Informatio Behind The Holy Grail

The novel follows a symbologist, Robert Langdon and a cryptologist, Sophie Neveu as they unravel the mystery behind a murder related to the secret of the Holy Grail, which involves Opus Dei and the Catholic Church. It presents a world infiltrated with secret societies desperately intent on suppressing precious information. Their secrecy is threatened by art connoisseurs and cryptology experts, who seek to unravel the mystery of the murder of a prominent figure connected to another secret society. The strife in the novel revolves around some of the basic tenets of Christianity, involving Jesus’s status as the divine Son of God and the propagated ‘truth’ about the Holy Grail, which turns to be the object of the quest for the motive behind the murder. The Holy Grail is revealed to be merely a symbol of the womb of Mary Magdalene, who gave birth to Jesus’s child and hence “a royal bloodline” was created that has secretly survived till the present. The Roman Catholic Church and the fundamentalist Catholic organization Opus Dei are opposed to the Priory of Sion, a secret society that cherishes and preserves the relics and the writings that authenticate the …show more content…
The Church and Opus Dei want to suppress any information about the real nature of the Grail, which would shake people’s belief in the credibility of the Church’s basic doctrine. The Priory’s pledge to preserve and maintain control over the secret of the Grail subjects it to a murderous persecution, that draws Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu into the hectic struggle to solve the clues left by Neveu’s grandfather, who turns out to be the Head of the Priory. Decoding Da Vinci’s inscriptions, and thereby disclosing the conspiracy, is the focal action of the novel. It constitutes the principle cliffhanger that holds the threads of the action and maintains the mystery, as well as the