Harold Bayley

THE TRAGEDY OF SIR FRANCIS BACON

This book is an attempt to establish the following
propositions:

I. That Bacon's romantic fable, « The New
Atlantis," is not an Utopian dream, but a thinly disguised
account of an actual Secret Society, with which
he was closely associated.

2. That the objeet of this Fraternity of learned men,
known superficially to history as the Rosicrucians, or the
Brethren of the Rose and Cross, was "the advancement
of learning," "the bettering of men's bread and
wine," and the "universal reformation of the whole
wide world."

3. That the principal method by which the achievement
of this end was attempted, was the preparation
and publication of instruttive and elevating literature.

4. That books published under the auspices of the
Fraternity were secretly hall-marked, and are to be
identified by peculiar and distinitive emblems, which
may be found concealed in the form of paper-marks,
printers' ornaments, and wood-cuts...… (mehr)

THE LOST LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM

CHAPTER XIV
THE HEAVENLY TWINS
“The ONE remains, the many change and pass."
SHELLEY
"One is all alone
And ever doth remain so."
Old English Folk-Song.
IT was customary among the ancients to regard the Great
Spirit under the dual aspect of GeMINI the Twins, or, as
they were called in Sanscrit, the AHANs or AsvINS. In
EGYPT, as elsewhere, the palpable dualism of Nature-
Male and Female, Day and Night, Morning and Evening,
Summer and Winter, Sun and Moon, Light and Darkness
Heaven and Earth-was typified as a double Being. "In
most of the [Egyptian] hymns," says De Rougé, "we come
across this idea of the double Being who engendereth
Himself, the Soul in two Twins-to signify two Persons never
to be separated." 1

The innumerable forms under which the duality of the
ONE was typified may be judged from the following Vedic
invocation_...… (mehr)

THE LOST LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

" There can be no question that an enormous number of these watermarks
had a religious significance, but we are asked to believe, on the ground
that the same symbol was used contemporaneously in various parts of Europe
that these symbols formed a means of intercommunication and spiritual
encouragement between all those who had been admitted to the secrets of
the sect The suggestion has many points to recommend it, but it requires
a prolonged and scholarly analysis before it can rank as an acceptable
hypothesis. .
. .
" In all justice to Mr Bayley, let us admit that he is not arrogant or dogmatic.
He has put forth a theory on somewhat insufficient grounds, and
has evidenced some over-anxiety to expand that theory beyond reasonable
limits. But he is ready to confess that his own work is one of suggestion
rather than of proof, and he has undoubtedly established a claim to further
consideration. His hypothesis is ingenious, and up to a point seems tenable;
but at present we must regard it as 'not proven.Westminster Gazette, 12th
May 1909.

THIS book, though not written specially with that end
substantiates the tentative conclusions formulated three
years ago in A New Light on the Renaissance. I then said:
"The facts now presented tend to prove that-
"1. From their first appearance in 1282, until the latter
half of the eighteenth century, the curious designs
inserted into paper in the form of water-marks… (mehr)

ARCHAIC ENGLAND :

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it
is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the
music which he hears, however measured or far away.
"-H. D. THOREAU
THIS book is an application of the jigsaw system to certain
archæological problems which under the ordinary
detached methods of the Specialist have proved insoluble.
My fragments of evidence are drawn as occasion warrants
from History, Fairy-tale, Philosophy, Legend, Folklorein f
act from any quarter whence the required piece unmistakably
fulfils the missing space. It is thus a mental
medley with all the defects, and some, I trust, of the attractions,
of a mosaic.

Ten years ago I published a study on Medieval Symbolism,
and subsequent investigation of cognate subjects
has since put me in possession of some curious and un
common information, which lies off the mainroads of
conventional Thought.

The consensus of opinion upon A New Light on the
Renaissance,1 was to the effect that my theories were decidedly
ingenious and up to a point tenable, yet nevertheless at
present they could only be regarded as non-proven. In
1912 I therefore endeavoured to substantiate my earlier

1 Dent, 1909.
3 The Lost Language of Symbolism: An inquiry into the origin of
certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies. 3 vols,
London, 1912 (Williams & Norgate).… (mehr)