Marilyn Schlitz: I would say Noetic is equivalent to intuition, that sense of feeling that isn't rational. The painting is described in Dan Brown's best-selling novel "The Lost Symbol." Nearby are the square and the compass, traditional symbols of Freemasonry. George Washington, the first president of the United States, wears the decorated apron of Freemasonry. Hidden away on the lower level of the Masonic house of the temple, in Washington, D.C., there's a remarkable painting not many people have seen. to find the secrets of Freemasonry, he reveals little-known facts about the founding fathers that might shock some readers.ĭan Brown: There was a statue that sat in the Capitol.
And as Dan Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, races Mal'akh through Washington, D.C. All these elements were very familiar to the founding fathers.īut remember Freemasons also had some radical ideas about religion. They call it the house of the temple, and it's where we talked with Dan Brown, who wove the secrets of the Masons into the taut rope of his story.Īrturo de Hoyos: Freemasonry was one of the earliest societies to advocate self-rule. This is the headquarters of the Scottish Rite Freemasons in Washington, D.C. But he's also a thirty-third degree Freemason of the Scottish rite. Solomon runs the Smithsonian Institution. The hand belongs to an old friend of Langdon's who's been kidnapped by the villain, Mal'akh: a man named Peter Solomon. Capitol, where, at the center of the rotunda, he finds a severed hand, tattooed to resemble an ancient mystical symbol: the hand of the mysteries. Dan Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, is lured to Washington, D.C. “The Lost Symbol" starts with a gruesome discovery. And we'll go to the fringes of science and the depths of prehistory in search of what Brown calls the true meaning of his latest book- and why, he says, it actually changed his beliefs.ĭan Brown: I spent a lot of time researching and really had to get to the point where I realized, "You know what? The world's a stranger place then we thought." unlike any you've taken before, uncovering secret places with Dan Brown as our guide.
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