I think there is an important thing to take into account when we look at the history of Icons, Statues and other religious artifacts in chirstianity.
One important factor in the rise of such relics and their use is the absorbtion of the Hellenic world into christian doctorine, especially when...
i don't really hold much with the DaVinci code, because most of it is rubbish - always doubt the word of a man can't describe distances properly in the city he sets his stories
But ... there is something about the knowledge of al-ghazali that makes appearance both in the kaballah and...
Isn't interesting that considering the rumours circulating of Newton's Templar leanings that he was so instrumental in forming the theory of light. Refraction, reflection, the prism and splitting light from its source