The Bloodline of the Holy Grail

Mind Body & Soul Ezine Book Review: The Bloodline of the Holy Grail - The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed by Laurence Gardner. 

Kicking off, by page 4, the author is drawing attention to how far our society has degraded from the Grail ideology. The author promises to set out the Grail Code - which is one of service - of conscience, and therefore the grail transmits a true religious message across the world and across the generations. All credit to the late Laurence Gardner for recognising and teaching this ancient and vital knowledge. 

The late Laurence Gardner (died 2010) was a controversial character, a writer, researcher and one time stockbroker. He believed that the Ark of the Covenant produced monoatomic gold, a white powder that has superhuman healing properties; that aliens from other planets brought us religion; that the origins of Judaism lie in Egyptology; and that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had children and their offspring are in the House of Stewart. He worked closely with HRH Prince Michael of Albany, Head of the Royal House of Stewart, aka Michael Roger Lafosse who has been entirely discredited. 

Having said that, this book is well written and is fascinating for those who believe in the desposyni, the Christian bloodline. Included in the story are King David, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Joseph of Arimathea, King Arthur, the Templars, Joan of Arc, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and the royal house of Stewart. Woven within the text, are Freemasonry, the Grail, the Tarot, Rennes le Chateau, and if any of this grabs you, you will enjoy the wonders of this rare research that covers debunking dogma, history, geography, religion, archaeology, and numerous other disciplines. The early Christians were persecuted savagely under Rome, Moses was the Pharaoh Akhnaton, what amazing revelations! 

Dozens of genealogical/hereditary charts are included, along with detailed explanations of the virgin birth, the archangels the life of Jesus and his miracles, and each disciple has a wonderfully new biography, one wonders at the research, as every Gospel sentence is examined and explained and new meanings provided where words that have meant something for 2,000 years now mean something entirely different. I am always cautious when legendary stories become facts! This book is under the History/Religion genre by the best of international publishers and each revelation is referenced. There are 100 pages of notes and appendices, and many dozens of genealogical histories.

The author states on page 260 that the Templars found the Ark of the Covenant which was a couple of thousand years old at that time. I was suspicious of this and other claims since the greatest cathedral in the world would have been built to honour it. Of course, I loved the book though it surprises me that all these possibilities were not just written into the New Testament. Could we have been totally misled about the New Testament until now? If you like mysteries, you will enjoy this one. Written in 1996, it is a book for our time, 2024 and beyond: timeless, relevant and powerfully perceptive! The Grail story was originally fictional, like a dream! 

Recommended but be prepared to have your Christian ideas upended and be fully perplexed by the text! He does confuse John the Baptist with St John the Revelator on page 301 and on page 33 states that Catholics who confessed to heresy were imprisoned and burned, which is incorrect.,They were tortured until they confessed, but confession leads to forgiveness. Only those who retracted their confession were burned at the stake. These errors put other claims into question. All his bloodline connects are based on Jesus and Mary Magdalene’s marriage and their surviving offspring who survived until adulthood to have children. He states that Joad of Arc’s flag was embroidered with the words, Jhesus - Maria, which he takes to mean Jesus and Mary Magdalene, not Jesus and his mother Mary. 

His close associate, Prince Michael of Albany has been discredited for false accounting of his own ancestry and was deported from the United Kingdom for presenting a false birth certificate! I’m wondering how much of this book and its genealogy charts we can believe! Written in the heyday of belief in the Roman Catholic organisation, that called itself the Priory of Sion, and with references to the Holy Blood & Holy Grail and Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code novel, these scams have now fortunately been debunked. Appendices: Music of the Grail, Grail Cards of the Tarot, and numerous genealogical charts. 

Reviewer Wendy Stokes https://wendystokes.co.uk