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An essential notion in the #1 New York Times bestseller The Da Vinci Code is the existence of an age-old French society, the Priory of Sion, whose task it is to protect Christs sacred bloodline. In The Sion Revelation, Picknett and Prince reveal the story of the Priory, taking readers on a highly significant, disturbing, and even alarming ride through history into an intriguing world where a great many uncomfortable facts will have to be faced, both religious and political.

Drawing on a wealth of astonishing evidence, they answer numerous questions that shroud this society, including:

  • Does the Priory actually exist or is the groups entire history an elaborate hoax?
    • Was Leonardo da Vinci really one of the Priorys Grand Masters?
    • What is the truth behind Pierre Plantard, the enigmatic French aristocrat who claimed to be a Priory Grand Master -- and who some claim was a Nazi sympathizer?
    • Could the Priory be a front for other occult societies in Europe with religious or even political agendas?

      By carefully untangling centuries of obfuscation, rumor, and documented fact, The Sion Revelation unravels the great intricacies of this secret society and takes us on a historical journey that is as groundbreaking in its explanation as it is riveting in its telling.

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    Also by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince

    The Templar Revelation

    The Stargate Conspiracy

    Turin ShroudIn Whose Image?

    ALSO BYLYNNPICKNETT,CLIVEPRINCE,
    ANDSTEPHENPRIOR

    Double Standards

    War of the Windsors

    Friendly Fire

    ALSO BYLYNNPICKNETT

    Mary Magdalene: Christianitys Hidden Goddess

    The Secret History of Lucifer


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    Copyright 2006 by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Picknett, Lynn.

    The Sion revelation : the truth about the guardians of Christss sacred bloodline / Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince.

    p. cm.

    A Touchstone book.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    1. Prieur de Sion. 2. Secret societiesFrance. 3. Secret societiesReligious aspectsChristianity. 4. Jesus ChristCult. 5. Mary Magdalene, SaintCult. I. Prince, Clive. II. Title.

    HS254.P53 2006

    001.9dc22 2005054850

    ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-8870-5
    ISBN-10: 0-7432-8870-X

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    Acknowledgments

    Many friends and colleagues have contributed to the gestation, writing, and production of this book. We would like to thank the following people especially:

    Craig Oakleywho shared our experiences from the beginning and for being a devoted friend through good times and bad.

    Jeffrey Simmonsfor being our agent and our friend.

    Our friend and colleague the late Stephen Priorfor encouraging and supporting us and cheering this book on. And Francesca Prior for warm hospitality and friendship.

    At Simon & Schuster: Nancy Hancock, Sarah Peach, and Martha Schwartz.

    For help with research and information:

    Geoffrey Basil-Smith, Robert Brydon, Andrew Collins, Simon Cox, Nigel Foster, Giovanni, Jerry Jardine, Hannah R. Johnson, Joy and John Millar, Dr. Steven Mizrach, Guy Patton, Graham Phillips, Keith Prince, Rat Scabies, Mick Staley, and Caroline Wise.

    For support, encouragement, and help in various ways:

    Vida Adamoli, David Bell, Debbie Benstead, Bali Beskin, Geraldine Beskin, Ashley Brown, Jayne Burns, Yvan Cartwright, Karine Esparseil, Carina Fearnley, Stewart Ferris and Katia Milani, Charles and Annette Fowkes, Susan Hailstones, Sarah Litvinoff, Jane Lyle, Vera and Michael Moroney, Lily and David Prince, Lucy Smith, Lou Tate, Sheila and Eric Taylor, and Joe Webster, David Trotter, and the crew of the late lamented Edge (especially our own Society of AngelsLeda Kalleske, Jess Roper, and Daisy Lythe) for helping to restore sanity!

    And the staff of the British Library; the British Newspaper Library; the British Library of Political and Economic Science; St. Johns Wood Library; Institut Franais (London); Bibliothque Nationale, Paris; and The Information Service of the French Embassy in the United Kingdom.

    Introduction

    When we presented our discovery of the secret symbolism in Leonardo da Vincis paintings in our 1997 book, The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ, little did we realize that we were making a significant contribution to a remarkable phenomenon of the twenty-first century. Not only did our book directly inspire Dan Brown to weave his blockbuster The Da Vinci Code (2003) around the concept of da Vincis love of hidden heresies and dangerous codes, but we were taken aback to realize that in doing so we had also assisted at the birth of a new, impassioned wave of interest in the truth about the origins of Christianity.

    A central part of Browns fiction is the notion that there exists an age-old French society, the Priory of Sion, whose task it is to protect the sacred bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalenethe implications of which are truly shocking to those who remain true to the traditional teachings of the Church. The inevitable backlash against all the subjects raised in Browns book has seen the Priory of Sion roundly trounced, dismissed once and for all as a straightforward hoax.

    However, we became increasingly dissatisfied with either extremecomplete acceptance of everything claimed by or on behalf of the Priory or blanket dismissalfor two reasons. While there is evidence that the Priory is a modern creation, rather than the ancient and venerable secret society it is supposed to be, there is considerably more to it than a simple hoax. As our continuing research has found, the Priory really is important, but for rather different reasons.

    This has given us the golden opportunity to present our ongoing investigation into the Priory of Sion. And unexpectedly, we found this work converging with other, quite independent, lines of research, specifically those that led to our 1999 book, The Stargate Conspiracy, which dealt with a little-known but extremely influential politico-occult movement known as synarchy. As we delved into it even deeper, we found ourselves unexpectedly back in the underground stream that also sweeps the Priory of Sion along. Even the research for our book on the secret history of the Second World War, Friendly Fire: The Secret War Between the Allies (coauthored with the late Stephen Prior, and Robert Brydon, 2004), became surprisingly relevant, as certain power struggles in wartime France provide an important backdrop to The Sion Revelation.

    The second reason for our writing this book is much wider in scope, and to us more important: those who defend the traditional religious views against Dan Browns book argue that if they can prove the Priory of Sion is a hoax, then the deeper issuessuch as the reality of the forbidden gospels, the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and the centuries-long Church cover-up of such inconvenient evidence about the Christian religioncan also be condemned and dismissed. This is utter nonsense.

    Whatever else can be said about Browns book, it has brought some fundamental questions about spirituality and religion to a massive and even secular international audience and sparked off far-reaching debates. It has even been pointed out that it has revived on a grassroots level the same bitter debate that raged in the formative years of the Christian religion. The major split was between the two fundamentally different visions of the faith: the Gnostic view, in which the individual forges his or her own relationship with God and is therefore responsible for his or her own salvation, and the priest-led faction that became the Churchin which the Church alone holds the keys of the Kingdom. It is a battle that the Church believed long won, but now the fissure lines are reopening as the floor is cleared for either a new, informed debate or a fightand all due to the unlikely influence of an airport thriller!

    Obviously, for some reason and in some mysterious way, Dan Brown has tapped into the prevailing zeitgeist, but this phenomenon can only exist because people have a deep inner need to excavate beneath the traditional religious certainties. But Brown is by no means its only popular manifestation. J. K. Rowlings young wizard Harry Potter scintillates with Gnostic daring, andas many commentators point outthe movie series The Matrix draws directly on ancient Gnostic concepts, dressing them up as science fiction, with elements from the Priory of Sions mythos also having pride of place. While The Matrix s sacred city of Zion/Sion is not unique to Priory lore, it is hard to find another source for the character called the Merovingian.

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