What is the Da Vinci code?
The Da Vinci Code is a novel. Its publisher, Doubleday, released it with much fanfare in March 2003 and heavily promoted it. As a result, it debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and has remained on it since, selling millions of copies. The publisher claims that it is “the bestselling adult novel of all time within a one-year period.” So popular has The Da Vinci Code become that it has created a marketing boom for books related to the novel, and it has become the subject of a major motion picture scheduled to be released in 2005. What is The Da Vinci Code About? It is a thriller story involving secret societies, conspiracies, the Catholic Church, and the fictional “truth” about Jesus Christ. Here is the author’s own summary: A renowned Harvard symbologist is summoned to the Louvre Museum to examine a series of cryptic symbols relating to Da Vinci’s artwork. In decrypting the code, he uncovers the key to one of the greatest mysteries of all time . . . and he becomes a hunt
The Da Vinci Code is a novel by Dan Brown that has held one of the top two or three places on best-seller lists since early summer. More than 3 million copies (ed: now over 40 million) are in print. In Brown’s novel, the “Da Vinci code” refers to cryptic messages supposedly incorporated by Leonardo Da Vinci into his artwork. According to the novel, Leonardo was a member of an ancient secret society called the “Priory of Sion” dedicated to preservin the “truths” that Jesus designated Mary Magdalene as His successor, that His message was about the celebration of the “sacred feminine,” that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had children and that the Holy Grail of legend and lore is really Mary Magdalene, the “sacred feminine,” the vessel who carried Jesus’ children. Sounds like an intriguing bit of lost history. Is it? Long story short: No. Is the Holy Grail really the “sacred feminine?” The legend of the Holy Grail has taken many frms throughout history, but it has always identif
