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wanted to tell us was something very basic about the Roman Catholic Church and he has codified that in his paintings a man is more likely to be born of a virgin and walk on water and rise from the dead or more likely should have been born like other men they are born married and started a family on a balance of probabilities, which is more likely it was almost unpleasant to think that Jesus could have been married because of my background and my orthodox Catholic position. Mary Magdalene is the most important woman in the hi

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of the world, not because of what she said or did in particular, but because of the reason why the church fathers were so afraid of her image when Dan Brown suggests that this great cover-up was It has affected many people. get nervous and become clearly critical of The Da Vinci Code, but I think Dan Brown is actually on pretty good historical ground with some of these suggestions and his details may be wrong or perhaps designed to serve his fast-paced plot, but the great Enlightenment question of how Constantine and later Roman emperors reshaped Christianity to serve their own purpose of political theory for the empire is a powerful argument and I think largely valid.

Devil Day published the DiVinci Cod 6 months ago and since then I have been asked a question. over and over again and that's why everyone wants to talk about this book and I would love to say that it's about the

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telling and the writing in all fairness and honesty, it probably has a lot more to do with the subject matter so it does 35 years old, in 1969, while going on holiday in 1960s France, I picked up this paperback to read as a bit of holiday relaxation and it was a rather entertaining story of a priest from a small French mountain village who He had apparently found treasure in 1891, he certainly had a penis when he made his discovery and by the time he died in 1917 he had spent enormous sums of money.

The Da Vinci Code begins with the murder of a fictional character, Jacques Sonier, who is said to be in the D Vinci Code, is the curator of the Louv museum and is presumed to be, as you read the novel, the current Grand Master of the prior of Canan, whose work apparently has been, in addition to being a Leonardo da Vinci-type character left-handed like Leonardo. He was left-handed and interested in all kinds of sciences and machines, as was Leonardo. Jacques Zier's mission in life appears to have been, according to the novel, to protect his granddaughter, Sophie, not from those associated with the church or who wish to clean up.

He discovers the family who are presumably the modern descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, then Jacques Sonier raises Sophie NOA, the female protagonist of the D Vinci Code. What Dan Brown doesn't tell us is that the name son is actually the name of a Frenchman. Priest that he had an important history in the area in which he lived. He was parish priest of Renle Chatau in the Ladok area, in the south of France, a very remote area and, in particular, in 19th century France. He was sent there when he was relatively young. man with ambition and one of the first things he did when he arrived in Ren chatau was to renovate the church when he was renovating the church he removed the stone from the altar of the church and discovered that there was a pillar that was hollow, it was a Visigothic pillar so It dated back to the 6th century and in this hollowed out pillar were some scrolls that he took out and what was written on them was what appeared to be parts of the New Testament written in Latin and some letters.

They were slightly above the others and it is these raised letters that cause the most interest, so the general assumption was what treasure he might have found. The clues were essentially preserved in some scrolls. These had passages from the gospels in Latin, but they hid secret messages. The author of the paperback told us that there were secret messages, he didn't tell us what they were and it was while looking at one of these scrolls reproduced in the book that I found myself reading the secret message, it was terribly easy I found it and it didn't give any important information, It was just saying that this treasure belongs to King Dagar II and Zion and he is there dead, what a good and exciting message.

I wondered why the author had not given us the message and, as a result, a television writer intrigued me King Dager was the last of the recognized Maravian kings he was the son of Clovis I first Clovis the first had made a pact with the Catholic church that if Clovis increased his empire let's call it his area of ​​France and dedicated it to Christianity, then the Catholic Church would recognize the Marians as the heirs to the throne. The Maravian line is a line of direct descendants of Jesus Christ. The baron's son did not understand what the meaning of these scrolls was. at all and we still don't know to a certain extent, so the first thing he did was go directly to the bishop of Carcasson.

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y examined these parchments and sent them directly to the ecclesiastical authorities in Paris. He returned from Paris. a rich man had a tower built on the edge of the mountain which is the mountain where Rena Chatau was located, he had him build a large house and her housekeeper had five or six bedrooms and he called it lailla Betania with the obvious reference biblical. and also had the entire road paved from the base of the mountain on which Ren el shatow was located to the top of the village. He was, you know, an ordinary humble country priest and yet at some point he discovered something that made him.

He was an extremely rich man and he spent a lot of money restoring the church, the church of Mary Magdalene, which is the church of the town. The very old church was practically falling apart when he arrived, he bought land in the village and lived an excessively luxurious lifestyle that entertained visitors to Paris, in very high style, throughout the course of his life, throughout the years. last 20 years of his life, around 2 million, that is the mystery and many solutions have been proposed. It started with the most obvious that he found treasure or hidden treasure, but developed over the years into theories that he discovered a secret, a secret that he was paid to reveal or to keep silent about.

There are theories that he was actually blackmailing the Vatican because he discovered something of great uh importance that would undermine the uh the church and the church was paying him to keep quiet about it. The bishop at this point was getting a little nervous about this huge expenditure of money plus he was throwing big parties for the whole town at once and spending a huge amount of money and of course the bishop was getting nervous because he was He was a simple rural priest and he had no idea where he got his money. The only conclusion he could reach was that he was guilty of simony, that is, selling masses to compensate for sins committed, so he accused him of that and suspended him after this son of the baron appealed directly to the Vatican and was reinstated but shortly afterwards he died very suddenly in early 1917 uh and died of a stroke but what is perhaps significant and we don't

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ly know why is that 10 days before his death his housekeeper had already ordered his coffin, no one has never come. with a conclusive answer, all that can be said today after decades of investigation, the least likely explanation is that you discovered a treasure, our own investigation and, um, you investigate the mystery and, in particular, analyze your cash flow and the way your fortune.

It changed because there were times when he was, you know, pretty broke and then all of a sudden there was another load of money coming in, Lyn. I think the source of her money was that she was paid by people who lived outside the Village, um, and there are quite a few. Good evidence of that, including the fact that when he had to account for his money to the local bishop, that was actually what he said. Many researchers simply ignore his own words and think that he was hiding a treasure, but in

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ity that is what he said. he received donations, large donations from people who lived outside the Village, um, but those donations he received under conditions of strict secrecy that he couldn't break, he couldn't reveal who those donors were and when you look at his cash flow, that's the explanation.

Half the answer is more plausible because the other part of the answer we want to know is why these people gave him huge sums of money. What was it about him or the place where he lived or whatever that he knew that he led people to want to give? He knows hundreds of thousands of pounds and that's what he now needs to be answered. It's more information he had or something he was doing after the Baron's death. His housekeeper continued to live in the house until her own death, when the French. changed coins from the old franc to the new franc she was found in the garden or was seen in the garden burning large amounts of paper money, presumably because she did not want to say where the money had come from, she actually told the person who moved to the house that she would tell him the secret of her wealth before she died, but unfortunately she also suffered a stroke that left her speechless and she could never tell where the money had come from, so the mystery died with her.

As a writer for television I decided it would be an interesting subject for a documentary program and I went to the BBC and suggested it and they seemed to think it was a good idea, so this was in 1970 and I went to meet the author in Paris. and I discussed the topic with him and asked him why he had not published the hidden messages and he said because we thought it might interest someone like you to find it for yourself and that I found a very, very intriguing answer, the link between the renat The mystery and the Prior of Sion is that, the Prior of Sion claimed to be, they claimed to have been the people behind Sonia and who were giving her money, paying her to build her buildings and have her lifestyle and, uh, her claim.

The reason is that Sonia discovered documents that revealed the truth about the survival of the Maravan dynasty. The investigation had become enormous, it was too much for one man, so she had put together a small team. Richard Lee and Michael Bent joined me. for the research for the third

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that the hypothesis that became Holy Blood Holy Grail suddenly materialized. It materialized from a rather silly conversation we were having, someone had said there was something suspicious about these Marians. there was a simple little phrase like that and that was all it took, the penny dropped with a loud clang, a fish, of course, one of the first symbols of Christ, and suddenly we wondered in that moment, Richard Lee And me, what was so suspicious about the Indians? was that they could have descended from Christ, this is how the hypothesis was conjured on this question of interpretation of evidence, people tell the story of beronia, the priests of this town, but in reality we know nothing about B, the priest de reh, it's all solid evidence. would not hold up in a court of law, what we always have to do is interpret when we are taken to areas that deal with secret societies lurking in the background, the Zion Dam, in this case, either by its very nature , our secret societies secret the secret that he died with his housekeeper seemed to be something the Catholic Church wanted to keep secret it could have been one of several things it could have been the secret of where the Cathar had hidden the treasure from Solomon's temple and they are one of the groups of people who are suspected of hiding it because they had a fortress in uh Rena chatau 2o, it could have been uh the fact that some important religious figure is actually buried in the church and in fact there is a yellow mark on the outside wall of the church indicating that someone real is buried there, it could be a genealogy of Jesus Christ found there or the equivalent of what we would call birth certificates or marriage certificates relating to Jesus Christ and his marriage we think his wealth came directly from the Catholic Church they were in the unfortunate position of knowing that someone they did not know whether they could completely trust or not was in possession of a great secret that could change the entire identity of the church and for that reason they would have been very willing to keep him quiet.

They also had enormous wealth of their own, of course, to give themselves the ability to do this when it comes to the kingdom of Zion. Things get very complicated and very murky the known fact about the Prior of Sion is that it exists, it certainly exists, how big the organization is is another question and it certainly exists as a matter of public record since the mid 1950s, What we are led to believe is that the Prior of Sion intended to restore the Maravian ruler of Europe back to the Thrones and probably back in charge of the Roman Catholic Church, that is what we were led to believe, according to documents we They met later. several Grand Masters who were extremely well known figures in both the artistic and scientific worlds and these Grand Masters were discovered as a result of the research of Henry Lincoln and CO at the bibliotech national in Paris.

I understand that a large part of thereaders of the uh D Vinci Cod this thriller uh I think it is based on the facts because there is in the French national library a set of documents that are known as the Suk file the secret file that because they are there they are reliable they are not the The documents are not they prove absolutely nothing beyond the fact that they have been written to exist when we were researching for Holy Blood Holy Grail, we did a lot of checking on the suai dossier and the grandm ERS list and there seemed to be some validity, but that's all, they should not be considered evidence reliable. because they simply aren't, no document is reliable evidence of anything other than the fact that it exists, anyone can make up any kind of document if they want to believe it right, that depends on the extent of their naivety or how much research they've done.

In fact, there were several supposed Grand Masters of the Prior's, such as Jean CTO, he was one of the last, he was also belli, the painter, Robert Doyle, Sir Isaac Newton, people of great stature and great influence, all of whom, uh I had some interest, some esoteric interest in science or art, and some of which were connected by Blood. In 1956, the Prior of Scion re-emerged into the public eye when he was recorded by Pierre Plantar, a Frenchman who claimed to be descended from the Wonderful Indians. He met and met Henry Lincoln and the other writers of the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and in fact said that the prior of tion were the benefactors of the treasury that had been plundered by the Roman emperor Titus. in a66 of Solomon's Temple and it was they, in fact, who were in charge of this immense wealth.

He has since been discredited even though he was very prominent in the French Resistance and a close ally of Char Deal, since then he has been. discredited as basically a charlatan, someone who had no connection to the marinan family and disappeared from the prior of Scion as Grand Master in the 1980s as the person behind the prior of Zion um and the material he published in the 1960s. 70s, Pier Plantard is obviously an important figure. Much of the material for which Pier Plantard is responsible is demonstrably false, a hoax, but the question that has never been answered is what his motive was in that hoax.

No one has ever proven that he won. nothing materially financial about it and it was a deception that they kept up for over 20 years, close to 30 years, we know nothing about them except how little they choose to tell us and how reliable that will be in terms of those figures that people rely on. interested and excited by m Zion Grand Master Prior Pierre Plantar I liked him, he was a lovely man, probably the best poker player in the world, if given the chance. I remember unexpectedly throwing some very difficult questions at him and he didn't bat an eyelid, he always had. an answer, but again those answers are simply what he chose to tell me, so in fact, we don't know anything about the priest Bel sonier, we don't know anything about Pierre Plantar, we don't know anything about the prior of Sion, we know. and that's the word, we know almost nothing, demonstrable and demonstrable facts are very few, all the rest are rumors, evidence, conjectures and interpretations.

None of the books that have been written, including mine, have any validity. Leonardo da Vinci is a familiar figure. for almost everyone who lives in the west, most people can name one of his paintings, at least probably the Mona Lisa, uh, if they don't recognize more than one, he is also known as an inventor and artist and, uh, student of anatomy, and he was basically a man who typified the Renaissance at the same time he was this type of Genius a very special type of Genius he was also not in favor of the way the Roman Catholic Church was progressing dressing Leonardo was a heretic he was a rationalist was a scientist I think he was more of a scientist than a painter uh, as we now know, he actually only completed about 20 paintings in his life and most of them aren't actually finished.

He thought of himself. He loved to paint, but he thought of himself as a scientist and inventor, he left thousands and thousands of pages of secret notebooks with mirror writing and

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d writing and he obviously had a predilection for keeping secret important knowledge that only a handful of people knew about and he had a kind of mocking attitude. to the Roman Catholic Church that he could not express openly and the way he did it was through codifications in some of his paintings. I think if we could find out what the messages were en

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d in Leonardo's paintings, they would be fascinating.

The DaVinci Code is um it is made up of the symbolism and um other references that Leonardo left in his artistic works that revealed his own religious beliefs um his own ideas um this is the idea that Dan Brown has taken from our book The Templar Revelation in the first chapter that it's actually called Leonardo da Vinci's secret code and Dan Brown took that idea of ​​all this symbolism hidden in Leonardo's paintings that can be

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to give a coherent message and he took that and used it as the basis of his uh Thriller um. You know, that's what really starts the whole story of his novel.

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Leonardo's painting to reveal what we believe motivated Leonardo, what his beliefs were, both his beliefs about the church and what he thought. Basically, he didn't like the church, he was very critical of it, and in some ways it reveals what he thought was false and it also reveals what he thought was true, the religious ideas, the heretical ideas that motivated him and drove him. and although Dan Brown has used much of our decoding with which we arrive at our interpretations of those paintings, he goes in a very different direction than the one we took because he then mixes his plot with ideas taken from other books, mainly the holy B. and the holy grail, um, coming up with, you know, a good plot, the research that ly and I did that led us to look at Leonardo's paintings, actually started with the shroud of chin um, which is where our interest comes from in Leonardo.

We started since we wrote a book in 1994 in which we argued that the Shroud of Churin is actually the least known Leonardo da Vinci in the world and that he really created that great hoax, the Shroud of Turin is a very interesting work of art If I know like in the 1970s, I think it was in the 1970s or 1980s, scientists were allowed to analyze the Shroud of Turin for a very short period of time and they carbonated the Shroud itself to a period dating from approximately 1200 to 12 1300, the fabric itself. so it could not have been used to wrap the body of Jesus Christ.

Leonardo da Vinci. I feel like he is a very strong contender for being the person who actually created the Shroud of Turin. He is unique among artists of his era in never having produced one. crucifixion, he had a total of probably 17 paintings that were attributed to him, but none of them were a crucifixion and that's very, not only is it unusual, it's unique, what he may have been doing when creating the Shroud of Turin was putting this as a kind of substitution for the crucifixion and the analysis that some people have put on the image itself is that it is actually burned on top of the top layer of fibers of the material um and this could be done using what is known as a camera. darken that actually takes light and burns onto a material, that's one explanation: he used a very primitive photographic technique to get the image there and what's even more scandalous, he actually used his own face as the image because that's something I have appealed to your sense of humor, sense of irony, now put like that, it will sound much more scandalous and certainly more scandalous than a Dan Brown plot.

Leonardo da Vinci had the habit of painting himself in many of his paintings in the same way. way Alfred Hitchcock appears in many of his films Leonardo da Vinci liked to make a cameo in his own works at the beginning of The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown has a murder of his son in Lou the Vetruvian Man is a representation of The Man and the sacred geometry that makes the parts form the whole is used by Danam Brown as the way the murdered man is discovered at the beginning, but Dan Brown actually has him stretched out into a pentangle shape which is like us. you can see what the vetruvian man is the image of the vetruvian man is also one of the most recognized images in the world in the western world today similar to chavar or in fact to the Mona Lisa and in fact his last outing As an image occurred on the a euro coin in Italy, Leonardo's other most instantly recognizable work is the Last Supper, a giant fresco, um, of a church, um, in Italy, which I mean, now you see reproductions of she everywhere, on all kinds of things, from tablecloths to you name it really um and um and yet everyone recognizes it and the art historians you know have restored it, they've gone over it, you know, with a comb of fine teeth, but no one seems to have noticed certain interesting facts about it, um, than in the D Vinci Code. um Dan Brown very kindly draws people's attention um uh for example um Jesus is uh sitting in the center of the table of course um but leaning away from him um almost as if joined at the hip is this um character who is supposed to which is young Saint John um but in the New Testament young Saint John is described leaning against Jesus this is a little strange um and if you look at this young Saint John he is effeminate to the point of femininity um and you start to look Look at a little closer and I can't remember exactly which direction it is, but Jesus is wearing a red robe and a blue cape and this character is wearing the opposite as his other half, so what with one thing. and another and the fact that their two figures together form a giant spread eagle in the shape of an m this indicated to us when we discovered this and not Mr.

Dan Brown um that um would suggest that Leonardo is trying to say that Mary Magdalene, the giant woman M uh, Lady Mom was at the Last Supper sitting next to Jesus in a position of some status and also as his other half and which is a pretty big statement. I think there are some very interesting things happening at the Last Supper, although he would caution. that the painting of the Last Supper has been restored so many times, even since the year 1700, that we are not sure when we look at the Last Supper today that we are actually looking at the painting that Leonardo painted, but there is a very menacing aspect uh you know face on Peter's face um there is a very uh inexplicable uh extra hand in the painting there is a very threatening knife in the painting we know that there is no uh chalice or Holy Grail in the center of the painting I mean Leonardo was a master psychologist, he understood that people only see what they expect to see or are told to expect to see and they don't really want to expect to see disembodied hands doing things when we wrote Templar Revelation um we said rather pompously perhaps, but that Leonardo's symbolism in his paintings was always serious and always subtle and there was never anything that was the equivalent of giving Saint Peter a red nose.

Well, since that book came out, we've done at least one important one. discovery that shows that he was quite willing to do something much worse than that, but first the serious thing, I mean Leonardo's symbolism for posterity, I mean this was his only chance, let's be honest in those days, you know, deliver a message. Until us today all he had was his brush, basically, um, so go ahead and he did it. There are two versions of the Madonna of the Rocks, one is in the Lou and the other in the National Gallery, the first one that, uh, Leonardo gives.

Vinci painted it was not accepted by the church monks who had commissioned it and it was not accepted because he had not painted Halos on the figures. The actual painting depicts the flight of Jesus Christ and John the Baptist from Herod during the Massacre of Innocence. and Jesus Christ is with his mother Mary of him and the angel Uriel is looking at them some people say that it is not accepted by the Catholic church because the Joseph of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ John the Baptist was the person who was actually older. that Jesus Christ was a descendant of the Aon line, which made him a priest Messiah.

Jesus Christ was descended from both the Aon line and the Davidic line, making him not only a priestly messiah in the same way that John the Baptist was, but also. a king Messiah and the fact that John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ as the Son of God the Roman Catholic Church would prefer us to believe that it would be Jesus Christ who was doing all the baptism and therefore what is John the Baptist who on Earth does John the Baptist believe who comes and baptizes the Son of God, that doesn't add up. In fact, if you look at the family genealogies, it fits perfectly, but that's something the Catholic Church would like.

As an aside, so the whole juter position of Jesus Christ and John the Baptist is awkward at best for the Roman Catholic Church, the serious stuff in the Virgin of the Rock, well, first of all, there are two versions, there's one in the L which is that figures heavily in the D Vinci Code and that's really the truly heretical one and there's one in the National Gallery in London which is another version, sort of a watered down version, although there are still certain characteristics that are a little naughty, the serious stuff um is connected with his elevation ofJohn the Baptist about Jesus um and it's in all his works um as far as he can get away with it um and a lot of people think that Leonardo was an atheist, he must have been, he was a scientist, you know, it's kind of simplistic thinking, but no.

He was, he was a heretic. He had very, very specific, very passionate beliefs that are reflected quite clearly in his work, but they are nothing like the normal Christianity that he despised in the past. Madonna of the Rocks um the BL version the heretical version you have um a very beautiful but slightly distracted Virgin Mary um with her arm around a um a child who is kneeling um and you have another little child who looks almost exactly the same as he is sitting there basically blessing the other boy and with his arm around him is an angel and it's the angel Ur, now this is this scene actually, it's not from the New Testament it's actually from um um it's a church tradition that was invented to cover up the deep shame of the idea that in his later life John the Baptist would have the authority to perform a ritual on Jesus, so they invented this This idea that in Egypt everyone gathered together when they were children and um and Jesus granted him the authority so that later in his life he would have the authority to baptize him was very complicated, but that is what this commissioned work is intended to show, but look. look at it and you think wait a minute there's something wrong here um because you know because obviously I say Obviously in quotes um the boy who is kneeling to receive the blessing has um the arm of the Virgin Mary around his shoulders and in the church um iconography and the church tradition the urial archangel is the protector of John the Baptist so and um so why are they children apparently with the wrong Guardians?

Why is the kneeling submissive child with the Virgin Mary? um but if you really turn it around and them with their right Guardians, you have baby John the Baptist being the one who has authority even there and blessing Jesus kneeling who is accepting authority from him. um, it's quite, I mean, there are so many other details and it's in our book The Templar Revelation and in my book on Mary. Magdalene too, but there is something else that would draw attention to that we discovered and this is the part I was talking about that is much worse than giving a red nose to Saint Peter and all I will say is that it is related to proliferation of rocks in the painting and it is a shape formed from the rocks that grows, so to speak, from the head of the Virgin Mary and goes straight to the horizon, and basically this is what Leonardo says: she is no virgin, have a look, once you see it you will never see Leonardo's work in the same light again, it is quite clear that Leonardo is trying to communicate something there and the phallic symbols that Lynn Picnet has emphasized are very evident in the painting, What exactly is the message?

I don't have an answer to that question. I think it would be very interesting if we could learn the answer like hundreds of thousands, probably millions of people around the world. Clive and I read Holy Blood, Holy Grail. um and we discovered our interest in these topics, the true origins of Christianity, if you like, it revived the notch a little bit um, it was an exciting story, um, told very soberly, um, not sensational in its presentation, um and it certainly made us think. and it inspired us to go beyond what we did in the book and what I want to do now is make a clear distinction between the Christ of faith and the Jesus of History.

We are not talking about a descent from Christ, in fact, Christ. Again, he is a figure of faith, but Jesus, the man who walked on the sands of Palestine, is a real historical figure and we felt we could investigate. It has been said that what we have written is in some sense an assault on Christianity and it has also been suggested that some people have been led away from a faith they grew up with, that saddens me because there is nothing in our work that is in in some sense an assault on that figure of Christ.

What we are doing is looking at the man. who walked on the sands of Palestine, if you choose to believe that Jesus was born of a virgin, walked on water and rose from the dead, then that is a gift, your faith is a gift and nothing we can say about Jesus should affect what you choose to believe, but you have to remember that religion is essentially a matter of opinion, it is a matter of faith, what you choose to believe and when we were looking at the possibilities of blood ancestry, we were looking at a balance of probabilities, is it more likely? that a man should be born of a virgin and walk on water and rise from the dead or it is more likely that he should have been born as other men are born married and start a family on a balance of probabilities, which is more likely that be only the hypothesis that we present in Holy Blood Holy Grail, as you know, the main thesis is that Jesus was married and was raised as a Roman Catholic.

I thought it was total blasphemy, in fact, I almost dropped the book. I ran away from the library I didn't want. something to do with this book I was horrified, it was um, it was almost disgusting to think that Jesus could have been married because of my background and my um orthodox Catholic position when the Holy Grail of the Holy Blood first appeared, there was a shocked reaction For the general public, we hit front pages all over the world, it was like this had never been said before, but of course ideas like that have been in the air for four centuries.

You could say that the only original thing in Holy Blood Holy Grail was a blood descendant of Jesus and that his wife was Mary Magdalini if ​​this had been a story that wasn't about Jesus, but say, William Shakespeare or Richard the Lion, whatever of discovery made about it in the sense that we did it and we made a hypothesis, anything in association. with, say, common characters would have been taken into account and accepted as part of the mainstream of scholarship, it is only because the figure we are dealing with is Jesus, this figure of faith and that is what creates the scandal at the beginning .

I didn't know. What to think about and then I thought well I'm going to go investigate this and while I was getting into the material I finally told a friend of mine and she said well that's ridiculous no one I mean the church would have told us and I said Yes, I believe that too , so I said I'm going to pray for this book and my friend said I think you should do it and when I did, one day I opened my scriptures praying for the Holy Blood, the Holy Grail, thinking I was going to burn this book. and I looked down and I saw this passage in my scripture that said to restore my wife that I married and I thought that was so strange that I should have opened a page that said that in the scripture that I said, you know, maybe I should take this seriously for a minute and go see if there is any evidence that can support it and that's when I set out on my journey to search for the Holy Grail, which I believe is the sacred feminine and the lost bride.

I was assigned some uh. writing paper for a class I was taking on interpretation of the gospels at Vanderbilt Divinity School and when I asked for help finding a passage and opened my scriptures, I was looking at the passage in Mark of the anointing of Jesus by the woman with the jar of alabaster. at the banquet in Bethany and I thought, well, that's an interesting passage, so I went out and started researching. I first discovered that the anointing scene occurs in all four canonical gospels. There are only four stories, one of which is the baptism of Jesus the multiplication of the loaves and fishes the crucifixion and the anointing of a woman which gives you an idea of ​​how special that passage is if it was collected in all the communities who wrote gospels that passage that story was so powerful that it reached all four so I went out to research the anointing and found out what I could and discovered that the anointing actually has sexual connotations in the ancient world and that the anointing of the woman was a nuptial law in ancient cultures we should say Cult of the sacrificial groom King King there are many Many religious leaders who emerge in this time period and Jesus is one of them and he is a rabbi.

Everyone in the New Testament is Jewish until proven otherwise. It was commonplace for Jewish rabbis to marry, in fact. He was the rare exception of a Jewish rabbi of that period who was not married. Jesus Christ was required to marry as a member of the Davidic line. Not only was he required to marry, but he was also required to father two children before the age of 40, the Feast. of Kaa is mentioned in the Book of John, he does not describe the wedding itself, but only the party and what is surprising in this particular story is the fact that Mary, who is the mother of Jesus, tells the servants that they must do what he tells them.

So when they are told to go get more wine, they have to force the only person at a wedding who would be allowed to do so would be the groom himself. Mary Magdalene is depicted anointing Jesus Christ on two occasions with an ointment called Spike. ND that it was only allowed to be worn by those of the Davidic line, so it became a question, who was this woman? So who is the bride? If there is a bride, who is she, she has to be the woman who anoints him and in the three gospels. She is not named, but in the gospel of John it literally says that the woman who anointed Jesus and dried his feet with her hair was Mary, the sister of Lazarus, and she is the same Mary who appears in Holy Blood, Holy Grail and in all the legends they say.

It talks about the coast of France where it is Mary, the sister of Lazarus, who brings the Holy Grail the sangral to France and of course the way it is written that if you divide it after the G it means Royal blood the word SRA s a n g r a a l in old French yes you divide it after the N you have a word that says holy grail but that would be like dividing the word Montreal after the N it would no longer mean Royal Mountain, it would mean something unintelligible but if you divide the same word sangral after the G it means Royal blood, for example What legend says is that Mary Magdalene and her friends who traveled on this ship without minerals brought the Royal blood to the coast of France and the Royal blood is not carried in a jar with a lid, it flows. in the veins of a child, so I think the fossil in the legend is that the child really existed, no matter what happens to her.

I have no idea and I don't think genealogies are necessarily relevant. I truly believe that the child is there to test the union. the sacred union of masculine and feminine energies the mythology, if you will, of the Sacred Union at the heart of the Christian story that the child proves that rather than anything else you can think of that proves it, we don't have a certificate birth date for this girl, if you ask almost anyone who Mary Magdalene was, they will say, "Oh, wasn't she that prostitute whom Jesus forgave?" the men um like lurking in the background um or maybe if they were familiar with a particular Victorian art they say oh she's the woman that you know was forgiven by Jesus but still spent the rest of her life crying out of remorse with actually strange with her they always painted her with her clothes hanging presumably you can't have repentance without being half naked I don't know um but um but the but the point is that um well there are quite a few points actually uh she was never described in the New Testament as a prostitute um in fact, she is not actually described at all.

She is only named a few times the big problem over the centuries has been too many Marys um and there is another Mary of Bethany who washed Jesus' feet with her hair. and there is another independent story in Galilee of a prostitute who washed her feet with her oil and expensive hair and that anonymous prostitute identifies herself with the Mary of Bethany because they both did the same act although in different parts of the country and Mary being Mary they identify with Mary Magdalene of whom there is a record that Jesus cast out six demons from her and so all those things came together in the medieval identification of Mary Magdalene as The Prostitute.

There is not a shred of historical evidence for that false assumption. The Roman Catholic Church at the Second Vatican Council finally renounced that false idea. Well, the historical evidence for Mary Magdalene is very small. She is mentioned in all four gospels with the same epithet as Magdalene, but not much is said about her, it is said that she was a woman. of wealth who supported Jesus through her means with the other women who supported his ministry and then says that she met Jesus at the resurrected tomb on Easter morning she also stood on the cross there are eight lists where various women are listed in the Go to the gospels and in those eight lists, in seven of them, Mary Magdalene is mentioned first, so Scripture never comes out and says this woman was the first lady, it just mentions her first every time, except one, um, I think we can't know exactly. nothing about her, but what we can see is what she did with her actions, what she did, she showed up at the tomb to mourn her boyfriend and found him resurrected, which in ancient mythologies is the role of the Bride, is the role of the Bride. anoint and also meet the Risen Bridegroom in the tomb and so in her role she lives out the mythology of this sacred Union, so historically speaking we know very little about her, but we know that the mythology is that she was the bride of the LaThe possibility that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married is quite plausible and becomes more plausible when finding these tantalizing facts in the Gnostic gospels, such as the reference to Jesus kissing Mary frequently in the perhaps word es boca in Coptic, There are many interesting clues. that this may have been the case uh if the Prior of Sion is intended to be a metaphor for this important and powerful secret that Jesus was actually a human being um that he was a mortal human being that he was an important historical figure um that he came out of tradition Jewish who was probably married and who followed the biblical command to go out and be fruitful and multiply probably had children um and that part of the history of those descendants is now lost to us well, that's a very interesting story.

I don't know of any of the British nobility, a Japanese nobility, um, who can actually trace the bloodline back to him 2000 years ago if Jesus had descendants. I think they would not be traceable today. They may have been traceable 200 ad 300 ad um, but they would not be traceable today. I have been told. that the authors of Holy Blood Holy Grail didn't know exactly what they were looking for and weren't sure the lineage existed at first, but I think what happened was that they were so immersed in the mythologies and legends. in the scriptures and in the art, the medieval art, that suddenly one day they looked at each other and it occurred to them in an instant like Eureka, we have it.

I think what happened was that they're talking here about the lineage of Jesus and then they wrote their book based on this intuition that they had but that was already derived from their study of art, legend, myths and, um, all their studies. medievals, you could say that they all gained momentum as they progressed and finally. Pointing out this particular conclusion to you, I don't think it was made in a vacuum and I certainly don't think it was an accident. I think they were actually onto something, but maybe they didn't even know exactly where they got their information from. idea, but when they played it they realized that it fit with all the scenarios that they had imagined here and that they realized that the key to the whole story was the business of the lost bride, but when I read your book I said to myself same, oh God.

Dear God, this peace that has been missing all this time is something my prayer community and I had been praying for for years. We had been shown that a piece of the foundation of the church was missing and we didn't know what it was, but we were told to look for it and when I realized that what was missing here was the bride, everyone started talking about the groom Without the girlfriend, well, what is a boyfriend without a girlfriend? So I went to find the bride and realized that the key to all of this was the anointing in Bethany by the woman who then carried the Chalice or what we know to be the Holy Grail when I was a child to the shores. from France, so the whole connection came to me from the Scriptures and from my My own prayer community and my own prayer life connect to reinforce what I had discovered in Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which at first I thought which was Blasphemous, but then when I went and discovered that everything was related to what we had been shown, it was the fault. piece then it was no longer blasphemy but it was true as I say in Matthew Mark Luke John Mary Magdalene barely exists um in these other gospels she is the star apart from Jesus Mary is there absolutely dead in the center Jesus yields to Mary she even manages to change it in one of the gospels these other gospels she even gets him to change his teaching um she's feisty she's assertive she certainly isn't um you know, I mean, the church has used her over the centuries as a kind of brand to female shame and she's actually the least shamed woman in history um uh she really bothered the male disciples a lot because she had so much power over Jesus.

These other gospels make it very clear. One thing I want to say for sure here is that I have twin pillars for My research and Ne none of them come from the Nagadi gospels, but the Nagadi gospels actually state in the Gospel of Philip that Jesus was married or that Mary Magdalene was at least your intimate partner or consort. That word has sexual connotations. the use there has connotations of being an intimate association, it says that her companion, Jesus' intimate companion, is Mary Magdalene and he used to kiss her often and the other Apostles are jealous of her intimacy.

It is said that, uh, Martin Luther at the time of the Reformation, uh. he suggested that Jesus and Mary were married and there are some parts that make it extremely clear why the church did not want these books in the New Testament and I believe it is the Gospel of Thomas. The disciples go to Jesus and say Lord, why? you love her more than us why do you always kiss her on the mouth and think what do you think you're stupid, you know that um but and and there's a lot of this in these books for bidden um and it made cve and me I realize that, um, there was a lot more to the choice of these hostile Magdalene gospels in the New Testament than you might think, um, and also, um, Mary Magdalene, I really believe and I know that this is the most surprising and bold statement, but I think that she is. the world's most important woman in world history not because of what she said or did in particular, but because of the reason why the church fathers were so afraid of her image from these other gospels from The Forbidden Gospels from what they knew , they really knew what she really was so she was powerful that Jesus loved her that Jesus almost certainly slept with her whether it was just some kind of sacred sex ritual or it was the usual passion, um, but they knew that she had power over him and I don't want the women in their emerging churches to elevate themselves and act like her, so the whole story, the way the church has treated its women is actually due to its Terror of Mary Magdalene at the Last Supper from Leonardo, um, this cupcake figure like this.

The female figure is leaning away from Jesus quite pointedly, and Saint Peter is cutting her throat with his hand, and he is either staring at her or has turned slightly away from her in this rather horrible way, which is very interesting because In the lost Gospels, many of which have been recovered and translated, one of the things that comes out very strongly is that Saint Peter hated Mary Magdalene. Peter told her to shut up, she did not have any special Revelation and then another disciple Levi said well. hell if Jesus told us something special we should listen to it so that this back and forth is present in the Nagadi texts so that you can feel some concern on the part of women against the male hierarchy why would people have invented the rivalry of Peter and Mary Why would anyone in that period have written Pedro as a jealous character?

Why would someone writing a history have suggested that Jesus may have left his ministry and his work to Mary? What about the worldview of that time would lead people to make up that if that wasn't their belief now I'm not saying that's what happened but I do believe that the people who wrote these things believed what they wrote and it seems to me very interesting that we have some of these interesting little details that we thoroughly emphasize are not contemporary historical documents, but were written several hundred years later, but it is still fascinating to think that people in 300 AD. and 400 AD They were challenging Peter's motives of jealousy, they were talking about whether the church should be left in the hands of a woman, we're talking. about what this kiss between Jesus and Mary is and there is a lot of debate in one of the gospels, he actually tells Jesus that Mary should leave us because women are not worthy of life and in a later text he actually makes her go to Jesus . and saying that Peter has threatened me has threatened my life um him because he hates me and the entire race of women and I think that's very interesting because that personal clash obviously of personalities um foreshadows what really happened with the hugely misogynistic Church of Rome and its notorious attitude towards women began with its founder.

I think Mary Magdalene was the outstanding disciple and that is very important, particularly in our last days when women are not supposed to be ordained because none of the TW apostles were women, well. as opposed to there being women in the Inner Circle and this is very important, well let me put it simply, the 12 apostles were men, all 12 were Jews, all 12 lived in the Holy Land, there was not a single Gentile apostle, no one from Poland. So what? This is pure Church propaganda and, on the contrary, we must emphasize that Jesus gave women a prominent role in his ministry.

There are records of women accompanying male disciples, providing them with food and funds, and exercising reserved rights. For women, Mary Magdalene's prominence is not at all surprising. Dan Brown again through the D Vinci Code is drawing our attention to facts such as that Mary Magdalene may have been a partner in the creation of Christian belief, she may have been the chosen follower of Jesus to be the apostle of the apostles, etc. ., it may not have been so extraordinary in that period to have had female religious leaders. There is nothing in the New Testament that says priests should be men there, in fact this is quite unusual?

Line that, when you think about it, starts to sound like she's inserted there above Peter on this rock. I build my church. I think you may know that Peter's colleagues wanted to make sure that Peter's legitimacy was there and why. Would they need to do that because maybe some people thought that Jesus intended to leave followers of him to Mary Mary Magdalene, of course, has been a major factor in the feminist movement? Feminists have been eager to distance her from any taint regarding her morality. and to emphasize the importance she had to Jesus in his ministry, Dan Brown does a very provocative job of presenting the notion that perhaps these charismatic anti-materialist Jewish leaders, Jesus Mary and the other early creators of Christianity, had a worldview very different from that of Constantine's The Romans were basically pagan sun worshipers who became the editors of the Christian Bible and who became the decision makers about how Christianity should be practiced in Roman and medieval Europe.

Very divorced from the culture of the desert people to whom Jesus spoke, so you know Dan. Brown prepares us all for that discussion and debate and I think people today find it very interesting to engage in a debate in which feminists have been eager to distance her from any stain on her morality and emphasize the importance that she had. for Jesus in His Ministry Dan Brown does a very provocative job of presenting the notion that perhaps these charismatic anti-materialist Jewish leaders, Jesus Mary and the other early creators of Christianity, had a very different worldview than Constantine's Romans, basically pagan Sun worshipers who became the editors of the Christian Bible who became the decision makers about how Christianity should be practiced in Roman and medieval Europe. um, very divorced from the culture of the desert people to whom Jesus spoke, so you know, Dan Brown prepares us all for that discussion and debate.

And I think people today find it a very interesting debate to engage in the other gospels that were basically banned in the 4th century by the emerging Church that was trying to standardize its beliefs. These other gospels were hidden. which is actually interesting because it makes them purer than the ones we have had for all the time they have been subjected to endless editing and changes, etc. In 1958 a letter was discovered in a monastery near Jerusalem that had been written by Bishop Clement of Alexandria in which he requested the recipient of the letter Theodore to omit two parts of the Book of Mark that were inconvenient to the Roman Catholic Church;

The first part was the one that describes Lazarus shouting from the grave when it was actually supposed to be him. being dead according to our current version of the Bible, if he was dead he obviously couldn't scream, what really happened as far as Lazarus was concerned was that he had been excommunicated, the rules for excommunication were that if you were not released within a period After 4 days your soul was banished to hell forever, on the third day Jesus Christ found out about this and was going to free Lazarus from this banishment of his soul and therefore restore him to life effectively the way this story is .

What is described in the Bible is that Jesus Christ actually physically restored life to Lazarus, his physical body, while in reality it was his soul, but Bishop Clement of Alexandria saw that this was quite out of place with the rest of the Christian belief, the other part. of Mark's Gospel that Bishop Clement of Alexandria had admitted was the part in which Jesus and his disciples visit Mary's house and Martha Mary is depicted hesitating to leave the house, what in fact happened was according to The original Book of Mark said that Maryactually left the house when Jesus Christ arrived, the disciples told her to come back in because women were only allowed to leave the house when their husbands gave them permission, so this was another indication that in fact Mary Magdalena. was married to Jesus Christ, so I think what we can say is that, although Jesus was a person of his time and we should not inappropriately modernize him, he was still more open to the role of women in his activity than his disciples and the hierarchy that gradually emerged from an exclusively male type.

When I researched anointing again, I discovered that in the ancient cult it had sexual connotations and that anointing by a woman was actually a marriage in the ancient cults of the sacrificed. Groom King and in those Cults the nuptial anointings occur, the woman actually chooses her consort, anoints him and they celebrate their Union in the bridal chamber and then her entire kingdom rejoices because the Joy of the bridal chamber extends to the crops and flocks and so the entire nation celebrates it with the rituals that celebrate this Union, which is actually the life force that they are celebrating and it is not just about men and women, but it is about the life force and the recycling of nature , the resurrection and then the The death of vegetation is quite a cult of vegetation, but it is celebrated in these ancient celebrated symbioses.

I guess in Osiris and Isis that cult also tamuz and ishar deui and Nana, in Sumeria, had many pairs of goddesses that manifested this celebration of the recycling of life, so when I realized that, I looked at the later ramifications in this cult, the sack that the groom holds with his wife, his bride, his sister, the bride and then later sacrificed, mutilated, tortured, executed, put in a grave, usually after a pause of about 3 days, his bride goes to the tomb to look for him or mourn his death and finds him resurrected and when I read this about these ancient goddess cults, I thought.

My goodness, this is the same story, the exact same story that we find in the gospels and everyone in Roman times knew about it because the Roman Empire still held these cults in various domains around the area, so everyone was aware of it and I I would immediately recognize this liturgy really of the sacrifice, the nuptials, the anointing and then, uh, the death and the resurrection. I was actually terribly surprised when I first discovered that Jesus was just one of the many dying and resurrected gods that proliferated and had made. for hundreds of years, thousands of years before he was born, in the general area of ​​the Mediterranean there was dionysis tamos uh Adonis um, of course there was the great Egyptian god Osiris um, who most resembles Jesus in many ways or, of course , it's the other way around.

Jesus looked like Osiris um and Osiris was the consort of um the beautiful uh mother Goddess Isis, who is also goddess of magic and sexual magic um and the priestesses of Isis would represent um would become a sacred ritual of sacred sex would become in the The goddess and some guys from the street would go to the temple and have sex with them and the idea was that actually the men would become spiritually enlightened simply by having sex with the Priestess who had temporarily been possessed by the goddess or had become become the goddess. um and the interesting thing is that women wouldn't have to do the equivalent of this because women according to the religion of Isis were not only sexually enlightened but spiritually just by the very nature of being women, totally the opposite of Christianity, now you have Jesus, the only dying and resurrected God, without whom, according to the Christian Church, who does not have a consort, who does not have a balancing feminine magical presence, but of course, if you look at the forbidden gospels, there she is, and she is also very interesting. in the story of the resurrected Jesus he more or less collides with Mary Magdalene in the garden um and she doesn't recognize him through her tears and he says why are you crying and she says that they have taken my Lord and I don't I don't know where they have put him and those that are actually the Assyrian mystery plays every year, the worshipers of Airis and Isis um performed their mystery play um in which the God had actually been torn to pieces by his uh, the evil God put and his pieces of his body They have been scattered everywhere and Isis goes crying all over the land trying to find them and magically put them back together and the priest says woman, what Elsey, why are you crying? and she said that they have taken my Lord and I do not know where they are.

Put it, I mean, it's Egypt Egypt Egypt Egypt Egypt dying and the myth of God resurrected and a lot of people have a lot of scholars and commentators who have thought that there's a lot of paganism and a lot of Egyptian ISM in the New Testament, but it must mean that. Basically, Jesus never existed, he was simply created as another dying and resurrected God, but there was absolutely no need to do so. We think there's a lot more evidence to show that actually Jesus and Mary were basically of that religion or a branch of that religion that may also be closely related to a very, very ancient form of Judaism which was goddess worship.

The point for me is that there is only one model of life that really works on this planet and that is the Union, and if you are not, if you are not teaching that yes well, what we have in Christianity is a celibate God and a mother virgin together in the bridal chamber, no wonder we have a dysfunctional family, it's amazing that a bottle like that doesn't produce some aberration and that's because when you have a fall it's "As above, so below." Well, my impression of Constantine is a fascinating character in history and one that is not very well understood as a general student of the last 2,000 years of history if you have.

Taking a world history class, one gets the impression that Constantine is a great guy who converts to Christianity, who discovers the importance of Christ's Christianity, and brings Christianity to the Roman Empire. It is unclear whether Constantine ever converted to Christianity and, if he did, it was probably on his deathbed, his greatest interest in Christianity was apparently sparked when he, as a highly superstitious pagan, discovered that some of his Christian soldiers who carried a cross on their shield were not killed in battle or wounded, so he became interested. on whether or not this cross had really protected them um he said about the expansion of Roman power in that time period And I think he and his advisors saw in Christianity and monotheism really a very powerful set of political ideas with which to unite to the scattered uh Empire and saw great potential in bringing together the Emperor and the Pope and being able to control a world that stretched from Ireland to Turkey and beyond with a unique belief system that found resonance in the population and eventually Constantine realized that he had an army.

Most of those whose foot soldiers were Christians and did not want to fight in the pagan Emperor Wars, did not want a fight to begin with, were pacifists and so had this convenient vision of a cross in the sky saying that this is the sign in which you will conquer and announced good news to his soldiers, most of whom were Christians, so they decided to fight, so Constantine fought F in the army and won the battle, so in a sense there are quite cynical realists . ways to understand this whole process, when Constantine was faced with the possibility of Christianity increasing his influence, he jumped on the bandwagon; in fact, his father had jumped on the bandwagon earlier as a supporter of Christianity and one of the reasons was that existing religions of the time such as Soul Invictus and Mithraism had similarities to Christianity, so the three could be combined into something that He could lead while satisfying people.

Constantine saw the opportunity to combine all religions, but at the same time he did not do it. He wants to change what had previously been the festivals of Mithraism and Soul Invictus for the festivals that existed in Christianity before Constantine, the date on which the birth of Christ was celebrated was January 6, but to pacify or merge still plus the religions he brought about Christmas Day which occurred on December 25, which was the ancient celebration of mithis and Solin victus of the Renaissance of the sun, he introduced a version of Christianity that also played with many of his pagan beliefs and e.g. , it is believed that he was a worshiper of the Sun God mythos and the sun god mythos in the belief system of that tradition is believed to have a birthday around the time of the winter solstice, that is, around December 25 and As we all know, there is nothing about December 25th in the New Testament, so the next holiday he had to deal with was Easter and in fact there was a celebration celebrated under Mithraism and the victory of Solen which was called so it basically hijacked that festival too and caused it to celebrate the death and rebirth of Jesus Christ, albeit the actual date. of Easter as a permanent fixture, they tried to resolve the NAA Council but couldn't come to an agreement, so now we have Easter on the first Sunday after the first

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moon after seeing Equinox, the Roman interpretation. of Christianity fuses these ideas and these traditions, so we end up at some point in the post-Constantine period of the church deciding that December 25 is, in fact, the birthday of Jesus Christ, uh, when there is not even a suggestion or hint of that in biblical literature um.

When Dan Brown makes his suggestion that this great cover-up has continued, that these true early Christian beliefs have been replaced with all these pagan ideas and pagan symbols and images of his God, many people get nervous and become instinctively critical. from The Da Vinci Code, but I think Dan Brown is actually on pretty good historical ground with some of these suggestions, at least big RIT, his details may be wrong or perhaps designed to serve his fast-paced plot, but the general question of how Constantine and later Roman emperors reshaped Christianity to serve their own purpose of political theory, since the Empire is a powerful and I think largely valid argument, which is why he ordered that all documents he references to the gospels before the 4th century, which was the time in which he lived, were destroyed, whether they were written by pagan writers or ever and the gospels were then rewritten from this point onwards, the four accepted gospels that are in the New Testament and that everyone agrees are part of the New Testament.

Heritage of all archaeologists. Serious independent biblical scholars. Linguists, etc. We believe that those four documents were written at the earliest 30 or 40 years after Jesus' death and at the latest perhaps 100 or 120 years after Jesus' death, so The Landmark's bright line test to determine if something is true by biblical standards we have to remember when we look at these documents interesting as they are powerful as they are powerful as the story they tell is that they were all written long after the fact um if we think about our own experience and think about what it would be like for my son or my grandson to describe, for example, I don't know about the impeachment of Bill Clinton when we think about how many people have forgotten about the impeachment of Bill Clinton just a few years after the fact, imagine if that story was being written as contemporary history and eyewitness observation. 70 years from now um so the gospels are interesting because they clearly contain information that appears to be fact, they disagree with each other on a number of points um and clearly, as Dan Brown suggests, they were chosen from among many other accounts and someone most likely in the circle of Constantine from that time to the time of Pope Gregory three 300 years later someone or somebody went through an editing process and said these are in these are out these are blasphemous these are heretical we don't do it I wanted to hear about this line of reasoning and in most cases destroyed or burned heretical um alternative Scriptures, it was basically like the president of the United States rewrote American history to make it seem like he was the savior of the United States.

Constantine came to the correct conclusion. or mistakenly that Jesus Christ's purpose was to free the Jewish people from Roman occupation and in fact he had failed and Constantine's reasoning was that he had actually saved the Christians who were descendants of the Jews or so he thought and was he, who It was the new Christ and not Jesus Christ himself, he basically reshaped the religion based on him. The Knights Templar were a real historical organization. Every medieval historian will tell you that they played a very powerful and important role during the Crusades they occupied. the Temple Mount in Jerusalem over a period of years, we do not know if they found the Holy Grail or anything else while occupying the Temple Mount, we do know that they became very powerful, we do know that they became the first bankers in the church the first ambassadors of the power of the church the first warriorscrusader guerrillas the special forces the elite uh uh delta squads um and we know that they became so powerful that they became a threat to the emperors of France and the popes and eventually many of them. were massacred the Knights Templar were the Playboys of the Middle Ages everyone wanted to be Knights Templar they had a fantastic reputation they basically had a lot of money they strutted around they could cut their hair but they couldn't they cut their beard uh they fought to the end they were in

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ble in battle and, apparently, they were possibly the people who were supposed to protect the road to the Holy Land, so the pilgrims who went there were protected by the knight Templer, in fact, his agenda we can be led to believe or we can believe that it was something Differently, what they did when they arrived in Jerusalem was basically to take over the site of Solomon's Temple and their main task was to find the treasure that they suspected was hidden there. that was their main intention, they were fabulously rich in their own right.

Philip the Faraway of France was very jealous of their power and wealth, in addition to being indebted to them for large amounts of money, so on Friday, October 13, 137, he ordered that all the Knights Templar in all of France be exterminated exactly At the same time the plot against the Knights Templar was probably planned in advance, of course we know that it was mainly orchestrated by the King of France Philip IV and Pope Clement V. both were in power at the time and as the Templars were a religious order, remember that the Pope had a lot to say about his jurisdiction and it is now believed that the King was upset by this and there was a bit of a severe power struggle, as historical records show that between the two King Philip IV clearly owed the Templars money.

It is widely believed that the historians now wanted their lands and, of course, important assets, so that was a possible motivation, among others, the threat of the order's power. of the temple at that time, which was quite extensive, King Philip had some trouble convincing other kings of other countries about the guilt of the Templars because they had again been seen as very pious, austere, devout, even fanatical, Christian martyrs on Earth. Santa and no one could just believe that this list of charges would be applied to the Templars, it was a shock, it's like we woke up today on the front page of the tabloid newspaper.

It goes on about each executive being detained by an international bankers organization suddenly without warning. We have often heard the saying today, Friday the 13th, unfortunate for some and it is said that this saying came from the original arrest. of the Knights Templar in 1307 and, in fact, on Friday the 13th at dawn, there was a very sudden raid against all the Knights Templar throughout Europe, especially in France, and this was a shock to everyone at that time, in general. It was found to be quite incredible that the powerful great Knights Templar could be guilty of such charges in the 19th century.

It is said that the Knights Templar worshiped Bamet, who was the figure who became the icon of the Christian idea. devil if this was true or not, we don't know what we do know is that the leader of the Knights Templar Jac de mle, who was burned alive, made two statements while he was fried on sticks, first that uh, the only thing they were The Knights Templar were guilty of lying under torture and secondly, that Philip the Fair and the Pope of the time who had caused the extermination of the Knights Templar in France would see them dead within a year and, in fact, both of them. of them died before the year was over