All 42 Uses of
divine
in
The Da Vinci Code
- This pentacle is representative of the female half of all things—a concept religious historians call the 'sacred feminine' or the 'divine goddess.'†
Chpt 6
- Early religion was based on the divine order of Nature.†
Chpt 6
- As part of the Vatican's campaign to eradicate pagan religions and convert the masses to Christianity, the Church launched a smear campaign against the pagan gods and goddesses, recasting their divine symbols as evil.†
Chpt 6
- Despite the visionary's genius, he was a flamboyant homosexual and worshipper of Nature's divine order, both of which placed him in a perpetual state of sin against God.†
Chpt 8
- The Tarot indicator suit for feminine divinity is pentacles, Langdon thought, realizing that if Saunière had been stacking his granddaughter's deck for fun, pentacles was an apropos inside joke.†
Chpt 19-20
- I was more interested in the mathematics of it—the Divine Proportion, PHI, Fibonacci sequences, that sort of thing.†
Chpt 19-20
- The Divine Proportion.†
Chpt 19-20
- In fact, he used to joke that I was half divine… you know, because of the letters in my name.†
Chpt 19-20
- Early scientists heralded one-point-six-one-eight as the Divine Proportion.†
Chpt 19-20
- I'm a bio major and I've never seen this Divine Proportion in nature.†
Chpt 19-20
- The Divine Proportion.†
Chpt 19-20
- Langdon began racing through slides now—spiraled pinecone petals, leaf arrangement on plant stalks, insect segmentation—all displaying astonishing obedience to the Divine Proportion.†
Chpt 19-20
- He pulled up another slide—a pale yellow parchment displaying Leonardo da Vinci's famous male nude—The Vitruvian Man—named for Marcus Vitruvius, the brilliant Roman architect who praised the Divine Proportion in his text De Architectura.†
Chpt 19-20
- Nobody understood better than Da Vinci the divine structure of the human body.†
Chpt 19-20
- My friends, each of you is a walking tribute to the Divine Proportion.†
Chpt 19-20
- The mysterious magic inherent in the Divine Proportion was written at the beginning of time.†
Chpt 19-20
- Man is simply playing by Nature's rules, and because art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand, you can imagine we might be seeing a lot of instances of the Divine Proportion in art this semester.†
Chpt 19-20
- Over the next half hour, Langdon showed them slides of artwork by Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Da Vinci, and many others, demonstrating each artist's intentional and rigorous adherence to the Divine Proportion in the layout of his compositions.†
Chpt 19-20
- Formally known as a pentagram—or pentacle, as the ancients called it—this symbol is considered both divine and magical by many cultures.†
Chpt 19-20
- Because if you draw a pentagram, the lines automatically divide themselves into segments according to the Divine Proportion.†
Chpt 19-20
- Yes, the ratios of line segments in a pentacle all equal PHI, making this symbol the ultimate expression of the Divine Proportion.†
Chpt 19-20
- Divine intervention.†
Chpt 21-22
- Gentlemen, not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female.†
Chpt 25-26
- Divine intervention, Aringarosa had called it.†
Chpt 45-46
- "At this gathering," Teabing said, "many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon—the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus."†
Chpt 55-56
- His divinity?†
Chpt 55-56
- You're saying Jesus' divinity was the result of a vote?†
Chpt 55-56 *
- Nonetheless, establishing Christ's divinity was critical to the further unification of the Roman empire and to the new Vatican power base.†
Chpt 55-56
- Many scholars claim that the early Church literally stole Jesus from His original followers, hijacking His human message, shrouding it in an impenetrable cloak of divinity, and using it to expand their own power.†
Chpt 55-56
- The scrolls highlight glaring historical discrepancies and fabrications, clearly confirming that the modern Bible was compiled and edited by men who possessed a political agenda—to promote the divinity of the man Jesus Christ and use His influence to solidify their own power base.†
Chpt 55-56
- "As I mentioned," Teabing clarified, "the early Church needed to convince the world that the mortal prophet Jesus was a divine being.†
Chpt 57-58
- A child of Jesus would undermine the critical notion of Christ's divinity and therefore the Christian Church, which declared itself the sole vessel through which humanity could access the divine and gain entrance to the kingdom of heaven.†
Chpt 59-60
- A child of Jesus would undermine the critical notion of Christ's divinity and therefore the Christian Church, which declared itself the sole vessel through which humanity could access the divine and gain entrance to the kingdom of heaven.†
Chpt 59-60
- The Priory of Sion, to this day, still worships Mary Magdalene as the Goddess, the Holy Grail, the Rose, and the Divine Mother.†
Chpt 59-60
- The early Church feared that if the lineage were permitted to grow, the secret of Jesus and Magdalene would eventually surface and challenge the fundamental Catholic doctrine—that of a divine Messiah who did not consort with women or engage in sexual union.†
Chpt 59-60
- Physical union with the female remained the sole means through which man could become spiritually complete and ultimately achieve gnosis—knowledge of the divine.†
Chpt 73-74
- Men seeking spiritual wholeness came to the Temple to visit priestesses—or hierodules—with whom they made love and experienced the divine through physical union.†
Chpt 73-74
- Challenge yourself to find that spark of divinity that man can only achieve through union with the sacred feminine.†
Chpt 73-74
- Divine intervention.†
Chpt 83-84
- Newton's tomb consisted of a massive black-marble sarcophagus on which reclined the sculpted form of Sir Isaac Newton, wearing classical costume, and leaning proudly against a stack of his own books—Divinity, Chronology, Opticks, and Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.†
Chpt 97-98
- He touched the cryptex in his pocket as if he could somehow divine the answer from Saunière's crafted marble.†
Chpt 97-98
- "Divinity," Sophie said, tilting her head and reading the titles of the books on which Newton was leaning.†
Chpt 97-98
Definition:
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(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God