For the last 62 years – since about 1964 – a joker made up a pretend-code that has successfully outlasted his own lifetime. He even provided the decoded message before the parchment itself! He arbitrarily devised a “pretend code” – that he claimed was built upon a “real code.” The result is that he has made both the “code” and the “parchment” immortal and to last forevermore. Those people that believe this are successfully making the joke of the Priory of Sion exist for a whole eternity.

Anyone, literally anyone, can pick up an epitaph from a gravestone or a tombstone, and work it into code that would be only 5 minutes old. Even if you manage to construct a genuine super-complicated code that was real code and just not a pretend code, it could still only date from 5 minutes ago – while the epitaph itself could be centuries and centuries old. The complexity of a code is NOT PROOF of the age of the code!

THIS NEEDS TO BE REPEATED AGAIN because this fact is never considered – you could pick up any epitaph of any tombstone or gravestone and attach a code to it – either a code that was constructed arbitrarily or logically systematic – whichever would be your choice – but the code itself can only be five minutes old. It does not prove anything. How can such people exist?

It has been surmised that either Philippe de Chérisey or Pierre Plantard concocted both the “parchment” and the “code”. Let’s say that both of them were good enough to have done that. It does not necessarily take a clever person with a massive IQ to have instinctive insight into advanced mathematics. Anyone could have the same instinctive insight. I remember watching during the late 1970s or early 1980s how an Asian woman could solve a complicated mathematical problem within literally seconds and she beat the computer of the period in achieving that. When asked how she accomplished it, her answer was that she simply did not know. It was on a BBC episode of “Nationwide”.

It's a known fact that people are gifted from birth to automatically being able to do anything – without any training involved – from advanced mathematics to bricklaying, from music to cookery – without them ever knowing how or why. There was a television documentary devoted to this as well. Everyone could be born gifted – from a person who could tell what music existed on an old-fashioned record by simply looking at its grooves – to an autistic boy who had never played a piano in his life, to one day just “tickling the ivories” naturally.

Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey were simply born gifted to “pull donkey's ears out of people.”