Prepared By: Gohil Namrata R.Enrolment No.: PG13101010

Year: 2014-2015Roll No.: 18M.A./Part:2

Sem.:4

Submitted To: S.B. Gardi,Department of English,M.K. Bhavnagar University,Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India).

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.

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.

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.

Unificationist

Unification Church or Unificationism, is a new religious movement founded in South Korea in 1954 by Sun MyungMoon. 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.

Comparison

Through

These 5 Points

The Use of Allegory

and Symbol

The Sacred Feminine

Creation

Christ

The

Church

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.”

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

DevinePrinciple

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.

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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.

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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.

3)Creation

The Da Vinci Code &Divine Principle,creation is a gatewayto the divine. Bothtexts developarguments infavor of intelligentdesign, reflective ofthe divine order innature.

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

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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.”

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• 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,

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Using the artist as an analogy, DP states,

“Just as the work of an artist is a visiblemanifestation of its maker’s invisible nature…so wecan perceive God’s deity by observing his creation.”

Do proceeds to examine “Common Factors” found increation as a way “to know the nature of God’sdeity.”

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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.

4)Christ

As stated, The Da Vinci Codeand Divine principle attemptto deconstruct two millenniaof interpretation as to the“true history of Jesus Christ.”

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.

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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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