CultXCosmic: 33 Degrees of Shakespeare (Feat. Occult Rejects)

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the more it seems weird. And it, in my personal opinion, by the end of it, it looked like a a Masonic like maybe the first Masonic ritual to take place, like kind of officially it happened like seventeen fourteen, just three years before like Masonry's public you know, like kind of coming out party, and it's we talked about it. It was just a ton of aristocrats on this expedition across a mountain to supposedly find the pass through the mountains.

But they'd already found the pass, and like the the guides that took them, uh, were the the rangers were the ones who had already found the pass through the

Blue Ridge. And then they get over the Blue Ridge and they named the Shenandoah River the Euphrates, and then they crossed the Euphrates and have this big like party and just all the different people on the expedition were just super glowy Jacobites and Huguenots and Masons and first kind of Virginia families and then there was this whole presenting of these guys when they came back with these golden horseshoe pins that had jewels in them, and different

jewels for for different guys. And the guy the only real account that we have of it is and I can't remember the guy's name now, but that guy was crazy, crazy, interesting Huguenot from Ireland who ended up marrying a woman named Mary Magdalen. And uh, yeah, it's go back and listen to that one. It's it's weird, man, It's it's.

based on Williamsburg. I was born and raised in good old colonial Williamsburg in the shadow of campus of William and Mary And about seven or eight years ago, I kind of stumbled into I'd probably watched National Treasure or The Da Vinci Code too recently, and happened to be down buying a gift for somebody in Colonial Williamsburg and noticed a the two oldest roads in the country, Jamestown Road and Richmond Road, which kind of create the Historic Campus.

They come to a point like a triangle, and I think that I saw that, and I was like, I got to look at this on Google Earth. And then that opened up a ton of stuff to the point where I took my research to the director of the Historic Campus and they were kind of blown away, and I started, you know, digging into it, and it gets weirder and weirder, and you eat thinking that I was kind of too dumb to have figured this stuff out myself, and so I just kept trying to prove myself wrong.

And the more I dug to prove myself wrong, the more crap I found. And then I started to find some things that were absolutely undeniable, Like I shared on one of the episodes with you guys, the incode of the Great Pyramid of Giza on that triangle of land that also points directly to the Great Pyramid of Giza and is the exact sit So there's all that. So all my personal research does kind of I say it revolves around Williamsburg and Virginia, but because of that, that

means it revolves around everything. The beginning of masonry in this country Francis Bacon, and then from there it just keeps going back and back and back and forward and forward and forward. And so for this one, because I lived in Williamsburg and my mom is a big Shakespeare nerd herself, I've been getting dragged to Shakespeare plays a year since I was nine years old. So I've seen everything that the entire Shakespeare cannon in every format you

can think of. William and Mary has one of the largest Shakespeare festivals in the country, the Virginia Shakespeare Festival at William and Mary and put together in the Phi Beta Kappa Hall. So I've seen everything from Taming of the Shrew adapted to nineteen twenties like Cuban Cuban Beach styled to you know, like traditional plays and everything in between. And when I was nine, I couldn't say, you know, I had no idea what they were saying, what was happening.

But the you know, the the older I got, I kind of learned to speak the language of Shakespeare and really kind of fell in love with the plays. And so really one of the first things that got me into kind of the conspiracy world was the Shakespeare authorship question. And just to skip over all the because I've got a lot of crap here, but we're in the conspiracy world, so I don't believe that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, and we

can kind of skip all that. I'm part of the camp that believes Francis Bacon is Shakespeare, and for me a little differently, I'm not a total Baconian. I think it was more Francis Bacon by committee. He had a literary societ called the Society of the Helmet, who just so happened to contain like all the members were all the different people that people put forward as possible shapes

Shakespeare authors. So seventeenth Earl of Oxford, the Countess of Penbroke, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Stratchey, who will play an important role in this research. So all these guys that they've put forward that could be the alternative to who wrote the Shakespeare plays were part of Francis Bacon's literary society called the Society the Helmet, named after their patron, muse Athena, because she wore a helmet and was known to shake her spear in her sphere of knowledge in the face

of the beast of ignorance. Right, and then just so happens that a man obsessed with Francis Bacon, a Williamsburg legend mentored to Thomas Jefferson, is the man who created, uh, what I think is the best state flag in the Union. It's the only flag with a booby on it. And that's actually, uh, he was obsessed with Francis Bacon. His name was George with Like I said, he was the

He was Thomas Jefferson's mentor. He was the reason that Thomas Jefferson became obsessed with Francis Bacon his whole life. And that is actually Atheno wearing her helmet and holding her spear. That's kind of neither here nor there, But I forgot that that was.

you know, went to school past the fourth grade. The only thing we have of him is his signature on like seven different documents they're all legal documents and his will because he was kind of a douchebag and cheating people out of stuff a lot, and so he's always getting drug into court. And all these signatures are spelled differently and in different handwriting, so that probably points to the fact that whoever the other lawyer was or the judge was the one who signed his name to it.

So we don't even know that Shakespeare or the guy that they attribute Shakespeare to even was literate. He didn't own a book that we can tell in his will, he doesn't leave any books papers. There's never been a letter written to him or from him that anybody's ever found. The guy wasn't Shakespeare. Bacon with Shakespeare. So that being said, I got obsessed with this book here, which is this gigantic tone that I paid a bunch of money for. It's a facsimile of the first folio of Shakespeare, the

sixteen twenty three that was put together. It's exactly how it came out in sixteen twenty three. It's just on new paper and basically took a historic copy and from one of the museums and photo copied every single page. So it's exactly the way it came out the very first folio. So I get into Shakespeare, I get into the first folio and some of the weird things that go on with that. Of course, that leads leads me

to Bacon. And then once you get into Bacon, you obviously you end up down the road of Bacon created masonry by way of Rosicrucianism. You find out that the uh Masons actually claim Shakespeare and Francis Bacon as kind of founding architects, if you will. And then when you the further you get into masonry, you start to if you dig back from Mason modern masonry, you eventually fall back into the Stuart, the Stewart dynasty, and that leads you back. If you follow the maternal side of that

family all the way back, it ins you. It brings you all the way back to the Mayravngians of Dan Brown fame. And really my my overall thesis of of my research now is that America was beguy in as in Virginia in particular, as a breakaway civilization for the Stuart dynasty. I think it was facilitated and designed by Francis Bacon, and then it has been managed and stewarded by the Scottish rite of freemasonry, sort of a thinly

veiled alternative to the monarchy that they were. But they could see the writing on the wall that their monarchy there rain as monarchs in England, Scotland and Ireland, wasn't

gonna last long. The Stuart reign was only about one hundred years, and I mean they were deposed several times, kicked off the throne, brought back in, killed, They ran, They ran the gamut and right at the very beginning of that dynasty, Francis Bacon, working for King James the first, the first Stuart monarch, right at the beginning of that, they create the Virginia Company of London and start exploring

the new world, Virginia in particular. And I think that was I really The more and more I get into this stuff, the more I think that America maybe still but definitely its beginnings were kind of a breakaway place for the Stewart kind of ideal and this divine right of kings MAYRAVINGI and bloodline idea, which I don't necessarily believe that they have any special bloodline, but like any

other uh you know, monarchy kind of bloodline. I think that this Christ's bloodline divine right of kings was a story that they used, whether they believed it or not, to kind of imbue their their dynasty with importance. And I think they saw the right and on the wall and decided the New World was the place to keep that power and that control structure going and and just do it with a different with a different face on it.

And I think, right then is where you see America come up and masonry come up at the same time, and the monarchy drop off. But then you look at Scottish right freemasonry and it is I'm about to show you it's it. Scottish righte Freemasonry connects Kabbala, this book right here, the sixteen eleven King James, Bible, and am I missing something that's in Francis Bacon all together? So? First off, this first Folio is structured like an initiatory ladder and not like any of the kind of anthologies

of its time. The First Folio, I'm sorry, yeah, the First Folio first book in English history to divide dramatic works into three distinct sections, comedies, histories and tragedies. But it is identical logic to an initiatory system. In the three steps there being purification, advancement, and mastery slash sacrifice exactly like a degree system, but published nearly a century before the Scottish writes thirty three or thirty three degree system.

So if Masonry borrowed from Shakespeare, how did Shakespeare already arrange his canon? And really not Shakespeare because he didn't exist. But the people who are who did arrange the first folio of Shakespeare? How do they arrange it in a multi stage initiation kind of system. So the sequence of the plays in the folio kind of mirror that ladder of like esoteric order. You've got the Tempest, which is

an initiation. I've got a good friend, Robert Frederick. He has a great podcast called The Hidden Life is Best. He just became on a whim a Bacon scholar, and now he digs into all the Shakespeare works and he just picks them apart and each i mean two three hour episodes, each one on a different play, and they're incredible. And so actually what got me onto this particular track was I was doing a podcast with him and uh, he had just he did the Tempest on my suggestion

because he had done Romeo and Juliet. I think, as you like it Macbeth, and he pulled all these Masonic principles out of there and really showed how they were, you know, almost undeniably written by a rose Crucian for that specific purpose. And he was asking which one I thought he should do next, and I was like, the tempest, and the tempest is near and dear to my heart.

Because living in Virginia, not a ton of people know this, but you know, sixteen seven they sent John Smith and the whole crew over here, and that whole Pocahontas trip happened, right, And but they kept dying, They kept getting mrked by the natives and starving and eating each other. In sixteen oh eight, they send another supply mission over. They eat

all that food, they're all dying out again. So then Francis Bacon takes it upon himself and mounts a massive supply mission, which is nine ships sent from sent from Plymouth over like six hundred people. They hit a This is in sixteen oh nine, they hit a hurricane right around Bermuda, and everybody survives except for two small two small ships. And that's a whole another route of research that I'm doing as well, which was some pretty interesting stuff,

but it's a rabbit hole. So two ships disappear forever. Six ships make it to the So yeah, six ships make it right away to pretty much right away to James Sound to resupply, and during the hurricane, the largest of the ships crash lands on Bermuda. Purposely, they shipwreck themselves to avoid the storm, and about one hundred people on that I believe it was about one hundred people were on that ship, and they disembarked live on Bermuda

for a full year. While they're on Bermuda, they take apart the old ship, build two new ships, and by sixteen to ten they set sail again and they make it over to James Sound. And once they get to Jamestown, one of the guys who was at Bermuda on the crash landing, this guy named William Strakie. William Strakey just happens to be one of those guys who was in

Francis Bacon's literary societ. He gets to Jamestown, he writes a full report of everything that happens that happened for the year on Bermuda, and he sends it to Francis Bacon's new wife, and in sixteen eleven, William Shakespeare, or under the name William Shakespeare, a play is published called The Tempest, and it's all about a crash landing. I mean there's even like six names that are used as six characters in the play have names that are like, if the guy's name was John, it would be Ron.

I mean they're that close. It's it's ridiculous. The play The Tempest is about the crash landing on Bermuda that was headed to Virginia. But it is one when you break it down, it is an absolute first initiation into a mystery. It's it's kind of the crappiest of Shakespeare's I think. And so you have one of Bacon's buddies writes the Report of what Happened in sixteen ten, and in sixteen eleven, that is the last play that this

Shakespeare guy ever writes. Right. The weird thing is is that it appears first ten years ten to fifteen years later in the sixteen twenty three first folio of Shakespeare, right, thirty six plays and the very last one that he wrote, and arguably kind of the weirdest and kind of off. It's like Shakespeare's Twin Peaks. It's it's very strange that gets that gets it's first in the folio. So let's see if I've lost me where I was going next, but might not have. Okay, here we go, all right,

talk amongst yourselves. Okay, So sixteen twenty three, the first folio goes out. Oh that's right. So while I'm talking to Robert Frederick, this Bacon scholar, he's talking about the Tempest, and he drops it on me that it's an initiation. It's allegory. The entire Tempest, first play in the folio

of Shakespeare is an initiation allegory. And I start thinking back to my own personal Shakespeare knowledge, and I know that there's thirty six plays, and I go, well, dang, if that's the first If that's the first degree of freemasonry, the Tempest. There's thirty six plays in Shakespeare. And while he's like talking, I'm literally pulling up other windows and going through and looking, because I know that there's several plays of Shakespeare's that are have two and one of

them has three parts. So as I can wonder if I put the plays together that have more than one part into one play, which is what they were. They were just published separately because they were very long plays and performed separately. If I match those down, what number would I get? And of course I get thirty three plays.

So I spend the last two months picking through the plays as best that I can and lining them up in the order they are in this book to the thirty three degrees of Scottish righte free masonry, which seems off because Scottish righte masonry doesn't come around until the seventeen hundreds, But if you actually look into the history, depending on how far you take it back, I know, for at least for me, that in Edinburgh there was

a lodge in well, let's see here. What's referred to is proto Scottish rite free masonries, and the theory is that it existed between fifteen hundred and sixteen hundred that early, so just you know, just before the first Stuart King. So a guy named William Shaw or there was something that came out called the William Shaw Statutes between fifteen ninety eight and fifteen ninety nine, and it established a set of regulations for Scottish masons that look more like

mystical guild laws than operative rules. Shaw refers to masters of the lodge and wardens in the same way that they use master and warden in the operative speculative masonry lodges. Now, there was an unusual wave of esoteric hermetic rosicrution activity

in Europe between fifteen eighty and sixteen twenty. Bruno D Flood Bacon and the earliest known non operative or symbolic masons appear in scott Land before sixteen hundred, and we know that I think it was fifteen ninety eight King James the First, who becomes the first Stuart King was initiated into that Edinburgh Scottish lodge. So there is a precedent that masonry was going on in at least Scotland

for sure, much earlier. And I believe that through the Mayravnian line and these different monarchies with these this divine right to rule kind of ethos, I believe that they were practicing these kind of ancient mystery schools in one way or another all the way back to the Mayorvngi and probably much further depending on when it was adopted from their kind of a.

Lord Keeper of the Seal, some people. It's on record that some folks went to to see Queen Elizabeth at court and then came back, and subsequently, a few weeks after they came back to their fifdoms and whatever, they got their tongues cut out, and they got hung and they got their heads cut off because there's a rumor that they were spreading around that I just went and saw the queen and I don't think she's a virgin queen anymore, because a bitch looks pregnant, right, And so

it's on record these people who you know, got mrked because they were spreading this rumor about the infidelity of the Queen. Well Francis Bacon is born to I can't remember his dad's name, but he was the lord keeper of the Seal four Queen Elizabeth like top advisor, and immediately upon his birth he is moved into the court.

The baby he is educated by the Crown and then put through either Cambridge or Oxford and then on to Gray's Inn to learn law and then immediately becomes part of the court and starts taking on advisory roles and things like that with Queen Elizabeth. Now Queen Elizabeth's mom was Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn was the chick that King Henry the Eighth stopped Catholicism in England.

of England thing. And the next chick is Anne Berlin, and Berlin you follow her maternal blood line back, she is Plantagenet, and the Plantagenet come from the maternal side of the Mayrivingians, so it goes Marrivngian, and then on the maternal side of the Maryvingian as they die out the Carolinians. So you're talking about the Court of Charlemagne. The maternal side of the Court of Charlemagne was comes

from the Mayor Ofvngians. And then the maternal side of the Court of Charlemagne creates the Plantagenet line, and then on up and then and it moves right into the Bruces and the Stewarts and and then.

like kind of monarch bloodline. But King Henry the Eight's brother, if I'm not mistaken, or his sister, Mary, Queen of Scott's is the daughter, he's like the uncle to Mary, Queen of Scott's, So Mary Queen of Scott's had a better claim to the throne. But of course they didn't let that happen. First, they let Henry the Eight's sickly little like young son. He dies, and then bloody Mary becomes the queen and she doesn't end up with an air and she dies, and then Queen Elizabeth she's like

last in line. Because I think Anne Boleyn was kind of the viewed by the monarchy as the skeasiest of all Henry's chicks, and so Elizabeth spent most of her life in the Tower of London, like in prison, because Bloody Mary was afraid they were going to depose her and put Elizabeth in anyway, so Elizabeth doesn't have a strong claim to the throne. It's her cousin over in Scotland.

And Queen Elizabeth when she gets on the throne, she's so sketched out that Mary, Queen of Scott's is going to take her out and take over the throne that she finally has They come to an agreement and she's like, look, if you don't try to kill me and take my throne when I die, since I'm the virgin Queen, I'll

name your son James as my heir right. So they make that agreement and then Queen Elizabeth has Mary, Queen of Scott's head cut off anyway, But when Queen Elizabeth dies, that is when King James the First becomes the King of England and thus the first Stuart, and that brings in the Bruces and the mayor Bengie implantation, and that that whole line all comes together with the Stewarts. And I forgot where I was real quick.

but she's not claiming you as her son. And then she's got this you know, the original Double seven, spying and talking to angel demons to tell her how to

run the country. And then this little kid kicking around the court is getting and there's only there's like no letters or evidence that Francis Bacon had any contact or anything with John D. But it's so completely obvious by their interests and their their their education that he was probably his biggest mentor there's one wood cutting that they found and people use it for all kinds of like podcasts,

like thumbnails and whatnot. But it's it's an old wizard looking wizard guy who is John D, holding like passing a lantern to a younger man, and that they're pretty sure that depicts John D. And Francis Bacon. I think that it's official that the old guy is John D. And they don't know who the other guy is that he's passing the enlightenment onto.

Shakespeare wrote the Bible. But they say that because he met the Shakespeare guy, because he ran in the same circles, may have been a part of the group that historically we know that Francis Bacon was the head of that wrote the King James Bible for King James. So like Francis Bacon was officially what we know of, he was the kind of head of the council that was putting together the King James Bible. And so people assume Shakespeare wrote the King James Bible because he was part of

that group. But then when you say that Francis Bacon might probably wrote Shakespeare because he was part of that group, people are like, no, come on this, you know, I mean Straffordians. They're like, that can't be possible, even though there's far more, you know, evidence that Francis Bacon may have quite quite quite possibly have been the most brilliant person to ever walk the face of the planet.

maybe fourteen he was there. By fifteen he quit, and then by sixteen he was back teaching, so he was teaching at one of those two prestigious schools when he was barely just a teenager, you know, and then moves on to Gray's Inn, becomes a great lawyer. And then it is in the court not only that he was doing the same things that John d was, and that he was he had a big hand in Elizabeth kind of spy network. He was writing tons of ciphers and

mathematics and cryptology and doing it. I mean, he created the scientific method. He was he was absolutely brilliant. I mean, there's definitely evidence that he was a polymath and he could have written plays and done impossible math work. And but did that person just say they were bored? I don't know.

grandson of the real Jesse James. And you know, I asked him if he was getting any He's the guy that wrote Jesse James and the Lost Templar Treasure, which I know sounds crazy. That's why I bought the book, but it's insane. Jesse James was part of the Knights of the Golden Circle. He was a freemason, and his maps that have been uncovered match up to all the

Templar symbol symbolism and whatnot. And I asked him, I was like, are you worried, you know, you're you know, exposing some of this stuff, and he was like, no, no, He's like they they love me, man. They did a blurb for the back of my book and whatnot. Because these guys added to their it doesn't it doesn't hurt them, and they can pick and choose and you know, kind of explain to their their adepts who was real and who wasn't, and who's who were using as allegory or

symbolism and anyway. So I map those thirty three degrees to the thirty three plays that start off as thirty six, but I combined the plays that have more than one part and then that led me to mapping both the degrees and the plays onto another thing that I'll get to as I as I go through a few of these plays, and then that led me to another piece of esotericism that maps on to all of them. So this is four kind of streams of data that all

all come together. And stream three and four are stream three for sure, I don't think anybody, because I can't find it anywhere. Nobody's ever mentioned what I'll show you, which is like stream three. Now, obviously the Masons have talked about Shakespeare being one of their guys. I've even heard it said that Shakespeare wrote our Our Our, our bylaws. I think a Mason has actually said that to me. So that theory is out there. I My point with this is to kind of show that the framework was

already there before. Yeah, there's all kinds of great uh geometry in the the shakespeare first folio. But my point is to kind of show that the the framework for masonry was there in the Shakespearean plays before the Scottish rite of freemasonry. And so that's the line of succession.

Because I think a lot of people could just look at it and go, oh, yeah, the degrees match up because obviously, you know, Scottish Rite came after Shakespeare, and so they thought this was a cool book, and they took the symbolism out of it, but I think they recognized the symbolism that was already there anyway. So I'm gonna go through the tempest real quick. First, quick summary of the tempest. Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan and master of the magical Arts, use a sorcery to shipwreck

his usurping brother and others upon his island. Through careful through carefully orchestrated illusions, he confronts betrayal, restores harmony, and ultimately chooses forgiveness over vengeance. In masonry, the entered apprentice that's the first degree, represents initiation, purification in the awakening of latent potential. It symbolizes the beginning of the spiritual journey and moving from chaos into ordered understanding and entering

the island of symbolic instruction. So in the play, Prospero functions as the initiator. He guides all the others on the on the island through ordeals, storms, illusions, tests the character much like the candidate and freemasonry is guided through symbolic storms. Ariel performs the role of spiritual messenger, while Caliban embodies the unrefined natural man. The apprentice must overcome.

The entire island becomes an allegorical lodge of transformation. So I read those two things together and go, okay, that's one for one tempest to the first degree. Right. So then I pull out my old trustee copy of Morals and Dogma, and I'm like, well, let me just dig through these and see what signs and symbols and things like that from each degree might map onto the plays as well. Right, So first degree, the entered apprenticed the

degree symbols. There are a twenty four inch gauge, which is a measurement of time, the common gavel for breaking away vices, the rough ashlar, which is just a rough stone, and the light or the great light. So the way that's mirrored in the tempest is Prospero's entire magical operation is timed to the minute in the play, the hour has now come as a quote, mirroring the twenty four inch gauge as the symbol of time management. The shipwreck Nobles or the rough ashlar is broken down by trials.

The Island experience chips away their vices just like the gavel, and then the final reconciliation is the perfect Ashlar, the raw characters refined. So as I'm going through that, I start, I don't know if I can pick this up and show you guys real quick another really strange. This book is batshit crazy? Can you see that? Do you see? This is the table of contents, right, do you see?

Just take a quick look at the numbers of the pages, and what you'll notice is like the tempest starts at page one, but then all the other page numbers are out of order. You can be on page two hundred and fifty, flip over two pages and you're on page forty five and then and that's that's something that people have brought up about this. I mean, here's page ninety three. I go back a big chunk fifty way back here.

I'm back to fifty five. I mean, and I've always thought that that meant something, But I'm not mathematically minded. So whatever codes that you know, Petro Aminsen and the Oak Island boys are figuring out, like I don't have the wherewithal. But what I did notice was that the very last, the very last play in the Shakespearean First Folio starts on page three sixty nine, and it's only about five or six pages long, right, So that puts

me around three hundred and seventy five. And so I start looking around, like, what from sixteen to eleven, what was Bacon involved in that might match to that? Well, three sixty nine is like a perfect number. I can't remember I went through all that, but I try to stay away from the numerology as much as I can. But I start looking around, and what I find is that Proverbs in the Bible has exactly three hundred and

seventy five proverbs. So Solomon wrote proverbs. We all know that Francis Bacon was obsessed with Solomon, the Masons are obsessed with Solomon. And I'm like, maybe this is a match. And since we have this whole table of random numbers, almost this random number generator, I was like, there's no way that these these numbers could match up to the

corresponding the play with the corresponding proverb. And so when I say three hundred and seventy five proverbs, these proverbs are things like, uh, let's see here a wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. They're like two line little pieces

of wisdom that Solomon wrote down. And the crazy thing is is that nobody in the history of the Bible has ever took Everybody talks about how amazing advice this solemnonic these proverbs are, but nobody wants has ever gone and just pulled them out in order and just put one, two, three, four, five, Nobody all the way down to three seventy five. So I had to open the Bible and go through three hundred and seventy five proverbs in order and write them

down right. And I'm glad I did because so and what you'll see with the way these map in the beginning degrees just like the degrees are in masonry. It's a little light. The symbolism fits, but it might be a little bit tangential and a little fluffy and not real. There's not a whole lot of like weight on it. And then as we get further and further and further in, it becomes more exact and more perfectly matched up with everything, to the point where the proverb that matches up with

Titus Andronicus. Titus Andronicus is a is a tragedy play by Shakespeare, And at one point somebody cuts the tongues out of his daughter, or the tongue out of it's either two daughters, and anyway, somebody gets a tongue cut out. And the proverb that matches up and and remember we're not just going in order one through thirty three proverbs.

We're going from proverb one to proverb twenty to proverb thirty eight to proverbs sixty one, and they match up bank bang bang bang, And the proverb that matches up with Titus Andronicus literally talks about cutting someone's tongue out. So I beyond that. So I find this stuff, and I map out all these dang proverbs, and then I move on because obviously the number thirty three is popping up over and over and over and over and over again. And the other piece of this Bacon Shakespeare Mason kind

of salad is always kabbala. You always hear, you know, the kabbala is basically a basis for masonry, and that everything kind of distills in each degree kind of distills back to a Kabbalistic principle and I've asked master masons. I asked the the worshipful master of a lodge, like, hey, what do you know about the Kabbala? This is a thirty two degree, a thirty second degree Mason. He's like,

I've never even heard of it. Now I know the guy pretty well, and if he was, you know, if he was bullshitting me, I feel like i'd have known it. But I've asked other people, and you can go online to forums and stuff like that and you'll see you'll see masons all day be like nothing to do with Kabbala, like, but it's absolutely clear that it is. And if you read Morals and Dogmen anything by Albert Pike, the Kapala was Pikes. That was his preferred kind of esoteric kind

of framework. So it is in there, specifically in Scottish rite free masonry. So I start looking around into the Kabbala.

And so that gives you thirty two paths. But Kabbala always speaks of the thirty third path that cannot be named, the path beyond form, corresponding to ketter or einsoft. It's heavily emphasized in Lurianic Kabala, Hermetic kabala, which is of Bacon's day, sixteenth and seventeenth, the seventeenth century Christian novelists,

and Rosa Cruscian manuscripts. So this particular kind of ladder of thirty three pathways maps right onto the time and place that Francis Bacon was was, you know, messing around and working off of So I've gone through. I'm not going to go through all thirty three plays, but I do have some favorites. Trust me when I say that they all match up pretty great. But I'm gonna jump. So we went through the Tempest a little bit. Let's do much Ado about Nothing. That's the sixth degree. Much

Ado in About Nothing is the sixth play. It is the sixth degree of Scottish rape free Masonry is the intimate secretary. The summary of the play, Beatrice and Benedict engage in witty verbal combat, while Claudio and Hero navigate betrayal and reconciliation. Love triumphs, but only after truth is brought to light. In masonry, the degree centers on confidential service, accurate witnessing, and faithful transmission of truth. So the sexton in the play is a character in the play acts

as a recorder. So literally this is the intimate secretary in the the sexton.

core lesson of the degree. So right there, the core lesson of the degree is mapped out right into the right into the play there and then from morals and dogma. The degree symbols two class hands, curtains, half drawn triangular arrangement of secret letters red and white, which stand for passion and purity. The way that mirrors in the play. The entire plot revolves around broken trust rebuilding of confidence

between characters hero, Claudio, Benedict and Beatrice. Everything is overheard behind curtains, hedges, partial concealments, perfect symbol of the half drawn veil red and white. Obviously this is a All his comedies are also love triangles. So red and white, hero's innocence stained by false accusation red bam. And then we go to six on the proverbs much ado. Yeah, that is proverb one oh one or proverbs for eighteen the wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way,

But the folly of the fool is deceit. Aligns with the sixth degree, the intimate secretary. The degree stresses discernment, accurate record, truth versus deception accurate record. You're talking about that secretary there. The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way equals the secretary's duty. Folly is deceit. That's the degrees warning, Don Pedro and Leonardo equal prudence

and understanding. Claudio is deceived, Benedict and Beatrice truth disguised aes wit, and Don Don John Fali is deceit incarnate. So the sixth degree is about the ability to tell the truth from falhood and the entire plays in June, and then you run over here to the Kabbalah, and that particular play lines up with number six, the sixth pathway, which is tiffaret, which means beauty or harmony or harmony

after conflict. So again tiffaret equals the heart. The heart equals Benedict and Beatrice harmony restored through speech, misunderstanding and reconciliation. So the other great thing about the Shakespeare plays mapping onto the degrees of free masonry is that they go the first I believe it's twelve plays. Let me make sure, all right, I'll get to it. Oh, here we go. The first fourteen plays in the in the Shakespeare folio are the comedies, and they are all light love triangles, comedic.

Right at play number fifteen is where the histories and tragedies start in freemasonry. The first fourteen degrees are the ineffable degrees a little bit lighter. And then in the fifteenth degree, that's right where the historical and religious degrees begin, and so also where the histories and tragedies begin. In the first folio, I'm gonna jump to where are my stars at? Yeah, here we go. I'm mns jump to the eighteenth degree. I find this one. This grouping of

these degrees and play is really interesting. So the play that we're talking about is Henry the Fifth. We've jumped to the the kind of nightly degrees, and we've jumped to the histories. In the Shakespearean plays, the eighteenth degree is the Night of the Rose Cross. The play is

Henry the Fifth. It's interesting that also not only does is this where the kind of nightly degrees start, but it's also interesting that the first place that like Rosecicrucianism is mentioned within the degrees is the also the start of the histories. Here, so Henry the Fifth follows King Henry's transfermation from reckless prince to a responsible and inspiring monarch. The play centers on his leadership during the war with France,

especially the Battle of agent Court. Themes include honor, duty, legitimacy, and the burden of kingship, as well as the attempt to reconcile former vices with present virtue. In masonry in the eighteenth degree, the Knight of the rose Cross degree used the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth to illustrate universal principles of life and morality. It emphasizes virtue over vice, tolerance over love, the reconciliation of opposites, the discovery of

the true word or logos within oneself. It's a degree of inner transformation. In the play, Henry the Fifth can be read as a monarch undergoing rose Cross transformation. As far as reconciliation of opposites. Henry is both pious and ruthless. He speaks eloquently of honor and unity. We few we happy few remember that line, yet he threatens Halfer and sanctions executions. He wrestles with attentions between mercy and necessity. The true word within is represented by Henry's transformation from

Prince hal to King. Henry suggests a man has aligned his outward actions with an inner sense of calling and kingship, a discovery of his royal logos tolerance and union. By seeking to unite England and France, symbolized through his marriage to Catherine, Henry attempts to heal divisions and build a broader unity and echo of the degrees called to transcend sectarianism and embrace the higher reconcilitatory love. You jumped to the signs and symbols of the eighteenth degree in freemasonry.

you find those. In the play, Henry repeatedly casts himself as the sacrificial leader, bearing the sins of his army, his transformation from how is a rose cross resurrection, and Asian Court is framed as the red and white miracle. And then that proverb. This is where the proverbs start to get a little bit more on the nose, even eighteen he this is again sixty nine page I'm sorry.

Play starts on page sixty nine. The proverb, the sixty ninth proverb is he that diligently seeketh good, procureth favor. But he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him, alignment with Henry the fifth. Henry diligently seeks good on her unity victory the French, and the French or the traders seek mischief in return to destroy them. So it's kind of it's almost a perfect alignment from virtue to

favor to mischief to defeat. And then that mapping onto the Kabbala, even on the keystone too, for yeah, And then in Kabbala eighteen the path there is represented by the letter pe peh the mouth or speech. The great thing about I love that in this play. Do you remember the it's in movies and things like that, the famous Shakespearean speech once More unto the Breach. It's like

a famous like rallying like thing. The two most famous like monologue like speeches in Shakespearean plays are contained within Henry the Fifth this one play. So it's the once More into the Breach speech and then the Saint Crispin's

Day speech. You look any of those up. They've been quoted a million times in a million movies about war and whatnot, and specifically the path in the Kabbalah on that thirty three rung ladder of this of this cabalistic system means mouth or speech, obviously, speeches, power of the word, and the logos thing. Nineteenth degree is the degree u. Nineteenth degree is the Grand Pontiff. The play that corresponds is Henry the Sixth Play. Summary Across the Henry the

Sixth Trilogy England's fortunes Decline Abroad and at Home. Part one shows the loss of France and the rise of Joan of Arc and Talbot. Part two depicts the escalating factionalism and civil unrest. Part three plunges fully into the wars of the Roses, with brutal battles between Lancaster and York culminating in the Shattered Realm and the rise of Richard the Third. Themes include collapse of legitimate authority, the cost of war, the legacy of nobility, and heroism in masonry.

The grand Pond of Degree stresses the continuity and influence of the past on the present future. The play is all things that result from past deeds, the struggle between light and darkness, good and evil, the idea that good ultimately triumphs. Mason's responsibility to uplift few future generations and to think beyond his own era. So in the play moral ambiguity and struggle, Henry the Six is personally devout and gentle, but politically weak, while figures like Margaret and

York display ruthless ambition. The pass shaping the future, the wars betrayals misjudgments in Henry the Six plant the seeds, or for Richard the Third, who is the next play? In the next the next example. The entire are echoes of the nineteenth degree insistence that the past is never dead. It is the foundation of that will be built good or ill. Let's see here, you've got the this is cool in the nineteen degree symbols and signs that you've got a triple cross, the meter, the censor, and the

crown of stars. The play revolves around corrupted spirit, authority, contested legitimacy, and priestly overtones. The triple cross tensions appear in the War of the Roses. There are three overlapping factions in that particular historic conflict. So you got those three crosses representing the three parties of the War of the Roses. And then Henry the six is the metered king. He's pious but ineffective real quick. That proverb righteousness keep his keepeth him that is upright in the way. But

wickedness overthrow with the sinner. That one's pretty uh, self explanatory. The proverbs overthrow is literally the War of the Roses. Nineteen we've got resh, which means head or leadership, collapse of leadership, chaos of many heads. Here we go, uh. And again the more you go through these, the more on the nose they get. The twentieth degree is the master of the symbolic lodge play that corresponds as Richard. The third play summary Richard of Gloucester schemes, lies, murders

his way to the throne. His manipulation of appearances, oaths, and loyalty creates a reign of terror that ultimately collapses, and he is defeated by Henry Tudor Henry the seventh. Ruthl's ambition conscience, legitimacy, and divine justice and masonry the degree focuses on the responsibilities is the master to embody and teach truth, justice, and tolerance, the central virtues of leadership, restoring masonry and symbolically any institution to its original purity.

It's interesting because it ends with a tutor the end of this play, Henry the Seventh, the father of Henry the Eighth, who ends up being Elizabeth's father, takes over. So this is where it drops from Richard the Third, and this is exactly where that Maravingian line kicks back in, and it's where Bacon at the end of this play, what's coming next is Bacon, Elizabeth and all that whatnot. You've got keys and golden circles that all tie into

the play that those are the signs. The proverb the beginning strife is as when one leteth out water, therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with warns against tyranny, conflict, and moral decay, all the things that got Richard the Third deposed and the tutors in there. Play begins with strife unleashed by Richard. The war the roses let out the water that drowns the kingdom. Richard is the archetype of the degrees warning, unchecked strife, catastrophic collapse.

lot of me just reading. But so the twenty first degree is the Noah Kite or Prussian Night, and the play there is Henry the Eighth. So we're now on to Queen Elizabeth the First Dad Noah Kite is a non Jew who follows the seven noah Hyde laws. So it's a non Jew who follows the seven like kind of Jewish laws, and it's also embodied. Those seven laws are embodied in the lower Sufferer of the Kabbalistic Tree

of Life. Let's see here. So Henry the Eighth portrays the political and personal intrigues of Henry's reign, especially as marriage to Amberleyn descendant of Edward the first Plantagenet, includes ambition, religious and political change, the personal costs of royal decisions. Let's see here, arrogance and humility, courtesy and dignity. What are we on number twenty one on? I mean, I can keep going through these things, but I love to find some of these proverbs that are incredible.

mind states. We don't even realize it. And and it all makes me think because of d and Bacon and there incredibleness and and all the weird hidden aspects that they encoded with everything and and put forth all these sometimes wonderful lessons really, but it makes it makes me think about in the Republic, there is an aspect of the dialogues where he there I forget who was talking, forgive me, but they're talking about the ideal nation or city state, and they are talking about how there would

have to be a vanguard and so on, and there would have to be a mythos, there would have to be these stories, and there would have to be also

this religion. And it's it's fascinating that all that the three streams, and maybe more even but the Masonry, Shakespeare, and King James Bible come together right at the same time, where there's this whole New world and it and in one sense, maybe it was just Virginia that they were trying to make this their little cities in a sense, as you alluded to in the beginning, and more broadly

the colonies in the New World at large. But it just makes me think that they really were trying to do what was put forth in the Republic, and you're finding this stream that really hits on it.

public because they kept trying it. I mean, the Marivengians start in one area and they move all over Europe. They move into Scotland, they move into you know, throughout the connected bloodlines. They move everywhere, and they change things a little bit, even down to Henry the Eighth splitting away from the Roman Catholic Empire, right, and then the Anglican Church ends up being the same kind of oppressive force that the Holy Roman Empire was in England to

the Catholics who end up being in England. They oppressed them the same way the Catholics were oppressing these this this upstart kind of Protestant Protestantism. And then these Puritans and Calvinists come over to the New World, and so it feels like they're just jumping out of these places that are a little you know, once their their enlightenment ideals get like kind of exposed for not being in line with the church or or culture at the time. You know, it's like the it's like the Templars who

who factor into this as well. Once they once, you know, they become too powerful and maybe their ideas are a little bit too enlightened. All of a sudden, the Pope and the French King want them gone, you know. And where do they go. They go to Scotland and hang out with the precursor to the Bruce Klan and help the Bruce Klan win the independence of Scotland from England, who at the time was Catholic. And they even Scotland at that time gets like excommunicator, bishops get excommunicated from

the Catholic Church. So actually, when Henry the Eighth just a short time later splits from the Catholic Church, Scotland was like, we've been split for a while. But I don't need to go through it like any more questions, But like, this is kind.

until he's overthrown and killed. Themes ambition, prophecy, moral corruption, and the overturning of natural order in masonry. The twenty eighth degree Night of the Sun or Prince Adept involves universalism and tolerance, deep esoteric and symbolic study of alchemy, kabbala and cosmology, the pursuit of inter illumination the sun within duties of reflection, work, prayer, hope, and teaching hidden truths.

So the way that's represented in the play obviously the occult and esoteric themes, and that's the whole boil, boil, whatever and toil. You know, the witch scene, which is visions, prophetic apparitions, saturate Macbeth, making it Shakespeare's most overtly occult tragedy or other than a midsommer night's dream. I think it's the most overtly play that he has. This aligns with the twenty eighth degrees fascination with the unseen and

the symbolic perverted quest for secret knowledge. Macbeth, like a twisted adep seeks advancement by violent shortcuts rather than genuine enlightenment, similar to those who in Masonic legends seek the master secrets through murder. The Highromabiff story. Also, the thing you'll notice too in this mapping is that again those those those first degrees, it's a a little less weight on them, They're a little less heavy. But you also notice in the first degrees that they are allegory for how you

should be. And then when once you get to the tragedies that switch at the same time the degrees change, they all become tales of like warning. All the plays are don't do this, don't be like this, you know what I mean? So all the all the the the So the first fourteen degrees are the comedies. The first fourteen plays, I'm sorry, the first fourteen plays are the comedies, the first fourteen degrees are the ineffable degrees, and then it switches to the chivalric and religious degrees after that.

And once you get to the chivalric and religious degrees, that's when you start getting these these cautionary All the plays are like cautionary. Don't be like Macbeth, don't be like Romeo and Juliet, don't be like Richard the Third and whatnot. But within the let me see, that's number

twenty eight. So if we go to morals and dogma, the signs and symbols of the degree listed or the sun, the zodiac wheel, the seven rays, and esoteric hermetic signs, and Macbeth attempts to control fate itself, the sort of brush up against the zodiac, the wish, the witches in voke, hermetic and planetary forces, light versus darkness, which is the sun imagery, which matches to the the symbols in that degree and its central tension. That proverb, if I'm not mistaken,

it's a good one too. Let's see here. Wealth gotten, yeah, this is perfect. Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he that gathered by labor shall increase. He literally kills the king and takes over his kingdom. So vanity decline, true labor increase macbeest kingship equals vanity seized unlawfully. Macbeth

gains a crown by vanity, murder, and prophecy. His reign diminishes instantly, just like the The proverb says, Malcolm and McDuff represent lawful labor, a flawless symbolic match the proverbs warning is myth Beck's whole arc.

The play is famously violent and depicts mutilation, rape, and murder as revenge escalates without limit. The degree Prince of the Tabernacle Number twenty four focuses on divine omnipresence, the immortality of the soul, serving God, country and brethren, faith and divine justice and spiritual reward. Apparent absence of the divine justice. Characters shoot characters shoot arrows with pleas to the gods, but no visible divine intervention arrives revenge instead

of faith. Let's see here the signs altar, which is crazy He sacrifices in the play. He sacrifices a Goth princess on an altar. The symbols of that particular degree in freemasonry. The very first one is an altar cherubim, flaming sword, veil of sanctuary. Titus is the grim priest of vengeance the killing of Lavinia. The they have this big feast of revenge. Alter sacrifices flaming sword symbolizing earth

fits the brutality. See what that proverb is? Uh proverb is gonna be the mouth of the just, bring us forth wisdom, but the fraward tongue shall be cut out. The degree teaches the divine order exists even when unseen. The frawered tongue describes the Gos Saturnius Tamora and Aaron Rome's mouth of the Just. Mutilated tongues literally become symbols in Lavinia's mutilation, that's his daughter. They cut her, cut her tongue out. Proverbs imagery manifests literally in the play

speech mutilation, justice, and divine silence. And then I'll do Romeo and Julia, because that one's pretty wild too. Fuck I'll find it real quick. But now you know what Antony and Cleopatra. That's the thirty second degree. So that is the highest degree in Scottish Rite freemasonry other than the thirty third degree, which you can only be invited to. It's an honorary degree. So thirty second degree Master of

the Royal Secret. And that's Antony and Cleopatra. Play Summarymark Antony, one of the three rulers of Rome, is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Political tensions with Octavius Caesar escalate into war. Antony and Cleopatra's choices lead to defeat and their suicides.

The themes are love, duty, East versus West, public versus private identity, and the nature of greatness you've got in masonry, The Royal Secret of equilibrium, the balance of opposing forces, justice, versus mercy, reason verse passion, spirit versus matter, harmony between heavenly and earthly duties, understanding the true sovereignty is intermastery

and not just external uh. Literally the East and the West as opposites Roman Egypt love and duty, Antony's downfall as a Roman who who chooses love over duty to his country, transfiguration and death. In the final scenes, Cleopatra reimagines Antony and herself in an almost mythic cosmic terms. Let's see, that's thirty two. So the sign the signs and symbols are really interesting. In this one. You've got a skull, a black dagger, a Teutonic cross. Oh wait, no,

that's not I'm in the wrong one here. It is a double headed eagle, a globe, a crown, black and white reconciliation. Literally, Antony and Cleopatra are I just this just kind of hit me. The black and white reconciliation. You literally have a white Roman guy and you've got this this Egyptian princess. Antony and Cleopatra are literally two heads on one imperial body. And think about the very first symbol in this degree of freemasonry is a two

headed eagle. Their fates turned on control of the globe. The double eagle, symbol of unity and duality, fits them both perfectly. Thirty two you uh proverb the rich rules over the poor, and the borrow is the servant to the lender of the degree.

This degree concerns moral self judgment and inner tribunal of conscious conscience, the duty to investigate motives with fairness and impartiality. He marks his wife because some dude told him some rumors about her banging somebody else. The danger of prejudice, I mean literally, Othello is the only like, hey, here's

a black guy and a white woman play. I mean that was unheard of for that time, but for then the the the Masonic degree to literally deal in in danger of prejudice, rash judgment, and Brian credulity, and the need to balance justice with mercy. That that one's pretty my mind blowing. The proverb is, uh, who's.

to guard his mind or his speech. Desdemona's innocence is destroyed by false words. The proverb literally predicts the tragedy. The tongue destroys the soul. And let's see here, Yeah, Othello, that is gonna be Zadi or the righteous one. And uh, the whole play is righteousness corrupted by deception.

that as you go down. And then also the thirty third degree, which is like this unknown degree you've got the very last play in the Shakespeare folio, Cymbeline, which is a play that a lot of people say, yeah, whoever wrote it, they all wrote all these, but maybe not this one. It seems Symboline seems like off from the rest of them. It's the thirty third degree. It's on page three sixty nine. There's a correlation between thirty three and three sixty nine. It's I'm sure there's I mean,

this is just notes. This is more that I've typed out, and since I was in high school, for God's sakes, there's probably a book in this kind of mapping these things together. But there's there's tons more there. I'm pretty sure.

show up. Now, they don't have anything older than the Middle Ages that is publicly known about, but all this esoteric wisdom from the East pops up in the Middle Ages and starts being practiced like in earnest and it just so happens that coincides with the end of the Crusades and the end of the Templars. So, yeah, questions anymore.

It's like there were eight men and they were on two boats, and they rowed out to us, and they stayed five hundred feet away, and they asked us how many were on the boat, and we told them fifty. And they put are sick in two rooms, and they put us in seventeen rooms. And I mean, the whole it's almost unreadable because of it.

cipher that he he created himself. And then When I did that, all of them were like, well, yeah, you have to do this, and then they want to run all these It just goes beyond my capability. But there's something in that. There's no way, there's even like the in the first paragraph the words pace and deliverance. Now, this is a book about Christians who are lost at sea and just happened to bump into an island that nobody ever knew of that's filled with other Christians that

save their lives. And the words patients and deliverance are used on like the first page and never used again in the rest of the book, which those are two like. I looked up the odds of that, and it's it's pretty astronomical, considering like the speech of the time. But the two ships, remember I told you that when they crash landed on Bermuda, they took apart the old ship and built two ships, and that they named those two

ships the Patients and the Deliverance. And the new Atlantis came out in sixteen I believe it was sixteen twenty six, So you've got The Tempest being written in sixteen ten, the King James Bible in sixteen eleven, sixteen twenty three is the first folio, and then sixteen twenty six is I believe when Bacon dies and The New Atlantis is published posthumously. Posthumously, Yeah, so I think there's something something in there, and I think that that particular book connects

as well. And one of those ships that disappeared just happened to have fifty people on it, which is the exact number of the people in the New Atlantis on the ship that were lost at sea. So it's interesting too. And if you look back, the captain of that particular ship that went missing Forever was a guy named Matthew Fitch.

But if you look back, if you're nerd like me and you have the complete works of John Smith, Matthew Fitch was one of the original mariners who came over in sixteen and in July of sixteen oh seven he was killed by a Native. And then in sixteen oh nine he's all of a sudden the captain of the ship the catch in the supply mission that goes missing forever,

that has fifty people on it. And then Bacon's New Atlantis comes out with a book about fifty people lost at sea on a ship and a dead guy was supposedly the captain of Yeah, it's weird, and they specifically say in the history that the captain of that particular ship that went missing the catch was the mariner Matthew Fitch,

who was on the original sixteen oh seven mission. But right clearly in John Smith's works, he talks about going out on a hunting expedition in the woods around Jamestown and he gets Matthew Fitch gets mortally wounded by an arrow from a native. There's all kinds of weird crap in Virginia and Jamestown, Bacon and stuff like that, So go on forever.

fish fry community like leader guys. There is something There is a nugget in that that system that I really think is responsible for the stewardship of the kind of Bacon ideal and the new Atlantis.

pretty hard again. So yeah, Virginia is for conspiracy lovers anywhere you can find weirdos like me.