The Great Vision: The Judaic-Christian Mysteries / The Vision and Birth of the New Rosicrucianism

by Peter Dawkins

* What was the 'Word Cipher', Francis Bacon's 'greatest cipher'? How is it different from the Biliteral Cipher? * What was Bacon's overall Great Vision? * How do the Judeo-Christian mysteries -- arguably the foundation of our western civilization -- fit into this Great Vision? * How can we, today, apply this ancient knowledge to the 21st century? "A man doth vainly boast of loving God whom he never saw, if he love not his Brother whom he hath seen." As world-respected author Peter Dawkins states in the Preface to The Great Vision, these words quoted above, written by Francis Bacon, may summarise the real knowledge and driving force that is behind our dawning new Age. They also may summarise quite well the essence of the Christian revelation and teachings. Christianity is the name given to what is described in the New Testament or Covenant, which has to do with wholly loving one's neighbour as oneself. This New Testament or Covenant is founded on the Old Covenant, not superceding it, but completing it. The Old Covenant has to do with loving God with all one's heart, soul, mind and strength. Both Covenants or Laws existed from the beginning of time, but the so-called 'Old' Covenant is the first to be realised by man. But this is not man must then realise and learn to keep the 'new' Covenant also, for if he loves not his fellow man (and all of life) then his love for God is not only incomplete, but misunderstood. Jesus came to demonstrate dramatically just what this New Covenant really means; others have followed his example ever since, Francis Bacon being an outstanding one. This book is about this Great Vision and it deals with some of the Christian Mysteries and with the Vision and Birth of Rosicrucianism, which is the name given esoterically to Francis Bacon's work and fellowship of true Christians. The first part of the book is devoted entirely to the Judaic-Christian Mysteries, while the second part addresses the life of Francis Bacon between the years of 1572-1579, when he was aged 11-18 years old, a key time in his life. Born a prince, but concealed and fostered, Francis Bacon was compelled to live a secret or 'masked' life. Yet in doing so, he acted out in his own life much of the Ancient Mysteries themselves, and used all this in a most ingenious way as a means to educate and initiate future generations -- including us, here and now, today.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Joanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating, as with the rest of this series. Have you ever wondered about spirituality, religion, there seems to be some common threads, what does it all mean? This book is Volume 4 in a series of 5 that follow a similar pattern..first some information about the mysteries and then information about Francis Bacon. The Francis Bacon Research Trust claim that Francis Bacon was behind William Shakespeare...one of his aliases, as part of a much greater plan to develop stories and writing to aid enlightenment. I'm sure I'm not doing it justice...very intriguing, particularily the common roots of Judaic Christians as well as something about the Vision and Birth of the New Rosicrucians