“The Great Instauration” (meaning the great restoration after decay, lapse or dilapidation) was his formula to change “the whole wide world.” He first conceived of the concept as a boy, and when he later crystallized it in his 1607 book by the same name, it launched the English Renaissance.
Over the years Bacon gathered around himself a group of writers who were responsible for almost all of the Elizabethan literature. Some of these were part of a “secret society” he called “The Knights of the Helmet,” which had as its goal the advancement of learning by expanding the English language and creating a new literature written not in Latin but in words that Englishmen could understand. Bacon also organized the translation of the King James Version of the Bible, determined that the common people should have the benefit of reading God’s Word for themselves.
Ciphers discovered in the 1890s in the original printings of the Shakespearean plays and in the works of Bacon and other Elizabethan authors reveal that Bacon wrote Shakespeare’s plays and that he was the son of Queen Elizabeth and Lord Leicester.[15] His mother, however, fearful of an untimely loss of power, refused to acknowledge him as her heir.
During his lifetime, Bacon was largely unrecognized for his manifold talents, and towards the end of his life, he was the subject of great persecution. He is said to have died in 1626, but some have claimed that he secretly lived in Europe for a time after that. Triumphing over circumstances that would have destroyed lesser men, his soul entered the ritual of the ascension from the Rakoczy Mansion, retreat of the Great Divine Director, on May 1, 1684.
Desiring above all else to liberate God’s people, Saint Germain sought and was granted a dispensation to return to earth in a physical body even after his ascension. He appeared as “le Comte de Saint Germain,” a miraculous gentleman who dazzled the courts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, where they called him “The Wonderman.”