Holy Grail

The article was expected to detail the discovery of a 4th century parchment which references Jesus" wife.The controversial discovery was made by Professor Karen King who announced in September that dialogue written in Coptic on the parchment seemed to include a reference by Jesus which translates to "my wife". The delay in the publication of an article set to detail a full analysis of the parchment has cast new doubts on its authenticity."Publication ofProf.

King’s paper has been delayed, so that the results of the testing may be incorporated," said Kathryn Dodgson, director of communications for Harvard Divinity School. So far the discovery has been met with significant criticism with even the Vatican declaring it a fake. "There are thousands of scraps of papyrus where you find crazy things," said Coptic linguist Wolf-Peter Funk. "It can be anything." A long-awaited article on a Coptic papyrus fragment believed to reference the wife of Jesus hasbeen left out of the Harvard Theological Review, furthering doubts about the artifact’s authenticity.  

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A message inked on an ancient scrap of papyrus seems to suggest that Jesus may have been married.The controversial discovery was made public yesterday by historian Karen L King at an international meeting of Coptic scholars. The scrap of papyrus is thought to have been written in the 4th century and is no bigger than a business card. In faded letters the text includes the words "Jesus said to them, "My wife.." and further on it reads "she will be able to be my disciple."The owner of the parchment has asked to remain anonymous, however experts who have studied ithave so far concluded that it is unlikely to be a forgery.

If it turns out to be genuine then it could reignite the debate over whether Jesus was married and, as long rumored, whether his wife could have been Mary Magdalene. The discussion is particularly animated in the Roman Catholic Church, where despite calls for change, the Vatican has reiterated the teaching that the priesthood cannot be opened to women and married men because of the model set by Jesus.  

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Did Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci paint his likeness in to one of his most famous paintings ?Art expert Ross King believes that Da Vinci used his own image when he painted Thomas and James the Lesser in The Last Supper. The claim is partly based on a poem by Da Vinci"s friend Gasparo Visconti who made references suggesting that Da Vinci may have included his likeness in some of hispaintings.

A chalk drawing thought to portray Da Vinci from 1515 also bears resemblance to the two figures in The Last Supper."The Last Supper is the only work that no one - either crackpot or academic - has tried to identify as a Leonardo portrait," said King. In humorous verse, Visconti mocks an unnamed artist for putting his self-portrait into his paintings – "however handsome it may be" – and with his own "actions and ways", namelygestures and expressions.  

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Dan Green: In the small town of Royston, Hertfordshire, there stands a stone that signifies the intersection of two straight roads orientated to the cardinal directions. This ‘Roi Stone’ or ‘Rose Stone’ has been moved a short distance to rectify hindering traffic, but what remains in the same place is the artificial cave below it, a circular beehive-shaped chamber some 26’ high, with a 17’ diameter, discovered accidently in 1742 by workmen who dug around the curious stone and discovered a shaft leading below into the chalk. It was more than half buried beneath soil, similar one might say to a time capsule, and when emptied revealed medieval carvings of the KnightsTemplar, who founded nearby Baldock.

To this day the carvings, suspected to tell a story best kept secret, remain open to interpretation, apart from a singular and reservedly conventional attempt. More excited devotees of the KT, who prefer to view the Order as one who were custodians and guardians of a great secret and who had somehow gained an access to knowledge way ahead of their time - ‘a complete and absolute knowledge’(obviously related and allied to the explosive secret they kept) - still await an induction into the ancient hieroglyphic language of the ‘Rabbit’ and how Druids and the Templars used this veiled and coded language to communicate. Perhaps, employing what amount I do know of this codex, the time to brave a wider scope attempt to have the story of this wellpreserved frieze at the Royston cave, is now. We are going to see how the Templars code hid the very thing that the Roman Catholic Church feared discovery of the most – the workings of the female body, and a sacred marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, the woman they character assassinated to paint as a ‘whore’, and in doing so desecrate the concept of the sacred feminine and the spiritual act of the Heiros Gamos. To initiate us into how the Rabbit language works, we shall look at the symbol of the Templars, two knights sharing one horse.

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