By Laurence Gardner
From the best-selling writer of The Bloodline of the Holy Grail and misplaced secrets and techniques of the Sacred Ark comes an explosive ancient detective tale featuring mystery information at the mysterious lifetime of Mary Magdalene, the hidden lineage of Jesus and Mary, and the genuine two-thousand-year-old conspiracy concerning the full heritage of Christianity. Mary Magdalene is defined within the New testomony as Jesus' shut significant other -- a lady he enjoyed and his monetary sponsor. And but, against this, the Church teaches that she used to be a prostitute who grew to become repentant. Why the discrepancy among scripture and dogma? Why does Mary attraction so romantically to artists who've painted her during the centuries as whatever even more major than the Church usually portrays? what's the mystery of Mary Magdalene and what kind of will we relatively find out about her dating with Jesus? have been they married? Did they've got young children, and if that is so, who makes up the messianic lineage?Laurence Gardner takes us on a detective path to piece jointly the real debatable importance of the Magdalene tale and its striking implications. those comprise the true da Vinci connection -- the genuine that means in the back of Leonardo da Vinci's work and why the Renaissance Church censored portrayals of the Magdalene -- and data at the sacred marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Plus the reality in regards to the enigmatic Templar society known as the Priory of Scion and the underground circulation that secure the sacred history of the messianic descendents. and lots more and plenty extra!
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The historian Flavius Josephus was Commander of Galilee during the unsuccessful Jewish Revolt against the Romans in AD 66, and he wrote of Magdala using the alternative Greek name Taricheae. In his 1st-century Wars of the Jews, Josephus recorded that around 40,000 people lived there at that time. 14 Subsequently, he related, about 6,500 of them were slaughtered in the great land and sea battles that ensued against the Roman troops of General Flavius Titus. 15 As with Magdal Nunaiya, many other Gospel locations are cited with different names.
According to etymological dictionaries, the word 'allegory' comes from two Greek words - allos (other) and agoria (speaking aloud). It is a figurative description that relates to the broadcast of an underlying significance or meaning - something in addition to the literal sense that is superficially conveyed, and which is not always readily apparent. Allegory can be expressed in both written language and art. Fables and parables are allegories - simple stories on the surface, but having moralistic or social implications within.
The historian Flavius Josephus was Commander of Galilee during the unsuccessful Jewish Revolt against the Romans in AD 66, and he wrote of Magdala using the alternative Greek name Taricheae. In his 1st-century Wars of the Jews, Josephus recorded that around 40,000 people lived there at that time. 14 Subsequently, he related, about 6,500 of them were slaughtered in the great land and sea battles that ensued against the Roman troops of General Flavius Titus. 15 As with Magdal Nunaiya, many other Gospel locations are cited with different names.