Merry Christmas everyone!
De administrators
and moderators of the Back to
the Source internet forum wish everybody a great Christmas. We
also wish you good health, prosperity and happiness in 2007. We hope you
will find your way back to our forum next year to discuss all those
things that interest and fascinate us so much. We would like to thank
everyone for the enormous number of contributions and insights this year. They have made it all worthwhile for us.
Admins and Moderators of Back to the Source
#1, Christmas 2006
Tour Magdala in de snow
tips
for English language forum users
History of Christmas
Read everything about the history of Christmas in this topic.
Forums are HOT
A number of well-known
researchers started a forum in recent months. French researcher
Franck
Daffos, expert in Notre Dame de Marceille and the author of
Rennes-le-Château, le secret dérobé very actively takes part in
his new forum
here.
(French only) Paul Smith couldn't stay behind and founded a
forum
for those that don't believe in Rennes-le-Château. Andrew Gough, known
for his 17-questions interviews
with the likes of Henry Lincoln and Philip Coppens, opened the
Arcadia Discussion Zone.
VIP-spotting
More and more, the forum is visited by wellknown writers, webmasters adn researchers. We are very proud that a number of foreign guests have now also signed in who actively take part in the discussions on the English part of the forum. Many of them take the trouble to translate some of the Dutch threads (for example by using Babelfish) to dive in there as well. It's much appeciated!
Abbébé Saunière
Saunière
is whispered to have had children.. According to major l'Huillier of
Rennes-le-Château it was them who gave permission to move his remains to
another tomb. In the forum topic
Bakers en Mistresses, this bizar story is fleshed out.
Not old and not as we know it
Few will match what Grand
Belgian lady Maria de Roo has done: publish an internetbook and start
forum at the age of 78. Hard to believe but
it's
what she did. She wrote down the story about her adventures and research
into the theft of the Just Judges in 1934. The Just Judges is one
of the panel of Jan van Eyck's renowned
Ghent
Altharpiece. At the age of twelve she witnessed the nazis digging up
the grave of the alleged thief Arsène Goedertier. Why they expected the
panel to be there and what their motives were for going after it so
viciously remains a mystery to this day. Check out her deeply personal
and dramatic story on
her website.
Thicker than water
There's no escape from the buzz
these days. Recently the LA Times announced that the producers of the
documentary-in-the-making Bloodline the Movie discovered a small
wooden chest in the direct vicinity of Rennes-le-Château. It is said to
contain a parchment, Roman coins
from
around the age of Christ, a small cup and a what appears to be an oil
jar.
It is presented as possibly having belonged to Mary Magdalene. Catch of the century? Coincidence? Hoax?
If nothing else, it's great food for discussion on the forum.
If you had a Hammer
In many places there are vivid discussions about Karl Hammer's book Satan's Song.
This book makes the connection between Rennes-le-Château and the Ghent Altarpiece. Check out these forum topics to join the discussion about this intriguing book: Satans Song, A Possible Solution en Tom R = Tomar
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What's in a vase?
The painting we use in our 'corporate identity' (at the left of this page) is called 'La Source' (the Source). It was painted by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). He started painting it in Florence in 1820 but didn't finish it until 1856 in Paris where it is still on display today in the magnificent Musée d'Orsay. The scene shows the classic woman as the source of all life.