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Secrets of the Code , a five-month New York Times bestseller, is a sweeping tour, guided by renowned experts, through the many provocative ideas raised in The Da Vinci Code . With excerpts from many original works, all-new material, and interviews with prominent scholars exploring the novel's underlying themes, Secrets of the Code will satisfy your curiosity, engage your imagination, and provide you with insights to better understand the historical and religious issues of the novel.

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• Editor's Note(p. xiii)
• Introduction: Searching for Sophia(p. xv)
• Book I The Drama of Herstory, History, and Heresy
• Part I Mary Magdalene and the Sacred Feminine
• 1 Mary Magdalene How a Woman of Substance Was Harlotized by History(p. 5)
• Mary Magdalene: Saint or Sinner?(p. 9)
• Sacred Sex and Divine Love: A Radical Reconceptualization of Mary Magdalene(p. 13)
• The Woman With the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail(p. 20)
• Mary Magdalene: The Model for Women in the Church(p. 23)
• Mary Magdalene: Myth and Metaphor(p. 27)
• Mary Magdalene: Beyond the Myth(p. 38)
• "The Da Vinci Code uses fiction as a means to interpret historical obscurity ..."(p. 45)
• Critiquing the Conspiracy Theory(p. 48)
• The Beliefnet Debate(p. 51)
• A Quite Contrary Mary(p. 51)
• Letting Mary Magdalene Speak(p. 55)
• "Is It Sinful to Engage in Sex within Marriage?"(p. 59)
• 2 The Sacred Feminine(p. 61)
• God Does Not Look Like a Man(p. 62)
• Mary and Jesus: Re-enacting Ancient Fertility Cults?(p. 66)
• Royal Blood and Mary's Vine(p. 67)
• The Gnostic Tradition and the Divine Mother(p. 68)
• The Godman and the Goddess(p. 71)
• Sophia's Journey: The Pagan Goddess of the Centuries Lost in the Modern Christian World(p. 72)
• The Chalice and the Blade: Archaeology, Anthropology, and the Sacred Feminine(p. 82)
• Part II Echoes of the Hidden Past
• 3 The Lost Gospels(p. 87)
• An Astonishing Find: The Keys to the Alternate Tradition and Their Meaning for Today(p. 88)
• What the Nag Hammadi Texts Have to Tell Us About "Liberated" Christianity(p. 97)
• What Was Lost Is Found: A Wider View of Christianity and Its Roots(p. 100)
• The Gospel of Thomas(p. 105)
• The Gospel of Thomas(p. 106)
• The Gospel of Philip(p. 107)
• The Gospel of Philip(p. 108)
• The Gospel of Mary(p. 109)
• The Gospel of Mary(p. 111)
• Introducing the Sophia of Christ(p. 112)
• The Sophia of Jesus Christ(p. 113)
• 4 The Early Days of Christianities(p. 115)
• The Pagan Mysteries Behind Early Christianity(p. 120)
• Early Mainstream Christianity Did Not Mean Simply Following Jesus(p. 125)
• Diverging Views on Mythic Beginnings: Was Genesis History with a Moral, or a Myth with Meaning?(p. 126)
• Errors of Religious Omission and Commission in The DaVinci Code(p. 130)
• 5 Consolidation or Cover-up? The Establishment of the One True Faith(p. 131)
• The Jesus Mysteries(p. 133)
• Was Jesus Real?(p. 136)
• God's Word or Human Words?(p. 137)
• The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Didn't Get a Chance to Know(p. 145)
• Heretics, Women, Magicians, and Mystics: The Fight to Become the One True Faith(p. 148)
• Why Were the Gnostics Considered Such a Threat?(p. 158)
• Breaking the Da Vinci Code(p. 159)
• 6 Secret Societies(p. 162)
• Recollections of a Gnostic Mass(p. 164)
• Templar Revelation(p. 168)
• Researching Western Civilization's Darkest Secrets(p. 173)
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail(p. 177)
• Opus Dei in the United States(p. 189)
• Opus Dei Responds to The Da Vinci Code(p. 196)
• Part III Keeping the Secrets Secret
• 7 The Mystery of Codes(p. 201)
• Da Vinci: Father of Cryptography(p. 203)
• The Human Mind Is Designed to Find Patterns(p. 205)
• Is God a Mathematician?(p. 208)
• Anagram Fun(p. 210)
• 8 Leonardo and His Secrets: The Secret Language of Architectural Symbolism(p. 211)
• The Secret Code of Leonardo da Vinci(p. 212)
• Thinking Far Outside the Frame(p. 222)
• Trying to Make Sense of Leonardo's "Faded Smudge"(p. 224)
• "No, I do not believe there is a woman in the Last Supper..."(p. 229)
• Musings on the Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci(p. 232)
• 9 Temples of Symbols, Cathedrals of Codes(p. 238)
• Paris: In the Footsteps of The Da Vinci Code(p. 239)
• The "Symbology" of The Da Vinci Code(p. 241)
• Rosslyn Chapel: The Cathedral of Codes and Symbols(p. 248)
• Book II The Da Vinci Code Revealed
• Part I 24 Hours, Two Cities, and the Future of Western Civilization
• 10 Apocrypha and Revelations(p. 253)
• The Plot Holes and Intriguing Details of The Da Vinci Code(p. 254)
• Following the Rose Line From Rosslyn to ... Florence? Thoughts about the Last Act of The Da Vinci Code(p. 283)
• Part II Reviews and Commentaries on The Da Vinci Code
• 11 Commentary, Criticism, and Observations(p. 289)
• The Real da Vinci Code(p. 291)
• Religious Fiction(p. 295)
• The Da Vinci Con(p. 297)
• French Confection(p. 300)
• What the French Are Saying About The Da Vinci Code(p. 305)
• A Philosopher Looks at The Da Vinci Code(p. 306)
• A Collision of Indiana Jones and Joseph Campbell The Web Interviewer Craig McDonald Interviews Dan Brown(p. 310)
• The Latin Etymology of The Da Vinci Code(p. 316)
• Part III Underneath the Pyramid
• 12 Sophie's Library(p. 323)
• A Rose by Any Other Name: A Guide to Who's Who in The Da Vinci Code(p. 323)
• Glossary(p. 329)
• Web Resources(p. 363)
• Contributors(p. 367)
• Acknowledgments(p. 373)