REFERENCE: THE LOST SYMBOL BY DAN BROWN

Facts and Fiction

Dan Brown, author of the mega-best seller The Da Vinci Code has done himself one better with his new fictional work The Lost Symbol. This time he has woven a plot between two protagonists both facing a single antagonist set in Washington, D.C. It is very reminiscent of the movie National Treasure in that the plot involves a trail of clues left behind by the Freemasons who founded the United States. Unlike National Treasure it is very bloody. This book seems more like a fleshed out story board for a movie than a novel, with each chapter representing a scene. It could be taken as a film script. Nonetheless, it is very entertaining, lacing significant commentaries on the state of religion as it is practiced, along with other metaphysical concepts worthy of promoting. It's a very good read.

Brown links Freemasonic lore directly to Egypt, rather than to the Temple of Solomon (which so many do,) and in this aspect it is more accurate than most of the fictional works regarding Freemasonry .

Unfortunately Brown makes a significant mistake in the beginning of the book (pg. 28,) when he asserts “ Washington does have some incredible secrets… just none on this street map.” As can be readily seen in the map below, nothing could be further from the truth. Dan Brown has simply not done his homework. There are many unrecognized Egyptian symbols hidden in plain sight. Had Dan Brown been aware of these the book would be even better than it is. Fictional works are made up stories. Sadly, many people come to take fiction as fact, and so in the minds of the reading public one man's fantasies become entrenched as another man's realities. In this regard the book is somewhat misleading in various degrees. Washington , D.C is the only completely pre-planned city in the U.S.

See Stargate City for Specific Reference

These sections at Open Cheops are not fiction: The Entrance to Cheops , The Science of the Maker , and most importantly for Dan Brown, Washington D.C. Stargate City are all verifiable in the here and now. Interview with Robert Bauval establishes Washington D.C. itself as a temple, and the symbols contained therein to be greater and more profound than has yet been recognized.

The Pyramid as a symbol contains more hidden truth than can be known. It is fitting that Dan Brown has used it as such, but its underlying knowledge remains unrevealed.

Please take a look at the linked essays and judge for yourself what is fact and what is fiction.

Jennis Strickland

Mystic Archeologist

October 2009