This installment in the Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings series argues that the men who colonized and later founded the United States were consciously building the utopia Francis Bacon described in his unfinished 1627 work New Atlantis. The film contrasts Plato's Atlantis, a militarized empire ruled by philosopher-kings, with Bacon's vision of a society governed by science and secret knowledge, then traces Bacon's ties to Rosicrucianism and early Freemasonry through the Virginia Company's charters and the symbolism used by colonial leaders. Narration walks through period engravings, Masonic imagery, and quotes from Bacon's writing to build the case that colonization was framed from the start as an esoteric project rather than a purely commercial or religious one. Interviews and historical documents are used to connect Bacon's ideas to later founding figures and their use of classical and occult symbolism. Whether or not the thesis persuades, the film lays out its argument in detail rather than gesturing at it, treating Bacon's text as a literal blueprint that shaped how America's origins were imagined.