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Review of Inside Secret Societies S01E05 "The Priory of Sion"

6/21/2016

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I’m sure you will all be thrilled to hear that the newest issue of Wayne May’s Ancient American carries the first of a six-part series by J. Hutton Pulitzer on the allegedly “Roman” sword of Oak Island. This means that the sword articles will continue for the next 12 months since the magazine is bimonthly. The first entry in the series does not contain information about the sword, but it does describe Pulitzer’s self-satisfaction with his world-historical role, his upset at being mistreated by the Curse of Oak Island television show, and the fact that “Oak Island Is The Single Most Important Tipping Point In Modern History,” as he capitalizes it. The article was just icky in its narcissistic tone, in its airing of scuttlebutt against Oak Island (implying, for example, that local women throw themselves as the Lagina Brothers), and its claim that Nova Scotia has a “culture of stupidity” that discriminates against outsiders.
At the same time, Pulitzer released his latest self-congratulatory LinkedIn screed in which he explains how the Rodney King riots led him to make millions by signing on to produce Susan Powter’s diet and exercise videos. According to Pulitzer himself, she found him off-putting and the “most egotistical person I have ever met in my life.” Her team agreed to work with Pulitzer anyway, until the partnership collapsed among mutual recriminations. He then confessed to an ongoing sexual attraction to Powter, and how he married her “nemesis” while continuing to harbor an attraction for her. “I made royalty checks which arrived in the mail each month for years and years,” he bragged. The lesson he took from it—sadly—is that you, too, can get rich off other people’s work while remaining an arrogant jerk.
 
Now I’m going to burn a few bridges by criticizing the American Heroes Channel, the Discovery-owned network that airs Codes and Conspiracies, the program on which I appeared last year. AHC is also the American outlet for Britain’s America Unearthed rip-off show Forbidden History, and the network is so pleased with the fringe-celebrating pack of misinformation and lies that they commissioned the producers of the program at Like A Shot Entertainment, Ltd. in England to produce a companion series, Inside Secret Societies, in which fringe history’s C-list pontificate about secret societies both real and imagined.
 
So why would AHC, formerly a cable channel that distinguished itself from the History Channel and its own corporate cousin Destination America by focusing on facts, double down on misinformation, distortions, and lies? Ratings and money, obviously. We all knew it was a PR stunt with Discovery Communications announced that it was turning its back on fringe history and fake documentaries. That turned out to be a smokescreen; the ban applied only to the flagship Discovery Channel while the parent company simply moved the worst of their programming to Destination America, the Science Channel, and Animal Planet. Now AHC, on the strength of Forbidden History, a program they imported from Britain, is making more of the same. According to the production company’s website, the financial reasons for making a program like this are obvious: The program can be sold and resold around the world, and chopped into pieces for reuse in newish recycled programming. In short, they say, fringe history programs (“factual entertainment TV” as they call it) provide the network with “a balance of reducing risk on upfront capital and maximizing the upside return.”
 
Now that is an honest tagline AHC should use: “Reducing Risk on Upfront Capital through Factual Entertainment.”
 
Most of the episodes of the series hold little interest for me, but fifth episode of the six-episode series covered the Priory of Sion, the fake organization created in the twentieth century by a French hoaxer that ended up tied to the Holy Bloodline Conspiracy. The episode was very strange in that it selectively edits its conspiracy theorist “experts” to make them say things on both sides of the controversy until the show becomes an incoherent exercise in trying to have it both ways.
 
So what does this series have to say about the Priory of Sion? Well, Heretic magazine publisher Andrew Gough shows up and at first is made to say that the priory dates back to the Crusades, and some others talk of its “treasure” as the body of Jesus Christ. The narrator made me laugh when he ignorantly called the 1982 nonfiction bestseller Holy Blood, Holy Grail a “novel” of the 1970s—while showing the book’s cover flap, which says in plain type that it was “first published in 1982.” The writer of the show seems uncertain what a “novel” is, which is oddly a rather modern problem. Since the turn of the century, professors have reported that college students have started calling any lengthy prose work a “novel” regardless of whether it is fiction or nonfiction. For Millennials, “novel” seems to now mean “long and boring book.”
 
Chris Hodapp, who is himself a Masonic-Templar conspiracy theorist, explained that Holy Blood, Holy Grail derives from French works on the Prior of Sion—he doesn’t admit they are hoaxes—but seems unaware that Pierre Plantard’s French conspiracy claims about the marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and their subsequent child come from a French conspiracy theory put forward by Louis Martin in The Gospels without God in 1887. As you can see from the translated chapter I provide, it was based on no factual evidence. The show does not acknowledge that another of its “experts” in the Holy Bloodline, Alice von Kannon, a self-described “greedy and villainous landlord” and Grail-Templar conspiracy theorist, is not an independent expert but the writing partner of Chris Hoddap. Nor does it acknowledge that von Kannon, author of The Templar Code for Dummies, belongs to a Holy Grail conspiracy theory fan club called the Order of the Grail.
 
The two provide a summary of the case for a married Jesus that uses points taken virtually verbatim from 1850s-era Mormon arguments for a married Christ, including the allegation that the Wedding at Cana was that of Jesus himself.
 
Because this program is looking to “maximize the upside return,” much of the material in this hour is clearly based on the same research that appeared in the Forbidden History episodes on the same topics.
 
That’s why we have Forbidden History​ regular Andrew Gough show up to ask whether the Prior of Sion and the Bloodline descendants of Christ “control our governments.” Gough admits to understanding that Pierre Plantard was a fraud who wanted to make a claim to be the rightful king of France, but Gough won’t admit that Plantard made the whole thing up. He knows that Plantard either made it up or was privy to a real secret, but “I don’t know which I believe,” he said. (He would say other things before the end of the hour.)
 
This leads to a review of the so-called “mystery” of Rennes-le-Chateau, a modern conspiracy invented in the middle twentieth century. The overlapping conspiracy theories range from allegations that Jesus or Mary Magdalene is buried within or under the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, or that the Jewish Temple treasures were buried there, or the treasure of the Templars, etc. No evidence of any Holy Bloodline or Temple treasure conspiracy ever turned up, but the redecorated Victorian-era church created room for conspiracy theories because of its large statue of the devil and a depiction of Mary Magdalene in Rennes on its altar. (These church statues were ordered from the catalog of Giscard of Toulouse—yes, conspiracy items can be ordered from a catalog!) The altar shows Mary in a cave beside a grave, which seems to quite clearly refer back to local southern French legends that the Magdalene came to France, as given in the Golden Legend and earlier medieval texts. But Holy Bloodline conspiracy theorists think that the picture shows Christ’s grave, pretty much as Louis Martin imagined it in 1887.
 
Now, here’s what’s interesting: The priest who redecorated Rennes-le-Chateau, François-Bérenger Saunière, did so from 1887 onward. He was apparently an indifferent Catholic, and not above selling masses for cash to fund his lavish lifestyle. It is just possible (though no evidence exists) that he was aware of the controversy in the French press over Louis Martin’s book, or even that he read Louis Martin’s book, and actually did incorporate material from it into his redecoration of his church, either out of his own bemusement or because he considered it to be the “true” history of the Magdalene in southern France. If that were the case, it would be hilarious (and sad) that Martin’s fact-free pseudohistory inspired the symbolism that “proves” the conspiracy. Either way, the art in Rennes-le-Chateau postdates Louis Martin’s account of the same alleged conspiracy.
 
After this, the show interviews a man who claims to be a member of the Priory of Sion, and a spokesman for the Priory, but the producers make no effort to confirm the story. Indeed, the “spokesman” says he isn’t allowed to give any details about the Priory, and he evinces no knowledge of it not already in the hoax documents created by Pierre Plantard. 
 
Having given the show’s resident “experts” enough rope to hang themselves in vouching for the reality of the Priory of Sion, the show then begins to backtrack and undo its own argument. It then allows each expert to contradict himself by revealing that he knows that the whole story was put forth by a fraud and a fake who lied his way to fame.
 
In so doing it introduces us to Jean-Luc Chaumeil, who says he worked with Plantard to fabricate the Priory of Sion documents. “If there are no (real) parchments, there is no story,” Chaumeil said. (The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, allege that Chaumeil is openly hostile to them and trying to harm their claims.) Hodapp and Gough both admit to knowing that Plantard was a fraud—despite how the show edited them for the first two-thirds of the show—and the show treats its viewers like idiots.
 
The program then recycles content from Forbidden History about alleged later Holy Bloodline conspirators, all postdating the publication of Holy Bloodline conspiracy theories and therefore no evidence of anything. The narrator tells us that there is a “growing acceptance” that the Church has lied about the life of Christ and that a “more humane figure” is needed to replace Christ as the head of Christianity. These are debatable as facts but in keeping with the show’s only consistent point: that popular belief is more important than objective truth.
 
Rob Howells, a British esoteric conspiracy theorist, opines that the Priory isn’t just real but is dedicated to forwarding the “evolution of mankind,” through overturning religious dogma and overturning social rules and constraints.
 
By the end of the show, most of the talking heads have been on both sides of the issue, and the narrator, Huey Morgan, says that the program’s position is that it’s “probably” true that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and was buried in Rennes-le-Chateau. He claims that the Priory’s “greatest trick” is to bury the truth under a wave of intentional falsehoods so that only those who make “a leap of faith” through Holy Blood, Holy Grail or The Da Vinci Code will know the truth. In testament to the show’s bad writing, Morgan’s narration then declares these statements that he just presented as a probability to be “a modern urban legend,” which both contradicts the preceding lines and is factually false since an urban legend is, by conventional definition, not the product of an intentional historical hoax or spread through pseudo-scholarly texts. 
30 Comments
Time Machine
6/21/2016 12:04:35 pm

The French themselves have disowned this story for a long time. French conspiracy theorist Christian Doumergue even debunks this story in his latest book. Although he's got an irrational addiction to Jesus Christ visiting France with his wife Mary Magdalene,

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Only Me
6/21/2016 12:21:24 pm

Ninth paragraph: "married Chris" should be Christ

*Sigh* Now AHC is into the fringe business. Forbidden History sounds disappointing, to say the least.

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Jason Colavito link
6/21/2016 01:58:02 pm

I fixed the typo. Thanks.

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Durham
6/21/2016 01:44:46 pm

Pretty sure it's Susan Powter, not Susan Powder...

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Jason Colavito link
6/21/2016 01:56:21 pm

That's what I get for using Pulitzer's spelling. He can't even spell his own partners' names right.

Honestly, I was 10 when she was famous, so I barely even remembered her, let alone her name!

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Durham
6/21/2016 02:03:12 pm

At this point, EVERYTHING Pulitzer writes needs to be Googled for accuracy... because it is clear he never uses a search engine himself.

Boosh
6/21/2016 02:49:50 pm

It is Powter. You were correct, Jason.

Jason Colavito link
6/21/2016 03:02:54 pm

Bob -- I had to fix it because I used Pulitzer's spelling and he was wrong.

lurkster
6/21/2016 02:31:18 pm

Inside Secret Societies hasn't showed up on my cable provider yet and the AHC website doesn't stream vids for some odd reason. For a few months now, I've been trying to confirm the total number of episodes for season 1, as well as a rumor the finale is a "cult" episode that may or may not be Scientology. So if anyone can find an actual list of all the season 1 episodes from a trustworthy source, please share and TIA!

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Jason Colavito link
6/21/2016 03:06:46 pm

The information I have is that episode 6 was the second part of the Holy Bloodline stupidity and went in search of the "Brotherhood of the Blood" who assassinate and perform other skullduggery to protect the descendants of Jesus. It apparently aired right after episode 5, but I don't have access to that episode.

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Jason Colavito link
6/21/2016 03:19:55 pm

Oh! It turns out my cable provider streams that episode. It looks like I'll have to review it tomorrow! It looks like a pack of lies!

lurkster
6/21/2016 03:44:06 pm

FWIW, DiscoveryGO appears to have multiple episodes up thru 6, but not the first two. And I did see two internet chitchat mentions following the first announcement of the show claiming 8 and 10 total episodes. But I couldn't confirm that anywhere reliable, and keyboard warrior emails to the production company got generic responses that would neither confirm or deny anything I asked about.

Jason Colavito link
6/21/2016 03:58:18 pm

The on-screen graphic during episode 5 said episode 6 was the season finale.

lurkster
6/21/2016 05:52:56 pm

Thanks Jason, that helps.

Shane Sullivan
6/21/2016 02:37:16 pm

Oh, I remember Susan Powter! When I was a kid, home from school sick one day, I was channel-surfing and came upon Susan Powter shouting at an audience about the nutrition value of Oscar Mayer bologna. Funny thing is, back then--I was six or seven--hair was a very important factor in how I distinguished people, so I thought was looking at Sinead O'Connor.

I also thought Brett Butler was Bo Derek for the same reason (Cornrows!), but that's neither here nor there.

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hal
6/21/2016 02:47:21 pm

My. Jason cites things from secondary sources without checking them or even referencing the source. Until he's caught.

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Kal
6/21/2016 02:47:50 pm

Okay now Pully is trying way too hard to be just all out bizarre, and yes, da Vinci Code did steal from Holy Blood, Holy Grail, but Brown had better lawyers, and won against an obvious copyright case in English law.

Pinnard is even stranger. He was clearly making stuff up there in France to make himself seem important, even Royal. What a crock.

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V
6/21/2016 08:09:02 pm

There was never any contest in that lawsuit; it was purely frivolous. No copyright law has anything in it that says you can't write a fiction book predicated on the premises put forth in a supposed non-fiction work. That's what's known as "transformative," after all. To win, the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail would have had to admit their book was a work of fiction.

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Time Machine
6/21/2016 08:18:57 pm

What made it ludicrous was that Liz Greene, Richard Leigh's sister, used the Jesus bloodline as an element in her 1980 novel "The Dreamer of the Vine" --- 23 years before the publication of "The Da Vinci Code" --- and Dan Brown could have used that in his defence.

Time Machine
6/21/2016 02:48:13 pm

Just watched the documentary. Concluded that the Priory of Sion believed in the marriage of Jesus Christ and that they were buried in the South of France. Since none of the guests said that, it must have been the opinion of the series producer.

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Killbuck
6/21/2016 03:00:00 pm

American Heroes Channel was once a decent channel that focused on real stories of heroic nature. Destination America too, once focused on Americana travel, offbeat destinations and regional cultural quirkiness.

Alas, they have fallen too. As soon as a channel goes to it's initials- AHC and and soon DA, it's a signal that content relevant to the original name is now off, and herein march the ghosts, the mountain monsters, the ufos, the illuminati, masons, knights templar, atlantis and brain flushing gobbledygook.

I suggest they adopt my list of initialed channel names. I challenge the readers here to seek their full names:

BSC or
BSCC
FHC
NHC
DOAC


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Bob Jase
6/21/2016 07:47:02 pm

First it was the History Channel, now its AHC. Won't somebody think about poor Adolph?

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Gunn link
6/21/2016 08:00:17 pm

Thank you, Jason, for revisiting the issue of the faked Jesus Bloodline. I think it's important to see how a portion of Scott Wolter's theory about the Kensington Runestone seems to have evolved while keeping some of the exposed “Dan Brown nonsense” intact. I don't see how this can be good for the KRS in any way.

His theory goes back to ancient Egypt in encapsulating the Hooked X, and he picked up the Sacred Feminine along the way. He seems to have then combined those two elements into his own version of the idea of a Jesus Bloodline, and then attached this convoluted religious viewpoint to the Knights Templar (at least to the leadership), and, consequently, to the Kensington Runestone...since he believes it was deposited by post-Knights Templar.

The problem I see for him at this point is that he is steadfastly contributing these ideas about the Hooked X and Sacred Feminine to the would-be maker of the KRS (as a probable Cistercian monk), but while also steadfastly incorporating Jesus Bloodline dogma into the religion of these mysterious post-Templars, via some of the typical Dan Brown nonsense that was hoaxed. Most serious researches got the point that the Jesus Bloodline concept was hoaxed, but other researchers (besides Wolter) continue to express views contrary to an exposed hoax. It seems that certain elements of the elaborate hoax present themselves, still, as irresistible dainty morsels for those who wish to perpetuate elements of a known hoax involving a so-called Holy Bloodline.

In my view, the Kensington Runestone should be looked at as a very real medieval memorial to ten real men who were massacred a day's travel north of Runestone Hill. I think we can assume that Christianity of some form was presented within the message of the KRS, via the expression of AVM. The Hooked X seems to be completely connected to the KRS (and the East Coast runestones) as an indication of who may have possibly deposited the KRS, almost certainly a Christian group using the runic Hooked X, but it is not at all certain that the group were post-Templars...just as much of the Henry Sinclair hypothesis is just that, a hypothetical theory.

The bottom line is that I don't like to see the simple message of the KRS overlooked, while searching for other complex meanings, and I don't like to see the KRS needlessly tarnished with what I consider to be blasphemy, either, as though the party of men who left it behind were baffled and confused about just who their spiritual Master was…salvation through a bloodline? So then, I'm hoping for better spiritual perspective and honesty, from both fringe historians and "real" historians alike, while we try to determine more about the identities of those who left the KRS behind in Minnesota, back in 1362.

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Time Machine
6/21/2016 08:20:57 pm

Are you back ?
Time to prepare the sleeping bag again.

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Chris Lovegrove
6/22/2016 05:02:55 am

I can't believe the the whole Priory of Sion thing is still doing the rounds after all these years. I find it even harder to believe, but somehow not a surprise, that people still give this hoax credence and accept it as truth even after the perpetrators admit they made it up! Absolutely mad.

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cort
6/23/2016 02:49:32 pm

The connection between Rennes le Chateau and the concept of Mary Magdalene is via the Merovingian blood of the family of Theodoric the Great who once ruled Septimania. Theodoric was not Merovingian but married into that blood as did his daughters. He eventually assured that his Visigothic family would control Septimania and this became their last bastion of influence when the Carolingian dynasty took over from them. The "true" part of the story involves the Treasure of Alaric which many suppose included items from the Temple Treasure taken from the Temple of Peace in when Alaric sacked Rome. This story would later involve Gala Placidia who is also associated in mystery (folklore) with the missing Temple Treasure. So yes it is all mythology but there are some solid historical events and people who could hint as to the truth of this legend. Theodoric himself is associated with "Aracadia" in a very real way. Emperor Zeno's wife. The influence of Emperors Arcadius and Honorius also looms in this story as they are also associated with Merovingian "Blood."

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Ron
6/24/2016 08:37:12 pm

That was all before Tintin and Captain Haddocks map was found to be marking Rennes me Chateau. And this is no joke.

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Cam Clayton
7/1/2016 10:25:26 pm

I believe that, like Ben Hammott, the Priory of Sion is intentionally making themselves look foolish in order to protect their secret.

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Bob Jase
7/2/2016 10:46:37 am

You know what really would have kept the Priory secret? Not planting any bogus documents for the public to find.

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Robert McCutcheon
7/3/2016 01:58:58 pm

"The AUTHORS of the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail allege that Chaumiel is openly hostile... etc" ? I'm afraid there's only one of the three authors still alive.

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