CONTENTS

Foreword by Nicolas Haywood

Introduction: The Underground Stream

PART 1: THE PRIORY OF SION

1. The Priory of Sion

2. A Hidden History

3. Alumni

4. Surfacing

PART 2: THE MYSTERIES

5. Rennes-le-Château: the French Mystery

6. The Church of Mary Magdalene

7. Landscape

8. Emerging Themes

9. Pilgrimage

10. Le Serpent Rouge

11. Temples and Tombs

12. The Age of Relics

PART 3: THE BLOODLINE

13. Mary Magdalene

14. Heresy and History

15. The Bloodline and the Age of Kings

16. Art and Symbolism

17. Alchemy and Gnosis

PART 4: OUTCOME

18. The Apocalypse

19. Final Thoughts

Appendix: Documentation

Select Bibliography

LIST OF PLATES

Asmodeus statue at Rennes-le-Château

Father Bérenger Saunière’s cassock

St Anthony and St Paul in the Desert painting by David Teniers the Younger

Et in Arcadia Ego (The Shepherds of Arcadia) painting by Nicolas Poussin

Altar at Rennes-le-Château with landscape

Photo of Coustaussa, Pech Cardou and Blanchefort

Manuscript - Splendor Solis: ‘Deliver me out of the mire…’