The Da Vinci Code: A house of cards that collapsed

Who’s fooling who? is without question verify the historical constructions and theo- a thrilling novel. Unexpected codes and ries of The Da Vinci Code. This pertains to tremendous action pulls the reader along. all researchers, be they atheist, agnostics, Has Western civilization been fooled by a Christians and others. gigantic church cover-up operation for 2000 years? Dan Brown has a vivid imagination and wri- tes thrilling books. As a guide in the Western The Da Vinci Code addresses important world history as well as in church history, he issues regarding religion, power, feminism, is unreliable. This text will explain why. history and truth. It is positive that such issues are being investigated. However, a thriller novel filled with undocumented sug- Ace = gestions and made-up sources is of no use ? for those who want new insight and reliable knowledge. The story in The Da Vinci Code is built around the secret In The Da Vinci Code it is being stated that Priory of Sion and the documents that are the book’s theory and allegations are based supposedly being hidden by this priory. on research done by known historians. The “The Priory of Sion – a European novel thereby passes itself off as being secret society founded in 1099 – scientifically based when it most certainly is a real organization.” (Statement on the is not. The fact is that it would be hard to FACT page in front of The Da Vinci Code) find even one serious historian willing to

The truth is that the book’s leader of the Priory of Sion, claims regarding the Priory of because the priory did not Sion are pure fiction. The priory exist. Therefore, he could not was never in existence before it have known about secret doc- was established as a paper- uments regarding Jesus and organization by the Frenchman Mary Magdalene. The claims Pierre Plantard in 1956. He is of The Da Vinci Code regard- the person who made up the ing the Holy Grail, “gigantic entire history of the priory. In chests” containing documents the 1960’s Plantard tried to cre- from the time of Jesus, secret ate a myth about himself as the codes in Da Vinci’s paintings, last Grand Master of his invented priory. etc., are pure fantasy and fiction. These He produced false documents and actually claims could be considered creative ele- fooled the authors of Holy Blood, Holy ments in a fictional novel, but as historic Grail, the book in which Dan Brown found information, they have absolutely no value. many of the theories that he uses in The Da Vinci Code. Plantard’s fraud was exposed . When interrogated under King = Jesus? in the 1980’s oath by the police in 1993, he admitted that “Jesus’ establishment the whole thing was a hoax. as ‘the Son of God’ was On www.priory-of-sion.com you will find solid infor- officially proposed and mation regarding Pierre Plantard and his imaginary voted on by the Council Priory of Sion. of Nicaea. (…) Until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed Secret documents? by his followers as a mortal prophet … “In 1975 ’s Bibliothèque Nationale a great and powerful man, but a man discovered parchments known as Les nonetheless. A mortal.” (Chapter 55, The Da Vinci Code) Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, includ- These and many other allegations in The ing Sir Isaac Newton, Sandro Botticelli, Da Vinci Code conflict with clear historical Victor Hugo and Leonardo da Vinci.” (Statement from the FACT page in front of The Da facts. Jesus was worshiped as the Son Vinci Code.) of God from the beginning of church history. There are numerous documents The truth is this: Pierre Plantard and a and thousands of quotations in the centu- couple of friends produced the collec- ries before Constantine that prove this. The tion of parchments known as Les Dossi- statement that Christians viewed Jesus as ers Secrets. The false documents were an ordinary human being up to the Council deposited in the archives of the library. of Nicaea in 325 AD is historical fraudu- The deception was exposed, and Plantard lence contrary to all facts. confessed the fraud. The Da Vinci Code states that Constan- The house of card collapses tine commissioned and financed a new, revised Bible. “The earlier gospels were When you realize that the Priory of Sion is outlawed, gathered up and burned” (chap- a product of Plantard’s imagination and that ter 55). This is all false, as is so much else Les Dossiers Secrets is a forgery from the in the novel. Constantine had nothing to 1960’s, the historical allegations stated in do with the discussions about the content The Da Vinci Code collapse like a house of the Bible, and he never burnt or revised of cards. Leonardo da Vinci was never a it. The truth is that we have a number of Greek Bible manuscripts from the two Queen = centuries before Constantine. It is from these texts that our Bibles are translated Mary Magdalene? – not from imaginary revisions invented by “Jesus was the original Dan Brown. feminist. He intended for the future of His church The Da Vinci Code describes the Gnostic to be in the hands of Mary gospels (the gospel of Mary, of Philip, Magdalene.” (Chapter 58, etc.) as being more trustworthy than the 4 The Da Vinci Code) gospels in the Bible. This claim does not correspond with historical facts. Virtually all The main characters in The Da Vinci Code scholars are in agreement that the biblical assert the following: 1. Jesus’ plan was to gospels were written while people of Jesus’ marry Mary Magdalene and father children. own generation were still alive. The Gnostic 2. Mary Magdalene was appointed by Je- gospels were, on the other hand, written sus as the leader of the church and as a 100-200 years goddess. 3. She was to be the icon for the after Jesus’ “sacred feminine” in Christian theology and death. worship. 4. Ritual intercourse was a central element in Jesus’ teaching. “Through Almost all of intercourse (...) the man could find spiritual what is written wholeness and communion with God.” (The in The Da Vinci Da Vinci Code, chapter 74; see also chapters 28 and Code regarding 60.) the Gnostic gos- pels is wrong. According to The Da Vinci Code, Jesus was According to the not able to organize his planned sex-cult novel “these doc- before his crucifixion. A pregnant Mary uments speak Magdalene had to flee to . The child of Christ’s ministry in very human terms” Sara was born there, and the descendants later married into . (chapter 55). The truth is exactly the op- the French royal family According to The Da Vinci Code, the Priory posite. The Gnostic gospels contain, for the most part, conversations between Je- of Sion is the guardian of thousands of pag- sus and the disciples after the resurrection es of secret documents. These documents prove the real plans of Jesus – and Mary and before the Ascension – consequently Magdalene’s role as the church’s leader a highly divine Jesus. These gospels and goddess. The church has suppressed contain almost nothing about His ministry. all these secrets about Mary Magdalene for The Gnostic gospels portray Jesus as an nearly 2000 years. Some day the docu- exalted and unapproachable teacher who ments will be made public. is far from ordinary people’s lives. All this may serve as a creative conspiracy- It is only in the 4 gospels of the Bible that theory for a fictional novel. However, as a we get to know a human Jesus who acts, description of historical realities, it is non- eats, weeps, becomes angry and tired sense. There is no historical evidence, – and who cares about the weak and re- and no sources. It is pure speculation and jected. It is only in the gospels of the Bible a figment of the imagination. And as stated that we meet Him as a trustworthy man and earlier, no Priory of Sion exists to guard as a merciful Saviour. these kinds of secrets…

Knight = Renaissance gives us many examples of this. And where is John, if Mary has taken Leonardo da Vinci? his place? For many different reasons there can be only one conclusion: Dan Brown is Leonardo da Vinci accepted wrong about the person sitting on Jesus’ “hundreds of lucrative Vati- right side. can commissions” and he “incorporated in many of his Christian paintings hidden symbolism that was Ten = Any more? anything but Christian.” (Chapter 8, The Da Vinci Code) The Da Vinci Code is an unusu- ally creative and thrilling novel. Many of the claims in The Da Vinci Code re- But it is nothing more than that. garding Leonardo da Vinci are without his- The theories and speculations torical basis. Da Vinci undertook only one in the book don’t turn into truths commission for the Vatican, not “hundreds”, because the story takes place as told in the book. And Leonardo was not a in historical buildings. Those rebel against the church or its beliefs. who interpret the speculations in the book as historical realities will be building their For instance, The Da Vinci Code tells that understanding of Western civilization and Leonardo named the painting Mona Lisa Christian history on legends, falsifications based on two Egyptian god-names. That is and non-existing sources. not the case. The painting was only named 31 years after the artist’s death. Oskar Skarsaune is a well-known Norwegian professor of early Church history Since the Priory and an expert on the theories and history of Sion did not behind The Da Vinci Code. After publishing exist, Da Vinci a book about the novel, he was asked by had no know- a journalist if most of the historical claims ledge of all the in Dan Brown’s novel are incorrect. He alleged secrets answered: “I will put it even stronger: that Dan Brown Nothing of what Dan Brown claims regard- speculates ing historical events in the early church or in about. The codes the medieval times is correct. Nothing.” and symbols that Dan Brown finds in his art Documentation are, therefore, Do you want more information or more thorough only his own imaginative interpretation and documentation? Visit the following websites: without basis in Da Vinci’s life. Isn’t it naïve to believe that a novel writer has greater www.leaderu.com/focus/davincicode.html www.reference.com/browse/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code insight in Leonardo Da Vinci’s art than all art www.priory-of-sion.com experts during the last centuries?

One example is the painting “The Last This text has no copyright. It can be freely copied, Supper”. Dan Brown asserts that the translated and distributed in any form without permis- person to the right of Jesus is a woman. sion. It is written by the team responsible for the Norwegian website www.davincikoden.info. The leader For 500 years everybody has known that it of the team, Björn Are Davidsen, is the author of a is the youngest of the disciples – John. At Norwegian book called Da Vinci Decoded and has led the time of Da Vinci it was common to paint 60 seminars and meetings about the novel during the very young men with feminine features. The last couple of years.