America's Masonic Foundations | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History

America's Masonic Foundations | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History: "In 1897, an American army officer named Charles Totten wrote “there are mysteries connected with the birth of this Republic.” Totten had been investigating the strange iconography of the Great Seal of the United States, and through his research became convinced that the birth of the American nation could be related to the vision of Francis Bacon’s The New Atlantis, who provided some financial support for the early Virginia colony. Totten’s remark is, surprisingly, somewhat of an understatement."