The Tomb at Les Pontils

REBUTTAL PAGE FOR PAUL SMITH'S PAGE OF THE SAME NAME - LINK HERE

The distance between the Chateau at Arques and La Tour Magdala at Rennes le Chateau is EXACTLY six miles or Two Leagues.  

Quote from Paul Smith

"Having visited the spot in 1993, I can categorically state that the landscape at Les Pontils does not match the one depicted in Poussin's painting, and those who make such a claim are seriously wrong - the landscape at Les Pontils situated behind the spot where the tomb once stood features the hills of Grand Bergue, Las Tostonas, Cardaussel and Quirautier; not Bezil Grand or Blanchefort. What is more, this claim is usually made by people who have never visited the area in the first place."

Not everyone can have spatial skills I suppose. But Smith actually goes there stands next to a tomb that is almost identical in every way including the colour to the one in the painting even down to the rock that has the Red Shepherd standing with one leg on and declares the landscape isn't the same. It's a painting old chum, you can do anything with a painting, you don't find many Latin reading Greek Shepherds with red hair either, but still. None so blind as those etc etc....................

So it was built there in 1933. Very likely; there aren't many mid 17th century structures still standing intact you know.

Erm! WHY?

Why was it built there Mr Smith, I mean it's not like tombs like this one are just arbitrarily plonked all over the French landscape now is it? But it just happens to be in site of Rennes le Chateau¹. Well well bless me beams, isn't synchronicity wonderful?

Smith says:

"In 1878, the scholar Louis Fédié wrote an article about the folklore and mythology of the Peyrolles area (Étude Historique sur le des Haut-Razès, in Mémoires de la Société des Arts et des Sciences de Carcassonne, Vol. 4 pp. 42-92), and his starting point in his article was the area of Les Pontils itself, because it contained a menhir – the oldest man-made structure found in the area – and he failed to mention the existence of any tomb (incidentally the tomb was located in the Peyrolles area and not in Arques, another common mistake).

The menhir is still there, what Smith doesn't tell you is whether or not a tomb was there in the time of Poussin. Smith has skilfully left out of his diatribe the bit about Louis XIV and his instructions to Jean-Baptiste Colbert to destroy the first tomb painted by Poussin.

Not only is this tomb in the landscape but it's about a 100metres from the Paris Meridian which was moved rather controversially by Louis XIV from the Rose Line which very likely went through the original tomb destroyed by Louis XIV's seneschals and is depicted in the painting.

NOTE 1 Paul Smith insists that the tomb of Les Pontils is not overlooked by Rennes le Chateau. Below is a sequence of pictures taken from Henry Lincoln's guide to Rennes le Chateau and Aude valley which shows Smith's suggestion to be nonsense.

Camera pans from right to left
Site of tomb at Les Pontils. The tomb destroyed in 1988 by the landowner to deter treasure hunters. Fir tree can be seen to the left.	Camera pans further left. Pale barked tree now to the right of the picture. Fir tree and rocky mound appearing.	Camera pans left Rennes le Chateau still in the picture. Pale barked tree appears to the left.	Rennes le Chateau can be clearly seen on the hilltop.

Smith insists that the tomb is not significant and yet a tomb of identical proportions and colour to the one painted by Poussin is overlooked by Rennes le Chateau.

 

A book is being written by the author of this website and will be published shortly leaving no doubt that this tomb depicted in the painting was placed with great precision.

So has Rennes-le-Chateau got anything to do with the Rose Line?

Well firstly the line going through the Church at St Sulpice is NOT the Paris Meridian. The Paris Meridian was put through the Paris Observatory.

Origin A French astronomer, Abbé Jean Picard, measured the length of a degree of longitude and computed from it the size of the Earth, in 1655. In 1666, Louis XIV of France authorized the building of a Paris observatory to measure longitude. On Midsummer's Day 1667, members of the Academy of Sciences traced the future building's outline on a plot outside town near the Port Royal abbey, with Picard's meridian exactly bisecting the site north-south. French cartographers would use it as their prime meridian for more than 200 years. In the early 1800s, the Paris Meridian was recalculated with greater precision by the astronomer Francois Arago, whose name now appears on the plaques or medallions tracing the route of the meridian though Paris. In 1884, at the International Meridian Conference in Washington DC, the Greenwich Meridian was adopted as the prime meridian of the world. France abstained. The French clung to the Paris Meridian as a rival to Greenwich until 1911 for timekeeping purposes and 1914 for navigation. To this day, French cartographers continue to indicate the Paris Meridian on some maps.

  I would remind people that this time 1655 - 1666 is precisely the time when Nicolas Poussin was at his most creative. Poussin painted two versions of The Annunciation around this time and dedicated the second one to the new Pope Alexander VII who at this time put an end to the Heliocentric issue.

View the Poussin page below

 

•  Saint Sulpice and the Rose Line

  

The logo of the Society of Saint Sulpice named after the church the contains the Rose Line Gnomon.

On the flag stone in front of the Visigoth (or Carolingian) Pillar that supports the Virgin Mary in the Rennes le Chateau Church Garden.

The logo also appears on the tomb of Jean-Jacques Olier in the Church of St Sulpice in Paris

The Rose Line not only goes through the Les Pontils Tomb and the Church of St Sulpice but it also goes through the Cathedral at La Cité de Carcassonne dedicated to St Vincent.

Pentacle in a stained glass window.

Part of the Cathedral dedicated to St Vincent situated in La Cité de Carcassonne, which stands on the Rose Line.

 

Le Serpent Rouge Scorpio Celestial vision for him who remembers the four works of Em. SIGNOL around the Meridian line, to the choir itself from the sanctuary from which beams this source of love from one to another, I turn around passing the site of the rose of the P to that of the S, then from the S to the P ... and the spiral in my mind becoming like a monstrous octopus expelling its ink, the shadows obscure the light, I am dizzy and I hold my hand to my mouth biting instinctively my palm, perhaps like OLIER in his coffin. Curses, I understand the truth, HE IS GONE, but to him too in doing THE GOOD, like HIM of the flowery tomb. But how many have sacked the HOUSE, leaving only the embalmed corpses and numerous metal objects which they could not carry? What strange mystery conceals the new temple of SOLOMON built by the children of Saint VINCENT?"

 The four works of Em Signol in the church of St Sulpice.

1. Erected an obelisk of white marble (10.72 metres) which can be seen in the northern arm of the trancept .

2. Traced the meridian (in the North-South direction) with a band of copper inlaid in the paving of the church and leading up to the obelisk

3. Established in the window of the southern arm of the trancept a gnomon equipped with a lens with an 80 foot focal length

4. Marked on the ground with a copper plaque the spot where the rays of the sun fall on summer solstice. This plaque was removed several years ago to be re-engraved. One can see today the marble plaque which was over the copper plaque.

 

 "turn around passing the site of the rose of the P to that of the S, then from the S to the P ... and the spiral in my mind becoming like a monstrous octopus expelling its ink,"

The octopus is the pulpit found in St Sulpice in front of which each Equinox appears.

La Poulpe = The Octopus = The Pulpit

 

RÉDDIS       RÉGIS CÈLLIS       ARCIS

Return of the king

Celestial Arc

PRAE-CUM - BEFORE - SINCE

The synchronicity is reaching occult proportions.

It's the SION Meridian stupid.

If this Rose Line point is designated zero then Mount Hermon, Israel's highest mountain, and the marker of it's border with the Lebanon is 33º North and 33º East

Mount Hermon Jebel esh-Sheikh. Prominent mountain (9,230 ft) on the northern border of Israelite territory. At the southern end of anti-Lebanon is Mount Hermon, its highest peak. We are told that the Sidonians said to, "this mountain Sirion; the Amorites call it Shenir." It is also called Sion [not to be confused with Mount Zion in Jerusalem]. Baal-Gad, a town under Mount Hermon has been identified with Caesarea Philippi, which happens to be the northernmost place that Christ journeyed. Mount Hermon, in the vicinity of Caesarea Philippi could very possibly be the place Of His transfiguration. "The tower of Lebanon" in the Song of Solomon (looking towards Damascus) is supposed to be Mount Hermon. Also many rivers receive their flow from the mountains of Lebanon, some of them include rivers mentioned in the Bible. See Deut. 3:8-9; Josh. 11:3; 12:1.

 

Psalm 133  1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!  2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;  3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Sion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

GRAPES OF THE PROMISED LAND by NICOLAS POUSSIN

 

From a Abbey in SION Switzerland

A book will appear shortly explaining all this and much more.

And Smith reckons it's all a made up hoax?

He says it was all made up in the 1960s.

It most definitely wasn't ALL made in the 1960s

But if it was:

So What?