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Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail that befits any great quest, is a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith that reads like a mystery novel. It is the story of the Knights Templar, and a behind-the-scenes society called the Prieure de Sion, and its involvement in reinstating descendants of the Merovingian bloodline into political power. Why? The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail assert that their explorations into early history ultimately reveal that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to marry and father children whose bloodline continues today. The authors' point here is not to compromise or to demean Jesus, but to offer another, more complete perspective of Jesus as God's incarnation in man. The power of this secret, which has been carefully guarded for hundreds of years, has sparked much controversy. For all the sensationalism and hoopla surrounding Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the alternate history that it outlines, the authors are careful to keep their perspective and sense of skepticism alive in its pages, explaining carefully and clearly how they came to draw such combustible conclusions. --Jodie Buller --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?

• Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross?
• Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists?
• Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom?
• Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail?

According to the authors of this extraordinarily provocative, meticulously researched book, not only are these things possible — they are probably true! so revolutionary, so original, so convincing, that the most faithful Christians will be moved; here is the book that has sparked worldwide controversey.

"Enough to seriously challenge many traditional Christian beliefs, if not alter them."
— Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Like Chariots of the Gods?...the plot has all the elements of an international thriller."
— Newsweek --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining to the last, factual,not in the least, Jun 19 1998

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This is a great book. One hell of an entertaining yarn. But that's all it is. If you like these historic religious quest books, you will eat it this up. However, Baigent and Leigh (I will leave Lincoln out of this critcism) have proven themselves, to knowledgible scholars, unwilling to back up their statements with historical facts. Even a layman can easily poke holes in most of their conclusions, provided one is willing to try. To back up this statement one need go no further than Baigent and Leigh's "The Dead Sea Scroll Deception". The thesis of this work is familar to readers of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", namely conspiracy and cover up, However as another reviewer has stated, method is explaned, but not motive. This is a fun book to read, but it should never be considered as revisionist history. What it is , is a well written, fanciful yarn. I give it 5 stars for entertainment and 1 for its accuracy. Still if you like historical detective stories you will love this book. I couldn't put it down. Just don't believe all you read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, Jan 26 2004

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Aumakua (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Hardcover)

Some people may say this is just a blind conspiracy theory and perhaps even be offended by it. The authors even admit where they are speculating and call it their hypothesis. Unlike the normal Christian histories imposed upon us as absolute truth, these authors open the door for our thoughts and interpretations. As for the medieval historian, I wish that person would have at least told us a bit about "what a Merovingian is". The historian gives us nothing of what the correct version might be anymore than why the book is wrong. I absolutely love history and if these authors are wrong, I would love at least a new direction to get facts that are perhaps more accurate. I did look up other alternative sources on the Merovingians and find nothing to prove or disprove what the book says. I am not sure if I believe this book total truth or not, but the Vatican itself has distorted and or denied access to information as well as the Holy Bible itself has never proved or disproved either, yet these versions are widely believed with so little evidence. This book is an awsome alternative to the mainstream history usually given. It requires an open mind and perhaps a bit of research by yourself. Think for yourselves and enjoy the book!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Where to start, May 28 2002

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james barclay (Worcester, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

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Perhaps Fr. Saugnier, a poor priest in the Langue'doc would have never found the 'Pearl of Great Price' from which came his fortunes and the beginning of a great mystery of the Priory of Zion, the lineage of the Royal Davidic Family, the mysterious works of Marc Chagal and the poetry of Blake. But, that is bygone and only mentionable upon the path set by Messrs. Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln.
Come with us now to ancient and dangerous times with landmarks and esotericisms leading us to the conclusion: The Davidic Line did not die with Y'shua bar Y'usef or his, I believe, wife, Mary, the Magdalen. It spread and was preserved. The Grail was the vessel, Mary, from which the bloodline continued through the Goth's intermarriage with the Jews of Marseille.
This book is not only about the Templars and its mysterious start, but of the even more mysterious Priory of Zion who pur portedly has protected as maintained the Holy Bloodline and whose leaders are stated to include Sir Isaac Newton, Leonard DaVinci, Robert Fludd, Claude Debussey and Jean Cocteau, and members may have included Marc Chagall, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, many of the French, British and European royalty.
Adventures abound and the search unpeels like an endlessly petalled rose (I say 'rose' most purposefully).
Detail after detail after detail. Connections, connections and reinforced research that some have criticized as rather exhausting. Well, this is a serious work of research and this is what one must do to survive peer review. No apologies here.
dIf you have read Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror", Laurence Gardner's "Bloodline of the Holy Grail", or the "Dagobert's Revenge Compilation" (which I recommend most highly and which you can retrieve online by keyword) and you're still hungry for more, this is the place to start, or their next book "The Messianic Legacy".
Indispensible. Seminal. If you don't get any others, at least get this one.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting to non bible thumpers
I guess if you believe everything written in the bible you shouldn't read this. However I don't believe everything in the bible so this book was interesting to me.

Published on Dec 9 2004 by Gary

1.0 out of 5 stars Fiction
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