King James Bible - 1611

The founders of #Freemasonry were all men who were more or less identified with the progressive tendencies of their day.

Mystics, Philosophers, and Alchemists were all bound together with a secret tie and dedicated to the emancipation of humanity from ignorance and oppression.

The first edition of the King James Bible, which was edited by Francis Bacon and prepared under Masonic supervision, bears more Mason's marks than the Cathedral of Strasburg.

The same is true respecting the Masonic symbolism found in the first English edition of Josephus' History of the Jews.

~ Manly P. Hall, #Rosicrucian and Masonic Origins, 1929, p. 7

The Bible which all of us read and admire from a literary point of view because of it's peculiar and beautiful English was written in that form by Bacon who invented and perfected that style of English expression.

The first editions of this Bible were printed under the same guidance and in the same manner as were the Shakespeare plays, and the ornaments for the various pages were drawn in pen and ink and on wood by artists engaged by Bacon who worked under his supervision.

Everyone of the ornaments concealed some Rosicrucian emblem and occasionally a Masonic emblem or some initials that would reveal Bacon's name or the name of the #Rosicrucians.

Such ornaments were put not only in the Christian Bible that Bacon had rewritten but in the Shakespeare plays, and in some of Bacon's own books, and a few other books that were typically Rosicrucinan in spirit.

~ Dr. H Spencer Lewis, Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order during the 1920-30's, from the Rosicrucian Digest, April 1930. #AMORC