Post by petertaylor on Sept 27, 2005 19:34:56 GMT
I have some difficulty in believing that it very factual, but indeed it is all very speculative or even 'hopeful'. In any case it did sell well!
Because the secret Priory archives, the Dossiers Secrets, claim that the Priory of Sion was the hidden force behind the formation of the Knight’s Templar, a large part of the Holy Blood and Holy Grail dwells on (the supposed) Grand Master Pierre Plantard’s version of the development of the order after the split from the Templars, embroidering a colourful account of how kings internationally renowned scientists, intellectuals and artists have guided the course of humanity over the past 1000 years! However the most intriguing aspect of the unravelling of the history of the PdeS is the authors’ personal interaction with Pierre Plantand. He leads them on a wild goose chase through obscure and unsubstantiated documents and locations throughout France in order to verify minute and sometime meaningless details in order to attempt to confirm whether the PdeS is actually genuine! The authors, in my opinion, unsuccessfully come to grips with a myriad of esoteric and historical codes which, unfolds into a complex chess game, which continues to perplex even the most expert of historians!
Finally in an attempt to synthesise the overload of cryptic, esoteric and historic data, Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln embark on a mind-blowing quantum leap that is the root of HBHG – the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene! Plantand had stated definitively that the PdeS held lost treasure that would be returned to Jerusalem ‘when the time was right’. He emphasised that the real significance of the treasure is ‘spiritual’. Armed with only this small, tantalizing clue, coupled with Plantard’s own obsession with intricate genealogies and his alleged decendency from Merovingnian kings, Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln devote the final 3rd of the book to proving that the real purpose of the PdeS was to guard the ‘holy bloodline’. It seems to most readers that this is the case, but in fact Plantard never confirmed this hypothesis, which was developed by the authors themselves!
Plantard’s response to the bloodline theory is ambivalent to say the least! On one hand he saying there was no evidence to prove the Merovingnians were decendant from Jesus at the same time did indeed derive from the royal line of David. He completely ignores Mary Magdalene’s role in all this.
The Dossiers Secret seem to support Plantard's claim that he is a direct descendant of the Merovignian King Dagobert II. So when he states that the purpose of the PdeS is to restore the Merovignian dynasty to the French throne, he is in fact saying he is the rightful heir. Tradition historical sources claim that Dagobert II was assissinanted in 679 with issue, but the excentric Plantard claimed that this was wrongand thehe is a direct descemdant of Dagobert's (unknown to anyone else bar Plantard) son Sigisbert. Plantard died on Feb 3 2000. His body was cremated but his final resting place in not known. But where is his 'heir' now?
Even Dan Brown quotes “This (HBHG) caused quite a stir in the 1980s. To my taste the authors made dubious leaps of faith in their analysis …. but to their credit, they finally brought the idea of Christ’s bloodline into the mainstream”.
However, researcher of the PdeS will know that this isn’t the first book to fuse Plantard’s history of the PdeS with the Sacred Feminine and the Bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Two years or so before HBHG Liz Greene released a novel called ‘The Dreamer of the Vine’, which links now familiar PdeS history with Nostradamus‘s life story. This appears to be an astonishing premonition to what was to become, i.e. HBHG. But when you dig a little deeper to find that Liz Greene is actually Richard Leigh’s sister and was girlfriend to Michael Baigent a cunning plan unfolds.
So did the authors just really happen to evolve the bloodline story during their conversations with Plantard? Was this the destination of the book all along? If the later is the case were Baigent and Leigh privy to some long-suppressed information before they wrote HBHG? I doubt it the later was the case!
Because the secret Priory archives, the Dossiers Secrets, claim that the Priory of Sion was the hidden force behind the formation of the Knight’s Templar, a large part of the Holy Blood and Holy Grail dwells on (the supposed) Grand Master Pierre Plantard’s version of the development of the order after the split from the Templars, embroidering a colourful account of how kings internationally renowned scientists, intellectuals and artists have guided the course of humanity over the past 1000 years! However the most intriguing aspect of the unravelling of the history of the PdeS is the authors’ personal interaction with Pierre Plantand. He leads them on a wild goose chase through obscure and unsubstantiated documents and locations throughout France in order to verify minute and sometime meaningless details in order to attempt to confirm whether the PdeS is actually genuine! The authors, in my opinion, unsuccessfully come to grips with a myriad of esoteric and historical codes which, unfolds into a complex chess game, which continues to perplex even the most expert of historians!
Finally in an attempt to synthesise the overload of cryptic, esoteric and historic data, Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln embark on a mind-blowing quantum leap that is the root of HBHG – the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene! Plantand had stated definitively that the PdeS held lost treasure that would be returned to Jerusalem ‘when the time was right’. He emphasised that the real significance of the treasure is ‘spiritual’. Armed with only this small, tantalizing clue, coupled with Plantard’s own obsession with intricate genealogies and his alleged decendency from Merovingnian kings, Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln devote the final 3rd of the book to proving that the real purpose of the PdeS was to guard the ‘holy bloodline’. It seems to most readers that this is the case, but in fact Plantard never confirmed this hypothesis, which was developed by the authors themselves!
Plantard’s response to the bloodline theory is ambivalent to say the least! On one hand he saying there was no evidence to prove the Merovingnians were decendant from Jesus at the same time did indeed derive from the royal line of David. He completely ignores Mary Magdalene’s role in all this.
The Dossiers Secret seem to support Plantard's claim that he is a direct descendant of the Merovignian King Dagobert II. So when he states that the purpose of the PdeS is to restore the Merovignian dynasty to the French throne, he is in fact saying he is the rightful heir. Tradition historical sources claim that Dagobert II was assissinanted in 679 with issue, but the excentric Plantard claimed that this was wrongand thehe is a direct descemdant of Dagobert's (unknown to anyone else bar Plantard) son Sigisbert. Plantard died on Feb 3 2000. His body was cremated but his final resting place in not known. But where is his 'heir' now?
Even Dan Brown quotes “This (HBHG) caused quite a stir in the 1980s. To my taste the authors made dubious leaps of faith in their analysis …. but to their credit, they finally brought the idea of Christ’s bloodline into the mainstream”.
However, researcher of the PdeS will know that this isn’t the first book to fuse Plantard’s history of the PdeS with the Sacred Feminine and the Bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Two years or so before HBHG Liz Greene released a novel called ‘The Dreamer of the Vine’, which links now familiar PdeS history with Nostradamus‘s life story. This appears to be an astonishing premonition to what was to become, i.e. HBHG. But when you dig a little deeper to find that Liz Greene is actually Richard Leigh’s sister and was girlfriend to Michael Baigent a cunning plan unfolds.
So did the authors just really happen to evolve the bloodline story during their conversations with Plantard? Was this the destination of the book all along? If the later is the case were Baigent and Leigh privy to some long-suppressed information before they wrote HBHG? I doubt it the later was the case!