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达芬奇密码|The Da Vinci Code

第38章|Chapter 37

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索菲盯着汽车后座上的兰登。他一定是在开玩笑。"圣杯（HolyGrail）？"

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兰登点子点头，表情严肃。"HolyGrail 就是Sangreal 的字面意义。Sangreal 由法语词Sangral 演变而来，最后分解为两个单词"SanGreal"。"圣杯。索菲为自己没能立即辨认出这几个词在语言学上的联系而感到惊奇。就算兰登所言不假，她还是难解其意。"我还以为圣杯是一个杯子。你刚才却说圣杯是揭示那些不可告人的秘密的文件。""是的，但那些文件只是圣杯珍宝的一部分。它们和圣杯埋藏在一起……它们可以揭示圣杯的真正意义。那些文件之所以能够赋予武土团极大的威力，就是因为它们揭示了圣杯的本质。"圣杯的本质？这下，索菲更加摸不着头脑了。她本以为圣杯是耶稣在"最后的晚餐"上用过的杯子，后来，阿里马西斯的约瑟夫曾到十字架前用这个杯子装过耶稣的鲜血。"圣杯是"基督之杯"，索菲说。"这再简单不过了。""索菲。"兰登将身体侧向索菲，小声说道。"郇山隐修会可不认为圣杯是个杯子。他们认为那个关于圣杯的传说是个精心编造的谎言。圣杯的故事另有寓意，意指一些更具威力的东西。"他停了一下。"那正是你祖父今晚竭力要告诉我们的东西。"索菲还是不大明白，但她从兰登那耐心的微笑和真诚的眼神中看出他正在针对她的疑惑作答。"如果圣杯不是个杯子，那它是什么呢？"索菲问道。

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虽然兰登早就意料到她会提出这样的问题，但还是一时不知从何说起。如果他不适当地结合历史背景来解释，索菲还是会一脸迷惑--几个月前，当兰登向编辑递上自己的研究报告时，就从编辑的脸上看到过这样的表情。

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"这份稿件说了些什么？"正在吃午餐的编辑被噎住了，喝了口葡萄酒。"你一定是在开玩笑吧。""我可不是在开玩笑，我花费了一年的时间来研究它。"

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《纽约时报》的著名编辑琼纳斯。福克曼紧张地捏着他的山羊胡。无疑，他在光辉的职业生涯中已经见识过一些极为大胆的创作思想，但这次兰登递上的稿子还是让他大吃一惊。

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"罗伯特。"福克曼最终开口说道。"请不要误解。我很喜欢你的作品，我们也很成功地合作过。但是，如果我同意将这样的观点发表出去的话，一定会有人聚集在我的办公室前抗议好几个月。而且，这也会毁了你的名声。看在上帝的份上，你是哈佛大学的历史学家，可不是什么梦想一夜成名的通俗撰稿人。你是从哪里找到确凿的证据来证明这个理论的？"

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兰登淡淡一笑，从呢大衣口袋里拿出一张纸递给福克曼。那张纸上开列了五十多条参考书目--都是著名历史学家的著作，既包括现代的作品也包括几个世纪之前的作品--其中有许多是学术界的畅销书。所有的著作所提出的前提都与兰登的观点一致。福克曼读着这个目录，就好像突然发现地球是扁的一样。"我听说过其中的一些作者。他们是……真正的历史学家。"兰登咧嘴笑了。"正如您所见，这不仅仅是我个人的理论。它已经存在很长时间了。我只是在前人的基础上加以总结。还没有什么书从象征学的角度研究过有关圣杯的传说。我从肖像学上所找来的这些论据是很有说服力的。"福克曼仍盯着那张书单："我的上帝呀，还有一本书是雷。提彬先生写的--他可是英国皇家历史学家。""提彬一生花费了大量时间研究圣杯。我曾经与他会过面。他的大部分观点都与我的想法一致。琼纳斯，他和目录中的其他历史学家都赞同我的观点。""你是说这些历史学家都赞同……"福克曼把话又咽了回去，显然他不能再往下说了。

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兰登又咧嘴一笑："有人认为，圣杯是人类历史上最为人向往的珍宝。有许多传说围绕着圣杯展开，有许多战争因为圣杯而打响，有许多人为了圣杯一生都在追寻。那么它可能仅仅只是一个杯子吗？如果是这样，那么其他的古物一定能引起人们同样的关注，甚至是更大的兴趣--比如说荆棘皇冠、耶稣受难的十字架和领衔堂--但事实并非如此。有史以来，圣杯一直是极为特殊的。"兰登笑了笑。"现在你知道原因了。"福克曼还是一个劲地摇头："既然有这么多书都这样写，为什么这个理论还不为人所知呢？"

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"这些书当然比不过几世纪以来已成定论的历史，特别是当那些历史一直被作为畅销书的写作背景时，它给人们的印象已经根深蒂固了。"福克曼瞪大了眼睛："你可别告诉我《哈利。波特》实际上写的是有关圣杯的故事。"

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"我参看了《圣经》。"

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福克曼不得不承认："这，我知道。"

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"住口！"索菲的叫喊打破了车内的平静。"把它放下！"

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索菲趴到前排座位上，冲着司机大喊，把兰登吓了一跳。兰登看见司机正拿着无线电话筒，说着些什么。

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索菲转过身来，将手伸进兰登的夹克衫口袋中。还没等兰登反应过来，她已经拔出了兰登口袋中的手枪，将其一晃，顶住了司机的后脑勺。司机立即扔掉了话筒，举起了不握方向盘的那只手。

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"索菲！"兰登紧张地说。"这到底是怎么回事--"

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"不许动！"索菲命令司机。

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司机哆嗦着按索菲的命令将车停在了公园里。

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这时兰登听见汽车的仪器板上传出出租车公司调度那铿锵有力的声音："……是索菲。奈芙警官……"声音暂时中断了一下。"和美国人罗伯特。兰登……"兰登僵在那里。他们已经发现我们了吗？

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浑身打颤的司机将双手高举过头，下了出租车，向后退了几步。

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索菲摇下了车窗，用枪指着那个摸不着头脑的司机。"罗伯特。"她平静地说。"到驾驶座上去。你来开车。"兰登可不想和一个挥舞着手枪的女人争辩些什么。于是，他下了车，绕到靠驾驶座的车门边，开门上了车。司机一边高举双手，一边咒骂着他们。

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"罗伯特。"索菲坐在后排座位上说。"我相信你已经看够了我们的神奇树林？"

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兰登点了点头。足够了。

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"好的。把车开出这里。"

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兰登低头看了看控制仪器板，犹豫了一下。他XX 的。他摸索到了变速杆，一把抓住它。"索菲？也许你--"

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"走呀！"索菲大喊。

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车外，有几个妓女正朝这边走来，想看看这里究竟发生了什么事。其中一个女人正用手机打电话。兰登压下了手柄，把变速杆推到了猜想中的最高速档位置。他踩下油门，看了看还剩多少汽油。

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他猛地将手柄一松，伴随着车轮与地面的尖厉摩擦声，出租车疯狂地摆动着车尾向前冲去，把那群妓女惊得四散逃窜。那个拿着手机的女人跳人树丛，险些被车撞倒。

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"真糟糕！"汽车东歪西斜地开上公路，索菲问。"你在干什么？"

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兰登在车内的轰鸣声中喊道："我可要提醒你，这是辆自动排档汽车。"

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The heavily forested park known as the Bois de Boulogne was called many things, but the Parisiancognoscenti knew it as "the Garden of earthly Delights." The epithet, despite sounding flattering,was quite to the contrary. Anyone who had seen the lurid Bosch painting of the same nameunderstood the jab; the painting, like the forest, was dark and twisted, a purgatory for freaks andfetishists. At night, the forest’s winding lanes were lined with hundreds of glistening bodies forhire, earthly delights to satisfy one’s deepest unspoken desires—male, female, and everything inbetween.

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As Langdon gathered his thoughts to tell Sophie about the Priory of Sion, their taxi passed throughthe wooded entrance to the park and began heading west on the cobblestone crossfare. Langdonwas having trouble concentrating as a scattering of the park’s nocturnal residents were alreadyemerging from the shadows and flaunting their wares in the glare of the headlights. Ahead, twotopless teenage girls shot smoldering gazes into the taxi. Beyond them, a well-oiled black man in aG-string turned and flexed his buttocks. Beside him, a gorgeous blond woman lifted her miniskirtto reveal that she was not, in fact, a woman.

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Heaven help me! Langdon turned his gaze back inside the cab and took a deep breath.

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"Tell me about the Priory of Sion," Sophie said.

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Langdon nodded, unable to imagine a less congruous a backdrop for the legend he was about totell. He wondered where to begin. The brotherhood’s history spanned more than a millennium... anastonishing chronicle of secrets, blackmail, betrayal, and even brutal torture at the hands of anangry Pope.

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"The Priory of Sion," he began, "was founded in Jerusalem in 1099 by a French king namedGodefroi de Bouillon, immediately after he had conquered the city."Sophie nodded, her eyes riveted on him.

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"King Godefroi was allegedly the possessor of a powerful secret—a secret that had been in hisfamily since the time of Christ. Fearing his secret might be lost when he died, he founded a secretbrotherhood—the Priory of Sion—and charged them with protecting his secret by quietly passing iton from generation to generation. During their years in Jerusalem, the Priory learned of a stash ofhidden documents buried beneath the ruins of Herod’s temple, which had been built atop the earlierruins of Solomon’s Temple. These documents, they believed, corroborated Godefroi’s powerfulsecret and were so explosive in nature that the Church would stop at nothing to get them." Sophielooked uncertain.

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"The Priory vowed that no matter how long it took, these documents must be recovered from therubble beneath the temple and protected forever, so the truth would never die. In order to retrievethe documents from within the ruins, the Priory created a military arm—a group of nine knightscalled the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon." Langdon paused.

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"More commonly known as the Knights Templar."Sophie glanced up with a surprised look of recognition. Langdon had lectured often enough on theKnights Templar to know that almost everyone on earth had heard of them, at least abstractedly.

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For academics, the Templars’ history was a precarious world where fact, lore, and misinformationhad become so intertwined that extracting a pristine truth was almost impossible. Nowadays,Langdon hesitated even to mention the Knights Templar while lecturing because it invariably led toa barrage of convoluted inquiries into assorted conspiracy theories.

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Sophie already looked troubled. "You’re saying the Knights Templar were founded by the Priory ofSion to retrieve a collection of secret documents? I thought the Templars were created to protectthe Holy Land.""A common misconception. The idea of protection of pilgrims was the guise under which theTemplars ran their mission. Their true goal in the Holy Land was to retrieve the documents frombeneath the ruins of the temple.""And did they find them?"Langdon grinned. "Nobody knows for sure, but the one thing on which all academics agree is this:

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The Knights discovered something down there in the ruins... something that made them wealthyand powerful beyond anyone’s wildest imagination."Langdon quickly gave Sophie the standard academic sketch of the accepted Knights Templarhistory, explaining how the Knights were in the Holy Land during the Second Crusade and toldKing Baldwin II that they were there to protect Christian pilgrims on the roadways. Althoughunpaid and sworn to poverty, the Knights told the king they required basic shelter and requested hispermission to take up residence in the stables under the ruins of the temple. King Baldwin grantedthe soldiers’ request, and the Knights took up their meager residence inside the devastated shrine.

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The odd choice of lodging, Langdon explained, had been anything but random. The Knightsbelieved the documents the Priory sought were buried deep under the ruins—beneath the Holy ofHolies, a sacred chamber where God Himself was believed to reside. Literally, the very center ofthe Jewish faith. For almost a decade, the nine Knights lived in the ruins, excavating in totalsecrecy through solid rock.

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Sophie looked over. "And you said they discovered something?""They certainly did," Langdon said, explaining how it had taken nine years, but the Knights hadfinally found what they had been searching for. They took the treasure from the temple andtraveled to Europe, where their influence seemed to solidify overnight.

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Nobody was certain whether the Knights had blackmailed the Vatican or whether the Churchsimply tried to buy the Knights’ silence, but Pope Innocent II immediately issued an unprecedentedpapal bull that afforded the Knights Templar limitless power and declared them "a law untothemselves"—an autonomous army independent of all interference from kings and prelates, bothreligious and political.

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With their new carte blanche from the Vatican, the Knights Templar expanded at a staggering rate,both in numbers and political force, amassing vast estates in over a dozen countries. They beganextending credit to bankrupt royals and charging interest in return, thereby establishing modernbanking and broadening their wealth and influence still further.

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By the 1300s, the Vatican sanction had helped the Knights amass so much power that PopeClement V decided that something had to be done. Working in concert with France’s King PhilippeIV, the Pope devised an ingeniously planned sting operation to quash the Templars and seize theirtreasure, thus taking control of the secrets held over the Vatican. In a military maneuver worthy ofthe CIA, Pope Clement issued secret sealed orders to be opened simultaneously by his soldiers allacross Europe on Friday, October 13 of 1307.

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At dawn on the thirteenth, the documents were unsealed and their appalling contents revealed.

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Clement’s letter claimed that God had visited him in a vision and warned him that the KnightsTemplar were heretics guilty of devil worship, homosexuality, defiling the cross, sodomy, andother blasphemous behavior. Pope Clement had been asked by God to cleanse the earth byrounding up all the Knights and torturing them until they confessed their crimes against God.

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Clement’s Machiavellian operation came off with clockwork precision. On that day, countlessKnights were captured, tortured mercilessly, and finally burned at the stake as heretics. Echoes ofthe tragedy still resonated in modern culture; to this day, Friday the thirteenth was consideredunlucky.

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Sophie looked confused. "The Knights Templar were obliterated? I thought fraternities of Templarsstill exist today?""They do, under a variety of names. Despite Clement’s false charges and best efforts to eradicatethem, the Knights had powerful allies, and some managed to escape the Vatican purges. TheTemplars’ potent treasure trove of documents, which had apparently been their source of power,was Clement’s true objective, but it slipped through his fingers. The documents had long since beenentrusted to the Templars’ shadowy architects, the Priory of Sion, whose veil of secrecy had keptthem safely out of range of the Vatican’s onslaught. As the Vatican closed in, the Priory smuggledtheir documents from a Paris preceptory by night onto Templar ships in La Rochelle.""Where did the documents go?"Langdon shrugged. "That mystery’s answer is known only to the Priory of Sion. Because thedocuments remain the source of constant investigation and speculation even today, they arebelieved to have been moved and rehidden several times. Current speculation places the documentssomewhere in the United Kingdom."Sophie looked uneasy.

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"For a thousand years," Langdon continued, "legends of this secret have been passed on. The entirecollection of documents, its power, and the secret it reveals have become known by a singlename—Sangreal. Hundreds of books have been written about it, and few mysteries have caused asmuch interest among historians as the Sangreal.""The Sangreal? Does the word have anything to do with the French word sang or Spanishsangre—meaning ’blood’?"Langdon nodded. Blood was the backbone of the Sangreal, and yet not in the way Sophie probablyimagined. "The legend is complicated, but the important thing to remember is that the Prioryguards the proof, and is purportedly awaiting the right moment in history to reveal the truth.""What truth? What secret could possibly be that powerful?"Langdon took a deep breath and gazed out at the underbelly of Paris leering in the shadows.

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"Sophie, the word Sangreal is an ancient word. It has evolved over the years into another term... amore modern name." He paused. "When I tell you its modern name, you’ll realize you alreadyknow a lot about it. In fact, almost everyone on earth has heard the story of the Sangreal."Sophie looked skeptical. "I’ve never heard of it.""Sure you have." Langdon smiled. "You’re just used to hearing it called by the name ’Holy Grail.’ "

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