…these other realms, these other mediums that I work in. So I want to pay homage to that ancestor. Another ancestor is Francis Bacon, and I just read a quote from Francis Bacon. He's kind of considered the guy that established the groundwork for developing…

…I want to pay homage to that ancestor. Another ancestor is Francis Bacon, and I just read a quote from Francis Bacon. He's kind of considered the guy that established the groundwork for developing the scientific method and deductive reasoning and resisting…

…kind of money for it. Accompanying the manuscript is a letter which states that it is a manuscript of the Englishman Roger Bacon, who flourished in the 13th century and who was a noted pre copernican astronomer. Now, at that time in Prague, which was…

…astronomer. Now, at that time in Prague, which was where the court of the emperor was being held, the reputation of Roger Bacon was at a great height. The court was a hotbed of alchemy, and among all these alchemists, the reputation of the english…

…a great height. The court was a hotbed of alchemy, and among all these alchemists, the reputation of the english monk Roger Bacon was held very high. This is because, two years previously, the sale of the vonage manuscript to the emperor being dated to…

…was sold the vonage manuscript. And they were the people who were responsible for telling everyone what a great alchemist, Roger Bacon, the english monk, had been. They laid the public relations groundwork for turning this manuscript at a high premium, I…

…of the manuscript. The manuscript, which would have had to have been written in the 13th century if it were by Roger Bacon, definitely shows all the physical signs of being a 16th century manuscript. I estimate it was done sometime around 1540, and this…

…that the tomb of Christian Rosenkranzhe, who had lived in the 14th century, again it's like this harking back to Roger Bacon, but instead harking back to a mythical personage two centuries previously, that the tomb of Christian Rosencrantz, a great knight…

…did was it shoved nature further and further into the background. Nature is something from which we torment her secrets. This is Francis Bacon. We torture nature to obtain her secrets. The world is created for Mandev. It is for man to remake in his image…