon him, and devoted the last five years of his
life to putting forth in works uQequalled since the globe first rolled on its
axis."
De0ied his rightful kingdom--England--though a legitimate heir to the
crown, Bacon resolved to build an emplre of his owo, the New Atlantis, a new
civilization to arise oo the American continent. In this book he described his
ideal civili- zation which he hoped to create, which would be free from the
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corruption of EDglish royalty, and would be founded on liber:y, equality aod
fraternity, end on the rule of a society of wine men and philosophers. To
achieve tbis goal, bacon founded Freemasonry, whose object it was to destroy
the very monarchy to whose accession he was denied, and to replace i: by a
demo- cratic system of goveroment. through his secret societies, Bacon (who
later appeared ln Europe a9 CouQt Saint-Germain) created the ideals of the
French Revolution (which were destroyed by the Reign of Terror), but iQ
America his Maeonic societies were more successful in instituting a new system
of democratic goveromeQt aQd a oew civlliaatioo which was ao attempt to puL
lnto practice BacoD'6 sociologiosl philosophy which he previously outlined in
his NsW g iQutia.
Not”only did Bacon send his soQ to Virgioia as a 1ea&er to establish his
father's Ideal Commonwealth in the New World, but there is reason to
believe. that BacoQ himself ceme later. (Was he the mysterious
"Philosopher" who was lxl end and teacher to George Uash1ngt:on and Ben3 aaln
Franklin, both Freemasons and Rosicrucians, who was the designer of the
American flag; and was he the
Hys tery Nan vrho suddenly appeared In independence Hall on July â , .1.7.76, when he
delivered an ovation that encouraged the fearful meA there present to sign
the Declaratlon of IodepeudenceT)

Bacon was resolved tha: io America he would create a new civilisation

free from the corruption of monarchlal Eoglaod; and he resolved to dedicate
his life to this goal. fie first prepared peoples' minds for the democratic
revolution through the historic&I Shakespeare plays he wrote, which belittled
and ridiculed the institution of monarchy and belief in the divine right of
kings, while in his QeW gtJomtCa he preseoted his vision and plan of a oew
civilizat1on ruled by scientists aod sages, whlch ideal he hoped to reallze
in America. WritiQg on
the subject of BacoQ's uQjust treatment by his mother, Elizabeth, aod his
resolve to avenge hlmeelf by abolishing moQarchy and replacing it by a new
polltical in- stitutioQ, now’ called democracy, to be established on the
American contioent iQ who se colonization he was so much lnterested, Nan1y Stall ,
1s his branchc Bacon the Co ea bed Poet, says:

"HIs youthful mind, saddened and outraged by the '°Justice of which he was
the victim, took oQ a certain bitteroess and melaocholy. fe resolved to
dedicate his life to several purposes grouoded io his own affairs. First, if he
could
not gain his crowo, he would build an empire of his owo, ao empire of. secret
learning that should ultimately confound the corruptions of the great.:’
Seoond, the true story of his life should not perish, but should be presemed
to posterity as a humaQ document and ae a witness to his real estate. Third,
he would discover devious means to prick the coQsciences of those respoQaible
for the murder of'hie father (Earl of Leicester),and the tragedy whicb
overtook his owo life." (The "humso document" to which Manly Hall refers is
the cipher story hidden In the Shakespeare plays and sonnets , which will be
deserlbed below. )

Dlsappoincment, bitterness aDd sadness turned Bacon, s chlld of royalty, to

realize the sufferings of others, and to devote his life to humanltariao réform
for the Improvement of mankind, and to overcome the corruption of English mou-
arch7. tO which goal he dedicated his historical Shakespeare plays. IQ philoso-
phy and learning, Bacon found a solace for the sorrows o£ his life, which, free
from disslpations, was dedicated, like a true king, to the welfare of his people
and of all humanity. A king he was born, and a kiog he was resolved to live and
die, whether recognlzed as such or not. He desired to be remembered oot by his
birth, but by his merit and the good he did for the human race and by his per-
sonal accomplishments in llterature, scieQce, philosophy and political reform.

Denied hls living

became a
right to
become King
of England,
Bacon
pluoge& into
learning and
repository
of learning.
Says Manly
Hall:
 ”He aaw himself a man of destiny. Io creating hls kingdom upon Mount
Pazo88sus, Bacoo drew about himself many o[ the most brilliant minds oI hia
time. These meo, koowiog the truth, were his willing servaQts and instruments,
not because they respected hia royal birth, but because they respected even
more his exceptional qualities. Thus, even at Gray's Inn, he held court, aQd
here he later laid the plan9 for his secret society and bis philosophical
empire, an empire of dreamers, creators, artists, poets and scholars.

"Becoo corresponded with the best thinkers o[ his day in other couotries,
sod everywhere he was ackoowledged aa the intellectual leader of his time. He
was the head aod i0epirer of a society of writers who, under him, created all
that was great io EliaabethaQ literature, the best o£ which was written either
by himself ’(under the assumed name of some lesser writer (as Christopher
Marlowe), or even an actor (as was the case with Shakespeare) or. by others
working under hl6 direction and inspiration. It was:thtu secret group that
published the original edi tions of Bacon' s library, menuscrlpce and the debris of
his literary
^°tkshop , which Included the or1ginal draf ts of the Shakespeare plays, Chich to
date never «ere discovered."
 C II A P T E R S E V E N

Francis Bacon was uQdoubtedly the greatest genius t5at the modero world
has ever known. Our lndeb tednes s to thls greae benef actor of humanity eanno t be
overestimated. While it iS generally admitted that he ushered in the modern
s eientlf ie age, his secret work of pollt1cat xefoxm that led co the bar th of
democracy and the domifall of aonareliy 1s no t so generally known, nor his
11 terary achievements under the Oaine ot Shakespeare and other masks he used .

To him we owe all that differentiated the pzeaent scientific aod

democratic age from the medieval, monarchial one that preceded it. :@é not
ooly prhphesled the coming of most of our ioventiona--the steemboat, steem
engine, airplane, submarine; eto., in his New ZtMntia but, in hie NoUm
gemow, he gave to
man- kind the ioductive, experlmental’ method of' réeearch by'which
modero'science a0d inveotioo beceme possible.

All that we denote by the words "progress" and "civilisation" today we

owe tO him. Be first turned the miods of speculative thlQkers, formerly
occupied with scholastic disputes, to the empirical study of nature aod to
ccotrol over her forces for the good of maokind. Two words form the key of
his phllosophy-- Utility and progress--said Macaulay. Be sought the
"multiplying of human enjoy- ments and the mitigation of human sufferings."
The aim of this great humani- tarlan was "the relief of man's estate."
Nacau1ay writes:

Aek a follower of BacoQ what the new philosophy has effected for
mankind, and hie answer is ready: 'It has lengthened life; it has mitigated
paiD; it has extingulshed diseases; it hes increased the fertility of the
soll; it has giveQ new securlty to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to
the warrior; it has spanned rivers aQd estuaries with bridges of forms
unkoowo tO our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven
to earth; it Yes lighted up the night with the splendor of the day; it has
extended the epso of humao
vision; It has mu1 tlplled the power of the human mus cle ; 1 t has accelerated
motion; it has annihilated distance; it has facilitated intercourse, correspond-
ence, all friendly offices, all dispatch of business; it has enabled man to
descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely
ioto the Qoxioue recesses of the earth, to traverse the land with cars that
whirl along wlthou t horses , and the ocean with ships wh1ch salt agaIns t ehe wind . "

Io short, Bacon ushered in a Qew age; he brought the medieval age to a

close and brought iQto beiQg the modern age oI science, which he intended for
the benefit o[ huamnity. Before his time, philosophy was an abstract quest for
truth; lt disdained to be useful aod preferred to be stationary. But Bacoo's
practical inductive philosophy turned human’ powers of perception aod
uoderstand- iog to exteroal nature, to the mastery oE the forces of nature for
the good of

Taloe says of Bacon: "When he wished to descrlbe the efficacious nature of

his philOGophy by a tale, he del1ueated in The Esc atEentia, with a poet's
bold- ness and the precision oi a seer, almost employing the very terms in use
now, modern 8pplications, and the present organizatloo of the sciences,
academies, observatories, air-balloons, submarine vessels, the improvement of
land, the transmutation of species, regeneratioos, the discovery of remedies,
the preser- vation of food."

Doonelly speaks of ”the great conflagration of science, kindled by his

cor ch , “ and adds : "How grandly does he pref 1gure the s eat ton wh1ch he w111

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occupy in the judgmeot of posterity when he says that the mao who shall kindle
that llght "would be the benefactor indeed of the humen ra:e, the propagator o€
omn's emplre over the universe, the cbemplon of liberty, the conqueror and sub-
duer of necessities."

He tried to /mtr wp ciuiTizu€ion. He sought to use the royal power to

give the seventeenth century the blessings of the nineteenth...His b.east tk1r sted
for the good of mankind. Re saw i0 his mod's eye thiggs akin to the ooervele of
eteam aod electricity." He foresaw airships, submeri0es, lifepreservers, the
telephone, microphone, patént-rights, quatantiée, the microscope; he aatiuipated
Roemer's dlscovery o'f time beiQg required’’ for the propagation of light, NewtoQ's
law of gravitatioQ aod Darwin's variatioo of the species. ”Nicolai claims Bacon
was the founder of Freemasonry.

No man ever lived upon éarth who had nobler aims thao Francis Bacon. 8e
stands at the portal of the Opening civllizatioo of modern times, ’a sublime
flgure--his heart full of love for mankind, his busy braln teeming with
devices for the benefit of msn; the most far-extending human wozk ever set
afoot on the plaoet. Re sald: "I zm a eervant of posterity; for these
things require some
ages for the ripening of them," adding: "Always des lr Ing Frith extreme £erveucy,
to have thac vrh tch was never yet at temp ted , now to be not at temp ted In vain, to
wle: to release men out of their neeessIties and mlseries ." Macaulay sald:
The eod which Baoon propoeed for himself was the multiply1°8 °f humen enjoyments
and ehe mltlgatlon of human cuff erlngs . .. This eras the obJ eet of hls speculate.ons
in every department of sciénce--in Qatural philosophy, io legislation, in poli-
tics, in moralb.”

Francis Bacon was oot only the greatest flgure in the history of modern’’
philosophy aod sclence, but also io English liteiature, for lt waa he who was
the fouotaiQ-head of the Elizabetbao Reoaissance through his writings which
appeared under the neme of Shakespeare and other pen names he assumed, as
Chrietopher Marlowe, etc.

But what is less known was his secret work for political reform, which
gave to the modern world the ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity,
which iQ- spired the American, French and RussiaQ Revolutions aod the
Declaration of Inde- peQdence, after he first prepared the public miQd for
the democratic revolution by destroying the belief ln the Divine Right of
KingJ, which he did by the his- torical Shakespeare plays he wrote, in which
he depicted kings as only huomn aod ofteQ worse than human.

Bacoo was not, however, a mere dreamer and theorlst, but was also a mao
of action. He was oot content to play the role o[ a prophet, as he dld when
he wrote his Qsw gAVntia, describing a future scientific civlliaatioQ to ariae
a few centuries later,: but he wished to resliae his Utopian dream oo the
shores of
the virgin continent co the weet , whose colonlzac hon he fos tered while he was
Lord Chancellor under King J cures. Here he hoped to reallze his iqason1c Ideal of
a new clvillzation raled by sages , which he envlsloned in his AW AT Ant:? c

Bacon was the first of the Utopians to resolve to create an ideel soclety
as a living reality, rather than as a mere philosophical ideal. In America he
wished to find a new social order ln which all men w111 be free from the io-
trlgues and corruptioQ of Engllsh royalty aod from dominatlon by church and
state, a democratic society of free men based on the prlnciples of liberty,
equality emd fraterQity, ruled uot by moQarchs eDd despots but by aages mod
philosophers.

To realize this grandiose scheme of creating a new civllization and a new

system of goveroment, different from what the world had ever aeen, at the
begionlog of the seventeenth century, Bacon otganized a secret soci "7 °* intel-
lectuals called the society of Rosicrusse-Freemasons, which was a society
dedi- cated to political reform concealed as a l1terary society for self-
protection.
It is acknowledged that he was the founded of Frcemasonry, whose purpose it
was to free Amnklod from bondage to the medieval political and religious
institutions that formerly enelsved it--the monarchies oi Europe, headed by
the papacy.

It wae a Herculean struggle against the greatest powers of the day,

which only a bero could undertake. Aod against almost insuperable odds, thls
great humanitarian proved victorious--giving us today our heritage of
political Bnd religious freedom. Though his ideals of Liberty, Equality and
Fraterolty, wbich he first'gave to the world iu the Rosicrucian Maoifestoes
be wrote emd issued u0der the naWe of PaleQtine Andreas were temporarily
destroyed by the’Reign of Terror and Napoleonic regime that followed the
Freoch Revolution which they pre- cipitated, io America hps Masonic socleties
were more euccessful io creating a new system of democratic goveroment and a
oew society in which the ideel of humen [reedom and the rights of the common
men was’permaoent17 eatabli6hed.

Bacon sent his son to Vlr glut a as an ear 1y colonizes to help establlsh his
f ather' s Ideal Cotanonuealth In the New World . His naae is known In the early
history of our country.

The King Jemes ’translation of the Bible and the Shakespeare,P1ays, the
two greatest maeterpiecee of the Engllsh language, which did so much to make
tbis language what ii is, were both the creations of Fremcis Bacon; aDd while
his editorship of the Bible, on request by J&mes, of'whom he was Lord
Chancellor, is easier to understand, his authorship of the Shakespeare Plays
is oot generally admitted. Yet both literary productlons teveal themselves by
their unique supefior excellence to have had a common author.

In 1609, the translators of the Bible from Latin into English haoded
thelr work over to KiQg ’James; aod in 1610, he returned ’it to them
completed. As James was incapable of writing aQything o[ llterary value, who
edited these translations while they were in his hsnds2

Smedley, In his Pete o/broods 8ncon, answers thls ques tion as f ollows:
”James had an officer of State at that time of whom a contemporary biographer
wrote that 'he had the contrivance of all KiQg Jamea' deslgns until the
match’ with Spaio (1617). It will eveQtually be proved that the whole scheme
of the Authorized Version of the Bible was Francis Bacon's. Re was ao ardent
student not ooly of the Bible, but of the early memuscripts. St. Augustine,
St. Jerome and writers of theological works were studied by him with
industry. He left his annotations in omQy copies o£ the Bible mod iQ scores
of theological worke.
Zhe t ranslatloq mus t have been a work In Chi ch he .took the deepest 1.nceres t , and
which he would follow from stage to When the last stgge come, there was
stage.
only one writer of the perlod who w8s capable of turning the phrases with the
matchelese style which 1s t5e great charm of the Shakespeare plgys. Whoever
the etYllBt Wa&, it was to him that Jemes hauded over the ma0usoripts which
he received from the translators.”
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 C H L P I E E E I G H T

FRANCIS BACON ZHE REAL SHAKESPEARE

We shall preseQt evidence in thls chapter to prove that the meo wbo acted
t5e Shakespeare playe was not the me0 who wrote them. To differentiate t5e
true author of the Plays from the men who produced them, we shall epell the
nsme of the latter 5/mkspsze, as it appears og his will, and the true author of
the Plays as Shakeapea:ee; as ie appears on the t1 tLe-pageg of ehe quartos and I
ollos of the Playa. 2hle. defI wrence In spelling has been disregarded by nos t
Shakespearean
sgudenta. as an los Mgmt tcant error , but In reaMty ie hes uteos t slgnlf lcance,
for It serves to dt.fferent1ate between the acsloz of che Plays and their true

There is a yawning gap between the dramatic author of the Sbekespeare

plays and the actor from Stratford, a gap which-no scholar has ever bridged.
The author oi the Playe aod Sonnets passing uoder-Shckeapeare's n&me represented
the sum of thé learning of his .time,. a mao well versed io metteru of
stateemanship,
In court eelquet te, In his tory, In law, In navlgat £on, :t.n philosophy, In f orelgn
languages, in natural science, held revolutionary views io medioioe, was keenly
tnterested In morbId psychology and was a scholar ct the Bible.

On the other hend, the actor, William Shakspere, wss an uotaught,

ignorant, unlearned man, a druQkard and profligate. Be was the ohild of an
Illiterate
f-ily. Neither hie father oor mother koew how to read or write, and oever
did his childreQ. @is father, John Shakspere, a couocilmaQ of Stratford, had
to sign off telah docunenea wieh a mark. His daughter J udlth, at the age o1 27, was
5t11l illiterate and could no t sign het naae exeep t with a cross.

there are in eiisten:e but slx koown examples of handwriting. All are
sig- natures and three of them iQ his will. In the opinion of those who have
studied their scrsling , uncer tahn le tt ers , they 1nd1cate that che wr1 ter cas
unf aai liar
with the usé of the pen, and that either he copied a signature prepared for
him or his haod was guided while he wrote. 'This ts reasonable to believe in
slew of the very scanty education he received aod the absence of boo#s io
Stratford, where he epent his youth.

Shakspere's fami1y'was totally uoeducated. Re was the first'of'his

fmmily who tould read or write. His father andmother, grandfathers and
grañdmothérs, auot9’and cousins'- ’all signed their Ommes with crosses.

William Shakspere was boro in the little village of Stratford-on-AvoQ in

1564: Stratford ’has been called a "bookless neighborhood." His edqcgtion, if
he received any at all («h1ch some writers doubt) was the most elementary and dcd
no t go beyond the three R’ s . However , aecording to Nanly Hall , "11terally and
factually, it 1s exceedingly doubtful .that any school existed in Stratford
until after Shakspere's death, and...there is no proof of aDy kind that
Willies Shaks- pere learned to read oz write while in Stratford, or,’ for that
mâtrer, anywhere else.

I£ ls generally admitted that Shskspete was a man without education and

without learning. Pope speaks oi him as "a man of no education." Voltaire
called him "drunken eavage:" Ben JohneoQ said that he possessed "small Latin
and lees Greek," while Fuller said that "his learning was very little."
Richard Grant White wrote tLat Shakspere was regarded, eveo down to the time'of
Pope, as a bewitching but untutored and half-savage child of nature." He was
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at a rus tie-brea bard who sang as the blr ds sing , a greater Burns .

Rev. Joho Ward, Vicar of Stratford, writiQg forty-seven years after

Shakspere's death, mnd epeaklog of the traditions of'his village, said, "I
have heard that Mr. Shakespeare was a natural wit, WitVut any «rt nt «Zi."
Seventy odd years after Shakspere's passiQg, Bentham, in his "State of the
Eoglish Sohoola aQd Ghurthee' vrote: "Wllllam Shakespeare was boro gf
Stratford io Warwiokehire. His learning was very little, and lhtrefore tt is
more’ a matter of wooder thet he:ehould be a very-ezcellent poet."

D1d Wi1liam’Shakspere possess euch a vast emouot of iQformetion’as was

neoeesar7 *n order to write the: plays attributed to his authorship7 If so, how
dld. he acquire it7 There is oothing io hia llfe to indicate that he was fitted
or quallfied to'possesr éuch education or knowledge: Ooly a miracle could
ex- plain the discrepancies betweeo hls life aod his supposed works. We have
men- tioned that his family was uoeducated and illiterate, that his father
could uot read or write;* aQd that all members of his femlly sigQed their
nemes with crosees, he beiog the only one able ro slge his signature. The’
whole pbpulation of-5tratford were densely igeoraQt; and, aa Hiliwell-
Phillips said, the illage was-'booklets.“ Their lives were ooarae -barren and
filthy. "It would indeed by a miracle," Sites DoQoelly, "lf out of this
vulgar, dirty, illiterate £ebily came the greatest geniue that has’ adorQed
the aonals of the human race. Ii is possible. It is scarcely probable."

There was no thing In the llfe of theactor , Sliakspere , polntlng to“ ou ts tand-
Ing mental quell ties which die tlngu lshed htm from his f ellow e1t1zene . “Re dled
In a drunken brawl . No t one of the aany brilliant men of his age made mention
of the:fact that they.knew him°or were on friendly terms with him or that they
hoQored him as a mao of letters. No historian h8s explaiâed how the Stratford
actor , vho early deser ted his wife and f amply i talking but his Sarolekshme dla-
lect which was not understood In London, after comiQg there, could produce
after a short residence .1o the capital, such finished and flawless literary
master- pieces as tñe plays that go by his oame.

Shaks:pere d bed :tn Str acf ord In 1616 wit hout a s lngle book In his pos sesston,
nor a manuscript he had written, nor original copies of plsys he later
perfected. Concerning his will , which mentioned the ar tlcles of c}othing he 1ef t
behind bu t no t any ’books In his posses son, Nark Train
comment s: "I t 1s qeilnently. and . eon-
spicuously a busioesemaa's will, oot a poet's. It meotioned not a single
book. Books. were much core precious than swor.ds and s liver-gllt bowl s and. second
-bes t bedé io'those days, end when a departing person owned one he gave it
a:high place in hle will.’ The will mentioned not a play, not a .poem„,no€ an
uofioiehed literary work, not a acrap of manuscript of any kind."

Msog poets died poor, but thls Is the ooly one in.history that dled tfiia.
poor; others all left llterary remains behi0d, but thls ooe did oot.

'the I acCa .concerning Shakspere’ s ’llfe- are very meager. The chief IncIdent s
koovo of.hia youth were hls becoming a butcher's appreQtlce at a young age, hls
lying unconsClous all night. In ehe I lelds In a state of lnebr lation and his
deer-ste&liog on the property o€ Sir Thomas Lucy, who had him whipped. In
order to reveQge himself, he composed the followiog rude and vulgar ballad
about Six
Lucy , which only redoubled the prosecuelon agalxis t htm, .so much so that he vas
forced leave hia employment anB fmmlly anA shelter himself 1n London. Eveg
to
though it 15 supposed have been his first poetic attempt, how the writer of
to

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the f ollowing could be identified with the writer of the Shakespeare plays, ia
incredible:

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 "A parliament member, a justice of peace
At home a poor acare-crow, et London an
asse, If lowsle is Lucy, aa some folks
miscalle it, Then Lucy 1s lowsie whatever
befall i:.
He thinks himself
great YRt an aes is h19
state;
#e allow by his ears but with asses to
’mate; If.Lucy ia 1owsie'as some folks
mlecâlle it, Sing lowsie Lucy whatever
befall it.

Shakspere'a youth was not spent in the atmosphere of libraries aDd booke,
but at dr lnktn3-bou ts . é.I ter an af I alr with a young lady, Anne Hathaway, as
the result of wh1ch-she became pregnant; the two families got together and
decided
that in deference to public opinion, it would be appropriate for Willy and
Anne to marry prior to the*blrth of the child. Shakspere unwillingly
consented, but at the flrst opportunity left her and her chlld wlthout support,
mod fled to Londo0 to join a band of vagabonds aud adveoturers who gathered
around the play-
houses. Mere he eked out hls existence by holding fiorsee' heads outslde the
theater, io the compaQy of rufflaos, thieves, appreQtices, plmps and proetitutee
--stormy, dirty, quarrelsome lot that gathered there. Be organized a group of
aasista0ts who were afterwards knowo as 'Sh8kgpere's boys." Gradually he
worked his way up to become a callboy, sod leter an actor.

After a oumber of years IQ Loodoo, Shakspere returned to Stracford with

plenty of money i and bought one of the best houses In the town, becoa:Ing a
practical businessman. Amoog his. business activitles was brewing (§oT which, on
one occasion, he As known to have bought o considerable quanzley of hops) which
business he earrled on In his res Id ence at Near Place . He was also a usurer ; and
there are records of the assumed author of.Ve Nerc/mnt o/ ¥snlcd suiog a
local townsmao for the loan of two shillings which he fa1led to return. In
1604, Shakspere sued Philio Rogers, according to court records, several
bushels of malt sold him at various times. He also attempted to enter the
gentry under false pretences.

The closlng years of his like were uneventful except for some
participation In local poli tics . And as the -lr st
reeorded fact In reference to the Stratf ord boy was a drunken
bout In wh lch he lost consciousness , and ' lay out In the f lelds
all n1ght , so the history of his llfe terminates In the same event , I or he dled
ln a barroom brawl .

When Shakspere died he left oo books aod no library: If he did there i$

not the’ slightest trace of it, for his will makes oo mention of it. The man
who wrote the Plays would have loved his llbrary and would have remembered it
to' his last hours. He could not have forgotten his Plutarch„ Ovid, and Homer
to re- member in his will his "second best bed wlth the furniture," his "brod
silver and gilt bole," his "sword" aod his "wearing apparel." The can of
Stratford forgot hls Homer and Plato, but his miod dwelt lovingly, at the edge
of his grave, oo his old breeches and secood-hand bed clothes. However,
according to some writers, this is not surprising, for, since he never owned a
slngle book, he could not have left auy. According to Donnelly, "There is no
evidence that Shakspere possessed a single book."
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 The man who was supposed to have been the greatest literary genius in
modern times passed oo leaviQg no letters, no books and no library, makiog no
mention of such in his will. Nor does there remain any evidence of the debris
of his work- shop, and no origiQel copies of the Plays.

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 There can be little doubt that the man who wrote the Shakespeare plays
in contradictlon to the persoQ just described, was the most eminent scholar
of his day, well versed in the literature of classical aQd modero times. The
plays in- dicate that thelr author read Greek and Latin authors in the
origiosl. The greater part of the story of fimon o/ Atñen# was. taken [rom
the untraQslated Greek of Lucian, according to Holmes; while White. claims
tha: the Plays show forty per cent RomeAce or Latin words. KAight notes that
the three Roman plays ehow a profound understanding of the wbole range of
Romes hlatory. Moreover, the Plays show that their author was a classical
scholar who had read Sophocles, Ovld, Horace, Virgil, Lucretius, Euripides,
Aeschylus aod other Greek and Latin writers. Some see evidence io the Plays
that their author was a close student of Plato.

Io addition to eoholarly knowledge of classical literature. there is evi-

dence that the writes o£ the Plays was well versed i0 the languages and'litera-
ture of France, Italy aod SpaiA. Another.fact of interest is that evidences of
scholarship mark.the earllest as well as the latest :works of the great poet.
White says that the early plays sbow "a man €res5 from academic studies." On
thie point, Donoelly, in his be Gr6at O pMgrsm, a voluminous work devoted to
provlng the Baconian authorship of the Playe, writes:

"The author of the Plays, whoever he may have been, wae unquestiñoably a
profound scholar and most laborious student. He had read lu their owo
tongues all the great, and some of the obscure writers of aQtiquity; he was
familiar
with the laoguages of the principal oatloos of Europe; his mind had compassed
all the learniog of his time and of preceding ages; he.had pored over the pages
of French and ItaliaQ Qove1{sts; he had read the philosophical utterencea of
the great thinkers of. Greece and Rome; and he had'o1osely considered the
oarrations of the explorers who were just laying bare the secrets of new
islaods aQd conti- nents. It has been justly said that the plays could not
have beed writteQ with-
out a library , and canno t , today be s tudled wlthouc one. To t heir proper elucl-
dat:ton , the learning of the whole would 1s necessary. Goethe says of the urlter
of the plays, 'He drew a spooge over the table of humao knowledge..' Did
Wllliam Shakspere possess auch a vast mass of informationT--could he have
possessed it2”

The anewer is clearly, "No." There is nothing ln the life of William

Shakspere koowo that indicates that he was fitted or qualified to possess
such education or koowledge. Ooly a miracle could explain the discrepancies
berween Me 11f e and hls supposed vo rks .

The Plays indicate that their author had traveled widely and was familiar
vlth the customs , so ct al condl tions , geography and poll tics of innumerable
zountriee. but there ia no record that Shakspere ever left England prior to
writing the Plays.

The Plays could ooly have beeo written by a lawyer, or by one who had a
legal trainlQg and profouod koowledge of academic law, both theoretica1 and
practical. There is âothiog to indicate that Shakspere had such training.
Francis Bacon was a lawyer.

The Plays were by one who had intimate knowledge of the court of
written Englaod, court
psychology of aristocracy; but it is extremely un-
usage and the
likely that the Stratford had any such knowledge or intimate eoneac t oleh a
boy sphere so far from his
own.

The author had an preter of phllosophlcat

especially the Platonic
exceptlonal grasp of
the great philosophies
of the world, and
Aristotelian, and was
himself g proficieot
inter- systems. There
is no reason to
believe thet Shakspere
had such erud1tlon.

The author of the Plays must have possessed a large libr *7 and had con-
stant access to such reference material for his literar7 labors. But there is
no proof tbat William Shakspere ever owned-a aingle book.

The author of the Shakespe ian plays had revolutionary

political opinions
and vtews of goveromeotal re£orm. A humble actor or playwrite could not be ex-
pected to have such view9 in those days.

It is clear that some unknown scholar whose learning was encyclopedia and
whose station and personal tastes fitted him for such a work was the creator
of the Plays. ’ The only scholar of tbis type who lived in Eoglemd at this time
waa
Fraocis Bacoo.

There is every reason to believe that the author of the Plays was a man
of large learn10g; -that 5e had read and stUdied h mer, Plato, Sophocles,
Euripides, Horace, Virgil, Lucretis,. Statius, Gatullus, Seoeca,. Ovid; Pla«t«s;
’Plutarch, Boceaeclo und an innumerable number of French, Spanish and Danish
«'rlters ; and since I here were no public llbrarles In thac day to which he could
resort , he must have possessed a large library and have gathered around him a
literary store commensurate with his own intellectual activity. Yet there 1s
no evidence that Shakspere had.such a library, for if he did„ he would have

surely mentiooed

Aoother unusual circumstance is the fact that the great literary geoius
should haye permitted his daughter, Judith, to have growo up and reached the
age of twenty-seveo without knowing how to read or write. On this point,
Doooelly, In his book, PM Event C:eypi:o gon, urltes:
"1t . 1s po t surprlslog chat William Shakspere,
poacher , I ugltlvé , vagabond , acto*,. manager, brewer , moneylender ,
land-grabber, should pern1t- one of his tuo children to grow up In gross Ignorance ,
buc £t 1s beyond che comp ass of the himen alnd to beSteve that the anchor of
Hamlet and Leax coiild have done so . ”

Another matter dif[1cult to understand is how the Stratford boy, coming

from a backward town:wh1ch’had oo libraries and whére he had uo access to
books, and arriving in.London, where he become:a horee-holder; ’could have
suddeoly ac- quired the tremendous learning which the author of the Plays
certainly possessed. There was no th;£ng. ln h:I.s new London surroundings.‘ thdt eveñ
remotely resemb led Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish and Dan1sh llterature and
studies, or medical, musical aux philosophical researches. Neither ’did he
some to London
w1ch such aequirements I row» .hls S tratf ord -background , whé re his llfe was
spent .In a reeMess , Improved ent , di sslpated and degraded manner , In saloons
rather clian In llbrarles . Front all available records ,
ehe young Shakspere 1s not represented as a s tedious yoiieh. who spent his boyhood In
a garret , devouring the works of the classical authors , and dwelling
In a world. ot thought .and high asplratlons , but his‘ boyhood was speñ c as a
buccher-b 9 , a deer-s tealer and ln the company of drunkards . There As
not a s lngle tradlelon co lnd'lcate any element of s cudlous- ness in the boy's.
character--a fact which ie uausua1'ig the- biographies of geniuses , all of
whom deaons trated I:heir superior meneal tralts In thelr youth.
Covnentlng on thls face , Donnelly wr1 tes .

"Only a miracle of studiousoess could have acquired, in a few years, upon

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a basls of total ignorance and bad habits, the culture and refinement in the
earl- iest plays; aod but a few years elapsed between the tlme when he fled
scorged from Stratford aod the tlme wheo the plays began to appear, lo his
name, in London. But plays, oow believed to have been wrlttéi by the same hand
that mote
the Shakespe are plays , were on the boards be fore he let t Strat f ord . The tvlns ,

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Judith and Eannet , were born In February, i505 , Shaksper e being ehen not yet
twenty-one years of age; and we will see hereafter that 5cm7st appeared for
the firat tlme in 1585 or 1587. If he had showo anywhere in his career such
a trait of lmmeose industry and scholarly research, some traditlon would have
reached us ooocerniQg it. We have traditions that he was the father of
another man's son (Sir Willies Davenaot); aod we are told o£ a licentious
emour io which he out- witted Burbage; and we heaz'of wet-combats io e
tavern; but not o0e word comes down to us of books, of-study, of industry, or
art."

The author of the Plays was a lauyer , a poet , a philosopher a science st ,

and a ref ozmer; and Francie Bacon was a lawyer ; a poet , a phllosopher , a sclen-
tls t and red ormer. Bacon had "learning, Indus try, aabltlon f or lemor tallty;
covnand of language In all Its heights and depths ; tihe power of eompree sing
thought Into condensed sentences ; wit , f ancr. *-glflatlon, f eellng" and thñ
temperament of a genius ."

Ie 1s an interes ting face that S tratf ord-on-Avon was never mentioned In the
Plays, while S t. Alban' s, Bacon' s hoae, 1s aenttoned many tlmes , Ind heating
that
the author had. more lntlaaee personal aequalntance wlth rthls eglon than en th
S tratf ord. Zhe h1storlcal plays cent er axound S c. Alban' d as the common center .

The Plays .indicate that their author was an aristocrat who despised the
claso to which Shakspere belooged. He wa# also a philanthropist, which
Shakspere wae not. Mls writings indicated that he belonged to the Essex
fraction, aQd disliked Coke, Cecil and Queeo Ellzabeth, as did Francis Bacon.

BaooQ’ regarded the drama as a great potential instrumeot for good. He

said, "Dramatic poetry is history made visible." Re hoped thr'ougb the drsma to
pre- pare the public miQd for the advent of a new (democratic) era, which his
secret Freemasonic so’c1eti’ee’were actively engaged in br{ogiog ioto maoifestatioo.
AccordlQgly, Bacon took part ln the'preparation of maoy plays and masks for the
entertaloment o€ the. cour t t some of which were ae ted by Shakspere' s company of
players. Thls he dld wh11e a young s tt ugg ling 1auyer when s tr leken with poverty,
In order to earn some money. His foster-mother, Lady Bacon, disapproved of her
soo wit1ng plays, was looked down upon as soae thlng unwor why oI hls
which
talents. Tbis was one reason why he concealed this fact by writing uoder
assumed names. But thete was a much more importaot reason why he concealed
this fact, nemely his fear of persecution by Elizabeth for his indire'ct
criticlsm of the EngliSh government whlch the historical Shakespeare play9
veiled.

Bacon was .opposed to royal despotism. @e showed; as'-1eeder -of the people
in the Rouse of Commons , that he vas ready i-o usé the'.power of Parliament to
res t"ra1n the unlimited arrogance of the crowo. -He'eaw that one great obstacle
to'l1berty was the popular ldea of the divine right of kings. We can hardly
believe today the full force of that.sentimeot as it theñ existed. hence, iu the
Plays, labors. to reduce the king :to the level of other men, or below’ them.
he
He represented John as a coward ly knave, a trucker to a I orelgn pover, a would-
be murderer, aOd an altogether worthless’ creature. Richard II, he represented
as little better--a frivolous, weak-vlt ted , coxrupe , sordid , d1shones t f ool •
Surely thig must have Sounded s erangely In the ears of a London and hence of the
sixteeoth’ century, had been taught to regard the king as anointed of Heaven
who
aad the actual miracles In o f’ Riehaz•d.
vice working
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regent of God oQ touch was capable of
earth, whose very the cure of d1sease. And the Play concludes Ntb The mu•der

Then came llenr y IV usurper and murderer ,

oess, aod establishes a dyoasty on the who confesses his owo crooked-
of Richard II. his soo, Henry V,
murder
is the best of the lot--he is the hero- but even he rises out of a shameful
kiog,

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youth; ñe is the associate of the moat degtaded; the companion oE profllgate
men and women, of highwaymeo and pick-pockets. In his mouth the poet puts
the declaration of the hollowness of royal pretenses.

In the Shakespearlan pray of RI chard I II , he depleted .htm as a horrible

monster, a wild beas t, a 11ar , per3 uxer , aurder er , a reaorseles s, bloody ,
aan- eating tiger of the 5unglee .

In Beory VIII, we have a king who divoried a salnted emgel to marry a

lous frivo-
roman under the domlnatl on of the Inc:ttements of sensual passlon.

In short, throughout the historical Shakespeare plays, Bacon tried to teach

the commoo people thaf hogs were ’oothing more than met, made from the smme
clay aod ruled by the some passions, that heaveo did not ordain them nor
protect them; aod that a klog has no right to hold his throne any louger then
he behaves ft1ase1:g : has th1s aota
revo1utloztar”y 1dea to put. J°orth 1n: that day2 . ‘I'hese Plays had the hidde0
purpo'sé of e'ducating the English people and preparing them for the day when
Charles I was brought to trial and the ecaf I oId . These
"histories of the English’ KiQgs" led to the Revolution. and to constitutiooal
goveromeot ’io place of monaichy.aQJ despQtism end led to tbe birth of a new
dem- oCratiC age, which was ushered'in by’ Bacon's Fzeemasonio Society. It la
cleer that the Plays were'writteo by a hum&nitarlao and political reformer
and 0ot eimply by a poet. '

It is interesting to note.that the Shakespeare plays appeared when Bacoo

was poor aod working for bread';.rod that after he obtained place. and wealth,
they ceased to be produced; although Shakspere still lived in Stratford a0d
cooti0ued to be tbere for ten years more. One reason why Bacon kept his-
authorship of the Plays seeree , besId es the I act thac his llf e, -would .be In
danger were chem real seditious purpo se discovered , was that he aspired to the
post tion hls I oster- father, Nicholas Bacon, held as Lord Chancellor o'f the
kingdom; and if he was known to have been the author .of the Play.s, thls would
have s tood In the way of
Ms po11i- ical aspl-ations.

Aoother fact should be. borne in mind. Francis Bacon was greedy for koow-
ledge. Re ranged the whole amphitheater of human learning. From Greece, from
Rome, [rom Italy, from Franee, From SpaiQ, from the early English writers, he
gathered facts and thoughts. He had.his romua, bis commonplace--book of
notes. His writiQgs team wlth quotations:from the poets.. And yet’ not oQce
does’ he refer to William Shakspere or the Shakespeare writioga': The-man of
Stratfotd acted in oQe.of the Plays thet go by his name, and on the
9eme’Qight, in- the seme place , 1s presented a "mask" wr1 tten by Bacon. Ue thus hdve
the to men under the same roof, at the asme.time, engaged lo the›aame
klod ’of work: Shakespere the actor aod Bacon the mask-wr1ter thue rubbed
elbows; but neither seemed to koow the other . Landot- sald: "B8cozt
11tt1e kaesz o»’ suspected that there srae then existing (the ooly o0e that ever
d1d'exist) his superior in intellectual koesle4ge"--that ie, granted that
Shakespere did wrlte the plays that gQ by his
name, which he did Dot'

Bacon vrote the ’plays when he was iO dire finaocisl olrcumstances as a

poor lawyer. It was customary for impecu0lous lawyers in that age to’ earn
mooey by writing for the stage. While quite young, Bacoo assisted in getting
up a play for hle law school, at Gray's IQo, if he did Qot write the:greater’

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part of it.
It was called "The Comedy of Errors," whlcfi then appeared at Grey'9 IoA for
the first time, end was acted by Shakespere's company. Bacon end Shakespere
then met each other, slnce they were both on the boards of Gray's loo at the
some time, once as writer’ of the play which the other dlrected.

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 After thls eeetiog with Shakspere, Bacon decided to use him as a mask.for
other plays he wrote, which permitted him to freely express his revolutionary
ideas without endangering his social and political aspirations by 8o doiog;
aQd at the smme time it enabled him to keep out of poverty. Rence hls
cooperation with the actor Shekepere, in this memner, had ever7°hing in its
favor.

That Shakspere could not have written t5e ShakeapeariaQ playe is lQdicated
by the fact that the appearance of the Plays aQtedated his coming to LondoQ,
which ’is .believed to have occurred IQ’ 1587. Yet than high authority,
Richard
SimpsoQ, :io his "School’ of Shakespeare," showed that'the Shakespeare plays started
to appear iQ 15B5! In other words, while Shakspere was still living.in
Stretford, in the year’ hig twins were bord, plays uoder the oame of Shakespeare
started appearing In‘ London.

Are we to believe that io that "bookless neighborhood," the butcher's ap-

preotice between hte wbippings, deer-stealing aQd beer-guzzliog, was wsitiQg
plays for the atage7 That would be a miracle indeed. In 1587, the very year
when he ceme to Londoo aod wh1le he was probably holdiig horses at the front
door of the theater; Shakespeare's play of @emlet was being acted; aQd was
believed
by other playwrights to’’5ave been composed by some Slsz. Aod not
only did the plays:attributed-to Shâkespeare firat make their appearance
while he was in Stratford,’whipped aod persecuted by Sir’ Thomas Lucy; and
subsequently while he was a groom for the visitors at the playhouse, but at
the seme time, we are told, he oot only supplied his own theater, but, with
extraordinary fecundity, he furnished p1ays’(o every company of actore IQ
Condom Is it possible that while employed ae a oall-boy io one compaQy, be
furnished plays to other rod rival compaoies7 Would hia profits oot
have.lifted him above the oecesslty of actiog as a groom or'call-boy if he
hed done soT Is it.not more probable that the "lawyer" mentioned above, as
’author of Remlet, also supplied other theaters with his volumlooue liteiary
productlonst

While some clalW that Shakespeare was "prodigiously active prior to

1’592" as doee the distinguished Scholar, Simpsoo, other commentators claim
that he did not appear as aQ author until 1592' Either he was a meoial when
his plays were acted all over London, or he was. no t the .anchor of them,
appearing as chef dld bef ore 1592!

Now , ano ther d llevna conf routs us--for no t only 1s Shakespere suppo sed to
have written plays acted on the Londoñ Gtage before he came to London, when he
was whipped as a deer-stealer, bub after he returned to Stiat[ord, with smple
leisure- and the: oppor tunley to make money by wé1 ting more plays, he Never wrote
a s lngle one , bu t Ans t ead :1s know only to have engaged In such things as suing
hia neighbor for a few shillings for malt aold,.while he, who, we are led to
be- lleve, . wae t he mos t feeund . of hunan lntelllgences , reda1ned Idly In hls native
village, ’writing nothing, doing nothing, vegetating for five to ten yAars mmoog
auch-heaps and f I It hy dlt ches, until he dled In a drunken brawl .

Could the author o[ Hamlet and Klog Lear--the profouod, scholarly philoso-
pher , be capable of such mental su1cmd e, such a llvlng deat h, durIng five or
teo years, duriog which time he did not write a single play, not a letter, not a
syllable, nothing but three lgnorant-looking signatures to a will, when his hand
seems to have been guided by h1s lawyer, sInce tche tes I-ator , unaided , dld no t
seem capable of writiog'his own name , and In wh1ch document he mentioned his
bedclothes, but not a single book7

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 Another siogular fact, from 1592 to 1598 eight edltions of plays which oow
go by the name of Shakespeare were publlshed, without his neme or eny other name
on the titre-page . Romeo and Ju the I, field JJ, and Piehavd IZI, all prlnted

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io i597, were all without tñe osme oI Shakespeare or eDy one else oQ the
title page. It was oot uQtil the publication of Loue'a IAbor boat lo l59B
that we figd his osme set fort5 as havlQg a coonection wlth tbe play; and
eveo then he does oot claim to be the author o£ it. The t1tle-page reads:

"As lz was presented before hex Highness thls las t Chr1s teas . Newly cor-
rected and augmented by W. Shakspere. "

Duriog the same year, the tragedy of Richard=II is published, and the oame
of l1Lt1am Shakespeare appears as ehe an tho r.

In his voluminous work, be Creof G•yptoprom, Ignatius Donnelly lls ts hun-

dreds of ldentlcat. expres sions , Identical metaphors , ldentlcal opinions , Identical
quotations, ideotical use of unusual words, ldentical studies, identical
errors, identity of character, end identities of style betweeQ the author of
Shakes- peare's plays and Bacoo's writlngs, covering elmost 200 pages.

Donnelly says:. !'Bacon was ravaging all time. and searching the face of
the whole . ear th I or gems of thought and expression, and here In these Playa
was a veritable Godcond a of 2ewels under his very nose, and he seeas no t to have
knovrn

Perhaps the. greatest revelation o2 tbe Baconlao authorship of the plays is

the Northumberlaod”Uou9e M&ouecript. In; l867„. there was discovered iQ the
lIb- rary of Northumberland ilouse, In London, a remarkable aanus crop t , con taming
cop- ies of several papere irrl tcen by Franels Bacon• I t was I ound In a box of old
papers wh1ch had long remained und As turbed . Zhere is a t1 tle-page , which embraces
a table of contents Of the volume, and thls coQtains the names of writings uo-
questiooably Baco0'e, but also the n&mes of plays which are supposed to have
been written by Shakspere. But only part of the manuscript volume remaios, aod
the portions lost embrace the following pieces eoQumerated in the title-leaf:

Oraelons ’ at Grade ' s Inne revells

Queen Nat
By Hr . Francis Bacon
Estates by the same author
R1e.hard the Second
Richard the ’Third
Asmund and Cornella
Is1e of Dogs
by Thomas Nash, Inf erlor places.

Judge Rolmes, ip be AmtNor-aNip o/ 5Tmkgsps e; commentiog on this

saye: "Among these scribbliQgs, besides the name of Fraocls Bacon eeveral
times, the name of William Shakespeare ie written eight or nine times over.
"We may note that the oame of Wi1liam’Shakespeare is spelled as in the’
published quartoe and
not as the man himself spelled it as Shakspere. While we flQd this name in
BacoQ's private papers, we fiQd ’no menti'on of it in his published wr1:tinge to
indicate
tbat he kuew Willies Shakespeare ever existed."

It is clear that Francis Bacon possessed all the literary qualifications re-
quired 4-o produce the dranatl e box ks‘ at trlbuted to tche actor , William Shakspere .
Contrary to the popular opinion that Bacon was only a prose writer of
philosophical
works ; 1t 1s a Cact that Pte wasa poet . Aaong the acknowledged wet t1ngs oy Bacon
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is a poetic paraphrase of aome of the Psalms. Me 1s also known to have been the
author of a poem ene1tted be forId 'a a Bubb be. In a lecter to a Irtend , ]qr.
Davis , he beseeches htm "to be good zo connected Poeis • " In his Appendlx eo Stow' s

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 Annclg, Howes llsts ln order of promineQce the poets that flourished in the
time of Queen Elizabeth. Re not only mentione Bacoo's name ou the list but
glves lt preference to that of Willi&m Shakespeare. By Geotge Wither, Bacon
was called the "mountain of the muses." There are some references to Bacou's
poeiic abilities; this is stated in fJQnsS Fsruz Qni, a collectioQ of
posthumous
.tributes to Bacon's memory.

Now it 1s curlous that a men who was ranked as a poet above Shakespeare
by a 5istorisA of: the times should have left no lmportant poetic woiks. the
aoswer to thls riddle becomes clear when wé consider that while Bacon
published Anony- mously or uoder a pseudoQym. Siguific&nt is the phrase by
Ben JonsoQ that fsces the title page of the early S/mWspeAre folioa:

" ..............Reader Leoke

ho t Dn hle Picture,- bu t his booke. "

WritiQg on the relation between Bacon, the author, and Willlem. Shakspere,
the actor, Maoly Rail, In hls book above referred to, writes: ”Ambng the grlst
that ceme from Baoon's mill Was a certain couQtry-bumpkio, one Willy Shgk9pere.
This embltious lad fro@ the shires arrived io Londoo péonlless and’ unkoowo,
but with an obliging temper. Such qualities suited Bacon's plans to a nicety.
’ Here was a youth who loQged for fume and lacked the qualities of greatness, &
would- be actor whose oplnlon no one would take too seriously aQ ’obscure
mouthpiece. oot worthY of beiog trled for treason even if guilty of somethiog
which reeembléd it. &1ways it has been the privilege of mountebanks to laugh at
kings; but for court- iers, such hilarity is fatal.

"So Willy Shakspere emerged ln priQt as Willlam Shakespeare. Re beceme the

eymbol of Pallas Athena, thé goddess of wisdom who branâlshed her spear against
the dark creatures of the world of ignorance aQd fear.

"It is quite improbable that Francis Bacon aloQe and unaided produced all
the plays published under the me of’Wi1liam Shakespeare or later attributed
to him. They were the product of Bacon's Parnassian empire, gathered,
arranged, and v1tallzed by hls personalley , and each d1ree t1 y r •lated to some
problem of Bacon's complex mental nature. Many of the plays were drawo from
older sources or compiled from fragments of coQtemporary dramas, but each was
reclothed and repurposed, and each contained the secret story of Bacon's life
and tragedy."

In 1902, there was published "A Judicial Summlng Up" on the

Shakespeare- Baoon Controversy by Lord Penzance, a judge of the High Court
of London. He wrote as a judge, impartially summing up a case for the jury
as to whether Shakeepeare was the author of the plays published in the flr9t
folio in 1623. He says this is .the first thing to be decided before goiQg
iQto the question whether BacoQ was the’. autbor: He ends by quotiQg parallel
passages from Bacon
and the Shakespeare plays, which he says "is in my own opinion the most
important matger beariog on the probability that these plays came’ in truth
from the hand of Francis Bacon.” This summing-up destroys any rdasonable doubt
that William Shakespeare wrote the plays.

Concerning the actor Shakspere, he says that "excluding five signatures

of his, there is not a single scrap of his writlng in existence." None of
the plays were entered at the Stationers Hall, as required by law, io the
n&me of William Shakespeare or by aoyone in hls behalf. As additional
evidence that Shakespeare could not heve written the plays, but rat5er that
he was an ignorant man, is the fact that "there is no mention io
Shakeepeaie's will of any manu- scripts, priot of any play, or of any books."
Also the follo of 1623 8ppeared seven years after his death lo 1616, without
any authority from Shakespeare or
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his executors or any of his family, wh1ch would lodlcate that perhaps the
real author of the plays, who was interested in preserving them, was
responsible fot the appearance o€ the folio.

Also, Judge Penzance points out thet the folio contained some twenty
addi- tional plays never before published, eome of them never having been
heard of before, which would Indicate that the writer of both the koowo plays
aod these new ones must have been someone else. than Shakespeare , who was then
dead for some years. Se adds, 'I£ has been made plain aOd caouot be disputed
that William
Shakespeare was in truth, when he left home for London, so almost uneducated man.
•.That these marvelous drsma9 should have beeQ writteo by a mao of deficient
education is of couree. absolutely be7°od the reach of possibility...In the
year 1587 William Shakespeare fled from Stratford an igQorant youth, destitute
of eoholarly attaioments, aod by the year 1593 his name wae attao5ed to plays
teem- iQg witb erudite 1earnlng...But the studies aud labors of the mao who
wrote the9e plays doee not stop here. He had made hlmself competent to read
and appreclate the Italian aQd French languages, as well ae Greek and Latin."
To believe that the Stratford igooramus who’ knew "little Latln and less
Greek" could have mitten these intellectual masterpieces, says Judge Penzance,
makes "a consider- able demsAd on your credullty."’

The judge goes on to aay, "The writer of the Shakespeare plays had "a
koow- ledge eo perfect eDd intimate of English law that he was oever incorrect
and oever at fault." Thla is in accordance with the fact that their author,
Francis Bacon, was a lawyer. Lord Campbell, another English judge, in his
"Shakespeare's Legal Acqulrements," emphasizes the same point, sayiog that
Shakespeare "unl- formly lays dowo good law." But there is no evidence that
the Stratford youth
ever worked iO a law office, and even the supporters of Shakespeare admit tbat
the
Idea of his ever havlng been a law clerk has been ."blown to pieces. "

’Lord Peozance, after au impartial and thorough 10veatlgation of the

questioo whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote the Shakespeare plays, disposes of
the theory that the actor wrote them; and is convinced that Becon dLi. His high
position
io the lutellectual would ard impartiality as a judge gives strong support to the
Baconisr theory.

G. White, in his Line ewd Geniud o/ 5/‹mkespsore, after quoting a llst of

emioeot Engllahmen at the time he lived, says "there is no proof whatever that
he was personally boown to them or to any others of less note among the states-
men, scholars , sold hers and artists of his day:" White includes Bacon. Ben
Jonson also gives a 11s t of prominent wits of hls time, but omits Shakespeare,
though Including Bacon.

When Bacon died (or rather, undement a feigned death prior to hls
departure for Germany, where he continued his work for- humaoity under tbe name
of Valentine Andreas) , che greatest: scho1are of the day ua1ted to acc1ala h1a Site gz
eotest I? ued. Dad ehey say thls because they knew he had
wr1tten the Shakespeare plays? They bus t have known This , sknee , under
ehe- name of .Francl s Bacon, he wrote’R poetry except for one of two translations.
But Bacon himself never revea1ed'the seoret of'hls authorship of the
Shakespeare plays except in the cipher story bidden io the plays
themselves,:just as he never admitted that he was a prince of the House of
Tudor aOd heir to the English throne.

The above evidence should convince any uQblased reader that Francis Bacon
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was the true author. of the Shakespeare pleys; aQd that tñis is not a matter of
mere belief, but is supposed by indisputable evidence, whlch we v1l1 now
summarize:

1. Edwlo Reed, the English scholar, has pointed out 885 parallelisms ln the

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Baconian works and the Shukesoeare plays iacludizg ideut1:al expresslons that
only t-he same author could write.

2. 0n1y flve badly written signatures of Shakspere are extent. The de-
tails of his life before he left Stratford aod a5ter his retirement are unbe-
lievably petty. There 1s not one sign of iQterest by hlm in the Plays. There
is not one lodicatioo of love of literature or culture. It 1s extremely
unlikely that this uoeducated, unlearned actor, who boew "little Latin and
less Greek," could have beeo the author of these literary masterpieces which a
scholar chat- acterized as ”written in the most courtly, refined and classical
English, replete with learning, full of evidence of wide reading, dealing wlth
arlstocratic life aod maoAers, and instinct with poetry of the very highest
order.

3. Shakeapearian scholars admit that the plays show koowledge of Neo-

Platonic philosophy, are full of Masonic symbols, koowledge of the ancient
world, aod aQ extraordioary vocabulary. ReferriQg to the disparity betweeo the
known character of the uneducated Stratford actor and that required for
authorship of the ploys, Willies @. Furoess, one of the greatest Shakespeazian
scholars that ever lived, said "I have never been able to bring his Life aQd
his Plays withiQ
a planetary space of each other." The plays and sonQets, however, harmonize
perfectly with the life, character, attainments and learoiog of Francis Bacoo.

4: The ornemeot placed at the head of the SooDete iQ the Quarto is also
fouQd in Francis BacoQ's works, in the Shakespeare plays aQd in the King
Jemee version of the Bible. It is a specimen of Rosicrucian symbolism which
at the same time reveals Bacon's true identity.

5. De gwgmen3Cs, published at Leyden in 1645, contains a frontispiece

which is a pictorial allegory. Bacon is seated before a table pointing with
the forefinger of one hand to aQ open book. The other haud restrains a
figure clad in a skio that is struggllQg to ’reach s temple at the top of a
nearby hill. Bacoo is here *epreeeQted as the author of two works--oQe opeQ
and ackoowledged, the other enlgmatical, dramatic aQd uoackoowledged. The
figure clad iQ the
beast'a skiu struggling to reach the Temple of the Mysteries is the Muse of
Tragedy.

6. The head-ornament of INe tempest io the Great Folio and that of the
ouu:w OrgQm‹m are the same, thus exterQally indicating the close connection betweeQ
the two books: the one iuauguratiog the "Inventor of Thiogs in Nature," and the
other the"IQventory of Human Paasioos."

7. That ciphers were popular in Queeo Elizabeth's day is well known. At

lea9t five of the ciphers that Bacon used have beeo deciphered. These ciphers
are discovered profusely •:o:teref through "he plays, soQnets anâ ornaments,
re- ve&ling hia name and identity, a1so*his positioQ io the rwo brotherhoods
of the Freemasons aQd Rosicruciaos. IQ Ignatius Donnelly's Ozent Orgpto9rom,
the secret story of Bacoo's life is revealed, obtained from the clpher
aes9age hid- deo Io’:the Shakespeare Folio, describing hls authorship of the
plays which he turoed over to the actor Shakspere how Queen Elizabeth was
shocked by the sedi- tious oature of hls KCS diced ffJ and, suspecting
that thls play wa9 not mitten by Its actor, ordered Shakspere to be arrested
ln order to learn from him, under torture, who was the reel author oi these
seditious plays and to exe- cute him for treason. Bacon fouQd out about this
mod lost all hope, believing it meaot his doom; and in desperation, he wished
to commit suicide by takiug rat

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polsoo. However, he himself by sending a messenger tc Shakspere, telling
saved HollaDd, which he did, aod so the secret was kept.
him to immediately flee to
All this was deciphered by Doonelly mom the hidden clpher mess8ge io the Shake-
speare folio, whose code he learned.

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 8. Sioce the real purpose of the historical Shakespeare piays was to
over- throw the English crowo and replace moo8rchy by democracy by lowering
popular respect for the divine rights of royalty, the danger of it becoming
known that Bacon was the real author of the plays was so great ’that Bacon's
coocealmeot of bis identity is readily understood. Io 1530 Prese Censorship
was established end continued until 1594. If by chance anythlng to which her
Majeety took exception happened to fiod ltd way Ioto prlnt, the unhappy
printer, if he was not broken on the rack or his feet emeehed Snte a bulk with
boots, hed his hands cut off
and the utumpe seared with e hot iron, according to-Harold Bayley.

9. A most interesting piece of direct evidence of the Baconlan

authorship of the Shakespeare.plays. 1s .the. Shakespeare monument in
Westminster Abby which
had been erected .by..-Po pe. .The s taYue 1s graced wltti .the head of' Francis Baconj
the stockings are engraved with the Tudor.Roses and a Crown, the lace’ work on
the ruffs of the slqeye is mo exact. repetiNon p€ the ruff worA by Queen’E1iza-
beth. Betweeo his Beeb are the, 5onQet .initials T. T. The fingers of the'atatue
poiot to the Queen at the side. The place of honor in fronf is given'to a beau-
tlful youth--a crowned Prince--young Francis Bacon as In the Hllyuard Nlnla-
ture .(found in Quex.Elizabeth's prayer book). On the left side ie the flgure o£
the Queen's.second son, the- Earl of Eesex, and the Queen's husband, the Earl of
Leicester.

Commenting on’ this monumeQt, Alfred Dodd, the greatest oodero authority
on the Shakespeare-Bacoo cootroversy, sald: "ThiQh you that the Abbey
authorities would have allowed all thls apparently meaningless foolery lf they
had not kQown
to whoa the Shakespeare imminent waa actually beIng erected-- to ‘Lord St. Alban,
a PrOnce of .the . house of Tudor? :- to t likely... Tire High D1gn1car lee know. the
truth as a State Secret. AOd lt is koovo today'in the highest quarters.”.

Like the sword of Damocles, the dread secret of his royal birth'hovered over
Francis Bacon' s head, . I or the moaent It was revealed , and 3ealous aspirants for
the Throne learned of it, hls head not res c on htm shoulders any longer but
would
at the foot'of she chopping-block. Zoo . great 1nteres ts were 1nvo1ved and for
thls reason, he was'forced to'maiutaiu strict secrecy, both as regards his
author- ship of the seditious historical Shakespeare playe (a true account of
which ie given In the Cipher’Story 1n”the plgysj and his later political
mrtivitiés”in Europe under the name“ o£ . Count, Sa£nt—C•erma1n.

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 C H A P T E R J I G M T

ZHE CIPHER S70RY IO TItE SHAEfSPEAP.E PLAYS

Reveallng Francls Bacon As Zheir True Author

tancle . Bacon had no . Intention. of being loet to the world beneath his own
peeudooym, wllliem Shakespeare. He wa9 detemined'thét future ages’maY
diecovet the secret at a time when its revealment would got menace his personal
sgfety as it mould in hie own day: So he had ’recourse to crypfhgrem ,
ciphers mod acros- t{zg which .were an. important .part of the staiesmanshlp 6f
'hls time &Dd in'wbich he was an experc. Each prInce and.pe tcy noble had a
private cipher to use In the administrationof his politicxl:’affairs. Bacon
decided to put into the
Shakespeare- plays a cipher story telling .their true’ origIu--which would be for-
ever., h:tdden fzoa the eyes of the prof ané bu t able to' be read by those who had the
intelllgenoe to decipher it.

In hls Adranem nI o/ Scum? Bacon no t only acknoolédged his loteres I In

ciphers, but set forth oge of the:most. complicated syétems'of ciphere ever
de- vlsed , which he hlaself d eveloped and perfected vtlt:the Bt111 a youth of a
lxteen. So he declded to tell his secret story in cipher language a0d to
include it in his play.s which he.-turned over. to the actor ,
Shakspere.

-In’ this way his great secret could be :preseied f*om those unworthy to
read {t aoAbe learoed.only by those with sufflcient:ingenuify’to decode'lt.
Thus he kept lgviolate h19 momentous secret--that’.oE‹his roga1 birth as the last
of the Tudors--which hiing . over. hue head .like the word of Dé aoclea , threatening
his life and liberty from the day of his blrth as the son of Queen Elizabeth
to
his subsequent departure for Tibet at Che beginning of I he nineteenth century ,
when he was knowD as COunt Sa1nt-Germain, where,’he sald, he could
fiosllyJ'rest,"
no longer haunted by the fear that his secret might become koowo, fall ’into the
ha0du of jealous asp1rgnts for the English throne and endaDger his life.

For oot only his owo life, but that of his friendé was.involved 1n the
pre- servatlon of t61s:secret--especia1ly since he was surroundéd by spies and
ene- miee, well aware that the prize of an empire was at stake, aod willing
to use any aeana neeessar y to I omard thelr ambitions . The exeeu t1on and death of Slr
Willi&m Raleigh, who was haDged, drawn aod quartered after an appropriate
pto- logue of torture, foretold the fate that could any day befell Bacon
himself
were hlu secret made knowo, and warned him of the necessity to be as cautious as
possible to guard his supreme secret at all costa and by all efforts, if his
was to be preserved and humeoitariaA dreems of a better world realized.

FOr Raleigh wes 0ot executed because of his depredations against the
King of Spain, but because he was a member of Bacon's secret society, which
played
such an 1mporteot role io the overthrow of monarchy and its replacement by a
republlcan sys tern of government, which Bacon hoped to reallze across the Atlantic
through colonization of America in which Raleigh played such ao important
the
role. Every effort was made to torture Raleigh iuto naming his associates io
his secret order , of +rh1cft Bacon was the head , but he bravely d1ed w1 Cftou t

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For, though he Lord Chancellor of England, BacoQ was then the leader of
was
a Freemasonlc secret soclety of Intellectuals to the replacemeot of the
devoted
very aonarchlal government of vrhlch he was Chen the head , by a new po11t1ca1 sys-
tea Of democracy, which was hls origlQal coQception aod whose ideale of Liberty,
Pquail ty and Fraternlcy expressed first in the Rosicrucian Hanifestoes, which
he

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tion of Independence , who ch Thomas Jeff erson penned and whose signing he encour-
aged in 1776. Writing on Bacon's secret order and the necesslty to preseme
its safety by the use of. ciphers, Man'ly Hall writes:

Imzgi0e the moral forceof an invisible intangibleorgenizatlon'whiuh

could not be discovered, but which coosteAtly wae active beneath the surface
oE what appeared to be a placid stste of affairs. The ciphers appeared in
numerous books by reputable and conservative wr ltera .._ Nothing . could be proved
agalost any of tRem, but they tame to be a mysterious band of avengers who kAew
they could not be tried .Eor their .knowledge without exposing.too many pezsdos
to the
throne."

Bacon, In his Easays , writing ofi "Of Simulation and Dis simulation," ex-
pressed very clearly what he Water. had to. do In oxder co conceal the great
secret of hie royal birth while appearing ip the courpq of Europe under the
neme of Count Saint-Gernaln and other names .

”llé that would be secret muse be a dlaseab2er I.n - some degree - For aen wl11
8o beeet a man with goes tlons and‘ draw htm on and pick It out of hlm that, Wlth-
out eD absurd sileDoe, he must show an 10clingtion one way, or’ if he; does
not, they may géthey as much by his s llenée as by.. his speech. No
one can be . secret
excep t to give hlmself a II t tie scop'e of d1ss:fau1ac1on.”

Ia h1s book kespeaz'e, Cz'eator of fi'reemaaon , Ahmed Dodd cIa1as that the
man who wrote the Shakespeare plays was the founder of Freemasogry, whieh order
he- establlshed in England tn 1717 ans wrote the ritual of the order. In.a
latcer book; Dodd s tates chat thls ’aan may Francis Bacon. Dodd wxltee: “Btozher
V1bert has stated thaf Our Legeod says thât Masonry. csme mom-France io St..
Alban ’a c1tae. ’ So It' d £d . There has‘ a Medieval St . . Allan of . A. D. . 303 and an
‘ EL*nabe I Can St. Athin’ o€ l560•l626: Boéh‘ were MARTYRS .” It 1s clear that the
"El1zabe than St . Alban" was Str Francis Bacon, Vis count ot Se Albans

Io hif book above referred to;*Dodd writes that the Breat Sbskeepeare„Fo1io
of 1623 openly proclaimed for the first time prlnt , £or all who were able to
read agd uoderatend thst "there.1iwed a man who was a’Preemason aod who was
the AUTHOR of The playa. ” Dodd says: ”Students of the El1 zabe than
era are fully
aware of the fact that-some sort of mystery veils the'11fe of William
Shakespeare.
The average man lmowe nothing of his persoñ all ty...No one has jet. sugges ted Shae
a part at.1east of this 'mystery' was due to'the fact that *illiemjshakespeare
was a Freemaeon, .ehe ceneer of a Ring -of Rose.cxosse-Hasons , and that he purpose-
ly eeems to heve-lived his life as though his mot/:o wâs 'Bg the MIND alone
shsll L be seen.' And iu the Sonnets' he w rites along fhe same veio vheâ h
. ', ’
e sayp:
"Forget tie - Let my ride be hurled whexe my body 1s ,

And live no aore I:o shame , nor ae , no.r. you;

For ’I- am shsmed...You in me can.nothing worthy

prove."; ’ ’ '. (Soooet LDII - 149).

Alfred Dodd continues: "Wheo Freemasonry emerged in 1717, the heads of the
emergebce who were the'euccessore of.the Elisabethan Rosicrosse aQd who had the

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secrets haoded dowo to them were desperately- anxious that the neme of the
Founder should oot be eséociated with the genesis of the order, lest
controvergy erose oo a personal issue'aod the Emergence of the ethical cult was
killed i0 the open thoroughfareso£ the world by bitter attacks on the
persooslity of rhe Creator by selt-constituted champions of morals, theology
sod state policies.

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 ”The founder’ s ' name' had been buried one o:I s Ight under a mass of extran-
eous speculations .. . Shakespeare was necessar fly a CONCEALED KéA . "

In a later book, Dodd admlts that this "founder'e name" was Francis Bacon.
He m1 tes: "Franc1s Bacon was the creator of modern Freemasonry, the Rltuale
of the Crsit aâd’ Higher Degrees, agB the Founder of the Fraternit7 as ao orgBoi-

Uould Bacon, Who loved the children of his brain, consent t;hat the lnaor tal
hooora wEioh belonged to him be heaped upon an uowozthy importer, the lgoozaot
actor, William Sh&kspere; aod, since he was a master io the art of cipher
writing, would he not embody ln these immortal drsmae that he a hidden
wrote message in cipher form to tell posterlty thelr real
authorshipt

This thou ghe eecutred''f requently eo I gnaclus Donnelly i. author of the vol-
ruinous work on the Bacorilan author sht.p o£ the Shakeé peare plays , 2’hB Great
pto ‹m. Af ter he becane convinced that Bacon , ct phé r expert , was the real
author of the plays, he kept woQdering whether their author had not
embodied a concealed message 'in them, revealing' his real ’ideotity.

Ooe day he opened a' book be1'oñging to ooe of his chfldrén,

2i'ot/ ’s Book, In which he tound a chap ter devoted to "Cryp tography or cipher-
wr1I Ing. Be chanced on tñ e sentence, "The nos t famous añ d complex cipher per-
haps ever wr1then was by Lord Bacon. I t was arranged In the following manner..."

Then the following ideas ceme through his’ mind: 1. Lord Bacon mote the
plays. 2. Ue loved them mod tould not deslre to dissociate himself .fro:n
them. 3 • He knew the lr' meshlmable grea tries s. 6
. Lord Bacon , dealt In ciphers ; he Invented e lphers ; and ciphers of exqulsl té aiib tle
ty and cunning. . Zhen f offered , like a flash, this
thought: "Could Lord Bacon have put a cipber in the PlaysT"

Bas11 Montagu In his L! -“e o* i3ayon men tions that ln his youth "he prepared
a work upon ciphers , wh1ch.,he.. aI temard publlshed • " Bacon Pro te: !'As for
vritiQg,’ lt ts. to be performed either by a commoQ alphabet (wâicb is used:’’by
everybody) oz by a secret nW private one, agreed upon by the 'particular person,
which they call ctphez • " Thls quo tation appeared In Bacon' s ".De Augment 1 s ,"
where. hd expounds .his, cipher sys them of conveying a hidden message wlthlfi an ex-
plicit one • Af tez . readIng these st acenents by Bacon and knowing he was -a cipher
exper t t Donnelly concluded: ”that would be more oattiral than that he ; ' thi
c1pher*maker , should no t. place ln the Plays .a cipher. s tory, to be read when the
tempest that was ébout to azsall civilization had passed away--the Plays sur-
Vlvlng , for they were , he t e11s us , to llve when ”aarble' and’ the gilded aonu-
ments o£ pr'incess' hed perished--even to the general judgment. If he was rlght;
if the Plays were lnteed as lmperishable as the verses of Romer, they must
necessarily be the subject of close study b7 8eWeratloos Of critics and com-
mentators; aod sooner or later some one would 'pierce the.veil' aod read the
acromatic eod enigmatlcal story enfolded in them. Then would he be justified
to the world by that internal narrative, reflecting on kings, princes, prelates
aOd peere, and Oot to:be “published in his owo day; not to be uttered without
serious penalties to his kigsfolk, his femily, hls very body in the grave.
Zhen , when his corpse was dus t , his blood exzinct , or dllu ted to nothlngness In
the course of generatioos;-then, when all vanities of zgnk and state and.pro-
£es sion and f amlly were ob11 terated ; when his memory And name were as ,a subll-
mated apirlt; then 'io the next ages,' 'when some time had been passed;' he
would , through the elpher narrat-(ve, rise anew from ehe grave .

"So the life that died with shame

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(Much Ado About Nothing, ii, 3)

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 "That cen not be called improbable wñat has happened. If I had not
faher upoo the cipher, some one else would. It was a mere question of time,
with all time in which to answer it."

Donnelly theref6re reed Shakespeare's plays over agaio wltfi tbe view of
fiodiog a cipher in theW. Ee seardhed in vain through ordinary edltio0s of
the Plays, but could find no cipher tD make any sense: Re theo came to the
conclu- sion that. the common editions of thé’P1ays msy have been altered aod
corrected by commentators , and a change of word at ght throw out ehe whole count .
Re then
decided to get a facsimile copy of the great Folio of 1523. Finally he
obtained it. It was a etupeodouu work. He said. "It seema to me that the
labors of Chempollion de Jeauoe and Thomas Young, iQ working out Eg tiao
hiereoglyphice from the triliQgual inscriptioQ oQ the Rosette stone, were
afmple compared with the task I had undértaken." "Finally, after a laborous
seardh, Doooelly found the cipher, revealing a hidden etory which history âare
oot mention." "A cipher
story," he says, "implies a secret story, and'a secrét story canoot be one
already blazoned oQ the pages of history." He writes: "Ooe can fancy PraQcis
Bacon sitting at tbe play--in the backgrouod--with his hat over his’eyes--
watching Ellzabeth aod Ceci1, eeated, as’was the custom, on the stage, enjoying
aQd laugh- ing over soae comedy, little dreaming that the loternal fabrit of the
play told, in immortal words, all the darkest passages of their owo”dar¥’1ives--
embalmed in the midst of wit rollicking laughter, for the entertaiomeot of all
future ages."

Let us now consider the Cipher Narrative that Igoatlus Donnelly discovered
ln the Shakespeare plays, oot by aoy chance or imagination combination of
worda, but by a carefully planoed out and executed cipher message embodied io
the playe, whlch def Yes the laws of chance.

The cipher story tells us of n great court excitemeot'over the so-called

Shakespeare play of Rlchard II; of an attempt on the part of the Queen to find
out who wes the real author of the play, of her belief, impressed on her by
the reasoning of Robert Cecil, Francis Bacon's cousin, that the purpose of the
play was treasooable aod that the unfortunate Richard was intended to incite
to civil war aod to lead to her on deposition and murder. The Cipher also
tells us that she sent out posts to fiod 8nd arreet Shakespeare, intending to
put hIm to the torture--or "the question" as tt was called iu that day--aod
compel him to re- veal the oame of the man for whom, as Cecil alleged, he was
but a maeh; and it also tells how this result was avoided by’ getting
Shakespeare out of the country
aud beyond the seas.

Now we note that this sedltious play, which depicts the deposition aOd
kil- ling of a misgoverning king, had direct reference to Queen Elizabeth. It
must be reaeabered, thdt no aan would dare , In chit .age , . or In any age under a
monar chy , to openly advocate or justify the murder of kings; but the ignorant
were taught, as Bacon sald , more by the lr eyes than by thelr Judgment ;
and that ehey anu In
the play was a nor chless king who had mlsgoverned his country' deposed and stain.
A mighty suggestive lesaon, it might have beeo, to a large body of worthy
people, who thought Elizabeth bad also misgoveroed her country; and had lived too
long already, and who hoped great things [or themselves from'the coming in of
James.

Now a certain Rayward'had put forth, in a pamphlet, a prose history of the

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deme deposition, which he dedicated to Essex, for which Elizabeth had him
arrested and he was threatened with torture. If, then, she believed, as there is
evidence that she did, that King £icbrd fJ was treasonable, that she was
represented
therein b7 the character of King Richard II, aod that his fate might be her
fate,
if the consplrators triumphed, what was more natural than that she would try to
have Shakespeare locked up and submitted to the seme treameot as she
contemplated

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a sober prose history of Richard's life for the perusal of scholars, waa
infl- nltely less ehan the crime of the aan who had set I or th, In gorgeous colors ,
upon a public stage, and had represented the depos If-ton an5 kllllng of a king,
night after'éight, before the very eyes of awazmiog and’ exulting thousmods. Aod
iS, as we.shall eee, the Queen thought that Hayward wés not the real author of
his history, buemerely a cover for someone else, why nay she not have conceived
.the semé idéa about Sheképere aod his play7’ Why was Shakspere not'
arrested7 The cipher story'te1ls’ the reasoâ. ’ ’

Now we may oote that thâ second edition of diced lJ, printed in 1598, with
the scene of the deposing of Kiog Richard left out, was the first one that bore
the oéme of William Shakespeare on the title-page. lay ahould Shakespeare's
fiaae f lrst appeax , as the author of any one of the Plays , upon the title-1eaf of
a play which wcs the depoei tion scene let t ou t, unless the urlter ot the play
koew that [t was seditiousT Aod Qote that the pLsy bears the oeme of "Shake-
speare," oot that o£ the smn of Stratford who always eigzed his neme as
Shakspere. Was it not because of the treaaonaole nature of the play that the
real author allowed Sbekeperg this hole to retreat lnto7 Wa9 it not that he
might be able to say, "I never wrote the Play9; that is not my oame. Uy ueme
is 57mkapsme, oot S/mV-apsereT The Cipher narrative explains all thls.

.5ow we may.oote tbet Eesex was arrested for treasoo, aQd one of the
charges against hlm was the fact that he hired actors to play King Richard II,
and that Bacon was then aesigoed the verY job of hlring the actors to enact the
depo- sitlon and murder of King Richard II, as well as to prosecute Essex, his
friend, for haviog hed Shakespeare's play acted. A9 the Cipher story reveale,
this was the work of Cecil, who koew that Bacon was the author of the play and
that he shared in the conspiraJy; aod so gave him the choice of either taking
this de- gradiQg work on his hands, of prosecuting his best friend for
assisting in the production of the play he wrote, or of going to the scaffold
with him. If such was the caee, it was ’the climax of’ Cecil's revenge on the mao
who represented him oo the etage as Richard III.

That sedition was in the air at that time, and that the theater was the
main red ma through vrh1ch It was ac complls hed , . 1s Indicated
by the fact that In 159.7 an order was given by t:he Queen’ s Gounell to tear doc aW
destrod a It the hea- ters o/ £oitdott because one Nash, a play-ur It er ,
had In a play called 27ts Arle of Dogs brought matters of state upoo the stage;
aod Nash was throwo into prison.
The period from 1597 to 1599, the very time when KCrg giwAArd JJ appeared, was
full of plots’ éâd conspiracies agaiost the Queen and Cec11; and lo favor of
King Jemes and Essex; eAd’ the play of Richard II was used as an
iostrumentality to play upoo the miQds of men and prepare them for revolution.

There is reason-to belleve .thbt the Queen and court were aware of these
facts and that the vtr1 ter o:I fiiioJtord f should have been regarded ln the same
uuooer as Dr. ltayuard , who was arresred. And If , as the Glpher s tory shows , the
Queen ordered the arrest of Shakspere, who fled the country in time, why do we
not have historical records of this £act2 It must be remembered that io the
eyes
of his contemporaties, Shakspere was a very insigoiflcant man whose whole life
is veiled in the deuseet obscurity. There are oo allusions his coming and
to
goiog; and hence we have his bto graphers arguIng chat he mus t have done wlch his
compeoy to S€otlaod, aod other places, while there is oot the slightest evidence
whether he dld or did not. ’The only fact about him of which we are positive is
the date of his death.
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aimply iocideots lD a furious contest between the tecil factlon a0d the Eseex
faction to rule England; tf they were pawns on the checkezboard of court
ambi- tion, we caA uodeistsnâ that at oue time Essex' star may Wave been
obscured end Cecil'a in the ascendant, .that Cecil omy have filled the Queen
with suspicions causing her to order. the arrest of Shakespere, at about the
seme tlme that the Connell Issued the order to tear down all the play-houses In
London; while ae another time Es sex, who was the Queen’ s I avor1te , as he was young
and handsome , may have come back in her favor, and Sñakespere cguld have
returned from abroad, after the real’ author, Bacon, confessed that he had
meant nothing by the play,
which was his torlcal. Now let us consider the Cipher s tory, which Donne11y d:£s-

east there for alone Io find i f they fo I ion lbs cipher aode which he presents Art

THE PURPOSE OF TitE PLAT

But wheo poor King Richard fell a corpse at Pomfret, under uncounted blows,
they made the most fearful noise; and again it broke forth; it seemed as if they
would oever stop. The play shows the victory of the *ebels o'er the anointed
tyrant; aod by this pipe he has blown the flame of rebellion almost into open
war. The well-boowo plays hgve even made the most boly matters of religlon, which
all good zen hold in sincere respect, subjects for laughter; their aim beiog, it
is euppoeed, to thus poisoo the miod oC the still diacordapt, uaverigg multitude.
They mean iu this covert way to meke a rising aQd flood thls fair laod with
blood, so that oot ooly their bodies, but.thelr souls, might be dmmned.

TBE QUEW BEATS WAYWARD

The sulleâ old 3ade doth listen with the ugliest frown upon her hateful
brows, too enraged to speak; but rising up and starting forward, took Hayward
by his throat aod choked h1m. He took to h1s heels and was running off ig the’
greatest fright, but the old jade struck my poor youQg frieod a fearful blow
wlth the steeled eQd of the great crutch, aod again and :again. His llmbs
being now
so weakened by imprisonment aud grief, he is not able to stand the force of the
blows ehe hinges of Ms 3olnts gave way nuder htm; and he fell bleeding on the
s tones. Cecil sald to htm, "Come speak out , why d ldst thou put t he .name of
my
lord the Earl upon the title-leaf ’off this volume?" On hearing the nmme o[
my noble Lord, her Grace was no t able to restrain her. passion any longer.. "Thy
hateful looks and the wfiiténess in thy cheek is apter than thy tongue to
tell thy nature."

SHAKSPERE DID NOT WRITE TRE PIAYS

Cecil said that Marlowe or Shaksperé never writ a word of tbem. It is

plain he 1s s tuf flng our ears with I alse repor ts , and lies thls aany a year . He 1s a
poor, dull, ill-spirited, greedy creature and but a veil for some else, who had
blown up the flame of rebel1i'oo almost to war against your’ Grace as a roy&i.
Tyrant. I have a suspl clon ehac ay kinsman' s servant , Starry Percy (Francia
BacoD'o servant),'was the man to whom he gave every Qight the half of what he
took through the day at the gate. Many rumors are” on the tongues of me0 that
my cou9in (Praocis Bacon) has prepared not only the Contention between York and
Laocaster and KiEg Joho and this play, but other plays which are put forth at
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He 1s the sone of a poor peasant who yet followed the trade of glove
making lo tbe hole where he was boru aud bred, ooe oi the peasant towoe of
the west . And there ace even rumore ehat bo th V1l1 and his
brother dld themselves follow that trade for some the before they came here.

@e goes oQe day with teu of'his followers, dld lift the water gate of the
fish pond off: the hingee and turQs the water out from the’po0&, froze 911
the tish aod gtrdlee the orchard. They drew their weapons aod bought a bloody
fight for an hour, not stopping even to breathe. He left'hia poor young jade
big with child...AQd while we were thue busily engaged, my Lord and some of
hIs followers set upoo us. Shakspere has killed many a deer. The body of the
deer wae indeed half eaten. Me found it lylng by the foot o£ a htll. We
fought a bot and blOody fight. The pursuers followed him aod took him
prisoner. Percy aQd the rest of our meQ fled. My lord struck his spur up to
the rowell against the patting sides of his horse and ran him dowo.

fly Lord was furlous. He drew his pietol and shot him, and, as ill luck
would have It, the ball hlt him on the forehead, between the eyes. fle fell
upoo the'earth. They thought at flrot, from his bloody appearance and the
uhiteoess o£ his cheek; that he was dead. The ball made the ugliest hole iQ
his’ forehead I evér saw. Re lies quite'still. His wounds are atiff from
the cold. He hath beateo one of the keepers o'er the head; sides and back,
with the bluot edge of a stick, till It breake; or he €e11 down to the earth
uoder the heavy weight of his blows. by, he 1s dead.

His Lordship theQ stopped his horse and said. He'is in a faiQt. Bend
dowo aQd put your ear against his heart, to see if fle is yet liviog. He
stooped dowr to listeo aod found that his heart still beat. He lay quite
still for a good while. At last the ragged young wretch drew a low sigh and
commeoced gasping for breath. But It seemed his injuries were only flesh
wounds. All our men as soon as they sew that he was taken prisoner or slaine,
in the greatest fear of being apprehended, turoed and fled away from the
field, into the shadows, with speed evifter than the speed of arrows. Fear of
beiog'apprehended, my Lord who had, in the meaQ time, followed the othera,
came up. He tells them to make htm a prisoner. After quenchiQg the fire, the
flames of which even yet burned, my Lord tells them to make a litter and lift
the corpse up. ’

Re s craped I he blood away from his I ace. He remembered the ras cally knave
well; there was no t a worse In the barony. The whomon lmave was , at cMs time ,
about tweoty; but his beard is not yet fledged; there is not yet a hair on
his chin; it ts smooth as my hand. Me was eimost naked; without shirts, cloak
oi stockings. he doth wear nothiog but a cap; hig.shoes out at the heels,
short slope, sod a emock on his back, out at the elbow, and not overclean.
The truth is, he llved, at this time, in great lufemy.

I sent a short'time since, your Majesty, for my Lord, Slr John, the noble
and learned Blshop of Worcester, a good siOcere’aod holy mem; aod had a talk
with him, and I gave him the scroll. I ventured to tell him my sueplcion that
Haster Shakspere is not himself capable enough aoJ hath not knowledge enough
to have vrit the much admired plays that we all rate so h1gh, mod which are
supposed to be hia; and which ever since the death of Harlowe have beeu put
forth in his name. And it is rumored that every one of them was prepared
under his name by some gentleman. His Lordship advlsed that the best thlng we
could do is to make
htm a pre soner and , as soon as he 1s apprehended , bind htm with Iron, and bring

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truth aod tell who writ it. But iu the event that he lied about the your
matter,

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He is, I hear, at present very aick; he repents; in sack-cloth-and-ashes,

the lechery of his young days. His purse is well lineB from the gold he
derives
£rom the Plays. The Plays are much admired aud draP great numbers and yield
great abundaoce of fruit, IQ the forms of gloats aod-pence. It is thought he
will buy all the laQd appertinent to New Rlace. We know him a.butcher's rude
aQd vulgar.apprentice, aQd it was ln our opinions not likely that he writ them;
he is neither witty oor learned eoough. The subjects are far beyond his
ability. It is even thought that your cousln of St. Albana vrites them.

-Ee ceooot last loQg. Hia health.is:very poor; it. was my presurmiae that
he iS blasted.with that dread dlsease, the most iocuréble malady:-Hls%ooks
prOve 1t. One day I did chance to meet him and, although I sm well acquaiQted
with him,
I would not have koowo him. The transformation was so great. @e is not more
than thirty three; yet he is, io hIs youth, written down old with the
characters of age. Eis cheek is whlte, his voice hollow, his ’hand dry, his
hair grey, aod his step feeble; aod his head wags as he walked. There is a
beastly wound oew- healed on the side of hts Oeck, and a great weA .of fall,
somethiog^1ike’ the Kiog's evil, which .eyery day growa greater aDd hir strength
more feeble. @e is flatter- ing himsif with the hope and expectatioo that he
will get well. It ie eating away his life, aod he cannot escape the gcave.

Although he 1s oot yet thirty-three, his back is stooped aod his'hair and
beard are turned white. And one would cake htm by ’ his looks ti›' be an old man.
Re had great bunches . as big as ay I 1a t upon the 's1d’es of his throat ‘ and under his
chin.. I heatd say he was very sirk in-the-caré o'f-a physician. His health
is very f eeble and hls step unf mm. Re 1s troubled w1 th several dangerous dls-
eases; he is subject to r5e gout lo his great toe;”and I hear moreovér hé
hath
falle0 iot:o consumption.

Aod itjis thouBht he zust'have that dreaded disease chey call the French,
which is ooe of the most incurable of all diseases; there is, in truth, no
remedy for it. It seems to draw all the substance out of one and leaves only
emptioess
and weariness: .It was, I say, brought hleher In‘ the reign of King Harry,
heard
the father of the present Queen, in €ifteeu hundred and fifteen. :In.the war
against the French, our soldiers entered Holland and the Low Countries. They
fortify the towo of Gaugate. Our forces take it after a hard fighc. Our men
become too f&miliar with the women of the place. And wheo the King and his
forces
marched back to England, they brough t it aloog with them. Ir hath made sad
des truct ton amodg the poor lewd people Of this town.

SHAKESPERE THE ORIGINAL FALSTAFF

For I have some. times seen him in his youth caper it about with’ 8 light
heart,
hallolng and singing by the hour , and $n the raggedes t apparel, and alaost naked
A bold, tocard, arid mos t vulgax boy • A gross I at uutaugh t rogue, I url of his
own beastly desired. A glutton, rather over-greedy thaQ choice. With his
quick wit and his big belly , welghlng tuo hundred pounds ,
a great glut ton.

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honor In the villaIn; he hath a qu1ck wit, and a great belly; and Indeed , 1 aade
use of htm, with the ass1stance of my brocher , as che or1glnal. model I rom which
we draw the characters of Sir Joho Falstaffe end Sir Tobe. To see him caper
with his big rouod belly. It draws together to the playhouse yards, such great
mus- ters of people, far beyond my hopen and expectations, that they too in at
least twenty thouserd marks. It pleBaes her Msjeety mueh more tbao auythigg
else in

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needs for some little time.

Re is wise enough to:save his goats and buy ao estate of lotdship. I

heard that my Lord the German Cloister says it was well worth coming all the
loog way to England to see his part of Slr John alone, ln thls-play the Nsrry
Wives o[ Windsor. Ee sald: I tell.thee„‹the mao:that could conceive sucb a
part as this, and draw It so well, : should be fmorcal.. .He I led to ”I.ondon to '
scape' fsoa lm- pz•1sooatent. . JJe test aoney at a b1g race upon 'a coamod1By of !
paper "vtth secuz1ty enough. ”

He had fallen Into all sorts of evil courses with drinking wassail aod
glutGo0ry.’ He kills many a deer;’here.a0d’rabbit, hunting o'oights in'vlle,
low, rascally oompaoy. Will and his’’brother are-a pair of moet pernicious
villains.

MCOW OVERWHELMED ON BEARING IT CECIL SUSPECTS MIM OFlRITING THE'PLAYS

AND’ WILL EAVE SHAKSPERE ARRESTED AND QUESTIONED

O heariog this heavy news; I was o'erwñe1med’with a flood of fears and

sheme. I saw plainly. all the perils of my situation. I koew very wei1 that if
Shakspere vas apprehended , her will. be as clay; or rather callow, in the haods of
that crafty fox, my cousio Cecil. . If was ten to.ooe the wborson koave’ o111 £e11
in self-defense and for his own security that the play of Neasure for Measure,
that noble’ composition, the play o2 K 5C d tW 5eooM,
perceived much in these plays that satisfied me that hiG purpose is the
destruction'of the Christ- Isn religiop. (the Cipher is here iocohereot) great
aod much admired plays work geotlemeh pageA language most choice. No equal in
Rngland since the time of Gower: Eoough brain power. ,King Richard the third..
All my hopee of rlsiQg to high office io tke Commonwealth were blasted. I am
not an impudent Amn that’ will faee on t a d1sgra ce w1th an lmpruden t cheek,
sauelness and boldnes s would huable my I at her' s proud and mos e honorable name In
the dus t and send his widow with a broken hear t to. the. grave, to
think thae I should make a mock of the Chris tlan rellg ton. flanged 11ke. a do
g f or the play o£ RI chard the Seeond .

ZHE QUEEN'.S ORDER TO FIND.. SHAKSPERE AND TORTURE HIN TO LEARN UH0 WAS THE AUTHOR
OF THE PLATS

Her grace 1s f ur1ous and hath sent out several horsed , unarmed pos ts to
find Shakspere under the lead of my Lord of Shrewsbury. Will divided his
forces In three dlvlstons . Thls thlng mus t s top i ‘Be tween you
and your eral ty old
father, with your smooth tongues; you are stuffing my eats with’ continual
lies and false reports in many a year. Royal rage. Gommenced to. rebuke him
in lan- Buage stero aDd fearful, which wound the ears of'thcuâ who liften to
it; for e worse toDgue is oot upon the earth. To ride with the speed of the
wind through all the peasant-towos of the west. Make gre'at offers to’ the m&o
who brings them
in, dead or alive. Thls woe-begooe hateful, fat creature hes been a mask
known 9ince a child. Strangest talé ln’ the world; not to be believed. A lot
of lles. Cecil your cousIn i' thy kinsman' s , the old t:eratagant plays .
Terms of grace ,
pardon and reward and all of them if he will tell the oeme of the man who
fur- nished him with this play and the rest of these plays. But if, on the
coQtrary, he means to lie about it and play the fool, they will have to bear
the siok upoo their own heads. Fat fellow. Royal maiden is in a great rage.
Swear should die a bloody death. Let him be lmbowelled. Nike a'carbonado of
him. Spared
favors • Save our llf e I or tune . No time to dal1y. Send out poscs . Find
Shakspere , Reward , of hers , mar ch.
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 The balaQce of the cipher cannot be given here, end 1s as follows. The
crafty Cecil directed the officers that when they fouQd Shakspere, they were
to work upoQ him in every way possible--by appeals to his cupidity, his
ambition, and hls terror of being buroed allve--to tell the real author of the
Plays, and especially of that dangerous play which represented the deposition
and murder of an unpopular EiQg, and the execution of thoae councillors who
atood to him in the. seme relation to which Cecil stood to the Queen.

Bacon, floding this out and to avoid sheme to his dead foster-father aod
hls liviQg foster-mother, was contemplatiQg taking hls like by rat poison
(tatsbaoe) and thue escape from sheme-and disgrace, aod eave his femily's name
from lgnomy through his trial aQd execution as a traitor aQd infidel. As he
convicted his own brother, Essex, by order of his mother, eo now he would meet
a similar fate. But he would rather end his life thao let that happeñ. The
cipher story then contioues to relate the eosuing eveots.

It was a pitiful and terrible story, told with great detail.- Bacon sacri-
ficed himself, or intended to, to save his family end. the good name of his
legal aocestors from the disgrace of his trial aod execution at Smithfield as a
traitor to his Queeo. Re took ratsbane to.end his life and prevent shame to
the memory of his great father, Sir Nicholas, and the then llving tady Bacon,
'to:whom he
owed so much. The cipher story tells about his terrible sufferings that
followed. After receiving the shocking news about Elizabeth's discovery that his
play gic/mrd ff was sedit1ous:and her determioation to find out lte author by
arrest- ing Shakspere aod putting him.under torture, Bacoo swallowed rat poisog,
lost coosciousnees for a time, and fell iQ the orchard aod cut his head oñ a
stone.
fle thought, in his dreadful mental excitement and agony, that the spirits'of his
dead ancestors appeared and urged him to dle. Theo :c&me a youQg gentlemen
who was visiting the house at St. Albans, who went Ioto the orchard and
stumbled
over Bacon's body. Re thought at first it was a dead deer. And when he found
it was a man, he drew.his sword in great terror and asked who it was; mod what
he
*a# doing there; and finally ran ioto the bouse and returned, followed by Carry
Percy and che whole household , who cane running.

Theo we have Bacoo resolved to keep quiet and counterfeit deatb, so as to

allow the deadly drug, "which 11ke a poisonous mineral doth gnaw the inwards"
to do lts work, rejoicing to think that in a little while he will be beyoQd
the reach of Gecil's envy and the QueeQ's fury. Then we have the recognition
by Percy that it is "our young master"; and the lifting up the body eDd
carrying it into the house and to his room. Then follows the wtping of the
blood from his face, the undressing of him, taking off "his satio cloak and
silken slops" a0d
sendlng I or the doctor who was the vlllage apo thecary , who ref used to come because
Bacon owed him a bill.

Eseex arrived to warn Bacon of his great danger; and observing that the
doc- tor would not come, threatens to have his ears cut off. The doCtor came
and pro- Oouoced it a stroke of apoplexy. Meanwhile, Bacon who had taken a
double dose of the poisoo, vomlted it out, end his life is saved.

Peroy Is sent at once in disgulse to Shakspere to get him to leave the

country. Me finds hlm in his bedroom with windows all shut, according to the
medical treatment of that age, sweltering in a fur-trimmed cloak. @e was
greatly emaciated Erom the terrible disorder that afflicted him. Percy told him
the Qewa and urged him to fly. Shakspere refused. Percy saw that Shakspere
iQtended to coQfess and deliver up his "Master Francis" to save hlmself. Percy
was prepared for such a contingency and told him that the man who was the
ostensible author would suffer death with the real author and asked him: Did
you not ahare the profits; did you not strut about Loodon and claim the play
was yours, and did you

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not instruct the actor who played Richard II to imitate the peculiarities of
gesture and speech of the Queen, so as to point zbe moral of the olay: that
she
*as ae deserving of desposielon as RIchard II? And do you think, sold Percy,
thac the can who dld all thls can escape punt shnent?

Wheo Shakspere eaw, as he thought, that he could not save himself by

betra7- ing BacoQ, he cooseoted to fly. Then followed a stormy sceQe. Mrs.
Shakspere hung upoo ber husband's Qeck and wept; his sister, Mrs. Eart, bawled;
her child- ren howled aQd the brotheT Gilbert, who was druok, commenced an
aeeault on Harry Percy and drew a ruSt7 Old sword on him. Carry picked up a
bung-mallet end koocked him dowo, aod three him dowo stairs iQto a malt cellar.
Theo bedlem wae let loose.

In the midst of the uproar entered Suseooah, who at once quieted the
tempest.
Re wonders "how so sweet a blossom could grow from so corrupt a root:." When
ehe heard Percy's story, she advised her father to fly. Nre. Shakspere still
ineie- ted her husbaod was too cick to travel. Percy replied that a sea voyage
would do him good: aod tbey would Bo to RollaoA and then to Fiaoce, sod that
"Mester
Francls” was acquainted with the. :f aally o:I Hontalgne, and they could visit chere;
and meanwhile, Essex would ; as soon as the Queen’ s rage subsided , Intercede f or
him, and he could come back lmpToved in health, to enjoy his wealth, while if
he zemalned he would f orf e1t bo th llfe and I or tune.

Percy sald he had a boat ready, now unloading in London; aod they could
get them in time £o sail. The nlght was stormy and dark; aod there would: be
no oQe to notice thelr fl1¿ht iQ dieguise. Coovinced of these arguments,
Shakspere told his vr1fe to get supper ready and co bring htm an. old sulte of
leather J er- kms which he wore es a butcher's apprentice; mod he proceeded to
array himself
in these.

’Then follows an accouot of sick Shakspere's jouroey across the sea:- While
Cecil could oot prove his case against Bacon wlthout the presence of
Shakspere, it became apparent to the O.ueeQ that the actor had received
warning of the danger from someone in the court; and it might have been that
facts enough come
out to coQvince the Queen o[ Bacon's guilt; aod from thst time oQ, he could Qot
rise to eny office of trust during Ellzabeth's reigo.

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OZHER NASKS OF FRAN(jlS BACON

Shakespeare was ooly one of the masks of the universal genius, FraOc1a.Beron
--prince of philosophers, prioce of scientists, prince of the politlceJ refom-
ers , prince of . poets and Prince of England. He had many other masks under which
he ldaugurated the Ellzabe than Renaissance of literature In England , putting forth
his prodigious llterary productions In rapid succession under various naaea.

Among theee we ’flnd a host of play°. °*°7 Of which were attributed to the
pen of Shakespeare, whose authorship is unkoown. Bacon chose the sta8e as the
meaos of putting forth his ees9age to huuaQtty and to prepare the public mind
for the democratic revolution which was his great aim and the goal of the aecret
so clet les f or polltlcat reform (Freenasonry and Ros1cruelanlsm) which he founded .

AmoQg these other works whose autborahip 1s under question are fifteen’
dremas, eome not included emoQg the Shakespeare Plays, yet wbich are
attributed by comm4ntatozs to the same haQd as wrote the Plays. Many of these
are included in more complete editions of. Shakespeare's Plays. Of these, all
except tvo were published io Shakspere's llfe-time, ]n nearly every iustemce
with the oeme of Wlllimm Shakespeare on the title-page. There is the play,
;Ne DeuiJ o/
BdmonMn, announced as the poiot work of. Shakespeare and Rowley, a0d V6 two
Pobzs finemsn„ written by Shakespeare and Fletcher.

Io other words, the genius we call Shakespeare is fouQd dissociated with

the mao Shakspere and writing a vast oumber of pleys which the play-actor hed
nothing to do with. Por iostaQoe, foir f m, which appeared io 1587, while
Shakspere held horses at the door of the playhouse, as welL as other plays which
are now believed to be written by the Shakespeare pen, were never associated
with Shakspere's
neme duriog hia lifetime. This is compa.tible with the theory that a solar of
vast intellectual productivity ss Bacon {looded the stage of London with
olaya-- to make mooey--for yeara before Shakspere left Stratford. It.is
utterly Incon- ceivable how the men who left nothing behiod him to show
evideQce of any meQtel productivity (except his alleged plays) emd who dwelt
during the.laet years of thls 11fe at Stratford IQ'utter torptdity of'mind,
could have produced thia array of uuclaimed dramas.

Doo0elly pfesents evidence that the plays of Christopher Hazlowe

were,written by Francis Bacon, which is in accordance with the common belief
that the plays of Harlowe and those of Shakespeare had a common authorship,
1ocludiog a group of plays whiCñ ere claimed slteroately for both Marlowe aQd
Sbakeepeare. So similar are'the style and :productlogs of'these two men that
Donnelly remarks: "As lf bougtiful Nature; after waiting for five’ thoussod
years to produce a 9hakeepeare had been delivered of zmtne In that year of . grace, 15641"
The turns were Shake-
epeare and Marlowe.

Like the actor Shakspere, Marlowe was a drunkard and died In his twenty-
nlnth year, as Shakspere dId, druoken„ He was a licentioua, depraved creature
who was about to be arrested for blasphemy, and escaped the gallows or the
steke by being killed in a drunken brawl, "stabbed to death by a bawdy serving
men rival of his in his lewd love." It is as iQconceivable that such a type of
person could have been a literary genius thmn the equally degenerate Shakspere;

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and it ie more than
probable that both were masks to conceal che true genius , Franc1s Bacon, who was
the common author of writings that appeared uoder both thelr nemes.

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 In evidence of this theory 1s the curious fact that Shakespeare stepped
upoo the boards as a drsma:ic writer 3u9t at the time when Marlowe stepped
off. Marlowe was slain in 1593 and the ftrst appearance of a Shakespeare play
was on M&rch 3, 1592--that of Henry VI. But these are high authorities. as
the Vc - cMped% BritMnicc, who claim that #e FIJ was mltten by Marlowe.
Swinburne mazveled at the capaclty of Shakespeare to im1tate the style of
Marlowe as he
.dfd qhen he wrote Be›trp FJ.. .
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Dooâelly Wso claim9 that Bacon was the aut5or’of Mo•taigne's •fq8gye. . His
reaeoo for sending this agnostic, aotl-religious writing to hie French
4rieud, Montalgne, to”be published in another country, iO another laoguage
and uoder another n&me, was because it was impossible fot him to express guch
irreligioue thoughts in his own ’couotry, cs this would be,tonsidered:a
b,lapphemy:to his Frénch fr lend ; to ‘be cranslaced Into’ Féench and ..published
under his, . nine , hoplug thac ehey would thén come back to .England qnd not arouse the
deme. feelings i-liey
would have iI it were koowo that an Englishmen Note them. Montalgñ4 was
a'per- sonal fr1en‹i of Bñ con and v1s lted htm In En gland . Bacon' s brother , An thony,
visited lqoncal gne In France .

In evidence oJ ehe fact that Montal gne was not the author of .the essays that
were publlshed Nder ’his Oame, which wets sent him by Bacon„ was: the fac(
thal he wrote oothlog elsé of aigoilicance; for if’ he’was’reaIJ/ an aothor And
thioke.i be would oot have' limited his literary pioductiops. to. a siQgle-
wrltlng. Also it is improbable that HontaiBne Note’ the f#zcys; sl0ce he,was
’a devout Catholic,
whlle the Sssaya we e the production o:I a skep.tic , as Bacon was • As a matter of
fact, they represented condensed utterances from hls owo essays, ’as well ’as from
hls Advancement o/ deeming, which he published later.

Bacon, ml tins on the Bacodlen authorship of Nonta£gse' s Fasoys says: "The

object as I take It, of ‘his concéaling the authorship’ of this remarkâblé
book ("The Advaniemént of Learning") was :hat he might utter„ under the'ñgsk
Of'old. age aod of FreQqh license of spe'ech, opinions which would have
beéo'coodemoed
as u tterly unbecomlng I or a younger mqn, . an Engllshnan, add :ef Puritan has:t1y • . "

Co eni;1ng on chls subs eet , Donnelly remarks : . .’"Ue are brought f ace to face
with this dile : elther Francis Bacon wrote the 'Essay" of Montaigne, or
Fié ncle Bacon s tole a‘ great many ot VI n noblest though t s, and tile whole scheme of
his philosophy from J'4ont algne i But Bacon was a comple te man, he. expanded Info a
hundred fielde of human labor. Montaigne did nothlng of any consequence to
the world but publish these essays; ergo, the great thoughts same not from
Montaig0e to Bacon; but from’Bacon to Montalgee." , ” ’

Donnelly further clatms that Bacon wro te The'Ali:of of be briefly .by

Burtoo.’ Like Montaigqe, Burton wrote'oothing except this.book’„ which-
appeared about 1600. It was iltteu at the'melancboly eoB of Bgcon'e life,
so full of perdod8l dieappointments. In t5is’book, we fiQd ’a?rough
preliminary.sketch of Bacon's later book, fts #ev A IcWig. In’Ve AnmM
o/ UelnñpVz , we find
the following remarkable confession of its true author, Francis Bacon:

I will, to satisfy and please myself, make a Utopia of mine own, a New
ATWant:?c , a poetical eoemonweal ch of mine oun, IN whoch I ñ lll freely domlneer ,
build cities, make 1aWs, statutes, as I live myself. Why may I note"

Zhen through a to zen pages we I Ind the expression of slallar .Ideas as Bacon
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later worked out In his book be Use At lambs .

Some students of Bacon's unknown literary productions which appeared uoder

the masks of other supposed authors clalm thgt Spenser's fniresen aod

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Cervantes' Don OuC‹rote were also his creations. Io evideoce of this is the
fact that these tuo books , like Hontalgne ’ s Eacayc and Bur ton ' s Analary of be
machoty were the only literary productions of any value by their alleged
authors. As Baooo sent the "Es•ays" to Mootaigoe for tradslation eDd
publication in Fregch, so lt is pos9ible that he sent "Don Qulxote" to
soldier-prisoner Cervatee, who dld not aeea to be a aan of ht.gh Intelligence ,
for translation and publlcation In Spamsh.

Among other worha attributed eo Bacon' s authorship ere Come de mbotiis ,

abouc wh1ch we wl2 speak below.

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FEIGNED DEAZH AND LATER REAPPEARANCES OF FRANGIS DACON

Much mystery surrouods the death of Bacon. Several cootradictory

stories ate current. Acoordiog to ooe account, he dled from qulosy of the
throat re- aultiug ftom a curious a0d unbelievable accident--"fis Lordship
caugV’ cold while plucking a frozeo chicken!" (This is obviously a lie.)
There are elso zoDtradlctory stories as to where he died, aod at least three
locations are giveo. A monument to him stands in the Church at St. Albaos,
mod this has been supposed to mark his tomb. It beare the epitaph which, when
ttauslated, reads,
"Let compounds be dissolved." Hie secretary 1s buried at the baee of the
statue.
It ia believed that this was a feigned death, sioce a book bearing his
picture as a living persoo was published io Germany about twenty years later.
In his will, Bacoo lett his good Orme to "othet oatio0s aod ot5er times, and
to hla owo oation after a certain time had paesed."

There is evidence that Bacoo never really died at the time he wee
supposed to , but Ans tead passed through a I elgned death-—In fact the I lrst 1s
8 serles of feigned deat6s, starting as Francls Bacon aod ending as Couot
Saiot-Germaio.
On thls subs ece Nanly Hall wr1 tes: "According to the var tous c lphere , Lord
Bacon dld no t d ie at the time nor under the cm cums dances Ms tOT1ee11 recorded
lt is remarkable, to say the least, that the funeral of so great a ma0 should
have been marked by such complete obscurity. There is no record that his
lord- ship lay io state, or that his remains were accorded aoy of the
digoities which
his pos ltlon and honors deserved . Zhe conf used and contradl ctory accounts of
hls lift Illness and the uncertainty surrounding even the place of his death are

"Feeling that his usefulness in England had ended and that his enemles ul-
timately must discover his secret and attempt to thwart his purposes, his lord-
ship resolved to retire to the continent uoder the protection o[ a mock funeral.
There is In'the British Nuseum a small woodblock priot of crude execution de-
pt ctlng Lord Bacon with his well-know beard , has , and ruf f , but otherulse
arrayed In the cost;ume of a £ashlonable cour t lady , s tepplng alnclngly In hlgh-
heeled sllppers from the map of England onto the map of Europe.

BaCon's life after his mock funeral iu 1626 is exceedingly difficult to

recons txu ct . lie moved under a series of aliases chat defy ready penetration.
The consensus of research to date indicates that he lived for some twenty 7ears
working with hls secret society as its hidden master.”

There seems to be a consplracy of silence about Bacon's burial place and

much mystery surrounds it. His tomb is still unknown; and eveo lf fouQd, he
is certainly not in it. The following personal friends report his death at
their
four different houses: Dr. Fuller, historian; Dr. Sprat, first president of the
ROy al. Socle I y ; Dr . sAl11 , second pxes Ident ; and Dr . Rawley , Bacon' s chapla In and
amaoeuenals. Ooe says he dled at the house of Lord Arundel at Highgate; another
at his frieod's, Dr. Parry in Loodon; a third at his cousin's, Sir Julius Caesar
at Muswell Htll aQd 8 fourth at the house of the physician Dr. Wloterbourne.
Nothing was recorded of a funeral; and there are doubts that lt took place,
which Some
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iS ge, considering Bacou's universal fame, achlevements and respect.
stT8o speak of a monk-funeral followed by his departure for Germany.
the Die tiom o f Natiomt Biogz'a9hy
says that Francie Bacon was born at
York House on January 21, 1561, as the of Lord Keeper Bacon and his wife AoA.
son

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He died at Lord Arundel's house on April 9, 1626 as the result of a chill or
bronchitis, aod was buried at St. Michael's Church, St. AlbaQs. However, wheQ
his tomb was examined by hie successor, the se:ond Lord Perulem, it was found
to be empty! Udney says he had a feigoed deeth, the customary practice of
philoso- phers in order to conceal their identity-by disappearing from ond
part of the world aQd reappearing in another pert uAder a new name and
appearmoce. We ahell see later that BacoQ has two subsequeQt feigoed deaths,
as Prince Rakoczy and as Comte de St. Germaio.

HoweveE, che conventional view concerning Bacon' s death expressed by be

Dioliona:ry of Outlet Biography 1s ques tloned by. Burn In his L? ghL on Frer-

fuoerel’ or of his place of burial," Adding, "Evidence has beeo recently brought
to light that Bacon's executore refused or delayed to act, eAd after 15
months, letters of admioistratioo were glven to two of his creditors. Ris
debts were
22 371 pounds and his as sees 7000 pounds .

Burt quotea from a letter of Nrs. C. M. Pott to him in 1898, that she hed
beeo seen the late Earl of.perula in England who told her that all he koew
about Bgcon's burial was that he was not buried in the vaults uoder the Church
of
St. Michael's as he and others had made a thorough exemioatlon before the crypt
wae bricked up. Dne of the posthumous elegies written by Bacon in Germany in
Latio, refers to hic being 80 years of age at the time.

Mrs. OeQry Pott, iQ #zmnc/s BQcon Qnd his 8scret Society, published lO
London in 1911, says about Bacon'a mysterious death: "In 1626 he died to the
world--retired, aQd by the help of maQy friends, uQder maoy Oames aDd
disguises, pa9sed to meny places. As a recluse, he lived a life of study,
revising a mass of works published uoder hls pen oemes, enlargiog end addlng
to their number.
They form the standard literature of the 17th century. Collatloo of many works
sod omny editions led and gradually forced the present writer into the bellef
that our Fraoois lived to a very great age; that he was certainly alive’ mod
work- ing in 1640, aod that evidence spoke io favor of hls being still
influencing his Society io 1662. Some years after these conclusions had been
reached aQd com- municated to some very learned German correspondents, one
wrote recalllog this correspondence, aAd making this clear aod positive
statemeot: Francis St. Alban, the 'Mague,' the 'Miracle Nan,' died at the age
of 106-7 ln the year 1668." A portrait was also sent representing him lo
Geneva with gown sod ehorteñed hair, as he appeared when he retired from tñe
old age figures as .the couQterfeit pre- sentment of the Rosicruciao Father,
"Johano Valentioe Andreas," at the.beginning of a work passing under his
pseudonym. ’

"We have, aa yet, no reliable information as to the death of Francis St.

Alban, or Father or Peter X. We have no record of aoy person-who witnessed his
death, or who attended the funeral. We are lgQoraQt as to'where he was
buried."

Mr9. Pott does not give the oeme o: address of'her correspondent or where
Bacon was buried or any evideQce in 1668 any stronger than df Rio death in
1626. If Bacon really died iQ 1668, he could uot have been Saint-Germaio, who
is said to have lived from 1710 to 1780 or 1785, but elQce Mrs. Pott admits
there was no evidence of his death, there is every probabllity that after being
last seen in Germaoy'he traveled west as the mysterious "Polish Rider" wbo was
the author of Route de Ibnths andlater appearing In 9enlce , In 1710 , as Count
Saint Remain. This remarkable adept evidently was a master of the art of
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rejuvenation aDd pro- longing ’life.

E. Francls Udny , in his Wter Rica fsona o f rrenc?s Bacon , traces b-1s
history after he left EQglaQd. The author was careful to use the word "iQcaroa-

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tioos" not ”reincarnatioos,' which supports his statement about the habit of
great adepts to appear to die ln ooe part of the orlé ooly to reappear in
other places uoder Qew Oemes, in order to. coQceal their identity. thus BacoQ
re- appeared in Europe ae Count Saint-Germeln, his true ueme being kept an
iQviolable seoret for rea9oos of personal security. When Cross examined his
favorite sub- terfuge wae to say that he waa ao heir of the royal’ house of
Rakoczy in Transyl- vania, a›prince denied his throne. This latter'statement
was correct, escept that the throne he was denied did not exist in HuQgary but
in Englaod.

For certain mysterious reasons, the later nemee assumed by Francis Bacoo
after his feigned death in England„ whem he reappeared on the Continent, have
always been a cloeely guarded secret;-end sioce he was aQ uncrowned king of
England whose life might be lmperilled were his true identity made koowo, ’we can
understood the reasons for t51s secrecy, which he insisted tbat members of his
secret orders strictly observe. And in order to safeguard the suspioioo. that
Francis Bacon and Couot Saint-Germain were the sgme individu&l at two
different periods o[ his loog life arose the theory that Saint-Germein was a
reirccrmztiou of Bacon, now held by the Rosloruclans in San Jose, California.
ThIa fs ob- viously imposslble, as the historical facts will reveal.’ It
would. have beeo pOssible lf Bacoo reelly died in Englaod'at the time he was
eupposed to have
.died, but not if he passed througb a feigQed death and reappeared ln Europe
uoder another oeme or rather man7 Other nemea. Since when CouQt Saint-
Germain
ceme upon the European scene in 1710, he looked like a maQ who was 40 to 45
years
o[ age, aod slnce Bacon cootinued to live a long life after his mock funeral
in England iQ 1624, the theory of reiocaroation must be dlscounted.

Prince Udny, In his book referred to above shows pt ctures of Bacon,

Rakoczy: and Count Saim-Ger aln, and chains that each was a d1 f f erenc "incarna-
tion" In a very amblglous sense, for since Sa1nt-Gerua1n and Prince Rakoc zy were
contemporaries (Saiot-Germaio having been flrst seeQ iQ Venice in 1710, while
Rakoczy, who was alive at this time, did not pass through hls feigoed death
until 1735), ceztaioly Saint-Germaio could no: have been a "reincarnatloo of
Rakoczy, any more than he could have beeo a reincarnation of Bacon, who left
GermaQy in 1670 as the "Polish Rider" two years after his supposed death in
1668, aQd, after delivering the dlscourses of the Comte de Gabalis to Abbe
HoQfaucon
de Millars, cootiQued.to live under the nsmes of Rakoczy, Signor Gualdl; and
Count Saint-Germaln. . And s knee when Countess de Gergy saw htm In 1710 , he looked
45 years of age, though he was probably much older, he could not have been
able
.to reincarnate. so rapidly from the body- of Bacoo' ss the Pollsh”Rider into that
oI Count Saint-Germain; who'claimed he was a”mezber of the royal house of
Rakoezy, vrho was edu cated by the Hed1cls .

Udny claims that the belief that Saint-Germain was the son of Prince
Rakoczy of Transylvania 1s erroneous , because , due to his age ; ' he could
no t have been other than the Prince hlmself, who was known to have been a
ptofound philoso- pher. And since, as Udny claims, he passed through a
"philosophical death" as Francis Bacon In 162.6, as Francis Rakoczy In } 7.35 and
as Count Saint-Germaln In 1784, it is clear that the various "incarnationd'but
rather feigned deaths snd reappearances under the new o•mes lQ other
countries, which is what ”philosophi- ca1 death" wh1ch he mentions In Us CoinLe de
Gabahis (referring to his depar,ture from England af ter his suppo sed.
bur1a1 and r eappearanee In Germany , usIng the neme of Valentine Andreas),

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implies. It is well known that many members of European secret societies had
feigned deaths to conceal their identity, after reappearing in other pgrts o£
the world with a changed appearance aOd a new oame.
That was what Franc1s Bacon, PrInce of England , dld when he reappeared In the
courts oi Europe uoder the Qame of Couot Salnt-Germain.

Manly Rall, ooe of the greatest modero authorities on Salnt-Germain, whose

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ldentlty wlth Francis Bacon he realizes but dares not opeoly declare, except
in vague hints, as if it is some dread secret that 1t 1s forbidden to reveal,
re- marks that he "was so near a synonym for mystery thst the enigma of his
true identity was as insolvable to hla contemporaries as it ’has been to later
i0- veetigators." But, after reading thls book, the writer hopes that this
mystery will be solved io the reader's miod. Saint-Germaio was not a "later
incardatioo of Francis Bacon“ as claimed by Udny and Manly Hg11 (though iQ the
smme breath both edmit the possibility of physlcurl cootiouity of the same
personality through a series of feigned deaths), but was the same man at two
different stegee of his unusually long life--unusual for the .profane but not
for the alchemical edept.

It 1s the writer's convi•tiou tbat Francis Bacon never died, aince his
grave waa fouod empty after his burial; agd that therefore his layer
appearance as Saint-Germein was oot a result of reincarnation but of altered
name aQd appeara0te. sa1ot-Germaln was none other thao Bacon with hts beard
removed, who , as an uncrowned Mng of England , whose llf e
won ld not be saf e were thls
secret revealed, which would open him to attack by other aspirants for the
throne, vhose moral scruples were not higher than those of the characters he
deser lbed wheo he wrote the historical Shâkespeare plays, the reasons for
secrecy aAd
change of Qamea wa9 obvious, for it gave hlm a degree of freedom of action be
othemiee would not have. How long would hls life be safe were it koown who he
reelly wast Like the sword of Democles, this dread secret hovered over him
throughout hie llfe down through the centuries and explains the
mysteriousness that eurrounds him and why, in spite of the geoeral bellef in
his royal birth and his owo occasional sllueiona to it, he conslstently
refused to reveal his true origin and identity, which his natural bearing and
manner of dealiQg with the crowned head9 oI Europe uomietakebly reveals to
the carefu1 observer.

Another of Bacoo's masks was that of Prince Francis Rakoczy of

Traosylvania, whicb was his favorite subterfuge as Count Saint-Germain when
questioned about his true name and origin. Thls Oame he assumed after that of
Comte de Gabalia mod both before and after he used the name of Count Saint-
Germain. Regarding
the claim that Bacon assumed the u&me of Prince Rakoczy prior to his
appearance as Count Saint-Germ&in, the following members of the Rakoczy
line in Tr lv8nie are
recorded In the Enaryy Sped Bvit term.oa i

George I (1591-1648)
George II (1621-1660)
Francis I (1645-1676)
Francis II (1676-1735)
Since Mre. Pott believes that he "died” io 1668; it waa probably at this
time that he loet his prior identlty as Bacon and Andreas and went to
southeast- em Europe where he used the neme of:Francis II, Prince of
Transylvania, inter- chaogably with that of Slgnor ’Gualdi and Couot Saint-
Germain, finally using chiefly the latter and resortiog ’to the Rakoczy name only
wheo cross-examined ae to his origin end real same.

To claim that he was a las t surviving member of an extinct call royal house
in Rungary was a very convenient manner of putting questioners off the track,
in view of the fact that he evidently was of royal breeding by hls appearance
and mannerism which would requme some kind of explanat ton. So , 3ust aa he pre-
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viously used the name of Valentioe Andreas, a living German theologian--and
prob- ably with his consent and cooperation--so he later used the oame of
Francis II, Prince of Zransylvenla, who was also living unc11 1.7.35, when he
undervrenc a
I elgned deat-h, af ter Chi ch It was much easter f or SaInc-Germaln to claim he was a
Vkoczy.

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Valentlne Andreas to use his name, so he obtained from the retired PFioce
Rakoczy before his I elgned deaeh , In 1735, though detec tion of are lmpos ter
usIng his oaae would be very embarrass Ing for the Pr Once. Theo sophls ts st1l1 call
Sa1nt-Gemaln
"haster R," or Rakoczy, unaware of the fact that- bo th Saint-Cereiain and Pr knee
Rakoczy were contemporaries and probably I r lends .

In 1615, while residing io England, Bacon sent to Valentine Andre'as his

Rosicruciao disciple in Germany, the "Confessio" sAd "Fama Fratemltatls,"
otherulae knots as the Rost crucian Nan1f es toes , which he 1ssued under ‘tits name
aod which had a powerful influence oo European thought since they first props
gated the ideals of the French end American Révolutlone: Liberty, Equality
and Fratero1ty„. ’INe XTcVmiom2 Huge, another Rosicrucian work that Bacon’
simi- larly published and spread through Valentine Andreas at about thé'isme
time ’as the Rosicrucian Manifeetoes. Later, when he: came to GermeDy, he
continued to issue his wrltlngs while using Andreas as his mask.

Ae *abou t 1670, Bacon decided to travel wes tuard ; and appear"ed as the I
anous Polish Rlder who delivered a series' of d1scourses to Abbe Nonf ancon de
Millars ;
that the Abbe later. publlshed as a mys terlous book, Comte de Godn'lie , whlch t! ya •
appeared anonymous lyand which was subsequently repr lnted In' l715 , 1742 and
later In 1910 which edition had a pt cture of the Pollsh Rider on the f rontls-
piece , represented as being the unknown author who ease from the dlreetion of
Germany.

The 1742 edition contained the name of Abbe floo€aucon de Villars as the
author. Io the 1910 edition, there appeared-ao account of the life of the
Abbe, who is supposed to have been assassinated in 1673, three years after
the book flrst appeared. Llke msDy of his craft, however, the true’ p1'ace of
his burial lg uDboowo. Perhaps he only "preteoded to dte, as is the way °f
Philo9ophera, who feigo death in one place only to transplant themselves- to
aoother," as the book says.

Cooceroing the eQigmatical passiQg of Francis Bacon, Ra#ley in’ his Feâucci-
tAtio, published in 1670, two years after his secood feigned death end the
year when he left Germany and appeared in western Europe as the Polish Rider,
just Francis Bacon "made a holy aod humble tetreat to the cool éhades oi
rest, where he remaioed triumphant over fare and fortuoe, till heaven was
pleased to surmoo him to a more glorious and triumphaot rest," which meaos
that after he left England he made his retreat in GermaQy, to commence anew,
under the nmse of Val- entine Andreas, the work he commenced in England under
the equally fictitious name of Fran ct s Bacon , s Ince his true name was F.ranc1s
Tudor ; Prince of England .

Since Bacon appeared in Westero Europe to Abbe Moofauton de Villars in 16-70

as the’ mysterious Poli'sh Rider, we cao well understand the orlgin of the beliéf
that In 1668; two years b4fore, he died in Germany, since he probably left
and disappeared at this time, just as 44 years previously, in 1624, he
disappeared from Eogland, when he was supposed to have died. As the Polish
Rider, he trav- eled westward from Germany, which he left in 1668; and two years
late'r, io 1670, he vieited the Abbe xonfaucon de Villars and delivered the
dlscourses of the
Comte de GmbclCs. He appeared to be about 40 years oI age, though he really
was much more. This means that his "death" in 1668, referred to by Mrs. Pott,
was
as f elgned as his death In 16.24 Millars in 1670.
have delivered the discourses of
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1668, he could oot

The
FEanco1s Polish Rider then went southeast aod probably come to Hungary to visit
R8kOCzi Il, member of the royal house of Transylvania, who was crowed

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by thet title by his baroQs, though he never actually relgned. fle probably
re- vealed to hlm his great secret, namely that of his royal birth in England,
and begged him to permlt him to use him as a mask, as he formerly used the
actor Shakspere aod the GermaQ theological, ValeQtine Andreas, to whlch
Rakoczi, who was a devout man, an ldeeJist and philosopher, coQsented, giving
him the right to use his nane as the occasion demanded .

From that time onward, we find Bacon, now koown in ItalY, where he was
koowo as Signor Gusldi aod later as Count Saint-Germain, using the name of Prince
Rakoczi from time to time, as he did in Leipzig in 1777, according to George
Rezeklel, and at timec changing it to Graf Tzarogy, which was an anagram for
Ragotsy (Rakoczy).

Thus there were two Prlnce Rakoczys living simultaneously, who spent much
of his time ln a monastery near Paris, hidden frOm the world; &Dd the other his
counterfeit, Bacon or Saint-Germslo, which may have been mo embarrassing situa-
tion for both when this fact was discovered, which was relieved by the feigned
death of Rako czy ln 1735, coneernlng wh1ch we quote érom the book, looka
£akoczC ff, Prince o§ Trenauzuan ," which gives detalls of the events
preceding the Prince's death, with extracts from letters of a certain Clement
Mike, who was evidently devoted to him emd was with hlm to the end. Mike'e
account is as follows. "God made uG orphans at three o'clock in the borning"
(Good Friday, the 8th of April, 1735)" by taking from us our dear Master aOd
Father. The body was all ready to lie in state in a palace where for three days
a religious service wes held. All could see the body; at one time there were
thirty Turks present; but, ln spite of that, people do not believe that the
Prioce is dead. They say that someone else was dressed up on his clothes and
that he himself is gone
away. How I wish It were true'"
In this 1742 edition of the book which bore the Qame of Comte de Gdbelia,
appeared a commentary which opeQed with the following explaDatlon of the
origiD of the book: "Paracelsus says of the practice of Philosophy: 'Thls Art
is taught by Sabahs (the spiritual perception of man).' These words iQspired
the title of the Comts de Gd%ICs, which veiled the identity of the great
teacher
from whom the instructions con:ained ln these discourses was received. The
Comte'' true oame will be widely recognized." His true nsme at this time was
Francis Bacoo, a secret which could not be revealed.

Commenting on the above introductory statement in the Joke de AbATis, E. F.

Udny, in bis Lztsr fncarnmtCona o/ frnucis icon, remarks: "It will indeed.
Who else can he be than Francis Bacon, Vicount St. Alban, who di8 not really die
till 1668, two years before the Discourses were first printed2" But Manly Hall,
writing on "The Can Who Does No t Die, ” In qn lncroductlon to h:Is - As Cost to th
Try osophfi , by Gount Salnt-Germaln , says: ”There . 1 s a tendency among Sys tical
writers to conoect him with the’ mysterious Comte de Sabahs who appeared to
Abbe Millars aod delivered several discourses. how lf the author of the Comte
de GdbQlCa was Francis Bacon, accordiQg to Manly Hall, if both are true, the
conclu- sion is obvious that both Bacon and Saiot-Germain Were one and the smAe
person.

The author of the Comte de AbAais, hinting at what he dared not express,
mentions a felgned'death, of a man changing hi9 name, mnd to a certain extent
his personal appearance, and reappearing in some other'part of the world as a
differ- ent character; and of whom could he be speaking other than himself† In
this bool we read:

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 "Io the higher degrees of the Order, a Philosopher has pswer to abandon
One phyeical body no longer suited for his purpose; and to occupy another
previously prepared for his uee. This transition is called ao Avesa, and
accounts for the

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fact that meny Masters knowo to history seemingly oever die. The Comte de
Gebalis is himself a ooteworthy example of this temporal lmmortality." To
every- thing there 1s a season, aQd a tlme for every purpose uQder the heaven;
a time
to be boro and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that
which is planted" (Ecclesiasties III, 1 and 2).

Udoy comments oo this: "None is better qualified to speak oQ thie subject

than the aoooymoug author of the above passage who was himself the Comte de
Gabslis, giver of the in9tructioQs contained in the Discourses on which he ie
commenting. Re ls also an exalted Brother of the "Order o[ Philosophers" and
has io his own pereon carried out three mysterious deaths--as Bacon in 1626, as
Rakoczy in 1735, mod as Saint-Ger-io in 1784. In all three cases, he was care-
ful to leave behlnd no actual proof that he was still llving iQ the world."

The writer does not egree with fidQy in claiming that he pa9eed through
a feigned death in 1735 aa Prince Rakoczy. It was Rakoczy himself, a
distinct iodivldual, who did so. The only feigned deaths that Bacoo had was
his "death" io England in 1624, perhaps his "death" in Europe iQ 1668, emd
his later feigned death as Salot-GermalQ in 1784, 160 years later. Rls
calling himself Rakoczy has nothing to do with the death of’ the real
Rakoczy, feigned or otherwise, in 1735, at whleh time SaInt-Ceraaln atas active
In European af I a1r9 under the Latter name, usEng the name Rakoczy only
occaslonally to conceal his or1gin as son of Queen Ellzabeth and heir to the
Engllsh throne.

Again 1n 1784 we fiod aoother feigned death of a mysterious Individual

who went by the name of Couot Saint-Germain, concerning him Gustav Bord
said, "Re misled people by silence up to his last hour, and his devoted
followers allow
him to do so still, as it were from the tomb makiQg hlm arlse from it and to
live agaio, and to go about even in our own day."

Udny writes that betweeQ 1713 and 1717 we find Rakoczy liviog Qeer
Paris; aQd he ideQtiEies him with Coun: Saint-Germain and Francis Bacon. But
this can not be, because In 1710 he was seen in Veoice aQd used :he neme of
Couot Saiot- Germain. It must, therefore, hsve been the real Prlnce Rakoczy
who 1ived'near Paris at thia time. The following is quoted from a letter by
the Duchess of Orleaos, wrltteQ at this time, quoted in /rcncoia 5Qflcsy,
PrCsoe de '/rQnsyI- Usnio: “The Prioce Rakoczy is living about five or six
leagues from Paris in a house of mooks, who are called Camaldule9 and whose
rule of life is almost as
‹strlct as that of Charteux. Re lives with them as though he were one of
them, takes part in their prayers and vigils, mod fasts frequently.' The
Duchess des- cribes him as follows: "He (Rakoczy) is a splendid man aod
intellectual. Ue has read mucb aQd has koowledge oo all subjects." It is
probable that Saiot- Germein koew Rakoczy, since’ their manoer of.liviog were
not far apart; emd that Rakoczy, who lived in retirement, permitted him to use
hls neme.' Also, to pre- veot difficulties arisiQg from Saint-Germain induced
him to undergo a feigned death in 1735. Of course these are only the writer's
conjectures, for which he canuot offer any definite proof.

It 1s, however, true that Saint-Germain openly appeared in Leipzig in

1717 as Prince Rakoczy and was also known as Graf Tzarogy, a Russian general
which name was mereiy an anagram :f or Rago tzy (Ra coc zy)
In addition to his claiming that he was really a prince of the line of
Rakoc zy , In ord er to conceal his true origin, was the parallel legend he fos-
tered that he was raised by the MediCiS‹ His admirer, Prince Charles of Hesse,
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evidently believed both of these pretenses of his, as iodicated by his
statement:

”Thls Rio use (fiedl ct) , as 1s well lmoun , was In possession of the hlghes t

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koowledge from them; but he claimed to have learned that of Nature by his own
applicatloo and researches. Me thoroughly uQderstood herbs and plaots aod had
invented the medicioes of which he constantly omde use, whlch prolonged his
life aod health. I stlll have all his reclpes, but the physicians ran riot
against his science after hls death. There was a physician, Lo9seau, who had
been an apothecary, aod to whom I gave 1200 fraocs a year to work at the
medicines whioh
Count Saint-Germaln taught hla, amonB others eh£eI1y his tea , Chi ch the rich
bought and the poor received gratls . "

Caesar Csntu, librarian of the great library of Milan, in his historical

work, 2T5:mtafi JteâCn ni, wrote: "The Harquis of San Germano appears to
have beeo the son of Prince Rakocay of Transylvania; he was also much io Italy;
much is recounted of hie travels in Italy and Spain; he was greatly protected
by the laet Grand Duke of Tuscaoy, who had educated him." It was also said
that he was educated at the University of Siena. Mme. de Genlls, in her
memoirs, megtioos having heard of him i0 Siena during a visit she paid to the
towo. It wae claimed that he was a protege of the last Medict. however, it is
probable that this
claim, like t5e one that he was a Rakoczy, was false and was a subterfuge his
of
to ccnceal h1s true origin and identity.

From the above evideQce, it iG clear that Francis Bacon, author of the
Shakespeare plays, did not die at the time when he was supposed to have io
1626. Felgoed death was a common practice among a group Of philosophers of e
certain order to whlch he belonged and of which he was the leader. The burial
place of Francia Bacoo hgs oever been divulged, sioce it was unkQown; and it
was uokoowo because it did not exist. While he was supposed to have died iQ
1626 at the age of 65, it is significant that a rare print made in Germany by
PaleQtioe Andreas, who was author of certain Rosicrucian tracts of profound
iQfluence in thelr time, appeared to be a portrait of Lord BacoQ at the age of
80, fifteeo years after hls feigned death io England at the age of 65. He
had now growo a loQg beard. The picture depicts a helmet, four crosses aod
the St. Andrew's cross, aQd the arms of St. Alban's towo. These symbolized :he
fact that RacoQ was residlQg in Germany, directing the work of the politlcal
and philosophical fraternlty which he originated in Eoglaod duriQg tñe previous
century and which was koown as the society of Rosicrusse-Freemasons.

We may d1vide Bacon's long life into the following chrono1ogic&l periods:

1561: 1822:
1561-1624:
1624-1670:

1670:

1687:

1710:

1710-1784:

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His Signor Gualdl •
bir
th His reappeareoce in Venice as Count Saiut-Germaln.
as
Fre His labors in Europe aa Couut Saint-Germain, devoted chiefly
mzi to political activity, terminating in his felg0ed death in
s 1784.
Tud
or, When he was last seen in Europe, prior to his departure [or
son Tibet and 85 years' residence io the Far East.
of
Que
eo
Eli
zab
eth
.
His
lif
e
as
Fra
nci
s
Bac
on
in
Eng
lan
d.
HIe
residence iO
Germany
after his
feigned
daath and
departure
from Eng1and
In 1624 ,
doping wh1ch
he 1s sued his
wry Kings
under the
name of
Valentine
Andrevs .

Hls departure
from Germany
as the Polish
Rider and
appearance in
wes tern and
southern
Europe.

ltte appearance
In Venice as

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 1925: His reappearance iQ the West when seen at a Masonic con-
vention iO France in this year.
1933: Hls sending a letter to the hesd of a Co-Naeonic Society
lu San Jose, Costa Rica.
1960: Probably still living. '

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THE fiYSZERIOIJS ROS ICRUCM L'HO SAS THE FAZHER

OF THE ANERI GAS REPUBi.IC

Throughout his llfe , Francis Bacon’ s f ondes e hope was the ereatlon ot a
Utopia across the Atlantic, the realization of his "New Atlemtis" in the form
of a soclety o£ free men, governed by sages and eeientl sts , :tn wh1ch his Freemasons c
and Rosicruclan priQcip1ee¿would govern the eocial„ politlcal aAd economic
life
of the oew oation. It was for this reason. why, as Lord Chancellor, he took
such ao active interest in the colonisation of America, end why he seot his eon
to #irgigia as one of. the early colonists. For it was in America, through the
pen
° Thomas Paine and- the writings of Thomas Jefferson, as well ae through the
revolutiooaryactivities of his maoy Rosicrucian-Freemasonic followers; most
prominent among whom were George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, thst he
hoped to create a new nation dedicated to his political phllosophy.

In his Seere I Dec Any o f Melee, *an1y Hall , Bacon’ s mos t under s tandlng
modero scholar, refers to the appearance in America, prior to the signiég of
the Declaration of IQdepeodeoce iQ 1776, of a mysterious Rosicrucian
philosopher, a stritt vegetarian who ate only foods that grew above the
ground, who Was a frlend aod teacher of Franklin and Washlngton and who
seemed to have played an importaot role io the fouodiQg of the Qew republic.
Why most historians failed to mentioQ him is a puzzle, [or that he existed is
a cer:ainty.

He was boown as the "Professor." Together.with Franklin and WashiQgton,

he was a member of the committee selected by the ContiAeQtal Coogrees io 1775
to create a desigo for the American Flag. The desigo he made was accepted by
the committee aod giveo to Betsy Ross to execute ioto the firat %odel.

A year later, on July 4, 1776, this mysterious stranger, whose o&me

nobody koew, suddeoiy appeared in Independence Hall and delivered a stirring
address to the fearful meo there gathered, who were woodering whether they
should risk their lives as traitors by affixing their Qames to the memorablé
document which T5omas Jefferson wrote aQd of whose ideals Francis Bacon,
fouoder o£ Freemasonry aod Rosicrucianism, was the true originator.

The flag uofurled at GmDbridge, Mass. in 1775, which the Professor

desigoed, symbolized the union of the colonies; it was called the Grand Union
Flag, and
its desigQ waa as follows: In the blue field of the upperleft-hand coroer waâ
the white diagonal cross of St. Andrews. .Imposed on this was tbé Red Cross,
which was given the name of St. George. The thirteeo stripes, eeveQ of red and
six of white, alternating in the flag, reptesented the thirteen ooloQles.

The flag was used for some time, but owing to its similarity with the
British'flag, which supposedly symbolized the unity of EQgland aQd Scotland,
con- siderable controversy aroae over It. In order to overcome thia objection,
in 1776 it was decided to design another flag which would follow the spiFit of
the original design; aod the inverted triangle over the upright triangle,
generally kQown as the St. Aodrew!s Cross, a {asonic symbol of Kabbalistic
Origiu and de- Qoting that the originator of the fl8g was a Freemason and
Rosicrucian, was pre- served by usiog a six-pointed star, placed in irreguLer
fashion on a blue back- ground iu the form of a new constellation.
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other- wise koown as Betsy Ross, to get her cooperation in making the flag, the
five-

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pointed star appealed to her as beiog more beautiful than the six-pointed
star oi the Professor's original desigQ which the co #ttee accepted. Heoce,
out of deference to her seQae of beauty, the five-pointed s:ars were used
instead, and thlrteeQ of them were placed in a clrcle oo a blue fiela with
the standard seveQ red aod six white stripes completing the flag.

This sample flag was made just before the Declaration o[ IndepeQdence, al--
though the resolution endorsing it was not passed by the Oootioental CoQgress un-
tiLJuly 14, 1777.

A second time did this mysterious straQger, the "Professor," whose name
and origin was uokQowo, pay a vltal role in American history. This time it
wes at the sigolng of the Declaration of Independence. It was on June 7,
1776, that Richard Benry Lee, a delegate from Virginia; offered iQ Congress tbe
first resolu- tion declaring that the United Colonies were, aQd of right’ ought
to be, free and independeot states. Sooo after Mr. Lee iQtroduced his
resolution, he was taken sick aQd returned to his home in Virgioia; whereupon
on’ June 11th, 1776, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin FraQklin, Roger
Shermao and Robert Livingston were appointed as a committee to prepare a
formal Declaration of IodepeQdeQce.

On tbe firat of July, 1776, ’the commlttee made its report to Congress.
0m the second of July; Lee's resolution was adopted in its origiQal words.
During the third of July, the formal DeclaratioQ of Independence was
reported by the committee pod debated with great eothufiasm. The discussion
was resumed on the fourth, Jefferson havlng been elected as chairman of the
committee.

0o July 4th, there was great suspeose throughout the natioQ. Many were
ad- verse to severing the ties with the mother country; aQd maoy feared the
vengeance of the king and his armles. Nany battles had been fought already,
but no declsive vlttory had been won by the rebel colonists. Each man iQ the
ContineQ- ta1 Congress realized as Patrick Heory did that it was eltñer
Liberty or Death.
A rash move could mean death. After all, they were not free but subjects of a
king who cons ldered them as r ebels and could puntsh them ac cordlngly . They could
be convicted for treason aod put to death.

Just what connectioQ did themysterious stranger who”designed the

American flag and encouraged t5e signing of’ the Declaration of lodependence
heve to Francis Bacon or CouQt Saiot-Germain? Writing on this subJect, Maoly
Hall says:

"Many times the question bas beem asked, Was Francis Bacon's visioo of
the "New Atlantls" a prophetic dremm of the great civilization which was so
soon'to rise upon the soil of the New World7 It ’cannot be doubted that the
secrét So- cieties of Europe conspired to establish upon'the American
continent 'a new nation cooceived in liberty and dedi'catedzto the'propositiou’
that all ’men are created equal.' Two incideotu iz the'ear1y history of the United
States' evidence the influeQce of that secret body, which has so long guided
the destinies of peoples and religions. By them oatlons are created as
vehicles for the promql- gation of ideale, aQd whlle natlons are true to these
ideals they survive; when they very from them, they vanish.like the Atlantis
of old which had ceased to
’ Imovr the gods . ’ ”

IO his admirable little treatise, "Our Flgg," Robert Allen Campbell revives
the details of an obscure, but most important, episode of American history--the
desigoing of the ColoQial flag of 1775. The -acdount involves a mysterious men

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concerDing whom no information is available other than that he was oQ’fami1Iar
terms With both General Washington and Dr. Benjamin Franklin. The following
des- criptioQ of him is taken from Campbell's treatise:

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 "Llttle seems to have beeQ koowo concerning this old gentleman; and in
the materials from which this account is compiled, his name is not even oQce
men- tioned, for he is uniformly spoken of or referred to as 'the Professor.'
He was evidently far beyoQd' his threescore and teo years; and he often referred
to his- Lorlcal events of more than a century previous j use as If he had been a 1 lying
witness to thelr occurreu ce; s t1l1 he was érect , vigorous and active--hale,
hearty and-clear-minded, a9 strong’”aud:energetic every way the pr1ae oC
as'iu
hue. He was tall , of Ilne f1gure , perfectly very d lgnlf led In Ms' man-
easy,
Oers, being at once courteous, gracious aAd commanding. be was, £or thoee
tlaes , and considering eha cuBtñ as o1 the” Colonists , very peculiar In’ his metñod
of living; for he ace -no flesh , fowl or f lsh; he never used for -food any ' green
thing ' ,. any zoo ts or any thing unrlpe; he drank no liquor , wine ‘or ale ; buc con-
fined his diet to oer4als and their prodñcts, fruits that were ripened on the
stea 1a t:he sua, nuta ; zat1d tea and the sczee8 o:g honey, sugar aad’'ao1asses.

”He was well educated, hlghly cultivated; of extensive as well as varied in-
:f ormatlon ,. and .very s tudlous . tie spent considerable of his the In the patient
aod persistent scannlng of a rumber tf very rare old books and ancient maoñ-
scripts which he seemed to be dediphdring, translating or re writing. These
books , and aanuscr lpt a , Toge ther with his ohm wr ltlngs he nevé r showed’ to any-
ooe; emd he did not even mention them io hls oooVersations vttñ thb'femlly, ex-
cept io the most casual way; and he alwaya locked them up carefully iQ a
large,
old-faehioned, cublcally shaped, iroQ-bound, heavy oaken chest, wheoever he
left his room, eveo for his meals. He took long and frequent walks alooe, sat
oQ the brows of the nelghboring hllls, or mused in the mid9t of the greeo aud
flower- gemmed meadows. He was fairly liberal--but iQ no way lavlsh--iu
speoding hie money, with which he was well supplied. He was a quiet, though a
vety genial and very lnteresting member of the family; aod he was seemingly at
home upon emy and every topic coming up in conversation. Me was, lo short, oQe
whom everyone would notice and respect, whom few would feel well acquainted
with, aod whom no one would presume to questioQ coocerniQg himself--as to wheQce
he came, why he tarried or whlther be journeyed."

"By something more than a mere coincidence, the committee appoiQted by the
ColoQlal Coogress to design a flag accepted an invitation to be guests, while
at Cambridge, of the family with which the Professor was staying. It was here
tbat GeQeral Washlngton joined thee for the purpose of deciding upoo a fittiQg
emblem.
By the sigoa that passed between them, it was evideot that GeQeral Waghingtoo
end Doctor FrankliQ recognized the Professor, and by uQanimous apptoval, he
was invited to become an active member of the committee. Duriog the
proceedings which followed, the Professor was treated with the most profound
respect and all his suggestioQs immediately acted upoo. Re submltted a
pattern which he con- sidered symbolically appropriate for the new flag, and
this was unheaitatingly accepted by the six other members of the committee,
who voted that the arrange- meot suggested by the Professor be forthwith
adopted. After the episode of the
I lag, the Prof eesor quockly vanlshed; and no thing I ur ther 1s known concerning his.

"Did General Washington aud Doctor Franklin zecogni*e t5e Professor aa an

emissary of the Mystery School which has so long controlled the political
desti- nies of this plaQet2 Benjamin Franklin was a phlloeopher aud a
Freemason--poe- aibly a RosicruciaQ initiate. He aod the Nerquis de
Lafayette--also z mao of m7stery--constitute two of the important links In
the chaiQ of circumstaoce that culmioated in the establishment of the
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original thirteen American colonies as a I ree and lndependent nanton. Dr .
Franklin' s phllosophle at talnments are well
attes4-ed In Poor RRend 'c A lmanae, publls hed by hlm for many years under the name
of Richard Saunders • His :tnterest In the cause of Fr eemaaonry 1s also shoun In
his publlcae lori of Anderson' s Rons titutfins of Fz•e co ..

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 ”It was durlDg the evening o{ July 4„ 1776, that the secood o[ these
mysterious episodes occurred. In the old State Mouse in Philadelphia, a
group Of men were gathered for the momentous task o€ severing the tie betweeo
the old country aod the new. It was a grave momeot, and not a few of those
preseot feared that tbeir.liyeP would be the {orfelt for their audacity. In
the midst of the debate a flerce volce rang out. The deba2ers stopped and
turoed to look upon the s tranger. to was thls . man wh9 had suddenly
appeared la t heir midst nod had eiane£lxed t;iiea wlth his ozatoxy?Tliey had never
seen htm bedore, done koew when he hed eQtered, but his tell form and pale face
filled them wlth awe. Bis voice rioging with.a holy zeal, the stranger
stirred.them to their very* soule. Eis closiQg words rang through’ the
building, 'God has giveo ’America to be'free!' As the, straoger sank into a
chair exhausted, a wild enthusiasm buret forth. Name after neme was placed
qpon the parchment: the Declaratioo of IQ- dependence was sigoed. But where
was the mad who had precipitated.the:accomp- lishment o£ this immortal task--
who had lifted for a moment the veil £rom the eyes of the assemblage aod
revealed.to.them a part at least of the:'’great purpose
for which ehe new nation was concelvedf . Re had disappeared , nor was. he even
seeQ ’or his identity established. This episode parallels others o£ e-similar
recorded by ancient his toslans act:end ant upon che I oundlng of evexy new
nation. Are they eolncidence, or do ehey 1nd1cate chat the dlvlne wisdom o€ the
ancienr mysteries still is preseQt iQ the world, serving mankind as it dld
oi