Scriptures and Texts in the Code

Da Vinci Code Research Guide   

Gospels and Texts in the Da Vinci Code:

• Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches)
  The Guidebook to the Inquisition- or, how to put a woman in her place. This fifteenth century book is probably the world's most reknowned masterpiece of misogyny. Can an incubus have a baby? How does a witch make a pact with the Devil? A real insight into the medieval mind.
• The Book of Enoch
  Is there no help for the widow's son? Did fallen angels influence human history? This apocryphal Old Testament work describes the marriage of fallen angels with earthly women.

The Gnostic Gospels Gnostic Gospels The Gnostic Gospels tell a different story of Christianity, and offer Salvation in life, not death- a message the Church killed to keep silent. This link leads to a collection of Gnostic texts in English. The Gnostic Gospel Selected quotes from Elaine Pagel's book "The Gnostic Gospels." The Lost Gospels Dozens of Christian Scriptures were Holy Writ, then heresy, then forgotten. Why are we looking at them again? Were the Gnostic gospels suppressed? No More Creeds: How the Gnostic Gospels Are Transforming Christianity Who wrote the Bible? An entertaining and easy to understand outline of the history and controversy surrounding the early Church and the compilation of the bible. Dead Sea Scrolls Fact Sheet

The Nag Hammadi Codices

More Gnostic Texts:

• Gnostic Gospel Index
• The Book of the Eight Aeons
  A very different creation story!
• The Gospel of Mary
  Details moving through the seven spheres, and other purported secret wisdom related to Mary Magdalen by Jesus Christ.
• The Thunder, Perfect Mind
  One of many translations of one of the most shocking, transcendent, and unusual Gnostic scriptures
• The Gospel of Philip
  A possible Valentinian gospel found in the Nag Hammadi discovery, outlines the relationship between Christ and the Magdalene.
• The Mandaean Book of John the Baptizer
  The life and revelations of Yahya bin Zekaria, or John the Baptizer, otherwise known as John the Baptist. This text has been in continuous use.
• Basilides, via Jung: Seven Sermons to the Dead

More on Gnosticism

Related Links:

• Black Virgins
  Do these bizarre Catholic icons hearken to earlier times?
• Priory of Sion
• Rennes-le-Château
• Gnosticism
• Sacred Geometry
• The Holy Grail
• Religious Symbols

Bibliography/Recommended Reading:

• Mary Magdalen : Origins of a Genius
• Leonardo
• The Da Vinci Code
• Pistis Sophia: The Gnostic Tradition Of Mary Magdalen, Jesus, And His Disciples
• The Messianic Legacy
• The Gospel Of Mary
• Jesus and the Lost Goddess : The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians
• Gnostic Gospels