l’Hermitage, within the Cromleck of Rennes-les-Bains. During the 1st Empire, a soldier installed himself here and created a picturesque garden for himself.

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It was Henry Lincoln, co-author of bestseller the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail who noticed that many of the sites that figure in the mystery of Rennes-le-Château have very precise geometric relations with eachother. Frustrated by the fact that there were too little tangible hard facts underpinning his hypotheses from his book Holy Blood Holy Grail, Lincoln turned to the things that everybody can go see for themselves that are around Rennes-le-Château: the churches, the roadside crosses, the castles etc. What he discovered is that the Templar Château at Bezu, the Château de Blanchefort and the village of Rennes-le-Château lie in a perfect triangle. Combined with the hilltops of la Soulane and Terre de Lauzet, a perfect giant pentacle can be drawn on the landscape. According to Lincoln this makes it a holy place which might be an important reason why the region was so popular by religious and mystic groups through the ages. The author suggests that this information was known by secret societies through the ages.

The Lincoln Pentacle

Lincoln brings an astrological, almost romantic argument to the table to substantiate his claim that Rennes-le-Château is part of a holy pentacle. The planet of Venus has been closely associated with Mary-Magdalene through the ages. Each planet moves in a pattern around the sun. All are irregular with the exception of Venus that, regular like clockwork, draws a pentacle every eight years. As above, as below, said the ancient alchemists. Here is Venus, drawing the symbol of the Magdalene in the sky over the perfect pentacle below on the ground at Rennes-le-Château where the church is devoted to her. You can read more about this in his book ‘the Holy Place‘. Lincoln’s discovery set off an army of amateur surveyors that have found a bewildering number of simple to very complex shapes around Rennes-le-Château and far beyond. They have led to many theories, varying from Rennes-le-Château being part of the floor plan of Solomon’s temple to Jesus’ body lying buried inside mount Cardou. The story gets both more traction and complexity when you realize that painters like Teniers and Poussin, of whose paintings Saunière allegedly bought reproductions at the Louvre in 1892, used many of the forms and shapes found to construct their paintings around. The picture here on the left is a geometrical study by the late Professor Cornford of Poussin’s painting les Bergers d’Arcadie. There is a possibility that geometry is part of the treasure map Bigou or Saunière left us. The geometry in the two encoded parchments the Abbé found is perceived by many to be the one of the keys that leads to whatever the secret is.

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The locations associated with the mystery of Rennes-le-Château can be found in the French Languedoc-Roussillon area. Roughly the area is marked by the city of Carcassonne in the North, the Pyrenees in the South and Perpignan on the Eastern perimeter.

The two main areas of focus in the mystery are the region around Rennes-le-Château and Rennes-les-Bains (RED rectangle) and the Perillos region (BLUE rectangle).

The most important place is Rennes-le-Château itself. Here you’ll find the, domain, of Abbé Saunière, the church of St. Mary Magdalene that he renovated and refurbished as well as the Château Hautpoul, once home to the important Hautpoul-Blanchefort family that appear to be at the root of the mystery.

The Château de Blanchefort and the Château de Bézu, both play a role in local legends involving the Knights Templar.

Montazels is the birthplace of Abbé Saunière.

Rennes-les-Bains is the place where Abbé Boudet wrote his enigmatic work La Vraie Language Celtique in which he allegedly hid 12 hding places of treasure. It is also the village where you’ll find Mount Cardou, the Devil’s Armchair, the Source of the Circle, the Source of the Madeleine and the enigmatic tombs of Abbé Jean Vié and Paul-Urbain de Fleury.

In Coustaussa you’ll find the ruined Château de Coustaussa and the church and presbytery once inhabited by Abbé Gélis who’s incredibly violent murder was never solved and might have a relation to the mystery.

Mount Bugarach is the most prominent landmark in the area, steeped in mystery and legend.

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Saunière allegedly depicted the area around the ruined village of Perillos on a model of the Holy Places he ordered just before his death. The landscape features a perfect triangle between the chapel of the ruined Château de Salvaterra, the chapel of Oriole and the chapel of St. Michael in the ruined village of Perillos.

The Château or (Forteresse), the Salses was built by the Aragon’s, once rulers of this part of France that feature in the Perillos myths and legends.

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Emma Calvé (Rosa-Emma Calvet) 1858-1942 was one of the most famous opera singers of her day. She was deeply attracted to, and a leading participant in, the thriving esoteric scene in Paris, taking as a lover one of the most renowned occultists of the time, Jules Bois.

In 1894 Emma bought a château at Cabrières in the Aveyron region. This was said to be the place where the book of Abraham the Jew, used by the great medieval alchemist Nicolas Flamel, was hidden. A book written in 1655 by Pierre Borel makes this connection: Now the book by which Flamel said he came to achieve the Great Work is that of Abraham the Jew. Many have worked to recover it… but these searches have been useless. I have nevertheless been assured by a gentleman of Rouergue called M. de Cabrières, tenant of his château of Cabrières near Millau, where I went specially to see this Monsieur, that he had the original of this book, which M. le Cardinal de Richelieu recovered a short time before his death. Allegedly, Saunière met this internationally acclaimed opera-star on one of his trips to Paris.

Emma was often to be found at St. Sulpice, mystic heart of the French capital at the time. It is there that Gérard de Sède claimed they first met in his book The Accursed Treasure of Rennes-le-Château. It is said Calvé and the Abbé had a passionate affair. It is a fact that villagers of Rennes-le-Château have testified hearing a strong and melodic opera voice singing during some of Saunière’s lavish parties in the Villa Bethania. There’s, no tangible proof however that Calvé ever set foot in Rennes-le-Château.

Recording of Emma Calvé from 1907

Emma Calvé was member of a Martinist order as demonstrated by her signature on this document made in Paris on November 11th, 1892, at the cabaret “Chat Noir”. It shows her signature and “SI” or “Supérieur Inconnu”, the third degree of the Martinist Order. It is said Saunière was member of a Martinist lodge in Lyon. Calvé’s tomb in Milau shows some esoteric imagery like an iron bee. Emma Calvé is said to have been related to Melanie Calvet, the farmer girl who saw the Virgin Mary at La Salette.

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Also called Château d’Albedun or Albezun. This ruined castle on the 823 metre summit overlooking the village of St. Just-et-le-Bézu is part of the giant pentacle that Brithish author and researcher Henry Lincoln described in his book the Holy Place. The other points of the pentacle are the Château de Blanchefort, Rennes-le-Château and the hilltops of la Soulane and Terre de Lauzet.

From the 11th till the 13th century the Château was home to the Lords of Albedun. In 1151, Bernard I Sermon of Albedun joined the Knights Templar. His family donated substantial sums to the order. During the Albigensean Crusade, the Sermons embraced the Cathar faith. Bernard II Sermon offered his castle to Simon de Montfort but for an unknow reason, De Montfort allowed the Sermons to keep their residence. He took advantage of this very rare privilege by hiding the Cathar bishop Guilhabert de Castres and Parfait Guillaume Bernard Hunaud from 1229. For this reason, the French King gave the castle to Pierre de Voisins in 1231, who was also the new owner of the Château of Blanchefort and the Château Hautpoul in Rennes-le-Château.

There are some intriguing things going on with the Sermon family. While all other nobles of Cathar faith where ruthlessly prosecuted and executed by the French, the Lords of Albedun kept most of their privileges and their lives. They also never had to borrow a penny from anyone but financed the Counts of Carcassonne and donated enormous amounts of money to the Knights Templar. It is unclear where all this money came from.

In 1307 the castle was inhabited by Othon d’Aure, vassal to the count, who was accused of counterfeiting money by agents of the French King Charles V. In 1344 when members of the Voisins family inhabited the Château, Brunissende who was Jacques de Voisins spouse and her brother in law and nephew of Pope Benedict XII Guillaume de Cathala were accused of the same thing. The accusation was not that they produced fake money without precious metal but rather proper but unauthorized golden coins. Here too it was unclear where all the gold came from.

In his book Rennes-le-Château et l’énigme de l’or maudit, French veteran author and researcher Jean Markale claims that the Templars inhabiting the Château de Bézu were the only ones not arrested on the notorious Friday 13th October 1307. In contrast to all other Templars in France they reported to the Counts of Barcelona.

According to a local legend, the well in a farmhouse in the nearby hamlet of Baruteaux contains a silver bell that rings every year in the night from 12th to 13th October. The ringing marks the start of a procession of Ghosts that walk from the cemetery to the Château de Bézu.

Château de Bézu on video by David Williams

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