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This alternate history is _
thought-provoking reading

. Commentary

If the book, ‘‘The Holy
Blood, The.Holy Grail’’ is at all
credible, it calls into question
much that has been held dear
and sacrosanct for almost two
millenia about Jesus of Naz-
areth.

According to the authors, and
my imperfect human under-
standing of their research, the
following possible scenario
could explain many observed
phenomena.

The authors have come to
think that Jesus and Lazarus
had a system of resurrection
worked out where by Lazarus
feigned death, probably by. tak-
ing a maximum dose of

belladonna or opium, ‘and is.

miraculously resurrected a few
days later.

According to the authors,
Jesus was associated with, and
possibly a member of, the
-Zealots, and the Essenes and a
mystery cult, but this has been
covered up in subsequent
presentations of the Christian
orthodoxy.

Most significantly for the

credibility of Christianity is that
Jesus achieved God status as op-
posed to mortal prophet when a
majority vote of Constantine’s
Council of Nicea addressed the
resolution and he was presentcd
as such in subsequent or-
thodoxy. Constantine was not
himself Christian.
‘The evidence which the
authors have surfaced, long sup-
-pressed as heretical by Rome
through a re-writing of the
Biblical literature during the
fourth century, through the
Albigensian Crusades to kill off
and destroy a culture who were
aware of these things, and
through the Inquisition, suggests
strongly that Jesus did not die at
the cross.

Their contacts claim that there
is absolute proof that Jesus was
alive at 46 AD and he either liv-
ed at Masada during the Roman
siege or was buried in northern
India where a Tomb is said by
locals to have been that of Jesus.

I have seen a photograph of

by Jorma Jyrkkanen

this tomb in India, and can think
of no good reason why the In-
dians would lie about such a
profound thing.

The part of India where the
tomb lies is where ancient
Astrologers, possibly the Magi
lived, some of whom may have
attended Jésus’s birth.

So where is his body? I think
that I’ve deduced it from the
book Holy Blood, Holy Grail.

The order, the Priory of Sion,
who were probably behind the
founding of the Knights of
Templar in Jerusalem, when it
was occupied during the
Crusades, have his mummified
body in safe
somewhere. °

Why do I think this? Well, the
tomb in India is empty so his
body went somewhere. In fact,
the Knights of Templar were
custodians of the Shroud of
Turin many centuries ago,
before the Knights were killed
during the Inquisition.

This suggests that they took it _

off the mummified body of
Jesus and so must have known
where his body was.

Since the Knights of Templar
were thought to be the executive
arm of the Priory of Sion, there
was likely an exchange of critical
information.

The Priory of Sion survived
through the Inquisition to the

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present day and they are in all
likelihood fully aware of where
Jesus’s body lies.

If Jesus died at the cross, and:
the shroud is authentic, then the
shroud should have stains
around the nail holes on his
hands indicative more of a
wound than of a healed scar.

A check of the shroud might
tilt the argument one way or the
other but again, its authenticity
remains questionable.

There is another secret alluded
to in the book. Jesus was mar-
ried as most Rabbis were, had a
family and their descendents live
on today.

They suggest that there is a
secret Dynasty in existance that
is carrying the bloodline.

The authors suggest that Jesus
Barabbas was in fact the son of
Jesus and Jesus’s wife was the
Magdalene.

She was shipped off to France
after the ‘Crucifixion’ and may

well have been joined by her .

son, Barabbas who might. have
gone on to spawn a holy blood
lineage.

Such a revelation would have
been scandalous in those days
and their lives would have been
in great jeapardy hence the
secrecy. \

The Priory of Sion has sup-
posedly guarded these secrets
ever since. __

The Priory of Sion is suppos-
ed to know who the king is and
he may in fact be the Grand
Master of the Priory.

This Priory also claims to
haye the lost, treasure of
Jerusalem and say that they will
return it when the time is right.

Since the book brings into

vogue the questioning of the
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