Freemasonry and Dan Brown's "Lost Symbol" Discussed on the Today Show

[CoreyMabbit]

i was never into books, but when i started .. i finished it in 2 days ;D

[odessy000]

the book was just awsum but i could not help wonder if he was trying to promote freemasonary in a clever way? its only gonna confuse the young readers who dont understand the concept in detail. i beleive he did the same with da vinci code. whts he donna write abt finally, tht theres no god n we r gods?!!!

[Lavihoss]

nice nice, tell me what you think of mine btw open to remix

[ElsolraSaul]

Dan Brown is a puppet whore, set out to mix truth with lies and confuse people. Oh and to rip off other peoples work. Saying that i do like his books thou!!!

[Wecanstopnwo1]

everywhere symbolism , in HD MORE AND MORE AND MROE PYRAMID EYE AND MORE SYMBOLS IN MY CHANNEL EVERYWHERE

[ABookwormAndProud]

I love how they're playing National Treasure music :D

[dzsk8r]

this is by far, my favorite book. the whole series was amazing

[nightgrooveruk]

H OM E /.\

[BTsmoke]

Brown writes that Peter is the rock on which the Church is built but the original Greek says Peter is the pebble [ petros ]and the church is built on bedrock [ patros ]. Jesus was referring to his own body and the death of it.

[shicky2001]

WOW some of the comments in here. Killoffkili, who are you to judge him for writting a book? I find the DaVinci Code to be more credible than the bible itself but then again its just another theory of who or what Jesus was that crap happened 2000 years ago and history isn't well documented back then. Its a damn book! Read it, enjoy it and have fun doing it thats what its for!

[debbaOfTheFlanders]

lol another copy of old data probably just like the vinci da code

[2222554]

Take note of double headed eagle with wings within a pyramid at timeframe 3:19... Again... No knee jerk reactions here folks... It's showing TWO OPPOSING factions the eagle with right eye and the eagle with left eye...

[Psychonaut2021]

@2222554 Oh wow two opposing factions!? Amazinnnng! YIPPIE!! Now the question is, do you have any idea of what it means, detective Dipshit, sir? What's that? No idea have you? Well then, why are you talking about it like if it meant anything to you? Two opposing factions? Of what? Don't just point it out and pretend that you know what it means. If you pointed it out to make people notice it, at least give them an explenation. Imbecile.

[mkl62]

As of January 3, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is the #1 selling fiction book in the USA.

[Valader89]

For the Lost Symbol movie should have Jeremy Irons playing Peter Solomon

[mrantidajjal1]

One thing the REAL 33 degree masons and tony robinson have in common is they hide the truth!. After watching his biased documentary i gathered the following: secret handshakes ONLY happen with members, 33 degree members never tel the secret denying there is a secret. why only ask those who dont agree with Dan Brown, if he wants the truth why didnt he interview Dan Brown and demand the evidence for the claim!. Media had to support this documentary becasue freemasons were getting too exposed!.

[proudmason98]

There's nothing to expose - If we wanted to be secret we would be. Secret societies are/do NOT listed in the yellow pages, march in parades, open hospitals, put bumper stickers on their cars, and donate to various charities and churches Freemasonry does.

Freemasonry is not secret it's simply Private as is any organization.

[debbaOfTheFlanders]

so if it's not secret who are the mason leaders or leader where can meet them where do higher ranks meet wat do thy talk about ...... i rest my case

[Psychonaut2021]

@debbaOfTheFlanders Oh shut the hell up will ya? Not all leaders of the worlds are Masons. That they use the same symbolism is a whole different story. It's called Sacred Geometry. If you had some education you would've known this. You also require some common sense.

All of the Mason lodges I've been to have a sign outside saying that it's a Masonic lodge. Also, will it hurt you to use some punctuation marks? You need to stop watching YT videos. I rest MY case, idiot.

[debbaOfTheFlanders]

@Psychonaut2021 before you try to start a stupid discussion. Read it again never claimed that AL if any of the world leaders are masons? and for my education i had a good one,but you are right about the punctuation mark. and what does sacred geometry has to do with this beside the fact that its something the masons use?? give me one other thing except the Illuminati&masons that use this as a "trademark" thing and I'm talking about society's secret or private

[debbaOfTheFlanders]

privat,secret it a very smal difrence

[Psychonaut2021]

@debbaOfTheFlanders Private*, secrete* and small*. Those are very small mistakes, but what a huge difference*!

Catch my drift, asshole?

[debbaOfTheFlanders]

@Psychonaut2021 dude if the "club" is private and not secret, why is it part of the inauguration the keep your mouth shut to the outside world about there knowledge ...

maybe my choice of words is wrong its what thy do that is secret not the club itself

and just for the record I'm not claiming that the masons mean bad by there group but still annoying that we know so little about mason activity beyond getting their members in high places

[Psychonaut2021]

@debbaOfTheFlanders The only thing we're told to keep our mouth shut about is our modes of recognition and ceremonies. What good is that info going to do to you or humanity? Help them sleep better at night? Keeping that info to ourselves is part of the fun of being a Freemason. Enough said.

[debbaOfTheFlanders]

@Psychonaut2021 so if its not secret where can i find a list of the 33 highmasons

[debbaOfTheFlanders]

@proudmason98 OK so you don't need to tell me who and what exactly,but do the lower ranks masons know what the higher ranks do and discus,and where and when?

[SmokiSounds]

Dan Brown is just a bad, bad writer. He's good for Hollywood scripts. That's it.

[PaulCDickie]

He can hardly sound any sillier than his self-imposed ignorance has made him.

[ihaveairlockers]

Hi

Are you pro masonry or against it ??

I read your comments and i am not sure.

I am a Mason and proud to be so.

[PaulCDickie]

Once again, Dan Brown's dismal drivel makes the Harry Potter books seem well crafted and almost credible.

They probably sell well in a country that has the National Enquirer and where some people still believe that Elvis is still alive and working in a Memphis burger bar.

[13Elphaba13]

Are you implying Harry Potter is bad???

[PaulCDickie]

@13Elphaba13

The Harry Potter books are works of fantasy and of fiction; Dan Brown's books seem to be based entirely on garbage.

[13Elphaba13]

ohh ok ya lol i was just confused as what you were saying?? lol thanks

[kwood1007]

this book was so good i had to jack off after i read it

[PaulCDickie]

@kwood1007

I had no idea that book was so copiously illustrated.

Does it also show a Mason 'riding the goat'?

[1TtidnaB]

I just finished this piece of shit book on a flight.

Never again.

I have to go burn down a chuch to get all this american religion out of my system.

[PaulCDickie]

I do hope you didn't use the pages for their obvious purpose and thereby block the loo.

[yayet93]

hhmmm hehe i have downloaded a free pdf,

[allxtar]

idiot

[PaulCDickie]

If it was merely "free", you were plainly overcharged.

[6evil6dagger6]

I loved the book, i wont give away anything but i will say that its the equivilent of "angels and demons" in the magnitude of the ending

[schubert1000]

A Great book! Thoroughly enjoyed it. And, of course based on many 'truths'

[bigrider2806]

this man makes money selling books. like most people of his kind they never let the truth get in the way of a good story ! i have never read or heard such rubbish in my entire life.

[KaOssis]

Here's a Shakepeare one in the Bible: "I shall wrap a girdle (Curious - $, the Cadaseus), roundabout the Earth", but he Nazi's stole the symbol and made it their Global Health Org during WW 1 & 2, then made a fake America with it!

[telkines]

I prefer to read Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare or Jack London .

[telkines]

Lost Symbol

Lost Good Literature.

[KaOssis]

Dan Brown get's his info from kid's on Ketamine, a habit of Nazi Freemason Schitzo's that havn't got the brain's to think for themselves!

[KaOssis]

Oh, so you're a Nazi Freemason half brained Schitzophrenic then, muhahahaha! Lol, just think, if you have the right hemisphere conscious coherence for it, that Revelation 22: say's the Spirit and the Bride, i.e; a Tomboy wearing a wedding dress with the Spirit of Joy is the Son of God, NOT a physical male, so you'ed better bend over and kiss you're ass goodby then!

[FrozenEMT]

So youre comparing the Nazis to the Freemasons. As a Freemason I take great offense at that considering the fact that some 40,000 Masons were imprisoned or murdered during the holocaust. This is historically documented so do your homework.

[TheFreeForever]

@FrozenEMT WTF are You talking about?!?!

Freemasons are part of the Illuminati and do you know what the Illuminati is or what they do?

You guys are devil worshipers and Nazis are part of the Illuminati.

END OF................

[FrozenEMT]

Im talking about history you pea-brained know-nothing. We are not part of the Illuminati and never were nor are we Nazi's. As for being devil worshippers, thats been disproven by just about all real Masonic scholars (even the ones that arent Freemasons). Crawl back under your rock and play Warcraft.

[TheFreeForever]

lol I have never played Warcraft and I don't play games much either you Luciferian.

America was the FIRST ever Freemason country and George Washington was the first ever Freemason to be a president in the world.

I think you need to learn about your own group before coming and talking to me.

Note: I don't like freemasons at all and therefore, I am going to block you.

[FrozenEMT]

I dont care if you like Freemasons or not. You need to check your world history. While Washington was the first American president to be a Mason, there were world leaders in Britain and Europe that preceded him that were also Freemasons. Again, do your homework, Spanky.

[PaulCDickie]

For someone who claims not to play games, "TheFreeForever" seems to give an excellent impression of someone playing at Silly Beggars. America is no more a Masonic country than Zimbabwe is ruled by the Rotary Club or Canada is governed by the Oddfellows.

[debbaOfTheFlanders]

@TheFreeForever you say luciferian like its a bad thing shame you poor brainwashed creature...and no im not a mason but i i'm luciferian

[charlie8575]

FrozenEMT- I have a lot of friends that play Warcraft, I question if he posesses the intelligence to do so!

Greetings from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, A.F.&A.M.

[ihaveairlockers]

You are a total fuckwit ! Do you have a brain or a job ??

As a freemason, i can easily see that you are gullible, stupid and easy to fool.

Masonry has nothing to do with Illuminati ( which no longer exists )

Do you know what Masons do ?? We raise money for the poor and help society get better.

We take good men and make them better.

AND EACH LODGE IS INDEPENDENT

I would love to know how they are connected and involved in the take over of the world.

Wanker !

[TheFreeForever]

Yawn........

Your insults are really hurting me, please stop it.....I believe I am about cry. *sighs*

Good for you. :)

[ihaveairlockers]

You won't win, because i know what goes on because i am a mason. It's that simple.

I don't have to try hard to shoot your little ideas down in flames, in fact, you do it yourself

Who knows more about masons ?? you or me ?

wanker ! ( of the first degree )

[PaulCDickie]

Has a wanker of the first degree been regularly admitted OTS and is he thus an EA?

I suspect that either his cable tow has pulled too tightly round his neck, cutting off the flow of blood to his brain or, more likely, he is but an ignorant cowan who has read too much of the drivel put out by the Acacia Press and Chick Publications.

[debbaOfTheFlanders]

@TheFreeForever you do realize that your view of the devil comes from the bible, which are wrong. thy worship behemoth i think it was just like i follow Luciferian believes

[debbaOfTheFlanders]

@FrozenEMT agreed i don't particularly like the masons but Nazi's no their not fascist

[TheSquareNCompass]

If you want to read a good series, read the Christ Clone trilogy.

The first book is called In His Image.

It's about the end times and the anti-christ.

Funny thing is it never mentions Freemasonry.

[4FISH20]

Also read "The Second Messiah".

[MrThefutureisnow]

The Committee is formed of 33 of the most powerful men on the planet, allegedly drawn primarily from the ranks of the Trilateral Commission and containing many of the most powerful people in the world. The original core group of Majestic 12 maintained direct authority and oversight of all extraterrestrial matters, and the remainder of the CotM coordinated international relations and the cover-up of the ET subject.

The Committee is primarily a Masonic group, see also "Illuminati".

[FrozenEMT]

You know, it takes a special kind of stupid to come up with something like that. How many hours did that take you?

[44AlphaMale44]

See The Great Seal of Codex Gigas & The Great Seal of The USA.

[44AlphaMale44]

Latin: The Official Language of The Church & State.

[PaulCDickie]

certe: caput tuum in ano est.

[unknownally]

I cant believe our nation was founded by freemasons.

[snownuke]

UH, where have you been living at here in america? Washington DC is all masonic!

[unknownally]

Oh yeah, it's crazy.

Hope they don't kill anymore people. People should stop having so many kids, then maybe they won't think of people as "disease."

[snownuke]

Isn't that the one-worlders plan? To kill off about 90% of humanity!

[PaulCDickie]

You appear to have misspelled "moronic".

HTH. :-)

[bombay55100]

Why not?

[unknownally]

Because some of us are loved, love, and have plans for the future. We have the human right to live.

[mosiris09]

2B1ASK1. Real simple. Do some research and ask questions and if you have it in your heart then ask.

[PLEDGEY]

if you want to find out about freemasons, read the book 'THE HIRAM KEY'. very, VERY intresting.

[Bawlztodawalz]

I really thought Langdon was really dead when i read that part x)

[ashif21]

the lost symbol movie will be awesome

[AllisterCooper2008]

The book is quite good, but Sato Inoue can eat crap and die.

[UniversalBrother108]

You just described your own comment, complete rubbish. Read the book then make a comment judging it. Brown did a tremendous amount of research and filled the pages with intelligent truthful insight into very mysterious and little known truths. It is obvious that Brown has an intense passion for this subject matter and it comes across quite eloquently.

[PaulCDickie]

I rather doubt he did any research apart from perhaps reading some of the more sensational garbage written about the Masons. If he had researched it properly, he would surely have known about the symbology involved in the Antient Ceremony of Riding the Goat as well as the meaning and import of the Knight of Roast Beef.

[debbaOfTheFlanders]

@UniversalBrother108 just like the davinci code was so not a rip of.........

[UniversalBrother108]

Just finished it last night, Best novel I've read in my life. Be sure to check it out, a powerful book!

[friend2cows]

I live in scotland and my husband is a mason, the guys here are ordinary working guys, not rich, and they do so much work for charity, they always hold fund raising events and help so many good causes, not a lot of people know that.

[yugi304]

I have seen some images and such and it seems like their is some truth to what has been kept secret however we will never know................ we should find someone of these groups and background check tehm and try and find a knowledgeable ufo so to speak.........................­.

[xmaniacox]

The Masonic Society, the Masonic Service Association of North America, and the George Washington Masonic Memorial have created a website to address the depiction of Freemasonry in "The Lost Symbol" at the

lostsymbolfreemason dot

[davidg8089]

I thought his books were just good airport reading. Not particularly good, just tolerable.

[Turquoise66]

can i read this book without reading the first two books?

[weareallanimals78]

Turquoise66, the first two books are unrelated to one another, apart from the fact that the same character is in all three of these books. So, feel free to read this one with or without reading the others. However, you will miss out on character development, etc, if you do not read them all.

[Turquoise66]

my bf pre-ordered a copy for him, his brother and me. and i was like," i can't read it! i haven't read the other two!"

okay, thank you!

[weareallanimals78]

No problem! Glad I could be of assistance. One additional side note: If you have not seen the second movie...do not do it. They slaughtered the storyline so far from the book it sickened me. The books are SO much better.

[futurediva222]

I agree with you 100%. They did slaughter the storyline in the movie version of ANGELS & DEMONS. They completely took out Maximillian Kohler who I felt was crucial to the story. They also had two people survive in the movie who were originally killed off in the book. The book is SO much better.

I pre-ordered THE LOST SYMBOL back in July. I can't believe we're only days away from the release! I'm tempted to call out from work and just read it all day once I get my hands on it! :)

[weareallanimals78]

I was really looking forward to him falling from the helicopter into the river as well...that would have been an awesome scene. But noooooooo. lol

[AllisterCooper2008]

Of course. Remember, he's written 4 other books. The Lost Symbol reminds me of Deception Point, but to me Da Vinci Code is still his best work, like Sgt Pepper's was to the Beatles. His funniest is Digital Fortress. Have you read it? Go check it out :).

[osuwarudo15]

Deception Point was an interesting book.....like the punk kids in Spain.....I was like "wtf?" lol

[AllisterCooper2008]

Ha, I know :). I thought the German guy was funny. 'Fxxx off und die.' And his ladyfriend is quite perspective. Very perspective indeed!

[thisisnecessary]

I'm a mason as well and even though I think his works are overrated I'll probably still buy it out of pure curiosity anyway. His previous books read almost too easily but they are entertaining enough. I'm curious as to how he will portray our fraternity.

[8grove]

Fraternity? What are you doing with that goat. I have already researched your "frat" You guys pray to a worshipful master....GOD will destroy your evil kingdom. You better pray for forgiveness and except Christ in your heart.

"33" Whatever?

Aiom?

[weareallanimals78]

8grove, your lack of knowledge of Freemasonry is beyond measure. We in no way shape or form pray to a Worshipful Master. We pray to the Grand Architect Of The Universe, which is a generic term used because we allow men of ALL faiths in the Fraternity. The WM is simply an MC if you will. Most of the members of my Lodge are Christian, I myself am Catholic. Please actually try research before making yourself look quite the fool...again.

[PaulCDickie]

To suggest that 8grove is making himself look a fool seems to absolve the Almighty of all responsibility. Was that really what you meant?

As for admitting all faiths to a lodge, I can honestly say that I have yet to meet a Masonic Pastafarian.

[PaulCDickie]

I would far prefer to accept Christ than to "except" Him.

As for what we do with the goat, that is none of your business.

[8grove]

@PaulCDickie

I spoke to a Mason last week he told me all the passwords and the teachings.

I don't like to be blindfolded....

[PaulCDickie]

I rather doubt that he told you anything for, if he had, you would have said more about the goat.

If you do not like to be blinkfolded or (as we say) hoodwinked, perhaps you should cease to look in dark corners and come into the light? The only person keeping you in darkness and ignorance is you, yourself.

[briantheman890]

@8grove ahahah thats hilarious

[MYantiNWO]

@8grove lolz thats grows i know that homo ritual

[aquint88]

Hi i'm trying to learn more about the masons and I will be buying this book. Can you tell me in your own words what exactly is a mason. I hear that masons are devil worshipers. is that true?

[xmaniacox]

this is an official page, sponsored by the George Washington Masonic Memorial

lostsymbolfreemason dot

[Linduff]

No.

[jobelleza]

i dont think so... my x was a mason and i actually asked him if its true tHat masons are devil worshippers... i learned a lot from him..The fraternity values religious, ethnic, cultural, social, and educational differences...plus big pockets lol

[tovasdad]

no that is not true at all Freemasons are fraternal organization (much like a college fraternity) it is not a religion in fact religion and politics are not allowed to be disused in lodge EVER , people think it is religion because you have to believe in a god ( but no one care which one ) , if you really want to learn about masonry contact your nearest lodge you will be surprised at how much information you will get , I hope that helps

[ghana25]

tovasdad is true, I live in the Netherlands and I'm interested in the occult. I contacted the nearest lodge and they sended me information. I thought that it wasn't enough because I could found that stuff on the internet myself. So I contacted them again and met one of those freemason and we had a conversation about freemasonry, very interesting I recommend people who are interested do the same.

[pyroace14]

no i dont think so

[acktualfax]

Stop lying. I can tell by your comment that you aren't. Hotep

[TheY2DreProblem]

My gut tells me he wont paint the craft in a good light. Hope im wrong.

[weareallanimals78]

I am soooo buying this book. I am a Freemason and a Dan Brown fan heh.

[8grove]

Fraternity? What are you doing with that goat. I have already researched your "frat" You guys pray to a worshipful master....GOD will destroy your evil kingdom. You better pray for forgiveness and except Christ in your heart.

"33" Whatever?

Aiom?

[davidg8089]

You really don't understand, but thats ok for now. You just sound silly.