HBHG was much better than Messianic Legacy

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	• The Messianic Legacy Michael Baigent Dell, 1989 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 41 reviews view larger image
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HBHG was much better than Messianic Legacy

I enjoyed HBHG which traced the Merovingian bloodline. However, Messianic Legacy was a bit of a let-down after HBHG. The authors attempt to search for the historical Jesus rather than the Gospel-inspired son-of-God version of Jesus. The obviously arrive at a version that is significantly at odds with the Church. So far so good (in fact, Part One which deals with this is very well written and is written using many sources that have been used in another fiction novel that I recently read, The Rozabal Line). The problem is that the Prieure de Sion is a joke. And hence it become difficult to digest part three of this book. My personal opinion: Read HBHG but not necessarily this book.

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Tres historias

Aunque el subtítulo del libro dice ¿hubo mas de un Cristo? en realidad sobre este punto se escriben pocas páginas.

En realidad estamos hablando de tres libros tan independientes entre sí que pueden leerse en cualquier orden. El primero de estos libros es para mi el mas interesante y habla sobre la historia del Cristianismo hasta aproximadamente el Concilio de Nicea. Se expresan los conceptos y significados de por ejemplo lo que era un mesias. Se describe la formación del cristianismo por Pablo y como se fue apartando inexorablemente de las enseñanzas reales para formar una religión mas políticamente correcta que pudo subsistir y crecer a la sombra y el apoyo del imperio romano de los últimos tiempos, es algo así como la verdadera historia de la religión cristiana (apostólica y romana)

El segundo libro expone la necesidad humana desde siempre de tener símbolos, rituales, mitos y arquetipos y como sobre esta necesidad se han desarrollado no solo religiones sino gobiernos como los de Mussolini o Hitler.

Finalmente, el tercer libro desarrolla la historia de lo que sucedió luego de la aparición en el mercado del libro anterior de los autores. Esta historia está inconclusa y finalmente no se desvela el misterio que los mismos autores plantean sobre quién está detras de todo, aunque se puede inferir a la luz de sus exposiciones.

Por todo es un libro para lo que son libros, para contar una historia, entretener, ilustrar un punto de vista.

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3 in 1 - More is Less

The follow-up to best-selling Holy Blood, Holy Grail continues the search for the historical Jesus, at least in Part 1 of the book. Part 2 begins to disassemble and discuss Messianic trends in general, and Part 3 deteriorates completely into a rant about a unified Europe and all sorts of conspiracy theories, as well as the now familiar Priory of Scion. Let's look only at the first 130 pages (Part 1).

Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln cover much of the same ground they did in their previous book, dispatching the obvious myths and lies about the life of Jesus. If you enjoyed the previous book, you will also enjoy this one. They rightfully point out that his name wasn't Jesus, he didn't live in Nazareth, he wasn't the peacenik he was portrayed to be, the family weren't peasants, etc. If you like this line of thinking, you should also look at http://www.jesuspolice.com which provides a more evidentiary approach to the same issues.

Readers of Baigent's 2006 book The Jesus Papers will see that The Messianic Legacy is a transitional piece, somewhere between HBHG and The Jesus Papers in its portrayal of Jesus as a Zealot. What the authors suggest in this book, Baigent runs with in his recent book. While you might disagree, they do provide more than a sufficient amount of evidence to suggest that Jesus was certainly aligned with the Zealots in many of their aspirations, even if he wasn't a card carrying assassin.

There are some obvious errors in the book. For example...

- The authors claim that "Herod felt threatened by a recently born child" (p. 30) of the Davidic line, but this seems strange since, by logiocal extension, he should have been afraid of Joseph, who shared a similar heritage, or Joseph's father, Jacob, who also came from this line.

- They claim that "the three wise men" (p. 29) came seeking Jesus, when in fact a careful reading of the gospels shows that there were not three nor were they wise: they were an unspecific number of magi that tradition has transformed into three wise men.

But the few errors contrained therein are far outnumbered by the myths/errors that they correct.

The book is well written and generally accurate, at least for the first 130 pages. Readers who enjoyed their other books will enjoy this one too. If I was only rating Part 1, I would probably give it a 4, but the inclusion of Parts 2 and 3 cause the rating to go down.

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An Interesting Sequel

I purchased this book with some trepidation, why? Well I wondered whether the authors really needed to write this book, particularly as they had just republished The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, or were they simply riding the crest of the wave of publicity surrounding the court case brought by themselves against Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown.

In fact this book does have new facts to compliment their previous efforts and new investigations into the society of the `Prieure de Sion' The Guardians of the Holy Grail. They also delve into the world of politics, Freemasonry and religion.

If you say it sincerely and with conviction you can make a lot of people believe a lot of things. I am not saying that the book is not factually accurate, only that it is down to the individual to put their own interpretation on to the facts that are placed before them. The thing about books like this is that if you do not read them you cannot form an opinion one way or the other.

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Holy Blood, Holy Grail rocked the very foundations of Christianity. Now four more years of research have uncovered shocking material ? and its earthshaking consequences.

? What extraordinary meaning lies behind Jesus' title ? "King of the Jews"?
? Was there more than one Christ?
? Who really constituted Jesus' following ? and what were the real identities of Simon Peter and Judas Iscariot?
? Who now has the ancient treasure of the Temple of Jerusalem?
? What is the true source of today's Christian "Fundamentalism"?
? What links the Vatican, the CIA, the KGB, the Mafia, Freemasonry, and the Knights Templar?
? What is the stunning goal of the European secret society that traces its lineage back to Christ and the House of David?

The Messianic Legacy. Here is the book that reveals the answers to these intriguing, potentially explosive questions. Utilizing the same meticulous research that catapulted their first book onto the best seller lists, the authors again bring an enlighteneing message of truth ? and urgent importance ? to Christians and non-Christians the world over.

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