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Shakespeare’s King Lear was aged and infirm with no son to
replace him. He desperately sought to divide his kingdom among his
three daughters to avoid his sacrificial fate in favour of a younger king.
All he sought to retain was a troop of one hundred men for protection. He
was a hundred-man.
King Lear’s three daughters represent the Triple Goddess. To
succeed with his plan he needed to experience the carnal love of the
Goddess, which is the professed love of each of his daughters. In this
way, he could satisfy the requirement of carnal involvement with the
Goddess, without actually being involved.
Shakespeare employs an exquisite Baconesque legal fiction. In
return for a portion of the kingdom, each daughter is required to swear
that King Lear has priority in love over her husband. To his youngest,
most innocent daughter he offers the choicest portion of the kingdom in
special recognition of her ultimogeniture. She denies him, withholding
her carnal love for her own fiancée.
Winning only two daughters was not sufficient to subvert his
impending fate. To others, King Lear’s mind seems to break. The astute
King Lear recognizes that his clever solution has not worked and the time
for sacrifice is upon him. In his rage, he banishes Wisdom from his
kingdom in the form of his old friend. He violently berates his daughters
to find a solution that will preserve his life.
King Lear’s madness is really the essence of clear vision, as we
would expect from such an illustrious King. Even this tirade against his
daughters cleverly characterizes each as a traditional embodiment of the
Triple Goddess such as Hecate.
The King cannot escape his fate. Indeed, he and his three
daughters all die in the moment of climax as the wicked Edmund kills the
most innocent daughter, Cordelia, who represents the Goddess of Love.
Edmund is Edgar’s evil alter-self. As with all Rose Croix
Knights, Edgar must kill the evil base side of his own character before he
can achieve the purity required for kingship. He kills Edmund and
immediately emerges as the purified righteous King.
Through this consummate tragedy, Shakespeare recalled a long
history of Rose Croix tradition. The theological scholar Eusebius
provides evidence of the importance of this Rose Cross tradition.
Eusebius relates that even the great Emperor Constantine
identified with the ritual by having himself depicted with his lance
piercing a bristling dragon. 881 In fact, the Red Cross first became
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