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precisely the city that the ancient Visigoths built on a territory whose natural configuration

conformed itself to a perspective of sacred geometry, namely Rennes le Château.

It was precisely in this place that in 1891, the mysterious parish priest Francois Bérenger

Saunière, after having carried out clandestine excavations, he decided to
embellish his church, dedicated to Mary Magdalene, with strange statues, decorations and

inscriptions ambiguous, concealing, in my opinion, under the exoteric message (open to all)

an esoteric meaning (hidden only to initiates, only for those who possess the "knowledge" of

certain secrets).

But to better grasp the subject, it is good to go back in time ... to the ancient stories of the

Bible, when ... the Patriarch Jacob, traveling on the road to Carran (the same city of Harran

mentioned earlier), arrived at 'dusk, it happened in a place where he spent the night: he

took a stone, put it as a pillow and lay down there. In one dream a ladder appeared on the

earth, while its top reached the sky. Upon this the angels of God ascended and descended,
while on the summit appeared to him the Lord who manifested himself to him. Awakening

from sleep, the Patriarch exclaimed: The LORD is in this place, and I did not know it. He

was afraid and said: How

terrible this place is, this is

the door to heaven! Early

in the morning, Jacob got

up, took the stone he had
used as a pillow and

erected it as a memorial

and, pouring oil on it, he

consecrated it. And he

called that place Bethel,

whereas before it was

called Luz. Here is

essentially the nocturnal

narrative of Genesis
28,1022. Abbot Saunière also took a stone, placed it on the portal of his church, and had the

phrase Terribilis est locus iste (This place is terrible) engraved, that is, the same words

pronounced by the Patriarch. In truth this particular does not appear only in the church of

Rennes le Château. But in Rennes le Château there is a particularity: the phrase How

terrible this place is, this is the house of the Lord, this is the door of heaven is carved

disunited.

While Terribilis est locus iste stands on the gable, the remaining phrase Hico domus Dei est
es porta coeli is placed on the arch of the entrance as if it were a very distinct phrase of

different importance. Moreover, the Latin word terribilis translates, both as terrible and as

venerable, in my opinion almost as if to underline the double aspect of the event, marked at

first by a feeling of fright and then by an act of consecration. The entire episode of the

nocturnal narrative defined as Jacob's dream, fulfilled the reason for extensive research by

René Guenon. He described the city Luz as the blue city, home of immortality, the kingdom

of light (Luz = lux = light above heaven), the place where the angel of death cannot enter,

where it has no power. The Old Testament, recalling the disappearance of the prophet

Elijah, reports that he did not die on earth, but some rumours told him that, on a certain
day, he had to go to Bethel (Luz) to be hired in heaven, then ... " a chariot of fire appeared,

and he went up into the sky, carried by a whirlwind of wind. " Elijah's body was never

found. What a strange place this city really is! According to some scholars, including the

archaeologist Zechariah Sitchin, Bethel continually fighting against Jerusalem, represented

the centre of a cult where they worshiped gods without faces who were dedicated menhirs,