Book Title: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Date: February 1, 2014
Part I.
“My friends, as you
can see, the chaos of the world has an underlying order.”
-Professor Robert Langdon, The Da Vinci Code
Every human being is a living
representation of the so called “Divine Proportion”. The idea was amazingly
introduced to me by Professor Robert Langdon, the main character of the novel.
The number PHI represented by 1.618 is generally considered the most beautiful
number in the universe. Early scientists
heralded one-point-six-one-eight as Divine Proportion because plants, animals,
and even human beings all possessed dimensional properties that adhered with
eerie exactitude to the ratio of PHI to 1. PHI, according to him, is a very
important number in art. Nobody understood the idea better than Leonardo da
Vinci as shown in his work, The Vitruvian
Man. Da Vinci exhumed corpses to measure the
exact proportions of human bone structure, and with this, he was the first to
show that the human body is literally made of building blocks whose
proportional ratios always equal PHI. The distance from one’s head to the floor
divided by the distance from his belly button to the floor is actually equal to
PHI (1.618). Same goes with the distance of one’s shoulder to his fingertips
divided by the distance of the elbow to the fingertips. Hip to floor divided by
knee to floor. PHI again. PHI. PHI. PHI. Amazing! I actually tried it and saw
favorable results afterwards.
Sangreal. Sang Real... San Greal. Royal Blood… Holy Grail. Is Mary Magdalene the mother of the royal
bloodline of Jesus Christ? Has the Holy Bible been hiding something which can
change history? The Da Vinci Code is indeed
one of the most controversial novels in history for it challenges the beliefs
of Christians about Jesus Christ being unmarried and being pure until his
crucifixion and assumption, and Mary Magdalene being a concubine. The two were
allegedly married and bore a child named Sarah. It may destroy not only the
established Christian belief but the whole church for worse. Its movie version
was even not allowed to be shown on movie-houses in the Philippines to the fact
that majority of Filipinos are Christians and that the movie talks about a very
sensitive issue. Two years ago, the movie Innocence
of the Muslims was also not permitted to be shown in the country for the
issue about Prophet Mohammad doing something against the doctrines of Islam
might greatly affect our Muslim brothers and sisters. Issues like these are
highly debated across countries and mostly lead to chaos. Whichever is true, I
myself cannot tell.
With intelligence like Sherlock
Holmes, I think Robert Langdon will soon find out where the Holy Grail is but
will keep it to himself because he exactly knows how great the information is
that not all people in the world will be able to carry and understand it.
Part II.
Poem. (Task No.19)
Eureka!
By: Jermaine Dela Cruz
Eureka! (I found it!)
The secret of the Holy script,
Things flashed into my mind,
Just like film that began to rewind.
He was a symbolist, an honorable one,
Who I looked up to, such a great man.
Robert Langdon is his name,
He indeed is the man of fame.
A death of a Freemason
Brought chaos to the organization,
He was tasked to find the Holy Grail
To save a life, he must not fail.
“Eureka! (I found it)”, he cried at once,
In Paris, France—the city of romance.
As the Power began to grow astound,
He found the Grail six feet below the ground.
Eureka!
