86 societies.93 He concealed the role he played in designing the 94plans and machinery for the creation of his vision of a New World. His mother the Queen, ruling when half of her people questioned her legitimacy, feared the repercussions if the truth of her secret marriage and two sons were revealed. Indeed his mother, Queen Elizabeth 1, had almost been beheaded by her own sister, and had watched the first man who she had romanced be beheaded by her father for him being to forward. She had watched baby heirs to the throne be killed. Such barbarism is forgotten, and the Elizabethian age seems now to be only full of the glamour of romance. It was difficult and dangerous times, even for the Queen of England. Who was this great man? Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban, for over two decades the leader of the British Parliment's House of Commons, and later in life, on January 30,1621, a member of the House of Lords, the secret first son of the secret marriage between Lord Robert Dudley and Elizabeth Tudor.
[FIGURE 13 PHOTOCOPY 2 x 2.6] IN 1586 FRANCIS BACON PUBLISHED A BOOK CHOICE OF EMBLEMS WITH THIS PICTURE CONTAINING THE MASONIC PILLERS (Joachin and Boaz) & OTHER ESOTERIC SYMBOLS.
A GREAT BIRTHDAY PARTY On 22 January, 1621 in honor of Sir Francis Bacon's sixteeth birthday, a select group of men assembled without fanfare for a great Masonic banquet. This Masonic banquet was to pay tribute to their leader, Sir Francis Bacon. Only those of the Rosicrosse, the Rosicrucians, and the Masons who were already aware of Bacon's leadership role were invited. Bacon's favorite perfumes had been used. The meeting was at the Great Hall at York House, England (now known as Whitehall) . The tables were T-tables with gleaming white drapery and silver. Flowers decorated the Great Hall. A dear longtime friend of Bacon's, the famous English Poet Ben Jonson gave a Masonic ode to Bacon that day.-Jonson once remarked something like, "I95love the man (Bacon) and do honor his memory above all others." First, Ben Jonson toasted his friend. Next, one can picture this man with his strong face and long nose, and full, thick, and wavy hair, and short mustache and beard as he read out his ode in English. On Francis Bacon's Sixteeth Birthday Hail! Happy Genius of this Ancient Pile! How comes it all things so about thee Smile? The Fire? the Wine? The Men? and in the MIDST Thou STAND' ST as if some MYSTERY thou didst.96