THE HOLY SCRIPTURES (the Book of Books)

and it survives untill today

It is said, that Adolf Hitler stared for over an hour at an religious relic. It was the first he did, when the Nazis annexed Austria and he returned to Vienna, a city he knew well.

The object that fascinated the Fuhrer of Germany was the “Holy Lance”, the spear that pierced the body of Christ at the cross. Therefore it was called “holy”, because it has been in touch with the dying Christ.

Who did it?

His name was Longistus, a Roman soldier, who was part of the occupation in Jerusalem. The spear he used was named a “pilum”. A short spear, used by the Imperial legions, that controlled the occupied territories.

The “pilum” probably was stored in the arnory. Things changed when some 35 years later, the Jews revolted and drove the Roman soldiers out of Jerusalem, out of the Holy Land. The lance came into Christian hands.

From that on the Lance of Christ played a major role in European history.

All through history special powers have been admitted to objects, jewellery, weapons and even human remains. These were given an important place in pagan times, but was continued and even intensified after Christianity became the state-religion under Emperor Constantine and his christian mother. It was her, who discovered the True Cross, the nails used during the crucifixion, Jesus' crown of thorns, the Holy Lance and the “Shroud” and brought them to Constantinople.

Local historians write about the relics, f.i. about the “Shroud” (a piece of cloth, with the inprint of the Lord Jesus on it, kept in the cathedral of Turin.

Constantinople was like a precious stone untill the 15^th century. The pressure of the Islam-forces became too strong and finally broke the, enormous, walls of the city. The capital of the remnants of the Roman Empire. The city was plundered and the treasures of the Byzantine Empire disappeared. As did the precious relics and religious objects.

But the city had been ransacked before during the crusades. Both events were used to steal Byzantine treasure and relics.

Some dark time passed, before the relics started popping up.

The “Shroud” is first mentioned in Northern France, the Holy Lance is in the hands of German Emperors. Possession of the spear meant victory in battle and the Holy Lance seemed to gather reputation and became an important part of the treasury of the Holy Roman Empire.

That was the reason Aldolf Hitler studied the Lance in Vienna.

He immediately he ordered Longistus' weapon to be brought to Berlin. It seems logical, that the Fuhrer had the Lance with him, when settled in the “Wofsschanze” his headquarters in the East, where he spend most of his days, during World War 2.

Hitler lost the war, even though he was in possession of the Holy Lance. This raises the question: was the Viennese Lance the correct one?

Probably not. There are at least 4 spears of Destiny in Europe. The German lance is probably fake. At first glance, it does not like a Roman pilum and its history is shady. The Holy Lance changed hands several times. It was even part of the deal a Muslim-general made with his christian opponents.

Relics were big business in the Middle Ages. It was the main reason the Vikings raided monasteries. And there must be several fakes, because there far too many pieces of the Real Cross, to many nails, shrouds and even bones of important saints. Unique is “the Shroud of Turin”, probably stolen by a French-crusader knight in Constantinople. On it, during exposure to X-rays, an imprint of a man is visible, who is being crucified and is wearing a crown of thorns. The Roman Church accept it as an imprint of Jesus Christ after he was taken off the cross and was put into his grave. It is the accepted shroud (linnen cloth) Of the dead Jesus. Like the Lance, the Shroud is Holy, beccause it has been in touch with the body of the Christ.

There is a problem though. The Roman Catholic Curch allowed scientists to cut a small piece off and burn it to determine the age of the cloth through carbondating. The material was send to different laboratories, but they came out with the same conclusion. The shroud of Turin was woven out of linnen, produced around 1100 ad., more than 1000 years after the crucifixion.