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Shugarts Contributing Editors Lou Aronica and Paul Berger  \nFor Julie,  \nWho, for thirty-nine years, has been both my Aphrodite and my Athena . . . and  \nwill always be so . . .  \nAnd for David,  \nAlready so accomplished and so far down the road of his unique hero’s journey  \n. . .  \n—Dan Burstein  \nFor “D,”  \nA great and gentle man, sorely missed . . .  \nAnd, as ever, for Helen, and Hannah, warvb loza ddd sysssrt fua xhe wagvet xr  \nql lika—Arne de Keijzer  \nContents  \nEditor ’s Note  \nIntroduction  \nby Dan Burstein  \nChapter 1  \nIntellectual Alchemy  \nExploring the Complex Cosmos of The Lost Symbol  \nby Dan Burstein  \nChapter 2  \nHistory, Mystery, and Masons  \nDan Brown’s Freemansonry  \nby Arturo de Hoyos  \nA Mason Reveals His “Journey to Light”  \nby Mark E. Koltko-Rivera  \nDefining Freemasonry  \nby Mark A. Tabbert  \nAlbert Pike: The Ghost in The Lost Symbol Machine?  \nby Warren Getler  \nMozart and Ellington, Tolstoy and Kipling: Inside the Brotherhood of Famous Masons  \nby David D. Burstein  \nSearching for Masons in the Corridors of Power  \nby Eamon Javers  \nChapter 3  \nSecret Knowledge  \nThe Ancient Mysteries and The Lost Symbol  \nby Glenn W. Erickson  \nA Quick Guide to the Philosophers in The Lost Symbol  \nby Glenn W. Erickson  \nSecret Knowledge: Hiding in Plain Sight in the Infinite Universe  \nan interview with Ingrid Rowland  \nIsaac Newton: Physics, Alchemy, and the Search to Understand the “Mind of God”  \nan interview with Thomas Levenson  \nChapter 4  \nScience, Faith, and the Birth of a Nation  \nFrom the Ground Up: Kindred Spirits Invent the Modern World  \nan interview with Steven Johnson  \nFranklin, Freemasonry, and American Destiny  \nan interview with Jack Fruchtman Jr.  \nMasons, Skulls, and Secret Chambers: The Postrevolutionary Fraternity  \nby Steven C. Bullock  \nFinding Himself in The Lost Symbol  \nby James Wasserman  \nOccult America  \nan interview with Mitch Horowitz  \nChapter 5  \nMan Meets God, and God Meets Man  \nWhat’s Been Lost and What Needs to Be Found in Our Times  \nan interview with Rabbi Irwin Kula  \nDan Brown’s Religion: Is It Me or We?  \nan interview with Deirdre Good  \nScience and Religion Face the Beyond  \nby Marcelo Gleiser  \nAnd Never the Twain Shall Meet?  \ncommentary by Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins  \nScience Requires That You Step Outside the Mental Cocoon  \nan interview with George Johnson  \nChapter 6  \nYe Are New Age Gods  \nThe Energy That Connects the Universe  \nan interview with Lynne McTaggart  \nNoetics: The Link Between Modern Science and Ancient Mysticism?  \nby Lou Aronica  \nOn Becoming a Fictional Character in a Dan Brown Novel  \nby Marilyn Mandala Schlitz  \nBending Minds, Not Spoons  \nan interview with William Arntz  \n“Ye Are Gods”  \nby the Editors  \nChapter 7  \nMystery City on the Hill  \nA Masonic Pilgrimage Around Washington, D.C.  \nby David A. Shugarts  \nThe Lost Smithsonian  \nan interview with Heather Ewing  \nDanger in the Wet Pod: Fact and Fiction about the Smithsonian  \nby the Editors  \nHiding Out in Jefferson’s Palace of the Book: Why Robert Langdon’s Adventure Takes Him Inside the Library of Congress  \nby the Editors  \nWhat Does The Lost Symbol Get Wrong About the Nation's Capital? Everything.  \nby David Plotz  \nChapter 8  \nInto the Kryptic . . . Art, Symbols, and Codes  \nThe Clues Hidden in Circles and Squares: The Art and Symbology of The Lost Symbol  \nby Diane Apostolos-Capppadona  \nVenus, the Three Graces, and a Portal to a Divine World  \nan interview with Michael Parkes  \nArt, Encryption, and the Preservation of Secrets  \nan interview with Jim Sanborn  \nThe Summer of the Clues  \nby David A. Shugarts  \nWilliam Wirt’s Skull, Albrecht Dürer ’s Magic Square: The Doubleday Clues and The Lost Symbol  \nby Mark E. 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Art, Symbols, and Codes\n## The Clues Hidden in Circles and Squares\n## Kryptos: The Unsolved Enigma\n# Chapter 9 - Divining Dan Brown\n## The Pursuit of Dan Brown: From Secrets ofthe Widow's Son to The Lost Symbol\n# Chapter 10 - Brownian Logic\n## Not All Is Hope: Reading the Novel's Dark Side\n## The Politics of The Lost Symbol","[{\"question\":\"What kind of book is Secrets of The Lost Symbol?\",\"answer\":\"It is an unauthorized guide that assembles analysis and perspectives related to The Lost Symbol’s mysteries, themes, and references.\"},{\"question\":\"Which topics does the book cover across its chapters?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses freemasonry and related history, secret knowledge and ancient mysteries, science versus faith, New Age and mysticism themes, and the novel’s art, symbols, and codes.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the guide treat the relationship between the fiction and real-world references?\",\"answer\":\"It compares narrative elements to historical, cultural, and symbolic material, including commentary on what the story gets wrong or needs to be clarified.\"}]","Secrets of The Lost Symbol - The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel | PDF",1791323584,169]