CHAPTER VI.

Hermetic and Masonic Origins in the Plays — ^The Phoenicians, the Trans- mitters of the Hermetic and Masonic Gnosis — Reference to Carthage, Dido, and iEneas in The Tempest — The Phcsnicians and Tyrians alluded to by Bacon in the " New Atlantis " — Pericles laid at Tyre and Ephesus — Rosalind, the Great Diana, or Nature Goddess of the Ephesians— The Eagle Type of St John— The Knights Templar and the Rosicrucians ........ 120