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A recurrent allegory states that the path of the initiate includes a preliminary renunciation

of the world: Valley of Power. According to the scholar, the pilgrimage develops in the

following stages: the devotion to God (Valley of Love), the intellect (Valley of
enlightenment), the elevation beyond the Earth (Valley of Detachment), gradually arriving,

through the Valley of the Contemplation of the Most High, up to the Valley of the Abyss, the

transformation that arouses terror but that can lead to the end of the journey, that is the

union with God, the Valley of the vanishing of the ego. But of what hidden knowledge,

occult was the Holy Confessor that Saunière himself called a beautiful goddess and who is

often associated with Isis, the wife of the god Osiris? Books devoted to the apocalypses had a

great resonance in the Jewish philosophical schools, including the Essene community of

Qumran. The author Giovanni, who the religious tradition (St. Irenaeus) identifies with the

apostle writer of the so-called Gospel of Love, is also a very enigmatic character. the abbot
of Rennes le Château depicts him in the 12th station, Jesus dead on the cross, holding a

book. An unusual

representation as pointed

out by researcher Paul

Rouelle, who wonders

what book to treat; of the

Gospel or the
Apocalypse? Or maybe, I

add, it could be the

Mutus Liber, even if it

may seem an

inconsistency? Remember

what I said earlier about

the death of Cavalier

Rosenkreutz: ... He was

holding a book adorned
with gold. Mine are

perhaps ambiguous

suppositions, but many

theologians have found in

the writings of the prophet different analogies to the doctrine of Hermes, accept from the

Rosicrucians. John was the beloved disciple of Christ, he was transmitted an oral and

therefore secret teaching: a lost word transmitted later to an invisible Church. The same
word Apocalypse means Revelation. Not for nothing the Saint is considered patron of many

secret societies, among which the Priory of Sion.

The figure of the Evangelist and of Mary Magdalene have different points in common.

Naturally a deep friendship with Jesus, the knowledge of certain secrets probably connected

to the immortality and the legend of the Holy Grail. Moreover, both were greatly revered by

the Cathars, the Templars and the philosophical-religious movement of Gnosticism. It is my

opinion that for these reasons, Leonardo da Vinci, in the famous fresco, The Last Supper,

wanted to unite under one person the one on the right of the Messiah, thus recreating the

myth of the androgyne. Inside the Apocalypse, Giovanni has
enclosed an encrypted message using knowledge related to Gematria and listing an

incomprehensible sequence of numbers, such as 666. Curious are also the phrases with

which he began his "Prophecies": I John, brother and your mate ... I was on the island of

Patos, because of the word of God and of the testimony given to Jesus rapt in ecstasy on the

day of the Lord (Which? We talk about Sunday or the fateful date of January 17th?) I