RE: Reloaded with plastic pea pellets; a rant for Jim

There is a whole cultic(?) thing out of France that has been floating around
for a while. They claim that Jesus faked his resurrection married the
Magdalene and migrated to Europe with Joseph of Arithmea (a relative). The
descendants had some sort of powers associated with long hair and were
establishers of the Merovingian Monarchy line in Europe. This Line was
usurped and a deal was made with Rome. Some how this thing has survived and
the genealogies are kept and the teachings of this group both mystical and
philosophical are associated with prominent names in art, academia, science,
Politics etc from the enlightenment to today. I am not making this hooey
up. Apparently there are some prominent people who promote this who are in
the French government and other places. I initially ran across it in a book
called Holy Blood Holy Grail. I normally would have just dismissed it out
of hand but its themes and specific teachings have cropped up in a whole
bunch of places. They are advocating some sort of global leader to unite
the world politically and economically. I dismiss it as conspiracy theory
crap but as an idea it seems to be spreading like SARS if this is the thing
that the bros are talking about then it seems to have garnered a main stream
cultural reference. It seems to appeal to the 'postmodern' who feels
betrayed by the promises of Modernism and who can't accept traditional
Christianity. It claims to have long roots. Priory of Sion is their external
membership corp I don't know much else about it except that it is a real
organization that propositioned a friend who had a club named "The
Coenobitic order of the Brotherhood of St Adrian". It was only a Medieval
history Recreation Group but apparently this French Group thought that they
were on their wave length and of course it just freaked out my friend for
good reason. Have you heard of this stuff?
Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: James Rovira [mailto:jrovira@drew.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 2:07 PM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: Reloaded with plastic pea pellets; a rant for Jim

Hey...give me some background on this, Daniel... a little history. You
hit me in a blind spot.

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

>Merovingian thing, is it a reference to that whole French Priory of Sion
>stuff? You know, a French Gnostic Messiah?
>
>

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