. Sir Lawrence Gardner

Laurence Gardner (17 May 1943 – 12 August 2010) was a writer and lecturer on historical revisionism. He has written many books on alternative history. Gardner is occasionally styled "Chevalier Labhran de Saint Germain", "Presidential Attache to the European Council of Princes" and "Prior of the Celtic Churches Sacred Kindred of Saint Columbia" . He also claims to be Jacobite Historiographer Royal of the Royal House of Steward. He is a supporter of Michael Lafosse, in particular his claims to be descended from the House of Steward, which Gardner claims was descended from Jesus Christ. Historians point out that he is a conspiracy theorist; implying that his work is pseudohistory, poorly researched and not scholarly, particularly The Bloodline of the Holy Grail. Evidence for this criticism comes particularly from his mistranslation of the Gnostic Gospel written by Phillip, which he uses to motivate the theory that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and produced a child whose bloodline is the Stuart Clan of Scotland. In developing this theory in The Bloodline of the Holy Grail, Gardner depends on the alleged fact that Jesus kissed Mary Magdalene "often on the mouth" (Ch.5, p. 57 of paperback edition). In fact, reputable translations of the Gospel of Phillip, e.g. Wesley Isenberg in James M. Robinson (Editor), "The Nag Hammadi Library" (1988), declare the noun (mouth) to be undecipherable due to damage to the ancient manuscript. In any case, a kiss on the mouth between early Christian males was a sign of holy love and affection, as evidence by the Second Apocalyspe of James, in which James so kisses the priest Mareim. Further, the remainder of Gardner's paragraph, claiming that the existence of man "depends on marriage", is not to be found in reputable translations at all and is self-evidently a complete fabrication. In complete contradiction to Gardner's claim that Jesus and the Magdalene were in a physical (carnal) marriage, the closing paragraph of the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas sees Jesus stating that he will lead Magdalene to be "made male" by her faith in him (specifically, "For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven").

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Zie ook: Alien Ancestors of Jezus.

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