Truthseekers (34 page)

David grabbed his phone and googled Evans. After five minutes he turned back to the group. Rocko had been back hunting the ouzo. Abbey was outside and came in when he called.

“Evans was educated at Harrow and Oxford. His best friend’s surname is the same as one of the 13 families. It is said he was a genius. He had no
children. I think he was a puppet recruited to continue the legend. In the end they knighted him. Now that would have a way of keeping someone quiet.” David spoke with authority.

Abbey looked up and said, “I’ve just been on the phone to Stacey. I asked about the chevron and Talpiot, as that is the symbol I see on this pot Evans forged. Stacey says that with the V upside down it means divine masculine and is the earliest description of the eye of Horus, the most sacred symbol of all, and that it was regularly put on the tombs of people of significance – royals, dignitaries and in this case even Jesus. It appears the families just used what was obvious. Because when it was so obvious it would keep us searching. It’s not that special after all.”

“That is why when the Talpiot Tomb was found their luck held and the chevron was there,” David said. “It was always likely to be and I’ll bet if we look at the funding of that dig, the same old friends’ names will pop up.”

“I think I get it,” said Rocko. “When I was a child growing up in the Italian neighbourhoods in New York, my mother told me Jesus was special, the son of God. I always prayed to him, and he always answered. As I grew I just got too old for this and stopped. But at the time, I mean when I was seven or eight, he was as real to me as you guys.”

“In the end,” said David, “we see what we wish to see. I’m sure Jesus was real to you. There have been times in my life when I have prayed to him for his protection or guidance and it has always worked. You see, God is within all of us and we are simply part of his divine plan. If there was a family lineage, why has it had to be so protected for centuries? And why couldn’t Jesus have been celibate, too? Millions in history have been, and what the Bible says about the second coming says nothing about that occurrence being a direct human relation to Jesus. I guess we are never meant to know and I’m good with that.”

Abbey smiled and took David by the arm. “Sophia’s gone, John’s gone and Black is gone. We are safe. We are done here. Mission complete, as my dad would say. Let’s get Minos to his friends and family, let’s let the local police know and take care of Stevos, and let’s get to Egypt. I need that holiday now and Rocko needs that girl.”

David looked around the old house. In shamanism the house is a representation of the soul. He knew it was a facade, and in this case Sophia had been part of the greatest facade in human history – one that had sent many wise men on quests in pointless wastes of time, resources and lives.

He breathed a sigh. He had found the truth and the truth had delivered to him the most beautiful woman, the one of his dreams, the one he would be with forever.

It had been a stunning quest.

* * *

In his lavish compound on an island off the coast of Sweden, Percival Karlsson AKA Mr Black was getting to grips with his new personality and hermit lifestyle. Later that day his own daughter, whom he had not seen in over twenty years, would be arriving from Crete.

The staff were very wary of their new master. He seemed impatient, distracted and exhausted. He had asked to be left alone with all his services being completed invisibly. He simply sent a note of what he wanted them to do and it was done, just the way he liked it. He didn’t like people.

Black sat in a large chair. On the desk in front of him was an ancient scroll in a glass case. It had been his prized possession, his whole life, since he had risen to the top of the families and assumed its care. It stared back at him as a reminder of the millions of people that he had killed in his lifetime for many reasons, whether wars or ruses. He picked up the 1700-year-old case and studied the seal of the Holy Roman Emperor Constantine.

He then picked up the translation he had carried with him for over fifty years. He had read those first few lines thousands of times. Today it meant something different.

We the representation of God on Earth must contain a great secret and in our ministry of the teachings of Jesus we must come together as one. The world cannot accept that Jesus of Nazareth, our Lord and Saviour, was crucified and rose again. As time marches on we too will become legend, yet the faith must be kept. Egypt fell when in the end its so-called
Gods could no longer protect it from the truth, our truth. To inspire faith we need to arrange the greatest lie. I will write a sacred document which will be held by the man in office of the highest esteem in the new Church. This document is the greatest lie. The lie that Jesus and Mary Magdelene were with child will be searched for in history. It will divert many of our enemies to prove that we were wrong instead of simply attacking us. We must allow this as it is the only way to have their evil controlled. Good will always fight evil and this fight will last the aeons of time, and strengthen our position. It is of the greatest urgency that we destroy the unnecessary gospels and with that set the people free. Only in faith and fear will we have control and only while we have control will we be able to spread his word. The word of the Lord.

The dissertation continued but Black had lost interest. He ruffled at his shirt collar and pulled out the solid gold depiction of Jesus on the cross, which had hung from his neck his whole life. He kissed it.

He thought back to the day when his father had shared the whole scam of the child of Christ with him. Even in the 13 families it was passed only by secret initiation when one became the head, much as only the Roman emperors of old could open the secret box and learn the ancient wisdom for their position. He had kept that secret from the most powerful men on Earth, and had chosen his daughter to protect it for over forty years living in near poverty in Greece.

He then took the papers and the scroll itself and slowly walked to the roaring fire in the huge gothic fireplace that adorned his private study. Looking into the flames he whispered: “You have kept us in control for 2000 years and I have been your faithful servant, Constantine, but it is gone. The world must know the truth of Jesus and when it does, there will be no need for our control. We have profited and become powerful from this lie, keeping enemies entranced in its protection and away from our dealings, but it is time. What I have is gone, what we all have is gone. God help me and what I have done. I have failed you. We were wrong.”

He cast it all into the fire, the ancient scroll smashing and turning to dust before the flames could engulf it.

With that he sank wearily to his knees and sobbed.

* * *

The Gospel of Thomas
– Discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945 and published in 2007:

And Jesus said: “Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled he will become astonished, and he will rule over all.”

Six months after the University of Nova Scotia had tested Yanni and Stevos’ DNA, they concluded there was no direct relation of any surety to the DNA from the Talpiot Tomb.

Recent conclusions about the Talpiot Tomb have recalculated, based on first-century statistics of popular names (Jesus was number nine), that the chance of the tomb being that of Jesus of Nazareth is only 600:1; for those that want to believe that it is his tomb the numbers can be manufactured to 18:1. This is because of some conjecture that the name of Mary on the ossuary was in fact Mariamne.