BY SERDAR TURGUT
AKSAM- Dan Brown’s best-selling novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’ is a fictionalized account of material explored in ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail,’ a self-described expose written in 1982 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. According to Brown, there is a secret organization going back to the Middle Ages called ‘The Priory of Sion’ whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo and Leonardo da Vinci, and which was dedicated to preserving the ‘truth’ that Mary Magdalene was Jesus` wife and bore him at least one child, and that this bloodline has had a long history in Europe and still exists. In ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail,’ the authors claim that they took the evidence which their book is based on from a man named ‘Pierre Plantard,’ who became the ‘Grand Master’ of the secret organization after Jean Cocteau’s death. Plantard’s and as a matter of fact the priory’s ultimate aim is suspected to be the reunification of Judaism and Christinanity and the creation of a monarchic ‘European Union’ that would become the next hyper-power in a new world order. Last week the Catholic Church`s most senior theologian, the Vatican`s Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said that Turkey should not attempt to join the European Union because it is a majority Muslim country with Muslim roots. In response to these comments, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that the Vatican should not interfere in the EU’s policies. Unfortunately such statements only exacerbate the complexity of the current situation and are useful for nothing besides covering up certain facts about the old continent. The European Union can be seen as a religious institution, a kind of sect, established under the control of an organization which is hostile to Catholicism. Gnostic Christianity aims to create a passive Islamic world so as to control religious movements in a new world order. The Vatican sees Gnosticism as an aberration within Christianity due to its links to Jewish mysticism, but as a matter of fact the Gnostics are about to win a war over the Vatican as they have already occupied the European Union. The religious identity of the Union is laid bare in its own flag. Although the ranks of its member states keep swelling, the number of stars on its flag remains constant at 12. The flag bearing a design of 12 stars in a circle derives from the 12 stars that in Catholic tradition are the halo around the head of the Virgin Mary. The stars stem from the belief that 12 is the symbol of perfection and what is unchangeable. In addition, there are 12 gates at the Union’s central headquarters in Brussels. Without considering such details, Turkey will fail to understand the EU’s true nature. Some of our intellectuals are making a grave mistake by trying to portray the EU as if it only means freedom and human rights. In the light of this information, we must ask ourselves why such an EU is still in contact with us. This is the question that we must focus on.