'And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion. 'Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh.' Langdon nodded and lowered his voice to a conspiratorial whisper.
Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. The student from the Women's Center looked uneasy. The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale. If that's too freaky for you, then I know you'll never want to join my cult.' 'I heard what they do inside those secret buildings! Weird candlelight rituals with coffins, and nooses, and drinking wine out of skulls. Here, Robert Langdon (Ashley Zukerman) is a professor of symbology who teaches his class about the ways some of those ancient symbols can be co-opted for nefarious purposes. 'Sounds to me like a euphemism for "freaky cult." ' 'Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.'
Armed with knowledge of history, symbols, and dead languages, Langdon must work together with Peters daughter and other allies to find the Lost Symbol - or lose the man they both see as a father.
A disturbing object artfully encoded with.
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“Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?'
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