The Merovingian Mythos And the Mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau By Tracy R. Twyman © 2004 Quintessential Publications All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced in any for or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. 2 Acknowledgements I would like to extend thanks to Brian Albert, Martin Lunn, Nicholas de Vere, Amy Keller (for the Le Serpent Rouge translation), George Moshanas, Tim Madison, the producers of Fox Television, and everyone else who kindly lent their assistance. All graphics were retouched by Brian Albert. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Illustrations___________________________________________________________7 Chapter One: The Enigma______________________________________________24 The Accursed Treasure _______________________________________________24 What is the Holy Grail?_______________________________________________39 A Stone _________________________________________________________40 A Cup __________________________________________________________42 Mystical Union ___________________________________________________43 Bodily Secretions _________________________________________________44 The Ark_________________________________________________________46 Blood Royale_____________________________________________________48 The Albigensian Crusade______________________________________________56 The Knights Templar_________________________________________________60 The Templar Conspiracy ______________________________________________79 The Priory of Sion ___________________________________________________84 Chapter Two: The Underground Stream__________________________________99 Nicolas Flamel______________________________________________________99 Rene d’Anjou______________________________________________________104 Iolande de Bar _____________________________________________________111 Sandro Filipepi_____________________________________________________112 Leonardo da Vinci__________________________________________________113 The Campaign Against the House of Valois ______________________________115 Nostradamus_______________________________________________________116 Robert Fludd ______________________________________________________118 The Fronde and the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrament________________________120 Johann Valentin Andrea and the Rosicrucians_____________________________124 Chateau Barberie ___________________________________________________128 Nicolas Poussin and Nicolas Fouquet ___________________________________128 Robert Boyle ______________________________________________________133 Isaac Newton ______________________________________________________137 Charles Radclyffe and the Scottish Rite__________________________________141 Charles de Lorraine _________________________________________________147 Shugborough Hall __________________________________________________149 Charles Nodier_____________________________________________________151 The Catholic Modernist Movement_____________________________________156 Victor Hugo_______________________________________________________159 Claude Debussy____________________________________________________161 The Protocols of Sion and the Hieron du Val d’Or _________________________165 Jean 23___________________________________________________________171 Chapter Three: A Hermetic Freemasonry________________________________188 Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair__________________________________________193 Vaincre and the French Resistance _____________________________________197 Charles de Gaulle and the Committees of Public Safety _____________________204 C.I.R.C.U.I.T______________________________________________________209 4 The United States of Europe __________________________________________212 The Knights of Jerusalem and the Knights of Malta ________________________218 Chapter Four: The Golden Age_________________________________________227 The Ancient Origins of Christianity_____________________________________227 The Gods of the Sea_________________________________________________232 The Divine Battle___________________________________________________238 The Origins of Civilization ___________________________________________247 The Legacy of Cain _________________________________________________269 The Jehovahite Cover-Up ____________________________________________276 The Luciferian Legacy_______________________________________________279 The Secret Doctrine_________________________________________________295 Chapter Five: Descendants of the Devil __________________________________302 An Attempt at Antediluvian History ____________________________________302 The Fallen Race____________________________________________________327 The Heresies of Christ_______________________________________________335 The Merovingian Mythos_____________________________________________362 Chapter Six: The Hidden Stone_________________________________________370 V.I.T.R.I.O.L______________________________________________________370 Et in Arcadia Ego___________________________________________________386 The Venusberg and the Tomb of Hercules________________________________396 The Lord of the Mountain ____________________________________________400 House of God, Gateway to Heaven _____________________________________405 The Language of Light_______________________________________________417 Jacob’s Ladder_____________________________________________________433 The Stone, the Ark, and the Temple_____________________________________439 Jacob’s Stone, Judah, and the British Connection__________________________443 The Satanic Secrets of Rennes-le-Chateau________________________________449 Chapter Seven – The Enigma Decoded___________________________________467 Unanswered Questions_______________________________________________467 The City of the Alpha________________________________________________475 Dagobert II: The Return of the King ____________________________________487 Sauniere’s Saga Revisited ____________________________________________491 The Priory of Sion: The Next Generation ________________________________513 Only for the Initiated ________________________________________________521 Appendix A: The Satanic Calendar _____________________________________524 Appendix B: Le Serpent Rouge Interpreted_______________________________544 Appendix C: Le Hieron du Val d’Or_____________________________________578 The Devotion of the Sacred Heart ______________________________________582 Notes from the Translator ____________________________________________584 Bibliography ________________________________________________________590 5 Index_______________________________________________________________609 6 Illustrations Figure 1: The symbol for “Ormus” used by the Priory of Sion. Figure 2: Parchment One. Figure 3: Parchment Two. Figure 4: The statue of Asmodeus at Rennes-le-Chateau. Photo by Tracy Twyman. Figure 5: The Tour Magdala. Photo by Tracy Twyman. Figure 6: The design on the tomb of Marie de Blanchefort. Figure 7: The Shepherds of Arcadia, by Nicolas Poussin. (c)Louvre/(Museum)/Paris/France. Reunion des Musees Nationaux/Art Resource, NY. Figure 8: The Black Sun in Cocteau’s Notre Dame mural. Photo by Tim Madison. Figure 9: The Nazi symbol for the Black Sun. Figure 10: Illustration from Vaincre depicting the “United States of the West.” Figure 11: The ancient fish-god Dagon. 7 Figure 12: Dagon wearing the fish hat upon which the papal miter is based. Figure 13: The Sumerian god-king Ea enthroned in the “Absu, or “Watery Abyss.” Figure 14: The Fibonacci Spiral. Figure 15: The Emerald Tablet of Hermes engraved on the side of a mountain. From Henry Khunrath’s Ampitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, 1609. Figure 16: Horus entombed within a mountain or pyramid lit by an inner sun. Figure 17: The alchemical seal featured on Sauniere’s bookplate. Figure 18: The Sacred Heart, as illustrated in Secret Dossiers. It is said to depict an “Egyptian amulet” that can be seen at the “Museum at Rennes.” Figure 19: The illustration of “le Poulpe” (“the Octopus”), from Secret Dossiers. 8 The Statue of Asmodeus at the church in Rennes-le-Chateau. Photo by Tracy Twyman. 9 The Nazi symbol for the Black Sun 10