Guest guest Posted June 14, 2008 Report Share Posted June 14, 2008 LETTER FROM FRANCIS BACON By Saint Germain Oct 1, 1946, dictated to Geraldinne Innocente To the aspiring friends, greetings! I look with fondness upon your loving, gentle hearts aspiring to wisdom & the accomplishments of the spirit. I think backward upon the days when I too, bound in the heavy garments of unyielding flesh, pursued a like road toward the ever-beckoning achievement of mastery. During my years of political life in England I learned that for the seer there is no peace in outer living. Again & again my attempts to pierce the mysteries were interfered with by the pull of human interference. The so-called tragedy of my political career gave me the opportunity for which I had longed, the freedom from duty to the filthy, sordid wheels of political intrigue. I left England with my books & manuscripts for a small & uncharted island, Bermuda, that I had discovered in my earlier years while sailing. I had found a cave where uninterrupted I might pursue the course of my philosophical thinking. I brought with me provisions for my simple wants & arranged with an old & trustworthy servant that from time to time he would sail out to my sanctuary with necessary equipment for the sustaining of my body's life until my earthspan was completed. I simple equipped a small cave, hidden well amidst a grove of low-growing evergreens, that no house nor hut might attract the attention of the teeming masses that might perchance escape their usual haunts & thru freak of nature's storms or an unhappy quirk of their own thinking find themselves in the vicinity of my self-chosen exile. Curiosity being one of the ugly propensities of the unawakened, I shuddered to even contemplate their delight at discovering my beautiful island & shattering its silent beauty by their noisome merriment. & so as my faithful friend's boat sailed away in the twilight I turned serene & happy at heart to my lovely island at last to know peace & the uninterrupted serenity of Godly living. Ah me, I smile yet at my innocence! A man alone freed from the turmoil of outer living on the brink of heaven! Slowly at first & then in most intensifying pressure I found that I was not alone. A million teeming thoughts of unhappy origin stretched across the bridge from my island to the homeland. A million agonizing, heartrending feelings raised ephemeral figures of the loved ones & the ones despised. a thousand body cries rose as wind & rain & weather changed the atmosphere of my habitation. Ah, then did I learn the truth that after I affirmed, "Man resists persons, places, conditions & things because he has not mastered himself!" & there amidst the bluest skies, the softest silvery sand, & the most exquisite greenery of nature I faced the tempest. All the hell of Europe's brothel & my heartbreak & my ignominious suffering was within me. I could not read nor study. I paced the shores of my island in horror to find the creatures of my own making. Never was man nearer madness than your humble servant! I knew then truly why man & the whole world is kept busy in much outer doing rather than face the truth that lies within himself. & then when the shock of my discovery had somewhat abated, I began at the beginning in the firm knowledge that all, both good & evil, was within myself. & with ever growing clamness & understanding I began to unravel the good from the evil & to become master of self, to know tranquility. Thus, to you dear aspiring ones, I AM grateful that you shall be spared the full impact of facing the dweller on your threshold thru the merciful grace of the violet consuming flame. I determined after my own experience to perfect some alchemical process whereby the aspirant might have softened this terrible experience & awakening, & I urge you now in your forward progress to use that flame to hasten your entrance into the sphere of tranquility. Lovely friends, blessed be your progress. I love you every one. May you from this simple letter learn that where ever you go here or above, you must always take yourself, & that nothing but yourself causes your pain. & nothing but your self will see your victory. Gratefully & sincerely, your FRANCIS. Source: http://www.metaphysicalteachings.com/Dictations.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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