Introduction
Dan Brown’s book The Lost Symbol was never made into a movie. It was bypassed for Inferno, his next book.
I won’t go into all the excuses that were made for not making a movie version of The Lost Symbol. Conspiracy theorists might suggest it was because of the sensitive nature of America’s history having strong ties to the Masons.
When I first read the book — and it was hard to put the book down as it is with all his books — when I came to read the last few chapters, I was somewhat disappointed with the anti-climactic ending — to say the least!
I guess I was expecting, like many readers also were expecting, ancient wisdom that “will profoundly change the world as you know it”.
Is there such ancient wisdom that is kept secret by the Masons? The answer is that there is — or rather, there was! But it has less to do with symbols than it has to do with The Lost Word. The Lost Word of the Masons — apparently lost for thousands of years!.
This book is important for what it does not say — in fact, omits any reference to the Lost Word of the Masons!
my Lost Symbol series
Dan Brown’s book The Lost Symbol contains or references so many ideas in the realm of mysticism that I have decided to write a series of blogs based on the ideas therein. I don’t yet know how many parts I will end up with in the series but I promise you this: by the end of this series you will know, among other things, one of the greatest secrets of all time — the secret of the Word — the Lost Word of the Masons!
Next: Lost Symbol series part 1: Noetics and the Ancient Mysteries