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Key to The Lost Symbol
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By Melissa Thompson 18/09/2009
BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO DAN BROWN BESTSELLER
Dan Brown's hotly awaited new novel The Lost Symbol is breaking all sorts of records.
It has become the fastest-selling hardback adult novel in the UK, selling 300,000 copies in 36 hours since it was published on Tuesday.
Yet again, Harvard Professor Robert Langdon takes centre stage, just as he did in Brown's previous hits The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.
This time the novel centres on the hidden world of freemasonry in Washington DC with Langdon - played by Tom Hanks in the films - trying to track his kidnapped mentor Peter Solomon by cracking codes and solving cryptic clues.
Brown named the character after John Langdon, a professor of typography and creator of ambigrams - typographical designs that can be read from several different angles - which feature heavily in the books.
And in the Lost Symbol Professor Langdon is invited to Washington to give a lecture but finds Solomon's severed hand - forcing him to pursue the hidden meaning of an ancient Masonic symbol.
So if you haven't had time to plough through the 509 pages yet, or take in the cryptic clues, here's our bluffer's guide to all the locations, events and Masonic mysteries.
FOUNDING FATHERS
The Founding Fathers of the United States were key figures in the American Revolution, signed the 1776 Declaration of Independence from Britain and drafted the US Constitution.
They included first President George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.
Dan Brown claims that at least half of the Founding Fathers were Freemasons.
However, the phrase "Founding Fathers" was used for the first time only in 1916 in a speech by Warren Harding - who became his country's President in 1921.
SQUARE AND COMPASS
The single most identifiable Masonic symbol, the square and compass hints at the group's roots as a stonemasons' collective.
They form two of Freemasonry's Three Great Lights - the other is the Bible. The square is an emblem of virtue reflecting the belief we must "square our actions by the square of virtue with all mankind". The pair of compasses represents our strength to "circumscribe our desires and keep our passions within due bounds".
INVISIBLE COLLEGE
With origins dating back to 1645, the Invisible College was an organisation whose members included Britain's brightest scientists and philosophers who met regularly to exchange ideas.
The aim was to learn by experimentation and those who attended included architect Sir Christopher Wren, who designed St Paul's Cathedral, and Irish scientist Robert Boyle. The college evolved into the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, which still exists, and has its HQ in London.
HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE
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