{"id":302492,"date":"2025-09-08T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=302492"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:48:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:48:03","slug":"the-neo-platonic-invisible-college-rosicrucians-theosophists-and-tavistock-to-the-rise-of-silicon-valleys-transhumanist-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/09\/the-neo-platonic-invisible-college-rosicrucians-theosophists-and-tavistock-to-the-rise-of-silicon-valleys-transhumanist-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neo-Platonic Invisible College: Rosicrucians, Theosophists and Tavistock to the Rise of Silicon Valley’s Transhumanist Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"

3 Sep 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0The \u2018Invisible College\u2019 was the informal name given to a secret society that was established in 1646 amidst the English Civil War by Astronomer\/Alchemist Christopher Wren, Mathematician\/Mystic Robert Boyle and other followers of Sir Francis Bacon, John Dee, Robert Fludd and Venetian occultist Francesco Zorzi.<\/p>\n

This grouping of mystics aspired to control the reigns of all branches of science and politics and soon founded the British Royal Society in 1660.<\/p>\n

The Royal Society\u2019s first official history by Thomas Sprat was published in 1667 and featured an engraving replete with Masonic imagery, King Charles II (who had only recently been restored to the throne in the wake of the ashes of the Civil War) and who patronized the new institution and the arch strategist Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n

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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat\u2019s History of the Royal Society, 1667, showing Francis Bacon, right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

In his opening remarks to the official history of the Invisible College, Sprat explicitly laid out the society\u2019s debt to Bacon saying: \u201cI shall only mention one great Man, who had the true Imagination of the whole extent of this Enterprize, as it is now set on foot ; and that is, the Lord Bacon\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

What was it about Bacon\u2019s work that served to inspire this new organization which would come to influence scientific thinking across the entire world?<\/p>\n

In his New Atlantis published in 1622, Bacon laid out his vision for a utopic technocratic society ruled by a scientific priesthood out of a headquarters he dubbed \u2018Salomon\u2019s House\u2019. Science in Bacon\u2019s Atlantis was defined as an extreme form of compartmentalization guided by a high priesthood of initiates pledged to oaths of secrecy. New Atlantis featured a vast array of scientists \u201cwho collect experiments from books, those who think up new experiments, those who perform the new experiments, those who organize the experimental data, those who analyze data, those who review the data and suggest new experiments, those who perform the new experiments,those who induce new axioms from the results, and a wide range of novices, apprentices, servants, and attendants.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Any healthy minded person who has even a small amount of scientific training would soon recognize that no discovery could ever occur in such a stifling environment of radical compartmentalization\u2026 but maybe that was the point.<\/p>\n

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