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Review of "Templar Sanctuaries in North America" by William F. Mann (Part 3)

4/17/2016

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If you’ve been reading my reviews of William F. Mann’s Templar Sanctuaries in North America, you’ll recall that our author believes himself to be one of the last descendants of Henry Sinclair’s Grail Guardians, charged with protecting the Holy Bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene during its six-century exile near Mann’s home in Canada. (Technically, he believes himself a Grail Guardian, while his wife is an indirect descendant of Henry I Sinclair, and they both share early Sinclair/Norman DNA since he and his wife are distant relatives.) In the first half of his book, he probed European hoaxes and conspiracies for evidence of his exalted status. In the second half of the book, his attention shifts to North America.
He devotes most of a chapter to the southwestern United States, where he rehearses the history of various Puebloan peoples and then does almost nothing with the information, turning course and declaring that Brigham Young and the Mormons were in on the conspiracy, too, heirs to the secret Templar knowledge of archaeoastronomy. His argument, drawn from other conspiracy theorists, is that the golden tablets Joseph Smith uncovered at the founding of Mormonism were part of the Templar treasure, and he notices that the early Mormons argued vociferously that Jesus was married (and polygamous no less!), which he takes for confirmation of secret knowledge of the Holy Bloodline among the Mormons. This, he says, is the real reason Mormons are interested in genealogy: to track the descendants of Jesus for the Grail Guardians.
 
The next chapter begins with the assumption that Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney traveled to America repeatedly in the 1390s. Mann calls him Prince Henry, despite the noble holding no title higher than jarl in Norway and baron in Scotland; jarls ranked high in Norway, hence the title inflation. He uses this as a springboard to rehearse the history of the Vikings and the Normans in order to posit that Sinclair gained knowledge of the Americas from his Norman ancestors, who maintained it from the Vikings who reached Vinland in Canada in the 1000s. He supports this with no references to any of the primary sources about Sinclair, many of which I have read, in Latin. They don’t leave much room for this grand adventure, let alone several: He was known to be in Norway in 1389 and is said in the Sinclair Diploma of 1443 to have died in defense of Orkney sometime before 1401. If he made several transatlantic voyages, it is surprising that no one took notice of his absence for years at a time—especially since Henry would have been in his 50s at the time, and rather old for an arduous journey in that era. (That’s why racist conspiracy theorist Thomas Sinclair proposed that Henry II, thirty years his father’s junior, was the adventurer who traveled to America.)
 
Despite the lack of documentation, Mann claims to know not only Sinclair’s itinerary but also that the Cistercians accompanied him to America. He attributes this not to facts or evidence but to “logic and reason,” which produced for Mann proof “without a doubt.” This chapter then falls into hero worship as Mann extolls the virtues of Scott Wolter and uses his “expertise” to “prove” that Norse-Scottish Templars colonized America and left behind stones covered in runes, the most famous of which is the Kensington Rune Stone, Wolter’s hobbyhorse. Besides endorsing all of Wolter’s claims, Mann further speculates that the Mandan and other “Welsh” (or “White”) Indians were genetic proof of this expedition, a claim that predates Wolter but which also appears in his work.
 
Mann argues that Thomas Jefferson knew about the Templar treasure and that it was buried in Henry Sinclair’s Grail grave here in America. Lewis and Clark, Mann says, were dispatched to try to beat out other claimants to reach the cache first, leaving behind no record of any of this. Jefferson, Mann thinks, learned about Sinclair’s voyage while Minister to France, having partaken of the Freemasons’ secret records.
 
I wonder, though, if Mann ever read the Zeno Narrative he claims as proof of Sinclair’s voyage. It specifically states that Zichmni (the character Mann assumes to be Sinclair) explored Greenland and founded a city on an island near there. The Sinclair Diploma of Henry’s grandson said that he died while in residence on Orkney. Where, pray tell, is there room for a return to America and entombment therein?
 
As we start to move toward the end of the book, Mann brings in Freemason conspiracies involving Enoch, the Royal Arch, etc.—all the usual suspects, familiar from their appearance in previous Masonic conspiracy theories—which he tries to link to Cardinal Richelieu and through him to the anti-Habsburg French Grail Guardians. Need I even mention that the Sinclair family and Rosslyn Chapel enter into the story, too, in their usual Holy Bloodline conspiracy roles?
 
From here he backs up to retell the entire genealogy of the Merovingians and their rightful claim to be god kings by dint of sacred Jesus genes. It doesn’t matter though since Mann is so unfamiliar with primary sources that he could make this claim: “As early as the thirteenth century, the Cistercian monk and chronicler Peter of Vaux de Cernay, claimed it was part of Cathar belief that the earthly Jesus had a relationship with Mary Magdalene and that their descendants had survived as Merovingian royalty.” No, sorry, try again. Read it yourself: There is no mention of offspring of Merovingians. (Peter attributes to the Cathars the belief that God had many offspring, but this God isn’t Jesus.)
 
Forgive me for cutting a very long and boring argument short, but Mann breaks away from his genealogy to start on a new rant, in which he claims that the last of the Templars in America (aside from the genetic ones sired in Canada among the Mi’kmaq) were holed up in a Masonic lodge in the Alamo (!), which is why James K. Polk started the Mexican War, to get it for the United States (!!). He claims this is likely because the Alamo’s keystone shares the same Marian monogram as a Parisian church associated with the Sulpicians, a group Mann links to the Merovingians because of the hoax Priory of Sion documents. Mann considers the monogram conspiratorial, but it’s a Catholic symbol for the Latin phrase “Mary, Queen of Angels.” (Others think it represents Ave Maria; the carving is a little unclear due to overlapping letters.)
 
Anyway, Mann believes that the U.S. government has systematically committed genocide against Native Americans not simply to take their land but to eliminate the last genetic claimants to the Holy Bloodline’s land claim over America. Must be disappointing to Native Americans to realize that they only ever had title to America because of Jesus, not for being indigenous or anything. Oh, and he also thinks that the caduceus proves that the Greeks knew about DNA (weird, since Hermes’ double helix staff wasn’t the medical one at first; that was Asclepius’ single-snake staff) and that the Cistercians have a Jesus cloning program since Dolly the sheep was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, near Rosslyn Chapel. This is “no coincidence,” he warns darkly. He doesn’t actually say they want to clone Jesus, but he does say that they are doing everything in their power to keep the Bloodline “strong” through a selective breeding program and hybridization to avoid genetic diseases. All of this, he says, culminated in his own birth from the union of a European and Native American, one he suspects was planned by the Grail Guardians to keep the Jesus genes strong.
 
There is so very much more, but it makes so little sense I can’t quite summarize it adequately. Suffice it to say that Mann is concerned that America and Canada have lost their original freedoms, and he believes that only he--cough, ahem, the Templar Grail Guardians—can overcome the evils of the “religious right” to set the two countries back on the morally correct path by exercising their divine Jesus claim to own the two countries’ land.
 
As for the title of the book—the Templar Sanctuaries—they only come into play in the last pages, when using his code derived from French paintings and modern U.S. geographical toponyms, he concludes that the Templar treasure is buried in the hills around Townsend, Montana. This, he says, proves that the Celts (yes, now we have Celts, too) mapped America and gave those charts to the Templars. Why Celts? Because Madoc of Wales allegedly colonized America.
 
Oh, and if that isn’t enough, he also proposes that the whole Holy Bloodline conspiracy has been manipulated by “super-families” of European Jews who only pretend to be Christian so they can restore their power as “god kings” so they can rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and restore the House of David. (This is the modern Rex Deus hoax introduced in the 1990s, which Mann cites by name.) Ah, Jews. What would a conspiracy theory be without them? Finally, we have it all: Watchers, Jews, and Templars, along with muffled hints of a lost antediluvian high-tech civilization. What more could you need? Right: Mann says that Steve St. Clair’s DNA testing shows that Mann might be descended from Aaron, brother of Moses, and thus an heir to the god-kings. He concludes that fringe history has helped him feel more centered in life by realizing that his Native and white heritage are joined in medieval conspiracy, making him one and whole.
 
I sympathize to an extent with the desire to find ways to bring together two sides of a family, particularly when they are very different. I, for example, found it interesting when I discovered that at some point over the past few centuries all of the territories from which my ancestors came had been under the sovereignty or suzerainty of the Habsburgs (though never all at the same time). I also didn’t learn this until long after I had taken a fancy to central European history, and I didn’t consider it important enough to let it upend my life, though in Mann’s estimation, it must make me his enemy by default since the Habsburgs were anti-Grail crusaders in his view.  
 
Overall, this was the longest ego-trip I’ve ever read, and one that had virtually nothing to do with its title. Containing not a single reference to a primary source, it was nothing more than a distillation of a dozen or more earlier fringe books in the same field, and consequently all the worse for being unoriginal as well as unsupported by fact.
40 Comments
Heraldic Crest
4/17/2016 08:56:49 am

>>a Catholic symbol for the Latin phrase “Mary, Queen of Angels.”

That particular one is “Mary, Queen of Angels.” because it's inscribed "MR"

The St Sulpice monogram is simply "M" on its own and that does stand for "Ave Maria" as given on its interlocking letters.

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Ph link
4/17/2016 09:43:51 am

It almost sounds like someone create a SCIgen project for fringe ideas.
Just put in the relevant fringe terms and the program will create a paper.

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

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An Over-Educated Grunt
4/17/2016 09:56:39 am

Wonder if he realizes the Alamo was a Catholic mission, San Antonio de Valero, that the current location in San Antonio wasn't even the original location of the mission, or that the mission was one of the last of the Spanish missionary period, wasn't even completed or structurally sound until it became the US Army's first garrison in San Antonio... in fact, the Alamo was the last duty station (as opposed to where he sat on various courts martial, or where he was on leave... a lot... or where he was detached for various reasons) of Robert E. Lee before the Civil War. Why, that must mean that Lee was inducted into the secret lodge and the Confederates were guardians of freedom against federal overreach!

One wonders what he makes of the postmortem hot-swap of Mazarin for Richelieu, what with Mazarin and Catherine de Medici both being Italian, and both Mazarin and Richelieu being given their best-known titles by the Pope, that evil Catholic Grail-stomper.

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Dan D'Silva
4/17/2016 04:40:03 pm

I get the feeling that once you decide you're tracing a secret society through "clues" like bits of architecture instead of obvious facts like the architecture in question being a Catholic mission, you can avoid any such quandary by just asserting that they were pretending to be part of the mainstream but they were really undercover conspiracy members.

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Heraldic Crest
4/17/2016 10:09:34 am

"Mann brings in Freemason conspiracies"

Nothing to do with real historical Freemasonry


http://www.thealamo.org/education/alamo-facts.html

Many Masons participated in the struggle for Texas independence... Masons continued to play a significant leadership role in the Republic of Texas. According to The New Handbook of Texas (2:1169):

"Although constituting only about 1_% of the population [of Texas], Masons filled some 80 percent of the republic's higher offices. All of the presidents, vice presidents, and secretaries of state were Masons."

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David Bradbury
4/17/2016 03:42:43 pm

Freemasons built the basement of the Alamo.

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An Over-Educated Grunt
4/19/2016 09:26:26 am

And again... so? They were all also lawyers.

David - the Alamo does have a basement. It's mostly used for document storage. It's also post-Army, so post-"Alamo."

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Only Me
4/17/2016 10:20:18 am

I'd like to say I feel sorry for the guy, but I don't. Anyone willing to "rewrite" history so they can claim a special status that doesn't exist better hope their bubble doesn't burst; otherwise, they will be crushed under the weight of reality.

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Heraldic Crest
4/17/2016 10:27:11 am

William F. Mann who has written several books is not as bad as Laurence Gardner who claimed the Merovingians were descended from the Nephilim.

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Jeff Vandine
4/17/2016 12:58:06 pm

Interesting. In most countries they commit people like this, as opposed to publishing his ravings...

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David Bradbury
4/17/2016 01:44:33 pm

Funnily enough, that's exactly what eventually happened to Louis Martin, the pioneer of the Jesus Bloodline theory, and he died after about three years in the main Paris mental hospital.

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Kathleen
4/17/2016 01:33:54 pm

I went back and read the complete review once more and my head is swimming. I now believe I can laugh, cry, yell and puke simultaneously. It's as if Mann took every wacky theory and conspiracy, threw them in a blender and created a fringe smoothie. I have so many questions. I will ask the overarching question, which I remember has been asked before but I can't find the discussion.

What does it all MEAN???

I can think of lots of possibilities, most of them unflattering, but I just can't make sense of it all. Maybe the problem is my asking in the first place. I'm baffled, help!

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Not the Comte de Saint Germain
4/17/2016 02:56:13 pm

For the sake of your own mental health, please do not try to make sense of this mess.

I've had fringe smoothies before. They never have any nutritional value, but most of them taste better than this. In other words, they're all stupid, but they're usually funnier than this one.

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Kathleen
4/17/2016 01:35:45 pm

Oh, does anyone know if he has children?

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Clete
4/17/2016 02:15:19 pm

If he does [and I hope he doesn't} then they will probably attempt to rule America and Canada by divine right. After all, they are related to Christ, Mary Maglalene, The Sinclairs and probably Walt the Wonder Bread Man.

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Jason Colavito link
4/17/2016 02:18:26 pm

He has children, and he says in the book he has been teaching them about their Bloodline "heritage," though they are apparently much less interested in it than he is.

Kathleen
4/17/2016 03:58:01 pm

I'm being honest here, I actually wondered if he said he is planning to go back to Scotland and participate in the Cistercian cloning program. He should be a prize contributor if he believes that it exists and would certainly keep the DNA strong

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Mark L
4/17/2016 02:05:12 pm

Well, his name's been mentioned, so I presume we'll get some gibberish from Steve St Clair soon :(

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Shane Sullivan
4/17/2016 02:12:20 pm

Only if you say it three times.

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David Bradbury
4/17/2016 02:51:10 pm

Steve St. Clair? Why would I want to say Steve St. Clair once, let alone say Steve St. Clair three times?

tubby
4/17/2016 02:05:30 pm

It's as if he built an elaborate fan fiction from a conspiracy flavored game of Mad Libs and cast himself as the Mary Sue in the center of it all.

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Shane Sullivan
4/17/2016 03:14:30 pm

"Where, pray tell, is there room for a return to America and entombment therein?"

Maybe the Venus families took him back to North America after he died, preserving his rotting carcass for long enough to get him to Montana through what Mann and Wolter would likely call "esoteric Goddess knowledges", or some such thing.

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Ioannes Angelos
4/17/2016 03:35:59 pm

I really do have to wonder how much Mann borrows from Ubisoft’s 2012 video game “Assassin’s Creed III”, which primarily takes place during and after the American Revolution from 1754 to 1783.

I understand that probably most people are not very interested in video games, so I try to keep this one short:

One of the protagonists of the game is a half-English, half-Mohawk man named Ratonhnhaké:ton (also known as “Connor Kenway”), whose (English) father, Haytham Kenway, is Grand Master of the Templar Order in the colonies. During the game, Connor becomes a “guardian” of the Grand Temple of “Those Who Came Before”, an ancient humanlike race of powerful beings who created humankind before a global calamity hundreds of thousands of years ago (basically yet another spin on Atlantis myth). A portion of the game also takes place in 2012, where a descendant of Keyways, Desmond Miles (the second protagonist), uses special equipment to relive the memories of his ancestors supposedly “coded in his DNA”. The gameplay also includes deciphering secret codes from paintings and collecting all sorts of relics, Templar and otherwise.

It has to be noted that usually Templars are the bad guys in the game series and the traditional (Yeshua) Grail myth has been replaced with, well, “a lost antediluvian high-tech civilisation”.

I cannot, of course, prove that Mann borrows the aforementioned material directly, or that he would be “inspired” by it, however, these two works of fiction just share too many similarities. I have seen woo-peddlers and fringe clowns on internet forums borrowing Final Fantasy, and more obscure Japanese role-playing games, for content before.

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Jason Colavito link
4/17/2016 03:49:44 pm

He actually refers to the Assassin's Creed games in the book, though he says that the games are wrong because the Templars and the Assassins were working together against the anti-Grail Catholics.

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Ioannes Angelos
4/17/2016 04:36:34 pm

Well, that would neatly explain a few things. Mann's so-called primary sources are fiction. For those not in the know: the historical Templars and the actual 11th century Asasiyun have very little to do how Assassin's Creed series, and Mann for that matter, portrays them.

Alexander Stallwitz
4/17/2016 05:44:45 pm

His book feels like someone wrote an Assassin's Creed self-insert fan fiction that ballooned out of control

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Heraldic Crest
4/18/2016 01:42:37 am

There's similar stuff that existed before the game and that could have inspired the game,

Heraldic Crest
4/18/2016 01:55:12 am

The Assassin's Creed game began in 2007. Mann began writing his books in 1999.

Heraldic Crest
4/18/2016 02:05:34 am

The Assassin's Creed game could have been inspired by James Wasserman's 2001 book, "The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven"

Ioannes Angelos
4/18/2016 10:14:16 am

The first AC game had been in development for years before it came out.

"The lead assassin picked up a name, Altair (literally, "the flyer"), an eagle motif borrowed from Vladimir Bartol's 1938 novel Alamut, and a quest to fulfill. Nine men, based on real historical figures, had to die to end the madness of the crusades and restore Altair's tainted honor." -Partice Desilet, Creative Director, Ubisoft

Corey May, the primary writer for the game series, spoke about AC origins in an interview in September 2013: "The second big inspiration I received came from a book written by Immanuel Velikovsky, called Worlds in Collision." (The first big inspiration being Ultima game series.)

Heraldic Crest
4/18/2016 08:31:29 pm

http://www.accesstheanimus.com/Corey_May_QA_eng.html

I suppose Wasserman would rightly be asking for royalties from Ubisoft if it turned out his book inspired Assassin's Creed.

Dan D'Silva
4/17/2016 04:44:13 pm

I've never felt that being a biracial kid whose parents met by pure chance made me feel less than whole. I do find the knowledge that I'm descended from a long line of peasants and nobodies rather contenting; at least, I've never felt the urge to engage in this kind of lunacy.

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Duke of URL
4/18/2016 11:24:58 am

"Finally, we have it all: Watchers, Jews, and Templars, along with muffled hints of a lost antediluvian high-tech civilization. What more could you need?"
But... But... WHAT about the alien reptile people?

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Kal
4/18/2016 03:44:22 pm

The video game theme involving the Templars has been around long before Assassin's Creed, so it is likely they are related, but this Mann person is in no way a descendant of Jesus. He is clearly mad, and thinks he's clever and in the know.

Even Mormons do not believe Jesus had many wives. He is confusing that with their prophet, this Joseph Smith they revere. Smith never said he was descended from Jesus, but that Jesus visited the Indians. That is not the same thing. Not sure I buy the notion that he did visit, but can't disprove it.

Still it seems this Mann fellow is a Mary Sue also, and knows full well his book selling scam stories will create a snake eating itself, and he will make himself some cash.

Is he just ignoring the Spanish history of Tejas, later called Texas? They like Mary in Catholicism. They revere her as a Virgin, I guess before Christ was born, and they don't like it that Jesus had half brothers, but Protestants don't mind and mention those brothers. Ugh, did he got get that from his alleged research.

Oh and Jesus was Jewish, as in born there, and from Nazareth, so is he implying there is ancestry with the Israelites but at the same time denying that?

One of yall called it a smoothie. Ha. Seems like one of those weird smoothies ya make when you experiment with the blender and toss in the peals, and end up with a disgustingly funny mixture.

How many fake Marivingians can there be?

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thy unknown kid forever......
7/22/2016 03:28:33 pm

Here in kentucky a lot of us have always believed that Jesus was an American Indian an was born in these parts...... that rebel flag is kinda proves that our Indians was more Egyptians then Egypt..... that flag is a foot stone an a print of how to build permids..... an also the flag has 4 going around an has tribes to each 4...... an even the foot print of stars from other planets..... an even the flag has the holy x....... an he is right about the Catholics to...... the rest wants the rest of holy grounds in the Appalachian Mountains.... an yes it is the pope an the Catholics that puts hell on our people in these parts..... look up our Indians in kentucky..... 4 tribes...... an no native to be is a Nazi an Catholic name..... we had everything the Egyptians had...... everything u read in revalations is also in our history of the civil war...... the Pioneers or what ever is kinda a cathlic name..... the union army tried to take people's land.... an so this is why it is called civil war.... or the war of all wars..... the holy war... yes holy war...... because it was the poor against Satan's Army... it was the rebels, confederate, Indians an yes Jesus's disciples an the union army...... an yes those four... rebels Indians confederate an Jesus's disciples did in fact meet..... in my hometown of booneville kentucky called owsley county..... an the name Daniel Boone, I do not like.... an am gonna even go on record an say that Jesus is more modern an close to the 1900s..... an yes the people here did in fact have garden food..... an for some reason even Jesus seem to help others with food..... something if u look at, the middle east I don't think could have did something like that...... an yes I have Indian blood an yes the indians did in fact call there sons.... holy son...... even if u watch old westerners the indians called there sons holy son...... even that rebel flag is an indian war flag, to fight against the high power anybody fighting with them.... even against the free masons... don't have nothing against the Templars at all..... the cloning shit I do not like.....I even inspire my hometown this year on Facebook an even even Scott Walters join the conversation an even inspired his wife..... even inspired kirk hammitt an little little got on metallic fan page an even inspired the others..... I'm starting to feel like, that a lot of stuff I told everybody some how got to others..... something I do not like one bit..... even the word one that he talked about I even brought up..... an now he is using something that I do not like..... even the st Claire I'm guessing his name is Steve.... even join my conversation the time I inspired my hometown an others..... even go watch America unearth.... either late last year or the beginning of this year...... I contacted Scott's team.... an left them a message about what I know here an about here...... an told them that I think my grandfather..... they even went to Arizona an told the indians there about what I know...... even went to the Hatfields not once but twice......... even on Facebook the indians in Arizona an the Hatfields even join the conversation..... u people do not get it.... we have always new about Jesus an different tribes within a tribe within the tribes bloodline...... an yes he is right.... go look at the USA symbols then look at Hitler's symbols..... the same.... look at Hitler's right hand man, then look at the president of USA..... the same...... an yes Catholic church is what controlling this country..... an yes Christians have a bloodline to Jesus..... an Moses people would be apart of that if them Rome an the old Nazis haven't put the nail in the flesh..... Nazi shoot our people that lived in the Appalachian Moutions.....

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Jean Stone
4/19/2016 03:22:34 pm

"This is “no coincidence,” he warns darkly. He doesn’t actually say they want to clone Jesus, but he does say that they are doing everything in their power to keep the Bloodline “strong” through a selective breeding program and hybridization to avoid genetic diseases."

I've seen this story before, only it was an episode of Star Trek TNG about a clone of the Klingon's messiah figure, and it was actually entertaining.

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An Over-Educated Grunt
4/19/2016 07:30:32 pm

Wolter and Butler at Kensington?

Tsoukalos, when the Watchers came down.

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Only Me
4/20/2016 01:44:44 am

I give this two thumbs, way up!

Seamus
4/19/2016 10:33:05 pm

If you haven't yet, read Umberto Eco's, " Foucault's Pendulum ", published in 1988. Three bored editors gather all the fringe theories they can find, create their own, then use a computer program to randomize it and spit out an ultimate conspiracy theory, involving some great secret. It's all for fun until the real fringe theorists hear about it, and come looking for them. Eco is an amazing writer, and shows that these people were around well before the internet made them easier to find.

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abvhiael crowley link
12/15/2016 06:12:47 pm

I actually MOVED to Atlantic Canada in 1995 after reading Bradley's "Holy Grail Across the Atlantic". Nova Scotia, thanks to the whole Prince Henry thing, was always at the center of the tale, and Bill Mann was once a really respectable read into the whole sordid tale. I hadnt purchased this latest volume of his yet, although i do own the earlier two as well as an ongoing subscription to Ancient American magazine, so my credentials are fairly shoddy when it comes to mainstream archaeological thought. That being said, i am an accredited archaeologist, having studied Great Plains Precontact societies at University of Calgary. I was always very interested in the stuff history DIDNT tell us, because what we KNOW is only a tenth of the story. Alternative history, or solving those mysteries of recent history (like the Templar fleets disappearance) were always appealing to me, and Ive spent thirty years researching this stuff, amassing an impressive library on native american mythology, megalithic/neolithic cultures and fringe SacredHistories. theres a grain of truth in manns stuff, but its also sad to see someone who was an active RESEARCHER start drinking his own kool-aid. mann is a great resource to see just how convoluted the entire grail mythos is when it hits north america, and i was really hoping to get a better picture of verified templar sites across the continent, or if he'd figured out others that are closer to home here in nova scotia, and was ready to pick up this book, but glad i didnt. maybe ill pirate it one day and have a read, but its like one of those bgrade movies you know is gonna be bad, and walk away afer the end credit scrawl thinking "well, theres 90 minutes of my life im never gonna get back"

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