The Da Vinci Codeis a novel, but there are a lot of facts in it. I believe that all of the descriptions of art, architecture, documents and the secret rituals, are true.
The Plot, (from the first 32 pages)
Robert Langdon, is a professor, at Harvard University, in Boston Massachusetts. He has written a few books on the symbolism in Religious, (The Art Of Illuminati, The Lost Languages Of Ideolgrams and The Symbology Of Secret Sects). He is just beginning to write a new book, that only his editor, and the Jacques Saunier, the curator of the Louvre Museum, knew about.
Langdon had been invited to give a lecture at the American University, in Paris, and after the lecture was over, he had arranged to meet with Jacques Saunier, to ask him to help confirm some facts, in the new book. Jacques Saunier had agreed to meet him, but didn’t show up. Robert Langdon, went back to his room at the Hotel Ritz Paris.
It was 10:45 p.m. when Jacques Saunier staggered thought the archway of the Louvre’s Grand Gallery. He knew that the iron gate would close, and stop anyone from entering this area.
He was gasping for breath and looking for somewhere to hide. He heard someone say, ’’Do not move!’’
He turned around and saw that the man who had attacked him was a big albino, who had no pigment in his skin and his eyes were red.
The man took out a pistol, and through the iron bars aimed it at the curator. He said, ’’You should not have run away, now tell me where it is.’’
The curator said, ’’I’ve already told you, I have no idea where it is.’’
The man said, ’’You are lying, and I know that you and your Brethren have something that doesn’t belong to you.’’
The curator realized that he couldn’t possibly have know that, unless the other three Senechaux were dead.
He prayed that they had all told the same lie before they were murdered. It was a lie he had hoped he would never have to tell.
He told the man the lie, and his attacker said, ’’Yes, that is what the others said. Once you are dead I will be the only one who knows the truth.’’
The albino, (Silas), shoots the curator in the stomach and then tries to shoot him in the forehead. There are no bullets in the and he was going to reload it, but instead he says, ’’My work here is done, it will just take you a bit longer to die. Pain is good.’’
The man leaves and the curator knows he has only 15 minutes to live and he must pass on the secret to someone. Wincing with pain he used all of his strength to display a code with a few of the items in the chamber.
Silas goes back to his hotel, and makes a long distance call to New York. When the person answers the telephone he hears, ’’Teacher, they are all dead, and before they died, they all said the same thing about the code. Now only you and I know the secret.’’
Silas, hangs up the phone, and brings out a pair of lashes. He begins to beat him self until the blood begins to flow. He whispers, ’’Pain is good!.
Robert Langdon, hears the telephone ringing. He looks at the clock beside is bed, and he sees he has only been asleep for an hour.
When he picked up the phone he hears the Concierge telling him that he hopes he didn’t wake him up, but he has a very important visitor, waiting to see him.
Landon asks the Concierge to write down the persons name and telephone number and that he will try and phone him before he leaves on Thursday.
The phone rings again, and the Concierge tells him, ’’I thought that I should alert you, that the very important person is en route to his room.
There is a knock on the door and a man with a distinct English accent, introduces him self as, Lieutenant Jerome Collet. The Lieutenant is from the Direction Central Police Judiciare, (like the FBI in the Untied States, or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in Canada).
When Landon lets him come into his room he is told that, ’’My Capitiane requires your expertise in a very private matter.’’
Landon is quite upset because it is after midnight, until he is shown a Polaroid photograph of dead body, of the curator, laying in a strange position.
A year ago Landon had seen another corpse laying in a strange position. The positions were not the same, but Landon had a strange feeling, that the deaths were connected.
Landon asks the agent about the position and is told that, ’’Monsieur Saniere, did that to himself’’.
Landon gets dressed and the agent drives him past all the wonderful architecture of Paris. Landon wonders why the Parisians didn’t pick one of these wonderful statues, to be the symbol of Paris, instead of the phallic looking Eiffel Tower.
Landon asks the agent how his Capitiane knew he was in France. He was told that Interpol had told him. They arrived at the new pyramid entrance to the Louvre. He wondered if anyone knew that 666 panes on glass were used to make it!
The driver spoke into a walkie talkie and said, ’’Mr. Langdon has arrived.’’
Landon asks the agent what is Capitiane name is. He is told it is Bezu Fache, but he is know as le Taureau.
Landon says, ’’You call you Captain the bull?’’
The agent doesn’t answer, but says he has to go, and Landon should go inside.
Landon is about to knock on the door when a dark stocky man opens it. While he is talking on his cell phone he introduces him self to Landon.
Landon tells he saw the photograph, and Fache says, ’’What you saw in the photo in only the beginning of what Sauniere did.’’
Fache asks why Landon was meeting with Sauniere, and is told that he was interested in his work, and taught a course at about Sauniere’s collection of goddess art.
The came to the room where Sauniere body was, and had to go flat on the ground to get under the steel gate.
Sophie Neuevu, (a French Cryptologist), is asked to help as well.
What I thought
There are clues and codes to figure out, to try and find the holy Grail, than was taken from Jeruslam, after the first Temple was distroyed.
Together they work to solve the riddle and break the code and the map that is suppose to lead them to the Holy Grail. They find out that the Curator was a member of the Priory of Sion, (a 1000 year old Society and some other members were Botticelli, Da Vinci, Isaac Newton and Victor Hugo).
Richard and Sophie go from Paris to London, New York City and a few other places, and find that someone always anticipates what they are going to do next, and tries to stop them.
This is a conspiracy theory book about a painting of Leonardo Da Vinci that has Jesus, Mary Magdalene and their Child in it. This book enforces my belief that Jesus was married, (because all Jewish Rabbi?s, at that time had to be married).
The chapters are short and it was easy to read, (I read it in 3 days). Although my people, and others, went through the Shoa, (Holocaust), I find it hard to believe that mans inhumanity to man still is happening as I type this.
It reminded me of the books that were written about the Knights Templar, and the beginning of Christianity.
I couldn’t put it down, until I found out who was trying to stop Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu, and why!
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