Lynn Picknett

¿Fue María Magdalena la verdadera sucesora de Jesús, y no Pedro, cuya pretendida autoridad ha sido siempre la piedra angular de la Iglesia católica? La mujer más marginada de la historia sagradaTradicionalmente representada como una figura marginal, prostituta reformada y penitente que gozaba de la protección de Jesús, la María Magdalena que conocemos es inferior en todo a los discípulos. Sin embargo, los Evangelios gnósticos revelan que para la Iglesia primitiva sólo Jesús la superó en importancia. A lo largo de las páginas de esta obra se plantean numerosos enigmas y cues tiones desafiantes: ¿Fue María Magdalena una sacerdotisa itinerante, originaria de Etiopía, instructora de magia sexual? ¦ ¿Se debe al color de su piel la posterior adoración a las vírgenes negras? ¦ ¿Llegó a casarse con Jesús? ¿Fue su relación únicamente una pasión ilícita? ¿Es cierto que tuvieron descendencia? ¦ ¿Qué conexión hubo entre María Magdalena y Juan el Bautista? ¿Pudo convertirse la cabeza de éste en el auténtico Grial? ¿Es cierto que algunos consideraron a San Juan como el verdadero profeta y a Jesús un mero impostor?.

In 1988, carbon dating of the worlds most famous Christian relic revealed that it was a mediaeval or Renaissance forgery. Yet many questions remained. How could a hoaxer of 500 or more years ago have created an image that appears so astonishingly lifelike when seen in photographic negative? How was such an image formed? And who would have dared fake the Holy Shroud of Jesus? Setting out to answer these questions, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince discovered that the faker was none other than Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance artist, scientist, inventor - and hoaxer - whose innovations are acknowledged to have been centuries ahead of his time. They also reconstructed Leonardos secret technique - becoming the first ever to recreate the Shroud image.Now revised and updated, sensationally the new 2006 edition of Turin Shroud presents the long-lost hard evidence to link the Shroud of Turin directly with Leonardo da Vinci. Perhaps this is even his confession to having faked Christianitys most sacred relic, which will astonish both believers and sceptics alike, and present a new challenge to historians of both art and photography.

The ultimate guide to the history, background and meaning of whether UFOs really exist, plus associated phenomena such as alien abduction, crop circles and cattle mutilations. There is also a comprehensive overview of the many conspiracy theories which surround UFOs and abductions - from the craft as secret Nazi technology to weird CIA plots. Written by a ufologist with many years in the field, this exciting and highly provocative book at times reads like a thriller. What messages do UFOs hold for us and for the future of life on earth?

In the tradition of the bestselling "The Sign and the Seal" and "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", this daring investigation exposes the existence of a secret religion whose teachings challenge the Church's assumptions about the identity of the true Messiah. of photos.

Tradicionalmente representada como una figura marginal, prostituta reformada y penitente que gozaba de la protección de Jesús, la María Magdalena que conocemos es inferior en todo a los discípulos. Sin embargo, los Evangelios gnosticos revelan que para la Iglesia primitiva solo Jesus la supero en importancia. Lynn Picknett revela en este libro que casi todo lo que la Iglesia catolica manifiesta sobre Maria Magdalena no es sino un intento deliberado de encubrir incomodas verdades. Una obra provocadora que presenta deslumbrantes y polemicas teorias sobre la mujer mas marginada de la historia sagrada.

Friendly Fire explores the intrigue and treachery between - and within - the nations that were ostensibly allies during the Second World War. It demonstrates the extent to which the Allied war effort was driven by vested interests, primarily concerned with the balance of power in the post-war world rather than the defeat of Germany and Japan. These machinations prolonged the duration of the war by as much as two years and the end results were a Europe divided between East and West, and the onset of the Cold War. The theme of 'friendly fire' - casualties inflicted on one's own side - connects the various aspects of this book. The Allied leaders deliberately misled their own citizens about the real reasons they were fighting, resorting to dirty tricks and even assassination to protect their true agendas. As Friendly Fire reveals, every one of the wartime governments had its own guilty secret. Among the many revelations, we learn how, for its own economic ends, the Roosevelt administration actively encouraged the war between Britain and Germany, and how Anglo-American relations during the Second World War were characterised by suspicion, mistrust and a struggle for future supremacy. The authors detail how British agents tricked Hitler into declaring war on the US in order to bring America into the European conflict and how, under the guise of war aid, the US gave the USSR the means to establish itself as a world superpower - including, from 1943, the secrets of the atom bomb. Friendly Fire is based on extensive research undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic and contains information obtained from important archives and the testimonies of those individuals actively involved in the events. It relays the shocking truth about now-legendary figures - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - who actively shaped the destiny of countless millions, and details the real agenda behind the formation of the post-war world and the consequences for us all.

An essential notion in the #1 New York Times bestseller The Da Vinci Code is the existence of an age-old French society, the Priory of Sion, whose task it is to protect Christs sacred bloodline. In The Sion Revelation, Picknett and Prince reveal the story of the Priory, taking readers on a highly significant, disturbing, and even alarming ride through history into an intriguing world where a great many uncomfortable facts will have to be faced, both religious and political. Drawing on a wealth of astonishing evidence, they answer numerous questions that shroud this society, including: Does the Priory actually exist or is the groups entire history an elaborate hoax? Was Leonardo da Vinci really one of the Priorys Grand Masters? What is the truth behind Pierre Plantard, the enigmatic French aristocrat who claimed to be a Priory Grand Master -- and who some claim was a Nazi sympathizer? Could the Priory be a front for other occult societies in Europe with religious or even political agendas? By carefully untangling centuries of obfuscation, rumor, and documented fact, The Sion Revelation unravels the great intricacies of this secret society and takes us on a historical journey that is as groundbreaking in its explanation as it is riveting in its telling.

This book is not intended as an attack on Christianity of the Christ of faith, but is an assessment of all the historical evidence about Jesus Christ.Although there is a huge literature on the subject - theological, historical, mythical, New Age and speculative - almost all of it is aimed at a niche market. The Masks of Christ is very different, being a mainstream book aimed at everyone. For the first time, all the various theories and facts about Jesus are considered between the covers of one accessible book.As the phenomenal sales of The Da Vinci Code continue to fuel a growing global appetite for questioning the old certainities and assumptions about Christianity and what it says about its founder, never has there been a more perfect time to launch The Masks of Christ.

No decurso das suas investigações sobre o Sudário de Turim e Leonardo da Vinci, Lynn Picknett e Clive Prince descobriram indícios fortíssimos a respeito de um dos segredos mais bem guardados da histó

In her new account of an old religion, Lynn Picknett explains that Lucifer means the light bringer and was a personification of the Morning Star, the planet Venus and its goddess. He was originally she -- a divine representation of love, light and human warmth. The early Christian Church appropriated the name Lucifer, and it became synonymous with darkness and the Devil. Yet many great thinkers have covertly followed the old Luciferan way, most famously Leonardo da Vinci, who encrypted the symbols of his heretical beliefs in his work, visible only to those who have the key.

Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Universe reveals the secret brotherhood that defined the world, and perhaps discovered the mind of God.All the pioneers of science, from Copernicus to Newton via Galileo, were inspired by Hermeticism. Men such as Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Bacon, Kepler, Tycho Brahe - even Shakespeare - owed much of their achievements to basically occult beliefs - the hermetica. In this fascinating study, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince go in search of the Hermetic origins of modern science and prove that not everything is as it seems and that over the past 400 years there has been a secret agenda behind our search for truth. From the age of Leonardo da Vinci, the influence of hermetic thinking upon the greatest minds in history has been hidden, a secret held by a forbidden brotherhood in search of the mind of God. Yet this search does not end in history but can be found in the present day - in the contemporary debates of leading evolutionists and thinkers. The significance of this hidden school can hardly be over-emphasised. Not only did it provide a spiritual and philosophical background to the rise of modern science, but its worldview is also relevant to those hungry for all sorts of knowledge even in the twenty-first century. And it may even show the way to reconciling the apparently irreconcilable divide between the scientific and the spiritual. Picknett and Prince go in search of this true foundation of modern rational thought and reveal a story that overturns 400 years of received wisdom.

In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci and the Turin Shroud, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince found clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that pointed to the existence of a secret underground religion. More clues were found in a twentieth-century London church. These were the beginnings of a quest through time and space that led the authors into the mysterious world of secret societies and such bodies as the Freemasons, the Knights Templar and the Cathars and finally back to the ideas and beliefs of the first century AD and a devastating new view of the real character and motives of the founder of Christianity and the roles of John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene. They reveal nothing less than a secret history, preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art and even in the great Gothic cathedrals, whose revelation could shake the foundations of the Chruch.

Reveals the tradition of goddess worship in early Judaism and how Jesus attempted to restore the feminine side of the faith Provides historical and archaeological evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship with both male and female gods, including a 20th-century discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated to both Yahweh and the warrior goddess Anat Explores the Hebrew pantheon of goddesses, including Yahwehs wife, Asherah, goddess of fertility and childbirth Shows how both Jesus and his great rival Simon Magus were attempting to restore the ancient, goddess-worshipping religion of the Israelites Despite what Jews and Christians--and indeed most people--believe, the ancient Israelites venerated several deities besides the Old Testament god Yahweh, including the goddess Asherah, Yahwehs wife, who was worshipped openly in the Jerusalem Temple. After the reforms of King Josiah and Prophet Jeremiah, the religion recognized Yahweh alone, and history was rewritten to make it appear that it had always been that way. The worship of Asherah and other goddesses was now heresy, and so the status of women was downgraded and they were blamed for Gods wrath. However, as Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince reveal, the spiritual legacy of the Jewish goddesses and the Sacred Feminine lives on. Drawing on historical research, they examine how goddess worship thrived in early Judaism and included a pantheon of goddesses. They share new evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship that prayed to both male and female gods, including a 20th-century archaeological discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated to both Yahweh and the goddess Anat. Uncovering the Sacred Feminine in early Christianity, the authors show how, in the first century AD, both Jesus and his great rival, Simon Magus, were attempting to restore the goddess-worshipping religion of the Israelites. The authors reveal how both men accorded great honor to the women they adored and who traveled with them as priestesses, Jesuss Mary Magdalene and Simons Helen. But, as had happened centuries before, the Church rewrote history to erase the feminine side of the faith, deliberately ignoring Jesuss real message and again condemning women to marginalization and worse. Providing all the necessary evidence to restore the goddess to both Judaism and Christianity, Picknett and Prince expose the disastrous consequences of the suppression of the feminine from these two great religions and reveal how we have been collectively and instinctively craving the return of the Sacred Feminine for millennia.

In recent years, alternative historians have gained remarkable insight into the mysteries of ancient Egyptbut according to Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, their discoveries tie into a dangerous conspiracy nearly fifty years in the making.At the center of this conspiracy is a group of respected, powerful individuals who believe that the ancient Egyptian gods are really extraterrestrials who will soon return to earth. The conspirators have intimate and exclusive knowledge of this momentous second comingbut they insist on keeping it to themselves. What could be the purpose of such a conspiracy? Why are the conspirators so desperate to keep their information a secret? And what does it mean for mankind?In this riveting, well-researched book, Picknett and Price offer compelling evidence that the conspiracy existsand expose the insidious motivations of the individuals and organizations behind it....

Recent exciting discoveries by independent researchers have dramatically challenged our understanding of ancient Egypt, raising profound questions about our past. STARGATE CONSPIRACY exposes the most insidious & dangerous plan of our times. It involves intelligence agencies, politicians, bestselling writers, scientists & industrialists. The authors believe that this conspiracy, centred upon the eternal mysteries of ancient Egypt, targets & threatens us all. Tracing the identity of the groups involved, Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince argue that at the heart of this strange plan is the belief that the ancient Egyptian gods were-and are-real extraterrestrials, about to return through the stargate between our world & theirs. They suggest that the US-funded excavations on the Giza plateau - officially denied, but for which the authors produce documented evidence - now appear to be the result of directives allegedly received through communication with beings of higher intelligence, who are instructing the conspirators to lay the foundations for great global changes. Provocative & stimulating, STARGATE CONSPIRACY is a book of and for the new millennium.

La mitología religiosa ha inmortalizado a Jesús, pero ¿y si no dijera la verdad?Aunque una religión entera se basa en sus enseñanzas, Jesús no registró ningún relato escrito de su vida o fe. Enseñó a sus seguidores oralmente, y nuestras unicas fuentes acerca de lo que Jesus realmente dijo y creyo son los Evangelios. Pero los autores de los Evangelios tenian sus propias agendas para promover, y sin duda alterar, incluso distorsionar, el mensaje de su lider.EnLas mascaras de Cristo, Lynn Picknett y Clive Prince han despojado capas de mitologia, revisiones canonicas, propaganda de la Iglesia y censura para revelar quien era Jesus realmente, y descubrir su verdadero mensaje a los seguidores del cristianismo.

En el curso de sus investigaciones sobre Leonardo da Vinci, y siguiendo la pista del trabajo de este gran artista y científico del Renacimiento, los autores conocieron la existencia de una religión secreta escondida. Guiados por insinuaciones segun las cuales esta religion seguia existiendo, encontraron el rastro en una iglesia del siglo XIX, en Londres.Este fue el inicio de una intensa busqueda en el tiempo y el espacio, que llevo a los autores al corazon del ocultismo europeo y a la historia de misteriosas ordenes, como los francmasones, los cataros y los caballeros templarios, de oscura reputacion y evidentes conexiones con el mundo imaginario del misticismo de Oriente Medio.La pista retrocede a la extension de las ideas y las creencias del siglo I d. C. y a la devastadora nueva vision del caracter real y supuesto papel que desempeño el fundador de la cristiandad, asi como a la intervencion de Juan el Bautista y Maria Magdalena.Una vision todavia mantenida en secreto por tribus perseguidas en el mundo arabe y por personajes altamente sofisticados, en Occidente. Al revelarlo, los autores presentan un secreto historico, preservado a lo largo de siglos, codificado en obras