Unfortunately, channels like The National Geographic can hardly be described as educational in the real sense of the word, because such channels rely on popularity and a broad spectrum of the population in order to successfully attract advertising revenue (their wages).

How many resting places did Mary Magdalene have? I can think of three resting places she had without thinking.

Did Mary Magdalene really exist? Not according to the dualists like the Gnostics, who deemed matter as intrinsically evil. We know about the reference in the Gospel of Thomas (The Sacred Androgyne); and this is reflected in the Gospel of Philip how “Adam came into being from two virgins, from the Spirit and from the virgin earth. Christ therefore, was born from a virgin to rectify the Fall which occurred in the beginning”. Elsewhere in the Gospel of Philip is also mentioned how Mary Magdalene is called “Wisdom who is called the barren, she is the mother of the angels”. It is only after mentioning these factors that it is stated that Jesus Christ “used to kiss her often on her mouth”.

How could Jesus Christ rectify The Fall by practicing “Original Sin ” and founding a dynasty? It’s true that the doctrine of Original Sin was formed during the third century in the struggle against Gnosticism by Irenaeus of Lyons, and was shaped significantly by Augustine of Hippo – who was the first author to use the term “Original Sin” (but there are ample amounts of the same idea in the earliest Christian writings, especially those by Paul, so the invention of this Doctrine was merely a consolidation of existing Christian dogma).

Believe it or not, “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” is not the Pinnacle of all Knowledge but rather its direct opposite. People are still convinced by its pathetic bonding together of Christianity with Gnosticism, and the bonding together of the Early Arthur with the Romantic Arthur of Mediaeval Romance. It is hysterical how ALL THINGS became “synthesised” in that book.

This was because of the authors’ magnetic attraction to an obscure French priest who – rather than becoming mysteriously rich – accepted more money than he was able to say masses for – and was deprived of his priesthood for being a conman. The romantic history of Abbé Bérenger Saunière does not date from the time he lived – but rather from the imagination of Noël Corbu of the mid-1950s.