First and foremost, to my friend and editor, Jerrika Kaufman, pertaining to working so hard within this project and then for truly understanding what this book is all about. And to the incomparable Heide Lange , tireless champ of The Da Vinci Code, agent extraordinaire, and dependable friend.
I am unable to fully exhibit my appreciation to the excellent team by Doubleday, for generosity, trust, and outstanding guidance.
Many thanks especially to Bill Thomas and Sam Rubin, who have believed in this book from the start. My own thanks likewise to the primary core of early in one facility supporters, went by Michael Palgon, Suzanne Herz, Janelle Moburg, Wendy Everly, and Adrienne Sets off, as well as to the talented persons of Doubleday’s sales force.
For generous assistance in the analysis of the book, I would like to acknowledge the Louvre Museum, the French Ministry of Culture, Project Gutenberg, Bibliotheque Nationale, the Gnostic Society Collection, the Office of Artwork Study and Documentation Assistance at the Louvre, Catholic Universe News, Noble Observatory Greenwich, London Record Society, the Muniment Collection at Westminster Abbey, John Pike plus the Federation of yankee Scientists, and the five people of Gyvas Dei (three active, two former) who also recounted their very own stories, equally positive and negative, relating to their experiences inside Opus Dei.
My personal gratitude also to Normal water Street Bookstore for searching for so many of my research books, my father Richard Brownish , mathematics teacher and author , for his assistance with the Divine Percentage and the Fibonacci Sequence, Stan Planton, Sylvie Baudeloque, Philip McGuigan, Francis McInerney, Margie Wachtel, Andre Vernet, Tobey maguire Kelleher by Anchorball Web Media, Panduan Sottak, Karyn Popham, Esther Sung, Miriam Abramowitz, William Tunstall-Pedoe, and Griffin Wood made Brown.
And lastly, in a new drawing and so heavily on the sacred feminine, I would always be remiss if I did not mention the two extraordinary women who have touched my entire life. First, my mother, Connie Brown , fellow scribe, nurturer, artist, and position model. And my wife, Blythe , skill historian, artist, front-line editor, and without any doubt the most extraordinarily talented female I have ever known.
REALITY:
The Priory of Sion , a ecu secret world founded in 1099 , is a real organization. In 1975 Paris’s Bibliotheque Nationale found out parchments known as Les Chemise Secrets, figuring out numerous users of the Priory of Sion, including Friend Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo Ag Vinci.
The Vatican prelature known as Opus Dei can be described as deeply sincere Catholic sect that has been the topic of recent controversy due to reviews of brainwashing, coercion, and a dangerous practice known as “corporal mortification. ” Opus Dei has just accomplished construction of a $47 million World Hq at 243 Lexington Method in New York City.
All information of a muslim, architecture, files, and top secret rituals in this novel are accurate.