Holy Blood, Holy Grail: The Secret History of Christ & The Shocking Legacy of the Grail
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
Language: English
Pages: 496
ISBN: 0385338457
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?
• Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross?
• Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists?
• Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom?
• Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail?
According to the authors of this extraordinarily provocative, meticulously researched book, not only are these things possible — they are probably true! so revolutionary, so original, so convincing, that the most faithful Christians will be moved; here is the book that has sparked worldwide controversey.
"Enough to seriously challenge many traditional Christian beliefs, if not alter them."
— Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Like Chariots of the Gods?...the plot has all the elements of an international thriller."
— Newsweek
From the Paperback edition.
Rennes-leChateau, invited a separate detachment of Templars to the area, a special detachment from the Aragonese province of Roussillon.38 This fresh detachment established itself on the summit of the mountain of Bezu, erecting a lookout post and a chapel. Ostensibly, the Roussillon Templars had been invited to Bezu to maintain the security of the region and protect the pilgrim route which ran through the valley to Santiago de Compastela in Spain. But it is unclear why these extra knights should
each commanded by an illustrious and influential Western potentate. If the crusade proved successful, if Jerusalem did fall and a Frankish kingdom were established, any one of these four potentates would have been eligible to occupy its throne. And yet Godfroi seems to have known beforehand that he would be selected. Alone among the European commanders, he renounced his fiefs, sold all his goods and made it apparent that the Holy Land, for the duration of his life, would be his domain. In 1099,
between the lines at something of greater import explanations and motivations which are left unexplored. In itself it would almost seem to be absurd -as - 110 - absurd and possibly apocryphal as, say, the tales associated with the founding of the Order of the Garter. And yet there is confirmation of the story, if not its specific details, in other accounts. According to another chronicle, Philippe seems to have given notice to Henry that he intended to cut down the tree. Henry supposedly
preeminent Masonic spokesman of his age. Our research convinced us, however, that the real voice behind Ramsay was that of Charles Radclyffe who presided over the lodge at which Ramsay delivered his discourse and who appeared again, in 1743, as chief signatory at Ramsay’s funeral. But if Radclyffe was the power behind Ramsay, it would seem to have been Ramsay who constituted the link between Radclyffe and Newton. Despite Radclyffe’s premature death in 1746, the seeds he had sown in Europe
legitimacy, and there is still considerable doubt about it. According to both contemporary and later writers, the child’s true father was Cardinal Richelieu, or perhaps a “stud’ employed by Richelieu, quite possibly his protege and successor, Cardinal Mazarin. It has even been claimed that after Louis XIII’s death, Mazarin and Anne of Austria were secretly married. In any case the birth of an heir to Louis XIII was a serious blow to the hopes of Gaston d’Orleans and the house of Lorraine. And