This is not a book review, this is a caution concerning the purported factual basis of the book. Although a work of fiction, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code openly borrows from nonfiction sources that discuss the bloodline of Christ, that Jesus had one or more children whose descendants are alive today. The Church has declared this proposition blasphemous, while the fanatics counter by pointing to works of nonfiction supporting the idea. Most bookstores will have these nonfiction sources on display, sources like Bloodline of the Holy Grail by Sir Laurence Gardner and Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln. These works factually discuss what has become the central framework to Dan Brown’s book.
The Da Vinci Code serves as an entertaining primer on the subject of hidden history and religious conspiracy that encourages readers to follow up with the nonfiction works. The problem is that even these are misleading. Siding entirely with either the Church or the Dan Brown fanatics is therefore asking to be deceived. Below I will explain the couple questionable items to watch out for, but first let’s discuss the issue of blasphemy.
The Church objects to the “bloodline of Christ” concept because the Bible never mentioned his being married to Mary Magdalene, nor would his divine status as the Son of God allow him to have sex and father mortal children. So the theory contradicts the Bible and defiles the divine status of Jesus Christ. There are a couple problems with this. First of all, there is a difference between Jesus the man, and Christ the Spirit. Jesus was an exceptionally wise soul whose purity of heart and mind opened him to his full spiritual potential, to a full connection with the force that is Christ. He thus became a potent channel for the divine Will. Jesus the man had a biological mother and father, and he may have had a wife and children – but this says nothing about the ineffable Christ force that came into him when he was sufficiently prepared. The Church is unwilling to separate the personality from the essence, and thus takes any facts concerning the mortal Jesus as an affront to the immortal Christ. As for contradictions to the Bible, let’s remember that despite its wisdom the Bible, far from being the absolute Word of God, is a haphazard collection of scriptures heavily edited by political forces and corrupted by incorrect translations. So let’s separate the idea of the mortal Jesus from the immortal Christ and accept that Jesus could have married and had children while the Christ remains pure as it always was and will be.
Now, even assuming that Jesus had flesh and blood descendants, The Da Vinci Code makes an interesting statement concerning what became of these:
“And so Langdon had remained, standing beside Sophie and listening in mute astonishment while Marie told the story of Sophie’s late parents. Incredibly, both had been from Merovingian families—direct descendants of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ.” – The Da Vinci Code
This is the idea you will find in the nonfiction works mentioned earlier, that the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene later became the Merovingians. And that idea seems purposely manufactured to mislead. The Merovingians were a French dynasty that sprang to power in the fifth century after Europe was plunged into the Dark Ages by apocalyptic natural disasters. The latter is not well known, but tree ring data from that time suggests severe climate disruptions, written records of which have since been expunged. Far from being a divine bloodline, the Merovingians were of a darker strain whose own legends speak of having been spawned from a sea monster. That myth is part literal, part symbolic, and relates to their covenant with negative hyperdimensional entities, but that’s beyond the scope of this discussion.
”[...] the brotherhood had another, more important duty as well—to protect the bloodline itself. Christ’s lineage was in perpetual danger. The early Church feared that if the lineage were permitted to grow, the secret of Jesus and Magdalene would eventually surface and challenge the fundamental Catholic doctrine—that of a divine Messiah who did not consort with women or engage in sexual union.” He paused. “Nonetheless, Christ’s line grew quietly under cover in France until making a bold move in the fifth century, when it intermarried with French royal blood and created a lineage known as the Merovingian bloodline.” – The Da Vinci Code
It is no secret that the Merovingians are the ancestors of today’s royal bloodlines. This includes the blue bloods of Europe and America who have produced numerous kings, queens, and presidents throughout history. No surprise that they continue the Merovingian tradition of accumulating wealth, power, knowledge, and control. So perhaps now you can see the problem with claiming the Merovingians are descendants of Jesus – it would imply that today’s blue bloods, the elite families who basically run the world, are of a divine bloodline and thus have the “divine right of kings” to rule over us. That is the first deception.
The second deception concerns the following:
“Langdon decided not to shock his students with the fact that more than a dozen secret societies around the world—many of them quite influential—still practiced sex rites and kept the ancient traditions alive. Tom Cruise’s character in the film Eyes Wide Shut discovered this the hard way when he sneaked into a private gathering of ultraelite Manhattanites only to find himself witnessing Hieros Gamos. Sadly, the filmmakers had gotten most of the specifics wrong, but the basic gist was there—a secret society communing to celebrate the magic of sexual union.” – The Da Vinci Code
Actually, Stanley Kubrick who made Eyes Wide Shut knew what he was doing, and it is this part of The Da Vinci Code that apologetically tries to buffer the truth. Benign sexual rituals that celebrate the creation of life do exist, but what you will find most prevalent among these Merovingian-descendant secret societies are rituals of a spiritually inverted nature involving sexual abuse of children and mind-controlled slaves as well as ritualistic human sacrifice, hardly what one would expect from a divine bloodline.
If Jesus had descendants, if there were indeed a bloodline of light, you would not find these in prominent positions of power interbreeding with each other to keep the bloodline pure. Rather, they would be scattered across the western world, many not knowing who they are until their true destiny is gradually revealed to them, while others who have awoken formed into secret societies of a hidden but positive nature functioning as conscious agents of the divine Will, knightly custodians of the Truth. And they may not necessarily be descendants of Jesus himself, but others in ancient past whose covenant with the Divine left a genetic imprint. What they guard, what they fight for and advance, is not the simplistic notion that Jesus had children, but something far more powerful. It has been referred to as the Holy Grail, and it is these hidden bloodlines of light—not the visible blue bloods occupying positions of political and monarchical power—that are the true guardians of the Grail.
What is the Grail? It has been referred to as the cup that caught the blood of Christ, or the dish that carried the head of John the Baptist. These are symbols and should not be taken literally. The Grail is simultaneously an object of immeasurable power, the spiritual integrity needed to make use of the object, and the bloodlines destined to be its custodians. The medieval Grail legends differed greatly, but the version by Wolfram von Eschenbach called Parzival is the least corrupted. As stated in Parzival, the “Graal” was a magical stone brought to earth for safekeeping by a troop of neutral angels during the Great War in Heaven. This stone had the power to manifest one’s wishes, filling one’s dinner plate and drinking cup with whatever one could desire to eat or drink.
If you trace the Grail legends back in time, you will first come across Persian stories about the Lamp of Aladdin, then the Hebrew accounts of the Ark of the Covenant, then the Greek and Nordic myths concerning various horns or stones of plenty, such as the Horn of Hercules, the millstone of Amlethus, the Sampo, and so on. What these all have in common is that they concern an object that through a vortical process can turn thoughts into reality, something powerful enough to change history as we know it. It is the keystone of our physical existence, a veritable “spacetime machine”, as a friend of mine has coined it. So when The Da Vinci Code and related works talk about the Templars being custodians of a simple religious truth concerning Jesus having had a child and wife, do not be so naive. The guardians of the Grail are beyond petty religious matters.
So to summarize, Jesus Christ was a man of extraordinary purity who became an open channel for the divine Will, whose activities as a man such as marrying or fathering children bear no mark on the sanctity of the Christ energy that later descended into him. And if he did engender a divine bloodline, his descendants would not have been the Merovingians as claimed in The Da Vinci Code, so be very suspicious should the royal families or secular elite ever proclaim their right to rule over mankind due to their supposed divine status. They are usurpers, and should they ever attempt this they would fit the definition of anti-christ.
There are divine bloodlines, but these are scattered about and work for Truth and Balance from behind the scenes, being entirely anonymous to the public. What makes a divine bloodline? Simply that the genetics are right for a soul of high spiritual caliber to repeatedly incarnate and continue the Work of uplifting mankind.
Now, if you are new to the esoteric or conspiracy field, I would advise you to be careful in your research, to read widely, use your intuition, and employ critical thinking in figuring some of this stuff out. Furthermore, watch out that you don’t get sucked into things you don’t actually need to know, like trivial details that have no consequence for you and your purpose here. It’s easy to get preoccupied deciphering the coded truths the alchemists and gnostics recorded in their written and architectural works, but remember there are other less cryptic sources today saying the same thing. You wouldn’t want to pass up what’s in front of your face for what has been triple encrypted centuries ago to avoid charges of heresy. Whatever you read, keep only what makes sense and fits, and the rest put aside.
