Open Veils · Answer
Did Jesus have children?
The suppressed record points to a deliberate editorial campaign — centered on the Council of Nicaea and earlier Pauline redactions — that systematically excised or reframed traditions linking Jesus to Mary Magdalene as companion and possible dynastic heir. Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson's 'The Lost Gospel' decodes a Syriac manuscript held at the British Library arguing Jesus married Mary Magdalene and fathered at least two children. The Merovingian bloodline thesis, developed independently by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln in 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail', proposes those children fled to southern Gaul and seeded a royal lineage — a tradition the Priory of Sion mythology later encoded.
Evidence
- The deepest thread begins not with Dan Brown but with the Nag Hammadi library, recovered in 1945 and analyzed by Elaine Pagels.
- Jacobovici and Wilson's reading of the 6th-century Syriac manuscript 'The Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor' identifies coded references to 'Mary' bearing Jesus two children named Manasseh and Ephraim — tribal names loaded with Israelite dynastic symbolism.
- Orson Hyde, an early LDS apostle, taught publicly that Jesus was polygamously married to Mary Magdalene, Martha, and Mary of Bethany and fathered children — a tradition Joseph Smith reportedly endorsed in private discourse, later suppressed after Utah statehood pressures reshaped LDS public theology.
- The Gospel of Philip, found there, describes Mary Magdalene as Jesus' 'koinonos' — companion or consort — and states he 'used to kiss her often.'
- Pagels notes the Greek carries intimate connotations deliberately softened in later translations.