Key to the Sacred Pattern: The Untold Story of Rennes-Le-Chateau

an excellent read and companion too his other books explains allot

interesting historical story

Well structured,informative.A good read,needs good concentration in parts.

This is an update of the original 'Key' with more photos I was delighted to see this book back in print again.

This has to be The Book to read , if you are interested in the mystery of Rennes- le-Chateau . Written clearly, it holds the reader"s interest to the last page.

I greatly enjoyed this book. It is written from a personal viewpoint and perception and comes from one of the co-writers of the "Holy Blood and the Holy Grail". It is interesting to learn more of the story of their exploration of the mysterious village of Rennes-le-Chateau and its environs. Some other books have been written more recently and there is news of subsequent "discoveries". That does not devalue this book.What the reader makes of the opinions and conclusions in the book is a personal matter and, apart from a great interest in the subject, I do not want to express myself dogmatically.The book is easy to read but by no means facile. The writer knows what he is talking about. I found it hard to put down. It is a must for anyone interested in the Rennes-le-Chateau mysteries.

A wonderful book. Easy to read, informative, entertaining and packed with knowledge. No pie in the sky nonsense, but feet planted firmly on the ground. Lincoln has a brilliant sharp mind, huge knowledge, stands above the blinkered academic specialist and is able to see the bigger picture. What he has discovered exists and one cannot dispute the factual evidence. Very interesting indeed.

This book starts out with an interesting autobiographical account from Henry Lincoln (one of the co-authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail) of his long-time involvement with the mystery of Rennes-le-Château. Whilst everything is told solely from Lincoln's viewpoint (anyone who doesn't agree with his ideas is branded as being closed-minded, an unclear thinker, or a spokesperson for a hidden power) it is entertaining nonetheless.Things take an altogether different turn in part two, where Lincoln puts forward a pseudo-scientific theory of "landscape geometry". The methods employed lack any form of scientific rigour and at times defy logic. That said, the ideas are presented in such an unconvincing manner that I doubt many will taken-in by these theories.Henry Lincoln aka Henry Soskin aka Norman Ashby, trained as an actor at RADA and subsequently appeared on television in, amongst other things, The Avengers. He then moved into television writing, being partly responsible for several episodes of Doctor Who. Some might say he has never strayed far from the world of science fiction and fantasy...

This book is the key to the mystery of Rennes le-Chateau - a mystery that transcends written history and orthodox geophysics.. How could this vast complex of intersecting geometric patterns be explained other than by recourse to divine entities. That is the strength and the weakness of Lincoln's argument. In this book Lincoln clearly abandons and even disavows the narrative of Holy Blood Holy Grail as being incomplete and possibly wrong.In its stead, Lincoln posits two hypotheses, one explicit and one implicit. The explicit hypothesis is that the pattern of intersecting lines is traced upon a pre-existing earthly configuration. The implicit hypothesis is that the structure was geo-engineered. Lincoln attributes this to sacred or divine entities. This is the weakness of Lincoln's narrative. Rather than being sacred or divine, the source is ultra-mundane, drawing upon energy sources unknown to modernity. The entities that built this complex were engineers and scientists of the highest order. The purpose was not the worship of the sacred, but the drawing of ley line energies from the bowels of the earth and the cosmic beams from outer space. These people were, in short, profane materialists and not sacred religionists.

Very informative

a quality book on this topic very interesting

There's a lot of criticism out there for the book ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail'' and deservedly so. A lot of BS was written in that book about Pierre Plantard, the Priory of Sion, the alleged bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and their connection with Sacred Geometry and the mountains and buildings and sites surrounding St. Rennes Le Chataeu. This book, written by one of the ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail'' co-authors, focuses on St. Rennes le Chateau, Abbe Sauniere,, the Sacred Geometry patterns found in Poussin's painting ''The Shepherds Of Arcadia'' and how those patterns are reflected in the country side around St. Rennes.This book should be read with ''GENISIS: The First Book Of Revelations'', ''The New View Over Atlantis'' and ''Rat Scabies And The Holy Grail" to get a more complete idea of the St. Rennes Le Chataeu Mystery, and how it's been recieved over the last 40 years. All of these books, except the last, are 30+ years old, but there's been very little new to add to the story that's hundreds, perhaps almost 2000 years old. Rat Scabies, originally the drummer for the Punk Rock group The Damned, was raised by his parents among these mysteries, and he knows all these books like the back of his hand, when he takes his friend (the author of the book) on a road trip to St. Rennes that is half ''Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'' and half ''The Da Vinci Code.''

Even though this book is split into two sections, there are really three distinct parts.In the first Henry Lincoln gives a "light" account of his adventures with Rennes-la-Chateau. For those who've read The Holy Blood & the Holy Grail it is fun to hear of his first trip to Rennes, or his first meetingwith Plantard.The second part is a recounting of the "purely objective" parts of the mystery. It's all pentagons, but not as obsessive as THE TOMB OF GOD.The third part is admitedly speculative. If you've read the "Affirmations" section of The Dilbert Future, it's like that. Saying that there is not satisfactory proof for the thesis, but that it is worth investigating, he describes the layout of Bornholm island, Brittany, and Norway. There are some weird coincidences, like the persistance of the name "Rennes" (or something similar) in all these locations, but nothing is proven.The last ten pages, which are part of the third section, argues that the English system is ancient and based on the distance between the poles. It's weird, possible, and not proven.If you've just heard about Rennes-la-Chateau this is not the book for you. If you've already read much of it, and want some less heavy information about it, The Key to the Sacred Patternis the book for you.

Fascinating research to be continued in the Holy Place and The Templar’s Secret Island.

Henry Lincoln describes the journey behind his involvement with the Rennes-le-Chateau mysteries. A fascinating true-life adventure that leads to an amazing discovery in the landscape of the Languedoc. A 'must read' for anyone interested in RLC, Cathars, and most of all, "sacred" geometry.

interesting book on the subject.

As expected, good.

Disappointing. Through another book, The Templar's Secret Island, and by watching some of this author's bbc documentaries on Youtube, to say nothing of The Da Vinci Code, the plot of which Dan Brown took from one of Mr. Lincoln's books, I leaned of a great mystery. I was enthralled, captivated. But in this book the author fills it with useless drivel such as 'we lost our camera, and who said what to whom.' The book contains but maybe 30 pages of good, solid facts and history. The rest is useless conversation and back story. And then in the end the author reveals something that completely destroys all previous theories. It comes as a slap in the face to the reader, an intellectual violation.Clearly, this is nothing more than the author needing to fulfill a publishing contract with one more book, but lacks the material, and so, he fills it memories, conversations from decades past, instead of stating his case and setting out to prove or disprove it.