Atlantis?

Many people have many different ideas and theories that they have postulated about Freemasonry and a dark, sinister connection that it has with the occult. One of my favorites was recently brought up by a Brother whom I have a lot of respect for, although the broadcast clip he showed was a newer spin than the one I had heard before, it reminded me of the ideas I had once heard before.

This man was claiming that our order was actually ruling the world as the "Modern Atlanteans" and behind all events in world history, which has been heard before and is equally propostorous as all the other world domination theories.

It has been said that Sir Francis Bacon was connected with our fraternity. In his work called New Atlantis: A Work Unfinished Bacon describes the creation of a new nation where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of it inhabitants.

I have always held this to be the real "Atlantean" connection to Freemasonry.