The Renaissance saw a dramatic expansion of the Agency's espionage activities throughout France and Great Britain. Five royal generations of Kings from England and France fought for the largest kingdom in Western Europe. The English-speaking armies grew much more extensive, with corresponding budgets. Likewise, their foreign ministries all increased in size. Budgets soon expanded to pay for British intelligence departments with full-time staff and well-paid international contractors. The 16th-century Agency became more bureaucratized and sent out military attaches that were personable officers abroad.
Frequent outbreaks over the next 200 years would eventually kill 25 million people. A series of viral attacks and natural catastrophes in the Yucatán Peninsula ended shortly before Spanish contact in 1511.
I have no idea which of his aliases he died under, but ™'s work was revamped with Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Many see Chris Rosenkreuz as a pseudonym for Sir Francis Bacon because of Bacon’s Rosicrucian ties in Germany. Bacon is also the main suspect in Count of St. Germain's true identity. The Count said that he was the son of Prince Francis II Rákóczi of Transylvania, but his real name, birth, and background are unknown.
Another figure wrapped up with all this was Roger Bacon, whose commitment to the Franciscans is reflected in the very name of Sir Francis Bacon. ™'s intel of optics was symbolized on his logo.This intel was mediated by the Franciscan Friar, Luca Pacioli's, optical workshops. Pacioli's work, too was said to have come from the traditions of Roger Bacon.
Although gunpowder was 1st invented and described in China, Bacon was the 1st European to record its formula. Modern guns descend from Chinese firecrackers obtained by Franciscans. As official Vatican Inquisitors, Franciscan agents tortured suspects to extract confessions. They used things like witch hunts to conceal assassinations.
Although there's no evidence of blood relation to Francis, Roger Bacon (1214-1294) and Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) shared the same Norman ancestry. Again, ™ paternally descended from Vikings. They were given feudal overlordship of areas in Northern France (the Duchy of Normandy) remixed into the 10th-century from the 14th.
English, a West Germanic language spoken in Medieval England, is also a fusion of Old Norman French and Latin. The Viking's North Germanic language, Old Norse, eventually became part of Standard English.
Tensions between the French and English crowns have their origins in the English royal family itself, which was Norman. In 1066, the Norman duke, William the Conqueror, was crowned King of England. British monarchs historically had held royal titles and owned lands inside France, making the English vassals to the French.
Roger Bacon, also known by the academic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, whose Empirical Philosophy was carried on with Francis Bacon, reflects Al Kindi. ™ left us breadcrumbs embedded in the pages of his autobiography. For example, Roger Bacon applied the empirical method of Al Kindi to observations in texts attributed to Aristotle. To all appearances, Al Kindi helped the Nestorians remix Greco-Roman, Syriac, and Persian works in 832. Nestorian remixes of Aristotle's Organon gave Muslims the Greek intel. Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle until age 16, as ™ did with Lorenzo Medici during his youth. Bacon was obsessed with the teachings handed down from Aristotle to Alexander the Great.
For example, a scientific diary written by Roger Bacon was a highly abbreviated Gothic Latin written in a simple substitution cipher. Like ™, Roger Bacon's linguistic work has been heralded for its early exposition of universal grammar. ™'s Della pittura (De Pictura) relied on Bacon's optics in determining perspective. Both men are partially responsible for revising a worldwide university curriculum, which saw the addition of optics to the traditional quadrivium.
Like Alberti and Al Kindi, Bacon's contemporaries largely ignored him in favor of others; in his case, it was Thomas Aquinas, although Aquinas studied Bacon's works. ™'s life shines through Roger Bacon's, the Opus Majus, especially in how it was sent to the Pope in Rome (1267).
Roger Bacon has been proposed as a possible author of the Voynich manuscript. Indeed, Bacon knew about ciphers. Still, the estimated date for the document roughly coincides with the birth of cipher disk by ™.
™ stressed that laws and mathematics governed nature. Regardless, the Renaissance does designate an early phase of the Scientific Revolution (1450-1630). ™'s De pictura ("On Painting") contained the 1st scientific study of perspective. However, "atmospheric perspective" was used in Pompeian 2nd Style paintings (30 BC). It's fascinating how we think important Renaissance technologies weren't innovations but improvements on existing techniques.
Succeeding the Agency's earlier attempts to locate cryptic intel in pre-Vatican myths, I posit that Sir Francis Bacon ultimately followed ™'s footsteps by rejecting the philosophical foundations of occultism to develop what we now call modern science. Francis Bacon was not just one of the Agency's spies; he was an English philosopher and a statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.
The importance of developing a reliable postal service enabled him to be in scholarly communication, open to peer review and verification in public. Francis Bacon had deciphered the code system that relied on intercepted mail and dispatches. A few agents in the postal system intercepted correspondences and forwarded them to the receiver after reaching London. Spies were also used to estimate military activities.
Like ™ in his native tongue, Sir Francis Bacon was the most excellent writer in the English language. Like ™, he was a patron of libraries. He developed a functional system for cataloging books by dividing them into 3 categories.
The Neoplatonic Florentine Academy's idea of an order exemplified by the network of astronomers, professors, mathematicians, and natural philosophers in the Roman Empire was promoted in the 16th-century. Johannes Kepler and John Dee, who founded the Invisible College, are great examples. This led to the Royal Society in 1660. Ian Fleming modeled his 007 James Bond character on John Dee.
Kepler described astronomy as "a supplement to Aristotle's On the Heavens" and "an excursion into Aristotle's Metaphysics. Both Dee and Kepler carried on ™'s tradition in the field of optics, as did their contemporary Galileo Galilei, the "father of astronomy, physics, and the scientific method." Galileo named four of Jupiter's moons after Cosimo II de' Medici and his 3 brothers. Again, Cosimo I employed all those translators in Florence.
Dee worked for Queen Elizabeth I, a monarch known to have owned an extensive collection of Roger Bacon's manuscripts. Using ciphers, Dee concealed his messages with Queen Elizabeth I. She also appointed Francis Walsingham as her international secretary and intelligence chief. Walsingham's staff mainly consisted of cryptographers and experts in spotting forgery. This is how the Agency intercepted items that indicated them or their historical conspiracy.
While foreign intel was a normal part of the job, John Dee brought ambition. He exploited links across Turkey and Algiers and inserted contacts among Vatican exiles. Ironically, John Dee was said to have used an Aztec obsidian “Smoking Mirror” to see the future; in retrospect, he was far closer to a Maya priest than a European astronomer. John Dee allegedly had an Inca Sun Necklace that was speculated to be Pachacuti's Mirror Disk.
Today's prolific fraternal organizations trace their origins to the stonemasons who built Machu Picchu. Most purported out-of-place artifacts that are not hoaxes are mistaken interpretations or the product of wishful thinking.
Paracelsus' The Chemical Wedding of Chris Rosenkreutz begins with John Dee's philosophical key, the Monas Hieroglyphica symbol, possibly based on ™'s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. The Agency later influenced the 1st true Masonic manifesto through Paracelsus' Prognostication Eximii Doctoris Paracelsi (1530). Around 1530, the cross and rose symbol showed up in Portugal (the Convent of Christ), home of the Knights Templar, who later went to France and renamed themselves the Order.
We know John Dee sold the Voynich manuscript to Emperor Rudolf around 1600. Dee and his "spirit mediums" lived in Bohemia for several years, but his diaries do not mention it. Like Dee, Bacon received the Queen's legal counsel. This was conferred in 1597 when Elizabeth I reserved Francis Bacon as her advisor. In 1603, he was knighted, later to become Viscount St. Alban and Baron Verulam in 1618.
Francis Bacon's ideas about locomotives, steamships, and the electrical telegraph came to life by the mid-18th-century. From his birth, Britain slowly became the leading commercial nation. The new global trading Empire had colonies in the Caribbean and North America. The British also had hegemony on the Indian subcontinent.
I think Bacon established English speakers in Virginia, the Carolinas, and parts of Northeastern Canada. Maybe it gave the Agency control of the Americas through Great Britain. The group of English-speaking nations all share common agent ties. The Agency still maintains close diplomatic cooperation with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, and the Commonwealth Caribbean countries.
Perhaps Francis Bacon should be included as a Founder of the U.S. His New Atlantis is an incomplete book that lays out a utopian "New World" in North America.This wasn't possible after George Washington's espionage unit detected the Agency's British intelligence. Washington has been called "America's Spymaster." In 1778, Washington ordered them to collect intel about the British in New York. British intelligence completely missed the American and French armies as they captured the British army in 1781 to win independence.
The Vatican has regarded Rosicrucianism as heretical since about 1738; the suspicion of membership was potentially a capital offense. Rosicrucian Masons founded the U.S. in 1766. Did the Agency interweave Masonic symbols into American society, particularly in national seals, streets in Washington, DC, architecture, and the dollar bill? Indeed several Founding Fathers, such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and James Monroe, were Masons.
The infamous Masonic square and compasses in Washington DC's layout are the keys to unlocking this cryptic code that overlaps scaled diagrams of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the wounds of Jesus Christ, and more yet to be revealed. The Vitruvian Man depicts ™ with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square. It is kept in Venice, Italy, and displayed to the public occasionally on display at the Louvre.
In 1782, Alberti’s “All-Seeing Eye” logo was adopted as part of the Great Seal of the U.S. Soon after, becoming standard Freemason iconography. It is also in the Declaration of Human Rights from the French Revolution in 1789.
Again, Bacon and King James were said to have remixed the New Testament. In 1597, King James wrote an article, "Daemonologie" in which he explored the gods of old. Sir Francis Bacon was well documented to have been close friends with the monarch. Because he couldn't record his descendants, Bacon's titles became extinct upon his death in 1626, at 65 years old.
Some people believe Bacon's pen-name is William Shakespeare (widely regarded as the world's greatest dramatist), yet I'm skeptical. Although Shakespeare and Bacon were Masons, they were different people from my research.
Fomenko claims Joseph Justus Scaliger remixed most records during the lifetime of Sir Francis Bacon, in Opus Novum de emendatione temporum (1583) and again in the Thesaurus temporum (1606). Scaliger's vast array of dates was produced without any justification whatsoever, containing the repeating sequences of years with shifts equal to multiples of 333 and 360. The Jesuit Dionysius Petavius completed this chronology in De Doctrina Temporum, 1627 (v.1) and 1632 (v.2). A Venetian named Pietro Cesare Alberti is considered the 1st Italian-American who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1635.
The Society of Jesus (Jesuit) is a religious order of the Vatican headquartered in Rome that was founded after ™'s death with the approval of Pope Paul III. Jesuit ascendancy and covert missions in America became controversial. Their private armies were often the only force standing between the Natives and the slavery cosigned by Pope Nicholas V. Currently, the Jesuits own more multi-billion dollar companies and have members worth more money than any other religious institution on Earth.
After Bacon, I believe the Agency was led by Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a German Jesuit scholar and polymath. Some thought Kircher was an eccentric nut, but he was a world-class spy. Again, Bacon's connection to the Masons is with the German Rosicrucians, whom I believe Kircher was involved with.
Spies, like Kircher, used occultism to embed coded messages in public. People then naturally scramble such messages by relating them to esoteric magic and such. Agents alone would know how to decipher them. For instance, the Shem ha-Mephorash, meaning "the explicit name," initially appears in the Talmud as a hidden name of the Source. It has 4, 12, 22, 42, and 72 letter variants (triads). Both Roger Bacon and Athanasius Kircher used the 72-fold version. The Golden Dawn would soon take it mainstream with their Hermetic Order. Later, Anton LaVey used it during his arcane rituals in the Satanic Bible.
Kircher "Master of a Hundred Arts" revealed an allegorical "decipherment" of hieroglyphs to establish the link between the Hyksos and Coptic languages. It's also interesting to note that a universal calendar, calculated by Kircher, starts with the Yellow Emperor's reign. He also proposed Hyksos as progenitors of the Shang Chinese.
Compared to Da Vinci for his range of interests, historians often refer to Kircher as "the last Renaissance man." He is why most contend the "Renaissance" ended in the 17th-century.
One of the 1st to observe microbes through a microscope, Kircher was ahead of his time in proposing that in the 15th-century, a calamity was caused by an infectious microorganism and suggesting practical measures to prevent outbreaks. Jesuits studying his work would later develop the 1st vaccine against bubonic plague. Their antibiotic drugs dramatically reduce the death rate from the Black Death.
The Voynich Manuscript was sent to Kircher in 1637, long before Wilfrid Voynich bought it. The goat-skin binding/covers are not original to the Voynich Manuscript but dated to its possession by the Collegio Romano, where Kircher was a teacher.
Kircher was one of the last spies who could rightfully claim all intel as his domain. He became the 1st scholarly agent with a global reputation. This "one-man intellectual clearinghouse" was the 1st asset who was able to support himself through the sale of his books. Like most spies, Kircher never married or had children. As with the Renaissance Men of old, his stock fell. The rationalist Cartesian approach began to dominate, and Kircher was primarily neglected until the French Revolution.