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uring the last 80 years , many Baconians have believed that Francis Bacon was the son of Queen Elizabeth of England by Robert Dudley, later to become the Earl of Leicester, whom she may have married secretly soon after the deplorable death, on the 8th of September, 1560, of Amy Robsart, Dudley's young wife. Francis Bacon was born four months later in January 1560, and it is important to remember that at that time the year ended on the 24th of March.

3. As a boy, and as a young man, Bacon was always persona grata at Court, although he had no official position and no title. In the Life of Francis Bacon, the first published biography of Bacon by Pierre Amboise, 1631 he writes :

"Francis Bacon saw himself destined one day to hold in his hands the Helm of the Kingdom. He was born of the Purple."

4. Francis Bacon bore no resemblance to Sir Nicholas Bacon, but he did look like the Earl of Leicester, as shown in Hilliard's miniatures.

5. When Nicholas Bacon died, in 1579, he left Francis, his second son, no money in his will. The will is in Somerset House. He assumed that Queen Elizabeth would provide for him instead.

6. Bacon did not go to Nicholas Bacon's college in Cambridge, Corpus Christi, but to Trinity College, founded by Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth's father.

7. Through Bacon's personal letters and circumstances regarding Edward Coke; his long-time rival whose jealousy and malice toward him was based on his knowledge of being the Queen's son or as Coke publicly slandered him, "the Queen's bastard."

19. No one knows where Bacon is buried. His tombstone monumentis in St. Michael's Church, St. Albans.

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The New Instrument of Knowledge

Idols of the Tribe are deceptive beliefs inherent in the mind of man, and therefore belonging to the whole of the human race. They are abstractions in error arising from common tendencies to exaggeration, distortion, and disproportion. Thus men gazing at the stars perceive the order of the world, but are not content merely to contemplate or record that which is seen. They extend their opinions, investing the starry heavens with innumerable imaginary qualities. In a short time these imaginings gain dignity and are mingled with the facts until the compounds become inseparable. This may explain Bacon's epitaph which is said to be a summary of his whole method. It reads, "Let all compounds be dissolved."

Idols of the Cave are those which arise within the mind of the individual. This mind is symbolically a cavern. The thoughts of the individual roam about in this dark cave and are variously modified by temperament, education, habit, environment, and accident. Thus an individual who dedicates his mind to some particular branch of learning becomes possessed by his own peculiar interest, and interprets all other learning according to the colors of his own devotion. The chemist sees chemistry in all things, and the courtier ever present at the rituals of the court unduly emphasizes the significance of kings and princes.

Idols of the Marketplace are errors arising from the false significance bestowed upon words, and in this classification Bacon anticipated the modern science of semantics. According to him it is the popular belief that men form their thoughts into words in order to communicate their opinions to others, but often words arise as substitutes for thoughts and men think they have won an argument because they have out talked their opponents. The constant impact of words variously used without attention to their true meaning only in turn condition the understanding and breed fallacies. Words often betray their own purpose, obscuring the very thoughts they are designed to express.

Idols of the Theater are those which are due to sophistry and false learning. These idols are built up in the field of theology, philosophy, and science, and because they are defended by learned groups are accepted without question by the masses. When false philosophies have been cultivated and have attained a wide sphere of dominion in the world of the intellect they are no longer questioned. False superstructures are raised on false foundations, and in the end systems barren of merit parade their grandeur on the stage of the world.

http://www.sirbacon.org/links/4idols.htm

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Francis Drake claimed many of the lands which subsequently became the US and Canada for the Crown of England, including the entire East Coast with Oak Island. Tales of his hidden treasures across the region spur many adventurers even today. And Francis Bacon is said to have viewed the "virgin land" of the newly discovered continent as the perfect place to practice his mystical philosophy. His work "The New Atlantis," published a short time before his death in 1626, was a utopian vision of a benevolent kingdom.

According to many scholars of the subject, Bacon planned to implement his ideas in America. In 1606 he drafted the charter of the Virginia Company, which later oversaw the Jamestown settlement on the east coast and the development of Virginia lands. Thus Bacon personally had a very big hand in the first permanent and successful white settlement in the north of the new continent, one from which the nation of the United States eventually grew.

In 1610 Bacon was granted land in Newfoundland by King James I, which included Oak Island. Many researchers believe that this gave him a perfect opportunity to study the Sinclair "Money Pit" location at length, and enabled him to deeply extend its underground levels and secret passages, in which he eventually hid his own treasure - his most secret knowledge and reportedly some "magical" artifacts.

The man possibly most responsible in modern times for spreading the idea of Bacon's New Atlantis as the embodiment of the "Holy Grail" in America, was the great 20th Century mystic and occultist Manly P. Hall. In his "Secret Destiny of America" (1958) Hall noted that,

"For more than three thousand years, secret societies have labored to create the background of knowledge necessary to the establishment of an enlightened democracy among the nations of the world ... and they still exist, as the Order of the Quest ... All were searching for one and the same thing under a variety of rituals and symbols. That one thing was a perfected social order, Plato's commonwealth, the government of the philosopher-king."

Hall contends that Bacon and other influential Elizabethan figures of his younger years, like Drake, Walter Raleigh and John Dee, all belonged to that secret Order and sought to perpetuate their ancient tradition on the new "unoccupied" continent. The Order is said to have been "Rosicrucian", in the nature of its symbolism and mystical beliefs. This is of course a very interesting connection for Grail seekers, because the founder of the modern Rosicrucian Order in medieval times is said to have been Jean De Gisors, also believed by some to be the founder of the now famous Priory of Sion, the "guardians of the Grail".

The voluminous research conducted on this topic leaves little doubt that "some kind" of an esoteric ; doctrine is very likely to have lain at the foundation of the United States. In addition to the Baconian philosophy and similar doctrinal evidence, this theory also finds a great deal of support in the incredible wealth of Masonic and otherwise esoteric symbolism present in the architecture of Washington DC and other important places, a topic well studied and documented.

I have chanced upon another extremely interesting yet curiously entirely overlooked link between the origins of America and the legend of the Holy Grail.

When browsing through the history of Northern Virginia in the US, the area known as "the Northern Neck" near Washington DC and westwards, one is struck by a very interesting entry right at the top of every timeline. It says that the history of European settlement in the region began with the lands in question being given as a gift from King Charles II to seven of his most loyal supporters, known as the Seven Barons, in the year 1649.

The year 1649 is one that will ring many bells for any serious student of England, because it was by no means an insignificant year in that country's history. It was the only time they ever had a reigning monarch executed by his own countrymen. He was executed by what can be termed a "popular revolution", more precisely a revolt by his disgruntled nobility. This was Charles I, the father of young Charles II.

Despite what one might think from reading the bloody history of Europe, the execution of a reigning monarch was far from a regular phenomenon. In fact it happened only three times in modern history - the other two being Louis XVI in the French Revolution of 1793, and Nicholas II in the Communist Revolution in Russia in 1917. The two latter events forever changed the course of our entire history - the first produced Napoleon and his conquests, and the second heralded the Soviet Empire and the Cold War.

The English Commonwealth Revolution, which executed Charles the First, can be said to have influenced the world in similarly far-reaching ways. It was the first time in modern history that the King's nobility had successfully challenged his right to make unilateral decisions based on his "regal prerogative" alone, or implementing what is known as the Divine Right of Kings. The philosophy behind the Commonwealth Revolution created the system of Constitutional Monarchy, which still persists in many countries. It led to the consolidation of the English Parliament as a ruling body, which became the progenitor of every elected parliamentary system we know today.

The Parliamentary doctrine of 17th Century England produced vital works of political philosophy, such as the Bill of Rights, used in 1688 to oust the Catholic James II from the throne. It's a most important document in the history of Political Science - not least because many of its precepts were incorporated a hundred years later into the US Constitution, which created a democratically elected government, independent and disdainful of any Royal power.

The early English influence on the origins of America in that respect is undisputed (although during the War of Independence itself, it was of course the French who were heirs to that legacy and thus allies of the new Americans, while the political system of England reverted to the old Royal ways.) ;;But the mentioned date in the historical records of Virginia means that we need to take a look at another most interesting aspect of the story.

The important point is, that Charles II was NOT the "King of England" in 1649. After the beheading of Charles I on January 30, the official Ruler of England was Oliver Cromwell, the leader of the Commonwealth Parliament, who bore the title "Lord Protector of England". And Charles II at that time was but a youth of nineteen, probably confused and scared, who had just seen his father beheaded and was on the run himself, hiding out in the French forests. As a "deposed monarch", he was in no position to make any land grants which would be recognized by the "official government". Why then, do the records mention his name as the one who made the original grants?

One reason would undoubtedly be the historical English penchant for Royalty, which doesn't like to see a break in its succession. For example, looking at this typical historical timeline of the period, we see the following two entries:

"30 Jan 1649 CE Parliament became the supreme power in England under the rule of Oliver Cromwell.
30 Jan 1649 CE The Prince of Wales becomes King Charles II, of England, although technically Britain is a republic."

In fact it was Cromwell who was the actual ruler of England, and Charles II who was "technically" still considered the King by some. For royal genealogists, the succession continued even when he was in exile. And a decade later, when he was reinstated on the throne in 1658, he approved and ratified the land grants he made earlier, thus giving his seven barons the official legal title to the holdings, according to the law of the land.

But what was so important about this particular land grant, that it had to be made so urgently, right after the power switch in England and with Charles II hiding in France? Surely this could've been done later in a more orderly fashion, like other grants indeed were. To answer that question, we must recall the vital fact that Charles II and his father were not only Kings of England and Scotland, but also heads of the Stewart dynasty, usually spelled "Stuart".

The Stewarts/Stuarts have been named by the writers of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and much of the subsequent literature which that book prompted, as nothing less than the Heads of the "secret brotherhood" charged with safeguarding the Holy Grail on the British Isles, and in fact themselves hereditary descendants of the Merovingians and the sacred Grail Dynasty. The Grail itself, whether a physical artifact or a person or both, was said to have been safely secreted in Scotland by Templars fleeing from France, with Roslyn Chapel being a likely location.

The English Revolution was actually a Civil War between several conflicting factions on the Isle, and a most troubling time for the Stewarts (and consequently their "Grail fraternity". They were besieged not only by Cromwell's parliament in England, but also by the Presbyterian parliament in Scotland.

If Scotland was indeed the resting place of "the Grail" and the Stuarts its champions, then the English Revolution would surely be a time when its keepers would need to seriously consider moving something as vital as this charge to a safer location again.

Civil wars are notoriously a time when one doesn't know whom to trust, one's old friends could suddenly go over to the "other side". The best case in point is Charles I himself, who trusted the Scottish Parliament and surrendered to them hoping for help, but was instead handed right over to Cromwell, to later be executed.

In such a situation, it seems obvious that young Charles II had been pressed by others in the Grail circle into urgently making the Virginia land grants right after his father's beheading. It was the time to quickly ferry the Grail to safety - away from their troubled country and to that far-away land across the ocean. Title to the land was an important facet of the operation, so that their ownership of the Grail's resting place would not later be disputed. They used the atmosphere of confusion which the upheavals caused to their advantage, removing and transferring the cache unobserved.

The story of Charles II and the Seven Barons in the Virginia annals with the incongruous date, is the clue they left in the history books for future researchers who would seek the Grail in later times. It was meant to tell us that the Grail was taken from Scotland and moved to Virginia, in the years immediately following the execution of Charles I.

Upon looking closer at the history of that State, we see that it is perhaps the single most significant place in the development of the United States. Jamestown, Virginia (not Plymouth, Massachusetts) was the location of the first viable English colony on the New Continent, in 1607. It was also the first financially successful English overseas venture, from which pretty much all of modern American business and commerce spawned. And as noted earlier, the original charter was written by Francis Bacon himself.

The land holdings of the Seven Barons are said to have all been eventually purchased by one of them, Thomas Culpeper, whose daughter married Thomas Fairfax, fifth baron of Cameron. Their son, Thomas Fairfax the sixth Cameron, became a personal friend and benefactor of both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. His support was one of the chief factors which brought these men to early prominence.

The region had afterwards become synonymous with the Fairfax name. Later, part of the Northern Neck grant lands became Washington DC, the National Capital no less, and a great deal has been written about the significance of its location at those precise coordinates.

The name "Virginia" itself is extremely meaningful in the lore surrounding the Grail. Named by Drake after the "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I, it is in fact a symbol for the Maiden, a "virginal" form of the Goddess - who is the embodiment of the Sacred Feminine principle, which some say that the Grail represents.

We have here then, a most significant link to the early origins of the United States, and perhaps the underlying reason behind the vast amount of arcane meanings present in the various symbols of that country and in the layout of its capital city. This could be the final bit of evidence to clinch the theory that the Grail legacy *really* continued in America.

Several interesting locations in Virginia should be noted in that regard, in addition to Washington DC itself. The town of Williamsburg, further south from DC towards the historical Jamestown settlement, holds the famed Bruton Church, where Manly Hall and many others believed that Francis Bacon had hidden part of his "treasure", consisting of some immensely vital secret documents and other things.

For seekers of more modern thrills, there is the headquarters of the CIA at Langley, on the front lawn of which sits one of the great riddles of today - the enigmatic Kryptos sculpture. Formerly reputed to play a part in Dan Brown's upcoming Langdon novel, its three solved parts of the code seem to point to a hidden treasure, with an obvious link to Ancient Egypt - a description of Howard Carter opening of Tutankhamen's tomb. The CIA itself is of course implicated in just about every conspiracy theory one can think of.

Whether any of these connections are meaningful to the Greater Quest or not, is unimportant here. But that curious date in the historical annals of Virginia definitely appears to be a vital hint about the later fate of the Grail, after it left Roslyn Chapel in Scotland.

I think it's safe to say, "Yes Virginia, there IS a Sanity Clause".

A History of the

KNIGHT TEMPLAR APRON

The Symbolism of the Knight Templar Apron

Deeply rooted in the heritage of the ancient Templars, the Knight Templar apron draws its symbolism from the past, to create a tie between those ancient Templars and the modern Masonic Knight Templar. The black of the apron reminds the Sir Knight of the martyrdom of Jacques DeMolai, and the central, and most striking emblem of the apron the skull and crossed bones - the symbol of the last of mortality.

The skull and crossed bones were adopted as an emblem of the ancient Templars between the third and fourth crusade. The legend is one based on love, and is handed down as thus:

According to legend, a Templar fell in love with a beautiful noblewoman of Maraclea. She died before they could be married, but he could not endure to be separated from her, and dug up the body, and with full ceremonies married what was left of the corpse. After the body was reburied and he returned home, a voice came to him in a dream and told him to return in nine years. When he returned, he found only the skull and two large leg bones preserved enough to be moved. The voice spoke to him again and told him to guard and keep them always, and he would be successful in all his undertakings. Thereafter he prospered greatly and defeated all his enemies.

The skull and bones was passed on to the Templars at his death, and as mentioned was credited with their rise to affluence and power.⁸

So impressive is the skull and crossed bones on the apron, it was the first object to attract my attention in the portrait of Lafayette, and that which lead to further light in Masonry.

http://www.blaisdell.com/papers/

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