By Laurence Gardner
From the best-selling writer of The Bloodline of the Holy Grail and misplaced secrets and techniques of the Sacred Ark comes an explosive old detective tale featuring mystery information at the mysterious lifetime of Mary Magdalene, the hidden lineage of Jesus and Mary, and the true two-thousand-year-old conspiracy regarding the total background of Christianity. Mary Magdalene is defined within the New testomony as Jesus' shut spouse -- a lady he enjoyed and his monetary sponsor. And but, against this, the Church teaches that she was once a prostitute who turned repentant. Why the discrepancy among scripture and dogma? Why does Mary attraction so romantically to artists who've painted her in the course of the centuries as anything even more major than the Church frequently portrays? what's the mystery of Mary Magdalene and what sort of will we particularly learn about her courting with Jesus? have been they married? Did they've got youngsters, and if this is the case, who makes up the messianic lineage?Laurence Gardner takes us on a detective path to piece jointly the real debatable value of the Magdalene tale and its striking implications. those comprise the genuine da Vinci connection -- the real which means at the back of Leonardo da Vinci's work and why the Renaissance Church censored portrayals of the Magdalene -- and knowledge at the sacred marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Plus the reality in regards to the enigmatic Templar society referred to as the Priory of Scion and the underground circulate that secure the sacred historical past of the messianic descendents. and lots more and plenty extra!
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The red wine of the Eucharist is the eternal Christian symbol of Messianic blood, and it is in this context that the Grail's representations as both a chalice and a vine coincide. The age-old ceremony of the Grail is precisely that which is still performed as a communion ritual in churches today. The Holy Sacrament is fully synonymous with the ancient Mass of the Holy Grail. It is for this reason that, in terms of allegorical fine art, Jesus has often been painted in conjunction with a wine-press.
In his 1st-century Wars of the Jews, Josephus recorded that around 40,000 people lived there at that time. 14 Subsequently, he related, about 6,500 of them were slaughtered in the great land and sea battles that ensued against the Roman troops of General Flavius Titus. 15 As with Magdal Nunaiya, many other Gospel locations are cited with different names. This can lead to confusion at times, but arose by virtue of a multicultural linguistic tradition with places named in Hebrew,' Greek, Syrian, Latin, or even by way of descriptive local custom.
Priests wanted to be married; women wanted to become priests; bishops wanted to become regional popes; people claimed the acceptable rights of birth control and divorce. Meanwhile, as the Bishop of Rome, John was unremitting in the attendance of his diocese, visiting hospitals, prisons and schools - acting as no other Pope had ever done before. He was certainly popular with the people, but he was equally unpopular with elements of a Church hierarchy that was fast losing its power base under his command.
