Brown's book is for the Vatican blasphemy masquerading as history. Small wonder the Church is profoundly disturbed. Brown strongly hints that only the fortunate readers of this "documentary disguised as fiction" may at last share in this incredible revelation. The Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion (an actual Christian organization), among whom Brown lists Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton and Victor Hugo, have - according to the book's premise - kept to their oath never to reveal any of this to the public and the Roman Catholic church is committed to suppressing this information. The secret that could not be revealed since the birth of Christianity is that Jesus' bloodline continues to flourish to this day.
She was married to Jesus and was the vessel that bore his children. Brown claims that the Holy Grail was actually Mary Magdalene. A woman's body is symbolically a container, and the most famous of these has a name every Christian will immediately recognize. Knights who claimed to be 'searching for the chalice' were speaking in code as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned non-believers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine." ( The Da Vinci Code, pages 238-239)Īnd there is more. Legends of chivalric quests for the Holy Grail were in fact stories of forbidden quests to find the lost sacred feminine. When Christianity came along, the old pagan religions did not die easily. "The Grail," Langdon tells us in a scholarly voice that appears to echo the author's personal conviction, "is symbolic of the lost goddess. But for Brown's all-knowing art critic and alter-ego Robert Langdon, that isn't true. Mingling fact with fiction in a combustible mixture that leaves readers perplexed by the boundaries between one and the other, Brown leads us to believe - with more than an author's wink - that an incredible hoax has been played on millions of pious Christians who've never been told the truth about the Holy Grail.įor centuries, pious Christians have been taught that the Holy Grail is the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper. "Faith," he has one of his heroes tell us, "is based on fabrication." "Almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false," laments one of Brown's characters. Written in breezy roman-a-clef style, the reader is introduced to Catholic orders that really exist, prominent holy sites that can readily be visited, and famous people of past and present - all of whom share in what is presented as the greatest theological falsification of history. Woven into a story of the aftermath of a murder in the Louvre Museum is a tale of Christian conspiracies, high level cover-ups, and ancient secret societies that the author repeatedly hints is more fact than fiction. This, after all, isn't just an exciting mystery novel. This isn't just an exciting mystery novel. Critics agree: There hasn't been anything like Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code in publishing history.Īnd that, truth be told, hasn't made the Catholic Church very happy.
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