Authors: Laurence Gardner
ISBN-13: 9781931412926, ISBN-10: 1931412928
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: REV
Laurence Gardner, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, is a constitutional historian, international lecturer and broadcaster.
From royal and suppressed archives comes documented proof of the heritage of Jesus in the West and the long awaited discovery of the Holy Grail. In fulfilling this time-honored quest, penetrating new light is cast upon the Grail Code of Service and the venerated feminine element, upheld in chivalry but forsaken by the Church in order to forge a male dominated society.
This unique work offers revelatory insight concerning the descendant heirs of Jesus and his brother James while, in documenting a hidden legacy of the Messiah, it unveils hitherto guarded facts about characters such as Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea. Tracing the sacred lineage through centuries of persecution and Inquisition, Bloodline of the Holy Grail reveals a systematic suppression of authentic records and a strategic manipulation of the New Testament Gospels.
Featuring all the charm and adventure of Arthurial romance, coupled with enthralling Rosicrucian and Templar disclosures, this extraordinary work has a cutting edge of intrigue that removes the established blanket of enigma to expose one of the greatest conspiracies ever told.
Laurence Gardner, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, is a constitutional historian, international lecturer and broadcaster.
One of the most important developments of the last 50 years in religious studies has been the emergence of suppressed and forgotten texts and lore. A flood of new archeological knowledge and newly discovered ancient texts sheds unexpected light on the traditions of Christian worship. Into this flood, Gardner, who holds the office of the Jacobite Historiographer Royal of the Royal House of Stewart, would like to inject yet another revelation: the bloodline of Jesus Christ. According to Gardner, Jesus married Mary Magdalene, and she was pregnant with his child when he was crucified at Qumran, not Golgotha as it is usually thought. Mary delivered a male child before she and her son were spirited out of Palestine to France, where she died. This child became the scion of an amazing genealogy that terminatessurprisein the House of Stuart. Furthermore, that house did not expire but flourishes to this day. This book is an amazing patchwork of scholarly trappings and dizzy tomfoolery stitched together with myth and fable until it fabricates the amazing argument that indeed the Crown of England properly belongs to the Line of David through Jesus Christ himself. This is exhilarating fantasy worthy of a great romantic novel. (Oct.)
List of Plates | ||
List of Maps | ||
List of Charts | ||
List of Diagrams and Illustrations | ||
Picture Credits | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Foreword | ||
1 | Origins of the Bloodline | |
2 | In the Beginning | |
3 | Jesus, Son of Man | |
4 | The Early Mission | |
5 | Jesus the Messiah | |
6 | Betrayal and Crucifixion | |
7 | The Resurrection | |
8 | The Bloodline Continues | |
9 | Mary Magdalene | |
10 | Joseph of Arimathea | |
11 | Religion and the Bloodline | |
12 | Elements of Arthurian Lore | |
13 | Intrigue Against the Bloodline | |
14 | Temple of the Grail | |
15 | Guardians of the Grail | |
16 | Rise of the House of Stewart | |
17 | The Age of Chivalry | |
18 | Heresy and Inquisition | |
19 | House of the Unicorns | |
20 | The Sangreal Today | |
Notes and References | ||
App I | Three Tables of the Grail | |
App II | Music of the Grail | |
App III | Grail Cards of the Tarot Major Arcana | |
App IV | America before Columbus | |
App V | Additional Genealogical Tables and Charts | |
Bibliography | ||
Index |