We start with the history behind the Thirty Years War: one of the most that devastating tragedies in world history. It began as religious conflicts between the Reformists and the Catholics but by the time it was over more than eight million people had lost their lives and one fifth of Germany’s population had been wiped out.
Against this backdrop are set John Dee’s angelic communications, the emergence of the Rosicrucian manifestos, and Sir Francis Bacon’s efforts to set the record straight concerning certain unacknowledged royal heirs of Queen Elizabeth.