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41. Anamnesis

gs: Gwynyth Walsh (Emma Shetterly) John Pyper-Ferguson (Ben Fisher) Genele Templeton (Clare McKenna) Garry Davey (Ray McKenna) Brendan Fletcher (Alex Hanes) Kristen Cloke (Lara Means)

Catherine and Lara investigate a girl who appears to be having visions.

b: 17-Apr-98 pc: 5C19 w: Erin Maher and Kay Reindl d: John Kousakis

NOTE: Features the song "Dancing Barefoot" by Patti Smith.

• Clare says the following: "And the savior said: 'The visionary does not see with the soul or the spirit but with the mind that exists between these two. That is what sees the vision and that is what...' I bet you'll love to know what comes next." This is quote from chapter 5 of The Gospel of Mary. Lara notes correctly that "what comes next" is missing. Only fragments of The Gospel of Mary remain.
• This episode appears to be partially inspired by Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. The former book theorizes that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and began a bloodline which merged with the royal bloodline of France's Merovingian dynasty. According to Baigent, et al, this bloodline survives to the present day and is protected by a secret society called the Priory of Zion. This secret society appears to be the inspiration for "The Family". The statue of the Black Virgin coming to Clare in a boat appears to be a reference to a legend cocerning a mysterious boat without oars that docked in Bologne Sur Mer, France during the reign of Dagobert I. On board was a statue of the Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus in her left arm.
• The title of this episode "Anamnesis" means in Greek "calling to memory past matters" or, more specifically, "citing a past author from memory".

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[El Sordo]

Cool!

Thank you.

[foreshadowed at waco]

Is this the episode where Lara talks to Catherine about Jordan's visions and also ends up giving Catherine x-rays or medical files with DNA or something that would link the visionary girl genetically back to Jesus...the Gnostic Gospels...Mary Magdelan as Jesus' wife...one of the reasons that I stopped watching in the 3rd season was that they dropped the religious thread in mid-air---

BTW my favorite episode was a Christmas story about Frank's mother (who also saw angels) and Frank re-uniting with his Dad--and his Dad giving Frank a ceramic angel for Jordan whom he had never seen--and Jordan and Frank can see the souls of the dead (including Frank's dad) walking to Church on Christmas Eve?

[hergus]

One little error in their synopsis...it's the Priory of Sion.

Millenium was my all time favorite show....I want to own it so bad. Fox was airing late night after X-Files last year, but our station bumped it for paid programming. I was soooo pi____.

[hergus]

Sorry another error...

the Black Virgin coming to Clare in a boat appears to be a reference to a legend cocerning a mysterious boat without oars that docked in Bologne Sur Mer, France during the reign of Dagobert I. On board was a statue of the Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus in her left arm.

The boat that came to France was holding Mary Magdeline, who was pregnant with Jesus child. This was long before Dagobert I. Thus the real Holy Grail, or San Graal was Mary's womb holding the blood of Jesus in the form of their child. The authors theorise as do other scholars that Jesus couldn't have been a Rabbi without being married.

After Jesus death, Paul (a misogynist) came along and took away the teachings of Jesus from James the brother of Jesus and drastically changed Jesus' message and began preaching his own message instead.

Thus we have the incarnation of the roman catholic church, a man oriented religion that deleted MM's part in Jesus life and/or changed her into a whore.

In Leonardo DV's Last Supper the person on Jesus left as you look at the painting is Mary Magdeline. Paul did not like it that Jesus let Mary M. become an apostle. The other apostles questioned him about why he liked her better than them and why he kissed her on the mouth. Paul set out to completely destroy Mary Magdeline's part of Jesus work.

The black virgins were made after Mary M. got to Marseilles, the people there knew who and what she was and she was revered. Most of the black virgins have disappeared in the last few decades.

The Cathars believed in this and were burnt to death for their beliefs by the RC church.

The reason she left after Jesus died was to save the life of their child. The Merovingian's were supposedly of the bloodline of Jesus.

Leonardo DV was allegedly a Nautonier of the Priory of Sion. As were many famous men after the renassaince.

Anyway, that's the books theory. Forgive my spelling.