Sacred Geometry
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‘. ![poussingeometry[4]](http://www.rlcresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/poussingeometry4.jpg)
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.
©2007-2008 rlcresearch.com, all rights reserved. Lincoln Pentacle Placemarks by Mariano Tomatis
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May 29th, 2008 at 09:16
Hey Bob,
You’re totally right, this simple important information, though easy to gather, is desperately missing. We can find some lists here and there, but they’re all quite short.
Here’s one : http://www.renneslechateau.com/anglais/gps.htm
Some coordinates can be found on wikipedia as well, for example http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Just-et-le-B%C3%A9zu
But we need the coordinates of churches, not those of the middle of the village.
Actually, a map of the area (IGN 2347 OT : Quillan Allet-les-Bains) gives this information. It has several grids (kilometric and Lat-Lon), and you don’t even need those grids since you can measure the points’ positions in millimeters and keep working in millimeters. Putman and Wood did it (published in their book “The Treasure Of Rennes-le-Château - A Mystery Solved”), I did it too (and sometimes disagree with their measurement but not much), and I suppose many people did it.
What if the map is wrong? So far, it has never been wrong enough for me to notice anything (well, yes: once, but it was just a path on the way up to Cardou, not a building). Then again, I don’t have a GPS myself :(.
Henry Lincoln should open a website soon, maybe he plans to publish the coordinates there. If not, that’s a suggestion we could make.
May 29th, 2008 at 03:57
Where are all the “precise” Lat-Lon values for these apex points? The Google maps are not too good as you can’t zoom in very tight. With all the handheld GPS units available now, it seems like some local people should have positioned these points by now. (I live in California USA so can’t do it myself) Same thing with other places like Egyptian pyramids, Mexican sites, etc.
I would be nice to have an internet location with a database of Lat-Lon.
May 8th, 2008 at 13:17
Hey, so you too noticed that the position given by Google Map for the Château de Blanchefort is wrong ? It is indeed where you (or Mariano Tomatis) placed your blue pin, close to the road, not in the middle of nowhere like Google says. I don’t decide Google is wrong because I have faith in Lincoln, but simply because I went there in person and also my IGN map agrees with me. It’s been wrong for two years and I have no idea whom I should talk to to get it corrected. Shall we see some conspiracy from Google ? :p
I’ve been working on the RLC geometry for a little while, doing some statistical analysis of the positions, distances, angles, and alignments in the area. I must confess that I’m a bit disappointed. I was really hoping that the distances repartition histogram would show some peaks for the English mile, for the pentacle lines length, etc., but it did not. Same, I was hoping that the statistical analysis would show more pentagonal angles (36, 72 degrees and such) than we could normally have, but it did not. And I could not find more or less alignments than those that can be found on an randomly generated imaginary map…
But it does not mean that there is nothing! It only means that the first ‘easy’ approach which considers one parameter independently from the others fails at showing anything special.
That was only the beginning of my studies. I have now to do more complex things. Correlations between several variables to link lengths and angles together, maybe some geometrical shapes detection…
Anyway, I really look forward walking in the Temple again. Still one month to wait before my vacation :).