Key to the Sacred Pattern: The Untold Story of Rennes-Le-Chateau - Hardcover

Lincoln, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312214847 ISBN 13: 9780312214845

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Synopsis

The mystery of Rennes-le-ChÂteau, the tiny village perched on a mountain top in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and the sudden, unexplained wealth of its flamboyant priest, BÉranger SauniÈre, are explored in this highly entertaining book. Henry Lincoln sets down, for the first time, the dramatic story of his thirty years of delving into one of the strangest mysteries of modern times to show how the proofs finally lead to an astonishing revelation. Key to the Sacred Pattern takes us further into the hidden byways marked out by our ancestors and sets it upon provable and demonstrable foundations. The boundaries of the original riddle of Rennes-le-ChÂteau are extended, from the Pyrenees, to Britanny, and the Baltic Sea. Our ancestors were not, as we thought, primitive and unenlightened but far more gifted than we have ever imagined. Here is the lifting of the veil on a mysterious and dramatic legacy.

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About the Authors

Henry Lincoln has been writing about the mystery of Rennes-le-ChÂteau for thirty years. His other books include The Messianic Legacyand The Holy Place. He lives in England.

Henry Lincoln has been writing about the mystery of Rennes-le-Château for thirty years. His other books include The Messianic Legacyand The Holy Place. He lives in England.

Reviews

Since 1972, Lincoln has made a career out of exposing the secret of a small village in the Pyrenees. The secret seems to have changed since Lincoln, a television writer, first began his investigation. Originally, it was about a lost treasure. In the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail (1982), the secret was that Jesus survived the Crucifixion and escaped with Mary Magdalene to France, where they had children. Now the secret has something to do with what Lincoln calls "structured landscapes": equidistant geographical points that, when plotted on paper, form pentacles. Although he's not exactly sure what this means, he proposes that it proves the ancients had much more sophisticated measurement abilities than previously thought. If this were the whole book, readers, especially those not schooled in geometry, would lose interest fast. Fortunately, most of Lincoln's story is about how he came to uncover the mysteries of Rennes-le-Chateau and some of the adventures and misadventures he's had along the way. Fans of the popular Holy Blood, Holy Grail will probably devour this, but others may think the real mystery is, How does Lincoln keep twisting the topic into new books? Ilene Cooper

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312214847
• ISBN 13: 9780312214845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 225