Contents: the Lost Word; Hiram Abif; the Name of the Lost Word; Bacon's Fraternities in Learning; the Original Meeting Place of Freemasons; the Acception Masons; Symbols of Freemasonry; Emblems Regarding Bacon's Life; Anderson's Constitution of t.

Bacon clearly reveals the name & meaning of that divine word, the Masonic lost word, the divine plane, the plan freemansonry was designed to imitate. Learn why that lost word is the Masonic main goal, mankind's main goal, and this goal the highest mankin.

Covers the facts about Francis Bacon and his secret societies, also the great part played in the colonization of America.

Secret Societies lifts the lid on some of the most notorious and clandestine organisations in the world. From frat boy handshakes to the 47th level of Freemasonry, this entertaining and hugely informative guide tells all. Even the most sceptical of readers will agree that secret societies are more important than just passwords, secret handshakes and silly ceremonies. Often they control business and politics. The book includes 150-200 entries, each detailing a secret society. There is also an extensive bibliography and glossary included.

The artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) and the writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) both convey in their work a sense of foreboding and confinement in bleak, ritualistic spaces. This book identifies many similarities between the spaces and activities they evoke and the initiatory practices of fraternal orders and secret societies that were an integral part of the social landscape of the Ireland experienced by both men during childhood. Many of these Irish societies modelled their ritual structures and symbolism on the Masonic Order. Freemasons use the term 'spurious Freemasonry' to designate those rituals not sanctioned by the Grand Lodge. The Masonic author Albert Mackey argues that the spurious forms were those derived from the various cult practices of the classical world and describes these initiatory practices as 'a course of severe and arduous trials'. This reading of Bacon's and Beckett's work draws on theories of trauma to suggest that there may be a disturbing link between Bacon's stark imagery, Beckett's obscure performances and the unofficial use of Masonic rites.

This book analyses the influence of the Jesuits on the symbolic degrees of freemasonry, the myths of the Templars and their doctrine of revenge, based on the "crime" of their destruction, and the four vows of the Templars included in their higher degrees. The historical observations and research of the Bonneville appears of a worthy interest. The praises of Histoire des religions et des moeurs de tous lespays du monde, of Mirabeau, of Mackey, of J. Bilington, of Mallet du-Pan, and those of one of the German translators easily identified as one of the heads of the Highest Masonry, prove the merit of the work, for which no writer has dared answer for the last thirty years, and where the true Masons go to seek the Ariadne's thread to help them walk in this inextricable labyrinth.