Da Vinci Code Myths

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Da Vinci Code Myths

• Jerry Sanderson

Lesson 4
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• People are very gullible, theyll believe
  anything they see in print.
• - Charlotte from Charlottes Web

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Review

• Christianity did not establish Eve as responsible
  for original sin, Dan Brown ignores the Old
  Testament, New Testament uses the phrase Adams
  sin
• Priory of Sion is a documented, established HOAX
• Council of Nicea did not vote on what books to
  include in the Bible

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Review

• Jesus followers did not view Jesus as a mortal,
  a mere man
• The Council of Nicea did not decide on Jesus
  divinity by a close vote, his divinity was
  already well established by the time of the
  Council
• YHWH was NOT derived from Jehovah, derived from
  androgynous physical union between the masculine
  Jah and the Pre-Hebraic name for Eve Havah

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Review

• The Gnostic gospels were written 100s of years
  after the gospels and epistles we have in the
  Bible.
• Postmodernism rejects propositional logic and is
  the new vessel for promoting Gnostic thinking.

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Mary Magdalene

• Luke 81-5
• After this, Jesus traveled about from one town
  and village to another, proclaiming the good news
  of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him,
• and also some women who had been cured of
  evil spirits and diseases Mary (called
  Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out
• Joanna the wife of Cuza, the manager of
  Herod's household Susanna and many others.
  These women were helping to support them out of
  their own means.
• While a large crowd was gathering and people
  were coming to Jesus from town after town, he
  told this parable "A farmer went out to sow his
  seed..

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Dan Browns Mary Magdalene

• One of the Apostles of Christ
• Married to Jesus
• Had a daughter named Sarah with Jesus therefore
  SHE WAS THE HOLY GRAIL
• Was intended by Jesus to carry on the Church
  instead of Peter
• Was of the Tribe of Benjamin

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There is some debate

• Pope Gregory I - 591 A.D. "She whom Luke calls
  the sinful woman, whom John calls Mary of
  Bethany, we believe to be the Mary from whom
  seven devils were ejected according to Mark."
  Eastern Orthodox Christians distinguish between
  Mary Magdalene on the one hand and Mary of
  Bethany,"the woman who was a sinner" on the other
  hand. Protestants mostly reject all these
  identifications.

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• Scholars however believe that Mary Magdalene,
  Mary of Bethany, and the woman Jesus rescued as
  well as the one who anointed him at Simon the
  Lepers house in the Gospel of Luke, are all
  different women.
• - Source Wikipedia.com

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The True Mary Magdalene

• Mark 1540-42
• Some women were watching from a distance.
  Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother
  of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.
• In Galilee these women had followed him and
  cared for his needs. Many other women who had
  come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.
• It was Preparation Day (that is, the day
  before the Sabbath). So as evening approached,..
• Mark 1547
• Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw
  where he was laid.

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Mary Magdalene

• John 201-2
• Early on the first day of the week, while it
  was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb
  and saw that the stone had been removed from the
  entrance.
• So she came running to Simon Peter and the
  other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said,
  "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we
  don't know where they have put him!"

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Various Factoids
FICTION
TRUTH

• The Pyramid outside the Louvre in Paris as 666
  panes of glass.
• Olympic Games were held on an 8 year cycle as a
  tribute to the planet Venus
• Mona Lisa comes from Amon and Isis an anagram
  of the divine union of male and female.

• The Pyramid has 673 diamond-shaped panes of
  glass.
• Held in honor of Zeus on a 4 year cycle
• Leonardo did not name the painting. He never
  titled any of his works. Name originates in 1550
  by Giorgio Vasari.

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Leonardo Da Vinci

• Mona Lisa
• Last Supper

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Mona Lisa
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Big Deal over a Small Painting
Mona Lisa is most likely a portrait of Lisa
Gherardini.(Giocondo), not a self portrait of
Leonardo Da Vinci.
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HERE IS THE CODE!!
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If this is Mary Magdalene, wheres John?
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Knights Templar According to Dan Brown

• Formed by the Priory of Sion to keep the secret
  alive and found treasure in Solomons temple.
• Used Round churches as an insult to the Church
  and an inside code of the secret
• They worshipped a pre-Christian fertility god
  named Baphomet
• Gothic architecture was designed by the Templars
  to record the secret of the sacred feminine.
• Pope Clement V (who the Templars were
  blackmailing him with the Grail Secret) were
  arrested and charged with Satanism.

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Truth of the Knights Templar

• The Templars were formed by French nobleman
  Hughes de Payens in 1118, a veteran of the First
  Crusade to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land.
• St. Bernard of Clairvaux and generous donors
  granted them numerous properties in Europe for
  support. This and their banking is how they
  gained great wealth.
• Rendered redundant after the last Crusader
  stronghold fell in 1291, the Templars pride and
  wealth(they were also bankers) earned them keen
  hostility.

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Truth of the Knights Templar

• Due to a financial dispute King Phillip the Fair,
  of France had many of the Templars arrested in
  1307.
• They were charged with charged with idol worship
  and heresy and under torture, many confessed and
  were burned.
• Pope Clement, a weak, sickly Frenchman
  manipulated by his King, burned no one in Rome
  inasmuch as he was the first pope to reign from
  Avignon.

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Treatment of Women in Pagan Societies

• Before the coming of Christ, in the pagan world,
  the lives of most women were held in very low
  regard.
• In Greece, India, and China, women had no rights
  and were considered the property of their
  husbands. Aristotle taught that a woman ranked
  somewhere between a man and a slave. Plato
  taught that if a man lived a cowardly life, he
  would be reincarnated as a woman.

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Treatment of Women in Pagan Societies

• In Ancient Greece, women-especially wives were
  regarded as lowly. A wife was not allowed to
  leave her house unescorted, but a mans mistress
  was allowed to accompany a married man in public.
• The average Athenian woman had the social status
  of a slave. Women were not educated, nor were
  they allowed to speak in public

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Treatment of Women in Pagan Societies

• The advent of Christianity radically transformed
  the fate of the women. Even ancient Roman pagan
  scholars agree that it was the turning point for
  the freedom and dignity of women.
• Sources Under the Influence, Alvin J. Schmidt
• Women in Greece and Rome, Abner Schram
• Cracking Da Vincis Code James Garlow, Peter
  Jones

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Do People Believe the Da Vinci Code?

• A compelling blend of history and page turning
  suspense. A masterpiece that should be mandatory
  reading!
• - Library Journal
• An exhaustively researched page-turner about
  secret religious societies, ancient cover-ups and
  savage vengence.
• - Publishers Weekly

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What about Dan Brown?

• I began as a skeptic. As I started researching
  Da Vinci Code, I really thought I would disprove
  a lot of this theory about Mary Magdalene and
  holy blood and all of that. I became a
  believer.
• - Dan Brown, Primetime, 11-03-03

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What about Dan Brown?

• On another occasion, when NBCs Today Show anchor
  Matt Lauer asked him how much of the novel was
  based on reality, Dan Brown replied Absolutely
  all of it. Obviously, Robert Langdon is
  fictional, but all the art, architecture, secret
  rituals, secret societies all of that is
  historical fact.