Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Lord Chancellor, father of the empirical scientific method. Author of New Atlantis (1627) — Salomons House, a secret scientific research institute that decides which technologies to share and which to conceal. NOT a democracy of ideas — an initiatory hierarchy. Scientists operate in strict secrecy. Maps perfectly onto the Rosicrucian invisible brotherhood.

The structural bridge between Dee and the Royal Society. Bacon stripped the overt angelology from Dee's methodology but retained the absolute necessity of restricted, hierarchical access to knowledge. Mother Lady Anne Bacon connected to Elizabethan court circles including Dee. New Atlantis = the operational blueprint for the Royal Society, the modern research university, the national laboratory system, and the intelligence agency. Salomons House IS the centralized power structure in embryo.