Cracking the Symbol Code: Revealing the Secret Heretical Messages with Church and Renaissance Art

by Tim Wallace-Murphy

Expanding on issues touched on in The Da Vinci Code, this thought-provoking study explores the real story of Christianity—a story told by men and women condemned by the traditional, orthodox church, and one long hidden in mysterious codes and symbols. In medieval times, dissenters believed the established church ruthlessly suppressed the truth about Jesus and his ministry. Branded as heretics and subject to torture and execution for their beliefs, the dissenters—including the Knights Templar, Freemasons, Cathars, and groups of scientists—devised an ingenious code to communicate with fellow sympathizers and preserve the truth. They concealed these complex symbols in art, artifacts, and architecture of the medieval world. Finally, this fascinating underground language is deciphered…revealing powerful messages meant as much for today’s truth seekers as for medieval minds.

Genres: Nonfiction, Religion, History, Art

244 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

The Irish born internationally known author and lecturer, Tim Wallace-Murphy, is the author of thirteen published books, has appeared in some eight or nine TV documentaries and has given lectures from Seattle and Long Beach on the West Coast of the USA, in Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy and in Prague.

Eleven of his works cover historical aspects of spirituality, including the Knights Templar, the Cathars, Rosslyn Chapel and the Western Esoteric Tradition as well as the Grail genre. The other two, including the most recent are more mainstream, namely 'What Islam did for Us' a study of how Islamic scholarship laid the foundations of so many fundamental and valued aspects of European culture and his latest work 'The Genesis of a Tragedy - A Brief History of the Palestinian People.' Tim was provoked to write this work as the Palestinian side of this conflict is rarely heard in either Western Europe or the United States and if this ongoing running sore in East West relations is ever to be solved, the pain on both sides needs to be understood.

He also acts as a tour guide in some of the most beautiful and inspiring sacred sites in Europe.

Reviews

[☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh, what a wowser. A nice complementary read to the The Da Vinci Code. One which is for all intents and purposes loads better. More to follow.

[Erwin Ooyman]

I got the Dutch translation

[Tracey · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am not sure that I would call this book historical and the author makes some amazing assumptions in (my version) 272 pages.
I mean you start with Ancient Egypt, sprint off to the Bible, have a look at early Christianity , take a look at Gothic Churches, Chartres Cathedral, The Black Madonna, The Tarot, The Templars, The Rosslyn Chapel and did I mention the book is only 272 pages long with pictures.
If your into the DaVinci code this is for you.

[Brenda Asterino · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one I reread every few years. I learn more from other disciplines and that brings the symbols more meaning and in more ways to my life. It's a beautiful work and a great introduction to many of his other books.

[Luciano Cesar · Rating 3 out of 5]

good references to go deep in the studies of religion/history and human belief systems