Three hundred years after the death of Christ, his followers had multiplied exponentially. The pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, in order to consolidate his power, decided to adopt Christianity as the official religion of the empire. Subsequently, pagan rituals and symbols were transmogrified into the official religion. Egyptian sun disks became the saints' halos. Pictograms of Isis nursing her miraculously conceived son Horus became the blueprint for the Virgin Mary nursing baby Jesus. Other modern Christian practices like the mass at the altar on Sundays (a tribute to the sun god), communion, the act of "God-eating" derive from pagan rituals. Christ, who lived a magnificent life teaching love for mankind, was elevated as a teacher to a divine personality. Subsequently, only a few gospels remained from about eighty gospels that told the story of Christ, were left to preach the new testament, even excluding the "Q" gospels which is believed to be Christ's gospel.

Constantine held the Council of Nicea to vote upon, among other things, doctrine and the divinity of Christ. Up until that moment, Jesus was treated by his followers as a great and powerful man, but nevertheless mortal. In the Council of Nicea, he was voted as "The Son Of God" - very narrowly. Establishing the divinity of Christ was crucial in the unification of the Roman empire and the new Vatican power base.
"By officially endorsing Jesus as the son of God, Constantine turned Jesus into a deity who existed beyond the scope of the human world, an entity whose power was unchallengeable. This not only precluded further pagan challenges to Christianity, but now the followers of Christ were able to redeem themselves only via the established sacred channel - the Roman Catholic Church."

It was all about power, the Church stole Christ from his own followers, according to author Dan Brown. The Bible is a product of man, not given from heaven. Constantine supposedly commissioned the Bible to omit the human aspects of Christ. One of those human traits was his marriage to Mary Magdalene, to whom he entrusted the building of the church. Subsequently the sexist Church launched a campaign to eradicate the sacred feminine, demonizing pagan rituals as satanic, nature-worshippers as witches, in order to establish the domination of the Church. The bloodline of Christ supposedly still exists till today, a product of his siring with Mary Magdalene.

This is the premise of Dan Brown's best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code.

Brown contends that the Grail is actually a person - Mary Magdalene - and the search for the Holy Grail has been a search for the sacred feminine, continuously eradicated by the Church.

The Church is purportedly trying to prevent prophecy. Astrologically, the last two thousand years was the Age of Pisces --- the fish, also a symbol of Jesus Christ. As we are entering the Age of Aquarius - the water bearer, the ruling ideals claim that man will learn the truth and be able to think for himself. Such an ideological shift is supposedly of great concern to the established church.

In the story, Harvard professor Robert Langford and French cryptographer Sophie Neveu are searching for the Grail while trying to avoid the police, after Langdon was implicated in the murder of Neveu's grandfather. Finding clues in paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci, they unravel a mystery that goes through the heart of Christianity.

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The mysterious smile of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is supposedly because of an inside joke. When Da Vinci painted Mona Lisa, he made the left horizon behind Mona Lisa slightly lower, which he wasn't prone to do. This made the left side look larger than the right. Historically, the left side was assigned the female role. Da Vinci was known to be in tune with the balance between male and female, that the human soul can be enlightened by accessing both its male and female aspects.
Da Vinci was also known to be homosexual. The Mona Lisa may also be a portrait of Da Vinci as female. Computer analyses show common points of congruency between Da Vinci's self-portraits and the famous painting.
So the painting may be an androgynous portrait of a human that has both male and female elements. Another clue to this androgynity derives from the painting's name, Mona Lisa. Egyptian God of masculine fertility, Amon, is usually depicted as a man with a ram's head, and his promiscuity and curved horns relate to the modern sexual slang "horny." His female counterpart was Isis, whose ancient pictogram was once called L'isa. Combine the two, you have AMON L'ISA --> MONA LISA
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I'm proud to say that I figured out some of the clues early on. For example, on page 396, a strange text was debated on whether it was some form of ancient script. I looked at the text and it looked like inverted lettering, and so I checked it out in the mirror, making it legible.
Then another clue they had to find out was the final five-letter word to open the cryptex. When I saw that the clue lay at Sir Isaac Newton's tomb and there was an inscription on the Principia Mathematica and the riddle being "rosy flesh and seeded womb," it seemed natural that the five-letter answer would be "apple". The apple was an apocryphal catalyst for Newton's theory of gravity. It was a symbol of knowledge.
Also it was obvious who the Teacher was after a while.

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From the book: Scotoma - the condition where preconditioned notions are so powerfully ingrained that the mind blocks out seen incongruity and overrides the eyes. Example:one of the disciples in the painting "The Last Supper"is the female Mary Magdalene. No one sees this until pointed out because we're so used to the idea that the painting is of Jesus and twelve male disciples. A cursory look would show otherwise.#