The Lost Symbol

Unfathomable power of the Lost Word, puzzling symbolon, and dazzling architectural history of the Washington D.C. This is unmistakably one of the most stunning Robert Langdon story, apart from the police-chase in Paris and the deadly race in Italy. Though many readers think that this book is a typical Dan Brown style, but for me it’s still not too disappointing.

For those who hasn’t read Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, they surely have to read this. This book’s full of information, that most of you may not know about. The main plot is about unraveling secret hidden in the Masonic Pyramid that has been protected through generations.

The story started when Robert Langdon was invited to give a speech on history in Washington D.C. Then, he unexpectedly received a phone call from a mysterious man, claiming that he had captured Robert’s mentor, Peter Solomon. In order to save his mentor, and also his friend, Robert have to solve the mysteries that hides within The Pyramid.

Similar to Angels and Demons, The Lost Symbol also unveils another mind-blowing science research, the Noetic Science. Noetic Science is a study associated with requiring the use of mind to do impossible task, or simply mind over matter. It may sounds ridiculous and utterly impossible, but the breakthrough will be astonishing and it’ll change the way we see the world.

In all, the book clarify that religion is, in fact connected to the science. Almost everything that we had achieved today is actually linked to the ancient discoveries. The astonishing fact in this book may open our mind to look into our own history. We won’t be what we are today of it weren’t for the past.

Appreciate what we have today, be grateful and live our life to the fullest. Always be curious, it’ll guide us to the infinite knowledge, waiting to be discovered. I would like to quote from the famous Encyclopedia of Secret Teaching of All Ages, from an ancient philosopher:

"He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns alone is a man among brutes. But he who knows all that can be known by intellectual energy, is a God among men."