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5 March 2024
All
the World's A Stage,
So
Said Shakespeare
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their
entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
William
Shakespeare (aka Francis Bacon – credit where
credit is due) covered a whole lot of territory in
the play As You Like It, when he wrote All the
World’s a Stage and briefly described the outer
stages of a human’s life. But, we think he left
out some other very important, little mentioned
stages in the passage of souls in human lives
around the Earth.
At the same time, we have to think that
Bacon-Shakespeare was surely aware of those stages
– at least in essence, if not in detail. Francis
Bacon, who used the Spear Shaker’s name for his
pseudonym, was a very advanced being who decided
early on in his life to “take all knowledge to be
his province.”
In doing so, he undoubtedly investigated beyond
the purely material world, earthly learning, and
physical science that most of us are content to
explore and experience. And, what did he find but
not share in the many volumes of his writings?
Bacon surely discovered, recognized, and explored
his past lifetimes on planet Earth which help make
him the most extraordinary being he was. So, that
awareness had to expand to understanding of other
stages in the lives of all humans.
Human beings are spirits having material
experiences in bodies for times in the physical
dimension. Those that know suggest that human
souls spend many times more of their existence out
of the body than in the body. Bacon surely
understood that fact.
But, he had enough to teach and relate to the
people of his times with the relatively obvious
stages of embodied life. It appears that Francis
Bacon’s own life was threatened more than a few
times for the righteous stands he took in the
midst of Elizabethan turmoil.
Among other things, he had to hide his playwriting
work because of how dimly the upper class looked
upon the stage in his time. It appears that he
even had to feign death in 1626 to avoid conflicts
with King Charles. He had already been imprisoned
briefly in the Tower of London in 1621. But then
was released after a few days, and the king
pardoned him for charges of corruption. However,
Bacon was banned from holding public office and
sitting in Parliament.
This fascinating character on the outer world
stage was a lawyer who became Queen's Counsel in
1597 and later Lord Chancellor of England. At the
same time while working for the queen, Bacon
helped to found the scientific method, based on an
inductive approach to knowledge. He is considered
one of the greatest thinkers of all time.
Francis Bacon surely learned in his unique
“scientific journeys” to explore the astral world.
But, he chose to point his fellows to less lofty
regions. Some of those efforts were through the
eloquence of his unknowing alter ego, William
Shakespeare. But, he left many discoveries occult
as suggested by the fact that his death itself was
staged so that Bacon live “beyond the pale.”
Francis Bacon left unwritten and unstated the
stages of life which follow on death, passages
through astral-causal worlds, and preparations for
rebirth. Let us briefly sketch those seven stages
for readers to consider and ponder.
• Death occurs when the silver cord (Ecclesiastes
12:6) is broken and it is impossible for the soul
to return to its usual home. Thereafter, the
material form disintegrates slowly if not cremated
or embalmed. The etheric – energy body does much
the same as it separates from the dense body.
• Much like our nightly absences from our bodies,
our soul-minds are released at death to wander or
be attracted to those forces most familiar to us
in embodied life. Most of us each night while the
body rests do not travel far, staying near to
“home base.” A relative few travel in their astral
bodies hither and thither – some to tourist-like
destinations, others to study and learn at the
feet of advanced beings.
• Early on after death we review the most recent
lifetime. The life, with lessons learned or
rejected, are then held in soul memory to
determine future incarnations.
• Over years, decades or centuries, we experience
the slow “second death” of kama-manas aka
emotion-mind. We then are fully absorbed into
soul-spirit. That state is like another sleep
state, as we wait to be attracted once again into
embodiment governed through the perfect knowledge
of the Oversoul.
• We are drawn back into physical life in
largest part by soul direction, but also by the
needs of ourselves and others to experience and
learn. “And we are put on earth a little space,
that we may learn to bear the beams of love.”
(William Blake)
• We are appointed the perfect body, family and
environ for those needs. That body being part of
the larger force fields of feelings, mind, and
soul is built according to the true hereditary
blueprint which might be described as spiritual
DNA.
• The final stage occurs as the soul overshadows
the bodily form during the latter moments of
gestation. Then, the soul couples with the body at
the hour of birth.
And, Bacon-Shakespeare’s Seven Acts on the
physical Stage unfold upon the great theater of
planet Earth.
*** Look for Part II of The Seven
Acts next month. ***
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