FACT: Dan Brown has sold more than 40 million copies of his The Da Vinci Code.

That's an amazing achievement, especially considering the esoteric nature of the book's premise: a conspiracy through history to suppress the Sacred Feminine. Now just the kind of fringe subject people are expected to flock to.

Either by plan or luck, Brown was able to distill from such Gnostic/Knights Templar/Freemasonry classics like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, The Templar Revelation and Born in Blood a huge untapped marketing demographic. Women who want to know they're a goddess. It makes sense after all. As women already know and aren't afraid to let you know, again and again, they're supposed to be worshipped and adored as divine sparks in humanity's endless night of profane masculinity. And, see, here comes along a book with an affirmation that proves it straight-up. Every Woman Is A Goddess. And supported by FACTs. Lots of them. One after another. With reference materials included even. Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon! More proof!

And moving on from this success, Brown is working his formulaic plot magick on the same genre but different focus: Freemasonry. Brown's The Solomon Key is whispered to be based upon that super-Masonic-designed city of Washington, DC. I bet the tourism board is just creaming in their pants in anticipation of setting up Solomon Key guided tours to all of the zillion Masonic must-see sites. Luckily, since it's DC-as-Masonic-Layout-City-Planning, they'll just have to rebrand the current guidebooks with a Masonic title for the expected crowds of housewives and families this is going to inspire.

After the publication of The Solomon Key, I can't wait to hear all the housewives and soccer moms going off about the Widow's Son, Hiram Abiff, the pillars of Boaz and Jachin on Solomon's Temple. It'll be like living in a third-rate Twilight Zone episode: A man finds himself in a world where everything he knew about the Lunatic Fringe is now mainstream culture. Starring Tom Hanks.

I'll make my bets now that Brown's next subject is likely to be based on the premise that an Internet company owned by modern day Cathars is organizing the world's information. Every man, woman and child is a search term.

But some of you may not be prepared. Let's get you up-to-date with Freemasonry and impress your friends, family and workmates: check out this must-read Masonic blog, The Burning Taper to become a Masonic scholar before The Solomon Key is published. Not to mention, it's a great way to pick-up Sacred Fems.

Speaking of which, if you missed the boat on that subject as well, Sacred Fems will get you caught up in anticipation of what ranting you'll hear around the office cooler once the movie version of The Da Vinci Code is released.

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Delivered unto you by Grouchogandhi precisely at 5:07:00 AM