LYNN PICKNETT AND CLIVE PRINCE - LEONARDO DA VINCI AND THE SION REVELATION


 Everyone who has read Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince's monumental work THE TEMPLAR REVELATION (1997), will know that this was the true inspiration behind Dan Brown's global bestseller THE DA VINCI CODE, now a blockbusting movie featuring Tom Hanks. Thanks to Dan Brown's statements during the recent High Court case brought against him by two authors of THE HOLY BLOOD AND THE HOLY GRAIL, we have confirmation that this is true. This means that the whole Da Vinci Code idea was inspired by two of the Questing Conference's most familiar faces, and I am sure that when they appear this year they will be given a rapturous welcome, since they deserve every credit for triggering this global phenomenon, so true to the questing spirit.

THE TEMPLAR REVELATION's sequel THE SION REVELATION, published in 2006, continues the story begun in 1997. It uncovers the truth behind the origins of the modern-day Priory of Sion, and its reverberations back into the murky past of secret societies and hidden cabals involving illustrious historical figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, Josephin Peladan, Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau and Claude Debussy. It is a tangled web of mystical intrigue that brings them together in a manner only now becoming clear for the first time.
On top of talking about these revelations, Lynn and Clive will reveal staggering new evidence that lends weight to their earlier hypothesis outlined in THE TURIN SHROUD - IN WHOSE IMAGE (1994). In here the provided compelling evidence that the famous image of Christ on the Turin Shroud was created using basic photographic processes in the fifteenth century by the artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, and in fact was a self portrait. This sensational evidence is included in a new, extensively revised and updated edition of their book, retitled TURIN SHROUD: HOW LEONARDO DA VINCI FOOLED HISTORY, available now.

Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince are historical researchers and writers. In addition to those mentioned here, their books include THE STARGATE CONSPIRACY (1999) and DOUBLE STANDARDS: THE RUDOLF HESS COVER-UP (2001). They also have cameo roles in the film version of THE DA VINCI CODE.

Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince are historians, writers and authors of various books which, in addition to those mentioned here, include THE STARGATE CONSPIRACY (), DOUBLE STANDARDS: THE RUDOLF HESS COVER-UP (2001) and WARS OF THE WINDSORS (2003). Lynn is also the author of MARY MAGDALENE: CHRISTIANITY'S HIDDEN GODDESS (2003) and THE SECRET HISTORY OF LUCIFER (2004). She lectures on heresy and the occult, and has been consultant for major exhibitions at both the Royal Photographic Society and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television. Lynn and Clive also have cameo appearances in the film version of THE DA VINCI CODE.

 

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