This entire “theory” is something incrediblly interesting for us in Europe.

The aristocracy is involved and of course the clergy. Two big institutions on the old continent. The aristocracy might no longer be in power in France but it is still very elitist and respected.

A group of us have been doing some research of our own lately…We have come up with something extremely intriguing: There is a family Saint-Clair in France. A large branch. Under aristocracy rules, aristocrats do not only have one last name. The bigger the family the more complex the last name.

My group and I have been, “warned” lately very kindly, that we should really give up this silly research. However we were able to find out that the Saint-Clair have several descendants. Yes they are directly attached to the Kings of France (Saint-Clair, Saint-Greal-Sang real…Royal Blood?). A large part of the family lives all around the louvre. Many of them, live in geographical positions around the louvre that would take the shape of one of the famous symbols of the Freemasons (two open triangles, one upside down one in the upright position). The freemasons and the Knight templars, are closely related to each other.

It has also come to our attention that some of their descendants, live in Southern California and goes by the name of K. Delancy. The other ones in two different places in Asia. The rest of the descendance , all over Europe.

They have several of their extended family and friends belonging to Freemasonry. And other relatives belonging to Opus Dei.

Over and over we have been told to drop the research….But there has always been a theory indeed that Dan Brown’s fiction “could” be true and that given that the Knight Templars were created by the French, the descendance is in France.

We are researching futher. However if anybody can tell me what Mr Brown based his research on I would be very interested.

Thank you

The myth creators on Egypt and Judea were the developors of the stories that came before the Jesus Mary story.

Research the Osiris and Isis story which orignated long before Jesus and Mary and you will see that these stories were created as teaching tools for those seeking to become one with the Light.

The Romans were not smart enough to realiize that they were set up by the Gnostics.

Earth is a Cosmic University Lab and all the distortions-teachings were created to confuse humans.

Distortion create the conflicts that we have been experiencing for many years and continue to experience.

The Ancient Egyptians must be having a good laugh at the Roman Church.

I have read many stories where the hero is a v. attractive 40′s figure (who doesn’t like blue eyes?), who is not only athletic, but really, really smart. The heroine is in her 30′s to be taken seriously as a brain, but really attractive with it. This is just appealing to the masses.

‘Shapeshifters’ appear in many thrillers to keep the reader and the characters on edge. Also, it is quite common for heroes to be initially cast as the murderer or guilty party to ensure that they have to fight not only the baddies but the goodies too (no one to turn to and all that). One example that springs to mind immediately is the old book ‘A matter of honour’ by Jeffrey Archer as I read it recently but I know I’ve seen this plot line in many books.

Since most of the supporting theory for both stories appear in art, and both feature da Vinci heavily, isn’t it just logical that they would both include art galleries which have da Vinci works?

I haven’t read legacy (will do when I get a copy) but did really enjoy code when I read it over 6 months ago. I loved the premise of the lost sacred feminine, but t hasn’t exactly changed my outlook on life, so I consider it as just good fiction.

Interestingly, I read ‘Angels & Demons’ first, and really loved it, which is what drew me to Code. I also loved Deception Point. Because all 3 stories use similar pacing and cliff hangers, Shapeshifters, etc I really believe that DB has taken ideas from many sources but crafted a uniquely DB novel in Code. This shouldn’t be illegal and he shouldn’t be punished. If Code was his only novel I might be more inclined to think it was plagiarised, but the others support his style and creative plots.

I did wonder how he could be so certain that all the rituals were genuine as I was married to a mason who told me less than nothing about what went on, so I took it for granted that they might not be exactly right and that there would be a lot of artistic license in the book.

Having been through Perdue’s blog, it troubles me that he keeps referring to inaccuracies by RH and how they refuse to answer his charges but doesn’t put succintly what the main points are (he refers you to endless .pdf files of the case). I read their initial response letter to his letter, and far from finding it a nasty backlash I thought it was well laid out and to the point. They clearly stated that they were prepared to defend the case sure enough, but I thought it quite politely explained why the books might have similarities and highlighted huge differences in the plot.

I would have left it there.

There’s a reprint of a good review (by an historian) on my blog.

http://toledotastic.blogspot.com/2005/07/da-vinci-code.html

By the way, I am not affiliated with any organization.

Updating it (NOT rewriting) was my editor’s idea and, while she is almost always right, it was a bad idea this time.

As a result because there were too many “s” sounds she did not like (Curtis Davis — say it out loud) I changed the name of the hero when I updated a few things for this edition (like people pay in Euros now and not in Lire like they did when I wrote this in 1983. The Last Supper has been restored. Stuff like that.)

Unfortunately, the change inside (hero is Vance Erikson) didn’t get transferred to the cover on the first printing. The change was made on the second and third printings so maybe the first ones will be collector’s items.

The Mysterious “Vanessa” seems to have made quite a career on the blogs parroting the Random House party line.

I chide; I chide!

Bloggers aren’t the panacea for today’s media bias.