A Factual Reply To The False DaVinci Code

GUARDIANS OF THE HOLY GRAIL
By J. R. Church
Prophecy Publications, 1991

Jesus never married, never had sex. The DaVinci Code is a DANGEROUS book, filled with lies leading to DEATH. There are VERY FEW Christian websites on this Evil of 2004. One woman began reading it and felt so much evil presence, she threw the book out.

The above book reveals the sordid story of a secret organization in Europe, which, down through the centuries, has been the guardian of a so-called "holy bloodline." Participants in this clandestine group believe that members of this sacred lineage are descended from Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ.

This mysterious group is presently made up of over 9,000 men, including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, and Moslems. Their doctrine sidesteps the basic tenets of those beliefs and replaces them with the teaching of their greatest prophet whom they believe to be Buddha. Over the last 3 decades, stories have been surfacing in France about the existence of such a group.

Little by little, they have been preparing the political climate across the world for the emergence of a one-world government and the introduction of a global dictator. According to the tenets of the organization, Jesus Christ did not die on Calvary, but merely pretended to die, was taken from the cross, stolen from the tomb, and was believed to have married Mary Magdalene and even produced children. They claim that when the Romans destroyed the Temple at Jerusalem in 70 A.D. the Magdalene fled with her sacred children by boat across the Mediterranean to France. There she found refuge in a Jewish community.

Future generations of her offspring were said to have married into the royal Frankish family and by the fifth century produced a king. His name was Merovee. He was the first of a series of kings called the Merovingian bloodline.

It is said that the offspring of Merovee were noted for a birthmark above the heart a small red cross. This symbol eventually became the emblem of the Guardians of the Grail. Furthermore, these kings claimed to have clairvoyant powers and the ability to heal the sick by the laying on of hands.

Merovee, king of the Franks from 447 to 458 A.D., was an adherent to the religious cult of Diana. His son, Childeric I, (458 to 481 A.D.) practiced witchcraft. His son, Clovis I, (481 to 511 A.D.) adopted Christianity in 496 A.D. The Roman emperor, Constantine, (307 to 337 A.D.) embraced Christianity in 324 A.D., divided the Roman Empire, and eventually moved his throne to Constantinople.

It is called Istanbul, Turkey today. Constantine upset the political structure of the Imperial Roman empire and created a division in fourth century Christianity. After the death of Constantine, the Roman empire split between the east and the west. The Eastern Orthodox Church grew in power and influence, while the Roman church faltered.

In 496 A.D., the Bishop of Rome made a pact with Clovis, the grandson of Merovee, and the king of the Franks, calling him the "New Constantine," giving him authority to preside over a "Christianized" Roman empire. (The term "Holy Roman Empire" was not officially used until 962 A.D.) The pope did so to consolidate the power of the faltering Roman church.

The so-called offspring of Mary Magdalene were thus established as leaders of the empire. [five generations after Clovis] Dagobert I fathered two sons who carried on the Merovingian bloodline. The first was Clovis II and the succession continued to Childric III. He was the last known Merovingian to sit upon the throne of France.

It is difficult to trace many of the ancient genealogies. It is said that the Merovingian bloodline found its way to most of the thrones of Europe. From the Merovingian bloodline has come most of the ruling families of Europe and has even included some popes of the Roman Catholic Church. Among them was Pope Stephen IX, leader of the church in the 11th century, during the years of the Crusades. The Crusades, by the way, played an important part in the promotion of the Merovingian bloodline. Many of the Crusaders were French who went to Palestine to liberate the Holy Land from the Moslems.

By 1061 A.D., the Catholic Crusaders had conquered the city of Jerusalem and established Godfroi de Bouillon (of the Merovingian bloodline) on the throne of Jerusalem. Claiming to be of the lineage of David, Godfroi de Bouillon organized a secret society called Ordre de Sion, today called Prieure (Priory) de Zion. The clandestine Priory of Sion still exists after almost 900 years. It is very much alive today.

In the years that followed, Godfroi de Bouillon and his secret group, the Priory of Sion, began to lay plans for a front group to carry out their goals. In 1118 A.D., Hugues de Payen organized the Knights Templar and made Baudouin, the brother of Godfroi de Bouillon, its first Grand Master. They adopted the Merovingian birthmark as their emblem, a red cross!

The stated purpose of the Knights Templar was to guard the highways around Jerusalem to protect the pilgrims coming for worship. Those 9 men supposedly gave of themselves to go to Jerusalem and become the "poor knights of the Temple." [Remember that the Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.] They pledged themselves to be subject only to the pope and to no other political or ecclesiastical authority. Upon their arrival in Jerusalem, they were given living quarters in the palace of Baudouin [the "king of Jerusalem"] on the Temple site. Though there is no historical proof, it is believed that they spent the next 9 years digging up the buried treasure of the ancient Jewish Temple.

In 1953 a copper scroll was found in a cave near the Dead Sea which told of a fabulous Temple treasure, estimated at more than 138 tons of gold and silver which had been buried by the Jewish priesthood in 64 locations before the Romans destroyed the Temple in 70 A.D. 24 of those hordes of gold were buried under the Temple mountain. It is believed that the Knights Templar plundered the treasure of the Temple and took it back to Europe. After nine years in Jerusalem, the Templars returned to Europe wealthy beyond belief.

In the following years, they built castles all over Europe and became famous as the guardians of the Holy Grail. It is believed that the Priory of Sion organized the Knights Templar to excavate the Temple site in hopes of finding the fabulous treasure of the Temple. Evidently they were successful, for they instituted an international banking system across Europe and had the resources to loan gold to kings and governments.

The secret purpose for the Knights Templar, however, was to preserve the Merovingian bloodline in hopes of one day establishing a world government and putting their king upon the throne, a king who could claim to be the offspring of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Legends were told of their exploits. They were the guardians of the Holy Grail, the so-called cup from which Jesus drank at the last supper, and of the Grail family the bloodline of the Magdalene.

[Dan Brown's novel, The DaVinci Code, claims that the Holy Grail is NOT the cup that Christ drank from; it is THE REMAINS of Mary Magdalene, the womb or ark that bore Jesus' sacred children (also called the ark of the covenant), which is secretly hidden from the public in a location known only to the Priory of Sion!]

In 1188 there was a split between the Ordre de Sion and the Knights Templar. On October 13, 1307, all the Templars of France were arrested, including their Grand Master, Jacques de Molay. [Sound familiar? The young men's branch of Freemasonry is named the DeMolay Society after this Templar Grand Master!] In 1314 A.D., Jacques de Molay and Geoffrey de Charney (owner of the shroud, today called the Shroud of Turin) were burned at the stake. From that point on, the Knights seemed to vanish from the stage of history. Nevertheless, the order continues to exist.

The French Templars found a refuge in Scotland, where the group maintained itself as a coherent body for at least 400 years. They eventually developed into an organization called the Scottish Rite. Mormonism also has a philosophical connection to the order of the ancient Templars.

In the last century, Helena Blavatsky, founder of theosophy, spoke of an esoteric wisdom tradition running back through the Rosicrucians to the Knights Templar. The teachings of Helena Blavatsky can be best seen in the New Age Movement of today.

Toward the end of the 19th century a sinister Order of Templars was established in Germany and Austria employing the swastika as one of its emblems. At first it was known as the Thule Society but later changed its name to the Nazi party.

LET US NOT FORGET that the Order of the Knights Templar was, at first, only a front organization for a more secretive group known as the PRIORY of ZION, whose real purpose was to capture the wealth of the world, establish their own world government, and introduce a Merovingian king to sit upon a throne in Jerusalem. They are said to be the true possessors of the Temple treasury and the behind-the-scenes controllers of the world currencies.

Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the Day of the Lord has already come. Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that Day will not come until the apostasy, rebellion occurs and the man of sin, lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 2 Thessalonians 2

In 1979 Mr. Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire, the present [in 1991] Secretary General of the PRIORY of ZION, was interviewed in Paris, France by reporters from the BBC. When asked the question, "Does the Priory of Sion possess the treasures of the ancient Jewish Temple?", he said, "Yes, They will be returned to Jerusalem when the time is right." Pierre Plantard is himself a descendant of the Merovingian bloodline.

The PRIORY of ZION appears to be the guardians of a "holy bloodline" and the Holy Grail the holy bloodline being the lineage of Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail being the cup from which Jesus drank the Last Supper. The Holy Grail, therefore, was believed to contain the holy blood, or in a mystical sense, the holy bloodline from the "harlot" Magdalene.

We are told in Revelation 17 of a woman guiding the governments of the world and in her hand is seen a golden cup. It may well represent what I consider to be the unholy blood and the unholy grail.

I discovered on the internet that Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire died in 2000. I have not yet been able to find who took his place as Grand Master of the Priory, so you researchers out there are invited wholeheartedly to help trace this mystery. According to the FICTION written by Dan Brown in The DaVinci Code, the story ends with the discovery that the heroine (Sophie) learns about her true heritage as a descendant of the Merovingians.

"And so Langdon [the protagonist] had remained, standing beside Sophie and listening in mute astonishment while Marie told the story of Sophie's late parents. Incredibly, both had been from Merovingian families, direct descendants of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ. Sophie's parents and ancestors, for protection, had changed their family names of Plantard and Saint-Claire. Their children represented the most direct surviving royal bloodline and therefore were carefully guarded by the Priory." (The DaVinci Code, Chapter 105, page 442)

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