Templar Shaft
Early 2000, Dutch bestselling author and researcher Klaas van Urk discovered a narrow shaft hidden high on Mount Cardou. He had been led to the location using the Rennes-le-Château parchments, the Coumesourde stone and the enigmatic text of La Serpent Rouge. Some 15 metres down in the shaft, that is located on a difficult location high on Mount Cardou, he discovered an engraved Templar emblem, an eight-pointed star.
Van Urk (1958) has so far been known to the public only in the Netherlands and Belgium as well as in a small but exquisite, predominantly French circle of long time researchers. His book Search for the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant was a bestseller in the Netherlands. In his 10-year quest for the Ark of the Covenant he followed the trail of its whereabouts across Israel, Ethiopia and the South of France. Like no other, he knitted all the known and lesser known facts together in a compelling and believable account of what really happened to the Ark and its contents.
In February 2008, a combined team of Belgian and Dutch researchers returned to Mount Cardou to let an infrared camera down the shaft on a 100 metres long rope. Objective was to see how deep the shaft is and where it ends. You can now see the Templar engraving for yourself.
The discovery of the shaft and the rest of Klaas’ adventures in search of the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail were discussed in English in the interview he gave to Radio Rennessence in July 2007 and in his (Dutch) book Search of the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant. Klaas is preparing a much awaited English translation of his book and is preparing a second one.
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May 14th, 2008 at 16:40
Klaas van Urk discovered it using the ‘view finder’ stone on Blanchefort. That’s all I can say.
Take care | Raven
May 14th, 2008 at 01:23
what are the cordanantes of the shaft
March 6th, 2008 at 15:01
Hi Niriel,
Thanks for your comment!
As far as I have been able to check, the eight-pointed stars on Blanchefort, Devil’s Armchair and a number of other location all have circles around them and look relatively new. The one in the shaft looks much older and doesn’t have a circle.
I know the story of someone engraving all landmarks in the Rennes-les-Bains area with his ‘Mary-Magdalene-star’ as he calls them (since the eight-pointed cross is made out of 4 M’s).
Take care | Raven
March 6th, 2008 at 11:44
I saw such crosses at different places: in the ruins of the Bezu castle, on the armchair of devil, on a small cliff next to a river close to Rennes-les-Bains (there is also a bench here for the journeyers to rest). I took some photos of them (I’m unfortunately posting from my office and don’t have them here). There are probably more to be found.
Someone in Rennes-les-Bains told me he know the person carving them. Then again, I would never bet my life on one of his sentences.
Nevertheless, all of those crosses look very fake to me. In particular, they seem too fresh, too recent: the rock still look clear in the carving, while I would expect the erosion and dirt to make it way less sharp and visible. Then again, I am not an expert.
Another curiosity for those who feel like climbing Cardou up to the top: it’s full of small rocks up there, a bit bigger than a fist. If you pay attention, you’ll see they form a pattern: a occitan cross of about 5 meters diameter. Nope, I didn’t make it! :)