The British researcher and author Philip Gardiner has released his latest foray into the dark and sinister world of secret sects. The new book and dvd are called Secret Societies: Gardiner’s Forbidden Knowledge, Revelations About the Freemasons, Templars, Illuminati, Nazis, and the Serpent Cults.Among startling revelations are previously unknown links between the Vatican and the Nazi Party. He discusses in-depth the threads running from the secret organizations of centuries ago to the living cults and cabals of today, and their influence on our minds and our ways of life.

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A motion picture of the popular video game series Broken Sword is under way. Legendary video game creator Charles Cecil and his company Revolution Software are teaming with a Hollywood production company to transform his adventure games into live action films. Beginning with The Shadow of the Templars, released in the U.S. as The Circle of Blood, the films will follow the adventurous duo of George Stobbart and Nico Collard as they battle evil forces across the globe for ancient relics of power touching on many of the themes related to the mystery of Rennes-le-Château like the Ark of the Covenant, the Knights Templar and Glastonbury.

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The website of Rex-Mundi is at the forefront of the large online archives on Rennes-le-Château with tons of great and sometimes truely original content. Go have a look at their new collection of 19th century French books about the Templars, Philippe le Bel and the Albigensean crusade. Amazing.

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Perhaps the answer to the Rennes-le-Château mystery, lies in the layout of Sauniere’s revamped church, and other buildings. The village church had been dedicated to the Mary Magdalene in 1059; during the restoration. Bérenger Saunière is said to have found the mysterious parchments in a hollow Visigothic pillar underneath the altar stone. Or any object underneath the sealed slab (The Knights Stone) covering the entrance to a crypt.

St Mary Magdalen’s Church- “Sub Rosa”

A statue of the demon Asmodeus stands guard by the door, plaques depicting the Stations of the Cross contain bizarre inconsistencies that you will never see in any other church. There is a child swathed in Scottish plaid, whilst Pontius Pilate is seen sporting a veil. Joseph and Mary are each depicted holding a child each, (does this imply Jesus had a twin?). Other statues are of more esoteric representations of saints in strange postures many crouching. St. Roch displays a wounded thigh, St. Anthony holds a closed book, St. Germaine releases a torrents of roses from her apron, and the Mary Magdalene is shown holding a vase (vessel). The rose-line symbolism is all over the place in this mystery. In the Middle Ages, the rose was a symbol of esotericism- “Sub Rosa” means to do something in secret. The Templars’ cross pattee was a red or rose cross. This further suggest a link with the Knights Templars and the Saunière Affair, at least at some point in time.

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The Ark of the Covenant (ארון הברית in Hebrew: aron habrit) is described in the Hebrew Bible as a sacred container, wherein rested the stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments as well as other sacred Israelite objects. The Ark was built at the command of God, in accord with Moses’ prophetic vision on Mount Sinai (Exodus 25:9-10). Its primary function was for God to communicate with Moses, also to give detailed instructions about what was good and what was forbidden, “from between the two cherubim” on the Ark’s cover (Exodus 25:22). The Ark and its sanctuary were “the beauty of Israel” (Lamentations 2:1). Rashi and some Midrashim suggest that there were two arks - a temporary one made by Moses, and a later one made by Bezalel (Hertz 1936).

During the journeys of the Israelites, the Ark was carried by the priests in advance of the people and their army or host (Numbers 4:5, 6; 10:33-36; Psalms 68:1; 132:8). When the Ark was borne by priests into the bed of the Jordan, the river was separated, opening a pathway for the whole of the host to pass over (Joshua 3:15, 16; 4:7, 10, 11, 17, 18). The Ark was moreover borne in the procession around Jericho (Josh. 6:4, 6, 8, 11, 12). When carried, the Ark was always wrapped in a veil, in tachash skins (the identity of this animal is uncertain), and a blue cloth, and was carefully concealed, even from the eyes of the Levites who carried it. Source Wiki

Another theory put forward is that The Knights Templars had gained possession of one of The Ark of the Covenant’s (as there are believed to have been two, the others location is thought to be in a remote heavily guarded place in Africa) and due to unrest, wars and political problems had hidden it away and left it in the safe keeping of The Priory of Sion members, at Rennes-le-Château. Saunière, having unearthed it may have obtained a vast sum of money from The Vatican, to take possession of the famed and important object

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