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The Hidden History of Jesus and the Holy Grail The Hidden History and the Holy Grail Jesus The early Christian Church leaders adopted scriptures and teachings that would obscure the truth about the royal bloodline of Jesus. did not decide to write the book [Bloodline of the Holy Grail]. The book happened by accident, not by design. It happened by virtue of the fact that for about the last ten years I have been the appointed historian and sovereign genealogist to thirty-three royal families. It happened because during those early periods I was documenting evidence on the history of those royal families and their noble offshoots, and the chivalric archives of those noble and sovereign families. What I was doing was putting together written chronological accounts of things that these families knew the substance of but did not necessarily know the detail of. It is the reason why in Britain and Europe I necessarily spend far less time on this biblical aspect, because there's a lot of what we'll talk about tonight that in Europe is taken as read. It was never any secret when my book came out, for the majority of these people, that Jesus was married and that Jesus had heirs, because it was written as such in very many family archives, not necessarily just private but in the open domain. The published papers of Mary, Queen of Scots talk about it at length. The papers of James II of England, who was wasn't deposed until 1688, talk of it at length. In putting together the detail, generation by generation, of this story, we were actually compiling something for posterity that, at that point in time when I began the work, was locked away in boxes and cupboards, and I was actually in a position where I was present- ed with things and said, "Look, this says, ‘Last opened in 1732!". So, some very, very old documentation, not only last opened in seventeen-whenever, but actually documented and written down hundreds of years before that. The book happened by accident. Over a period of time—probably, looking back now, ten or twelve years ago—I began this work with separate commissions from separate fam- ilies, doing work on these genealogies. What happened was they began to converge. It became very apparent—and it took a long time because genealogies have to be done back- wards, put together backwards and constructed backwards—but what was happening was that a triangle, from a large top base with numerous family lines, was pulling in to a point. I suddenly realised what this point was, and I said, "Wow, do you realise what I've found here?"; and they said, "Ah, you know the father of so and so?"; and I said, "No, no, no; I'm actually finding that this comes out of the House of Judah in the first century"; and they said, "Oh, yeah, we know all that; what we wanted you to do was for you..."; and I said, "Well, there are millions of people out there who do not know about it, so let's turn this triangle upside down and turn it into a book!". So that's how the book happened. On top of that, for the last six years I have been Britain's Grand Prior of the Sacred Kindred of Saint Columba, the royal ecclesiastical seat of the Celtic Church. So I had, also, access to Celtic Church records dating back to AD 37. Because of my attachments to the families, to the knightly orders, I also had access to Templar documents, to the very documents that the Knights Templar brought out in Europe in 1128 and confronted the Church establishment with, and frightened the /ife out of them with, because these were documents that talked about bloodline and genealogy, and we'll get on to that. So tonight we're going to embark on a time-honoured quest. Some have called it the ultimate quest. The Christian Church has condemned it as a heresy, and it is, of course, the quest for the Holy Grail. A heresy is described in all dictionaries as "an opinion which is contrary to the orthodox dogma of the Christian bishops", and, in this regard, those other quests which comprise much of today's scientific and medical research are equally heretical. The word "heresy" is, in essence, nothing more than a derogatory label, a tag used by a fearful Church estab- lishment that has long sought to maintain control of society through fear of the unknown. From a lecture presented by Sir Laurence Gardner, Kt St Gm, KCD Author of Bloodline of the Holy Grail at The Ranch, Yelm, Washington, USA 30 April 1997 Videotape transcribed by Ruth Parnell NEXUS - 21 Videotape transcribed by Ruth Parnell FEBRUARY - MARCH 1998