
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
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Simon Prebble
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A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, 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 author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial proportions, which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village all the way to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves nothing less than... the Holy Grail.
©1983 Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln (P)2006 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
"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)
true!
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Mind opening
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a great historical subject
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eye opener
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Twisting the thought process
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despite that is tantalizingly mysterious. hypothesis is very plausible. The authors have clearly researched thoroughly. brush up on your French geneology though.
interesting but a hard read
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Truth is always stranger than fiction; these researchers made the best efforts possible, but "arks" and "bloodlines" have an electrical field and it is to science we must go for further answers. Fellow researcher/author Laurence Gardner made extensive studies of ORMEs and MFKT; sadly he is now dead too. His reporting of what was found by Sir Flinders Petrie at Mount Serabit el-Khadim is astounding. They found an Egyptian Temple devoted to Hathor. It seems the word worship derives from workshop. At Serabit el-Khadim the artificers made the white powder gold: ORMEs (artifacts now in the Petrie museum in London). It was made into pyramid shaped cakes to be fed to the pharoah! There are many depictions of this sacrement (sacre = blood) on temple walls. At Dendara, the Temple of Hathor, where pharoahs were birthed, ORMEs was mixed with starfire before consumption. There is a strange area external, and rarely visited of the main temple with the symbol of the circle with a cross on the walls. (Some call the adjacent area a church due to the crosses, but it's possible the blood/wine drinking originates here). There is a strange stone "chair/throne" with an area underneath clearly for someone to sit to collect the starfire from the source? It is intriguing to contemplate. Some now think Serabit el-Khadim is the actual Moses mountain. It gives another insight into the gifts brought by the Magi to the Christ: gold, frankinsense and myrth, all agents used in healing in modern days.
I have been lucky to travel extensively in France in the areas mentioned, in Egypt, Greece, Sicily and in Israel with the paperback of this and other such books in my luggage, so happy now to have it as an aduiobook on my Kindle. I disagree with the book's final hypothesis, but it was the base for a fun movie The Davinci Code.
GREAT BOOK
Tome of Supreme Excellence
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Intriguing from start to finish
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Recommend if you are interested in this topic
The holy blood and the holy grail
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I wasn't sure at first whether I was reading fiction or non fiction but in the end what mattered was that it set me thinking. There are clearly more things to be found out about the mystery of Rennes le Chateau and whether you believe what the authors propose or not is entirely down to the individual.
With an audiobook, the narrator can make or break the experience and in this case he was right on the money. Prebble has a good voice for reading and his pronunciations made his telling more authentic.
I would recommend this book to anyone with a quest for adventure, a passion for mysteries or an interest in the Cathars and/or Knights Templar
Compelling
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