What is the Priory of Sion?
The Priory of Sion formerly known as the French
Prieure de Sion, is a name given to multiple
groups, both real and fictition. It is said
to be a a secret society founded in the 11th
century its said purpose to preserve and protect
the original precepts of Christianity and
act as guardian to Jesus and Mary Magdalene's
sacred bloodline.
The mainstream public were initially introduced
to the Priory through a number of documentaries
and books.
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail got lot
of attention. According to this book, there
was a secret order behind the Knights Templar,
which created the Templars as its military
and administrative arm. This order, which
has functioned under a variety of names, is
most frequently known as the Prieure de Sion
(Priory of Sion). The Prieure de Sion has
been directed by a sequence of Grand Masters
whose names are amongst the most illustrious
in Western history and culture. Although the
Knights Templar were destroyed and dissolved
between 1307 and 1314 the Prieure de Sion
remained unscathed.
Other facts include the following: The Priory
of Sion was founded in 1099 CE and was sworn
to return the Merovingian dynasty, whom they
believe to be the descendants of Jesus and
Mary Magdalene, to power. Its leaders or Grand
Masters have included the likes of Robert
Fludd, Victor Hugo, Isaac Newton, and Leonardo
da Vinci. The Priory was dedicated to a united
Europe and new world order; and the Catholic
Church had been engaged, historically, in
a war to destroy the dynasty and its protectors
the Cathars and Knights Templars, in order
to retain authority afforded it through a
patriarchal line of Popes, beginning with
Peter, instead of the legitimate hereditary
succession that began with Mary Magdalene.
This myth was later claimed as factual in
the preface of the 2003 novel The Da Vinci
Code.
The problem with all this is that although
the Knights Templar and the Cathars are an
historical facts, all proofs pertaining to
the Priory of Sion and offered as truth by
the aforementioned authors was unintentionally
based on false information from fraudulent
sources.
The most controversial is a fringe fraternal
organisation, founded and dissolved in France
in 1956 by Pierre Plantard.
The Priory of Sion myth has been exhaustively
exposed by journalists and scholars as one
of the great hoaxes of the 20th century. Some
skeptics have expressed concern that the proliferation
and popularity of books, websites and films
inspired by this hoax have contributed to
the problem of conspiracy theories, pseudohistory
and other confusions becoming more mainstream.
Others are troubled by the romantic reactionary
ideology unwittingly promoted in these works.
Nevertheless, many conspiracy theorists still
believe that the Priory of Sion is an age-old
cabal that conceals a subversive secret.
