The Philippe de Chérisey spamming continues – this time Philippe de Chérisey uses Edgar Allan Poe to spin his yarns of comedy – and de Chérisey produced vast amounts of other various spam linking various topics and authors to Rennes-le-Château and Rennes-les-Bains! There is much more to come!

Quoting Pierre Plantard from his letter dated 22 May 1984 to “Pierre Jarnac” (Michel Vallet): “M. le Marquis de Chérisey était un bon copain d’Université, mais je désapprouve bien souvent ses publications d’un go goût bizarre” (The Marquis de Chérisey was a good friend from university, but I often disapprove of his publications, which are in rather bizarre taste) (“Les Archives de Rennes-le-Château”, Tome 2, page 550, Editions Belisane, 1988).

The Priory of Sion – Pierre Plantard & Philippe de Chérisey, were established hoaxers. The rubbish about Abbé Saunière cannot be traced back beyond the myths of Noël Corbu during the 1950s, that kick-started an everlasting flow of layers of accretions and downright lies about Rennes-le-Château. Nothing was written about a “mystery” before Noël Corbu. Jean Girou scoffed at the old wives' tales about a Rennes-le-Château “treasure” in 1936 (his views about it are obviously misrepresented by today's generation of believers). It must be repeated that not a single valid piece of evidence has been brought to light about Abbé Saunière “discovering a treasure” since Jean Girou's statement in 1936 – that's only 89 years ago!

These mundane facts need to be repeated to act as water soaking up the sweat of rampant addiction! Noël Corbu did not know during the mid-1950s about Jean Girou's account in 1936. Noël Corbu never even mentioned Jean Girou's name – Corbu was mentioning “treasure” to invent fiction to attract tourists while Jean Girou was scoffing at old wives' tales concerning “Abbé Saunière's treasure”!

The only thing that can save The Rennies is that people are allowed to believe in anything they wish, no matter how illogical, as long as putting things to the critical test is also allowed. Because The Rennies do not seem to appear to be interested in evidence and putting things to the critical test, this needs to be emphasised.

The power of wishful thinking will ALWAYS & FOREVER be vastly more attractive and popular than the power of evidence. The history of the Human Species is overflowing with this mundane conclusion. You only need to casually glance at the Amazon Books website to view the titles.

Something else that can be ascertained is that the people who achieve exemplary educational credentials do not prove they don’t believe in the unbelievable. Again, witness the evidence of the Amazon Books website, where Professors of Psychology believe that Planet Earth is part of a Confederation of Planets and Flying Saucers regularly visit to do a surveillance of our planet. There are undoubtedly educated Believers in the “gold” of Abbé Saunière actually living in – or in the vicinity – of the village of Rennes-le-Château.

To prove this latter point, the best known example of this affliction will always be Isaac Newton who discovered the Law of Gravity – but who also believed in much that can be described as Hocus-Pocus. Isaac Newton deliberately kept his alchemical and unorthodox theological beliefs secret during his lifetime due to fear of persecution and professional scrutiny. These papers were largely hidden from public view for centuries after his death. Alchemy was associated with heretical ideas and had severe penalties in England, partly because it was linked to counterfeiting money. Newton conducted extensive alchemical experiments in a private laboratory and wrote his notes in impenetrable jargon, using invented symbols and codes to obscure his work. He did not publish his vast body of work on the subject, which some sources estimate to be over a million words. After Newton's death in 1727, his heir, John Conduitt, and later descendants feared that the publication of his private papers would reveal the pioneering scientist as an “obsessive heretic” and damage his reputation. The vast collection of manuscripts, which included his extensive writings on biblical chronology, prophecy, and alchemy, remained largely unpublished for over 200 years. It was only in the 1930s, when a large collection of his personal papers were auctioned off, that the extent of his “unrelated” beliefs became widely known. The economist John Maynard Keynes, who purchased many of the alchemical notes, famously described Newton as “the last of the magicians”.

Someone told me (a long time ago), you can use Bazookas and throw a whole Atlas of Mountains at The Rennies, but without yielding any positive results where common sense is concerned.

Pierre Plantard could have been guilty of anything – for even throwing his own mother alive into a bath of sulphuric acid – such an action from him would still represent forgiveness without limits from The Rennies.