A detailed examination of Shakespeare's funerary monument. The author considers the mysterious ciphers and geometrical codes hidden within the memorial from Freemasonic, Rosicrucian, Kabbalistic and other occult viewpoints.
M.R. Osborne is the author of ten published works. He studied Theology at the University of Birmingham and is an Attorney at Law, specialising in private equity. He is a member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) and has published academic papers on legal and esoteric subjects. His focus is on Rosicrucianism, early masonic organisation and occult symbolism. In 2018 he won the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia Order of the Companion of Christian Rosenkreutz prize for a series of papers on the 'Lessons of Lyons'. He is also a contributor to the society's digital magazine, 'Flores et Taciturnas'. The author first encountered Martinism and Rosicrucianism on a personal journey of Christian spirituality, discovering in them a fascinating philosophy of early science almost wholly unknown to mainstream thinking.
