1 FRANCIS BACON, THE GOD-LIKE ROSICRUCIAN FIGURE OF DUKE VINCENTIO, AND THE UNPUBLISHED SPEECHES OF LORD KEEPER SIR NICHOLAS BACON, IN MEASURE FOR MEASURE. by A. Phoenix 1 June 2021 From the moment you learn to speak you are under the necessity of drinking in and assimilating what perhaps I may be allowed to call a hotch-potch of errors. Nor do these errors derive their strength only from popular usage. They are sanctioned by the institutions of academies, colleges, orders, and even states themselves. [Francis Bacon, The Refutation of Philosophies] My son, I do not conceal from you that we must find a way of clearing sham philosophers out of our path. Your philosophers are more fabulous than poets. They debauch our minds. They substitute a false coinage for the true. And worse still are the satellites and parasites of the great ones, the whole mob of professorial teachers. Will not someone recite the formula by which I may devote them all to oblivion? How shall truth be heard if they maintain the din of their grovelling and inconsequent ratiocinations? [Francis Bacon, The Masculine Birth of Time] It was the erection and institution of an Order or Society which we call Salomon’s House; the noblest foundation (as we think) that ever was upon the earth; and the lanthorn of this kingdom. And this we do also: we have consultations, which of the inventions and experiences which we have discovered shall be published, and which not: and take all an oath of secrecy, for the concealing of those which we think fit to keep secret: though some of those we do reveal sometimes to the state, and some not. [Francis Bacon, New Atlantis (or, The Land of the Rosicrucians)]