Decoding The Lost Symbol

The Unauthorized Expert Guide to the Facts Behind the Fiction

Simon Cox

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780743287272
• eBook ISBN: 9781439172612
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Now a Peacock Original TV series Secret societies. Forgotten history. Conspiracies. Now you can unlock the mysteries of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol with this definitive and bestselling guide to the facts behind the fiction featuring Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon—from Simon Cox, author of Cracking the Da Vinci Code and Illuminating Angels and Demons. Dan Brown's thrilling novel The Lost Symbol again features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, this time in the US racing to uncover clues and crack codes involving secrets that are perpetuated to this day. But how much of the novel is true and what is pure fiction? Simon Cox, bestselling Dan Brown expert offers this definitive guide to all the mysteries featured in The Lost Symbol.Based on extensive research, this A-to-Z guide lists the real people, organizations, and themes featured in Dan Brown's novel, explains their histories and their meanings, reproduces and analyzes the symbols themselves, and provides insider knowledge gleaned from years of exhaustive study. From the monuments of Washington, DC, to the secrets of Salt Lake City and the hidden enclaves in Langley, Virginia, Cox knows where the facts are hidden about the Freemasons, Albert Pike, the Rosicrucians, the Founding Fathers, and more.This is the only resource you'll need to understand and enjoy the fascinating and mysterious world of The Lost Symbol.

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• HalfTitle Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Dedication
• Abaddon
• Akedah
• Alchemy
• All Seeing Eye
• The Ancient Mysteries
• The Apotheosis of Washington
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Boaz and Jachin
• Constantino Brumidi
• Capitol Building
• Cerneau Rite
• CIA—Office of Security
• Circumpunct
• Aleister Crowley
• Dollar Bill Symbolism
• Albrecht Dürer
• The Eastern Star
• Elohim
• Benjamin Franklin
• Freedom Plaza
• Freemasonry
• Freemason’s Cipher
• Great Architect of the Universe
• Great Pyramid
• Great Seal of the United States
• Manly P. Hall
• Hand of the Mysteries
• Heredom
• Hermetica
• House of the Temple
• Institute of Noetic Sciences
• Thomas Jefferson
• Kryptos
• Library of Congress
• Pierre L’Enfant
• Magic Squares
• Lynne Mctaggart
• Melencolia I
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Number Symbolism
• One True God
• Ouroboros
• Philosopher’s Stone
• Pineal Gland
• Rosicrucians
• The Royal Society and the “Invisible College”
• Scottish Rite Freemasonry
• Seal of Solomon/Star of David
• Shriners
• Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
• Smithsonian Institution
• Smithsonian Museum Support Center (SMSC)
• Solomon’s Temple
• 2012
• Washington, DC
• George Washington
• Washington Masonic Memorial
• Washington Monument
• Washington National Cathedral
• Zohar
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography