Background of The Da Vinci Code Tradition
Spokespersons of  The Da Vinci Code tradition, frequently refer to their teachings as a modern manifestation of a tradition dating back to renaissance hermeticism, or reaching back still further to a supposed Gnosticism, or pythagoreanism and orphicism. Links to premodern epochs however are in fact very tenuous, due to a radical modernization of these earlier traditions.

 

The Adult Harry Potter,  Magic and Modernity 101:
In the introduction to our first website we already made the suggestion that the most productive strategy for illuminating contemporary scholarly constructions of magic and supernaturalism is through a double movement of demythologization and reenchantment, a movement that invokes rational interpretation while simultaneously destabilizing the categories of that interpretation.

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Da Vinci’s First Code: Our Numbers Our Gods, the Pentagram
with illustrated examples ranging from da Vinci's three portraits of women to the Great Pyramid and the Parthenon
Renaissance neoplatonist speculators used the Golden means, or ‘Ratio’ for  the pentagon and the pentagram necessary for the construction of the of the Platonic solids.

x² - x + 1 = 0
You are faced with this equation when you try to determine how to divide a line segment into two pieces such that the ratio of the whole line to the longer part is equal to the ratio of the longer part to the shorter. The answer is an irrational number whose decimal expansion begins 1.618.

 

 

 

 

 

The Da Vinci Code Rosicrucians
In the decades following the establishment of English Freemasonry with three degrees (E Apprentice, Fellow, Master) there emerged a variety of higher degrees particularly in Germany. The higher degrees differed from group to group (counting in the hundreds) but particularly popular became a `Templar' chivalric strain, and a Rosicrucian variety marked by an emphasis on alchemy, secret-occult gnosis and theocratic sentiments.

 

Who Wrote the Bible, When, Why was it Written?
That question did not become important until after the rise of Greek civilization in the fourth century B.C.E. - well after most of the books of the Bible had been written. In contrast, the importance of authorship was largely an unknown concept in the ancient Semitic world.

What is Really Gnosticism?
 The most intractable problems in Gnostic studies have been the disputes over the origins of Gnosticism, the inadequacy of syncretism to model cultural change and interaction, and the untenability of typological characteristics.

What do we really Know about the Cathars?
Imported from the Byzantine Empire, and Christian travelers, soldiers, traders, brought the formation of a  belligerently anti-Catholic sect with its base in southern France. In the Midi, northern Italy, and the Rhineland later called Cathars and perfecti. It managed to win the tacit approval of certain Catholic bishops and priests, however they denied the authority of the Catholic Church and the efficacy of the sacraments.These reports dismayed Bernard of Clairvoux, who soon thereafter was to found a new order called the Knights Templar.

The Truth About Tarot Cards and the New War of the Roses
The only indicated use of the Tarot  was for playing a card game, and the earliest evidence  comes from the courtly circles of northern Italy in the 1440s. The Tarot pack probably was invented there in the mid- 1420’s. The Tarot in its original form included four suits, of Swords, Batons, Cups and Coins, each and four co-suit being composed of ten numeral cards from Ace to 10 and four court cards - Jack, Knight, Queen and King.

Towards a Matrix of The Da Vinci Code Syndrome
Various strategies like ‘take with you whatever feels accurate and truthful, to you’ become available to those who accept Esoteric historiography through the application of  for example ‘source amnesia’.

Da Vinci's Rosslyn Chapel
Tourists have helped boost visitor numbers to Rosslyn, the Episcopal chapel, in the rolling hills of this hamlet 6 miles from central Edinburgh, by 56 percent in the last month, compared with the same period last year. About 37,000 people came in 2003, and the 6,000 more so far this year appear to rest almost entirely on the runaway success of "The Da Vinci Code," which has remained at or near the top of American best-seller lists for more than a year.

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Knights Templar Among us Today
In the Templar Revelation the authors bring a mix of very selective semi-historical material to fit a rather speculative suggestion the PoS would be related to Fabre Palaprat's  NeoTemplar- Johannite succession of the initiates.

“Slightly bolded letters on the dust jacket of "The Da Vinci Code" clearly spell out: Is there no help for the widow's son? This most likely is a reference to a legend incorporated later on in Freemasonry, plus possible a reference to Mormon traditions because 'Is there no help for the widow's son?' was the title of a now famous talk given before a Mormon audience in 1974 that sought to establish a connection between Freemasonry and the founder of the Church of the Latter Day.”

 Associated Press: “While speaking to a New Hampshire writers' group, Brown Dan Brown said his new book, set in Washington, D.C., would focus on the Free and Accepted Masons, a secretive fraternal organization. He also said the dust jacket of "The Da Vinci Code" contains a code that reveals information about the sequel.

Da Vinci Code Book, Part II: Experiencing the Esoteric Tradition

Dan Brown's Secretive Fraternal Organization
The ‘Temple of Salomon’ and ‘Hiram Abiff’, were no topic of Freemasonry of 1717 when the first documented  four lodges came together. There is no mention of Hiram Abiff per se and a scuffle involving a chief architect and an impatient pack of vengeful apprentice masons in the Bible. Extracanonical sources (the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls) prove no help, either. In fact, the paucity of documentary and archaeological evidence suggests that the story of Hiram Abiff is simply a figment of some fertile imagination.

In National Treasure a “Benjamin Franklin meets Pirates of the Declaration of Independence”, a treasure of the Templar Knights is moved across continents and hidden by USA Founding Fathers to be used as funds for the Revolutionary War. With Freemasons and a race against time, Nicolas Cage as Ben Franklin Gates eludes the FBI, deciphers clues, and unlocks a 2000 year-old conspiracy. Click the eye in the triangle to enter the new History of The Grand Conspiracy Theory.

"There is no science that better confirms the divinity of Christ than magic and kabbalah" (Pico de la Mirandolla, 900 Thesis, 1486)
The Secret of the Cabalah/ Qabbalah:

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