William Shakespeare

[Charlotte]

Before I get back into posting about Wilbur again, a few words today of how Shakespeare is perceived by Academia, and tomorrow the Shakespeare of the Rocicrucians.

"The works of William Shakespeare are one of the greatest achievements of the human mind and spirit. And yet, for far to many of us, they remain a closed book. Why?

To often, we were force-fed Shakespeare as adolescents - when life had not yet unfolded for us. Even for adults, the language of Shakespeare is 400 years old: Reading or seeing a play may seem like listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and missing half the notes.

But, if--having done some living--we can tune ourselves to the wavelenght of Shakespeare's language, his work reveals itself to us like a new day. To plumb life--earthy and divine, noble and debased, in love, in hate, at war, at intrigue--and to play out its possibilities and consequences, we need not go much further than Shakespeare.

Professor Peter Saccio (Ph.D., Princeton University) is the Leon D. Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies at Dartmouth College.

Professor Saccio devotes a whole lecture to a passage of 40 lines, the description of the death of Fallstaff. This 'close reading' may sound like work, but it is not--this is a tour de force by Saccio to show the power of only short conversation in the hands of the greatest literary mind in our language. After he opens to us the contents of this brief exchange, Saccio declares: 'This is the point in the course when I lay my cards face up on the table: this man is a genius. He can write anything he wants, on a complex, multifaceted scale.... Shakespeare is like that in his abundance and the complexity of his composition. That is why there can be so many interpretations--I don't mean the crackpot ones where people merely insert their own obsessions. I mean interpretations that stress things genuinely there, because there is so much here, artfully inter-coordinated. What speaks to you at one particular reading, what one actor or director finds, is a genuine resonance with things pouring forth from a specious plenty."

From a catalogue I received some time ago to "enjoy the great college courses in your home or car", published by "The Great Courses
The Teaching Company."

[Charlotte]

Excerpts "written by students of the Western Wisdom Tradition and printed in The Rosicruicion Fellowship Magazine, Rays from the Rose Cross, during the years from 1952 through 1959."

"William Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, the sublime synthesis of man and the cosmos, rank among the most imporatant treasures of modern civilization. George H. Morrison conveys the secret of his greatness in a sentence: 'Shakespeare is the Lord of those who see.'

Shakespeare, in his cosmic consciousness, defies Time. He has access to 'the prophetic soul of the wide world.' He founds no system, but 'his waves touch all the shores of thought.' All minds converge in the mind of Shakespeare, and he is bigger than all our classification and commentary.

Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask; thou smilest and art still,
Out-toping knowledge.

The Shakespearean dramas, centuries after their origin, continue to stand at the top in appeal to most of the people og the western world. The reason for this is not fully understood by many people, but to the student of the occult, or hidden, truths of life, it is clear enough.

In fact, the works of Shakespeare and the Bible are closely related treasures in the cultural and spiritual life of Western People. Both stand pre-eminent among forces that have built up the finest and most lasting features of our present civilization. Embodying all the great fundamental principles laying at the very heart of life, they have been interwoven in the fabric of our daily thought and aspirations. Countless expressions that have been given to those principles in art and literature have been directly inspired by sacred scriptures on the one hand and the writings of Shakespeare on the other.

Phrases from these masterworks have furnished authors with countless titles for books and articles. One single phrase from the soliloquy of Macbeth's: 'Tomorrow--and tomorrow,' has served as the title for as many as eleven books.

Many biblical phrases and quotations have been interwoven into Shakespearean texts. According to an inventory on the subject, Shakespeare quoted from no less than fourty-two of the Bible and the Apocrypha.

Re-interpretation (of the material) becomes necessary as conditions change, as knowledge widens, and as experience deepens.

These plays deal with man's outer and inner nature; with world visible and invisible. The supernatural elements in the dramas are not incidental devices introduced for the purpose of theatrical effects. They are fundemental to the theme. Anyone possessing keys to their deeper import descerns an added world of wisdom. No one familiar with esoteric doctrines can have any question as to Shakespeare's familiarity with the wisdom of the Illuminati.

For true authorship of works bearing the name Shakespeare, one must peer behind the veil that conceals the Guardians of the Mysteries. There are to be found the Illuminati of the race, the custodians of Ageless Wisdom, dispensers of the truth that set men free. There, unrecognized and unknown to the multitude, is that company of exalted Beings we call our Elder Brothers, who release into the world from time to time revelations most needed for human development through suitable and qualified human instrumentalities.

It is to them that we must look for the mighty creative impulse that manifested in Europe as the Renaissance and found its primary English expression in the brilliant literary lights of the Elisabethen Era - the greatest of which was Shakespeare. Thus Shakespeare becomes a link in the chain of inspired mediators through which the race of men have come into possession of an ever-increasing knowledge of the Divine Mysteries.

In 'Love's Labour's Lost' a whole scene is devoted to revealing the Rosicrucian connection; but it is so ingeniously involved in the banter of words that only those possessing the keys to its veiled meanings will read it aright. The scene closes with a remark addressed to Goodman Dull, representative of the unperceiving multitude, that during the entire scene he has not spoken a word. 'No,' comes his response, 'nor understood none neither.'

Shakespeare knew the realm of causes as well as that of effects. Great eras do not just spring into being automatically, through impersonal social and economic forces. The creative mind and will of the illuminate is the chief moving lever of human advancement.

Material generation an death characterize this sphere of experience. 'How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, whose action is no stronger than a flower?' But there is no death for the soul centered in timeless awareness.

If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace, and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her. O thou minion of her pleasure:
She may detain, but still not keep, her treasure:
Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be,
And her quietus is to render thee.

Shakespeare
"The Rosecrucian Mask."

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte (et al)

Every once in a while an artcle comes along that is so full of wisdom and inste that is is awe inspiring. Here is such an article by Gary Osborn. I don't think Shakespeare could have written about this but Francie Bacon ... most assuredly !

The Theme of the Skull

"As in Guercino’s painting, Poussin’s painting also features a skull which is shown resting on top of the tomb – likely to be the head of the one who rests inside the tomb.
A skull also makes it way into Shakespeare’s Play of Hamlet. In the Play, Hamlet examines a skull, and wonders whom it might have belonged to. This connection is all the more significant when we realise that Hamlet is based on an ancient myth about the “Mill”, a metaphor for the earth’s axis.
The authors of Hamlet’s Mill, Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend, contend that all myth is essentially cosmological. From the data presented in their book, it is now certain that our distant ancestors felt it necessary to preserve their advanced knowledge by passing on complex cosmological information – especially knowledge of the ‘Precession of the Equinoxes’ – in the form of stories and anecdotes about gods, creatures and men. Intriguingly, the “Fall” of certain gods is described as the disappearance of a certain constellation from a primary location, due to precession. The constellations were specifically linked with the vernal equinox, the time when the Djed pillar of Osiris was raised. But should we perhaps not also interpret the role of the “Fall” of Mankind with precession?

The title, Hamlet’s Mill is in reference to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, who was himself based on Amleth, Amlodhi or Frodhi of Scandinavian myth. This individual was the proud owner of a mill – again, a metaphor for the earth’s axis on which the earth turns and gyrates. Surprisingly, the story of Hamlet is a very ancient one reaching far back into the depths of antiquity. The authors trace the same story in Livy’s account of Lucius Junius Brutus in Rome; the national epic of Finland, The Kalevala and its hero Kullervo Kalevanpoika;’ the national epic of Iran – i.e., Firdausi’s Shahnama (the Book of Kings) and its hero, Kai Khusrau – as well as the ancient epics Yudhishthira and the Mahabharata, of India.

Walker’s essay about Hamlet, entitled Mirror for Everyman: A View of Hamlet's Midnight, is enlightening – especially in view of Santillana and von Dechend’s study which he acknowledges. In Walker’s view, Hamlet is the focus for “Everyman” – in that he represents the present condition of the human race . . .

‘On the surface Hamlet is an entertaining story. Underneath Bacon has fashioned two faces. One looks to the past to the origin of the story of Hamlet which had its basis in the astronomical symbolism of the pole, on which the earth turns, breaking loose from its peg, and the tilting of the earth’s axis which resulted.
‘As Hamlet said: “the time is out of joint, O’ cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right.”
‘The face which looks to the past finds a mirror for everyman in antiquity. That mirror is the ancient doctrine that events which take place in the great world of the macrocosm (the earth,) are reflected in the little world of the microcosm (man).
‘When the axis of the earth became tilted. When the earth lost it’s alignment with the sun, the macrocosmic event was reflected on a microcosmic level by man losing his alignment with his spiritual source (symbolically causing the death of his spiritual self)’.

The earth losing its alignment with the sun means that the earth lost its alignment with the ‘ecliptic plane’. The earth’s axis is tilted by 23.43 degrees – meaning that the equator is tilted 23.43º in relation to the ecliptic plane – the sun’s orbital plane.
The axis being tilted means that the north polar axis is no longer pointing to the ecliptic centre – the ‘still point’ location in the heavens it would be pointing if it were upright. ... "

Comments ?

In love and The Light
Don Barone

[Charlotte]

Shakespeare's works can be interpreted in any way by "Everyman" - "as you like it."

In the very beginning of Hamlet you can find references to astronomy, in Shakespeare language, good luck

It is true, methinks, that Bacon writes of the past, present, and future, as Ben Jonson affirms he write "not of an age but for all time", of the births and abortions of history which have never been told.

To sort out this article would take yet another book, even with what little I know and understand, mind you. Bacon's mind is unreachable, save by an Adept, Bacon being the most exalted as can be gleaned by his writings and Shakespeare's most sublime literature.

Hamlet can be many things, so to speak, but mostly it is the tragic story of Bacon's life. The clowns dig up two skulls, one, of perhaps "a lawyer", Bacon, the other might belong to "a great buyer of land", Shagspur the actor, now reduced to dirt, the false Shakesperae.

"Alas! poor Yorick", whom Hamlet remembers well from his childhood, Bacon and the actor were contemporaies.

I can't argue the article because it is too disjointed for me, but can only make my own argument of the complex in my simple fashion. Who can "tell my story" (Hamlet). Libraries full of books have been written attempting to.

Act 1 Scene 3

The virtue of his will; but you must fear,
His greatness weigh'd , his will is not his own;
For he himself is subject to his birth.
He may not , as unvalued persons do,
Carve for himself, for on his choice depends
The safety and health of this whole state.

Bacon's choices and actions were subject to his birth: the first son of Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester, carving not for himself but for the good of the state, all the while, having planted, and nourishing the tree so fair "to make succseeding times most rich and rare."

Charlotte

[PMacG]

Hi Charlotte.

It is said that a great man does not work for his own gain or for his own time, but for all times.

The nature of the universal or great man is down to his birth as his being flows from the beginning of time and before it. If a man/person works for the benefit of all then he is a great man as he is a universal man who works in accordance to the law of Heaven on Earth, then this is his true nature.

Blessing - Paul.

[Charlotte]

pmac said:

Hi Charlotte.

It is said that a great man does not work for his own gain or for his own time, but for all times.

Indeed, his knowledge and teachings are germain to all times, known as "the man who never dies."

The nature of the universal or great man is down to his birth as his being flows from the beginning of time and before it. If a man/person works for the benefit of all then he is a great man as he is a universal man who works in accordance to the law of Heaven on Earth, then this is his true nature.

So beautifully and perfectly said! Born as a 'Tudor' to this extraordinary Queen, Bacon/Hamlet guided by Divine Providence, and "by the obligation of our ever present love", most assuredly worked in accordance to the law of Heaven and Earth, "laying the foundation for the next great leap in human consciousness and development" at the tender age of ca. seventween, and yes, his beeing flows from the beginning of time and before it, even to the so called Garden of Eden.

The King James Version of the Bible, first page:

TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE, JAMES, by the grace of God, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, etc. The Translaters of the Bible wish Grace, Mercy, and Peace, through JESUS CHRIST our LORD.

GREAT and manifold were the blessings, most dread Sovereign, which Almighty God, the father of all mercies, bestowed upon us the people of England, when first he sent Your Majesty's Royal Person to rule and reign over us. For whereas it was the expectation of many, who wished not well unto our Sion, that upon the setting of that bright Occidental Star, Queen Elizabeth of most happy memory, some thick and palpable clouds of darkness would so have overshadowed this Land, that men should have been in doubt which way they were to walk; and that it should hardly be known, who was to direct the unsettled State; the appearance of Your Majesty, as the Sun in his strenght, instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists, and gave unto all that were well affected exceeding cause for comfort; especially when we beheld the Government established in Your Highness, and Your hopeful Seed, by an undoubted Title, and this also accompanied with peace and tranquillity at home and abroad.

It was King James who knighted Francis Bacon.

I'm glad you're in this world, Paul.

Charlotte

Blessing - Paul.

[PMacG]

Hi Charlotte, and to Don thanks.

Well I'm back to feeling my usual self again. I never know quite what to make of all these titles, stars, and things.

England was a strange place in the Tudor times, well even before that in the time of the Celtic Church, and because the establishment of a place outside of the grasp of Roman it attracted many people who needed such a heaven over a long period of time. The legacy of the Celtic Church saw the Tudor excuse to bring down Rome's grasp, and this was not just down to Henry the 8th wanting a divorce. Henry the 7th had invaded England from Ireland with the rightful king at his side, his name was Uther Pendragon who was the rightful Celtic King said to by a descendant of Arthur and the Welsh Royal Family.

The thing I never quite understood, and even though I did go into covering the overall reasons or excuses behind the power struggle in Britain, was where all the information that must have flooded in from many sources came from. The depth of whoever wrote the texts attributed to Shakespeare and I have no information to doubt that it was Bacon, was outstanding. Bacon knew more about the classics than anyone would have thought possible, and not only that, he knew the depth of the psychological practice, as even in the best known statements we get the path of the ancient law.

Just a little something from a - The 'Phoenix and the Turtle'.

'two distincts, division none.'

Thus we see the Hermaphrodite who finds union between Heaven and Earth, as this speaks of the divine union of the man and the woman in one. And if in death's sleep we perchance to dream, let those dreams not give us pause to look back in sorrowful regret but to move on to the new in understanding the nature of such dreams.

The founding of the universities and the grammar schools, at which all the classics were studied was said to be based on the the capture of Toledo by the Spanish conquest of the Moors, but this was combined with works from Florence, and with texts already brought by others to Ireland and Scotland before the Synod of Witby. Robert De Bruce had a copy of the Book of Enoch that until the translation of the dead sea scrolls was thought to be a fake, but it wasn't. We might say the Templar brought it to Scotland, but I never was able to get any info on where it came from. It could have come in through the Celtic Church who had contacts at an early time to many places in Europe and further (St Brendan even sailed to America). The Celtic Church was more connected to the East than anyone else at that time, Rome had turned its back on the Greek Church until the Crusades.

I had another question that I didn't get good info on, as Spain was a Catholic country I never quite understood why all the book from Toledo had been taken to Protestant universities, who got them out of Spain so they didn't get into the hands of Rome? The Moors did get to taken them south for instead they found there way north to bare fruit in the teaching classics in a place that had defied Rome and translated the Bible and printed it for the common people to read. The Bible before Tindale was also a secret book only to be read by priests of Rome.

Sorry this seems to ask more questions than give answers, but if you have any parts to fill in the gaps I would be very grateful.

Blessings, and thanks - Paul.

[Charlotte]

Hello Paul,

Indeed, "Bacon knew more about classics than anyone else ever thought possible", and "the depth of the psychological practice", the physiology of the body, and moreover, everything, I have no problem saying. It can be found in the Sonnets and Plays of Shakespeare, and Bacon's works. We are looking through a telescope at a bright star lightyears away, and what other space shuttle "for all times" is there but our mind, all we need now are golden O rings, nuts and bolts, and perfectly secured insulation and tile.

The power struggle of Britain was the struggle out of the tyrannical dark and middle-ages, Bacon seeing above and below, and complaining openly about the state of affairs of England, Europe, and humanity at large, changing the very language of the time "for all times."

In my romantic nature I have often thought that Camelot and King Arthur's Round Table was the old story of human nature and development and all that entails, adopted to the time and brought to the people to lift them out of their misery with a beautiful vision, and inspiring hope.

The legendary Arthur, whose father was Uther Pendragon, was no doubt penned by some such dragon of wisdom. Why else would he have been raised by Merlin, the embodiment of wisdom.

Peter Dawkins

"The High Kings, all of whom were elected from the "blood royal" (i.e. the 'Tudor' blood line) and chosen for their strenght, wisdom and initiate powers, bore the hereditary title of 'Merlin' (Myrrdin), as they combined in their office the roles of both high priest and king."

"The founding of the universities and grammar schools, at which all the classics were studied was said to be based on the capture by the Spanish of the Moors, - Spain was a Catholic country I never quiet understood why all the book(s) from Tolido had been taken to Protestant univerisities, who got them out of Spain so they didn't get into the hands of Rome."

"Holy Toledo! They exclaimed, and ran with the books where they thought it was safest. The "Treasure" was guarded no matter how many were killed by Rome. If we consider the Arthurian saga, and that Parzifal was added to the Round Table later, we have the father of Parzifal, an Arabian Prince who died in battle while his son was still in the womb of his mother Herzeleid, we glean that the Moors brought the knowledge of the Arabian Mystics, including alchemy, to Spain in secrete: the babe in the womb. The father, or royal knowledge "died" in the old world when it was brought to Spain.

"The Celtic Church was more connected to the East than anyone else at the time." Was not Merlin chief of the Druids, those great magicians by virtue of this knowledge?

Wolfram von Eschenbach found the manuscript for Parsifal in Toledo, and no doubt Wagner was initiated into this mystery or he could not have written his Operas. He in turn initiated our last Bavarian King, Ludwig II, or he wouldn't have "squandered" all the State's money building enchanting castles, the famous Grotte, and an "Arabian Teahouse" in Linderhof, where, it is said he spent much time while Neuschanstein was built. The tale of Parsifal, and more, painted on the walls there, and a beautiful white swan in the living quarters.

But it was in Linderhof Ludwig became enchanted, I saw tell-tale signs there.

Charlotte

[PMacG]

Hi Charlotte.

As you might have seen on GHMB, it is difficult enough to even promote personal investigation through which we get the insight of the ancients and follow a path of openness. In our cross-reference of the work handed down to us in most of our literature, as people who have put pen to paper usually have something to express, and up until now those expressions have been hidden from us without classical training or initiation in to hidden rites. So this occurs firstly because the writer has had to be very careful of what they say, and secondly because their knowledge and experience is outside of our own. You have to have wisdom to know wisdom, as in the expression of concepts they all have to be matched to things that really have been experienced or seen to exist.

In 'The Sum of Things' (and I told Don its working title was 'An Expression of Insanity') I put forward my own madness, but that I realized that the madness was not mine to own - that it was part and parcel of the creative process of the beast (an animal nature) and therefore not a personal burden of blame that I should carry upon my own back (I found forgiveness within). In finding the practice and the psychology of Bacon, in his investigation of the classics we see the truth behind 'The Story' for ourselves each in our own way. I therefore personally had no wish than to put forward things for investigation and discussion, nothing is set in stone of a conceptual argument for or against, each can take whatever and leave whatever they wish and find out for themselves if or how it works.

In this way each of us stops running a personal tyrannical regime to which others have to conform, and in this way conflict actually ceases over the interpretation of concepts, as we can then endeavour with assistance of others to find out what works and what doesn't. There are many blind allies on the path, and it seems we have had to walk down each and every one of them until we find out what works for us or for the whole - until we become as 'One'.

Blessings - Paul.

[ghia]

Howdy!


Hey Paul! How about walking every Path, just because it's there?
i welcome your veiws, and anyone else's, on this point.

Ghia

[Charlotte]

Hello Paul,

I haven't had time to catch up over at GHMB, but wholly agree with what you say in the first, second, and third paragraph, and what else is new

"All progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw.

This is putting it mildly, many highly intelligent persons betoken the creativity of insanity. I know you speak of another madness. Hamlet was wonderfully mad, therefore Bacon was, to the point of becoming ill his foster mother Anne complained. One can't help but going off somewhat when investigating the mysteries of life and death, but we "go normal" in between.

Since Paracelsus came up, he too was mad as far as "Goodman Dull" is concerned. According to me and other mad people he was the sanest person, look how he bombasts Latona's "literalists" and "megalomeniacs"

"I wonder how the high colleges managed to produce so many high asses."

Good thing Don isn't here or he'd delete it.

From his high home comes:

"He who is born with imagination discovers the latent force of Nature. Besides the stars that are established, there is yet another - imagination - that begets a new star and a new heaven." Imagine!

Mad people know

"The universities do not teach all things, so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them."

This is what I did a good part of my childhood and early life, unwittingly, to some I was led, others found me, now I understand a bit better how this works. I was so taken with Paracelsus that, armed with a book, I borrowed my sisters car and just drove in the direction of Austria to find his tomb.

Concerning the King James Version of the Bible, translated by Bacon and his Good Pens, I find it curious, or not, that there is not even a guarded wonderment about "that bright Occidental Star, Queen Elizabeth of most happy memory..." by Bible scholars.

Apropos the Arthurian Saga, and Parzival, it also goes back to the coming and goings of my childhood, on which Dr. Hoeller shed light, unknowingly, in one of his lectures on Wolfram von Eschenbach. It was one of those unforgettable moments when "the mind is flooded with light", Plato, because it revealed to me why, each time on my way to the forest, I lingered on the railing of a bridge over a little creek flowing beside a hidden castle, looking in the crystal clear water for das Rheingold. It is as though it was yesterday I leaned there quietly singing the Ballade of the Loreley with a yearning that brought tears to my eyes. As the words of the song have it, it never left my mind since I heard it first. It denotes a "fairytale" "von uralten Zeiten", UR-times, and Wagner's "Niebelungen Ring" tells the tale.

So it gripped me again yesterday, and I swam for some time near the "Felsen", richer in meaning than a mere "rock". Do you agree that the syllable "ley" in old keltic means "rock" or "stone?" Lore is self-explanatory.

The translations of the Ballade into English is more for rhyming of words. They do not convey the meaning because done without considering or the knowledge of UR-times, when we were the "Niebelung" or "children of the mist" evolving in the "nebelig", foggy, thick atmosphere on our planet, and we are back in Lemuria.

One could go mad re-membering.

Yours truly

Charlotte

Come to think of it, "bone-setting", "al-jabr", solving problems by letter and number is re-membering, no?

[Charlotte]

ghia said:

Howdy!


Hey Paul! How about walking every Path, just because it's there?
i welcome your veiws, and anyone else's, on this point.

Ghia

Hi Ghia,

Do you mean every path of information that is there?

I think that is what Paul means with "many blind allies on the path", but then writes "it seems we have to walk down each and every one of them until we find what works for us", and when it does, we realize we have to walk so it works for all of us, lest "they" kill all of "us", or we have to expand all of our energy and resources to kill "them" first. Something like that, it's all wrong and a vicious circle due to utter ignorance of life, to end it here.

"We are all in this boat together" is as plain to see nowadays as never before, and has taken on a new and profound meaning because of it. In the greater scheme of things there is no "them" and "us."

The individual path according to one's own nature is just one way next to all others, and we can share bread and water, pain and laughter, along the way, but "that's not gonna happen" until us get a catastrophic wake-up call, again.

That's my view

Charlotte

[PMacG]

Hi Charlotte and Ghia.

The understanding of the classics allows us to see that certain references are not what might at first seem. Like the texts were given by god himself, comes to mean that the texts give the workings of the creative process of the whole - so yes they do in fact reflect what 'is' (god - but beyond name or number). We have to investigate the means of finding our own individual union with the whole, and then we see that all things are also equally part of the whole. So we are indeed all of the same boat or vessel of creation together, this gives us humanity, as through knowing the part that is immortal we no longer need transgress the law. The essence of this knowing is that we can judge our own conduct and find a path in which we can resolve or our conflicts of the past, and view the future without acting for a self or for ourselves.

To overcome the conflict of words and division we do need to explore every path but that does not mean we have to had taken every path of gratification, only in that we find 'that' which burns and cease to touch 'it', and it takes some longer to learn the lesson than other, some never learn it or even start to see beyond the limitation of the created part of our being. Those who have overcome the demons of the past and who have forgiven themselves of all transgression can move on to the new, but the new has to be built on different foundations as we have to had seen the law of cause and effect. What you put out into the world reflects what you can expect back in return, and when you are clear of bad returns and quick to correct any mistakes then life gets a whole lot better, and turns what has been or could have been a living hell into a place of peace and heaven. So this is the work one takes on through seeing the light of cause and effect in all dealing with others and then with the earth. This is a personal revolution as it never goes beyond oneself. This is the greatest path because it only comes to other's attention because they see that the world is different place for you, and the world is how we view it (relative). This is the narrative of the play, that shows the common man that life it much better if he is led by the law of the great man, as in the end he gains nothing if he has no friends and only enemies that do not trust him.

This set of truths have been seen by those who perchance had the good fortune to find the path, and renaissance's of this knowledge has flowered but only to be put down again. But this has been because the common has not understood the benefit, and the words that he has heard have been beyond him with little meaning grasped from literal texts of secret codes. Bacon's words are plain enough to the educated, and understood in part by many, but as to how much they are related to people's lives bears a question. Much more was understood when written I think, as the strange words and syntax made us all squirm in our seat at school - and I didn't even like his work until much older when I saw it converted into real life action on the screen. Only then could I take watching plays on the Kings of England or King Lear, even though I admit to always liking Midsummer's Night Dream (the Solstice). So I'm lacking in my formal eduction somewhat but I've been making amends for it bit by bit, and bit by bit the message encoded in literature has been driven home, and it means something totally different when reread again. Weird how experience changes words in books as well as changing the world.

The hope in the teaching of Christianity was to convey a means to all to find their eternal being, and to bring that change of perspective to the common man, and this was a simple practice not of the complexity. It only became complex in the hands of those who wanted to use it for their own means of wealth and power. The taking back of the simple practice of understanding our own true nature empowers us to come together as equal, as each has the power to be a master and not a follower. Then we can all bring home the Bacon ;D

Blessings - Paul.