1. Prepared By: Gohil Namrata R.
Enrolment No.: PG13101010
Year: 2014-2015
Roll No.: 18
M.A./Part:2
Sem.:4
Submitted To: S.B. Gardi,
Department of English,
M.K. Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India).

3. Dan Brown
Daniel “Dan” Brown (born June 22,1964)
Is an American author of ‘Thriller Fiction’.
Once Brown read Sidney Sheldon’s novel ‘The
Doomsday Conspiracy, and was inspired to
become a writer of thriller.
His fourth novel, ‘The Da Vinci Code’, became a
bestseller, going to the top of the ‘New York Times
Best Seller list its first week.
Brown’s novels are feature the recurring themes of
cryptography, Keys, Symbols, codes, and conspiracy
theories.

4. Sun Myung Moon
Sun Myng Moon (born 25 February 1920-3 September
2012) was a Korean religious leader, businessperson,
political activist, and media mogul.
A Self-proclaimed messiah, he was the founder of the
Unification Church, and of its widely noted “Blessing” or
mass wedding ceremony, and the author of its unique
theology the ‘Divine Principle’.
Moon was active in conservative politics and courted
world leaders. An ardent anti-communist and advocate for
Korean reunification, his support helped turn The
Washington Times into a respected newspaper in
consevative circles.
He expanded his business interests, which include News
World Communications, an international news media
corporation and Tongil Group, a South Korean business
group, as well as various affiliated organizations.

5. It lays out the
core of
Unification
theology, and is
held to have the
status of
scripture by
believers.
It was co-written
by Church
founder Sun
Myung Moon
and early disciple
Hyo Won Eu.
The ‘Divine
Principle’ is the
main theological
textbook of the
Unification
Church.

6. Unificationist
Unification Church or Unificationism, is a new religious
movement founded in South Korea in 1954 by Sun Myung
Moon. Since its founding, the church has expanded
throughout the world with most members living in Korea,
Japan, the Philippines, and other nations in East Asia.
Unificationist beliefs are derived from the Christian Bible and
are explained in the church’s textbook,the Divine Principle. It
teaches that God is the Creator and Heavenly Parent, whose
dual nature combines both masculinity and femininity and
whose center is true Love.
The Blessing Ceremony of the Unification Church, a wedding
or marriage rededication ceremony, is a church tradition
which has attracted wide public attention. The church has
engaged in interfaith activities with other religious, including
mainstream Christianity & Islam, despite theological
difference.

7. Comparison
Through
These 5
Points
The Use of
Allegory
and Symbol
The Sacred
Feminine
Creation
Christ
The
Church

8. 1)Allegory & Symbol
Brown’s key assertion and the
lynchpin around which his novel
turns is the identification of the
Holy Grail with Mary Magdalene. In
making this argument, Brown first
attempts to deconstruct the familiar
image of the Grail as “the cup Jesus
drank from at the Last Supper and
with which Joseph of Arimathea
later caught his blood at the
Crucifixion.”

9. The Tree of Life
with Adam
The Tree of
the Knowledge
of Good & Evil
with Eve
Serpent with
Satan
“Eating” the fruit
symbolized
having Sexual
intercourse
Devine
Principle

10. 2)The Sacred Feminine
The Da Vinci Code’s
references ancient
Goddess worship
rooted in “Pagan,
Mother Earth-
revering religions.”
DP’s reference point
is the Christian
doctrine of the Holy
Spirit, which it
Feminine terms.

11. Continue…
DP States, there are many who
receive revelations indicating that
the Holy Spirit is a female spirit;
this is because she came as the
“True Mother”, that is the
second Eve . Again, since the Holy
spirit is a female spirit is a female
spirit, we cannot become the
“Bride” of Jesus unless we receive
the Holy Spirit.

12. Continue…
DP: The risen Christ and Holy spirit together are called
the “True Parents”, through whom humankind attains
“Spiritual rebirth.” However, it regards spiritual; rebirth
as a limited form of Salvation.
Because the Holy Spirit failed to materialize in
the flesh, humankind continues to groan in
travail, awaiting the redemption of our body.
One consequence of this is the continuance
of male-dominated societies and oppression
of women.

13. 3)Creation
The Da Vinci Code &
Divine Principle,
creation is a gateway
to the divine. Both
texts develop
arguments in
favor of intelligent
design, reflective of
the divine order in
nature.
Brown identifies
a code, known as
the “Divine
proportion,”
embedded as
the fabric of
creation.
DP contends that
the natural order
mirrors the
divine and cites
Biblical revelation
as support

14. Continue…
Brown’s hero, Robert Langdon, claims
in The Da Vinci Code that the
“mystical mathematical” number
1.618,otherwise known as PHI or the
Divine Proportion, is “a fundamental
building block in nature.” As he notes,
“Plants, animal, and even human
beings all possessed dimensional
properties that adhered with eerie
exactitude to the ratio of PHI to 1.”

15. Continue…
• The number of female to male honeybees in any beehive in the world;
• The ratio each spiritual’s diameter to the next on chambered nautilus
Seashells;
• The ratio of consecutive seed head spirals in sunflowers;
• Ratios on pinecone petals, the leaf arrangement on plant stalks, and
insect segmentation;
• The distance from tip of one’s head to the floor divided from one’s belly
button to the floor’
• Hip to floor divided by knee to floor; finger joints; spinal divisions, etc.
Examples he cites include,

16. Continue…
Using the artist as an analogy, DP states,
“Just as the work of an artist is a visible
manifestation of its maker’s invisible nature…so we
can perceive God’s deity by observing his creation.”
Do proceeds to examine “Common Factors” found in
creation as a way “to know the nature of God’s
deity.”

17. Continue…
DP holds that:
1. “Positivity and negativity” or male and female
2. “External form and internal character”
3. Reminiscent of The Da Vinci Code’s mystical mathematical numbers, is the
repetition of the numbers 3 and 4 and various of these two numbers in creation.
These elements of creation all contribute to Unification theology’s understanding by
the divine.

18. 4)Christ
As stated, The Da Vinci Code
and Divine principle attempt
to deconstruct two millennia
of interpretation as to the
“true history of Jesus Christ.”

19. DP and The Da Vinci code associate
marriage with Jesus. The Da Vinci Code
contends that Christ actually married
Mary Magdalene and fathered her child.
DP is again more nuanced. It maintains
that Jesus, as the “Second Adam,” was
originally supposed to marry and,
together with his Bride, became the
second Adam and Eve.
Continue…

20. 5)The Church
The Da Vinci Code
• It criticize institutional
Christianity. Brown’s novel is
significantly more anti-clerical.
• It depicts the church as an
illegitimate institution, based
upon lies from its very inception.
• It adheres to a more materialist
reading of scripture, regarding it
as “a product of Man…not of
God.”
Divine Principle
• Divine Principle is critical of the
church’s short comings and
failings.
• However, it regards the church to
have had a legitimate religious
mission which continues.
• DP, though not holding the Bible
to be “perfect and absolute in
itself”, acknowledges it to be “a
revelation from God.”

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