The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar by Steven Sora

Author:Steven Sora [Steven Sora]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: History, Non-Fiction, Mystery
ISBN: 9780892817108
Amazon: 0892817100
Goodreads: 327276
Publisher: Destiny Books
Published: 1999-01-31T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

THE FRENCH CONNECTION

At about the time that the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail started their research, a series of bodies, murders, and attempted murders surfaced in France. One publication, called Secret Dossiers, that provided information for the book was written by Leo Schidlof. It is possible that Schidlof was connected with espionage or some other clandestine activity because he was refused entry into the United States.1 What does twentieth-century espionage have to do with documents over two hundred years old? Holy Blood, Holy Grail does not answer this question, but soon after Schidlof's death his briefcase, reputedly containing documents relating to the Rennes-le-Chateau area of France, was in turn taken by Fakhar ul Islam, who was trying to reach East Germany but instead was hurled from a train outside Paris and killed. Three weeks later a privately published work entitled the The Red Serpent turned up at the National Library of Paris. It, too, contained information on the Rennes-le-Chateau area. The three authors of the work were all found hanged, at different times, between March 6 and March 7, 1967, two weeks after the death of Fakhar ul Islam. Obviously, someone wasn’t happy about researchers digging into the secret of Rennes-le-Chateau.

The publication of Holy Blood, Holy Grail ignited a storm of controversy in 1982 at a time when the Catholic Church was already under siege. The backlash from the Church was expected, in light of the fact that the book suggested several controversial scenarios—Jesus as husband and Mary Magdalene as mother of his child, for example. Worse still to many, the book made the case that Jesus may have survived his execution. The concept that Jesus both plotted his own execution and survived the Crucifixion had already been reviewed in print, although the popularity, especially in Europe, of Holy Blood, Holy Grail brought the topic a great deal more attention.2 Could Jesus have orchestrated his own execution? Could the family of Jesus have escaped Jerusalem?

The activities of Jesus the man were at the least able to incite a carefully planned stage in a revolt if not a complete revolt. He threw the bankers and money changers out of the temple not too long after two zealots had been executed for removing the Roman eagle. He challenged the Jewish puppets of the Roman state, the Sadducees, at every turn. He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, fulfilling the prophecy in the Bible that declared that the scion of David would enter the city in this manner. He denied being a king, but the cheering crowds left no doubt that they wanted him to be their king.3 These actions resulted in his death, an execution that history records and few challenge. Of the four accepted Gospels, the Gnostic Gospels, and one secular history, The Jewish War, by Josephus, all written in the first century, none hint that Christ survived his execution.

The Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles do record that the followers of Jesus fled Jerusalem. If Mary Magdalene

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