To Paul Le Cour, the octopus symbolised the demiurge – representing an esoteric version of Jesus Christ (Jesus Christ is sometimes traditionally compared to an octopus because of the 9 manifestations of the Spirit – Christ Himself + 8 tentacles, and the French word poulpe/pulpe also means flesh – Christ was the Word made Flesh). Pierre Plantard modelled certain elements of his Priory of Sion mythology on Le Cour's writings and had also quoted Le Cour in his 1940s journal, Vaincre. It is more likely that the octopus/spider on de Chèrisey's fake tombstone is partly based on a drawing found in the works of French esotericist Paul Le Cour (1871-1954). An article by Andrew Gough entitled “Saint Sulpice and The Symbolism of The Priory of Sion” ( The Heretic Magazine, Number 8, March 2016) proposed that the drawing of the octopus/spider on Philippe de Chèrisey's artistic impression of Marieĭe Negri d'Ables' non-existent tombstone was based upon a sculpted octopus on a Holy Water Stoup in the church of St Sulpice, Paris (by the artist Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, 1714-1785).
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