Icke / Tier 3 — The Secret Society Web and the Round Table Network / secret-society
Priory of Sion
Where each worldview places it
The Templars' original master and a Babylonian Brotherhood front. It claims to protect the Merovingians, and "Sion means Sun"[1]. It is the 'Sion' of the Protocols[2].
- Aliases
- Order of SionOrder of the True Red Crossl'Ordre de la Rose-Cross Veritas
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Dates
- 1188 (became the Priory at the "Cutting of the Elm", Gisors)
- Grand Masters 1188–1918
- 1967 (leaked the Bigou parchments)[3]
- Places
- Members / notable people
- Grand Masters (Nautonniers): Rene d'Anjou (from 1418), Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Nicolas Flamel, Robert Fludd, Johann Valentin Andrea, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Charles de Lorraine, Victor Hugo, Claude Debussy, Jean Cocteau, Marie and Jean de Saint-Clair, Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clairfront: the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement[4]in And the Truth: Isaac Newton (Grand Master)[5]
- Author's claims · 7
- 01All its Grand Masters are of the Merovingian (Ramses-Piso-Bush) bloodline[6].
- 02Plantard misled the Holy Blood, Holy Grail authors with the Jesus-bloodline story[3].
- 03It used Philippe the Fair, "a Priory puppet", to seize the Templars' wealth, and possibly arranged the English interception of their gold[7].
- 04It may have wrested control of the Scottish and York Rites from the Templars[8].
- 05In And the Truth it is "the inner, controlling, core of the Knights Templars"[9].
- 06Following the Holy Blood, Holy Grail authors, Icke reports the suggestion that the original Protocols "were the work of an elite group called The Priory of Sion", later altered to look Jewish; Icke himself believes their origin lies with the Illuminati[10].
- 07Henry Lincoln, co-author of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is among the sources for the Priory material[11].