Adventures in France

In cipher Bacon wrote that he expected his cipher story to be criticized and labeled a fraud. That has happened in many quarters but he could not have predicted that 300 years would have to elapse before the ciphers were discovered. Now, three hundred and ninety-three years later we have all the information we need through the internet to realize that the Shakespeare hoax has kept hidden from us the wonderful lessons Bacon spent his life writing about. At the age of fourteen he declared all knowledge to be his providence. He also desired to spread his knowledge in as many forms as he could but inheriting the throne from his mother was the one avenue that turned out to be so near and yet so far away. Unfortunately, most textbooks have yet to give in to the simple fact that Shakespeare was Bacon's pen name. This institutional ignorance is tragic because we all have been denied opportunity to learn from Bacon's life, though publicly seeming routine, teemed with high drama, intrigue, insight, hope and matching disappointment. The life he lead was shaped by the stark contrasts which is an elemental feature in all great biographies but none so stark and raw as Bacons. His life was the heroic ideal pitted against the cruelty of the times, a super intellect living amid preferred ignorance, a survivor of the royalty wars in which one half murders the other half, a visionary with clear goals about improving the lives of all people while struggling to improve his own life, and the massive outrage any one would feel who owns the ready potential to be powerful but helpless against mortal restraint.