Continued from: A Different Da Vinci Code
Q: How does the secret Templar cult get into all of this?
A: The historically well-known but shadowy Templar cult referenced in The Da Vinci Code is Hermetic/Gnostic through and through, and in all its forms, whether old or freshly minted. It's another outfit with—here we go again—big secrets. However, the notion that these knights unearthed proof of Mary Magdalene's purportedly “holy blood” offspring founding the family that eventually became the long-haired Merovingian dynasty is quite a stretch… Yet, it's exactly what Gnostic proponents of the Magdalene cult throughout the last two thousand years would have done just about anything to be able to put across. It's also what the Da Vinci Code movement is really all about today. This controversy itself has opened a fresh chapter in the movement. It should hence probably be called neo-Hermeticism or new millennium Gnosticism or something like that… Incidentally, it really boosts the notion that a fabulous world leader with amazing powers…perhaps a bit like Neo, the chosen one of The Matrix … might arise from the royal blood of Europe, claiming to be from Jesse through King David and Jesus…an impressive set of credentials to be sure! But wait a minute…might he not be another impostor like one of Leonardo's mercurial changelings? If the pattern holds, he would claim to be from the king producing Tribe of Judah, while more likely being descended from the irretrievably lost Tribe of Dan…if we take some hints from biblical clues, as do some prophetically-minded and literalist Christian opponents of the Mary Magdalene “holy” bloodline.
Q: You're beginning to lose me again. Can you throw me a rope here?
A: Sorry…too large and fuzzy a topic to squeeze in. However, it may have happened once before …as before, so again! Oh well… This is going to be a fast and wild ride…are you ready? The false apostle Judah Ish (man) Kerioth (from Kirjath Jearim) was apparently born in the one town in Judah that the Tribe of Dan was permitted to camp behind on their way north to their new home at the top of Israel and subsequently out of the Promised Land altogether. It is tempting to speculate that Judas Iscariot may have represented a wild oat y -chromosome going back through Dan and sown there generations before. Samson is the great hero from the Tribe of Dan, which never forgot the magical power of unshorn hair or about Samson's Riddle of the Bees, even after they forgot about the God of their fathers. Jacob referred prophetically to his son Dan as a “serpent by the way”.
Q: Is that as ominous as it sounds?
A: Possibly…but there's also a less obvious additional understanding of this term as a bringer of knowledge who is “wise as serpents”…in other words, a potential culture builder. Dan's progeny disappear even in Old Testament times, and just try to find a single Dannite among the 144,000 person tribal restoration mentioned in the Book of Revelation. Some believe that the idolatrous, and seafaring Tribe of Dan, which blended into the Phoenicians and liked to name places after their illustrious forefather, gradually proceeded across the DarDANnelles to the DANube , proliferating and spreading along the ancient routes of Europe . Remember that before organized farming, the relatively sparse populations of Europe were largely scattered bands, often roaming about in search of food and subject to various depopulating hazards. Merchants and traders must have had an edge, even with dangerous peoples. Think of the great explorers like Captain James Cook. The Dannites would have been wealthy, sophisticated, and battle-hardened. They could have mingled with and eventually dominated other cultures, perhaps as the Normans did much later in Britain . Tantalizing snippets of history also seem to link the sons of Dan with the Spartans, who as warriors often did not cut their well coiffed hair or their beards and apparently claimed descent from Abraham. Dannites are also reputed to have founded some royal dynasties in Europe and the British Isles …
Q: You're right about one thing—this is pretty fuzzy stuff. Are you going somewhere with all this?
A: Just waiting for you to ask!…Those who subscribe to the DaVinci Code premise may claim that the Merovingians, who did not cut their hair, etc., were holy Nazarites, i.e. strictly consecrated Jews, a hilariously Hermetic-style canard for these self-proclaimed sons of Odin who had to be coaxed toward monotheism…(Gnostic Nasoreans perhaps, definitely not Nazarites! But that's another matter…) Nevertheless, a quite respectable medieval scholarly tradition links Odin, or WoDAN, with important flesh and blood refugees from the region of Troy (as in Timeo DANaos et dona ferentes. I fear the Greeks [ i.e. the Danaen Spartans] even when they bring gifts). These travelers from the east (from the region of Troy , which is now part of Turkey became the Aesir gods of Norse Mythology i.e. those from Asia . They included the fatherly warrior Odin, also known as the full-bearded World Wanderer, and another curious import as well, a charmingly familiar, shape-changing trickster, the fire god, Loki… So, were the Merovingian kings, one of whom was named Samson, simply into grunge or perhaps emulating, by long clouded tradition, the one great, if seriously flawed, cult hero of their irrepressible, culture-building forefathers, the hirsute Samson himself, a true Nazarite and a son O'Dan, whose representatives had been formidable and had come from the sea….
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