28 Ponsich, Le Conflent, p. 244.
29 Ibid., fig 1. See also Vaissete, Histoire générale de Languedoc, Vol. 2 (notes), p. 276.
30 Vaissete, Histoire générale de Languedoc, Vol. 3, p. 4ff.
31 The earliest report of this legend appears in 1686, when Dr. Plot in his Natural History of Staffordshire relates it, p. 316ff., during a report on Freemasonry.
32 The title of Godfroi de Bouillon’s duchy, Lower Lorraine, was dropped in 1190; the suzerains called themselves dukes of Brabant. So the duchess of Brabant is no doubt a variant of the duchess of Bouillon.
33 The standard French genealogical work is Anselm, Histoire généalogique et chronologique, which details the history of the house of Boulogne in Vol. VI, p. 247ff. It is with Godfroi’s grandfather, Comte Eustache Ier de Boulogne, that the confusion begins. His father is not recorded, only the name of his mother, Adeline, and her second husband, Ernicule, count of Boulogne. Ernicule adopted the young Eustache, making him heir. His true father is lost to history.
The Dossiers secrets (planche no. 2, 900-1200) record his true father as Hugues des Plantard ("Long Nose"), who was assassinated (according to Abbé Pichon) in 1015.
10 The Exiled Tribe
1 Graves, White Goddess, p. 271.
2 The full text is as follows:
UN JOUR LES DESCENDANTS DE BENJAMIN QUITTÈRENT LEUR PAYS, CER-TAINS RESTÈRENT, DEUX MILLE ANS APRÈS GODEFROY VI, DEVIENT ROI DE JÉRUSALEM ET FONDE L’ORDRE DE SION—De cette legende merveilleuse qui orne l’histoire, ainsi que l’architecture d’un temple dont le sommet se perd dans l’immensité de l’espace et des temps, dont POUSSIN a voulu exprimer le mystère dans ses deux tableaux, les "Bergers d’Arcadie," se trouve sans doute le secret du trésor devant lequel, les descendants paysans et bergers du fier sicambre, méditent sur "et in arcadia ego," et le Roi "Midas." Avant 1200 a notre ère—Un fait important est, l’arrivée des Hébreux dans la terre promise et leur lente installation en Canaan. Dans la Bible, au Deuteronome 33, il est dit sur BENJAMIN: C’est le bien aimé de l’Eternal, il habitera en sécurité auprès de lui, l’Eternal le couvrira toujours, et résidera entre ses epaules. Il est encore dit à Josué 18 que le sort donna pour heritage aux fils de BENJAMIN parmi les quatorze villes et leur villages: JEBUS, de nos jours JERUSALEM avec ses trois points d’un triangle: GOLGOTHA, SION et BETHANIE.
Et enfin il est écrit, aux Juges 20 et 21: "aucun de nous de donnera sa fille pour femme à un Benjamite . . . O Eternel, Dieu d’Israël, pourquoi est-il arrivé en Israël qu’il manque aujourd’hui une tribu d’Israël.
A la grand énigme de l’Arcadie VIRGILE qui était dans le secret des dieux, lève le voile aux Bucoliques X—46/50: "Tu procul a patria (nec sit mihi credere tantum). Alpinas, a, dura, nives et frigora Rheni me sine sola vides. A, te ne frigora laedant! a tibi ne teneras glacies secet aspera plantas!"
SIX PORTES ou le sceau de l’Etoile, voici les secrets des parchemins de l’Abbe SAUNIÈRE, Cure de Rennes-le-Château et qu’avant lui le grand initié POUSSIN connaissait lorsqu’il réalisa son oeuvre àla demande du RAPE, l’inscription sur la tombe est la même.—Lobineau, Dossiers secrets, planche no. 1, 400-600.
3 Graves, Greek Myths, Vol. 1, p. 203, n. 1.
4 Michell, Sparta, p. 173. The Spartans worshiped not only Artemis but also Aphrodite as a warrior goddess. The latter is the form often assumed by Ishtar and Astarte, indicating the probability of Semitic influence.
5 2 Maccabees 5:9.
6 1 Maccabees 12:21.
7 "Semitic" was first coined in 1781 by Schlözer, a German scholar, to indicate a group of closely related languages. Those who spoke these tongues became called "Semites." The word derives ultimately from Shem, son of Noah. If the mountain in question held a Jewish colony, it would have been called the Mountain of Shem. But there is also a more mundane possibility. The Latin word semita means "path" or "way," and this alternative must be considered.
11 The Holy Grail
1 These very likely had some connection with Otto Rahn. See Chapter 2, n. 9.
2 Philippe of Flanders often visited Champagne and in 1182 tried unsuccessfully to marry Marie de Champagne (daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine), who had been widowed the year before. Le Conte du Graal probably dates from about this time. There is a connection between the house of Alsace and that of Lorraine. Gérard d’Alsace, on the death of his brother in 1048, became the first hereditary duke of Haut-Lorraine, today simply Lorraine. All subsequent dukes of Lorraine traced their ancestry back to him.
3 It seems that there may have been some Grail "source document" to which Philippe of Flanders had access and which formed the basis of both Chrétien’s and Robert de Boron’s romances. Professor Loomis says that one is forced to assume a common source for the Queste and Robert de Boron’s romance. He feels that Robert de Boron was telling the truth when he referred to a book about the secrets of the Grail that provided the bulk of his information. See Loomis, The Grail, p. 233ff. 4 An argument for this is put forward by Barber, R., Knight and Chivalry, p. 126. 5 Perlesvaus, p. 359. 6 Ibid., p. 2. 7 Ibid., p. 214. 8 Ibid., p. 360. 9 Ibid., p. 199ff. 10 Ibid., p. 82. 11 Ibid., p. 89. 12 Ibid., p. 268. 13 Ibid., p. 12. 14 Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, pp. 243ff. 15 Ibid., p. 251. 16 Ibid., p. 253. 17 Ibid., p. 129. 18 Ibid., p. 130. 19 Ibid., p. 251ff. 20 Ibid., p. 251, n. 11. 21 Ibid., p. 252. 22 Ibid., p. 252. 23 Rahn, Croisade contre le Graal, p. 77ff., and La Cour de Lucifer, p. 69. 24 Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzifal, p. 263ff. 25 Ibid., p. 264. 26 Ibid., p. 426. 27 Barral, Légendes Capétiennes, p. 64. 28 It is interesting that the French city of Avallon dates back to Merovingian times. It was the capital of a region, then a comté, which was part of the kingdom of Aquitaine. It gave its name to the whole region—the Avallonnais. 29 Greub, "The Pre-Christian Grail Tradition" p. 68. 30 Halevi, Adam and the Kabbalistic Tree, pp. 194, 201; Fortune, Mystical
Qabalah, p. 188. 31 It is sometimes said that the Christian and Cabalistic traditions did not come together until the fifteenth century in the hands of such writers as Pico della Mirandola. However, the Perlesvaus would seem to prove that they had fused by the beginning of the thirteenth century. This is an area that needs more study. The particular images in the Perlesvaus are those normally associated with the Cabala as it is used magically. 32 Queste del Saint Graal, p. 34.
33 It may perhaps be echoing the fact that King Dagobert spent much of his youth in Britain.
34 Queste del Saint Graal, Introduction, p. 16ff.
12 The Priest-King Who Never Ruled
1 Smith, Secret Gospel, p. 14ff.
2 Ibid., p. 15ff.
3 Ibid., p. 16.
4 Ibid., p. 16ff. The youth naked save for a linen cloth appears later in Mark 14:51-2. When Jesus is betrayed in Gethsemane, he is accompanied by "a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body."
5 The oldest manuscripts of the Scriptures, including the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus, do not have the present ending to Mark. In both of them Mark’s Gospel finishes at 16:8. Both date from the fourth century, the time when the whole Bible was collected into one volume for the first time.
6 Maccoby, Revolution in Judaea, p. 99.
7 Dodd, Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel, p. 423.
8 Brandon, Jesus and the Zealots, p. 16.
9 Vermes, Jesus the Jew, p. 99.
10 Charles Davis, reported in The Observer (London, March 28, 1971), p. 25.
11 Phipps, Sexuality of Jesus, p. 44.
12 Smith, Jesus the Magician, p. 81ff.
13 Brownlee, "Whence the Gospel According to John," p. 192.
14 Schonfield, Passover Plot, pp. 119, 134ff.
15 Ibid., p. 256.
16 The standard tradition is given in Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, in the Life of S. Mary Magdalen, p. 73ff. This dates from 1270. The earliest written form of this tradition would appear to be the "Life of Mary Magdalen" by Rabanus (776-856), archbishop of Mainz. It is the The Antiquities of Glastonbury by Will
iam of Malmesbury that the extension of the legend—Joseph of Arimathea coming to Britain— first occurs. It is often considered a later addition to William’s account.
17 Vermes, Jesus the Jew, p. 21, mentions that in Talmudic sayings the Aramaic noun denoting "carpenter," or "craftsman" (naggar) stands for "learned man" or "scholar."
18 Maccoby, Revolution in Judaea, p. 57ff., quotes Philo of Alexandria describing Pilate as "cruel by nature."
19 Cohn, H., Trial and Death of Jesus, p. 97ff.
20 All scholars concur that no such privilege existed. The purpose of the fiction is to increase the guilt of the Jews. See Brandon, Jesus and the Zealots, p. 259, Cohn, H., Trial and Death of Jesus, p. 166ff, (Haim Cohn is an ex-attorney general of Israel, member of the Supreme Court and lecturer on historical law); and Winter, P., On the Trial of Jesus, p. 94.
21 As Professor Brandon says (Jesus and the Zealots, p. 328) all inquiry concerning the historical Jesus must start from the fact of his execution by the Romans for sedition. Brandon adds that the tradition of his being "King of the Jews" must be accepted as authentic. In view of its embarrassing character, the early Christians would not have invented such a title.
22 Maccoby, Revolution in Judaea, p. 216.
23 Brandon, Trial of Jesus, p. 34.
24 Joyce, Jesus Scroll, p. 106.
25 For crucifixion details see Winter, On the Trial of Jesus, p. 62ff.; and Cohn, H., Trial and Death of Jesus, p. 230ff.
26 See Schonfield, Passover Plot, p. 154ff., for details.
27 An argument for this identification is given by Allegro, The Copper Scroll, p. 100ff.
28 Cohn, H, Trial and Death of Jesus, p. 238.
29 See The Interlinear Greek-English New Testament, p. 214 (Mark 15:43, 45).
30 Joyce, Jesus Scroll. The author claims that while in Israel he was asked to help smuggle a stolen scroll from the Masada excavations out of the country. Although he refused, he claims to have seen the scroll. It was signed Yeshua ben Ya’akob ben Gennesareth, who described himself as eighty years old and added that he was the last of the rightful kings of Israel (p. 22). The name, when translated into English, becomes Jesus of Gennesareth, son of Jacob. Joyce identifies the author as Jesus of Nazareth.
13 The Secret the Church Forbade
1 Eisler, Messiah Jesus, p. 606ff.
2 Chadwick, The Early Church, p. 125.
3 Goodenough, Jewish Symbols, Vol. 7, p. 178ff.
4 See Halsberghe, The Cult of Sol Invictus. The author explains that this cult was brought to Rome in the third century A.D. by the Emperor Elagabalus. When Aurelian introduced his religious reform it was in fact a reestablishment of the cult of Sol Invictus as originally introduced.
5 218 for, 2 against. The Son was then pronounced identical with the Father.
6 It was not until 384 that the bishop of Rome called himself Pope for the first time.
7 There is a possibility that some may be discovered. In 1976 a large repository of old manuscripts was discovered at the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai. The find was kept quiet for some two years before news was leaked to a German newspaper in 1978. There are thousands of fragments, some dating from before A.D. 300, including eight missing pages from the Codex Sinaiticus now in the British Museum. The monks who hold the bulk of the material have granted access only to one or two Greek scholars. See International Herald Tribune (April 27, 1978).
8 Gospel of Peter, 5:5.
9 Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ, 2:4.
10 Maccoby, Revolution in Judaea, p. 129. The author adds that the portrayal of Jesus as anti-Pharisee was probably part of the attempt to show him as a rebel against the Jewish religion rather than as a rebel against Rome.
11 Brandon, Jesus and the Zealots, p. 327. See also Vermes, Jesus the Jew, p. 50: "Zealot or not, Jesus was certainly charged, prosecuted and sentenced as one."
12 Allegro, Dead Sea Scrolls, p. 167.
13 Ibid., p. 175.
14 Josephus, Jewish War, p. 387.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid., Appendix, p. 400.
17 Eisler, Messiah Jesus, p. 427.
18 Ibid., p. 167.
19 Irenaeus, Five Books... against Heresies, p. 73.
20 Koran, 4:157. See also Parrinder, Jesus in the Qur’an, p. 108ff.
21 Pagels, Gnostic Gospels, pp. xviff.
22 The Second Treatise of the Great Seth, in Robinson, J., Nag Hommadi Library in English, p. 332.
23 The Gospel of Mary, in Robinson, J., Nag Hammadi Library in English, p. 472.
24 Ibid., p. 473.
25 Ibid.
26 The Gospel of Philip, In Robinson, J., Nag Hammadi Library in English, p. 140.
27 Ibid., p. 135ff.
28 Phipps, Was Jesus Married?, p. 136ff.
29 The Gospel of Philip, in Robinson, J., Nag Hammadi Library in English, p. 138.
30 Ibid., p. 139.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid., p. 148.
14 The Grail Dynasty
1 Parrinder, Jesus in the Qur’an, p. 110ff.
2 Blancasall, Les Descendants, p. 9.
3 Koran, 4:157.
4 There was the sacred bull of Meroë, at Heliopolis. That bulls were regarded highly by the Sicambrians is shown by the fact that a gold bull’s head was found buried with Childeric, the father of Clovis.
5 Henri Lobineau, Dossiers secrets, planche no. 1, 950-1400, n. 1.
6 Rabinowitz, "De Migrantibus."
7 Zuckerman, Jewish Princedom, p. 36ff.
8 Ibid., p. 59.
9 Ponsich, "Le Conflent," p. 244. n. 10. See also Levillain, "Nibelungen," Année 50 (1938), genealogy facing p. 46.
10 Zuckerman, Jewish Princedom, p. 81.
11 Ibid., p. 197.
12 William, Count of Orange, The Crowning of Louis, p. 4 (9).
13 Part of it now forms The Cloisters in New York.
14 Saxer, Marie Madeleine, Vol. 2, p. 412. The cult, observing the day of January 19, dates from at least A.D. 792-5.
15 Zuckerman, Jewish Princedom, p. 64.
16 Ibid., p. 58.
17 Pange, Maison de Lorraine, p. 60.
15 Conclusion and Portents for the Future
1 Lacordaire, St Mary Magdalen, p. 185.
2 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th ed (1972), Crown and Regalia, fig. 2.
3 Nilus, Protocols, no. 24.
4 Péguy, Charles, "La Tapisserie de Sainte Geneviève," in Oeuvres poetiques complètes (Paris, 1957), p. 849.
5 Saint Sigisbert was the father of Dagobert II.
Appendix: The Alleged Grand Masters of the Prieuré de Sion
1 See Digot, P., Notre-Dame-de-Sion, p. 8. We obtained a copy of the original charter of this order, the records being held in the Bibliothèque Municipale, Nancy.
2 Fédié, Le Comté de Razès, p. 119.
3 Birch, Life of Robert Boyle, p. 274.
4 Ibid.
5 See Manuel, Portrait of Isaac Newton, and Dobbs, Foundations of Newton’s Alchemy.
6 Newton was also a supporter of the Socinians, a religious group who believed that Jesus was divine by office rather than by nature. They were Arian in orientation. Newton himself was described as an Arian.
7 Perey, Charles de Lorraine, p. 287.
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