Francis Bacon and his secret society - Grand Lodge of Colorado

AND His SECRET SOCIETY. 211
laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only,
but to all that love His appearing. ,r 1
But meanwhile, how to do all that he felt and knew to be
necessary, and yet which could only be done by himself, we see
hiin again in the notes reflecting that victory can be gained by
means ofnumbers; that " things united are more powerful or better
than things not united; " that " two eyes are better than one; "
" So many heades so many wits; " " Friends have all things in
common; " " Many things taken together are helpful, which taken
singly are of no use; " " One must take men as they are, and
times as they are; " but, on the whole, he seems to think that
most men are serviceable for something, that every properly
instructed tongue may be made to bear witness, and that it must
be one part of his work to draw together so great a cloud of witnesses
as may perform the part of a chorus, endorsing, echoing,
or capping the doctrines of the new philosophy as they were
uttered, and giving a support, as of public opinion, both at home
and abroad.
Yye now know that many of Bacon's works were transmitted
" beyond the seas," to France, Spain, Italy, Germany.and Holland,
where they were translated and surreptitiously published,
usually under other names than his own. There are, when we
come to collect them, many indications iu the Promus of a secret
to be kept, and of a system planned for the keeping of it.
" The glory of God," we read, is " to conceal a thing " — and
there are many "—
" secrets of God." " Woorke as God ivoorkes
quietly, persistently, secretly— unheeded, except by those who
read in His infinite book of secresy. " Plutoe's helmet " is said to
have produced " invisibility." " The gods have woollen feet" —
i. e., steal on us unawares. " Triceps Mercurius, great rwnying,"
alludes, perhaps, to the little anonymous book of cipher called
" Mercury, the Secret and Swift Messenger," which reproduces so
accurately (and without acknowledging him) Bacon's biliteral
cipher, and many other particulars told precisely after his
manner, that we believe it to be the brief summary by himself
12 Tim. iv. 7, 8.