Authors: Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, Richard Leigh
ISBN-13: 9780440136484, ISBN-10: 0440136482
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: January 1983
Edition: Reissue
Michael Baigent was born in New Zealand in 1948 and obtained a degree in psychology from Canterbury University. At one point he gave up a successful career in photojournalism to devote his time to researching the Templars for a film project. Since 1976 he has lived in England.
Richard Leigh is a novelist and short-story writer with postgraduate degrees in comparative literature and a thorough knowledge of history, philosophy, psychology, and esoterica. He has been working for some years as a university lecturer in the United States, Canada, and Britain.
Henry Lincoln is an author and filmmaker and has written for television.
Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?
According to the authors of this extraordinarily provocative, meticulously researched book, not only are these things possible they are probably true! so revolutionary, so original, so convincing, that the most faithful Christians will be moved; here is the book that has sparked worldwide controversey.
Introduction | 23 | |
Part 1 | The Mystery | |
1 | Village of Mystery | 31 |
Rennes-le-Chateau and Berenger Sauniere | 31 | |
The Possible Treasures | 39 | |
The Intrigue | 43 | |
2 | The Cathars and the Great Heresy | 48 |
The Albigensian Crusade | 49 | |
The Siege of Montsegur | 55 | |
The Cathar Treasure | 57 | |
The Mystery of the Cathars | 61 | |
3 | The Warrior-Monks | 64 |
Knights Templar--The Orthodox Account | 65 | |
Knights Templar--The Mysteries | 78 | |
Knights Templar--The Hidden Side | 86 | |
4 | Secret Documents | 96 |
Part 2 | The Secret Society | |
5 | The Order Behind the Scenes | 111 |
The Mystery Surrounding the Foundation of the Knights Templar | 115 | |
Louis VII and the Prieure de Sion | 118 | |
The "Cutting of the Elm" at Gisors | 119 | |
Ormus | 121 | |
The Prieure at Orleans | 125 | |
The "Head" of the Templars | 126 | |
The Grand Masters of the Templars | 127 | |
6 | The Grand Masters and the Underground Stream | 131 |
Rene d'Anjou | 136 | |
Rene and the Theme of Arcadia | 138 | |
The Rosicrucian Manifestos | 141 | |
The Stuart Dynasty | 145 | |
Charles Nodier and His Circle | 150 | |
Debussy and the Rose-Croix | 127 | |
Jean Cocteau | 157 | |
The Two John XXIIIs | 159 | |
7 | Conspiracy Through the Centuries | 162 |
The Prieure de Sion in France | 164 | |
The Dukes of Guise and Lorraine | 166 | |
The Bid for the Throne of France | 171 | |
The Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement | 173 | |
Chateau Barberie | 177 | |
Nicolas Fouquet | 178 | |
Nicolas Poussin | 180 | |
Rosslyn Chapel and Shugborough Hall | 183 | |
The Pope's Secret Letter | 184 | |
The Rock of Sion | 185 | |
The Catholic Modernist Movement | 187 | |
The Protocols of Sion | 190 | |
The Hieron du Val d'Or | 195 | |
8 | The Secret Society Today | 201 |
Alain Poher | 204 | |
The Lost King | 205 | |
Curious Pamphlets in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris | 207 | |
The Catholic Traditionalists | 210 | |
The Convent of 1981 and Cocteau's Statutes | 214 | |
M. Plantard de Saint-Clair | 220 | |
The Politics of the Prieure de Sion | 227 | |
9 | The Long-haired Monarchs | 234 |
Legend and the Merovingians | 234 | |
The Bear from Arcadia | 237 | |
The Sicambrians Enter Gaul | 239 | |
Merovee and His Descendants | 239 | |
Blood Royal | 241 | |
Clovis and His Pact with the Church | 242 | |
Dagobert II | 245 | |
The Usurpation by the Carolingians | 253 | |
The Exclusion of Dagobert II from History | 257 | |
Prince Guillem de Gellone, Comte de Razes | 259 | |
Prince Ursus | 261 | |
The Grail Family | 265 | |
The Elusive Mystery | 269 | |
10 | The Exiled Tribe | 271 |
Part 3 | The Bloodline | |
11 | The Holy Grail | 283 |
The Legend of the Holy Grail | 285 | |
The Story of Wolfram von Eschenbach | 292 | |
The Grail and Cabalism | 303 | |
The Play on Words | 305 | |
The Lost Kings and the Grail | 306 | |
The Need to Synthesize | 309 | |
The Hypothesis | 313 | |
12 | The Priest-King Who Never Ruled | 316 |
Palestine at the Time of Jesus | 322 | |
The History of the Gospels | 327 | |
The Marital Status of Jesus | 330 | |
The Wife of Jesus | 333 | |
The Beloved Disciple | 338 | |
The Dynasty of Jesus | 344 | |
The Crucifixion | 347 | |
Who Was Barabbas? | 350 | |
The Crucifixion in Detail | 352 | |
The Scenario | 357 | |
13 | The Secret the Church Forbade | 360 |
The Zealots | 369 | |
The Gnostic Writings | 378 | |
14 | The Grail Dynasty | 383 |
Judaism and the Merovingians | 387 | |
The Principality in Septimania | 389 | |
The Seed of David | 395 | |
15 | Conclusion and Portents for the Future | 398 |
Appendix | The Alleged Grand Masters of the Prieure de Sion | 415 |
Bibliography | 439 | |
Notes and References | 449 | |
Index | 477 |