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Chapter 1-The Holy Grail  
     
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 The Search for the “Holy Grail” represents one of the greatest quest stories of the Western world.
 
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 The story of King Arthur, the noble knights of the round table, the connection of Joseph of Arimathea and the Holy Grail somehow being transported safely to Britain only to be lost in the sands of time.
  
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 In the 1980’s a controversial book was first published that took the world by storm claiming that the “Holy Grail” was really an anagram for the Sangreal, or holy bloodline of Jesus Christ.
  
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 The book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln called “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” outlined a theory based on biblical analysis, ancient esoteric scripts and legends that Jesus did not die, was married to Mariamne (Mary Magdalene) and fled to the South of France, later to be the blood lines of the Kings and Queens of the Western world.
  
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 After 20 years of constant and careful discrediting of the book, the church of Rome had almost achieved its irrelevancy when the now historic novel “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown broke all best seller records.
  
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 Like the previous work by Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, brown based his novel on the idea that the bloodline of Jesus was still in existence today and that for some reason the Christian church, specifically the roman catholic church had waged an unrelenting campaign to kill every descendent of Jesus it could find.
  
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 The story made for an exciting read, but unfortunately a fairly long and torturous film plot. However, what the book and film have done is push these legends now into the main stream psyche of people around the world.
  
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 No longer do people laugh at the suggestion that Jesus might have survived the crucifixion by a series of subtle ploys.
  
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 No longer do people scoff at the idea that Jesus might have been married.
  
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 No longer do people dismiss the idea that Jesus might have had descendents.
  
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 The problem is and remains the proof of such claims.
  
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 Today there are literally hundreds of books on these legends and subject from books that try to push further than the ideas in “The Da Vinci Code” and those who seek to debunk the claims on behalf of the Christian and Roman Catholic churches.
  
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 Across the sands of time, there is no question that dissenting and Gnostic views on the fraud of the crucifixion as well as the survival of Jesus and his descendents existed, most often through secret symbolism within the arts.
  
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 Then with the recent decades of research into the history of the Templars, the Masons and now the secret world of ancient French secret societies such as the Priory de Sion we see strong claims being made that the bloodlines of Jesus are found only to survive through a handful of aristocratic and somewhat eccentric French and English families.
  
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 Their claims date back to the surviving blood lines of the fabled Merovingian Kings of France, who were the first to unite and rule France and whom were wickedly deceived and progressively murdered by the Roman Catholic Church and its agents.
  
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 Certainly, the age and detail of information provided to the authors by members and supporters of these old families shows greater antiquity and pedigree than any other evidence yet provided.
  
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 But is this all the proof we have? Are we to rely upon such evidence to consider that if Jesus did have children and if those bloodlines survived, are these families all that is left?
  
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 And if not, what is the general history of the bloodlines of Jesus and what proof do we have to support the survival of the crucifixion?
  
     
 
 

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