As every lover of detective stories, who has read “The Purloined Letter” by Poe, knows – the best place to hide something is in plain sight. The descendents of Jesus Christ, descendents of the royal line of David, would have gone into hiding together with the Levis, their priests, in exactly the same way that the Prince of Macassar, when exiled from Java to South Africa by the Dutch, brought his Imams with him ( Which is why the Indonesian slaves were the most educated people in South Africa at that time, and why the Afrikaans language was first written down in Arabic by an Islamic scholar).
The Bloodline of Jesus Christ was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Papacy who wanted to establish an apostolic descendency for the church, not a bloodline descendency.
The prohibition on Catholic priests from marriage was not about sex, but about not establishing bloodline descendents either of Jesus Christ or of Popes. Laurence Gardner’s latest book is the culmination of his 20 years of research- “The Grail Enigma: the hidden heirs of Jesus and Mary Magdalene”. It has been claimed that the “Da Vinci Code” by Dan Browne was based on the published research done by Laurence Gardner. To quote from “The Grail Enigma”:
“Beyond the control of the church was the descendant bloodline of the Desposyni, the men and women who were running the Nazarene schools and missions, and who continued to marry and to procreate. The Catholic bishops could not prevent this, although they could stand apart from it. But what if a Pope had offspring? If a Pope had an heir, how would that affect the future papacy?
There was only one way to counter all such possibilities, while at the same time denigrating those Christian leaders outside the orthodox movement who perpetuated their leadership through descendant family lines. Women must be vilified across the board; marriage must be scorned and procreation forbidden within the church. All members of the ecclesiastical establishment must become celibate. Tertullian had written that it was on account of women that ‘the Son of God had to die'; This was reason enough to implement restrictive new measures in order to place Apostolic Succession above family succession which, from that time, was considered both inappropriate and ungodly……
..in the interim priests and bishops were allowed to retain their wives as long as they did not live with them. At the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, it was decreed that they might be permitted to live with their mothers, sisters or aunts….This created a very unsatisfactory situation whereby many of the clergy were keen to present an image of celibacy, but led quite different lifestyles behind the scenes. As a result the rate of infanticide grew alarmingly, and so priestly contact with women was further restricted. Henceforth, no commerce of any nature was allowed between the sexes. It was decreed that contact with female enterprise was a ‘degrading pollutant to the soul’…..the absolute rule of celibacy was enforced from AD 385…..
In this context, it is quite remarkable that, in later times, so many Christian women, especially the martyrs of those early years, were endowed with posthumous sainthoods. This occurred mainly because, despite the Catholic view of their heresies, these women were already regarded as saints by the Celtic Church, the Nazarene Church, and other establishments outside Vatican control. Mary Magdalene, for instance, was considered as a saint from the early 400s by Cassianite and other monastic orders, even becoming Mother Protectress of the Dominican Friars, but she was not accepted for Catholic canonization until 1969. Such now familiar saintly figures were ultimately embraced by the Church of Rome for one reason alone: it was a way to disguise the fact that the Vatican was not the only church authority with the power to grant sainthoods….
Pope Sixtus 111 was accused of taking undue advantage of nuns in the newly developing convents…..Not long afterwards the papal fraternity and high-ranking cardinals exempted themselves from the celibacy restrictions, and they were permitted to employ personal mistresses. This was made possible by way of civil laws….it was decreed that ‘Ecclesia vivit lege Romana’ – ‘The Church exists under Roman law’…..wherein prostitution was legal. Thus, although Popes did not marry, their supreme status afforded them the protected privilege of retaining courtesans within the Vatican establishment.
Shortly after the Sixtus affair, Pope Symmachus (AD 498-514) was called before King Thoedric of Italy, charged with unchasity and adultery…..he argued with ultimate success that, since he was Pope, no human court could possibly judge him….
A notorious liason of later times was that of Pope Sergius 111 (904-911) and the seductive teenager Marozia….their son became Pope John X1….
Pope Julius 11 (1503-1513)….had three daughters and even issued a papal bull, on 2 July 1510, to establish his own brothel. Like others before him, Julius was notorious for what were called his ‘hectic activities among prostitutes and boys’.”
Sex with prostitutes or with little boys was allowed – as long as there was not a legitimate heir. Which is why the heirs of Jesus Christ and the line of David were hidden.
Why England? Well to start with the first Pope of Rome was not Peter, who is not even proved to ever have been in Rome, but Prince Linus, the son of the British King Caractacus; and the first Christian Church ever was at Glastonbury established by Joseph of Arimathea.
Which could be why King Henry V111 so desperately needed a male heir? The line of David must produce two sons for the line to be secure. Joseph of Arimathea is supposed to have established Glastonbury with either one or both of the sons of Jesus Christ with him.
More about the English connection in the next post. |
