Two Books That Built My Framework

When my parents split and I was nineteen, I stood in front of a wall of books — about a thousand of them — a whole lifetime of pages I knew I’d never see again.
So I went through them one by one and took two.

The first was God and the New Physics by Paul Davies — the book that first introduced me to quantum theory.
It was my initiation into the idea that reality could shimmer between logic and mystery, that science could whisper in the same tone as scripture.
I discuss this book in depth in my Quantum Theory for Beginners. 
Link to I.A. book of PDF here.

The second was Holy Blood, Holy Grail, written by three academics who mapped out The Da Vinci Code decades before Dan Brown made it pop.
Their investigation into Jesus’ possible journey through France and the strange puzzle of Rennes-le-Château opened my eyes to a different kind of faith — a secular appreciation of religion.
They treated myth like archaeology and belief like data. 
Link to I.A. book of PDF here.

Two books.
One rooted in the physics of creation, the other in the mystery of belief.
Together, they became my coordinates — the point where science and the sacred quietly agree to meet.

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The Most Shattering Secret of the Last Two Thousand Years

The first publication of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail in 1982 sparked off a storm of controversy that continues to this day.

The Enigma:
A discovery at Rennes-le-Château — offering little in the way of material wealth, yet a secret capable of rocking the foundations of contemporary politics and the Christian faith.

The Players:
The Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago.

The Conclusion:
As persuasive, controversial, and explosive as when first published over forty years ago.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL
PART ONE The Mystery 21
1 Village of Mystery 23
Rennes-le-Chateau and Berenger Sauniere 24
The Possible Treasures 32
The Intrigue 37
2 The Cathars and the Great Heresy 41
The Albigensian Crusade 42
The Siege of Montsegur 49
The Cathar Treasure 51
The Mystery of the Cathars 56
3 The Warrior Monks 59
Knights Templar The Orthodox Account 60
Knights Templar The Mysteries 75
Knights Templar- The Hidden Side 83
4 Secret Documents 94
PART TWO The Secret Society 109
The Order Behind the Scenes 111
The Mystery Surrounding the Foundation of the Knights Templar 116
Louis VII and the Prieure de Sion 119
The Cutting of the Elm’ at Gisors 120
5 Ormus 123 The Prieure at Orleans 126
The “Head’ of the Templars 128
The Grand Masters of the Templars 129
6 The Grand Masters and the Underground Stream 133
Rene d’Anjou 138
Rene and the Theme of Arcadia 140
The Rosicrucian Manifestos 144
The Stuart Dynasty 148
Charles Nodier and His Circle 154
Debussy and the Rose-Croix 158
Jean Cocteau 161
The Two John XXIIIs 164
7 Conspiracy through the Centuries 168
The Prieure de Sion in France 170
The Dukes of Guise and Lorraine 173
The Bid for the Throne of France 176
The Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement 178Part Two – The Secret Society

7. The Secret Society

  • Château Barberie — p.183
  • Nicolas Fouquet — p.185
  • Nicolas Poussin — p.187
  • Rosslyn Chapel and Shugborough Hall — p.190
  • The Pope’s Secret Letter — p.192
  • The Rock of Sion — p.192
  • The Catholic Modernist Movement — p.194
  • The Protocols of Sion — p.198
  • The Hieron du Val d’Or — p.203

8. The Secret Society Today

  • Alain Poher — p.212
  • The Lost King — p.213
  • Curious Pamphlets in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris — p.216
  • The Catholic Traditionalists — p.219
  • The Convent of 1981 and Cocteau’s Statutes — p.223
  • M. Plantard de Saint-Clair — p.230
  • The Politics of the Prieuré de Sion — p.237

9. The Long-Haired Monarchs

  • Legend and the Merovingians — p.245
  • The Bear from Arcadia — p.249
  • The Sicambrians Enter Gaul — p.250
  • Merovee and His Descendants — p.251
  • Blood Royal — p.253
  • Clovis and His Pact with the Church — p.254
  • Dagobert II — p.257
  • The Usurpation by the Carolingians — p.265
  • The Exclusion of Dagobert II from History — p.269
  • Prince Guillem de Gellone, Comte de Razès — p.271
  • Prince Ursus — p.274
  • The Grail Family — p.277
  • The Elusive Mystery — p.281

10. The Exiled Tribe — p.282

Part Three – The Bloodline

11. The Holy Grail

  • The Legend of the Holy Grail — p.297
  • The Story of Wolfram von Eschenbach — p.306
  • The Grail and Cabalism — p.318
  • The Play on Words — p.319
  • The Lost Kings and the Grail — p.321
  • The Need to Synthesise — p.324
  • Our Hypothesis — p.328

12. The Priest-King Who Never Ruled

  • Palestine at the Time of Jesus — p.338
  • The History of the Gospels — p.343
  • The Marital Status of Jesus — p.346

13. The Wife of Jesus

  • The Beloved Disciple — p.355
  • The Dynasty of Jesus — p.362
  • The Crucifixion — p.366
  • Who Was Barabbas? — p.368
  • The Crucifixion in Detail — p.371
  • The Scenario — p.377

14. The Secret the Church Forbade

  • The Zealots — p.389
  • The Gnostic Writings — p.399

15. The Grail Dynasty

  • Judaism and the Merovingians — p.409
  • The Principality in Septimania — p.412
  • The Seed of David — p.419

16. Conclusion and Portents for the Future — p.421

Postscript — p.439
Appendix: The Alleged Grand Masters of the Prieuré de Sion — p.441
Bibliography — p.467
Notes and References — p.481
Index — p.517
Illustrations — [unpaginated]

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