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Main Characters

Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious Symbology,Harvard University

Jacques Sauniere, murdered museum curator at the

Louvre, Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, swornprotectors of the Holy Grail.

Sophie Neveu, agent of the Department of Crypto-

graphy, a branch of the French state police

Sir Leigh Teabing, wealthy grail researcher, British

Royal Historian affiliated with Oxford University


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All descriptions of artwork,

architecture, documents, and secretrituals in this novel are accurate. (1)

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MISINFORMATION

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During three hundred years of witch

hunts, the Church burned at thestake an astounding five million

women. (125)

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Langdon: It was man, not God, who created

the concept of original sin, whereby Eve tastedof the apple and caused the downfall of the

human race. (238)

The orb from which Eve partook, Langdonsaid coolly, incurring the Holy wrath of God.

Original sin. (425)

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CONSTANTINE

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CONSTANTINE

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The Priorys beliefs conveyed by Langdon: . . .powerful men in the early Christian church conned

the world by propagating lies that devalued the

female and tipped the scales in favor of the mas-

culine. . . .Constantine and his male successors

successfully converted the world from a matriarchal

paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a

campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred

feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern

religion forever. (124)


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CONSTANTINE

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In the battle between the pagan symbols and

Christian symbols, the pagans lost. (37)

As part of the Vaticans campaign to eradicate

pagan religions and convert the masses toChristianity, the Church launched a smear

campaign against the pagan gods and goddesses,

recasting their divine symbols as evil. (37)


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CONSTANTINE

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Teabing:

Nothing in Christianity is original . . . .Originally Christianity honored the Jewish

Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it t

coincide with the pagans veneration day of the

sun . . . .To this day, most churchgoers attend

services on Sunday morning with no idea that

they are there on account of the pagan sun gods

weekly tributeSunday. (232-233)


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CONSTANTINE

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Teabing, regarding Nicea:At this gathering,

many aspects of Christianity were debated and

voted uponthe date of Easter, the role of the

bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, o

course, the divinity of Jesus . . . . until that mom-

ent in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers

as a mortal prophet . . .a great and powerful man

but a man nonetheless. A mortal . . . .


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CONSTANTINE

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Jesus establishment as the Son of God wasofficially proposed and voted on by the Council o

Nicaea. . . .By officially endorsing Jesus as the

Son of God, Constantine turned Jesus into a deit

who existed beyond the scope of the human worl

. . . . the early Church literally stole Jesus from

His original followers, hijacking His human

message, shrouding it in an impenetrable cloak o

divinity, and using it to expand their own power.

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CONSTANTINE

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From Teabing:

Jesus Christ was a historicalfigure of staggering influence, perhaps the most

enigmatic and inspirational leader the world has

ever seen. . . .More than eighty gospels were

considered for the New Testament, and yet only a

relative few were chosen for inclusion. . . .The

fundamental irony of Christianity! The Bible, as

we know it today, was collated by the pagan

Roman emperor Constantine the Great. (231)


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CONSTANTINE

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Teabing:

. . . any gospels that described theearthly aspects of Jesus life had to be omitted

from the Bible. (244)

Constantine commissioned and financed a newBible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of

Christs human traits and embellished those

gospels that made Him godlike. The earliergospels were outlawed, gathered up, and

burned. (234)


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CONSTANTINE

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Teabing, responding to Sophie, who thoughtConstantine was a Christian: Hardly. He was a

lifelong pagan who was baptized on his deathbed

too weak to protest. (232)

In 325 [Constantine] decided to unify Rome

under a single religion. Christianity.


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CONSTANTINE

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Sophie:Why would a pagan emperor choose

Christianity as the official religion?

Teabing: Constantine was a very good

businessman. He could see Christianity was on

the rise, and he simply backed the winning

horse. (232)


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THE GOSPELS

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GOSPELS

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From Teabing:

The Bible did not arrive by faxfrom heaven. . . . The Bible is a product of man,

my dear. Not of God. . . . it has evolved through

countless translations, additions, and revisions.

History has never had a definitive version of the

book. (231)


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GOSPELS

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Nobody is saying Christ was a fraud, or denying

that He walked the earth and inspired millions to

better lives. All we are saying is that Constantine

took advantage of Christs substantial influence

and importance. And in doing so, he shaped the

face of Christianity as we know it today. . . .

Constantine upgraded Jesus status almost four

centuries after Jesus death. (234)


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GOSPELS

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Almost everything our [church] fathers taught

us about Christ is false. (235)

Langdon considers the implications of

presenting to the world thousands of ancient

documents as scientific evidence that the New

Testament is false testimony. (341)


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GOSPELS

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Fortunately for historians, some of the gospels

that Constantine attempted to eradicate manage

to survive. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in

the 1950s hidden in a cave near Qumran in the

Judean desert. And, of course, the Coptic Scrolls

in 1945 at Nag Hammadi. (234)


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If Jesus was born around the year 1900

Jesus in Jerusalem about when the Titanic sank

Death and resurrection in 1930

First NT writings at the close of WWII

First NT Gospel around 1960Last NT Gospel around 1990

Gospel of Thomas written about 2030

Gospel of Mary written about 2050Gospel of Philip written about 2170


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SECRET SOCIETIES

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SECRET SOCIETIES

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The Knights Templar

Opus Dei

Priory of Sion


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LEONARDO DA VINCI

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LEONARDO DA VINCI

His Mona Lisa is

neither male nor

female. It carries a

subtle message ofandrogyny. (120)

[This, he claims, is

why she is smiling itwas her secret (121)]


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LEONARDO DA VINCI


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LEONARDO DA VINCI


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MARY MAGDALENE

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MARYMAGDALENE

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Was she a prostitute?


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Did the Church conspire against her?


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Teabing, that Mary Magdeline was a prostitute:That unfortunate misconception is the legacy of

a smear campaign launched by the early

Church. The Church needed to defame Mary

Magdalene in order to cover up her dangerous

secrether role as the Holy Grail. (244)


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Magdalene was recast as a whore in order toerase evidence of her powerful family ties. (249)

The Church . . . perpetuated her image as a

whore and buried evidence of Christs marriage

to her. . . . (254)


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Teabing:

Sadly, Christian philosophy decidedto embezzle the females creative power by

ignoring biological truth and making man the

Creator. Genesis tells us that Eve was created

from Adams rib. Woman became an offshoot of

man. And a sinful one at that. Genesis was the

beginning of the end for the goddess. (238)


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Did the Church conspire against her?

Was she Jesus wife?


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Gospel of Philip 63:33-36

And the companion of the [...] Mary Mag-

dalene. He loved Mary more than [all] the

disciples and used to kiss her [often] on the[mouth? Head? Cheek?]. The rest of [the

disciples were offended?]. They said to him,

Why do you love her more than all of

us?


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Gospel of Mary 17:10-18:21

When Mary had said this, she was silent, since

the Savior had spoken thus far with her. But

Andrew answered and said to the brethren, Saywhat you think concerning what she said. For I

do not believe that the Savior said this. For

certainly these teachings are of other ideas.


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Gospel of Mary 17:10-18:21

Peter also opposed her in regard to these matters

and asked them about the Savior. Did he then

speak secretly with a woman, in preference to us,

and not openly? Are we to turn back and all listen

to her? Did he prefer her to us?Then Mary grieved

and said to Peter, My brother Peter, what do you

think? Do you think that I thought this up myself in

my heart or that I am lying concerning the Savior?


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Gospel of John 20:17

Jesus said to [Mary], Stop clinging to Me, for I

have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to

My brethren and say to them, I ascend to MyFather and your Father, and My God and your

God.


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MARYMAGDALENE

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These are photocopies of the Nag Hammadi

and Dead Sea Scrolls, which I mentioned

earlier, Teabing said. The earliest Christian

records. (245)


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Teabing flipped through the book and pointed

out several other passages that, to Sophies

surprise, clearly suggested Magdalene and Jesus

had a romantic relationship. (246)

Teabing, referring to Philip and Magdalene:

According to these unaltered gospels . . .


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Teabing: It is not I who claim she is the Grail.

Christ Himself made that claim. (242)


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MARYMAGDALENE

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Teabing: I shant bore you with the countless

references to Jesus and Magdalenes union.

(247)

Its a matter ofhistorical record. (244)

The marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene is

part of the historical record. (245)


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MARYMAGDALENE

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The historical evidence supporting this is

substantial. (254)

Teabing calls it persuasive scientific evidence.

(266)

Langdon: The iconographic evidence Im

finding to support the theory is, well,

staggeringly persuasive. (163)


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A VERY TRUE NUGGET:

A career hazard of symbologists was

a tendency to extract hiddenmeanings from situations that had

none. (172)

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A FINAL THOUGHT:

Great fiction; Bad theology

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