Filed under: Books | Tags: Gerard de Sede, Henry Lincoln, Prieuré de Sion, Rennes-le-Chateau
This is a thoroughly entertaining book and is probably best read (as I did it) immediately after the book mentioned above, Gerard de Sede’s Accursed Treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau. It documents the history of Henry Lincoln’s involvement in the mystery at Rennes right from the very beginning (his reading of de Sede’s book) through all his cloak-and-dagger dealings with the Prieure de Sion and culminating with his latest take on what he considers the Treasure of Rennestrue nature of the treasure to be.
The story of his journey includes not only a cast of the usual suspects, many of whom we are already familiar with, but also some complete and utter nutters who have been attracted to the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery by the prospect of buried gold. Lincoln relates his dealings with all of them. It is very interesting to watch his ideas and speculations on what lies behind the mystery evolve from the initial material dream of hidden treasure to the now more spiritual view that sacred geometry is reflected naturally in the very topography of the mountains surrounding Rennes itself.
What the reader has to decide is whether or not Henry Lincoln is now tarred with the Prieure de Sion’s brush. That is, have his dealings with them and their predilection for red herrings and word games, tainted the books that Lincoln now puts out ? How much of what is in this book can be taken at face value ? Are his theories what they seem ? It’s all getting very confusing, but it’s damned good stuff. Oh yes indeed !
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bérenger Saunière, Gerard de Sede, Henry Lincoln, Prieuré de Sion, Rennes-le-Chateau, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
This is the English translation of the book that got the whole Rennes-le-Chateau show on the road. It’s the book that Henry Lincoln (co-author of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail) picked up in some grotty old bookstore for “holiday reading” and then realised it contained far more than the ramblings of a French journalist down on his luck and after a quick buck by trotting out a sensationalist story of buried treasure. This is the book in which were first printed the copies of the documents supposedly discovered by Berenger Sauniere in the Visigothic pillar of his parish church at Rennes-le-Chateau. Lincoln reportedly spotted the “code” latent in the documents and everything took off from there.
The book itself is quite cute, taking us through the by now familiar story of Sauniere’s discovery and his subsequent (and highly suspicious) meteoric rise from rags to riches. Because it is, in essence, the first book in the Rennes Mystery genre, it is uncluttered with all the other speculation that has since jumped on the bandwagon and is therefore a good opportunity to focus solely on the events surrounding Sauniere at Rennes-le-Chateau.
But be warned ! Cute is deceptive ! It transpires that the author, Gerard de Sede, was put up to publish the book in the first place by none other than that wonderful cloak-and-dagger mob, the Prieure de Sion. According to de Sede, he published the book under the Prieure’s instructions in the hope that “someone like Lincoln” would spot the clues that lay scattered through its pages and bring the mystery of Rennes to the eyes of the world. A strange way of going about it ? I’ll say ! Read the book and make up your own minds.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Al Aqsa Mosque, Albigensian Crusade, ancient Egypt, Ark of the Covenant, Baphomet, Bérenger Saunière, Bornholm, Cathar Heresy, Freemasonry, Gothic cathedrals, lost treasure of the Temple of Jerusalem, Merovingian Kings, Prieuré de Sion, Rennes-le-Chateau, Rosslyn Chapel, Sinclair family, Stables of Solomon
Speculation ranges from the Ark of the Covenant to the preserved head of Jesus Christ.
What were they doing in the Holy Land in the first place ? Certainly not protecting pilgrims travelling the highways en route to the Holy City. They were only nine founding members after all.
The fact that the Al Aqsa Mosque they were quartered in is situated directly above the long sealed subterranean complex known as the Stables of Solomon offers some clues. The alleged Templar worship of the disembodied head Baphomet affords others.
Is the Templar tradition inextricably enmeshed with the history of Freemasonry whose roots are said by some to stretch as far back as ancient Egypt and by others beyond even that to a now lost civilisation of remote antiquity ? Where does the bloodline of the Merovingian Kings and their supposed descent from the exiled family of Jesus come into it all ?
And what of the Templar legacy ? Was their knowledge the technology behind the building of Europe’s great Gothic cathedrals ? Are their secrets encoded into the design of Scotland’s Rosslyn Chapel, guarded jealously by the ancient Sinclair family? Did they bury the lost treasure of the Temple of Jerusalem on the Danish owned Baltic island of Bornholm ? Are they linked to the Cathar Heresy and subsequent Albigensian Crusade or, more recently, the mystery of Bérenger Saunière and Rennes-le-Chateau with its mysterious eminence gris, the Prieuré de Sion.
Templar Lore 