nicknicknicknick reviewed The Holy Grail Revealed by P. A. Fanthorpe
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3 stars
1) ''Just how disorganized and infiltrated by barbarians Rome had become by this period may be realized by recalling that Stilicho, a Pannonian Vandal, was Alaric's chief rival, that the legions in Gaul were commanded by a Frank, and that Emperor Theodosius I was a Spaniard whose power depended on the support of Visigothic legionaries. The Roman frontiers in 410 were merely areas of dispute between the authorized barbarians inside and the unauthorized barbarians outside.''
2) ''Merovingians had intricate genealogies, legendary adventures, and hidden treasure. Cathars had high ideals, strange secrets, and hidden treasures. The Templars combined most of these factors: they were rashly adventurous, mysterious, and reputedly the wealthiest order in medieval Christendom.
The dawn of Catharism mingled with the Merovingian sunset; the Templars and Cathars were contemporaries for all but the last fifty years of Templarism. To try to trace the possible nature and route of the treasure …
1) ''Just how disorganized and infiltrated by barbarians Rome had become by this period may be realized by recalling that Stilicho, a Pannonian Vandal, was Alaric's chief rival, that the legions in Gaul were commanded by a Frank, and that Emperor Theodosius I was a Spaniard whose power depended on the support of Visigothic legionaries. The Roman frontiers in 410 were merely areas of dispute between the authorized barbarians inside and the unauthorized barbarians outside.''
2) ''Merovingians had intricate genealogies, legendary adventures, and hidden treasure. Cathars had high ideals, strange secrets, and hidden treasures. The Templars combined most of these factors: they were rashly adventurous, mysterious, and reputedly the wealthiest order in medieval Christendom.
The dawn of Catharism mingled with the Merovingian sunset; the Templars and Cathars were contemporaries for all but the last fifty years of Templarism. To try to trace the possible nature and route of the treasure of Rennes-le-Château, it is as necessary to take a detailed look at the Templars as it is to examine the treasures of Jerusalem and Rome and the secrets of the Visigoths and Cathars.''
3) ''For us the wildest theory is still the most interesting one. If the core of the treasure is a strange artifact, an inexplicable power source created by some ancient, long-forgotten technology, or brought to Earth in a starship, what can it do and where did it originate? Thus is the Grail finally revealed, and for us, at least, the journey is over.''