The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

 

The shocking truth hidden in Leonardo Da Vinci's work, the 2,000-year-old truth, is finally unveild.

 

1. Introduce title and author

The Da Vinci Code 1,2  by Dan Brown

 Dan Brown was an ordinary teacher.

 

An ordinary teacher with a father who is a math teacher, a writer, an educator, and a wife who is an art historian and painter, he quickly became a world-class bestseller after publishing The Da Vinci Code.

 

Prior to that, of course, he had built up his abilities solidly in the works of Digital Fortress, Deception Points, Angels and Demons.

 

Developed various elements from their previous works, gave birth to a perfect block buster, and Dan Brown shook the whole world, showing how much the imagination of the novel could bring about.

 

2. Motives for reading this book

 

I read this book when I felt I was swimming in the water, unable to anchor my mind anywhere.

 

It was a time when I lived cut off from the world as if only intellectual longings were the goal of all my hopes.

 

I also snooped at the church wondering if an anchor of my mind could be a religion, but the anchor didn't fall.

 

Thanks to R's advice that if social science books play a role in shaping the framework of my thoughts, novels can cause blood to flow through my frame of thought, I have come to read them.

 

Nearly 15 years after reading this book, the shocking feeling of that time is still vivid, and one cannot deny that surprise and fear have been lurking. It was more than I had imagined.

 

Now that I think about it, I can't deny that the contents of this book still produce a lot of resistance.

 

But all the beliefs in this world are based on fiction. We can't prove anything but accept with our hearts what we imagine to be true. So there must be a metaphor in faith, and the metaphor is a means of helping our hearts accept faith that we cannot accept.

However, the problem occure when we ourselves begin to believe the metaphor literally.

I couldn't attend a church that forced me to believe the metaphor to be true when it became hard to believe it at one point.

 

So I wanted to frame my thoughts through a book that taught me that metaphor was a metaphor, and I longed for warm blood to flow into my frame of thought.

 

This book  the Da Vinci Code was a book that really surprised me and led me to the world of possibility that seemed impossible.

 

Dan Brown is one of the author who made me read everything in his work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.The story the writer wants to tell through this book.
The plot of this novel is like this.

 

There lived a man named Lord Leigh Teabing, who was knighted for spending his life tracking the secrets and truths of the Holy Grail.

He had the idea that the truth of the Holy Grail, considered the oldest secret of mankind, should be revealed to the world.
He was so full of his beliefs that he used the immense wealth and fame he inherited to carry out his false beliefs.

Also, a man who has faith in God cannot carry out science without prejudice.

 

And, he thought that the crooked belief that faith, too, does not require concrete evidence for him, was an absolute truth.

 

He was Aringarosa, bishop of the fundamental Catholic group Opus Dei.

There was a priest named Silas, who believed that he had been forgiven for the sins of the soul and body from Aringarosa, and that he could reach God through inflicting physical pain on himself, and that he was aiming to carry out whatever tasks Aringarosa had given.

The other was a man named Remy, the butler of Lord Teabing, who sold his soul to money, just as an individual blind to gold was leaning back and forth to the power of money like a fire butterfly.

Silas, Aringarosa, and Remy are not interested in who they are coordinated with, but only try to carry out their false beliefs.

Teabing, which needs such an organization and people, is portrayed as a cold-blooded man who eventually adjusts them with enormous wealth power and is relentless in punishing them by the time the goal is finally achieved.

Teabing, who was even crowned by the Queen of England, used them to carry out his misguided beliefs, and decorated it as if it were in a Catholic church where he had taken such actions

In it was Sophie, who became a decipher of the French judicial police without knowing that she was a descendant of the Merovinger, the lineage of Jesus.

A man who spent his life exploring the hidden correlations of essentially different representations and ideologies, and a symbolist Langdon, who saw the world as a deeply woven web of history and events, get entangled in this complex web.

Langdon and Sophie combine their thoughts with each other's abilities, taking off the veil of the Priory of Sion, known as a secret organization of more than two thousand years.

 

What are the truths and secrets of the Holy Grail that the Priory of Sion has been trying to protect and conceal?

The role of the Grand Master in keeping the Priory of Sion's secret in the novel is described as Sophie's grandfather and Louvre Museum director Jacques Sauniere, who shares many spiritual ideologies with Da Vinci.

Sauniere shared Da Vinci's frustration with the church's demonization of the goddess, including concerns about the church's repeated attempts to exclude sacred women from modern religion.

The basic theme of the novel, the organization, the secret European organization founded in 1066, and the Priory of Sion, is an organization that actually exists.

A parchment bearing the names of numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victory Hugo and Leonardo da Vinci, was discovered in 1975.

This discovery has led to the emergence of the most secretive and subsurface organization in human history.

 

While modern churches consider women guilty, the basic idea of the Priory of Sion is based on the worship of the sacred female goddess, which is only possible if the male is fully united with the female.

And, of course, Jesus, a Jew, was a married man.

 

The reason is that in those days, Jewish men prohibited non-marriage.

He married Maria Magdalena, who inherited the lineage of Benjamin, the holy royal family, who had been wrongly known to us as a prostitute.

Magdalena was pregnant by the time Jesus was crucified and killed.

She secretly gave birth to a girl named Sarah after moving to France to protect the lineage of Jesus.

She and Sarah grew up under the protection of the Priory of Sion, and Jesus' lineage has since been flowing into the Merovingians of France, which is why they were not revealed to the world in an era when Catholicism ruled the world.

These are stories that have been buried under the protection of the Priory of Sion for many years, as the Bible of modern Christianity is completely unthinkable in its opposite point.

The most important task of the Priory of Sion is to protect the Shangrel (the Holy Grail) documents, to protect Maria Magdalena's tomb, and to nurture and protect the bloodline of Christ.

The Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion have carried out this mission in secrecy, and Leonardo da Vinci was also a worshiper of the forgotten female goddess as the Grand Master.

As for the Catholic Church, which maintained the old-fashioned idea of reaching the divinity only through the church, Da Vinci sounded alarm  about the stupidity and fanatic beliefs that had been cynical, ridiculed and dominated the era through his work.

The plot of the novel is that the Priory of Sion's grand masters knew the truth that the Catholic Church had neglected, and those who kept the truth have historically and continuously revealed the truth and secrets through metaphors in their life.

Like the Holy Grail that revealed itself to a man seeking ancient wisdom... ...

4. Phrases that awaken my soul

 

● The pentacle is a pre-Christian symbol that relates to Nature worship.

 

The ancients envisioned their world in two halves-massuline and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power.

 

Yin and yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced, there was chaos.

 

● When diagrammed inside a circle, these thirty-two points of the compass perfectly resembled a traditional thirty-two-petal rose bloom.

● A circle is a symbol of femininity that represents protection.

 

● Today that Rose Line was in Greenwich, England.

 

But it had not always been. Long before the establishment of Greenwich as the prime meridian, the zero longitude of the entire world had passed directly through Paris, and through the Church of Saint Sulpice.

 

The brass marker in Saint-Sulpice was a memorial to the world's  first prime meridian, and although Greenwich had stripped Paris of the honor in 1888, in the original Rose Line was still visible today.

 

● We have the male god, Amon. And the female goddess, Isis, whose ancient pictogram was once called L'ISA.( AMON+ ISIS(L'ISA)=AMONLISA (Mona Lisa). Not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female.

 

● A square cross-with four arms of equal length-which predated Christiantity by fifteen hunderd years.

 

This kind kind of cross carried none of the the Christian connotations of crucifixion associated with the longer-stemmed Latin Cross, orginated by Romans as a torture device.

 

Few Christians who gazed upon 'the crucifix' realized their symbol's violent history was reflected in its very name : 'cross' and 'crucifix' came from the Latin verb cruciare-to torture.

 

● That equal-armed crosses like this one are considered peaceful crosses.

 

Their square cofigurations make them impractical for use in crucifixion, and their balanced vertical and horizontal elements convey a natural union of male and female, making them symbolically consistent with Priory philosophy.

 

● The Bible is a product of man. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds.

 

Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisons.

 

History has never had a definitive version of the book.

 

● Jesus Christ was a historical figure of staggering influence.

 

As a descendant of the lines of King Solomon and King David, Jesus possessed a rightful claim to the throne of the King of the Jews. Understandably, His life was recorded by thousands of followers across the land.

 

More than eighty gospels were considered for the New Testament, and yet only a relative few were chosen for inclusion-Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John among them.

 

● The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman emperor Constantine the Great.

 

He was a lifelong pagan who was baptized on his deathbed, too weak to protest.

 

Rome's official religion was sun worship or the Invincible Sun -and Constantine was its head priest.

 

● By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.

 

● During this fusion of religions, Constantine needed to strengthen the new Christian tradition, and held a famous ecumenical gathering known as the Council of Nicaea.

 

At this gathering, many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon- the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacrament, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus.

 

Jesus establishment as the Son of God was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea. Jesus's divinity was the result of a vote of the Council of Nicaea.

 

● Establishing Christ's divinity was critical to the further unifiaction of the Roman empire and to the New Vatican power base.

 

● Anyone who chose the forbidden gospels over Constantine's version was deemed a heretic.

 

The word heretic derives from that moment in history.

 

Latin word haereticus means 'choice'.

 

Those who 'chose' the original history of Christ were the world's first heretics.

 

● Fortunately for historians, some of the gospels that Constantine attempted to eradicate managed to survive. In addition to telling the truth Grail story, these documents speak of Christ's ministry in very human terms.

 

Of course, the Vatican, in keeping with their tradition of misinformation, tried very hard to suppress the release of these scrolls.

 

● This fresco is the entire key to the Holy Grail mystery.

 

Da Vinci lays it all out in the open in the The Last Supper.

 

Not what it is but rather who it is The Holy Grail is not a thing.  

 

It is, in fact...a person. .. actually a woman.

● 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 Goddness, burned nonbelivers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine.