We have confessed through this corner having read “The Dan Vinci Code” and its accompanying novel, “Angels and Demons”, both written by our namesake, Dan Brown.

Our interest in these novels was sparked by prior novels like “Holy Grail, Holy Blood”, “The Hiram Key” and “The Lost 18 Years of Christ”. We even saw the movie “The Last Temptation of Christ” during our college days.

But as we have amplified before, all these materials did not dampen our faith as a Christian and a follower of Christ.

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Sony Pictures managed to inject a line in the movie which is not written in the final part of Dan Brown’s novel involving a dialogue between Robert Langdon and Sophie Noveau, portrayed as the last descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to the effect that faith in God is still all that matters.

This reminded us of the treatise of St. Thomas Aquinas in “Intelligium ut Tale” as part of his “Summa Theologia” about faith becoming the reason.

In both the novel and the movie, Robert Langdon admitted to have fallen into a well and asked Jesus to save him from his ordeal. While looking at Sophie, Robert emphatically said that the divinity or mortality of Jesus lie in the very faith of every person.

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Frankly, unless one reads the novels above-mentioned, the moviegoer cannot appreciate Dan Brown’s propensity of interweaving fiction with facts and reality. We bet that less than one-third of those who saw the movie understood its depth.

Most people we know watched the movie out of curiosity due to the intrigue that it has sparked but came out of the movie house flabbergasted because they did not even understand what the movie is all about except for the narrations and the subscripts.

Masonry and the Order of Demolay do exist but the Priory of Sion is still in the borderline between fiction and reality. Like the Opus Dei and the Knights of the Templar are similarly situated. The analyses behind Leonardo Dan Vinci’s illustration are all ideas of

mathematicians and symbolists, who, until today, remains to be circumstantial and are way beyond the standards of proof and evidence.

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As of this writing, we still cannot fathom the depth behind the histrionics over the showing of Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”.

Over the weekend, we have been entertaining wild imaginations such as how much did Sony Pictures spent just to make the Vatican came out with a sharp reaction about the movie “The Da Vinci Code” and to have the movie banned in some parts of the world and in the process, sparked worldwide attention.

With the kind of global interest and curiosity that “The Da Vinci Code” generated through controversy and intrigue, there is only one thing certain: Sony Pictures and Dan Brown are already laughing all the way to the bank.

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