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Roger Bacon, Philosopher and Scientist
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| Roger Bacon, Philosopher and Scientist Saint Germain was Roger Bacon (1220–1292), philosopher, Franciscan monk, educational reformer and experimental scientist. In an era in which either theology or logic or both dictated the parameters of science, he promoted the experimental method, declared his belief that the world was round, and castigated the scholars and scientists of his day for their narrow-mindedness. True knowledge stems not from the authority of others, nor from a blind allegiance to antiquated dogmas,” 10 he said. Bacon eventually left his position as a lecturer at the University of Paris and entered the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor. In his day Bacon was renowned for his exhaustive investigations into alchemy, optics, mathematics and languages. He is viewed as the forerunner of modern science and a prophet of modern technology. He predicted the hot-air balloon, a flying machine, spectacles, the telescope, the microscope, the elevator, and mechanically propelled ships and carriages, and wrote of them as if he had actually seen them. Lessons from Past Lives 29 His scientific and philosophical worldview, his bold attacks on the theologians of his day, and his study of alchemy and astrology led to charges of heresies and novelties for which he was imprisoned for fourteen years by his fellow Franciscans. But to those who followed after him, Bacon was doctor mirabilis” (wonderful teacher, an epithet by which he has been known through the centuries. Christopher Columbus Saint Germain was also embodied as Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), discoverer of America. Over two centuries before Columbus sailed, Roger Bacon himself had set the stage for Columbus voyage to the New World when he stated in his Opus Majus that the sea between the end of Spain on the west and the beginning of India on the east is navigable in a very few days if the wind is favorable.” 11 Although the statement was incorrect in that the land to the west of Spain was not India, it was instrumental in Columbus discovery. He quoted the passage in a 1498 letter SAINT GERMAIN—MASTER ALCHEMIST to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and said that his 1492 voyage had been inspired in part by this visionary statement. Columbus believed that God had made him to be the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which He spake in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah.” 12 “In the carrying out of this enterprise of the Indies he wrote to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1502, neither reason nor mathematics nor maps were any use tome fully accomplished were the words of Isaiah.” 13 He was referring to the prophecy recorded in Isaiah 11:10–12 that the Lord would recover the remnant of his people . . . and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” He was certain that he had been divinely Lessons from Past Lives 31 selected for his mission. He studied the biblical prophets, writing passages relating to his mission in a book of his own making entitled Las Proficias, or The Prophecies—in its complete form, The Book of Prophecies Concerning the Discovery of the Indies and the Recovery of Jerusalem. Although the point is seldom stressed, it is a fact so rooted in history that even Ency clopaedia Britannica says unequivocally that Columbus discovered America by prophecy rather than by astronomy.” 14 Christopher Columbus set forth in his ships to discover anew world. He was magnetized to the location by the flame of freedom in the etheric Temple of Purification over Cuba and by the inner memory of serving in that temple on Atlantis. He studied here between embodiments and also during his embodiments while leaving his body in periods of sleep. The impetus for coming to those islands was the flame of freedom, helping him to chart anew course fora new land. |