Bacon, Shakespeare And The Rosicrucians
by William Francis C. Wigston

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...are colliers counted bright. King. And Ethiopes of their sweet complexion crack. Dumain. Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light." In this Ethiopian Rosalind we have Mr Rider Haggard's "She," although his prototype comes from another source in Moore's Epicurean. Diana is also Ilythia, Latona (primseval night)--Nature, --for they all represent similar concepts. CXXVII. "In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame: For since each hand hath put on nature's power, Fairing the foul with art's false borrow'd face, Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy hour, But is profan'd, if not lives in disgrace. Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black, Her eyes so suited; and they mourners seem For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, "Who art as black as hell, as dark as night." The Comedy of Ephesus, again, is partly laid at Ephesus. As for the name of Diana, it is the Dens ex macfdnd with which the poet conjures. Take All's Well that Ends Well, where we have the character of Diana, not because, as some shallow critic would observe, the part played fits the name, but because Helena and Diana are two names for the same thing, and the exchange of rtle is the profound symbolism of the paradox of identity and difference belonging to the principles of this art exemplified in this play, as opposites and unity. Diana is the reconciler and the enlightener. Widow Dido. In a passage quoted from The Tempest, we have the strange bringing in of Dido as " Widow Dido." "Hiram, the widovfs son, Sent to King Solomon, The Great Keystone; On it appears the name, Which raises high the fame Of all, to whom the same Is truly known." Now, in...