A number of writers, some of whom were connected with Theosophy, have claimed that

Francis Bacon (22 January 1561 9 April 1626), the English philosopher, statesman,
scientist, jurist and author, was a member of secret societies; a smaller number claim
that he would have attained the Ascension and became the Ascended Master Saint
Germain.

Secret societies[edit]
Francis Bacon often gathered with the men at Gray's Inn to discuss politics and
philosophy, and to try out various theatrical scenes that he admitted writing.[1] Bacon's
alleged connection to the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons has been widely discussed
by authors and scholars in many books.[2] However others, including Daphne du Maurier
(in her biography of Bacon), have argued there is no substantive evidence to support
claims of involvement with the Rosicrucians.[3] Historian Dame Frances Yates[4] does not
make the claim that Bacon was a Rosicrucian, but presents evidence that he was
nevertheless involved in some of the more closed intellectual movements of his day.
She argues that Bacon's movement for the advancement of learning was closely
connected with the German Rosicrucian movement, while Bacon's The New Atlantis
portrays a land ruled by Rosicrucians. He apparently saw his own movement for the
advancement of learning to be in conformity with Rosicrucian ideals.[5]
In 1618 Francis Bacon decided to secure a lease for York House. This had been his
boyhood home in London next to the Queen's York Place before the Bacon family had
moved to Gorhambury in the countryside. After Lord Egerton (Lord Keeper of the Great
Seal of England) died, it became available for Bacon to lease. During the next four
years this mansion on the Strand (so large that it had 40 fireplaces) served as the home
for Francis and Alice Bacon. Over the next four years Bacon would host banquets at
York House that were attended by the leading men of the time, including poets,
scholars, authors, scientists, lawyers, diplomats, and foreign dignitaries. Within the
banquet hall, Francis gathered the greatest leaders in literature, art, law, education, and
social reform. On 22 January 1621 in honour of Sir Francis Bacon's sixtieth birthday, a
select group of men assembled in the large banquet hall in York House without fanfare
for what has been described as a Masonic banquet.[6] This banquet was to pay tribute to
Sir Francis Bacon. Only those of the Rosicrosse (Rosicrucians) and the Masons who
were already aware of Bacon's leadership role were invited.[7] The tables were T-tables
with gleaming white drapery, silver, and decorations of flowers. The poet Ben Jonson, a
long-time friend of Bacon, gave a Masonic ode to Bacon that day.
There was a depth of love by a large body of men toward Bacon, similar to some degree
in the manner that disciples love a Master.[8] This is especially true when taking into
account his membership (and some say leadership) of secret societies such as the
Rosicrucians and Freemasons.[6] In the inner esoteric membership, which included
Francis Bacon, vows of celibacy for spiritual reasons were encouraged.[9][10]

Faked death theory[edit]

Various authors[11][12] have written that there were indications that Francis Bacon had
gone into debt while secretly funding the publishing of materials for the Freemasons,
Rosicrucians, "Spear-Shakers", "Knights of the Helmet", as well as publishing, with the

assistance of Ben Jonson, a selection of the plays that they believe he had written under
the pen name of "Shake-Speare" in a "First Folio" in 1623.[13][14][15][16] Furthermore, they
allege that Bacon faked his own death, crossed the English Channel, and secretly
traveled in disguise after 1626 through France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and other
areas utilizing the secret network of Freemasons and Rosicrucians that he was
associated with. It is alleged that he continued to write under pseudonyms, as he had
done before 1626,[17] continuing to write as late as 1670 (using the pseudonym "Comte
De Gabalis").[18] Elinor Von Le Coq, wife of Professor Von Le Coq in Berlin, stated that
she had found evidence in the German Archives that Francis Bacon stayed after 1626
with the family of Johannes Valentinus Andreae in Germany.[19][20][21][22]
Basil Montagu, a biographer of Bacon, states in his "Essays and Selections":
Of his funeral no account can be found, nor is there any trace of the scite of the house
where he died.[23]
Beginning early in the 20th century in the United States, a number of Ascended Master
Teachings organizations[24][25][26][27] began making the claim that Francis Bacon had never
died. They believed that soon after completing the "Shake-Speare" plays, he had feigned
his own death on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1626 - doing so in Easter Sunday as a
symbolism [28] - and then traveled extensively outside of England, eventually attaining
his physical Ascension to another plane on May 1, 1684 in a castle in Transylvania
owned by the Rakoczi family.[29] Their belief is that Bacon took on the name "Saint
Germain" on that date, May 1, 1684, and became an Ascended Master.

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Jump up ^ Frances Yates, Theatre of the World, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969
Jump up ^ Bryan Bevan, The Real Francis Bacon, England: Centaur Press, 1960
Jump up ^ Daphne du Maurier, The Winding Stair, Biography of Bacon 1976.
Jump up ^ Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, pages 61 - 68,
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979
Jump up ^ Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, London and Boston: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1972
^ Jump up to: a b Helene H. Armstrong, Francis Bacon - The Spear Shaker, San Francisco,
California: Golden Gate Press, 1985 ISBN 0-9616288-0-4
Jump up ^ Alfred Dodd, Francis Bacon's Personal Life Story', Volume 2 - The Age of James,
England: Rider & Co., 1949, 1986. pages 157 - 158, 425, 502 - 503, 518 - 532
Jump up ^ Helen Veale, Son of England, India: Indo Polish Library, 1950
Jump up ^ Peter Dawkins, Dedication to the Light, England: Francis Bacon Research Trust,
1984
Jump up ^ Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1964
Jump up ^ Mrs. Henry Pott Francis Bacon and His Secret Society, (Reprint: Kessinger
Publishing 1997)
Jump up ^ William T. Smedley Mystery of Francis Bacon, London, 1912 (Reprint: Kessinger
Publishing 1997)
Jump up ^ C. P. Bowditch, The Connection of Francis Bacon, with the First Folio of
Shakespeare's Plays and with the Books on Cipher of his Time, Cambridge, 1910
Jump up ^ Ross Jackson, Shaker of the Speare: The Francis Bacon Story, The Book Guild Ltd.
2005
Jump up ^ Martin Pares, Knights of the Helmet, 1964
Jump up ^ W. C. F. Wigston, Bacon, Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians, London England,
1888 (Reprint: Kessinger Publishing, 1997) ISBN 978-1-56459-338-2

17. Jump up ^ Bertram Theobald, Enter Francis Bacon. The Case for Bacon as the True
"Shakespeare", England: Cecil Palmer, 1932
18. Jump up ^ Reginald Walter Gibson, Francis Bacon: A Bibliography of His Works and
Baconiana to the Year 1750, 1950
19. Jump up ^ Bertram Theobald, Francis Bacon Concealed And Revealed, London: Cecil Palmer,
1930
20. Jump up ^ Parker Woodward Francis Bacon London: Grafton & Co. 1920. pages 13, 121 - 135
21. Jump up ^ Hall, Manly P. The Secret Teachings of All Ages "An Encyclopedic Outline of
Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy Being an Interpretation
of the Secret Teachings Concealed within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of all Ages" H.S.
Crocker Company, Inc. 1928
22. Jump up ^ Richard Maurice Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness, A Study in the Evolution of the
Human Mind, Philadelphia, 1901. Contains an excellent chapter on Bacon's qualities,
consciousness and experiences and how they may have influenced his writings.
23. Jump up ^ Montagu, Basil (1837). Essays and Selections. p. 331. ISBN 978-1-4368-3777-4.
24. Jump up ^ Saint Germain Foundation. The History of the "I AM" Activity and Saint Germain
Foundation. Schaumburg, Illinois: Saint Germain Press 2003
25. Jump up ^ Luk, A.D.K.. Law of Life Book II. Pueblo, Colorado: A.D.K. Luk Publications
1989, pages 254 - 267
26. Jump up ^ White Paper - Wesak World Congress 2002. Acropolis Sophia Books & Works
2003.
27. Jump up ^ Partridge, Christopher ed. New Religions: A Guide: New Religious Movements, Sects
and Alternative Spiritualities Oxford University Press, USA 2004.
28. Jump up ^ Peter Dawkins, Dedication to the Light, England: Francis Bacon Research Trust,
1984
29. Jump up ^ Schroeder, Werner Ascended Masters and Their Retreats Ascended Master
Teaching Foundation 2004, pages 250 - 255

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