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By Ursula Seiler

America was discovered by an Italiancalled Christopher Columbus in 1492. It wasnamed after a later navigator called AmerigoVespucci. Thats the story we learn at school.If we have critical teachers, they might addthat the Vikings under Erik the Red were ac-tually the first to reach Americaand webelieve that this story gives us a true under-standing of the matter. And yet, this doesnot correspond to the truth.

History is something that never hap-pened, written by someone who was notpresent at the time, noted Voltaire shrewdly.Sir Francis Bacon remarked that historyis a lie agreed upon. Andthe reason is to be sought inthat historians do nottell us what really happened,but what they would like tobelieve (Benjamin Frank-lin). Or again, what the pre-vailing political doctrineenjoins. Whoever believesthat historical lies are an in-vention of the mass media inthe 20th century is sorelymistaken. The world theaterhas always opened its cur-tains onto a stage wherepretty marionettes presen-ted the audience with a his-tory designed to entertainand to conceal what reallyhappened. At the time ofFrancis Bacon there was awell-known saying that awise man was like a double-bottomed trunk: even if it

appeared empty when ope-ned, it actually had a secretcompartment which contai-ned the source of his wisdom.

In earlier ages too, historywas made only to a limited extent by mon-archs and churchmen. Behind them werethe gray eminences, the truly powerful mas-ters of knowledge, some of them initiates.They were familiar with the mysteries andwith occult teachings which were not meantfor the eyes of the profane, and met in secretsocieties and lodges.

In the early middle ages, the existence of

America was already known to theseguardians of the mysteries. How might weotherwise explain that a Venetian merchantmap of the world shows and names the

continents of North and South America?Naturally not completely correct geogra-phicallythat was beyond contemporaryskills for more familiar territories toobutthis map had been drawn 78 years before thediscovery of America, namely in 1414.

How did early 15th century Venetianscome to know about Florida and Ca-paru(Peru)? Gunnar Thompson conjectures in his

book The Friars Map of Ancient Americathat it could have some connection with anEnglish Franciscan friar known as Nicholasof Lynn. Inspired by the dream of the me-

dieval monk and scientist Roger Bacon,who had suggested making a scientific mapof the world, Lynn, between 1330 and 1360,undertook several voyages of discovery inthe North Atlantic with the support of KingEdward III of England. The Franciscans,who took great care to produce accuratemaps, drew up that legendary and long lostFriars map. Even Christopher Columbuswas said to have been fascinated by Fran-ciscan cosmography at a later period.

It was also Roger Bacon who, around theyear 1270, showed his friend Brunetto La-tini a magnetic compass that he had made.Latini later wrote to a friend: This discov-ery, which appears so eminently useful

to the seafarer, must remainhidden until other timesdawn, for no master marinerwould dare use it today, as hewould be accused of sorcery;neither would mariners dareput out to sea under the com-mand of a man who used aninstrument which appearedto have been invented underthe guidance of a diabolicspirit. May the time comewhen such prejudices, whichrepresent such a great im-pediment to the discovery ofthe true mysteries of nature,will have been overcome;then will humanity harvestthe fruits of the work of suchlearned men as BrotherBacon, and do justice to theindustry and intelligence be-hind efforts for which theytoday reap only mockery

and shame. For this andother crimes of unortho-dox thoughts, Bacon wasimprisoned for 14 yearsmild punishment compared

with those usual in the medieval world. Atthe end of the thirteenth century, Bacon wasdeadbut the compass was in general use.So mariners could venture to leave their safecoastal waters and set out into the unknownin search of new land. However, knowledgeof the existence of the great continent to thewest goes much further back in time.

Hellenic traces in CanadaThe ancient Greeks were already using

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THE PROMISED LANDAmerica was long knownto the worlds initiates.

They determined when itmight be discovered.

They chose the discoverer.They knew the plan for theNew World and its purpose:

to become the leading

nation in the promisedGolden Age.

Christopher Columbus in the New World. Fresco by Carlone. No-one really

knows who this deeply pious mystic was, nor what he looked like.


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Columbus to sail safely to America,where they possessed several colonies.Plutarch describes their ancient voy-ages and gives the location of theGreek colonies as directly oppo-site the Caspian Sea as the crowflies. They called the land to thewest the colonies of Hercules,and the Caribbean was the Sea ofSaturn, where Homers Ogygia(Calypsos isle) was also found.

As knowledge was sacred to theancient Greeks and thus had to beprotected from the eyes of the hoipolloi (the common people), they tookcare not to record it in writing for pos-terity. Oaths of secrecy prevented the ini-tiates of the mysteries from letting an un-guarded word pass their lips. And yet theywere not the only ones who knew aboutAmerica. The continent was also known tothe ancient Egyptians and Chinese. Theseancient peoples were also able to build hugeships to voyage across the oceans. One of theEgyptian Ptolemies built a ship large enoughto accommodate an orchard with fruit treeson deckin addition to swimming pools andfountains with live fish.

Francis Bacon reports in his partiallyutopian, partially real fable The New Atlantisthat about 3,000 years ago, or somewhatmore, the navigation of the world (especiallyfor remote voyages) was greater than at thisday. Do not think with yourselves, that I knownot how much it is increased with you, withinthese threescore years; I know it well, and yetI say, greater then than now; whether it was,that the example of the ark, that saved the rem-nant of men from the universal deluge, gavemen confidence to venture upon the waters, orwhat it was; but such is the truth. The Phoeni-cians, and especially the Tyrians, had greatfleets; so had the Carthaginians their colony,which is yet farther west. Toward the east theshipping of Egypt, and of Palestine, was like-

wise great. China also, and the great Atlantis(that you call America), which have now butjunks and canoes, abounded then in tall ships.

A historian called Spyros Cateras wrote inthe 1930s that the ancient Greeks hadpenetrated as far as the region of the GreatLakes via Canadas St. Laurence River. Her-cules, Odysseus, Colaeus, Pytheus and Er-atosthenes had apparently been among thosebold seafarers of antiquity. Cateras alsoshowed that the language of the ancientMaya on the American continent containsmany words of pure Homeric Greek, andnotes: Years ago, traces of Alexander the

Greats army were found in the South Amer-ican Republic of Uruguaynamely swordsand shields with the inscription PTOLE-MEOS ALEXANDROY!

the migration hypothesis? The ex-tremely mysterious language of the

Basques, whose homeland lies in thePyrenees, also indicates a linkbetween Europe and America: itbears no relationship to any Euro-pean languagebut to all the na-tive, i.e. Indian languages ofAmerica! And it should be notedthat the aboriginal peoples ofAmerica are themselves of At-lantean origin so it comes as no

surprise that at the time of its dis-covery by the Europeans, America

was called Atlanta by some nativetribes.As the primeval Hellenes carried on a

vigorous trade both with Atlantis and thegreat continent to the west, it is hardly sur-prising that the great philosopher Plato inhis treatise on Atlantis notes that after thedestruction of that great continent allattempts at seafaring to the west became im-possible for a long period. The waters of theAtlantic Ocean were so stormy and so per-meated by the detritus and silt of the sub-merged continent that travel by sea in thatregion became unthinkable.

So the ancient peoples knew more thanearly Christendom in some respects, and forthem there lay beyond the western sea theland over which the gods watched so that itmight one day become the earthly paradise.When the times will have been fulfilled,human beings seeking the Golden Fleecewould enter upon that land. And the firstavaricious conquerors really did seek phys-ical gold, and plundered the treasures of theIncas and Aztecs. But for the Greeks theGolden Fleece was a document on whichthe secret of human immortality was writ-ten. We now have a Golden Fleece inAmerica, kept in the Library of Congress,writes the initiated author Manly P. Hall,namely the American Declaration of Inde-

pendence, which was written on an animalhide and bears the magic formula of humanhope. Those who understand it and makewise use of its ideas dispose of the secret ofimmortality of human society.

A destiny guarded by initiates

Why, one might ask, did western con-querors not set off westwards much earlier,if the initiates of the secret lodges alreadyknew about America?

Everything has its appointed time, onemay reply, and, banal though this may

sound, it is surely closer to the truth thanmany other explanations. For America isthe country of the New Age now dawning,and the leading role which it plays in the

Atlantis, mother of Europe andAmerica

But Greece was already a major power atthe time of the legendary (and yet real) is-land continent of Atlantis. Its last remainsdisappeared beneath the surging waters ofthe Atlantic Ocean some 11,500 years ago.The American continent had emerged fromthe waters at a time when Atlantis was stilla flourishing civilization. Somewhat laterthan America, Europe arose from the seasand gave rise to a historical epoch duringwhich Atlantis (in the region of todaysNorth Atlantic) formed a kind of land bridgebetween the younger continents of Americaand Europe. It is also thanks to this land

bridge, writes Helena Petrovna Blavatskyin herSecret Doctrine, that the animals andplants of both continents are so similar ...all, nearly all belong to the same genera,while many, even of the species, are com-mon to both continents indicating thatthey radiatedfrom a common centre (At-lantis). The horse continues Blavatsky,according to Science, originated in Amer-ica. At least, a large proportion of the oncemissing links connecting it with inferiorforms have been exhumed from Americanstrata. How did the horse penetrate into Eu-rope and Asia, if no land communication

bridged the oceanic interspaces? Or if it isasserted that the horse originated in the NewWorld, how did such forms as the hipparion,etc., get into America in the first instance on

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The top left part of this Venetian map by

Albertin de Virga shows the continent of

North America in fragmentary form and

distorted by perspectivealmost 70 years

before Columbus discovered America,

namely in 1414!


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world is consequently no accident, butdispensation, providence or destinywhat-ever one may wish to call it. (The fact that itis currently abusing this leading role is a dif-ferent story!)

Manly P. Hall, who was undoubtedlyamong the most enlightened spirits of thetwentieth century, and to whose talents onemay also add the ability to read the Akashicrecord (that cosmic memory in which allpast events are recorded), notes on thispoint: If the Christian nations had dared toact against the commands of the mysteryschools, such sacrilege would have been re-venged either by the power of Islam with itsseat in Cairo, or by the edict of Lhasa withits Mongolian warriors in the background.The east had agreed to respect the borders ofEurope as long as the European statesjointly undertook not to exploit the westernhemisphere. The fear of a terrible revengefrom beyond the walls of Gog and Magogalso held the popes back from breaking thisagreement. And without the leadership ofthe Church, the great families of Europedared not throw themselves privately intosuch an adventure. But when the agreedhour came, the secret societies soughtamong their ranks for suitable agents to be-gin their program of discovery.

The esoteric orders of Europe, Asiaand the Middle East had been allied withthe priesthoods of the more advancedAmerindian nations for centuries. One hasto be aware that truly high initiates need nophysical vehicle to meet in secret places,shielded from the outer world, and to forgeplans for future developments. Plans forthe development of the western hemi-sphere, writes Manly Hall, were laid inAlexandria, Mecca, Delhi and Lhasalongbefore European statesmen had any inklingof this great utopian program.

This leads us to the question as to whetherChristopher Columbus wanted to find the

western sea route to India out of his ownvolitionor whether, as Grace Fendler sug-gests in her bookNew Truths about Colum-bus, he worked as a chosen representa-tive of secret societies in order to realize theold utopian ideals and to carry them acrossthe sea? This would also provide reasonenough to explain his accusation as atraitor; the destruction of all his books andpapers, of all portraits and sculptural repre-sentations of him, and the complete disap-pearance of some of his literary works, in-cluding the diary of his first voyage and thelogbook of his second voyage. All this,

writes Fendler, would be mere inquisi-tional routine, including the new version ofhis biographymore or less due to politicalnecessity and arising from a sacred mission.

The secret of ColumbusIs it not in fact extremely strange that we

know almost nothing about the greatest ex-plorer of all times? No-one knows when hewas born, and no fewer than twenty citiesclaim him as their son. Manly P. Hall has aparticular surprise in store for us: he quotesthe author Spyros Cateras who claims thatColumbus was really Greek. Allegedly, hisoriginal name was Prince Nikolaos Ypsi-lantis and his home the Greek island ofChios. Hall writes: This statement is con-firmed by numerous early historians and of-ficial documents. He put out to sea fromthe harbor of Mahonwhich was thenGreekon the island of Minorcaand notas history tries to convince us, from an Ital-ian or Spanish port. Like most Greeks of histime, he admired the writings of Plato andthe other classical philosophers; and hismind was eminently well equipped to inter-pret the classical traditions. Much pointsto the fact that Columbus was inspired toundertake his voyages by Platos story ofthe submerged Atlantis and the early seavoyages to the west, writes Hall in hisbook The Secret Destiny of America.

The true circumstances of the life of thediscoverer of America are so enigmaticthat it seems as if history had takenrefuge in a conspiracy in order to concealthe truth, supposes Hall, for the confusionhad apparently already begun beforeColumbus death. His own son calls his fa-ther a Greek. It was assumed that Columbuschanged his name in response to religiousor political pressure, but that belongs to therealm of speculation. The numerous bi-ographies of Columbus are unanimous intelling us that Colon (the name which hehimself used) was a deeply religious manwith mystical tendencies. He was said tohave sometimes worn a habit and cord sim-ilar to that of the Franciscans, notes Hall,although nothing is known of a direct con-

nection with that order. Some religiousgroups, continues Hall, in-cluding brotherhoods familiarwith the esoteric tradition, fa-vored this garb.

It is beyond doubt thatColumbus regarded himself ashaving been chosen for hismission by heaven, andthat he continuously gainedstrength from the certainty thathe was guided and protected bydivine providence. The authorJohn Bartlet Brebner speaks of

the colossal, mystical self-confidence of Columbus. Ithad been so much a part of theseafarer that he remarked

on one occasion on a voyage that God hadled him to the New Heaven and New Earthof Revelation, and in his darkest hour hewas convinced that God spoke to him to en-courage him. On his third voyage, the sea-farer believed that he heard the voice of Godspeaking to him with words of encourage-ment and comfort. On his fourth voyage,when great misfortune threatened to de-stroy the whole enterprise, the Admiral fellinto a trance, and a voice spoke to him: Ohfool and fainthearted servant of God, theGod of all things! Did He ever do more forMoses, or for David, His Servant, than Hedid for thee?

Cathars and knightly orders

In Manly Halls estimation, Columbuswas beyond doubt the emissary of secret or-ders who possessed hidden knowledge.This is also indicated by his signature,which was always embellished with myste-rious Kabbalistic symbols. These show astriking similarity to the secret charactersof the heretical sect of the Albigensians.The Albigensians were the southern Frenchbranch of the Cathars (named after theProvencal town of Albi). The nameCathar means thepure ones, a fact alsoexpressed by their un-derstanding of life: asan ideal of love theycountenanced onlychivalrous lovetheTroubadour movementof southern France isalso closely linked tothe Catharsfor chivalrous love is nosin, but a virtue whichmakes the bad goodand the good better,as the Troubadour

Montangagol put it.

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Imaginary map of Atlantis by Athanasius Kircher, 1678.

The greatest thinker of the

ancient world, Plato, was

the father of most ideas

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For them, a pure chaste life meant to be poorin worldly goods, to shun no work, to kill nocreatureincluding animals, which is whythey were vegetariansand to use all meansto oppose the God of darkness, theTempter. They saw the world as a constantbattleground between spirit and matter, andthe good was for them not simply a higherprinciple, but, as Walter Nigg describes in his

Buch der Ketzer (Book of the Heretics), a power, personified in the good God of light,the originator of the invisible higher world or-der. The good God is pure spirit to whomnothing evil adheres and whose nature is love.The Cathars saw goodness in its whole radi-ant fullness, he notes. One cannot talk of thegood God in more magnificent and transcen-dent terms than the Albigensians did. Andthis was a time in which the official Churchtaught people to fear the wrath of God!

This Christian community, which waslater persecuted in the most brutal way bythe Church in the Albigensian warswherethe motto was to simply kill everyone, frombabes to old men, in the belief that Godwould save his ownwas supposed to haveplayed a part in the secret preparations forthe discovery of America. The Catharspossessed immense personal charisma, andhow greatly they represented a threat to theVatican becomes evident from the fact thatthe German word for heretic, namelyKet-zer, comes directly from the word Cathar.Even the great Italian poet Dante is believedto have been a member of the Albigensianchurch and to have worked as its pastor invarious European cities for several years.The Montana Mason wrote in October 1921that Dante was also a friend of RogerBacon and an ally and adviser of the pow-erful leaders of the ancient order of theTemplars, who at the time of his death, al-though apparently at the pinnacle of theirpower, were in reality approaching their

disastrous end. Dante is said to have beeninitiated into the esoteric teachings of theTemplars.

In his work Christopher Columbus, aGreek Nobleman, Seraphim G. Canoutas ofthe University of Athens attempted to re-construct the early life of the mysteriousexplorer. What he found is revealing. Hisinvestigations showed that the secret prepa-rations for the colonization of the For-tunate Isles, which were also called theBlessed Isles in the west, were in thehands of the Albigensians, the Troubadoursand the knightly orders. In the final phase ofthe project of discovery, the most famousmember of the Florentine family of theMedici,Lorenzo the Magnificent, was thepower behind the scenes. Lorenzo deMedici was a noted Platonist, a patron ofsecret societies, founder of an importantschool of philosophy, and a sophisticatedopponent of the cunning, depraved Borgias.

Another famous man acted as his agent andhelped significantly in the preparations forthe discovery of the New World: the vi-sionary artist and inventor Leonardo daVinci! Manly Hall says of him: AlthoughLorenzo did not live to see the fulfillment ofhis magnificent plan, he spoke the magicword which opened the doors for Columbusto the most exclusive institutions of Europeand provided him with the necessary worldlymeans so that he could arouse the interest ofliberal princes and scholars. It was the in-visible hand of the Medici which balancedthe famous egg of Columbus

America does not come fromAmerigo

The name America has absolute nothingat all to do with Amerigo Vespucciespe-cially as the latter was in reality calledAl-berico and notAmerigo (which does not ex-ist as a forename).

Rather, the name America, at least ac-cording to America scholar James Pryse,who published a part of thePopol Vuh (theholy book of the Maya) with commentariesat the end of the nineteenth century, comesfrom the Peruvian wordAmarucawhichmeans The land of the plumed serpent.We meet this figure in all pre-Columbiancultures of America. The serpent is a sym-bol of divine wisdom, and it grows feathersto denote that its wisdom has acquiredwings, making it into spiritual wisdomnamely enlightenment. Pryse supposes thatAmaru,who gave America its name, is noneother than the divinity worshipped in Mex-ico as Quetzalcoatl. He is believed to havetaught humanity compassion, meeknessand the pursuit of peaceideals so close toChristian ones that the Christian missionar-ies who subsequently came upon thescene were convinced that Quetzalcoatlmust have been a disciple of Jesus Christ.

The priests of this god of peace onceruled from their headquarters in thecordilleras of bothAmarucasi.e. Ameri-cas. So it would seem to be Americas des-tiny to be a nation of enlightened peopleas we would expect in the coming GoldenAge! Some see in the name AMERICA ananagram of the phrase I AM RACE, thosepeople who have realized their own divin-ity and express it in their lives. A promisewe would fain see fulfilled!

The far from virgin queen

The first state in the New World wascalled Virginiain honor of the virginqueen Elizabeth I. In truth, the queen wasneither virginal nor unmarried, having se-

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One of numerous, completely different

portraits of Columbus, who was said to

have been a Greek.

Francis Bacon was one of the most in-

fluential puppet masters behind the

founding of the American colonies.

Commemorative

postage stamp of

Newfoundland

bearing a portrait

of Sir Francis

Bacon.

The Somers Islandshillings show the

pig, Sir Francis Ba-

cons heraldic animal.


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cretly wed her lover Robert Dudley,the Earl of Leicester. She had a sonby himFrancis Bacon, who was inreality called Francis Tudor andwould have been the rightful Princeof Wales and heir to the throne ofEngland. This Francis Bacon was toplay a key role in the history of theUnited States of America. But hisfirst days on earth were overshad-owed by danger, for in fact thequeen wanted to do away with thenewborn child. Sir Nicholas Bacon,a loyal member of the Privy Counciland confidant to the queen, was for-tunately able to prevent her from do-ing so. He suggested that he wouldtake the child as his son, as his wifehad given birth to a stillborn child atabout the same time. So the youngFrancis Bacon grew up withoutknowing who his real parents were.

Manly P. Hall had the privilege ofseeing a photocopy in the BritishMuseum in London of an engravingshowing Queen Elizabeth I at herconfinement. As it was at that timeusual for the entire court to be pre-sent at a royal birth, a large numberof people were privy to the secretdelivery. They were all sworn to se-crecy upon pain of death.

The Queen made no secret of heraffection for the boy who was a dailypresence at court. The relationshipcooled down only when, in one ofher notorious outbreaks of rage, sheinadvertently revealed to the youngBacon who his true parents werearealization which was to change hiswhole life. He was convinced thatthe Queen would recognize him be-fore her death as her rightful succes-sor. When Bacon ultimately discov-ered the conspiracy against himself

and his natural father (who had beenpoisoned), he lost all respect forElizabeth; and her high regard forhim turned into bitter hate.

Only after Elizabeths death in1603 was Francis Bacons star tocome into its ascendant. King Jamesennobled him, firstly asBaronet ofVerulam and then as Viscount of St. Albans.Ultimately, Bacon became Lord Chancellorof England and thus the most powerful manin the country.

Bacon was a universal genius of his time:a scholar with few equals in the sciences and

in philosophy. Indeed, his contemporariesbelieved to see in him a reborn Plato. But hewas also without peer in his contribution tothe arts, as the true author of most of the

works commonly alleged to Shakespearea fact entertained even by a serious branchof literary research. However, little is knownof the part he played in the founding of thecolonies on the American continent.

William Hepworth Dixon of the Inner

Temple wrote in 1861 about the early settle-ment of the New World: In no history ofAmerica, and in no biography of Baconhave I found a word which linked him to the

colonies of this great Republic. Andyet he was actively involvedlikeRaleigh and Delawarein these ac-tivities, and played a major part inthe sacrifices through which thefoundations of both Virginia and thetwo Carolinas were laid. To hisother fame therefore, that of thefounder of a new state would have tobe added

Judge Brown notes in hisHistoryof Newfoundland: It was exclu-sively due to the influence of theLord Chancellor that the Kinggranted the loans and issued thefoundation deed to Bacon and hispartners in Guys NewfoundlandCompany.

The first true settlement in theNew World wasJamestown in Vir-ginia, founded on May 14, 1607. SirFrancis Bacon became a member ofthe Virginia Company in 1609. Wefind a further indication of Baconsrole in the new world in the forewordto a manuscript by William Strachey,dated 1618, on hisHistorie of Tra-vaile into Virginia Britania: YourLordship, who has always been anextremely noble promoter of the Vir-ginia colony, and who strove fromthe very beginning (together withother Lords and Earls of the PrivyCouncil) to increase and guide it.

And in a speech in Grays Inn Hall,American James Beck remarked thatthe two fundamental governmentlaws which formed the nucleus of theUnited States Constitution had beenwritten by Lord Bacon.

Bacons hidden guidance in thecolonization of the New World isalso revealed in another historicaldetail: in 1609the same year in

which Sir Francis Bacon officiallybecame a member of the VirginiaCompanySir George Somerssailed from England to the NewWorld, having been appointed bythe King as the new governor of Vir-ginia. But he ran into a hurricane andwas shipwrecked off the Bermudas,

then still known as the Hog Islands. How-ever, this led to the actual discovery of thebeautiful Bermudas, which henceforth be-came a British colony.

Interestingly, a unique currency came tobe used on these Hog Islands: the reverse

side of all the coins bore the private armsof Sir Francis Bacon. But the King prohi-bited the use of these coins outside theBermudas, although contemporary sources

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freedom of belief

In this series of pictures, famous American artist Norman

Rockwell presents the four freedoms which are still re-

garded as sacred in America today: Freedom of speech


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age and shipwreck off the Bermudas, whereSir Francis Bacon hoped to see his NewAtlantis realized in literary form.

Bacons direct influence on the NewWorld extended beyond his death: In thelater decades of the 17th century, manymembers of his family and descendants em-igrated to Virginia. The Bacons thus be-came one of the best-known and influentialfamilies of the colony. Nathaniel Bacon, adescendant of Sir Francis, even led whatwas known as theBacon rebellion in 1676,in which he fought for greater justice on thepart of the English crown toward its sub-jects. In other words, for ideals similar tothose espoused by his famous ancestor.

A new Atlantis for a new ageMost of the original deeds of the Privy

Council which might have thrown light onthe role played by Bacon in the founding ofthe New World perished in the Whitehallfire of 1618. One of his greatly esteemed es-says, Of Plantation, gives highly detailedinstructions for the successful settlement ofstill virgin land, and his treatiseNew At-lantis is a utopia which Bacon would haveliked to have seen realized in the true newAtlantis, namely America. The inhabitantsof that mysterious island known as Ben-salem espoused pacifism, lived withoutmoney as a means of exchange and in theirconduct of life followed a concept whichblends Communist and Christian features.Thus the New Atlanteans respect strangersdespite all due reserve. They possess im-mense knowledge, use a universal languageand find out about the outside world bymeans of systematic explorations. Althoughthe social organization of Bensalem recog-nizes class distinctions, these do not dependon wealth, but on wisdom, dignity and age.The first principle of this form of commu-nity is respect for life and quite particularly

for the family. The women on New Atlantisare not emancipated, but they are particu-larly honored in their capacity as mothers.The most remarkable quality of the NewAtlanteans is their chasteness and freedomfrom moral confusions. But the society ofNew Atlantis paid particular homage tosciencethe true natural science which isorganized under the roof of a foundationknown as Solomons House. The end ofour foundation is the knowledge of causes,and secret motions of things; and theenlarging of the bounds of human empire,to the effecting of all things possible, Ba-

con has the wise men of Bensalem explain.Is it not remarkable that the Americaof today has failed signally in all thesedomains? Its research massacres life and

has become a threat to human dignity. It ischaracterized by a belligerent attitude to theoutside world and toleration of extremeviolence within the country, and the slavishpursuit of money, along with its use as an in-strument of enslavement. Let us recall thatsince 1913 not even the dollar has been theproperty of the American people, but of anumber of exclusive Wall-Street bankerswho are independent of the political estab-lishment. Moreover, American societyshows a debasement of morals which hasalso brought about the dissolution of fami-lies, and the celebration of a capitalismwhich mocks every form of Christian neigh-borly love.

The discovery of America wasas thisarticle aimed to showno accident, but waslong and carefully planned by initiates. Nei-ther is it an accident that the age of the Re-naissancethe rebirth of the old classicalknowledgecoincided with the discoveryof the New World. The hour had struck, thesacred fire could be carried to the west. Thesecret orders had given their consent. Thevarious attempts to describe an ideal worldwhich arose at that timeThomas MoresUtopia, Tommaso Campanellas Civitas So-lis (city of the sun), Francis BaconsNew At-lantis, the works of Shakespeare, the newtranslation of the Bible (the authorized orKing James version)all formed the spiri-tual edifice and provided the ethical code forthe New World. Secret societies such as theRosicrucians and the Freemasons, who al-ready met together on American territory in1606 for the first time, possessed the initiateknowledge which was to enable them to re-alize in the New World the ideas which theold world had developedright up to theGolden Fleece of the future, the AmericanDeclaration of Independence. This, let it benoted in passing, also has much to do withthat mysterious figure of history who playeda key role in the discovery and constitution

of the United States: Roger Bacon aliasChristopher Columbus alias Sir Francis Ba-con alias the Comte de Saint Germain. Hewas the instrument of divine providence wholed to the plans of the Hierarchy becomingrealized on earthso that the seed which hadbeen sown in heaven would bear abundantfruit in the New World. I

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Laura Lee Productions & Argonauts of the Misty IslandsH.P. Blavatsky : The Secret Doctrine, Vol. II: Anthropogenesis

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freedom from want

and freedom from fear.

indicate that this money had been mintedfor America.

Incidentally, some researchers seeShakespeares/Bacons play The Tempest,as an allegory of Sir George Somers voy-

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