British Dowsing Forum

"Religious sentiment" versus material gain

or both...:

MORE than £250,000 a year could be raised by a campaign to create Scotland's first modern saint, the priest behind the plan said last night.

Click here. And some of the comments after the article are well worth a read!

Fr Ed, known to some parishioners as "Father Cash",

(Sorry if it's a wee bit off-topic...but it's a good story....)

from Rennessence...

The long-awaited Bloodline DVD will be released on September 16th and can be ordered now. At the same time, the Bloodline Team is releasing ' The Priory of Sion Dossiers', a 114 page collection of correspondence and documents from Nicolas Haywood and the Priory of Sion including the famous 'Dossiers Secrets'. It is claimed to contain documents that have never been released before about Rennes-le-Château and its associated mystery.

CLICK HERE for more

Ian

from the Daily Telegraph...

Knights Templar heirs in legal battle with the Pope

The heirs of the Knights Templar have launched a legal battle in Spain to force the Pope to restore the reputation of the disgraced order which was accused of heresy and dissolved seven centuries ago.

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Ian

An Icelandic Grail-Quest has ended in failure...

The Grail quest of Italian cryptographer Giancarlo Gianazza and architect Thórarinn Thórarinsson is officially over. The pair made headlines earlier this year by publicly presenting their theory that the Holy Grail was hidden in the Kjölur Mountain pass in Iceland.

CLICK HERE to read the report.

Ian

I have dowsed that the Holy Grail is not a thing but, if it is anything, it is a person....probably Mary Magdalene.

Geoff

The following comment was made by Brian Kannard of Grail Seekers. It pre-dates the report about the failed Icelandic Grail-Hunt.

Brian Kannard wrote:Call me dumber than a sack of hammers, but I’ve never seen the significance of the points that most theorists chose to find their hidden geometry/meaning in paintings. Or for that matter why some elements of a painting have significance while others do not. Gianazza points out in Botticelli’s painting Spring, that five of the nine figures encode a date. What significance do the other figures have? One would think that all the elements would hold significance. Maybe art just isn’t my thing…

from HERE

Ian

ROME (Reuters) - A 25-year-old man who tried to kill a priest by stabbing him in a Rome church has told police that he did so after the watching the film "The Da Vinci Code" and believing himself to be the anti-Christ.

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Ian

from the National Library of Wales website...

Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci

To celebrate the sixtieth birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales, ten of the Royal Collection’s finest drawings by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) will be shown in the National Library [of Wales] for the first time. The Royal Collection contains the world’s most important group of the artist’s drawings. These delicate works are preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle and are among the greatest treasures of the Collection.

CLICK HERE to find out more...

Ian

from Radio Rennessence...

Sneak Preview of Rennes-le-Château’s new Museum

On March 1st, the village of Rennes-le-Château in the French Languedoc will see the opening of the renovated museum in the Presbytery. The museum is dedicated to the French priest Bérenger Saunière, who is at the heart of the famous Mystery of Rennes-le-Château.

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Ian

from the BBC...

Spoon-bender buys Scottish island

Celebrity spoon-bender Uri Geller has bought a tiny Scottish island he believes has links to the pyramids at Giza and the Knights Templar.

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Ian

Dan Brown seems to be at it again with a new book.

"Brown reveals on his website that the new book will see Langdon "embroiled in a mystery on US soil" for the first time. "This new novel explores the hidden history of our nation's capital," he writes. Internet speculation has suggested the novel will focus on the Freemasons." see.....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/fe ... ron-howard

I understand that the downtown area, at least, of DC was designed according, according to some, to Masonic principles by a laddie called L'Enfant. see..

http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-maso ... on_dc.html

The diagonal roads in DC that are imposed on the grid pattern mostly comprise six-lane highways and these add to the proliferation of traffic lights and 'Stop' signs that grid patterns inevitably produce.
Many grid crossroads have 'Stop All Way' (sic) signs where the 'first to come - first to go' rule works, at least in theory.

Geoff

According to IMDB, Ron Howard's Angel's and Demons movie is in post-production and is due for release on 15th of May.

The book was a prequel, but the movie is a sequel to The Da Vinci Code.

Many grid crossroads have 'Stop All Way' (sic) signs where the 'first to come - first to go' rule works, at least in theory.

Trust the freemasons to invent grid-lock ! It's a conspiracy !

Ian

george: People talk of the Holy Grail being a cup, when in actual fact it is not the cup that needs to be found, but what is contained in it.
As it is a symbol of the blood of Jesus.

Sorry...which "actual facts"? Where is the proof/evidence? Who says & why?

from the BBC...

Da Vinci Code sequel set for 2009

A sequel to Dan Brown's conspiracy theory novel The Da Vinci Code will be published on 15 September 2009.

The Lost Symbol will follow hero Robert Langdon through a 12-hour time-frame.

CLICK HERE to read the article


P.S. This thread turned 3 years old just recently...Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you...

Ian

The Archbishop is a Druid..........belongs to the respectable branch in Wales....thats okay by me.......tries to hide his belonging to the guise of bard...the music and the artys...but Druidism was very much a religeous grouping...em..........I have been a Cof E priest for many years.....I have mostly found the Church to be dogmatic......all truth belongs to them and there is no further truth to be revealed...the Church aint the only ones...they are also just too defensive foe me........it the goods they have are as good as they say then they are well able to defend themselves. Me..I wandered into a more esoteric mysicism type of belief.........dont have much to do with the Church these days but retain my credentials.........I am not knocking the Arch chap...he does seem pretty open to me and I retaing good friends in the Church..but have also lost a few..its a caser of conform or you cant be one of us.....I enjoyed the Davinci Code.........good fun but nothing to worry too much about..and I do think that everone involved in the Church should read widely as Claud Bernard said.'it is what we think we know that stops us from learning' or Martgaret Silf in her book on Celtic ways...'the spirit of the way will not allow us to forever stay within these artificial certainties'. I wonder if The Arch preached what he really wanted to or did he preaach what he thought might float the boat as it were....controversey always gets good press and boy does the Church need some right now.