Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is perhaps the most controversial novel of the 21st century. Aiming to "unravel" the "greatest conspiracy of the past 2000 years," Brown claims that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene (Jesus's sweetheart and his nominee for Church leadership) and a male-dominated Church tried in vain to eliminate the Holy Grail (Mary Magdalene and her children by Jesus) but a secret society headed by alchemists like Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton, etc. has had protected the Grail and the Sacred Feminine (i.e., Lady Magdalene) secretly from the bloodthirsty male-dominated...
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is perhaps the most controversial novel of the 21st century. Aiming to "unravel" the "greatest conspiracy of the past 20...
The revival of Alchemy in modern fiction has taken a stride on Postmodernism. Interestingly enough, the alchemical tradition of English Literature, which is obvious in the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jonson through the Romantics to the modern age and then the positive tradition further carried on in the landmark work in Paulo Coelhos The Alchemist, Dan Browns Da Vinci Code and its major assertion in JK Rowlings Harry Potter novels. The present work establishes that the Harry Potter series is not a promotional literature of black magic or witchcraft and it is also not a political discourse...
The revival of Alchemy in modern fiction has taken a stride on Postmodernism. Interestingly enough, the alchemical tradition of English Literature, wh...