The Da Vinci Code:

A house of cards that collapsed

Who’s fooling who?
The Da Vinci Code is without question a thrilling produced false documents and actually fooled
novel. Unexpected codes and tremendous action the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the book in
pulls the reader along. Has Western civilization which Dan Brown found many of the theories
been fooled by a gigantic church cover-up that he uses in The Da Vinci Code. Plantard’s
operation for 2000 years? fraud was exposed in the 1980’s. When
interrogated under oath by the police in 1993, he
The Da Vinci Code addresses important issues admitted that the whole thing was a hoax. On
regarding religion, power, feminism, history and www.priory-of-sion.com you will find solid
truth. It is positive that such issues are being information regarding Pierre Plantard and his
investigated. However, a thriller novel filled with imaginary Priory of Sion.
undocumented suggestions and made-up
sources is of no use for those who want new Secret documents?
insight and reliable knowledge. “In 1975 Paris’s Bibliothèque Nationale
discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers
In The Da Vinci Code it is being stated that the Secrets, identifying numerous members of the
book’s theory and allegations are based on Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton,
research done by known historians. The novel Sandro Botticelli, Victor Hugo and Leonardo da
thereby passes itself off as being scientifically Vinci.” (Statement from the FACT page in front of
based when it most certainly is not. The fact is The Da Vinci Code.)
that it would be hard to find even one serious
historian willing to verify the historical The truth is this: Pierre Plantard and a couple of
constructions and theories of The Da Vinci Code. friends produced the collection of parchments
This pertains to all scholars, be they atheist, known as Les Dossiers Secrets. The false
agnostics, Christians and others. documents were deposited in the archives of the
library. The deception was exposed, and
Dan Brown has a vivid imagination and writes Plantard confessed the fraud.
thrilling books. As a guide in the Western world
history as well as in church history, he is The house of card collapses
unreliable. This text will explain why. When you realize that the Priory of Sion is a
product of Plantard’s imagination and that Les
Ace = Priory of Sion? Dossiers Secrets is a forgery from the 1960’s,
The story in The Da Vinci Code is built around the historical allegations stated in The Da Vinci
the secret Priory of Sion and the documents that Code collapse like a house of cards. Leonardo
are supposedly being hidden by this priory. “The da Vinci was never a leader of the Priory of Sion,
Priory of Sion – a European secret society because the priory did not exist. Therefore, he
founded in 1099 – is a real organization.” could not have known about secret documents
(Statement on the FACT page in front of The Da regarding Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The
Vinci Code) claims of The Da Vinci Code regarding the Holy
Grail, “gigantic chests” containing documents
The truth is that the book’s claims regarding the from the time of Jesus, secret codes in Da
Priory of Sion are pure fiction. The priory was Vinci’s paintings, etc., are pure fantasy and
never in existence before it was established as a fiction. These claims could be considered
paper-organization by the Frenchman Pierre creative elements in a fictional novel, but as
Plantard in 1956. He is the person who made up historic information, they have absolutely no
the entire history of the priory. In the 1960’s value.
Plantard tried to create a myth about himself as
the last Grand Master of his invented priory. He
King = Jesus?
“Jesus’ establishment as ‘the Son of God’ was It is only in the 4 gospels of the Bible that we get
officially proposed and voted on by the Council to know a human Jesus who acts, eats, weeps,
of Nicaea. (…) Until that moment in history, becomes angry and tired – and who cares about
Jesus was viewed by his followers as a mortal the weak and rejected. It is only in the gospels of
prophet … a great and powerful man, but a man the Bible that we meet Him as a trustworthy man
nonetheless. A mortal.” (Chapter 55, The Da and as a merciful Saviour.
Vinci Code)
Queen = Mary Magdalene?
These and many other allegations in The Da “Jesus was the original feminist. He intended for
Vinci Code conflict with clear historical facts. the future of His church to be in the hands of
Jesus was worshiped as the Son of God from Mary Magdalene.” (Chapter 58, The Da Vinci
the beginning of church history. There are Code)
numerous documents and thousands of
quotations in the centuries before Constantine The main characters in The Da Vinci Code
that prove this. The statement that Christians assert the following: 1. Jesus’ plan was to marry
viewed Jesus as an ordinary human being up to Mary Magdalene and father children. 2. Mary
the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD is historical Magdalene was appointed by Jesus as the
fraudulence contrary to all facts. leader of the church and as a goddess. 3. She
was to be the icon for the “sacred feminine” in
The Da Vinci Code states that Constantine Christian theology and worship. 4. Ritual
commissioned and financed a new, revised intercourse was a central element in Jesus’
Bible. “The earlier gospels were outlawed, teaching. “Through intercourse (...) the man
gathered up and burned” (chapter 55). This is all could find spiritual wholeness and communion
false, as is so much else in the novel. with God.” (The Da Vinci Code, chapter 74; see
Constantine had nothing to do with the also chapters 28 and 60.) According to The Da
discussions about the content of the Bible, and Vinci Code, Jesus was not able to organize his
he never burnt or revised it. The truth is that we planned sex-cult before his crucifixion. A
have a number of Greek Bible manuscripts from pregnant Mary Magdalene had to flee to France.
the two centuries before Constantine. It is from The child Sara was born there, and the
these texts that our Bibles are translated – not descendants later married into the French royal
from imaginary revisions invented by Dan Brown. family.

The Da Vinci Code describes the Gnostic According to The Da Vinci Code, the Priory of
gospels (the gospel of Mary, of Philip, etc.) as Sion is the guardian of thousands of pages of
being more trustworthy than the 4 gospels in the secret documents. These documents prove the
Bible. This claim does not correspond with real plans of Jesus – and Mary Magdalene’s role
historical facts. Virtually all scholars are in as the church’s leader and goddess. The church
agreement that the biblical gospels were written has suppressed all these secrets about Mary
while people of Jesus’ own generation were still Magdalene for nearly 2000 years. Some day the
alive. The Gnostic gospels were, on the other documents will be made public.
hand, written 100-200 years after Jesus’ death.
All this may serve as a creative conspiracy
Almost all of what is written in The Da Vinci theory for a fictional novel. However, as a
Code regarding the Gnostic gospels is wrong. description of historical realities, it is nonsense.
According to the novel “these documents speak There is no historical evidence, and no sources.
of Christ’s ministry in very human terms” It is pure speculation and a figment of the
(chapter 55). The truth is exactly the opposite. imagination. And as stated earlier, no Priory of
The Gnostic gospels contain, for the most part, Sion exists to guard these kinds of secrets…
conversations between Jesus and the disciples
after the resurrection and before the Ascension –
consequently a highly divine Jesus. These
gospels contain almost nothing about His
ministry. The Gnostic gospels portray Jesus as
an exalted and unapproachable teacher who is
far from ordinary people’s lives.
Knight = Leonardo da Vinci?
Leonardo da Vinci accepted “hundreds of Ten = Any more?
lucrative Vatican commissions” and he The Da Vinci Code is an unusually creative and
“incorporated in many of his Christian paintings thrilling novel. But it is nothing more than that.
hidden symbolism that was anything but The theories and speculations in the book don’t
Christian.” (Chapter 8, The Da Vinci Code) turn into truths because the story takes place in
historical buildings. Those who interpret the
Many of the claims in The Da Vinci Code speculations in the book as historical realities will
regarding Leonardo da Vinci are without be building their understanding of Western
historical basis. Da Vinci undertook only one civilization and Christian history on legends,
commission for the Vatican, not “hundreds”, as falsifications and non-existing sources.
told in the book. And Leonardo was not a rebel
against the church or its beliefs. Oskar Skarsaune is a well-known Norwegian
professor of early Church history and an expert
For instance, The Da Vinci Code tells that on the theories and history behind The Da Vinci
Leonardo named the painting Mona Lisa based Code. After publishing a book about the novel,
on two Egyptian god-names. That is not the he was asked by a journalist if most of the
case. The painting was only named 31 years historical claims in Dan Brown’s novel are
after the artist’s death. incorrect. He answered: “I will put it even
stronger: Nothing of what Dan Brown claims
Since the Priory of Sion did not exist, Da Vinci regarding historical events in the early church or
had no knowledge of all the alleged secrets that in the medieval times is correct. Nothing.”
Dan Brown speculates about. The codes and
symbols that Dan Brown finds in his art are, Documentation
therefore, only his own imaginative interpretation Do you want more information or more thorough
and without basis in Da Vinci’s life. Isn’t it naïve documentation? Visit the following websites:
to believe that a novel writer has greater insight 1) www.leaderu.com/focus/davincicode.html
in Leonardo Da Vinci’s art than all art experts 2) www.reference.com/browse/wiki/The_Da_
during the last centuries? Vinci_Code
3) www.priory-of-sion.com
One example is the painting “The Last Supper”.
Dan Brown asserts that the person to the right of This text has no copyright. It can be freely
Jesus is a woman. For 500 years everybody has copied, translated and distributed in any form
known that it is the youngest of the disciples – without permission. It is written by Björn Are
John. At the time of Da Vinci it was common to Davidsen and Öivind Benestad,
paint very young men with feminine features. [email protected]. The former is the author
The Renaissance gives us many examples of of a Norwegian book called Da Vinci Decoded
this. And where is John, if Mary has taken his and has led 60 seminars and meetings about the
place? For many different reasons there can be novel during the last couple of years.
only one conclusion: Dan Brown is wrong about
the person sitting on Jesus’ right side.