Inside the Priory of Sion - images (all are copyright to author unless otherwise stated)
This map was released to me in around 2010. At the time there were several incidents of vandalism occurring in the graveyard by treasure hunters so I chose not to publish it. Since that time the entire graveyard has been excavcated and, surprise, no treasure found. Please treat the area with the utmost respect. Take nothing, leave nothing, do no harm.
The Asmodeus statue at Rennes-le-Chateau (photo credit: Rob Howells). Builder of Solomon's temple which inspired Masonic temples to follow. I always thought it intersting that when God challenged Solomon to build a temple without making a sound solomon chose to summon and bind a demon to do his bidding and not an angel.
Anima sculpture by Bernini provided the inspiriation for the Asmodeus statue at Rennes-le-Chateau (Photo credit: Wiki Commons license).
The altar at the Church of Mary Magdalene, Rennes-le-Chateau depicts Mary Magdalene kneeling beside a burial market cross that has two live shoots emerging from it. It was the only piece in the church the Priest Sauniere is thought to have painted himself (photo credit: Rob Howells).
Detail of the landscape outside the cave shows a ruined chateau and a peaked mountain (photo credit: Rob Howells).
View of the ruined chateau of Coustassa and the peak of Pech Cardou, visible from the road leading to Rennes-le-Chateau (photo credit: Rob Howells).
Fr Berenger Saunier's priestly robe depicting the pelican feeding its young from the blood of its own breast. This is also the symbol of the 33rd degree, the highest rank in Freemasonry (photo credit: Rob Howells).
Hermet tarot card with ZION motif on the staff. Attributed to Jean Cocteau (photo credit: Rob Howells).
Priory of Sion frontispiece (photo credit: Rob Howells).
The Dossiers Secrets were treated as a ‘pigeon hole‘ for members of the order to leave relevant fragments and notes for each other. It was a gathering of material reflecting Sion and its aims that could be easily identified by those who were in possession of related material. The version that first surfaced in the 1950s was in the Biblitheque Nationale in Psris. (photo credit: Rob Howells).
Cover of Le Serpent Rouge as circulated to people of interest tot he Priory of Sion in the 1960s and 1970s (photo credit: Rob Howells). There said to be hardcover copies of these bound in either red or black but none have surfaced.
The 14th station of the cross at the Church of Mary Magdalene, Rennes-le-Chateau (photo credit: Rob Howells).
Pilgrim's badge of the Head of Christ, found at Val Deu. Pilgrimmage badges are common in the area because of the proximity to one of the routes Santiago (photo credit: Rob Howells).
The only copy of the lost Tenier's painting of St Anthony. This relates to the parchements that mention Teniers and to the Paris Meridian (photo credit: Rob Howells).
Inside the Priory of Sion
Robert Howells
ISBN: 978
Watkins Publishing Ltd - October 2012
