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coordinated management of the Commend and of their activities, that the administration of

their possessions, or the territorial district under the jurisdiction of a Knightly Order through

a Prior. In the Priory of Sion, specifically, the office of Prior coincides with that of the Grand

Master, who can therefore also be called Prior or Prior of Sion. For this reason, while not
referring to any church, remaining a chivalric order, it would make no sense to reorganize our

structure, which is, moreover, an integral part of our tradition, besides this, it is essential to

understand that being today only an initiatory

Order that relies on a registered association, we are not subject to having to meet the

requirements to be classified as a recognized Knightly Order. In response to the last question,

however, I clarify that we call ourselves Priory of Sion, because in addition to being a Priory

structurally, we refer to the place we recognize as the site of the foundation of our Order, then

to the Abbey of "Our Lady of Mount Sion "and not at the next transfer location, or Saint-
Samson.

IN: What do you tell me, Grand Master, of the internal circular of April 4, 1989, where Pierre

Plantard says that the birth of the Priory of Sion dates back to January 17, 1681 in Rennes le

Château?

GM: on the pure level of documentation, it is a possibility, since documents were actually
found in Barcelona, which certainly show the existence of an authoritative filiation, which

would also have welcomed the members of the "Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement", dissolved in

1665, but from this to say that the real origin of the Order is that, in my opinion is however

risky. Through the oral deposit, it was rather received that it was not the central and original

authority, but one of the various external congregations. According to those documents, at the

head of this group, there would have been Jean-Timoléon de Negri D'Ablès, Blaise d'Hautpoul

and Abbot André Hercule-Fleury.

In any case it is not excluded the possibility that the origin of the Priory of Sion was actually
that and that all the initiatory and traditional elements were inherited from something that

previously had a different name, but that was essentially the same thing, having inherited the

same, authentic and identical elements of knowledge. We must also bear in mind that the

circular in question was drafted at a very special moment, when Plantard intended, even

within the Order, to mitigate some pressures that had arisen as a result of its exposure to the

public, just to represent our truth through the myth. In fact, not all were in agreement on the

policy of information adopted and not all shared certain historical hypotheses regarding the
Order, which obviously has origins too far to be defined with certainty. Being in the traditional

and initiatory Merovingian deposit the "key", as already mentioned, all this is not absolutely

central or decisive, as it would be like fixing the proverbial finger instead of the sky.

IN: Now all this is finally clear to me, but it is still unclear to me why Pierre Plantard has been

proclaimed noble, when there is no clear, incontrovertible evidence about it if you allow. In

addition to this, we have seen that you have declared, even today, on your Official Site the

nobility of Pierre Plantard, unequivocally attributing to him ancestors between the

Merovingians and Sigebert IV.

GM: I realize that this may appear from the outside as an incongruity, but in reality this

includes just what I was trying to explain from the beginning of this very welcome interview,

namely that the Priory of Sion is a coherent initiatory system, composed of interdependent

symbols and allegories, which does not need to be real, to be true. In this case, we must see

what is the truth that wants to be expressed, through something that can not be objectively