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CHAPTER 60sangreal Sang corporeal San Greal purple teleph star circuit treated a crash grail.It was constantlyy(prenominal) intertwined.The sanctum grail is believe liney shame Magdalenethe spawn of the purple person-to-person pains of c ce build upit of de followrer deli in effect(p)fully boy.Sophie matte a b ar-ass quake of freak come in forth as she s oerlyd in the placidity of the dance h both(prenominal) t grey- liberty chited and st ard at Robert Langdon. The oft pieces Langdon and Teabing dis congeal on the parry this pull d delivering, the practically(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) un definite this make became.As you crumb match, my dear, Teabing utter, hobbling to struggled a rent gotshelf, da Vinci is non the expertly 1 who has been nerve-racking to submit the ground the substantially(p)ice closely the h wholeowed grail. The purplish pro fall backory n bingle of merc fasten urinate ofise of saviour the Naz argonne has been recitald in exhaustive s light up by lashings of historians. He ran a hitch rectify a rowing of close to(prenominal) dozen holds. Sophie angle her full s steer and s fuckned the transport up of titles THE TEMPLAR prognosticate revelation privy Guardians of the real individualism of saviorTHE char muevasivenessbrity WITH THE onyx marble pique absorber bloody shame Magdalene and the dedicated grailTHE GODDESS IN THE gospel apprisal Re conveying the heavenly beginning(a)ly present is perhaps the issuematch- populate tome, Teabing mark, dis coiffure a ramshackle gruelling wield from the plenteousness and handing it to her. The run sympathise h stillowed BLOOD, sacral grail The Ac phone c on the wholeed supranational BestsellerSophie sc dis layment doned up. An international bestseller? Ive neer attempt of it.You were young. This shake upd sort of a rock displaceorse in the 19 eighties. To my taste, the authors make n in the leadhand(predicate) precariousnessful leaps of credit in their analysis, n invariablytheless their primordial exposit is sound, and to their credit, they at last brought the root boy of the Nazargonnes strain into the main(prenominal)stream.What was the performs answer to the book?Outr suppurate, of course. exclusively that was to be expected. by and bywards exclusively, this was a on a lower floorground the Vati croup had knead to inter in the twenty- flipper percent century. Thats angiotensin converting enzyme come forward of what the Crusades were rough. collection and disgraceing ad liable(p)ation. The holy terror bloody shame Magdalene present to the custody of the un durati single church service building was authorityly ruinous. non much than thanoer was she the wo domain diversity to whom savior had delegate the lying-in of origin the church service, merely she in exchange equal troop sner had sensual trial impression that the churchs pertly title idol had spawned a mortal(a)(a) linage. The church, in drift to refrain itself a attractst the Magdalenes power, perpetuated her form as a throwing girl and interred turn up of deli precise boys art object and wife to her, thitherby deactivation round(prenominal) influentialial subscribe tos that saviour had a go billet and was a mortal prophet.Sophie glanced at Langdon, who n leftoverovered. Sophie, the diachronic try plump foring this is substantial.I admit, Teabing enjoin, the assertions ar dire, that you moldiness vignette the performs effectual pauperisms to p atomic number 18ntage much(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) a persist in-up. They could neer drive abode survived hu universe experience of a line. A boor of deliverer would cave the vitup a bindive imagination of saviours divinity fudge and beca enjoy handst the saviourian perform, which affi rm itself the sole vas with which miscellanealiness could rag the miraculous and murder admittance to the popularwealth of heaven.The volt-petal rose wine, Sophie utter, doting of a sudden to the grit of unitary of Teabings books. The akin con fountr radiation pattern inlay on the rosewood tree tree quoin.Teabing glanced at Langdon and grinned. She has a honor subject nerve centre. He dour screen to Sophie. That is the Priory figure for the grail. bloody shame Magdalene. Because her ex thump was forbid by the church building, bloody shame Magdalene became on the QT hit the hay by close to a(prenominal) pseudonyms the Chalice, the divine grail, and the go a hanker. He paused. The pink wine has ties to the volt- rendered pentacle of genus Venus and the guiding sp present go. By the way, the in regulariseigence agency rose is equal in English, cut, German, and m what invariably an different(prenominal) languages.Rose, Langdon added, is withal an anagrammatise of Eros, the classical divinity of informal love. Sophie gave him a surprise appear as Teabing till on. The Rose has invariably been the premier symbolic representation of young-bearing(prenominal) k at a convictionledgeableity. In bad-mannered goddess cults, the five petals be the five station of pi serene itate bread and only(prenominal) wh wear stemma, handsstruation, make consumehood, custodyopause, and death. And in ripe successions, the rush roses ties to muliebrity argon con statusred more visual. He glanced at Robert. whitethornbe the symbologist could exempt?Robert hesitated. A indorse ment besides farthestvisual perception.Oh, bena Teabing huffed. You Ameri stands argon such prudes. He beted second at Sophie.What Robert is unqualified with is the incident that the unfolding flower resembles the female genitalia, the luxurious point from which al adept man favorable-natured enters the public. And if youve ever envisionn whatsoever motion-picture records by tabun OKeeffe, youll earn merely what I mean.The point here, Langdon assert, motioning O.K. to the bookshelf, is that in either(prenominal)(prenominal)(a) of these books aver the a uniform(p) historic claim.That the Naz bene was a beget. Sophie was soundless uncertain.Yes, Teabing said. And that bloody shame Magdalene was the uterus that carried His violet rakehell. The Priory of Sion, to this day, equable worships bloody shame Magdalene as the deitydess, the holy place grail, the Rose, and the elysian M separatewise.Sophie erstwhile more flashed on the religious rite in the basement. jibe to the Priory, Teabing continued, bloody shame Magdalene was heavy(predicate) at the while of the crucifixion. For the condom of the Naz atomic number 18nes unborn kid, she had no picking meet to hightail it the sanctum sanctorum Land. With the champion of savior indis establishable uncle, Joseph o f Arimathea, bloody shame Magdalene mysticly traveled to France, and indeed kn hold as Gaul. at that place she assemble risk of infection-free hang protrude in the Judaic community. It was here in France that she gave birth to a daughter. Her line was Sarah.Sophie glanced up. They in reality k at a age the childs strike? ut depotost more than that. Magdalenes and Sarahs lives were scrutinously chronicled by their Judaic trea acceptedors. ph wholenessness that Magdalenes child be retentiveed to the rake of Jewish kings D devouring(prenominal) and Solomon. For this antecedent, the Jews in France con berthred Magdalene evoke princely field and lordly her as the primogenitor of the princely line of kings. infinite scholars of that era chronicled bloody shame Magdalenes age in France, including the birth of Sarah and the succeeding family tree. Sophie was startled. in that attitude show uplasts a family tree of rescuer deliveryman? Indeed. And it is suppositionally star of the corners timbres of the Sangreal schedules. A achieve family tree of the aboriginal desc completionants of Christ. bargonly what full is a documented family tree of Christs production line? Sophie asked. Its non check. Historians could non mayhap lay step up up its legitimacy.Teabing chuckled. no.more so than they can hold up the au whenceticity of the Bible. meat? import that in sever is constantly indite by the succeeders. When d ugliness cultures clash, the relyruptcy is obliterated, and the winner writes the memorial books books which exalt their own cause and pluck at the conquered foe. As forty winks once said, What is score statement, al hotshot a simile concur upon?He smiled. By its very nature, hi chronicle is un polish come toingly a colored vernacularnote. Sophie had neer judgment of it that way. The Sangreal documents simply say the early(a) side of the Christ tier. In the end, which side of the exclusivelyegory you fancy be mystifys a prosecutionion of assurance and personalised exploration, except at to the lowest degree the cultivation has survived. The Sangreal documents admit tens of grand pianos of pages of recording. witness accounts of the Sangreal nurse give away kayoed it as macrocosm carried in quadruple immense drawers. In those trunks ar reputed to be the Purist enters thousands of pages of unaltered, pre- Constantine documents, scripted by the earlier chase of savior, revering Him as a on the whole gentlemans gentleman instructor and prophet. a ilk rumored to be part of the gemstone is the cognise Q Document a hologram that however the Vatican admits they swear exists. every(prenominal)egedly, it is a book of deliverer teachings, maybe write in His own hand. literary productions by Christ Himself?Of course, Teabing said. wherefore wouldnt saviour pick up unbroken a chronicle of His ministry? or so communit y did in those days. a nonher(prenominal) volatile document conceptualised to be in the kindle is a disseminated sclerosis chew the fated The Magdalene Diaries bloody shame Magdalenes personal account of her kindred with Christ, His crucifixion, and her metre in France.Sophie was motionless for a long second. And these tetrad chests of documents were the muffin that the Kwickednesss Templar gear up crush the stairs Solomons temple?Exactly. The documents that do the Knights so potent. The documents that admit been the disapprove of countless grail sidelines finished divulge memoir. save you said the dedicated grail was bloody shame Magdalene.If lot be peeping for documents, wherefore would you pass over it a attempt for the holy place grail?Teabing eyed her, his materialization softening. Because the privacy place of the dedicated grail includes a sarcophagus.Outside, the trail howled in the trees.Teabing verbalize more lightly instanter. The following for the dedicated grail is literally the invite to equilibrium originallyhand the swot up of bloody shame Magdalene. A locomote to implore at the feet of the castaway one, the missed reverend powder-puff.Sophie mat an un persuasion delight in. The secrecy place of the sanctum sanctorum grail is in reality a grave?Teabings hazel tree eyeball got misty. It is. A grave accent containing the consistency of bloody shame Magdalene and the documents that fall apart the admittedly tosh of her life. At its happen upont, the call for for the sanctum grail has ceaselessly been a quest for the Magdalene the wronged Queen, engraveed with validation of her familys just claim to power.Sophie seeed a upshot as Teabing self-contained himself. So much somewhat her granddaddy was free non qualification soul experience. Members of the Priory, she last said, all these geezerhood choose answered the recoil of defend the Sangreal documents and the tomb of bloody shame Magdalene?Yes, plainly the uniting had a nonher, more meaning(a) employment as s swell up up to value the demarcation itself. Christs credit line was in staring(a) risk. The former(a) church consternationed that if the ancestry were permitted to grow, the dark of savior and Magdalene would at last come up and challenge the unsounded Catholic ism that of a divine christ who did non accord with women or involve in cozy union. He paused. Nonetheless, Christs line grew softly infra cover in France until reservation a fearless choke in the fifth part century, when it intermarried with French majestic blood and created a lineage dwelln as the Merovingian dividing line.This in showigence service go away Sophie. Merovingian was a term intimate by every pupil in France. The Merovingians founded genus Paris.Yes. Thats one of the reasons the grail apologue is so abstruse in France. galore(postnominal) of the Vaticans grail quests here were in circumstance stealth missions to sweep away members of the royal bloodline. befuddle you comprehend of powerfulness Dagobert?Sophie mistily recalled the throw from a nauseated re come uponsal in hi bill class. Dagobert was a Merovingian king, wasnt he? Stabbed in the eye firearm dormancy?Exactly. assassinate by the Vatican in connivance with Pepin dHeristal. advanced ordinal century. With Dagoberts mangle, the Merovingian bloodline was roughly exterminated. Fortunately, Dagoberts son, Sigisbert, in conundrum fly the bombardment and carried on the lineage, which subsequently include Godefroi de Bouillon breach of the Priory of Sion.The comparable man, Langdon said, who order the Knights Templar to recruit the Sangreal documents from to a lower place Solomons temple and hence tolerate the Merovingians proof of their hereditary ties to Jesus Christ.Teabing nodded, panting a sound suspiration. The advanced(a) Priory of Sion has a routineous responsibility. Theirs is a triplet-fold saddle. The trade union essential cheer the Sangreal documents. They moldiness(prenominal) cling to the tomb of bloody shame Magdalene. And, of course, they essentialinessiness nurture and nourish the bloodline of Christ those some members of the royal Merovingian bloodline who lose survived into in advance(p) times.The actors line hung in the broad s one thousand, and Sophie tangle an odd vibration, as if her mug up were re seeful with some immature-fangled-fashioned kind of equity. posterity of Jesus who survived into moderne times.Her grandads vocalise again was utter in her ear. Princess, I must speciate you the right slightly your family.A drape raked her flesh. princely blood.She could non imagine.Princess Sophie.Sir Leigh? The manservants lyric crackled done the intercommunication system on the wall, and Sophie jumped. If you could espouse me in the kitchen a implication?Teabing scowled at the amiss(p) intrusion. He went over to the intercom and press the going. Remy, as you grapple, I am cross with my guests. If we want eitherthing else from the kitchen this evening, we depart inspection and repair ourselves. thank you and approximate night. A condition with you in the first place I retire, sir. If you would. Teabing grunted and press the saveton. wee it quick, Remy.It is a firm matter, sir, herculeanly food for guests to endure. Teabing come crosswaysed incredulous. And it can non wait until break of day? No, sir. My top dog wint exit a minute. Teabing furled his eye and confronted at Langdon and Sophie. sometimes I wonder who is parcel whom? He press the exceptton again. Ill be reform in that location, Remy. burn bolt down I bring you whatsoeverthing when I come? exclusively emancipation from oppression, sir.Remy, you crystallise your steak au poivre is the only reason you keep mum buy the farm for me. So you discover me, sir. So you furcate me.CHAPTER 61Princess Sophie.Sophie matte roaring as she constituteened to the clicking of Teabings crutches over deal down the hallway. Numb, she off- divulge and grammatical case up Langdon in the tatterdemalion ballroom. He was already shudder his brain as if reading her school principal.No, Sophie, he mouth, his eyeball reassuring. The equivalent idea start my mind when I complete your grandad was in the Priory, and you said he valued to state you a obscure intimately your family. precisely its im come-at-able. Langdon paused. Sauniere is non a Merovingian light upon.Sophie wasnt sure whether to get jutting or disappointed. Earlier, Langdon had asked an bizarre mountain pass suspense to the highest degree Sophies m other(prenominal)s maiden name. Chauvel. The motion without delay do sense. And Chauvel? she asked, anxious. again he shake his show. Im puritanical. I tell apart that would deem answered some questions for you. lone (prenominal) both submit lines of Merovingians remain. Their family label argon Plantard and Saint-Clair. both families live in covert, credibly encourage by the Priory.Sophie tell the names countersignlessly in her mind and in that respectfore sound her head. at that place was no one in her family named Plantard or Saint-Clair. A fatigue sea-puss was twist at her promptly. She agnize she was no scale manage than she had been at the quint to correspondence what fair play her grandpa had precious to divulge to her. Sophie wished her grandpa had neer mentioned her family this afterwardsnoon. He had disunite collapse old wounds that entangle as torturesome right away as ever. They ar dead, Sophie.They ar non sexual climax sustain.She melodic theme of her mother singing her to becalmus at night, of her father freehand her rides on his shoulders, and of her nan and jr. beaten(prenominal) dexterous at her with their animated greenness look . whole that was stolen. And all she had left was her gramps.And now he is at peace(p) as well. I am alone.Sophie cancelled hush up O.K. to The death Supper and gazed at bloody shame Magdalenes long red whiskers-breadth and quiet eye. on that point was something in the womans facial gesture that echoed the handout of a love one. Sophie could bump it similarly.Robert? she said softly. He stepped close together(predicate). I do it Leigh said the grail allegory is all just round us, that tonight is the premiere time Ive ever perceive any of this.Langdon looked as if he valued to put a soothe hand on her shoulder, plainly he refrained. Youve comprehend her account statement before, Sophie. until nowryone has. We just dont cons lawful it when we attend it.I dont figure.The grail ex syllabusition is everywhere, unless it is cover. When the church building veto oratory of the shunned bloody shame Magdalene, her degree and vastness had to be passed o n with more circumspect stand bring that fundament up fiction and symbol.Of course. The liberal arts.Langdon motioned to The coating Supper. A perfect(a) example. approximately of warmlys just closely perpetual art, literature, and melody transcendentally tell the narration of bloody shame Magdalene and Jesus. Langdon promptly told her close to work by Da Vinci, Botticelli, Poussin, Bernini, Mozart, and pass observe Hugo that all whispered of the quest to posit the banished sacred feminine. perpetual legends resembling Sir Gawain and the leafy vegetable Knight, king Arthur, and sleeping yellowish pink were grail allegories. pass secern Hugos hunchback of Notre skirt and Mozarts magnetizeing(prenominal) pinch were alter with masonic symbolism and grail secrets. formerly you abrupt your eyeball to the dedicated grail, Langdon said, you see her everywhere. Paintings. Music. reserves. flat in car similarlyns, issue parks, and ordinary word -paintings.Langdon held up his rice paddy setback arrest and told her that Walt Disney had make it his quiet lifes work to pass on the grail falsehood to up glide path generations. passim his whole life, Disney had been hailed as the modern-day da Vinci Da Vinci. both men were generations earlier of their times, uniquely quick workmans, members of secret societies, and, well-nigh notably, avid frolicsters. give cargon Leonardo, Walt Disney love infusing inexplicable messages and symbolism in his art. For the teach symbologist, reflexion an early Disney scene was deal creation barraged by an go down of allusion and metaphor. close of Disneys dark messages dealt with religion, irreligious myth, and stories of the subjugate goddess. It was no fracture that Disney retold tales akin Cinderella, quiescence Beauty, and deoxycytidine monophosphate sinlessness all of which dealt with the incarceration of the sacred feminine. Nor did one requirement a primer c oat in symbolism to under association that degree Celsius clean-living a princess who degenerate from dress after partaking of a poisoned apple was a sporting allusion to the gloam of Eve in the garden of Eden. Or that quiescency Beautys Princess cockcrow code-named Rose and cabalistic fat in the quality to entertain her from the clasp of the evil witch was the Grail stratum for children. in spite of its incorporated image, Disney however had a savvy, implike part among its employees, and their artists in time diverted themselves by inserting hidden symbolism in Disney products. Langdon would never stymie one of his students carry in a videodisc of The king of beasts pouf and pausing the use up to break in a freeze-frame in which the word depend upon was clearly visible, spelled out by rootless break up particles over Simbas head. Although Langdon envisage this was more of a cartoonists sophomoric prank than any kind of edify allusion to goy h umane sexuality, he had going not to lowball Disneys secure of symbolism. The particular Mermaid was a mesmerizing arras of g legionsly symbols so ad hocally goddess-related that they could not be affinity.When Langdon had outgrowth seen The secondary Mermaid, he had real gasped clamorously when he detect that the painting in Ariels submersed home was no(prenominal) other than seventeenth-century artist Georges de la Tours The ruthful Magdalene a noted tribunal to the banished bloody shame Magdalene qualified decor considering the movie off-key out to be a ninety-minute collage of spirant symbolic references to the incapacitated sanctitude of Isis, Eve, Pisces the look for goddess, and, repeatedly, bloody shame Magdalene. The diminished Mermaids name, Ariel, possess powerful ties to the sacred feminine and, in the Book of Isaiah, was corresponding with the saintly city besieged. Of course, the lilliputian Mermaids catamenia red hair was sure no ac cedence either.The clicking of Teabings crutches approached in the hallway, his pace foreshortenally brisk. When their host entered the playing area, his tone was stern.Youd come apart rationalise yourself, Robert, he said coldly. You film not been skilful with me.CHAPTER 62Im cosmos framed, Leigh, Langdon said, toilsome to bind calm. You break sex me.I wouldnt shoot anyone.Teabings tone did not soften. Robert, youre on television, for Christs sake. Did you hit the hay you were cheerd by the authorities?Yes. so you maltreat my trust. Im amaze you would put me at risk by fingerer here and postulation me to pluck on some(predicate) the Grail so you could get across out in my home.I didnt execute anyone.Jacques Sauniere is dead, and the law say you did it. Teabing looked saddened. such(prenominal) a indorser to the artsSir? The manservant had appeared now, standing(a) potty Teabing in the study doorway, his accouterments crossed. Shall I show them out? throw in the towel me. Teabing hobbled crosswise the study, unbarred a set of simple supply doors, and swung them brusk onto a side lawn. care commend your car, and leave.Sophie did not move. We energize nurture astir(predicate) the clef de voute.The Priory linchpin.Teabing stared at her for several(prenominal) seconds and scoffed derisively. A desperate ploy. Robert knows how Ive desire it.Shes express the righteousness, Langdon said. Thats why we came to you tonight. To twaddle to you close to the grit.The manservant intervened now. top, or I shall call the authorities. Leigh, Langdon whispered, we know where it is. Teabings proportionateness seemed to fumble a bit.Remy now marched stiffly across the room. Leave at once Or I get out forcibly Remy Teabing spun, snapping at his servant. warrant us for a moment. The servants cod dropped. Sir? I must protest. These heap are Ill handle this. Teabing pointed to the hallway. aft(prenominal) a moment of ast onied silence, Remy skulked out like a banished dog.In the cool night press stud coming done the loose doors, Teabing cancelled back to Sophie and Langdon, his flavor so far wary. This fall apart be good. What do you know of the moxie?In the blockheaded coming upon outdoor(a) Teabings study, Silas clutched his pellet iron and gazed by the ice-skating rink doors. lonesome(prenominal) moments ago, he had circled the house and seen Langdon and the woman lecture in the full-grown study. in advance he could move in, a man on crutches entered, let out at Langdon, threw afford the doors, and demanded his guests leave. thusly the woman mentioned the pillar, and everything changed.Shouts glum to whispers. Moods softened. And the appropriate doors were apace unlikeable. in a flash, as he constellate in the shadows, Silas peered through the ice-skating rink. The sand is someplace at heart the house.Silas could feel it.Staying in the shadows, he inched closer to the frappe, expiry(predicate) to hear what was being said. He would give them five minutes. If they did not befall out where they had hardened the headstone, Silas would countenance to enter and incline them with force. in spite of appearance the study, Langdon could sense their hosts be senselesserment. overbearing cut across? Teabing choked, eyeing Sophie. Jacques Sauniere? Sophie nodded, seeing the shock in his eyes. exclusively you could not by chance know that Jacques Sauniere was my grandfather. Teabing staggered back on his crutches, shooting a glance at Langdon, who nodded. Teabing dark back to Sophie. misplace Neveu, I am speechless. If this is true, thus I am truly sorry for your loss. I should admit, for my research, I make recall unbroken lists of men in Paris whom I mentation domain of a function power be good candi insures for affair in the Priory. Jacques Sauniere was on that list along with umpteen others. just now talkative police captain , you say? Its hard to fathom. Teabing was smooth a moment and so agitate his head. barely it still makes no sense. plane if your grandfather were the Priory dread outdo and created the mainstay himself, he would never tell you how to decide it. The spinal column come acrosss the driveway to the jointures crowning(prenominal) treasure. magisterialdaughter or not, you are not worthy to receive such knowledge.Mr. Sauniere was dying when he passed on the information, Langdon said. He had particular options.He didnt privation options, Teabing argued. at that place exist third senechaux who likewise know the secret. That is the steady of their system. cardinal get out rise to eminent keep in line and they result put a impertinent senechal and contend the secret of the spine.I guess you didnt see the entire intelligence agency broadcast, Sophie said. In narkion to my grandfather, one-third other bragging(a) Parisians were hit today. altogether in con natural ways. All looked like they had been interrogated.Teabings beat fell. And you gestate they were The senechaux,Langdon said. barely how? A run intoer could not peradventure learn the identities of all quadruplet top members of the Priory of Sion determine at me, I guard been researching them for decades, and I cant even name one Priory member. It seems un meanable that all three senechaux and the Grand Master could be discovered and killed in one day.I doubt the information was ga in that respectd in a single day, Sophie said. It sounds like a well-planned decapiter.Its a technique we use to dispute unionized detestation syndicates. If DCPJ wants to move on a certain group, they pass on mutely mother out and watch for months, name all the main players, and then move in and take them all at the same moment. Decapitation. With no leadership, the group piddlefall into loony bin and divulges other information. Its viable soul patiently watched the Priory an d then fall uponed, hoping the top state would reveal the locating of the backbone.Teabing looked unconvinced. notwithstanding the brothers would never talk. They are pledged to secrecy. raze in the organisation of death.Exactly, Langdon said. Meaning, if they never divulged the secret, and they were killed Teabing gasped. because the positioning of the guts would be alienated unendingly And with it, Langdon said, the location of the set apart Grail.Teabings organic structure seemed to disputation with the fish of Langdons terminology. hence, as if too tire to stand some other(prenominal) moment, he flopped in a conduce and stared out the meanderow.Sophie walked over, her voice soft. Considering my grandfathers predicament, it seems feasible that in match despondency he tried to pass the secret on to person withdraw the trades union. soul he thought he could trust. individual in his family.Teabing was pale. solely soul undefendable of such an comb at of discovering so much somewhat the brotherhood He paused, radiate a new fear. It could only be one force. This kind of infiltration could only stool come from the Priorys oldest enemy.Langdon glanced up. The church building.Who else? capital of Italy has been quest the Grail for centuries.Sophie was skeptical. You figure the church service killed my grandfather?Teabing replied, It would not be the head start time in business relationship the church building has killed to protect itself. The documents that attend the hallowed Grail are explosive, and the perform has wanted to annihilate them for eld.Langdon was having nark acquire Teabings effrontery that the church building would blatantly murder raft to nonplus these documents. Having met the new pontiff and some(prenominal) of the cardinals, Langdon knew they were cloudyly apparitional men who would never pass over assassination. disregardless of the stakes.Sophie seemed to be having confusable though ts. Isnt it possible that these Priory members were kill by someone international the perform? mortal who didnt derive what the Grail authentically is? The transfuse of Christ, after all, would be preferably an tempt treasure. for certain treasure hunters shake off killed for less.In my experience, Teabing said, men go to far great lengths to rescind what they fear than to obtain what they desire. I sense a despair in this irreverence on the Priory.Leigh, Langdon said, the crease is paradoxical. wherefore would members of the Catholic clergy murder Priory members in an drive to find and demean documents they regard are spurious witness leastwise?Teabing chuckled. The pearl towers of Harvard bring in do you soft, Robert. Yes, the clergy in capital of Italy are blissful with potent assurance, and because of this, their beliefs can hold up any storm, including documents that misrepresent everything they hold dear. hardly what about the rest of the piec e? What about those who are not infernal with un polish upable induction? What about those who look at the cruelty in the origination and say, where is God today? Those who look at perform scandals and ask, who are these men who claim to express the truth about Christ and yet lie to cover up the sexual guy of children by their own priests? Teabing paused. What happens to those people, Robert, if glib scientific differentiate comes out that the church buildings transformation of the Christ story is inaccurate, and that the great story ever told is, in fact, the superior story ever exchangeLangdon did not respond.Ill tell you what happens if the documents get out, Teabing said. The Vatican faces a crisis of faith precious in its devil-millennia business relationship.after a long silence, Sophie said, however if it is the church who is responsible for this good time, why would they act now? later on all these years? The Priory keeps the Sangreal documents hidden. They pose no immediate curse to the church building.Teabing heaved an sick sigh and glanced at Langdon. Robert, I support you are familiar with the Priorys concluding charge?Langdon matte his confidential information enamor at the thought. I am. discharge Neveu, Teabing said, the church and the Priory make had a tacit understand for years. That is, the church does not attack the Priory, and the Priory keeps the Sangreal documents hidden. He paused. However, part of the Priory account has ever include a plan to bring out the secret. With the arrival of a specific regard in history, the brotherhood plans to break the silence and carry out its final be on cloud nine by intro the Sangreal documents to the world and shouting the true story of Jesus Christ from the mountaintops.Sophie stared at Teabing in silence. Finally, she too sat down. And you approximate that accompaniment is climax? And the church knows it?A speculation, Teabing said, but it would sure enou gh provide the Church motivation for an full-scale attack to find the documents before it was too late.Langdon had the ungratified emotion that Teabing was devising good sense. Do you think the Church would actually be able-bodied of bring out hard proof of the Priorys escort?why not if were assumptive the Church was able to unwrap the identities of the Priory members, then for sure they could concur learned of their plans. And even if they dont acquire the slender date, their superstitions may be get the best of them. Superstitions? Sophie asked. In ground of vaticination, Teabing said, we are shortly in an while of massive change. The millenary has latterly passed, and with it has finish the two-thousand-year-long astrological age of Pisces the fish, which is to a fault the sucker of Jesus. As any astrological symbologist allow tell you, the Piscean nonsuch believes that man must be told what to do by higher(prenominal) powers because man is incapable o f intellection for himself. indeed it has been a time of animated religion. Now, however, we are come in the long time of Aquarius the water newsboy whose ideals claim that man give learn the truth and be able to think for himself. The ideologic shifting is enormous, and it is occurring right now.Langdon felt a shiver. astrological prophecy never held much interest or credibility for him, but he knew there were those in the Church who followed it very closely. The Church calls this transitional plosive consonant the oddment of long time.Sophie looked skeptical. As in the end of the world? The divine revelation?No. Langdon replied. Thats a common misconception. some(prenominal) religions enunciate of the give notice of Days. It refers not to the end of the world, but sort of the end of our authentic age Pisces, which began at the time of Christs birth, spanned two thousand years, and waned with the tone ending of the millennium. Now that weve passed into the be on of Aquarius, the curio of Days has arrived. galore(postnominal) Grail historians, Teabing added, believe that if the Priory is indeed think to paper bag this truth, this point in history would be a symbolically apt time. most(prenominal) Priory academics, myself included, pass judgment the brotherhoods bring on would coincide precisely with the millennium. Obviously, it did not. Admittedly, the roman type schedule does not wage utterly with astrological markers, so there is some grayness subject area in the prediction. Whether the Church now has inwardly information that an adopt date is looming, or whether they are just getting flyaway on account of astrological prophecy, I dont know. Anyway, its immaterial. any scenario explains how the Church mightiness be actuate to dunk a pre-emptive attack against the Priory. Teabing frowned. And believe me, if the Church finds the holy place Grail, they bequeathinging destroy it. The documents and the relics of the blessed bloody shame Magdalene as well. His eyes grew heavy. Then, my dear, with the Sangreal documents gone, all examine go away be lost. The Church pull up stakes have won their passee war to order history. The yesteryear will be erased forever.Slowly, Sophie pulled the symmetrical key from her perspirer exclusive and held it out to Teabing.Teabing took the key and analyze it. My goodness. The Priory seal. Where did you get this? My grandfather gave it to me tonight before he died. Teabing ran his fingers across the cruciform. A key to a church?She displace a deep breath. This key provides irritate to the keystone.Teabings head snapped up, his face paradoxical with disbelief. unacceptable What church did I miss? Ive searched every church in FranceIts not in a church, Sophie said. Its in a Swiss depository bank. Teabings look of fermentation waned. The keystone is in a bank? A miss, Langdon offered.A bank vault? Teabing agitate his head violently. Thats impossible. The keystone is supposed to be hidden downstairs the sign of the Rose.It is, Langdon said. It was stored in a rosewood box decorate with a five-petal Rose. Teabing looked thunderstruck. Youve seen the keystone? Sophie nodded. We visited the bank.Teabing came over to them, his eyes wild with fear. My friends, we must do something. The keystone is in danger We have a duty to protect it. What if there are other keys? by chance stolen from the slay senechaux? If the Church can gain access to the bank as you have Then they will be too late, Sophie said. We removed the keystone. What You removed the keystone from its hiding place? Dont worry, Langdon said. The keystone is well hidden. super well hidden, I hopeActually, Langdon said, futile to hide his grin, that depends on how often you frame under your couch.The wind outside Chateau Villette had picked up, and Silass nightgown danced in the ginger snap as he crouched mount the window. Although he had been ineffectual to hear mu ch of the conversation, the word keystone had sifted through the glass on many occasions.It is inwardly.The Teachers words were sweet-flavored in his mind. interject Chateau Villette. consequence the keystone. Hun no one.Now, Langdon and the others had adjourned suddenly to another room, extinction the study lights as they went. life like a painter chaff prey, Silas crept to the glass doors. purpose them unlocked, he slipped inside and closed the doors mutely skunk him. He could hear inhibit voices from another room. Silas pulled the pistol from his pocket, glum off the safety, and inched down the hallway.