Product Description

The great enigma that surrounds this small village in the foothills of the Pyrenees, formed the starting point for the sensational bestseller, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. It investigated the curious case of the village priest, Berenger Sauniere, who in the late nineteen century, discovered a series of parchments in the church which led him not only to a possible buried treasure but also back to the cryptic legends that Jesus' bloodline still exists. Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code has reignited curiosity about this ancient settlement and in The Holy Place Henry Lincoln lays out his decoding of why Rennes-le-Chateau has been the source of so much mystery and drama. It is nothing less than the eighth wonder of the ancient world, a natural and perfect pentacle of mountain peaks surrounded by a titanic man-made temple. Previously invisible to all but the initiated few, this magnificent monument is now disclosed. The clues were well-hidden over the centuries - in parchments, tombstones, riddles and churches. What is now shown is an immense geometrical temple, stretching for miles across the landscape, a constellation of pentacles, circles and hexagons: a Holy Place of enormous size and significance.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #160754 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Review
'For many people...Lincoln's temple is the perfect mystery: an unseen reality that eludes our normal perceptions' KAREN ARMSTRONG, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

Customer Reviews

Unintelligible
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The author has supposedly discovered one quite interesting fact regarding the area surrounding Rennes-le-Chateau , the fact that 5 mountains in the area form a reasonably regular pentagon

There, that's all - He then proceeds to stretch out the fact to fill a whole book with unsubstantiated claims of alignments, geometric shapes and intersecting lines that give no worthy result

No scientific methods are used - rather, the author wishes the reader to confirm his findings with a map pins and strips of cardboard

Do not be taken in by the pseudo-scientific mathematics contained herein

Statistical analysis shows that his findings have no significance whatsoever (see "The Treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau" by Bill Putnam and John Edwin Wood)

Other chapters to pad out the book contain absolutely ridiculous theories concerning the origin of modern measurement ie the English mile,rod. pole etc

It is to be remembered that the author has been a major player in forwarding the "mystery" of Rennes-le-Chateau - he and his companions are the only ones to extract "treasure" from the area - by continuing to churn out fraudulent theories regarding the Priory of Sion, Mary Magdalene etc and leaching hard earned cash from the incredulous

The holy place
Too much chewing of old stuff. No real information! Need of checking the sources!

Infinite Rennes saga



This story has far wider implications than at first appear.

True ~ that Henry Lincoln first identified the pentagram spread over the terrain about 40 year's ago, in his earlier BBC films. But ever since The Holy Blood & Holy Grail and after he joined forces with other journalists, this field has been very fully researched by so many people, local and otherwise, so it is now heavily saturated.

The saga formed the basis of the fiction of The Da Vinci Code which sold over 40 million copies! Followed by a monumental law-suit, probably the most expensive Court case in history, where the other journalists (ex Lincoln) reputedly lost their shirts! One has since died.

Ask yourself ~ why is this story of such interest to more than 40 million readers? What are they searching for, and why? As a satire it was fine, but it never provided proper, meaningful solutions.

To find the real answers to these questions, go to: The Tree of Life & The Holy Grail by Sylvia Francke (see amazon for details) published by the Temple Press in 2007. The mystery is here solved not only for the original readers of this saga but everybody is now involved! Essential reading for modern society. You will not be disappointed