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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, sworn
  protectors 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 secret rituals 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 the stake 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 tasted of
the apple and caused the downfall of the human
race. (238) The orb from which Eve partook,
Langdon said coolly, incurring the Holy wrath of
God. Original sin. (425)
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CONSTANTINE
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CONSTANTINE
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
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 to Christianity,
the Church launched a smear campaign against the
pagan gods and goddesses, recasting their divine
symbols as evil. (37)
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CONSTANTINE
Teabing Nothing in Christianity is original . .
. . Originally Christianity honored the Jewish
Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it
to 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
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,
of 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
Jesus establishment as the Son of God was
officially proposed and voted on by the Council
of Nicaea. . . .By officially endorsing Jesus as
the Son of God, Constantine turned Jesus into a
deity who existed beyond the scope of the human
world . . . . the early Church literally stole
Jesus from His original followers, hijacking His
human message, shrouding it in an impenetrable
cloak of divinity, and using it to expand their
own power. (233)
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CONSTANTINE
From Teabing Jesus Christ was a historical
figure 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
Teabing . . . any gospels that described the
earthly aspects of Jesus life had to be omitted
from the Bible. (244) Constantine commissioned
and financed a new Bible, which omitted those
gospels that spoke of Christs human traits and
embellished those gospels that made Him godlike.
The earlier gospels were outlawed, gathered up,
and burned. (234)
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CONSTANTINE
Teabing, responding to Sophie, who thought
Constantine 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
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
From Teabing The Bible did not arrive by fax
from 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
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
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
Fortunately for historians, some of the gospels
that Constantine attempted to eradicate managed
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 1960
• Last NT Gospel around 1990
• Gospel of Thomas written about 2030
• Gospel of Mary written about 2050
• Gospel of Philip written about 2170

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SECRET SOCIETIES
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SECRET SOCIETIES
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 of androgyny. (120)
This, he claims, is why she is smiling it was
her secret (121)
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
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MARY MAGDALENE
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MARY MAGDALENE
Was she a prostitute?
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MARY MAGDALENE
Was she a prostitute? Did the Church conspire
against her?
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MARY MAGDALENE
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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MARY MAGDALENE
 Magdalene was recast as a whore in order to
erase 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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MARY MAGDALENE
Teabing Sadly, Christian philosophy decided to
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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MARY MAGDALENE
Was she a prostitute? Did the Church conspire
against her? Was she Jesus wife?
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MARY MAGDALENE
Gospel of Philip 6333-36 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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MARY MAGDALENE
Gospel of Mary 1710-1821 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, Say what 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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MARY MAGDALENE
Gospel of Mary 1710-1821 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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MARY MAGDALENE
Gospel of John 2017 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 My Father and your Father, and
My God and your God.
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MARY MAGDALENE
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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MARY MAGDALENE
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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MARY MAGDALENE
Teabing It is not I who claim she is the Grail.
Christ Himself made that claim. (242)
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MARY MAGDALENE
Teabing I shant bore you with the countless
references to Jesus and Magdalenes union.
(247)  Its a matter of historical record.
(244) The marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene
is part of the historical record. (245)
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MARY MAGDALENE
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 hidden
meanings from situations that had none. (172)
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A FINAL THOUGHT Great fiction Bad theology
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