Dr. John Dee and Francis Bacon

Dr. John Dee 1527 – 1608 was one of England´s most learned men.
He started the biggest and best library in the country in his own house in Mortlake.
It had 4000 books (Cambridge University had 450). His house soon became a kind of an Academy where English poets and learned men gathered.
His work “Monas Hieroglyphica” combines alchemy, mathematics and kabbala.
Queen Elizabeth recommended his library. Dr. Dee had made her horoscope.
He spoke freely about his communication with the realm of angels. The mob stamped this as demon-worship, but the queen protected him against offenders.
He was an expert on King Arthur legends and believed that the Tudors would bring England into a spiritual renaissance (rebirth).
Dee felt it was his responsibility to become a religious leader and create a universal religion of love and then all religious differences and persectutions would end.
He became the Tudors´Magus. His work was the seed of the freemasonry which Francis Bacon reorganised. Dr. Dee had built an enormous network of contacts all over Europe and Francis Bacon intensified this.
Philip Sidney 1554 – 1586 was the leader of the poetic renaissance of the Elizabethan era. He wrote “Defence for Poesie.” He introduced Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1583 to John Dee. Bruno stayed in England for two years and was allowed to express his thoughts and theories. He said among other things that memory was a key to enormous cosmic Memory-stocks. He was burnt for blasphemy at the stake in Rome in 1583. Thus was the philosophical atmosphere in Europe at that time.
Francis Bacon was forced to create a veil around his life. His paedagogy was unique.
Masks and symbols were his equipment. He was called “the beacon (lighthouse) of England, known mainly as a statesman, a philosopher and a pioneering scientist. He wrote “Sylvia Sylvorum.” Much of Bacon´s work was anonymous. He wrote “Instauratio Magna” og “Novum Organum (1620), He was an expert on mining, built his own astronomical observatory, was a clever gardener and brought many plants to England from his travels abroad. Roses were his favourite.
Many writers have compared Bacon´s language to that of Shakespeare.
Research of Bacon´s works started in the middle of the 19th century. This was laughed at or concealed. This has split scholars into Stratfordians and abconians.
No documents have been found which prove that the Shaxper from Stratford went to any school at all. He abandoned his wife and children and became an actor in King James 1´s group “ The King´s Men.” No documents have been found about anything but his having received salaries. In 1597 he bought a big house in London, New Place, for 60 pounds. He continued somewhat as an actor but became active too as a businessman and pawnbroker. In 1602 he bought a little house in Stratford and when he died in 1616, he left a considerable fortune to his daughter. Documents show that he sued a good many people for not having paid their loans at the right time. His wife was not to inherit anything but his second best bed. He had no books, not even a Bible. There were no traces of plays, writings or any form of literary activities. There is not a single word in his testament or anywhere else which even hints sublime works. Nobody knows what Will Saxper looked like. Portraits and busts of him are all imaginations. No original manuscripts were left by him and no letters which is quite unusual. There is no evidence of his heirs having had anything to do with the publications of his works after his death. Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon´s close friend was the person behind the First Folio 1623. That was the first time the name Shakespeare was published. Ben Jonson lived at Francis Bacon´s place in Gorhambury at that time.
The classical dramas contain such knowledge and insight which deman skills within many subjects. The author must have known Latin, Greek, Spanish, Italian and French. The author must have known Homer, jura and daily life at the Royal Court. The author must have travelled a lot and has been a learned philosopher who mastered Platonism, kabbalism, Rosicrucian symbolism, hermetism, alchymi and astrology.
The only person in England at that time who mastered all these subjects was Francis Bacon.
Many learned people in the West have refused to believe in the Shaespeare-myth.
Mark Twain parodied it.
Charles Dickens said: “Shakespeare´s life is a fine mystery and every day I expect something new about it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “A gloomy and profane life. I cannot see the connexion between the facts and his poetry.”
Francis bacon did not want his contemporaries to know the truth about his writings. He himself planned the creation of the myth. In the beginning of the 19th century an original manuscript was found in the British Museum. It is one of Bacon´s private notes from the years 1594-96, titled “Promus (stock) of Formularies and Elegancies.” It contains a great many expressions, sentences and wordings which were to be found in the First Folio many years later.
In 1867 a damaged manuscript was found in the Northumberland House on the Strand in London. It contains a text for a masquerade written by Francis Bacon. In it there are titles of Shakespearean dramas not yet published.
In 1626 – the year Francis Bacon dies – the work “Manes Verulamianu” was published by John Haviland.
He ays: “Like Euridike wandered in the shadows of Hades and longed for Orpheus, so was philosophy caught in the cobweb of the learned and Bacon was its liberator….He renewed her, wandering about in the simple shoes of comedy. After that he rose adequately in the high boots of tragedy.”

A final note from IBJ:
When I studied Shakespeare at university, one of the lecturers suddenly threw the following comment at us:
“Some scholars have started wondering whether Shakespeare was in fact Queen Elizabeth herself.”
A wave of shock went through the hall.
I have not been able to forget this comment and started looking for literature about Shakespeare´s real identity.