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The
strip
cleaved
the
communion
rail
in
two
and
then
crossed
the
entire
width
of
the
church
,
finally
reaching
the
corner
of
the
north
transept
,
where
it
arrived
at
the
base
of
a
most
unexpected
structure
.
A
colossal
Egyptian
obelisk
.
Here
,
the
glistening
Rose
Line
took
a
ninety
-
degree
vertical
turn
and
continued
directly
up
the
face
of
the
obelisk
itself
,
ascending
thirty
-
three
feet
to
the
very
tip
of
the
pyramidical
apex
,
where
it
finally
ceased
.
The
Rose
Line
,
Silas
thought
.
The
brotherhood
hid
the
keystone
at
the
Rose
Line
.
Earlier
tonight
,
when
Silas
told
the
Teacher
that
the
Priory
keystone
was
hidden
inside
Saint
-
Sulpice
,
the
Teacher
had
sounded
doubtful
.
But
when
Silas
added
that
the
brothers
had
all
given
him
a
precise
location
,
with
relation
to
a
brass
line
running
through
Saint
-
Sulpice
,
the
Teacher
had
gasped
with
revelation
.
«
You
speak
of
the
Rose
Line
!
»
The
Teacher
quickly
told
Silas
of
Saint
-
Sulpice
’
s
famed
architectural
oddity
–
a
strip
of
brass
that
segmented
the
sanctuary
on
a
perfect
north
-
south
axis
.
It
was
an
ancient
sundial
of
sorts
,
a
vestige
of
the
pagan
temple
that
had
once
stood
on
this
very
spot
.
The
sun
’
s
rays
,
shining
through
the
oculus
on
the
south
wall
,
moved
farther
down
the
line
every
day
,
indicating
the
passage
of
time
,
from
solstice
to
solstice
.
The
north
-
south
stripe
had
been
known
as
the
Rose
Line
.
For
centuries
,
the
symbol
of
the
Rose
had
been
associated
with
maps
and
guiding
souls
in
the
proper
direction
.
The
Compass
Rose
–
drawn
on
almost
every
map
–
indicated
North
,
East
,
South
,
and
West
.
Originally
known
as
the
Wind
Rose
,
it
denoted
the
directions
of
the
thirty
-
two
winds
,
blowing
from
the
directions
of
eight
major
winds
,
eight
half
-
winds
,
and
sixteen
quarter
-
winds
.
When
diagrammed
inside
a
circle
,
these
thirty
-
two
points
of
the
compass
perfectly
resembled
a
traditional
thirty
-
two
petal
rose
bloom
.
To
this
day
,
the
fundamental
navigational
tool
was
still
known
as
a
Compass
Rose
,
its
northernmost
direction
still
marked
by
an
arrowhead
…
or
,
more
commonly
,
the
symbol
of
the
fleur
-
de
-
lis
.
On
a
globe
,
a
Rose
Line
–
also
called
a
meridian
or
longitude
–
was
any
imaginary
line
drawn
from
the
North
Pole
to
the
South
Pole
.
There
were
,
of
course
,
an
infinite
number
of
Rose
Lines
because
every
point
on
the
globe
could
have
a
longitude
drawn
through
it
connecting
north
and
south
poles
.
The
question
for
early
navigators
was
which
of
these
lines
would
be
called
the
Rose
Line
–
the
zero
longitude
–
the
line
from
which
all
other
longitudes
on
earth
would
be
measured
.
Today
that
line
was
in
Greenwich
,
England
.
But
it
had
not
always
been
.
Long
before
the
establishment
of
Greenwich
as
the
prime
meridian
,
the
zero
longitude
of
the
entire
world
had
passed
directly
through
Paris
,
and
through
the
Church
of
Saint
-
Sulpice
.
The
brass
marker
in
Saint
-
Sulpice
was
a
memorial
to
the
world
’
s
first
prime
meridian
,
and
although
Greenwich
had
stripped
Paris
of
the
honor
in
1888
,
the
original
Rose
Line
was
still
visible
today
.
