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The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail (Paperback)

by Michael Baigent (Author)

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Paperback: 614 pages
Publisher: Arrow; 2nd Revised edition edition (Jul 10 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0099682419
ISBN-13: 978-0099682417
Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 3.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 159 g

Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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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 which 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. According to the authors, their 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. They claim that the power of this secret, which has, they say, been carefully guarded for hundreds of years, has sparked much controversy. For all the sensationalism and hoopla surrounding The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail and the alternative history which it outlines, the authors are careful to keep their perspective and sense of scepticism alive in its pages, explaining carefully and clearly how they came to draw such combustible conclusions. --Jodie Buller

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A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enabled him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story — a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive at the core is not material riches but a secret — a secret of explosive and contraversialproportions, which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village to all the way to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves nothing less than the Holy Grail.

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5.0 out of 5 stars fact, fancy, or something else...?, Nov 3 2003

By	Michael Troup (California) - See all my reviews

When my mother gave me this book, saying she could never take communion again, I was shocked. When I read the introduction, I was intrigued. When I began reading in earnest, I was enthralled...
Could Jesus have actually been married, fathered a family, and had them escape the Romans?
Fantastic, crazy, UNORTHODOX, yes- but could it be true, and does it MATTER? Since we were small, we have been told that Jesus was a poor, gentle peaceloving, almost non-Jewish Jew(after all, Hollywood has always gone to great lengths to make him look positively gentile), who allowed himself to be murdered by the Romans with barely a whimper, and that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute that inhabited the periphery of the very male world of first century Palestine.

But what if we look at the story from a truly historical perspective...
The region was swollen with fundimentalists, not unlike the Islamists we face today, and Jesus would have been a very orthodox Jew. Perhaps his story has been filtered over the centuries so that it is no longer recognizable...
And nowhere in the Bible does it refer to Mary as a prostitute- historians are begrudgingly now laying this interpretaion at the feet of a chauvinistic revisionist church- is it so unlikely that a woman in the company of a group of men traveling throughout the Holy Land, would have been married to one of those men? And why would it have been so unlikely that that man was Jesus? After all, a man of Jesus' age would have been looked upon with suspicion if he was NOT married...
Ah, the historical possibilites!
Link these intrigues with the Knights Templar and the mystery of their origins and purpose, the secretive Prior de Sion and a strange priest who was able to face down the power of the Catholic Church after the discovery of a secret in the mountains between France and Spain, while he amassed a fortune and built a tower dedicated to the Magdalene- put all this together and you have a yarn that will grip the heart of any mystery buff, history fan or conspiracy nut!
True- I don't know.
Plausible- yes...just plausible enough to make you look at history and religion from a new perspective, and perhaps make communion impossible.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Before you jump . . ., Jan 2 2007

By	Uncle Sam (Quebec, slightly south) - See all my reviews

Before the reader jumps to the conclusion that this book presents historical fact, a few words from one of the three author's might be instructive. 'And so, our approach [in writing the book] was dictated by our material: by a need to synthesize and a need to confront and accommodate historical `anomalies' habitually ignored by conventional scholars. It was therefore not surprising that conventional scholars questioned our approach. But it was also significant, and not just coincidental, that the most sympathetic responses to our book seemed to come from literary figures-from important novelists like Anthony Burgess, Anthony Powell, and Peter Vansittart. For, unlike the professional historian, the novelist is accustomed to an approach such as ours. He is accustomed to synthesizing diverse material, to making connections more elusive than those explicitly preserved in documents.
He recognizes that truth may not be confined only to recorded facts but often lies in more intangible domains-in cultural achievements, in myths, legends, and traditions; in the psychic life of both individuals and entire peoples. For the novelist, knowledge is not subdivided into rigid compartments, and there are no taboos, no 'disreputable' subjects. History is not for him something frozen, something petrified into periods, each of which can be isolated and subjected to a controlled laboratory experiment. On the contrary, it is for him a fluid organic and dynamic process wherein psychology, sociology, politics, art, and tradition are interwoven in a single seamless fabric. It was with this vision akin to that of the novelist that we created our book.'

An example of the means by which this 'seamless fabric' is created is the author's justification for discounting the likelihood of the key events in Jesus Christ's life earlier in this introductory text. He writes, "It is quite simply more likely that a man would have married, fathered children, and attempted to gain a throne than that he would have been born of a virgin, walked on water, and risen from the dead.'

Highly recommended for those into serious literature: DA VINCI CODE by Brown, which is similiar, and TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Surprised, Jun 25 2006

By	J.P. Cornwall (Wales) - See all my reviews

Not a book that I would normally pick, choosing instead some other summer "fun" read such as McCrae's KATZENJAMMER or the innocuous SECRET LIFE OF BEES by Kidd, I instead sucumbed to the hoopla surrounding CODE and the lawsuit, and chose HOLY BLOOD. Now, that said, I was prepared to be disappointed. I wasn't. No, this isn't a page-turner like CODE. It's more "factual" and a little more "dry," but informative nevertheless. Would recommend this book for those who like the "details." Many popular books have created a genre that weaves fascinating esoterica culled from centuries of world history. They examine secret societies such as the Freemasons, the Knights Templar, the Catholic organization Opus Dei, the Illuminati, and the mythical Priory of Sion. The books argue that those mysterious groups have reasons to ensure that the truth isn't found. For example, the Da Vinci Code involves sinister plots to uncover a secret that has been protected by clandestine societies since the days of Christ. Two people work together to untangle the webs. The many books and films try to link their stories to biblical prophecies. The stories are often well-researched in the sense that they reference actual parts of the Bible. The stories are usually poorly researched in the sense that they should tell more about the real-life links to secret societies that caused the worst torture and slaughter in history. Authors of current bestsellers (e.g. THE DA VINCI CODE and HOLY BLOOD etc) make their stories relevant to current events. Such stories are relevant to the fact that the present government in the USA is anti libertarian and is out-socializing the previous administration by more than double and growing (in social spending alone). The demonic dogma of socialism and self-sacrifice is still growing all over the world.

If you're looking for a book that will fill in the missing pieces of CODE, this may be it. If you want a light summer read that is fun, try either SECRET LIFE OF BEES, which has nothing to do with this subject, or KATZENJAMMER which is fun, bawdy, and off-beat.

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