Aladdin's Lamp by John Freely

Author:John Freely [Freely, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-27132-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2009-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

On another topic, Bacon writes that “it has been proved by certain experiments” that life can be greatly extended by “secret experiences.” One of his recommendations for achieving an exceptionally long life involves eating the specially prepared flesh of flying dragons, which he says also “inspires the intellect,” or so he was told “without deceit or doubt from men of proved trustworthiness.”

Writings such as this gave Bacon the posthumous reputation of being a magician and diviner who had learned his black arts from Satan. Early in the seventeenth century a book was published in London entitled The famous historie of Fryer Bacon, containing the wonderful things that he did in his life, also the manner of his death, with the lives and deaths of the two conjurers, Bungey and Vandermast The book purports to tell the story of Bacon's life and magical exploits, including his creation of a brazen head that could talk and foretell the future and protect England from her enemies. After fashioning the “talking head” Bacon and Bungey waited for it to speak, but nothing happened for three weeks. Then “after some noyse the head spake these two words. ‘TIME IS’; and again after an interval, ‘TIME WAS’; and again, ‘TIME IS PAST,’ and therewith fell downe, and presently followed a terrible noyse, with strange flashes of fire.”

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