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Quest of the Ages
America’s Secret Spiritual Destiny
“The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the King (a Man) is to find it out: As if the divine nature, according to the innocent and the sweet play of children; which hide themselves to the end that they may be found, took delight to hide his work to the end that they may be found out; and of his indulgence and goodness to mankind has chosen the soul of man to be his playfellow in this game.” — Francis Bacon, Instauration Magna
Bruton Parish’s 3rd Church, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, established 1674
A Short Chronology
The history of Colonial Williamsburg from early colonial times is not accessible on any exact level. Court records were destroyed and much of the original history has been lost. What is known is that the area called the Middle Plantation, where the Bruton Church sits, was laid out in 1633. Three original wood-built churches and parishes were merged into one and it was called the Bruton Parish. Bruton Parish would become Williamsburg in 1699.
1606 – The Virginia Company:
Francis Bacon played a leading role in creating the British colonies in the New World, especially in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Newfoundland in northeastern Canada. In 1910 Newfoundland issued a postage stamp to commemorate Bacon’s role in establishing Newfoundland. The stamp describes Bacon as: “The guiding spirit in Colonization Schemes in 1610.” — Alfred Dodd, Francis Bacon’s Personal Life Story
Newfoundland Postage with image of Sir Francis Bacon
The Virginia Company was Chartered in 1606 by King James of England, 1609 records indicate that Francis Bacon was a founding member:
“Bacon quickly realized that here in the New World was the proper environment for the accomplishment of his great dream, the establishment of the philosophic empire…he was the head of a secret society including in its membership the most brilliant intellectuals of his day (and) together with Bacon, they devised the colonization scheme.” — Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Destiny of America
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), an English Lord, the son of Elizabeth I, was recognized as the “founder of Free Masonry…the guiding light of the Rosicrucian Order, the members of which kept the torch of the true universal knowledge, the Secret Doctrine of the Ages alive during the dark night of the Middle Ages.” Fluent in many languages, he was known to have edited the King James Version of the Bible, and is believed to be the true author of the William Shakespeare plays. He had been initiated by a secret society of intellectuals dedicated to civil and religious freedom. In his book Instauratio Magna, he wrote of a movement to “reorganize the sciences and restore man to the mastery over nature that he was conceived to have lost by the fall of Adam.” By David Allen Rivera
1626 – Bacon’s New Atlantis was published:
“Father Time , Saturn is depicted bringing a female figure (virgin) out of the darkness of a cave. Symbolizing the revealing to the light of day the mysteries of mother nature, and the alchemical art of natural liberation ” — Orion Middleton
The New Atlantis was published a year after Francis Bacon’s death, by his secretary, friend and chaplain William Rawley. Subtitled: “In time the hidden truth shall be revealed”, the book represented Bacon’s vision for a new Golden Age. According to Manly Hall, the New Atlantis
“Revealed the entire pattern of the secret societies which had been working for thousands of years to achieve the ideal commonwealth in the political world.” — Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Destiny of America
“The New Atlantis was first published in 1627, as a kind of appendix to the Sylva Sylvarum, a natural history in ten centuries. On the title page is a curious design. It shows the figure of an ancient creature representing Time drawing a female figure from a dark cavern. The meaning is obvious: Through time, the hidden truth shall be revealed. This figure is one of the most famous of the seals or symbols of the Order of the Quest. Contained within it is the whole promise of the resurrection of man, and the restitution of the divine theology.” — Manly P. Hall
1635 – Original vault built at Jamestown:
In 1635 Francis Bacon’s half-brother, Henry Blount whom later changed his name to Sir Nathaniel Bacon arrived in the New World, taking up residence at Jamestown, and eventually Stiffkey in Norfolk. Nathaniel Bacon was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament. He was admitted to Gray’s Inn in 1562, and became an “ancient” of the Inn in 1576. He was MP (member of Parliment) numerous times, served as High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1599 and was Knighted in 1604.
Manly and Marie Hall, through their deciphering of hidden codes placed in various writings contemporary to Francis Bacon, including A Collection of Emblems (George Wither, 1635) and a number of Shakespearean plays, found evidence that Nathaniel Bacon built a vault under the altar of the original Jamestown Church to hold documents he brought from England pertaining to the founding of America.
Nathaniel Bacon
1676 – Vault contents transferred to Williamsburg:
In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the then Governor of Virginia, William Berkeley, called by history “Bacon’s Rebellion”. While the contents of the Jamestown vault could have been moved from Jamestown to its current location in the Bruton Parish Churchyard anytime between 1633 and 1699, many scholars believe the new vault was built and its contents placed under cover of the Rebellion in 1676. One possible reason given for moving the contents of the vault was the then rising water levels surrounding Jamestown.
It has been demonstrated conclusively that the majority of the Founding Forefathers of the United States of America were Free Masons, and that the architecture they built (including the layout of the Nation’s Capital in Washington, DC ) were laid out according to ancient principals of sacred geometry. According to Marie B. Hall, it was common practice by Masons, when building a church or temple, to place a sacred vault under the alter of the church. It was thus expected that the original Bruton Parish Church was built over the top of the vault, with the vault situated below the alter.
Bruton Parish Churchyard
According to the codes deciphered by Manly and Marie Hall, the vault was a 10 ft. by 10 ft. brick vault, buried 20 ft. deep. As stated earlier, its location was marked by certain, strategically placed encoded memorials in the cemetery above.
Ground Penetrating Radar
Marie subsequently introduced an advanced ground radar technology from Canada used for locating copper and other ores to search for evidence to support her conclusions.
“Under the supervision of the Vestry and members of the Rockefeller Williamsburg Restoration and the eager attendance of College boys and girls, the field work was carried on from November 1 to the 4th inclusive. A complete delineation of the method, the proceedings, findings, graphical maps illustrating the tests undertaken and the undeniable recordings of impartial scientific instruments, is given in the account of my Book.” — Marie Bauer, Foundations Unearthed, p.58
The size and location of the Vault was later proven through the 1938 use of Ground Penetrating Radar, then a newly invented technology used in mining.
1760-1790 – Founding Forefathers utilize contents of the Vault:
During those years most critical to the founding of America, including throughout the process of writing our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights, it is a known fact that Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, George Mason, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry and Henry Clay were Master Masons and lived and studied at the house of George Wythe, directly behind Bruton Parish Church.
George Wythe House, Colonial Williamsburg
Deciphered codes on the gravestones of the Parish churchyard discovered by Marie B. Hall indicated that a tunnel led from the vicinity of George Wythe’s house to the hidden Vault. According to Colin Dyer in his book Symbolism in Craft Masonry, in 1804, Thomas Jefferson (3rd President) was the last person to examine the contents of this vault. It was believed that the contents were removed and placed in a secret location either at the University of Virginia (founded by Jefferson), or the capitol building in Washington, D.C. However, Manley Hall became a leading proponent for the Bruton Vault as being the location of this sacred repository.
The United States of America’s third US President, Thomas Jefferson wrote:
“Bacon, Locke and Newton: I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the physical and moral sciences.” — The Letters of Thomas Jefferson: 1743-1826 Bacon, Locke, and Newton
1938 – Formal excavation:
In 1938, an excavation initiated by Maria Bauer Hall took place, which revealed the foundations of the original Masonic Church in the Bruton Churchyard. While knowledge of the locations of these foundations had been lost for well over a century, Mrs. Hall was able to locate them easily through her and her husband’s research into Elizabethan cipher’s placed in the George Wither book and the Shakespearian play, Hamlet, which led to ciphers placed directly on gravestones in the Bruton graveyard itself!
Foundations Unearthed, by Marie Bauer Hall
Unfortunately Mrs. Hall’s excavation was halted by Church officials before she was able to complete an excavation for the Vault itself.
1991 – An informal excavation:
On the night of September 09, 1991, a group of individuals affiliated with the Ministry of the Children did an unauthorized dig for the Bruton Vault. The intent of this excavation was first and foremost to bring to the attention of the American public their true, spiritual legacy still buried in the ground. While they were unable that night to reach the Vault, the local, national and international media coverage and focus brought to Bruton Parish Church and the Vault created a revival in knowledge and interest in this precious national treasure. The story of the excavation eventually become the Virginia State Story of the Year for 1991.
There are many important documents of antiquity that have been said to have been placed in the vault, based on fact, oral history, rumor and fantasy. Among them are:
- Secret documents related to the founding vision of Sir Francis Bacon for America as a Utopian Democratic Commonwealth, including the full-length version of Bacons’ vision of a New Atlantis.
- Ancient writings that had been in the possession of certain secret societies.
- Instructions, maps, and documents that lead to repositories of certain Founding Forefathers, Patriots and early leaders in America that in turn contained original writings, diaries and documentation.
- Documentation of Sir Francis Bacon’s true legacy, both in England and America, including his authorship of the Shakespearian plays, his original Tudor birth records showing him to be the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I, an unabridged version of the King James version of the Bible, translated by Bacon and more.
- Locations and contents of similar Vaults worldwide.
Evidence for the existence of the Bruton Vault in the Bruton Parish churchyard of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia is speculative. While no ‘smoking gun’ has yet to be discovered, a large body of empirical data, including ciphers incorporated into the tombstones of the parish churchyard that led to the uncovering of the long lost foundations of the original church structure, ground sonar tests, blueprints for the 1st brick church and much, much more all provide strong, circumstantial evidence that a Masonic Vault DOES in fact exist, and that it was placed in Williamsburg with the knowledge and participation of Sir Francis Bacon.
The willingness on the part of the Vestry of Bruton Parish Church to do an authorized, extensive archeological exploration of the parish churchyard could reveal once and for all the truth: that there is indeed a vault, and that it was instrumental in providing our founding forefathers access to the legacy of Francis Bacon’s blueprint for a great, utopian commonwealth experiment, a legacy that resulted in the founding United States of America.
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