"Headin' out to..." Edenics

In a chapter included in the anthology book Forbidden Religion, of articles from the magazine Atlantis Rising, the author of “Francis Bacon and the Sign of the Double A,” William Henry, writes that as a favorite passtime, Bacon wrote “cryptograms buried in his works.” One of the works he may have supervised, according to some, Henry believes, was the so-called Authorized King James version of the Bible. His love of codes may have extended to the English language itself, for Bacon and other like-minded individuals of that period, literally decided to “create a language,” transforming it “from a barbarous tongue... into a literary language, a process he [Bacon] witnessed first-hand in France.” (p. 175)

Interestingly, Henry notes that “The English language... owes a profound debt to the English translation of the King James Bible (which, some believe, God enabled and Bacon guided) and upon the plays of Shakespeare.” Shakespeare introduced over 7,000 “new words,” (p. 176) and my contention is that Edenics, which though it does look at other languages, it mainly concerns itself with English, and concludes that some form of proto-Hebrew is the original “mother tongue,” spoken by Adam and Eve, but was corrupted by God at the Tower of Babel. It is my belief that the relationship between English and Hebrew was artificially induced by the key authors of that age. It would be interesting to compare those new words to the dictionary of The Word - The Dictionary that Reveals the Hebrew Roots of the English Language,  by Isaac Mozeson.

Henry goes on to speak of “interpreting ancient names and place-names,” through “connecting word concepts by sound in English.” Based just on these types, it becomes similar to a “code [that] equates words that sound alike in different languages” to unearth “astonishing literary and historical synchronicities, or meaningful coincidences, that point to the interconnectedness of all creation....” (p. 177) Bacon and Shakespeare, if indeed they weren’t the same person, and others who may have been associated by mutual membership in various esoteric societies, injected the very language we speak today with these “synchronicities,” but if what I conjecture is true, it is a forced connectedness.

So, many advocates of Edenics and related notions are right! “‘God speaks English!’” became a vehicle to encode these esoteric ideas into the language deliberately, not by God in Eden, but in the 17^th Century by men, some of whom were Freemasons, etc. Thus the real question now becomes did Bacon encode English to predispose people to certain predetermined relations to reality based upon conceptual-linguistic dependency, i.e., that language affects the brain’s wiring and modes of understanding, based on his own world-view, thus re-enforcing that view? One can go even further with more conspiratorial theories, but that will have to wait until the future.

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