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Rennes-le-Château,
by Colin Wilson.
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"The mystery of Rennes-le-Château is the riddle of a poor priest who discovered a secret that made him a millionaire and which profoundly shocked the priest to whom he confided it on his deathbed."
All too familiar to anyone who read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Henry Lincoln. Colin Wilson traces the story of the mystery pursued by author of that work.
"It was in a book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982), co-authored by Michael Baigent and Richard Lee, that Lincoln finally revealed this astonishing theory. It is difficult to discover from the book how far this is his own deduction from the evidence, and how far he received the information from sources like Gérard de Sède, or from M. Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair, who claims to be a lineal descendant of Dagobert II, and the chief Merovingian pretender to the throne of modern France. But the theory itself is straightforward enough. It is that Jesus did not die on the cross – that the sponge that was proffered to him contained a drug. Lincoln points out that Jesus seems to have taken only a few hours to die, while most people took days, even weeks. His death forestalled the breaking of his legs – an act of mercy that prevented a crucified man from supporting himself on his nailed feet, and ensured his swift suffocation as his weight dragged on his arms. The sponge was offered in the nick of time. The theory also involves the assumption that Jesus was married, and that his wife was probably Mary Magdalene, who may have been identical with Mary the sister of Martha and of Lazarus. According to the theory, Jesus left Palestine and came to Languedoc, although he may have ended his life at the siege of Masada in AD 74. The hillside tomb depicted by Poussin could well be the actual tomb of Jesus."
Colin Wilson mentions alternative theories.
" ... Brian Innes, who conducted a four-part investigation of the mystery in a magazine called The Unexplained in 1980, points out that quantities of gold have been found in the area. In 1645 a shepherd boy called Ignace Paris was executed for theft; he was in possession of gold coins, and claimed that he had found these after falling down a ravine and finding his way into a cave full of treasure. Innes says that more recently a slab of gold weighing nearly 45 lb has been found near Rennes-le-Château, made from fused Arab (or Crusader) coins, and that in 1928 the remains of a large gold statue were found in a hut on the edge of a stream that flows below the village.
"In their book The Holy Grail Revealed: The Real Secret of Rennes-le-Château, Patricia and Lionel Fanthorpe also argue strongly that Saunière found real treasure, not merely some ancient secret. Yet they are also inclined to agree with Lincoln that there was also some “object” referred to as the Grail which could confer power on those who owned it: they compare it to the Ring of Power in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, and even suggest in one place, that it might be of “extra-terrestrial origin”, linking Rennes-le-Château with the “ancient astronaut” theories of Erich von Däniken."
But what if those were sponsored by church, anxious to obliterate Lincoln's questions by raising a dust storm? After all, church has been most unwilling to admit that the gospels discovered in desert had any truth, going public with a dismayed reaction of just how those contradicted the official stances of the church.
Colin Wilson discusses history post publication of Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Henry Lincoln, who discovered more mystery of the region, from a geographical pentagram on to more.
"That being so, it seems inevitable that in the Christian era, churches would be built so as to conform to this geometrical pattern. And in fact, an enthusiast named David Wood studied the map of the area, and quickly discovered that a precise circle could be drawn through five churches, including Rennes-le-Chateau, connected by a pentacular geometry. His book Genisis contains some remarkable insights into the geometry of the area, which Lincoln (who introduces the book) acknowledges to be remarkable. However, Lincoln – probably in common with most readers of the book – is unable to agree with Wood’s explanation of the mystery, which involves a super-race who came from Sirius 200,000 years ago, and became the gods of Ancient Egypt. Such speculations, while fascinating, are obviously unproven and unprovable."
"Equally controversial are the speculations contained in a book called The Tomb of God (1996) by Richard Andrews and Paul Schellenberger, whose geometrical constructions leave them to locate the tomb of Jesus at the foot of a mountain near Rennes-le-Chateau, and who are convinced that Saunière was murdered. But a BBC television programme about the book seemed to demonstrate that the BBC’s attitude to Rennes-le-Chateau had changed since Lincoln’s three programmes, and that they had become hard line skeptics."
What else is new! BBC of course is hidebound supporting every possible abrahmic institutional power, even if that amounts to jihadist massacres so long as they aren't in the vicinity of BBC. So of course they're hostile to anything viewed askance by church, even if it's that of Rome!
Colin Wilson goes on with some fascinating details regarding measurements of ancient era and how they precisely connect in round numbers with measurements of the earth, pointing out that such coincidences are unbelievable; he further relates it to the Languedoc region, megaliths, and more.
" ... Was the earth, in fact, measured by some much earlier civilization, dating back long before the Egyptians or the Sumerians? In our book The Atlantis Blueprint, Rand Flem-Ath and I have argued that Antartica was Atlantis and that a great civilization existed in Atlantis – as Plato suggests – as long ago as 10,500 BC."
But earlier, he spoke of Venus, of precession of axis of rotation of earth and of how ancient civilisations seem to have known that it was 26,500 years, and of Venus seen as important by them; all of which points to history of civilisation being far older, of course.
India woukdnt be surprised at that, except those with a mindset of slavery to invaders and colonial rulers, conquistadores and foreigners - India after all knew of Himaalayan ranges rising out of the ocean, of Sindhu river (called Indus by outsiders) having once been the location of an ocean (hence the name, Sindhu, which literally means ocean in Sanskrit and therefore in most Indian languages), of evolution and much, much more.
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December 16, 2021 - December 17, 2021.
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