CHAPTER I.

John Heydon — ^The Roeicrucian Apologfist — His Family — ^And Character- Identity of Bacon's "New Atlantis" with Heydon's "Land of the Rodcracians " — Bacon's Hand to be traced in the famous Rosicruoian Bfanifestoes — Discovery of his Initials among the Members of the Fraternity— Proof s that the antedating of the Origins of the Rodcnioian Brotherhood was a Splendid Fraud ..... 1
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The Prophecy of Paracelsus — A Stage Player one of the greatest impostors of his age, probably Shakespeare — Description of the Rosicrucian Manifestoes — Lord Bacon as Chancellor of Parnassus — Meeting of the Rosicrucians in 1646, at Warrington at a Lodge, in order to carry out Lord Bacon's Ideas — Adoption of his Two PDlars — Origins of Modem Masonry in England, as modified Rosicrucianism — Bacon's oral method of Transmission — His familiarity with the Mysteries .30