Post by Watchman on Jun 23, 2006 15:43:25 GMT -5
09:20 - 12 June 2006
Since The Da Vinci Code hit the shelves, people have been fascinated by the theories it presents.
Now, property developer Tony Peart wants to explore a mystical secret at the heart of the Lincolnshire landscape.
All that survives of the 4,000 acre county base of the Knights Templar is a lone tower.
Standing in the middle of a farm, covered in scaffolding, the appearance of the tower belies its significance as part of the Knights Templar Preceptory.
Mr Peart believes he has uncovered a mystery in the area around the preceptory outside Temple Bruer, near Sleaford.
He thinks churches in the county are linked by a series of lines which form the shape of a pentacle.
One church marked on the pentacle is St John the Baptist in Temple Bruer - which would have been part of the land surrounding the preceptory in the 1200s.
Now, in the wake of the controversy surrounding The Da Vinci Code, Mr Peart wants people to give their views on the phenomenon on his website Templar Mechanics.
"Many churches are built on older pagan sites," said Mr Peart.
"The original pagan sites of worship were thought to be on ley lines or natural earth energy lines.
"It's these lines I believe that are creating the geometry. "
Mr Peart believes the pentacle may be connected to the Knights Templar and says other examples have been discovered near Templar sites.
"I think the Templars knew where the ley convergence points were and built settlements nearby," he said.
"This then suggests prior knowledge of an earth energy grid within the order, something not noted in standard historical texts. Why this isn't noted down is the big question."
Lincoln author Dan Green has written two books about symbols in the county - The Lincoln Da Vinci Code and The Lincoln Da Vinci Code and The Mystery of Rennes-Le-Chateau.
He believes The Da Vinci Code has made people interested in different theories, such as Mr Peart's.
"I've had a warm reception for my books. People are becoming interested in questioning ideas," he said.
Rector of Skellingthorpe the Reverend Richard Billinghurst said such theories were diverting people from the real issues.
"God's got an enemy who wants to distract people," he said,
"When people get caught up in these theories, their gaze is taken away from the good - God and Jesus."
And Mr Billinghurst believes the theory on ley lines is coincidence.
"You could put dots all over a map and draw lines over them and make patterns," he said.
"It is the same with the star constellations in the sky."
***Satan's Counterfeit Religious System cannot be denied! I't's very root is evil- Watchman