Morell Hill Building - the global headquarters and meeting centre for Opus Day
It is located at 243 Lexington Avenue in New York City. At a cost of just over $seventy-four million, the 133,000-foot swatted tower, with red bricks and Indiana limestone, designed by Mai and Benska, was rebuilt with over one hundred bedrooms, six dining rooms, libraries, living rooms, meeting rooms and office halls. The second, eighth and sixteenth floors were decorated with wood and marble works, while the seventeenth floor, in the whole of Kana, had men entering the door through the main doors on Yigsenton Avenue, and women entering through a side street, "separated acoustically and visibly from the men" inside the building at all times
AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS EVENING, INSIDE HIS APARTIC PLACEMENT, MISONOR MANOLE ARANGARUZA, PACKED
He has a small travel right and wears his traditional black vestment. He would wrap his purple belt around his waist back, but tonight he is traveling in public, so he prefers not to draw attention to his high position. Only those who were observant would pay attention to their episcopal ring made of 14 carat gold decorated with penguin amtists and large diamond pieces with a hand inscription of the Askia logo. The bishop threw his suitcase over his shoulders, said a silent prayer, and left his apartment. He went down to the lobby where his leg was waiting to take him to the airport Now on a plane to Rome, he looked at the Atlantic in its dark colour
THROUGH HIS NAVES, THE SUN WAS SET, BUT ARINGAROZA KNEW HIS STAR WAS RISING. Tonight will win the battle, stunned thought Only a few months ago he felt powerless in front of the hand that threatened to destroy his empire
The mission "God's Work" - literally Oypus Die, a Tendaah founded in 1928 by the Spanish priest Jose Maria Lescriva, called for a return to conservative Catolic values and encouraged its members to make enormous sacrifices in their own lives in order to do God's work.
Opus Dei's roots were initially in Spain before Franco's regime, but in.
When Jose Maria Eskriva published The Way - 999 points of meditation on the application of the Lord's work in the private life of every human being - Eskriva's message exploded all over the world. Now, with over four million copies of the method on the market in 40 languages, Opus Dei has become a global power. Its halls, teaching centers, and even universities are located in virtually every major city on Earth. It was Opus Dei. The fast Epiphany was a sawmuck and a bulwark against materialism in the world and unfortunately, Arengarosa had discovered that in an age of mocking religion and preaching
TV religion, Opus Dei's wealth and power were magnets for suspicion.
Many call Oypus Day Gil Almag, "most of the reporters said
"Challenged, others say you are a secretive, fanatical Christian community, which one are you? "Opus Dei does not belong to any of them," the bishop says calmly, "We are a Catholic church, we are."
A group of collegial livids chose as a priority to follow Catholicism with the precision and discretion possible in everyday life."
Should God's action necessarily include a vow of chastity, purity and atonement for "SINS through self-inflicted physical torture by whipping and the wearing of iron belt nails"?
Arringarosa said, "You describe a simple section of Opus Dei." Here's a kit.
In levels of commitment, thousands of Opus Dei members are married, have families, and apply the Lord's work in their own communities. Others chose a life of ascetism and profanity and settled within Aderta. These choices are entirely personal, but all of us in Opus Dei have the same goal, which is to make the world better by applying the work of God, which is undoubtedly a noble task but right has seldom worked. Media has been lurking in scandals, opus dei
Like many other organizations, it has brought out among its members a number of ingenious lives that have created problems and brought problems to the whole group
For example, two months ago, an Opus Dei group was arrested at a university
In the Midwestern United States, they drugged new members with Mexican intoxicant in an attempt to reach a state of ecstasy that the new monk would feel as a religious experience. Another university student wore his iron nail belt for more than the suggested two hours a day, almost causing fatal inflammation
And in Boston, not so long ago, an injured, demented young employee at
The Cry Continuing, he transferred all his cashing to Opus Dei's account before he tried to commit suicide.
They are weak and lost, Arengarosa thought he felt bad for them, but of course
The major embarrassment was the highly publicized trial of an FBI spy, Robert Hansen, who, in addition to being a prominent member of Opus Dei, was found to be a sexual deviant as well. This prompted the judge to comment ironically: "N. This is almost the furthest way to spend a closed-knit Catholic leisure. Unfortunately, all these stories helped create a new censorship group that
It's called Opus Dei Outreach Network. On its website, this network uploaded scary stories told by former members of Opus Dei www.odan.com - the Internet who were wary of the dangers of belonging to it, and today's media have been referring to Opus Dei as the Lord and Christ way
We are afraid of what we don't understand, Arengarosa thought, wondering if those skeptics
The congregation enjoyed the blessings of the Vatican and its full recognition.
Opus Dei is a bishopric of the Pope himself. But Opus Dei has recently found
Itself under threat of a much larger and more dangerous power than the media... He is an unexpected enemy from which Arangarosa could not hide. Five months ago the balance of power was shaken, and Arengarosa is still disturbed by the shock.
They don't know the war they started and the fire they opened on their mouths, whispered.
Arringarosa into himself, staring out the window into the dark ocean. For moments, his eyes again focused on a reflection of the stranger's face - a long brown with a flat, hooked nose in the middle - that had been broken by a beating he received in Spain as a missionary in his youth. The physical defect was hardly important now, Varingarosa was a world of spirit rather than body As the plane passed over the coast of Portugal, it crumbled into the pocket of Aringarosa's dress.
The priesthood, the mobile pause that he had done with the silent resonance system. Although flight regulations provided for mobile parking during flights, Aringarosa knew he could not miss the call. Only one person knows this number, and its the same
The one that sent Laringarosa in the mail. And the bishop enthusiastically answered the phone.
Silas knew where the keystone was, "the caller said, he was in Paris, inside the church of Saints
"Sulpies.
Smile sorry, Aegarosa.
We can get it right away, but we need your junk.
I'm ready, just tell me what to do.
When Arringarosa closed the phone, his heart was beating fast.
He once again contemplated the silence of the night as he felt it was getting smaller with the gravity of the events he had moved.
Five hundred miles away, the albino Silas was standing on top of a small tub of water
It clears the blood from its back as it watches for the shape of red blood as it circulates in the water. Purify me with a zova, and I will be clean. Pray, Sayas, chanting flutters of tigers, wash, and I will be even sharper.
From the ice.
Silas felt an excitement and expectation that he had not felt since he changed his former life. He caught him off guard.
And he got this feeling at the same time. A decade of his life has gone by, purging himself of SINS. And he's rebuilding his life... He erases the violence of the past, but tonight all those feelings are restored, and the hatred that he fought so hard to bury with all his might has been revived. He was amazed at how quickly his past could come back to the surface, and of course his old skills had come back, rusted but still deductible.
The message of Christ is a message of peace... The message of nonviolence... A Letter of Love. These are the two of you.
It's the message Silas had learned from the beginning, the message he had in his heart, but this is the one that today threatens the enemies of Christ with destruction. The first of you, who threaten God with force, will be faced with force
Two years ago, Christian soldiers were defending their religion and fighting your first
And tonight Silas is summoned into battle. Silas wounds dry up and wears his ankle-long ear canal robe. He was
The dress is simple and made of dark wool, with the whites of his skin and hair highlighted. Silas tightened his rope band around his waist and raised his hood over his head. And allowed his red eyes to look with admiration at his reflection in the mirror. My war spirit has begun.
Pumped under the security gate, Robert Langdon now stands inside the leading lobby
To the big showroom.
And he stared at the beginning of the long, deep tunnel, and on both sides of the gallery, she
Thirty ancient walls appear from the top to fade into the darkness. The glitter of the service lights reddish-upwards, and the glint of a westernmost smoke, dazzled an astonishing array of Davis, titien, and car-afago paintings with quiet lives, religious scenes, stunning landscapes, as well as paintings of nobles and political leaders, although the great gallery has captured most Italian art
FAMOUS IN THE LOVER, BUT MANY VISITORS FEEL THAT THE MOST REMARKABLE THING ABOUT THIS WING IS, THE WOODEN FLOOR WITH ITS WONDERFUL GEOMETRIC DESIGN OF LINED OAK SLICES SO THE FLOOR CREATES A QUICKLY VISUAL VISION -- A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL GRID THAT ELIMINATES TO VISITORS AS IF THEY ARE FLOATING THROUGH THE SHOWROOM ON A CHANGING SURFACE. WITH EVERY STEP
While Langdon was looking at the floor design, his eyes stopped slightly at something lying down
On the ground a few yards to his left, surrounded by police tape, she met. A painting of Cara Avago on the floor? And what's gone wrong without even looking at it.
The painting, Langdon thought, was worth roughly two million dollars.
From that she was lying on the floor like a worthless poster. See what that painting is doing on."! Earth for the devil.
Fash stared unaffected by what Langdon said, "This is a crime scene, Mr. Langdon.
Anything in it yet, but that plaque could take the values off the wall.
Langdon looked at the gate again, trying to imagine what had happened.
Values in his office were attacked, he ran to the grand gallery and ran
To the security gate by taking that sign off the wall. And the gate fell instantly.
"The vents, this is the only door in or out of the showroom.
"Langdon was puzzled" by the curator locking his attacker into the big showroom?
"Fash shook his head, denying that the security gate had separated Sunir from his attacker.
Just outside the entrance and say Sauniere outside the gate." Fash pointed his finger to an orange card attached to one of the gate rods they passed under the guise "The police, devout and scientific, found gunpowder residue from a gun. He shot me in the back.
Right here alone.
Langdon recovered Sauniere's body photo. They said Sauniere did it himself. He looked at me like that.
Allen's body? "Fash straightened out his tie clip and started walking.
Kind of like this, you know?
The length of the passageway, exactly according to Langdon's memory, is about 1,500 feet, which is about
Is three times the length of the Washington basket. As magnificent as the passage that could easily accommodate two passenger trains, the center of the corridor, curled across by a huge porcelain statue or jar, served as a high-taste barrier and regulated the flow of traffic. Visitors sprouted from one wall to another
Fash was now silent, spinning to the right side of the aisle while looking
Forward is a glance.
Langdon felt that he was insulting the artifacts he was passing through without even stopping for a moment
To take a look at it.
If I could see anything in this aunt, think Langdon.
This pink flashing light unfortunates memories of his last experience in
Vatican Archives. This was the second comparison of tonight's tumultuous events that reminded him of his near death in Rome. And remember Vitoria again. It had been absent from his dreams for months. Langdon couldn't believe that what happened in Rome was only a year ago because he felt it was decades ago. In another life. His last letter from Vitoria was December - a postcard
She stated that she was on her way to the Java Sea to continue her pioneering work on the physics kit... Something. This is about using satellites to study the migration pattern of ray fish, the traitor Aitu Yama-ban, the woman of Vitoria Vitra, would not be happy if
She lived with him on a university campus, but their meeting in Rome raised a longing that he could never have imagined possible. Single life was pretty messed up after they met.
That sense of freedom was replaced by an unexpected vacuum that had grown shamefully throughout the year
To my past.
The two continued their fast walk, but Langdon has yet to see any body. Did he cut your jack?
"Sauniere all the way?
Mr. Sauniere suffered a bullet wound through his stomach and died
Very slow death maybe in fifteen or twenty minutes. Apparently he was a man of great strength."
It took security 15 minutes to get here?
Of course not. The security forces in the Louvre responded when they heard the alarm and found
They called him up, but no one came. Believing that the one on the inside was nothing but a criminal, they followed the system requiring that they call the judicial police. Once we arrived, we raised the barrier enough to slide under it and sent the
Ten armed agents inside cleared the entire corridor to catch the thief.
Done. What happened?
"Don't they have anyone inside, L... And he's charming to the end of the hall, on him.
Langtake a look and follow the elongated Fash finger. At first he thought Vash was referring to
A huge marble statue in the middle of the hall, but as they advanced forward, Langdon began to see beyond the statue. Thirty yards away at the end of the hall, there was a single light on the No column, a bright light down on the floor creating a real island of white light in the dark pink hall. And in the center of the light, like an insect under a microscope, there was a body
A naked Sauniere lies on the wooden floor.
"I saw the picture," said Fash, so it shouldn't surprise you.
Langdon felt a chill running through his body as they approached the body. He just stood up to me.
One of the strangest sights he's ever seen.
Sauniere's pale body lay on the wooden floor, just as it looked in the photograph.
Photographs. When Langdon stood by the body and closed his eyes half blind from the intense light, he reminded himself with great surprise that Sauniere had spent the last minutes of his life shaping his body in this western position.
Sauniere was a Lang body for a man his age... And it was muscular.
Fully visible, he stripped his entire body, arranged his clothes on the floor, and lay on his back in the center of the wide aisle in perfect accord with the long axis of the room and spread his arms and feet out to me in the position of a Fard Eagle whose wings were like a child making an angel out of a crown... Or maybe more precisely, like a man drawn and guided by invisible forces.
A smear from the blood located the bullet that penetrated the body.
Sauniere. It is surprising that. The wound bled slightly, leaving behind a small pool of blackened blood.
I was Sauniere's left index finger stained with blood too, because she was obviously drowned.
Inside his wound to create the most disturbing look of his horrific death bed, using his blood as ink and his naked abdomen as a painting. Sauniere drew a simple symbol on his body - five straight lines intersecting a five-point star. Symbol for the pentagram
The bloody star positioned in Sauniere's belly has clearly overlaid his body with a swab.
Evil horror.
The photograph Langdon saw was enough to give him the creeps, but it is now
As he witnessed this scene personally, Langdon felt a commotion. He did this to himself.
Mr. Langdon? Fash's dark eyes recline.
Because it's a pentagram, Langdon said in a voice that sounded deep in the immense, much older void.
Symbols on earth were used 4,000 years ago before the birth of Christ.
Or what does this symbol mean?
Lagoon always hesitated before answering this question. So you explain to someone what the meaning is.
- Some code, it was like telling him how it should feel to hear a certain song that differs from person to person - the Ku Klux Klan metabolism conjures up.
It has images of hatred and racial discrimination in mind in the United States, but the same dress has religious meaning for a belief in Spain
The symbols have different meanings, and they are framed in different places. "In principle, Langdon said
The pentagram is a pagan religious symbol.
No, Langdon did, immediately realizing that he should have chosen more vocabulary
Clear.
Nowadays the word pegan - nature-worship - is almost synonymous with satan worship
This belief is largely mistaken. The word has its original roots in Paganus, i.e., villagers; Vallegans were literally villagers who did not believe in a particular doctrine and adhered to ancient village religions based on the cult of nature. In fact, the Church's fear of Olnak, who used to reside in these small, rural towns, was so strong that the word village-philan. Once innocent, it now means poltergeist. "The pentagram," Langdhun explained, is a pre-Christian symbol
- Riedel's cult of nature, as the ancients viewed their world as being split in two: masculine and feminine; When the male and the female are in balance, there is harmony in the world, when they are unbalanced, silver is in the world, and Langdon, referring to Sauniere's stomach, said, "This five-star is filled with the feminine half of all things - a concept historians call debt."
Langdon had to admit that this looks like a grea, symbolizing the pentagonal star, in the most accurate sense
Putting it down to Venus, the goddess of beauty and sexual feminine love.
Fash stared at the naked man and then mumbled at something incomprehensible.
PRIMITIVE RELIGION WAS BASED ON THE SACRED SYSTEM OF NATURE AND WAS THE GODDESS VENUS AND THE PLANET
Venus is one and the same. The goddess had a place in the night sky, and I was known by the names Venus, the Eastern Star, Ishtar and Ashtarot, all of which were notions." Pure intent associated with the gods. Fash now seemed more troubled, as if he preferred the idea of Satanism.
Langdon decided not to tell him about the greatest thing a pentagram has - the origin
The photographic one that links it to Janus.
When Langdon was a student of astronomy science, he was astonished to learn that a planet
Venus identifies a full pentagonal star every four years as it rotates in the sky, and the amazation of the ancients to observe this phenomenon was so extreme that Venus and its star
The quintile has become a symbol of the perfection and cyclical nature of sexual love, and appreciation of Venus' magic, as the Greeks used their four-year cycle to organise their Olympic Games. Today an exchange of people knows that the four-year program of modern Olympic Games still follows the Venus cycle. Less would know that the five-point star was almost an Olympic official character, but was modified at the last minute - its five points were replaced by three. Cross-crossed circles to reflect the spirit of games characterized by teague and collective presence, Mr. Langdon Fash said with dibs, "It's clear that the pentagonal star is also linked
"By the Devil, the horror movies you make in America clearly point this point to Langdon's pole forehead. Thank you, Hollywood.
Today, it is an Asian character in Satanic serial galleys, which are usually painted on the walls of a Satanic worshiper's apartment accompanied by a group of alleged Satanic symbols. Langdon was always frustrated when he saw the symbol included in this context, because the true origins of the pentagram are actually divine
Acked Alek, Langdon said, "Despite what you see in the stomachs, the demonic ticks
For a pentagram is historically inaccurate. The original feminine meaning is true, but the symbolism of the pentagram has been destroyed for millennia, and this has been done through wars and bloodshed."
"4 I think I didn't understand what I said.
Langdon took a look at Fash's cross, and he's not sure how to make his next point.
The church, Sir, the symbols are very flexible, but the pentagram has been modified by "the valuable Roman Catholic nickname, as part of the Vatican campaign to eradicate the fork of pagan religions and convert the groups to Christianity, so the sack has launched a campaign against the gods. Pheresy in which its symbols have been deformed and recast into evil demonic symbols."
"Now it 's very common in times of turbulence." Following Lagdon, any rising power
It will capture and degrade existing symbols over time in an attempt to erase their meaning.
Original. In the war between the heathen symbols and the Christian symbols, the heathen is lost; the trident of Boisadin becomes the devil's fork, the wise old cunt's hat becomes the symbol of the crone witch, and the pentagram star of the Venus becomes the symbol of the devil." Langdon paused for a moment and went on to say, Unfortunately, the United States Armed Forces have misrepresented the star symbol for a pentagonal as it has today become our primary symbol of war. We draw them on all the planes, saying, and hang them on the shoulders of every gener. What a shame about that.
What about his posture?
"The body is like that, what do you think he wanted?
Langdon shook as a pious, saying, "This position simply supports the relationship between the pentagram
And the holy Athenian.
"Fash's face changed" for your permission?
With that match, repeating the code is the simplest way to confirm its meaning, Jack put it.
Sauniere is a five-point star, so if one is good, two are better
We catch the five catchers of Sauniere's arms, legs, and head, and his hand is passed again.
In his smooth hair he said, "Exciting analysis" and paused a little and then dimpled: Nudity? He dumbled as he said, "The owner of the word and revulsion felt untouched by the sight of the old body, and why did he take off his clothes? What a good question, think Langdon. He's been asking himself the same question ever since he saw him.
The first photograph. The best guess he could make was that the naked human form was also another confirmation of the connection to Venus - the goddess of human chauvinism Although modern civilization has erased much of the connection between Venus and the physical union between male and female, a close-knit eye, knowing the origins of words, can discover richness of the original meaning of Vius in the word ageneril
Fash, what he thought.
Mr. Fash, I obviously can't tell you why Sauniere drew that symbol.
On his own body or why he put it that way, but what I can tell Ak is that a man like Galick Sunir would consider the pentagram to be a sign of the female divinity. Because the worshiped relationship between this symbol and the measured Athenian is widely acknowledged by historians."
"Sun, how about using his word as an ink?"
"Clearly, he had nothing else to write with, Fash silence on glasses, and then say, 'For a fact, I think he used blood until the police
Forensics with me.
"Excuse me?"
Look at his left hand."
I followed Langdon's eyes, seeing dull left values, to his hand, but he couldn't see.
He circled the body reluctantly, then leaned down, and now he noticed with surprise that the values were holding tight with a big felt tip.
He was caught when we found him, "Fash said, leaving Langdon and running away.
Yards towards a surefire table lined with investigative tools and dilapidated wires and electronics. As I told you, "Fash said around the table, We haven't touched anything, is that kind of pain common to you?
Don't go any further down to see what kind of pen it is, a fountain pen with a black light, and he looks up in awe.
It was a black light pen or a water ink pen, a pen with a hardware head.
Originally outlawed by museums, renovators and police who detect forgery, the pen is used to make invisible markings on items. The pen uses an alcohol-based luminous mascara that does not corrode material, and this ink becomes visible only when black light shines on it. Today, museum maintenance staff carry the top as they move around the museum to put little "invisible marks on the frames of paintings in need of restoration." When Langdon stood up, Flash walked to the spotlight and turned it off and the hall sank
Sudden darkness.
For a moment, Langdon, unable to see anything, was increasingly suspicious. A fantasy back.
Flash is bright purple and comes up with a light with a halo of violet
You know, Fash said, with his eyes shining in the purple glow, "Police use lights.
In black to search crime scenes for blood and other forensic evidence, So you can imagine my surprise... And all of a sudden, he turned the light down and shone it on the treatment. Langdon looked down and then jumped back from the impact.
His heart began to beat so hard that the strange view now shining in front of him on the floor took him away.
The words of the last values were purple beside his corpse, the radiant words he had written in his own hand.
As Langdon gazed at the bright text, he felt that the fog was long over him
This night is getting denser.
Langdon saw the message again and then looked at Fash What did those words really mean
Inferno.
That, Sir, is exactly the question you're here to answer.
Not far away, inside Sauniere's office, Lieutenant Collet had returned to the Louvre.
He quickly began working on a special radio set set on the huge table. Collet would have been comfortable if it had not been for this dreadful machine-like statue of a medieval knight staring at it from the corner of a Sawyer table. Collet adjusted the speakers he put in his ears and checked the power levels in the hard disk recording system.
And the auditory data are pretty clear.
He meditated, It's time for the truth.
He closed his eyes smiling and Esther at his session to enjoy the rest of the bad talk recorded.
Now from inside the big showroom.
