Where to find the Priory of Sion

by Giovanni Kossuth

First of all a thought on why the Priory of Sion chose to emphasize the Merovingian connection between Mary Magdelan etc... and their order.

I'm not sure how well people even in France know their own history; I'm not French and don't know much about the French educational system, but what stands out about the Merovingian dynasty is that it's the last dynasty which ruled Gaul before the Holy Roman Empire of Charlemagne was formed.

The Merovingians moved in while the Roman empire was still a living reality for people, in fact ruled over a population known as Romano-Gauls, i.e. descendents of Roman Citizens in Gaul who lived by their own law.

The Carolingians, that is the empire which Charles Magnus, Charlemagne formed, was the first Germanic dynasty to totally break with the Roman world and declare that a new order had come into being. This new order, of course, included the Roman Catholic Church in all it's essentials, and was in fact the start of the medieval Church. In a way this was the start of the cover up about the different traditions of Christianity which existed in the Classical world. Hence the Priori of Sion being enthusiastic about associating themselves with the last dynasty ruling France which did not buy into the medieval Christian worldview.

Ok, enough of that. I'm going to give away a pretty good surprise. I've been sitting on this info for quite a while, in fact resigned from the Priori of Sion E-Mail Listserve (not run by it) because if I continued with my posts I would have given the game away. But I really don't care at this point. So, readers of the Unofficial Dagobert's Revenge list, here are the organizations that are either fronts for the Priori of Sion or which run the Priori of Sion as a masonic-occult rite along with their other activities.

They are: The Sovereign Sanctuary (http://www.sovereignsanctuary.com) The Sovereign Sanctuary runs a U.S. Branch of Memphis-Mizraim as well as being the only U.S. representative of the Rose Cross of Gold rite, which is directly descended from von Hund's Strict Templar Observance. It also runs a U.S. affiliate of the Priori of Sion, I believe, although it doesn't of course say it on it's web page. It runs an interesting program called the Collegium Fabrorum, which is sort of a combination Classical liberal arts program and Orphism instruction class.

Then there's the French Gnostic Apostolic Church at http://www.gnostique.net . It is basically the Gnostic tradition as was established in France by Mary Magdelan, although they don't exactly say this, and then augmented by the Templars and others. It's not a random gnostic entity. They outline their history, and it's pretty clear that their history is the history given for the Priori of Sion, although with PoS specific events censored out. There's even a link between a PoS research site and the French Gnostic Apostolic Church. Thy actually claim Templar origins and have articles on their website which give a compelling case for their spirituality being derived from the Templars in a direct way.

As the Church says, there are many orders within it, but the ones listed on their website are the most important.

What else....well, there's an interesting church in the New York City area (Bronxville) that's connected with the PoS called the Old Templar Church. http://www.oldtemplarchurch.org

It's a Templar-spirituality based Independent Catholic Church, which observes the basic attitudes and general beliefs of Catholicism while differing from the Roman church in making the pursuit of mystical experience and other things, derived from the Templars, it's main focus.

Then, finally, there is OSMTH, the Ordo Supremus Militaris Tempi Hierosolymilitai