According to Jean-Claude Meyer, in the Ecclesiastical Bulletin of Literature, "The study of the AA of Toulouse, founded into the 17th century, forms part of the understanding of the more general movement of spiritual and apostolic reform of the clergy of France at that time. Beyond rules which appear out of date today, the history of this AA reveals the spirit of a sacerdotal fraternity lived by the fellow-members…." - Douzet and Coppens.

The AA is a genuine organization, the very organization which was identified as the one to which Boudet and Billard belonged. It exists to this day in Toulouse as L`AA de Toulouse "Une Societe Secrete Emule de la Compagnie du Saint Sacrement".

The "GL" between the double AAs stands for the "Grand Lodge". By including the AA and the GL within the Sot-Pecheur, Sauniere references the secret society originally known as The Priory of Sion.

Ben Hammott`s Team and the Clues from Sauniere

Bill Kersey of the movie "Bloodline" states that when they were taking the measurements in front of the statue outside the church door a phrase came vividly to his recollection, "A genoux devant le monument en plein rue" which translates as, "On his knee before the monument…en plein rue: in the middle of the road." This reminded him of a section of the Sot-Pecheur YY UR which is in the middle on the top.

The notes and maps which Ben Hammott found buried in wine and apothecary bottles were also written in a rectangular format using the pattern of three rectangles drawn on the paper in red ink. They are cryptic and framed like the Sot-Pecheur and led to other buried artifacts including a wooden chest containing 1rst century artifacts which was buried in a cave. Ben and his team are used to thinking in terms of French cryptograms and it is Ben`s unique way of interpreting Sauniere`s clues within the décor of the church that has led to his discoveries.

The Sot-Pecheur

The solution of the Sot-Pecheur could contain a pun or it could be "for those who neither read nor write, but only spell". The words "sot-pecheur" might also refer to "ignorant sinners". Is this how Sauniere used the term when he was being questioned by his bishop about his mysterious income? Was he saying that the money had been given to him by "ignorant sinners"?

Looking at the text written on red graph-paper framed with letters, some of the words in the poem are broken to fit the format. Along with the frame of letters the broken syllables make new words as they combine with the letters around the edge. The first word that is obvious right away is "VOUCHURE" which is a bank check - an invention of the Templars who kept the funds of the pilgrims in the Holy Land. Their money was redeemable across national borders thanks to the unique system of coded checks used by the order. Also included in the text of the poem is the term "du Rhone" - "at the mouth of the Rhone" which is reminiscent of the secret vaults at Notre Dame de Marceille in Limoux. Notre Dame de Marceille has been defined as "not Marseille du Rhone", that is, "not he city of Marseilles at the mouth of the Rhone River" farther to the north. Is the Sot-Pecheur a model of some sort of early Templar coded check that would have been honored at the secret Templar vaults near Limoux?

Ben Hammott and his team continue their investigations into the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau. They use their special code-cracking insights to decipher the messages left by Sauniere.

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