FINAL WARNING: The Birth of Tyranny
themselves Free Masons, and had ceremonies for initiation. Near the
end of the 16th century, people who weren’t builders, were admitted
into the fraternity, and were called ‘Accepted’ Masons. They were
usually distinguished members of the community, or in short, a source
of funding. Becoming more symbolic, the working masons and
builders eventually quit, as did the Accepted Masons, who had become
disappointed at what the organization really was.The Bruton VaultSir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), an English Lord, the son of Elizabeth I,
was recognized as the “founder of Free Masonry ... the guiding light of
the Rosicrucian Order, the members of which kept the torch of the true
universal knowledge, the Secret Doctrine of the Ages, alive during the
dark night of the Middle Ages.” Fluent in many languages, it has been
believed by some that he was one of the editors of the King James
Version of the Bible, as well as the true author of the plays attributed
to William Shakespeare. He had been initiated by a secret society of
intellectuals dedicated to civil and religious freedom. In his book
Instauratio Magna, he wrote of a movement to “reorganize the
sciences and restore man to the mastery over nature that he was
conceived to have lost by the fall of Adam.”Bacon’s novel, New Atlantis, published in 1627, a year after his death,
by his secretary William Rawley, represented his vision for a new
“Golden Age.” It was about a crew of shipwrecked sailors who arrived
on the shores a mysterious, unknown land, whose people had a much
higher developed culture and possessed a technology unlike anything
they had ever seen. He talked about buildings a half a mile high, flying
machines, underwater vehicles, and a government of philosopher-
scientists working in behalf of an enlightened group of people who
were committed to learning, and a higher level of achievement.Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990), founder of the Philosophical Research
Society in 1934, and one of the foremost experts in the realm of the
metaphysical and the occult, authored over 200 books, and in six
decades delivered more than 8,000 lectures. In his 1944 book The
Secret Destiny of America, he revealed that even though the New
Atlantis had been completed, the entire version was never published.