There is nothing unusual about the archaeology of Rennes-les-Bains. It is merely one of the many insignificant French towns that the Romans occupied and the village never quite made it into the “Romans In France” books. The main reason why the Romans settled in Rennes-les-Bains in the first place was because it was a Spa town.

Did Pierre Plantard REALLY address the people of Rennes-le-Château? Has anyone got any actual proof? Chaumeil only presented an old Plantard relic when he put that chapter in his book The Priory of Sion (2010).

There are still too many people treating the word of Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey as if they had some sort of “authority”. There are still too many people treating Plantard's lies about Merovingians as if it was all “real history”. We may as well believe in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

There are too many people that have unconditionally committed themselves to the absurdity of Pierre Plantard similar to the way they commit themselves to their favourite pets.

Indeed the Fairy Stories of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson will easily outlast worthless trash like the Priory of Sion, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982) and The Da Vinci Code (2003).

By the way, Pierre Plantard was a Traditionalist Roman Catholic who found the idea of drugs totally abhorrent – he was an old-fashioned Bible Thumper with a Fascist esoteric slant who rejected Les Dossiers Secrets (1967) because he later claimed it was compiled by Philippe Toscan du Plantier, who lived in the Beatnik suburb of Paris and was arrested for taking LSD.

Yes, both Dan Merkur and Brian C. Muraresku were WRONG. Christianity was not based on LSD (Claviceps purpurea). John Marco Allegro was also WRONG. Christianity was not based on Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria). There are NO MAGIC MUSHROOMS IN THE BIBLE.

Furthermore, it has been discovered by archaeologists that Cannabis was used in Ancient Israel, but this was not the main drug (Eran Arie, Baruch Rosen & Dvory Namdar, “Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of Arad”, Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, Volume 47, Issue 1, pages 5-28, 28 May 2020). The relevant Wikipedia article is found here. Cannabis was also found in Deir 'Alla (Margreet L. Steiner, “Iron Age Cultic Sites in Transjordan”, Religions, 10 (3), 2019).

If you happen to be reading this and are still alive, Philip Jones, I WAS WRONG during the 1980s. But I have moved on and found out that the answers lie elsewhere. It's called having an independent mind and putting your theories to the critical test. You should try it sometime.

The novelty about Christianity is not to do with drugs (although that does have a bearing), but rather with the explanation of the difference between Judaism and Christianity, that I have explained HERE.

Christianity formulated a different interpretation of the Adam & Eve story in Genesis and invented the concept of Original Sin (that the Gnostics called Knowledge). The concept of Original Sin is not found in Judaism. The embryo of what eventually became Christianity really originated during the conquest of Judea by Alexander the Great in 333 BC. The Christian Resurrection is the direct opposite of Adam & Eve’s expulsion from Eden.

I repeat yet again that all the books about Christianity that have ever been written are wrong and are a complete waste of time. Our friends the Doctors of Theology and ALL other Christian Scholars holding titles of Distinction in that subject matter. Both the Torah and the New Testament contain the exact subtext. Judaism and Christianity share the exact same origin but give their respective religions different interpretations – one religion is the fulfilment of the other. That is the real difference you should be looking out for. Not drugs.

The drug(s) of the Jews is identical with the drug(s) of the Christians. There are other water-soluble alkaloids in existence other than LSD (Claviceps Purpurea). Unleavened Bread seems to have been used as an absorbent for consumption. David built an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite on the First Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. It was a female Jebusite that was referred to “While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof” (Song of Songs, I:12).

Of course, if people find the concept of Drugs and Christianity really abhorrent, this will result in the belief in Romantic Christianity – and that is precisely what we have got, where no-one can give a precise interpretation of the Christian Resurrection.

Finally, the cultural divide between Mesoamerica and the rest of the World – the Mesoamericans never hid their Shamanic drug-taking that was an intrinsic part of their Religions (Aztec, Maya, Inca, etc) – as the testimonies of the Friars in their writings show. It was only outside of Mesoamerica, that the involvement between drugs and religions was always held secret.

This subject matter is of historical and anthropological interest. It is not about Ancient Astronauts or Flying Saucers.