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HenryT
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Now, I'm no expert, but livescience remarks
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... the "discovered" parchments of Rennes-le-Château, relating to the alleged Priory of Sion—were part of a hoax perpetrated by a man named Pierre Plantard. Plantard commissioned a friend to create fake parchments which he then used to concoct the bogus priory story in 1956. (See Carl E. Olson and Sandra Miesel, The Da Vinci Hoax, 2004.)
And with Plantard's name in play, I found The Priory of Sion site, a debunking. At the cited link is a translated legal affadavit that
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"...in our archives we have a note ...dated 15 December 1954 advising us that Monsieur Pierre Plantard was sentenced on 17 December 1953 by the court in St. Julien-en-Genevois to six months imprisonment for a ‘breach of trust’ under articles 406 and 408 of the Penal Code."
Those sections address "theft, extortion, blackmail, fraud, and embezzlement".
I'm still digging, but it would seem that the "documentation" of the DVC is about as reliable as the infamous "Roman coin stamped XXV B.C."
Anyone care to defend the P of S ?
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cygnus
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Are there ANY references to the PoS existing before 1956? Is it purely a modern construct, or did it actually exist in another form back in earlier times (with or without any links the the modern (re)invention?)
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Barnabas62
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Have a look at this. In particular, this quote quote:
The real Priory of Sion was an authentic Catholic monastic order. A priory is a religious house or order. Sion or Zion is the ancient name for Jerusalem, where the order was headquartered at the monastery of Our Lady of Mt. Zion. It transferred its headquarters to St. Leonard d'Acre in Palestine and later to Sicily. In 1617 it ceased to exist and was absorbed into the Jesuit order.It was never a seething cabal of esoteric and political interests, never had any influence over the Templars or any esoteric orders, and does not exist today as a legitimate order, Catholic or otherwise. It has been appropriated like many authentic histories, esoteric traditions, and orders to create a false history.
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Doublethink.
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This documentary was very good on the whole sorry mess. I watched it at the time, I think just after I read the book. A surrealist joke according to them - even less dramatic than a far right thing really.
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Barnabas62
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I saw the Ch 4 documentary too - 'twas excellent. But, referring back to a post by Louise on an adjacent, it did require you to engage your brain.
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Kyzyl
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Originally posted by Henry Troup:
Anyone care to defend the P of S ?
No, but Robert Plant's back up band before Strange Sensation, Priory of Brion, was pretty darn good.
[ 04. April 2006, 13:59: Message edited by: Kyzyl ]
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Phos Hilaron
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Originally posted by Henry Troup:
Anyone care to defend the P of S ?
When you said P of S, I thought you meant something else than the Priory of Sion. But rather appropriate. Maybe a pun by Dan Brown?
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HenryT
Canadian Anglican
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Originally posted by HangarQueen:
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Originally posted by Henry Troup:
Anyone care to defend the P of S ?
When you said P of S, I thought you meant something else than the Priory of Sion. But rather appropriate. ...
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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HenryT
Canadian Anglican
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60 Minutes on CBS tonight did a nice roundup on the Priory of Sion fraud. The holder of the original parchments has had them evaluated - they are no more than 40 years old.
Lovely pictures from the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and various other places. Lots of English scholars poo-pooing the stuff - and Henry Lincoln still claiming that the theory fits the facts. Dan Brown declined to be interviewed.
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terce
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The funny thing is that in the novel, the Priory of Sion keeps its secrets so well that four people are prepared to die without giving its secrets.
Yet Dan Brown seems to want us to believe that the 'real-life' P of S has allowed their 'secrets' to be told to all and sundry! Pathetic!
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Anselm
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The Priory of Sion doesn't want anyone to know of it's secret, Opus Dei doesn't want anyone to know the secret
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so why were they fighting each other again??
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timothyf
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You can even "buy the tee shirt" now!?
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