The Da Vinci Code (Part 2)

Here are some of the claims made by Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code which will be covered in subsequent posts:

1) St Constantine & Company successfully converted the world from matriarchal paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern religion forever.

2) The fleur-de-lis is symbolic of the Mona Lisa (code for yin-yang androgynous Gnosticism).

3) The Church killed 5 million women during 300 years of witch hunts.

4) Noah was an albino.

5) History has never had a definitive version of the Bible.

6) The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman emperor Constantine the Great.

7) Constantine was a lifelong pagan who was baptized on his deathbed, too weak to protest.

8) Constantine called the Council of Nicaea because Christians and pagans began warring, and the conflict grew to such proportions that it threatened to rend Rome in two. He decided to unify Rome under a single religion.

9) Virtually all elements of Catholic ritual were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions.

10) Nothing in Christianity is original. The pre-Christian God Mithras — called the Son of God and the Light of the World — was born on December 25, died, was buried in a rock tomb, and then resurrected in three days.

11) Most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god’s weekly tribute — Sunday.

12) Jesus’ establishment as ‘the Son of God’ was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea (325 AD). Until then, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet … a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless.

13) Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ’s human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike. The earlier gospels were outlawed, gathered up, and burned.

14) The Grail is literally the ancient symbol for womanhood, and the Holy Grail represents the sacred feminine and the goddess, which of course has now been lost, virtually eliminated by the Church. The power of the female and her ability to produce life was once very sacred, but it posed a threat to the rise of the predominantly male Church, and so the sacred feminine was demonized and called unclean. 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. Woman, once the sacred giver of life, was now the enemy.

15) Jesus was the original feminist. He intended for the future of His Church to be in the hands of Mary Magdalene.

16) “[The] concept of woman as life-bringer was the foundation of ancient religion. Childbirth was mystical and powerful. Sadly, Christian philosophy decided to embezzle the female’s creative power by ignoring biological truth and making man the Creator. Genesis tells us the Eve was created from Adam’s rib. Woman became an offshoot of man. And a sinful one at that. Genesis was the beginning of the end for the goddess.

17) According to … unaltered gospels, it was not Peter to whom Christ gave directions with which to establish the Christian Church. It was Mary Magdalene.

18) The greatest cover-up in human history. Not only was Jesus Christ married, but He was a father. My dear, Mary Magdalene was the Holy Vessel. She was the chalice that bore the royal bloodline of Jesus Christ. She was the womb that bore the lineage, and the vine from which the sacred fruit sprang forth!

19) Every religion in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith — acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

20) Jesus was not born of a literal virgin. Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

21) Since the days of Constantine, the Church has successfully hidden the truth about Mary Magdalene and Jesus.

Holy Cow! Tune in next time …