Francis Bacon’s Inner Sense, Integrity and Enlightenment
Here is the poem I felt to write today on Francis Bacon. My inner sense expresses this. I do not know if I can do justice to Francis Bacon’s life barely touching an outline of it but my inner feeling tells me he is significant to today.
Interestingly it is the anniversary of Gandhi’s birthday another advocate for higher truth. Perhaps this pursuit is what it means to ‘get real’ or indeed ‘the real world’.
Quote:
“…Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue…” Francis bacon
FRANCIS BACON’S INNER SENSE
Francis Bacon,
The 17th Century Enlightenment thinker,
Is barely known to a world of digital reality,
Tensions of banality (superficial) and authenticity (real),
Birthed truth as it was continuously buried alive
under the rubble of conquest and revolutions
jousting and lusting for power,
As the hour of truth emerges from battle when we remain true to ourselves,
And human rights – like knights shine – as the beacon,
For the right to be human can never be destroyed,
The decision ‘to be or not to be’ is the gavel defining what is just action,
In a worldview where ethical morality is used as the weapon to thrust into the heart of innocence in the name of God and faith,
For human rights were decided at the end of the sword,
The right to live or die was arbitrary,
Determining ‘are you with us or against us’ as a the line drawn in the sand,
No courts of justice to spake of truth,
Only courts of kings dispensing edicts without evidence,
Where ultimate power is the state of play,
In the absence of a playful state,
In theatres of roles without responsibility in the absence of
Shakespearean plots determining truth in The End.
Francis Bacon the father of scientific method,
Inductive reasoning was the seasoned observation as evidential experience (real world),
For the truth in experience endures the crown of thorns of purification,
For one must sacrifice safety for natural knowledge and justice,
He spake….
“The law of nature teaches me to speak in my own defence: With respect to this charge of bribery I am as innocent as any man born on St. Innocents Day. I never had a bribe or reward in my eye or thought when pronouncing judgment or order… I am ready to make an oblation of myself to the King…”
He served both Crown and Religion yet not in blind faith,
He spake truth of:
Witch hunts, religious suppression, persecution, feudal priviledges and dictatorial powers,
Casting his net of inquiry across the breadth and depth of humanity’s inductive reasoning,
Regarding close constitutional ties with Ireland as the binding peace with England.
For he was a knight of the round table of equality,
A barrister, philosopher, jurist, statesman, chancellor and reformer,
A Clerk of the Star Chamber of Privy Council and Common Law,
Originally equitable courts shining the twin flame of fair enforcement for civil and criminal matters,
Later subverted into reductionist narrow interpretations and abuse of power,
For the ethics of humanity must be upheld through the universal threefold flame of:
Love,
Wisdom &
Power (internal)
As leaders without love become tyrants,
The right use of knowledge transmutes to wisdom and insight (in sight, inner sense),
Power is the empowered vision as eternal truth shining enlightenment on all,
Natural order is to be reinstated from the highest chambers of the enlightenment,
Where visibility is transparency,
Justice is an act of who we are not hindsight,
And higher knowledge is derived from inductive reasoning enshrined in experience not theory
rather than circular arguments unable to uncover or access eternal truth,
for life is about continuous learning expanding the meta-physical picture
in truth.