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As said before.

The Francis Bacon that David is refrerring to is a figure reckoned by the sources he is using to have founded Rosicrucianism, written Shakesperian plays and lived as a socialite dandy as the Comte de Saint Germain in the eightennth century.

So when he talks Bacon and Columbus he's referring to this figure.
The veracity of such claims are for individuals to decide.

By the way the symbol of the pineal gland is the pine cone. This symbol is very ancient and the position of all the endochrinal glands were inportant to the techers of the mystery schools.
Again individuals decide for themselves what to make of this.