Hopefully you, the reader, have come into this discourse as a reasonable and unbiased individual—a seeker of Truth. If you’re not already aware, there exists much controversy and debate over who actually wrote the works attributed to the highly mysterious author known as “William Shakespeare”.

Yes, the vast majority of people on the planet have generally (and unknowingly) accepted the premise that a man named “William Shakespeare” (of Stratford) wrote the literary works attributed to him. The problem rests with the fact that there is scarce evidence of the Stratford man’s existence—but more importantly, there is NO TANGIBLE EVIDENCE the “Stratford man” wrote the literary body of work for which he is given credit—in fact, there is a mountain of hard, legitimate evidence to the contrary!

As extraordinary as it may seem, there is an avalanche of substantial evidence that reveals Francis Bacon to be the true genius behind the creation of the Shakespearean works! The evidence further reveals Bacon to have been the first (secret) son of Queen Elizabeth I. Moreover, the evidence also shows Bacon to have been the founder of modern, Speculative Freemasonry.

The Shakespearean works consist of a vast infrastructure of encryption—all of which rely on the precision and beauty of Numbers. The hard evidence (as we shall see) overwhelmingly shows that Francis Bacon artfully wove coded numbers into the Shakespearean tapestry not just as an amusement, but rather as a vehicle intended to serve as a paradigm of enlightenment designed to move the reader to much higher levels of understanding!

Categorically the cryptic “Shakespeare Sonnets” are at the apex of the Shakespeare Treasure Trail because they are understood by the vast majority of Shakespearean scholars to represent the Author’s Autobiography.

It is generally assumed that “1609” was the year in which SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS was first published. However, as Edward D. Johnson has effectively demonstrated, 1609 is a code number rather than a publication date. Therefore, 1609 is a false publication date. Johnson states: “In 1609 anything written by Shakespeare was in great demand—the quartos of the plays were reprinted over and over again.”

“If these Sonnets had been published in 1609 then there would have been so great a demand for the work of a popular writer as Shakespeare that this book of Sonnets would have been reprinted again and again. Why was it not reprinted? Because it was not originally printed in 1609. The absence of reprints is a problem which has never been explained by the Stratfordians [or by the Oxfordians].” “There is absolutely no mention of the Sonnets as a complete body of verse or any phrase or quotation in letters, diaries, printed book or pamphlet between the years 1609 and 1624, a period of 15 years. This book was not seen by the public until 1640, when an edition was printed, 31 years after 1609.”

Finally, Johnson concludes:

“That there was neither printed nor published any book entitled Shake-Speare’s Sonnets in 1609 is also proved by the fact that there is no reference to this book by any Shakespearian commentator between the years 1609 and 1640.” The hard evidence unequivocally establishes the original publication of the Shakespeare Sonnets could not have occurred prior to 1621. All 154 sonnets and their accompanying “cover pages” are heavily encrypted with Bacon’s Kabbalistic Masonic code—clearly, nothing about them can be taken at face value.