posted on Jan, 3 2009 @ 06:59 AM
Howdy Tankthinker,
I have reviewed your presentation on tinWiki.org and while I found it highly interesting, I unfortunately found it not fully convincing, just as is
the case with most of the material regarding the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. This is not to say that I totally disagree with you.
After all, Leonardo da Vinci has been listed as a Grand Master of the controversial Priory of Sion and undoubtedly had a great knoledge of esoteric
and occult matters. I do believe that he was trying to pass along such information in his famous painting The Last Supper. Having visited in the
Languedoc region of southern France and even been shown the cave where local tradition claims Mary Magdalene lived after fleeing Palestine with
Jesus' children, I think the evidence for a relationship between the two is compelling. For, after all, Jesus was repeatedly called "Rabbi," a
title granted only to married men. Furthermore, I find such belief does not greatly interfere with my views of Jesus and I was brought up in a
fundamental Christian church. There are critics of the Priory of Sion story who claim the group was nonexistent until the name first appeared publicly
in the 1950s. Critics claim the documents first pertaining the Priory were introduced into the French Bibliothèque Nationale in 1967 by Pierre
Plantard with the help of a Philippe de Cherisey and a Gerard de Sede. It is claimed that in the 1990s all three Frenchmen admitted they had made up
the entire Priory story. However, researchers have found at least one charter for the Ordre de Sion at Orleans from King Louis VII along with a Papal
Bull confirming the Order’s possessions dating back to 1178. Some believe many documents pertaining to the Order were destroyed when Orleans was
bombed by the Germans in 1940. Furthermore, Plantard made it plain that a decision to go public by Priory masters was rescinded in the light of
growing controversy over their long-hidden secrets. If this was the case, it is no wonder that Plantard and the others recanted their story and tried
to paint the whole issue as a hoax. Obviously, much further work will have to be done in this controversial area before any definitive truth can be
established.
Jim Marrs