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Symbols of death
in a chamber beneath the Capitol.
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George Washington
transformed into a god.
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Mark Washington
and seats in American power ...
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aligned with the stars.
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Investigation of the secret government
the powers of the mind.
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The author Dan Brown has created an uproar
with these and other suggestions ...
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in his provocative book of fiction
what is happening in Washington DC.
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Now the secrets ...
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as separate
fact from fiction ...
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and hunt the symbol lost.
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UNVEILING THE LOST SYMBOL
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Washington DC,
a city of secrets and intrigue.
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The perfect setting for
"The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown.
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The book takes us through a world
rarely seen in town ...
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and investigates a mysterious
secret society.
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I read that is a specific fantasy,
shown in great detail ...
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and it's not only fantasy, but moved
conspiracy with the community ...
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Dan Brown clearly and invests
this kind of people.
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But Brown tells us the truth?
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Or is just another Washington
of his fictional characters?
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Explore the pages
"The Lost Symbol" ...
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to separate fact from fiction.
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INITIALIZING GPS
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AMERICAN CAPITAL
cornerstone
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In the book, the Capitol is
in the center of an unfolding mystery.
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This is where the book's protagonist,
Professor Robert Langdon ...
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begins its journey
and where we begin our analysis.
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In the book, Langdon tells his students
the design of the Capitol ...
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rooted in the oldest and largest
U.S. secret society ...
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Masons.
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Fact.
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A Mason was important
a role in the planning.
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The nation's first president,
George Washington.
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Washington deserves
more credit than it receives ...
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about the sighting
and disposition of Washington.
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He approved the plans,
decided which would be used.
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Decided that the building
should be in stone instead of brick.
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Another factor mentioned in the book
is that the location of the Capitol ...
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was chosen by a Frenchman,
the architect Pierre L'Enfant.
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This is also true.
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I assume that the original plan was to one day
England overcome ...
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in all aspects,
and that everything would start there.
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But Washington was
mainly tobacco plantations,
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British diplomats and received
wages for serving tropical here ...
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was considered a difficult position
first.
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And when L'Enfant was trying to figure
the appearance of the city ...
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he called the hill
"Pedestal waiting for a monument."
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And while L'Enfant did not
designed the Capitol ...
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he chose his place ...
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and Washington where it was agreed
should be the U.S. Capitol.
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In the book, Professor Langdon
surprises his students ...
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saying that George Washington planted
the cornerstone of the Capitol ...
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in a Masonic ceremony
traditional.
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Again,
the book is correct.
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On the morning of
September 18, 1793 ...
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President Washington
led a procession to the site.
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There, wearing an apron
strange--looking ...
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he led the day's events.
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Traditional Masonic Items
were then presented ...
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as corn
and jars of olive oil and wine.
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And with that, the cornerstone
Capitol was stuck.
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What is not in the book
is the fact that today ...
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the cornerstone
is missing.
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The board is all that remains.
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The Masonic origins of the building
were hidden?
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In �Itima decade, several people
working on Capitol Hill ...
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led metal detectors
the basement ...
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to try to find
the metal plate ...
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indicating where
was the original cornerstone.
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But never found the plate,
and the best guess is that ...
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during construction in 1960 ...
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when the entire eastern front
Capitol was moved ...
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may have destroyed the foundation stone
original, not knowing what was there.
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So there may not be
cover--up ...
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but what about the other secrets
that Brown mentions in the book?
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There is an architect of the Capitol
which has unrestricted access ...
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the secret levels
and hidden rooms?
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Yes.
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There are approximately 500 rooms
on Capitol Hill ...
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and very few people
know the most.
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The only person who has access to all
the rooms is the architect of the Capitol.
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Because he is charged
to preserve and protect the building.
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In the book,
Architect of the Capitol ...
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through a series
hidden underground passages.
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Is it possible?
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As the image of the Capitol is so fixed
in the minds of all ...
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because of their appearance ...
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could not do anything to change
the exterior of the Capitol.
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And the only thing to do
was moving underground.
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There are four floors underground.
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Under the place where George Washington
planted the cornerstone ...
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there is room for the Senate,
to the House ...
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and there is a huge
visitor center.
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The book also describes
a series of tunnels ...
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linking the Capitol
the neighboring buildings.
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They do exist
and for what purpose?
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There is a tunnel that connects the center
visitors to the Jefferson Building ...
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which is the main building
Library of Congress.
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But there are other tunnels
more secret?
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The other tunnels that exist
are tunnels under the Capitol steam ...
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water tunnels,
control public services ...
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and there are passages
to go from one building to another ...
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and three buildings of the Senate
and the building of the House ...
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There is a metro system
that connects the Capitol.
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In the book, the symbologist Brown
the Capitol will make a speech ...
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but instead,
makes a startling discovery ...
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a severed human hand.
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Langdon describes how this hand
adorned with symbolic tattoos ...
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resembles the legendary
"Hand of the Mysteries" ...
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a kind of invitation or key
to the understanding of ancient wisdom.
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And that icon actually exists.
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Its origins date back presumably
the period of the biblical King Solomon ...
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when a hand was extended
every newcomer ...
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they entered
in his temple of wisdom.
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The legend also says that the hand had
the power to resurrect the dead ...
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if the cryptic tattoos
be deciphered.
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But is that the hand has something to do
with the Masons?
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Or is it just a clever ruse
used by the villain of the book?
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The "Hand of the Mysteries"
was bizarre.
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I did not see any relationship
between the "Hand of the Mysteries" ...
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and the Masonic rituals I read
and I know.
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It was ...
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a poetic license.
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In the book, where the hand points
is that it is confusing ...
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the mural on the inside
the dome of the Capitol.
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The Italian artist Constantino Brumidi
painted the fresco in 1865 ...
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and is known
as the deification of Washington.
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It features George Washington
as if God ...
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and surrounded by classical figures ...
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the Goddess Liberty on the left
Independence and the goddess on the right.
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Between the two goddesses, there are 13 virgins
with 13 stars on them ...
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representing the 13 colonies.
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Among these goddesses,
are the scientists of the time ...
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including Benjamin Franklin,
receiving the wisdom of the gods.
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An American president
becoming a god.
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That was the original intent
painting?
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Or the book offers
his own interpretation?
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Dan Brown feels the painting ...
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as a symbol of belief
in human potential.
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It imposes its own meaning for
serve his literary purposes ...
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and that's why they call
fiction!
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But history is replete
examples of leaders ...
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becoming more than mere mortals
before the people.
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Well, there was a tendency to transform
heroes into gods ...
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then, was not new. There was
other heroes who became gods.
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There have been attempts to make
Alexander the Great, a god ...
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or a
these other famous people.
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So maybe the painting
represents only ...
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God's reputation that Washington
was among the Americans at the time.
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But the same can not be said
on the figures that surround him.
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He is accompanied
of 13 virgins ...
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and, of course, that there is a tale
behind it.
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The artist, Brumidi, went out and found
ladies of the night to pose as virgins.
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Professor Brown's
left that part out of its history.
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But Professor Langdon talks
another controversial work of art ...
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which is in the Rotunda.
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A half--naked sculpture of George
Washington as the Greek god Zeus.
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It's true.
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It implies that Washington
had a very special role ...
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in American society.
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And whenever the other founders
stood with their backs to the wall ...
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and one had to be chosen
as a leader among leaders ...
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George Washington was.
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And the American people know that.
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And there never was a President
so beloved by the American people ...
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than George Washington.
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Once a journalist
wrote an article ...
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saying that if George Washington
to run for president ...
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receive all the votes.
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And he did not mean
all the electoral votes.
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He meant
each of the votes ...
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each of the Americans.
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So maybe George Washington
be like God.
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But why a Greek god?
And he was bare--chested?
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Congress commissioned
a statue of Washington ...
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and was a little embarrassed
revealed when the ...
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and Washington seemed
with only a blanket on her lap.
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The public hated.
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And one of the comments
soon as the statue was unveiled ...
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was that it seemed that he was leaving
the bathtub, taking a towel.
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When Nathaniel Hawthorne
looked at the statue, he said ...
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"Not even the mother of Washington
saw him naked. "
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The statue was removed from the Capitol
in 1964 ...
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and now is in the National Museum
Smithsonian American History.
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But another reminder of the legacy
Washington remains on Capitol Hill ...
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as well as the book suggests.
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There is a star embedded in the floor
the crypt of the Capitol.
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They intended to bury
George Washington on Capitol Hill ...
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under this star,
and would have been very symbolic.
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The tomb of Washington,
that was never used by him ...
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is still
beneath this central star.
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Although we do not talk about it in the book,
the answer to ...
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of why Washington
was never buried in the Capitol ...
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dates back to the night he died.
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MOUNT VERNON, VIRGINIA
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In December 1799,
to 67 years ...
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Washington died
of throat infection.
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Shortly before his death,
weakened by bleeding ...
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he asked Martha
�Itimo you do a favor.
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He had written two wills.
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And the two copies of wills
were brought to him ...
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and he said: "Burn this
before me. "
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You never know who had
different in the will burn.
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The nation, basically
went into shock.
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I could not believe
George Washington had died.
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And across the country
was in a state of mourning.
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He has made great strides.
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He was buried in Mount Vernon,
in a Masonic ceremony.
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What God gives ...
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Martha was so shaken
and upset ...
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neither attended the funeral.
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Opinions differ even today ...
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on the place where Washington
wanted to be buried ...
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Capitol Hill or Mount Vernon?
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Washington wanted to be buried
in Mount Vernon.
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Were his instructions.
And they were clear and simple.
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I was planning that he would
to the tomb at the Capitol ...
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but, alas, Martha died
and the promise was breached.
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They failed to build
the deposit on time.
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So, Martha Washington died
and the heirs of Washington ...
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decided that they would not ...
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comply with the decision of Martha.
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His desires �Itimos
are still a mystery.
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Their remains can not be
buried in the capitol ...
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but its influence is still visible.
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The fraternity to which he belonged
exists today.
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The Masons, a secret society
or a society with secrets?
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In "The Lost Symbol," Dan Brown
depicts the Masons ...
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as the most powerful
secret society of the country.
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We are everywhere.
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Few other organizations can
claim 14 presidents as members.
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The book describes a private room
Masonic inside the Capitol ...
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called the Chamber of Reflection.
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Is it true?
This room is there?
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Or the book actually increased
to create a dramatic effect?
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The Chamber of Reflection is real.
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Many stores have a
around the world.
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Many American stores
do not.
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But some, yes.
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Even those
do not do it ...
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of a particularly lovely
Dan Brown describes ...
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is the classic mode.
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Here the members meditate
silent ...
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among symbols
time and death ...
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a skull, to remind men
mortality and equality ...
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salt, which represents the body,
mercury, sulfur, and the soul, spirit.
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In some
Masonic obedience ...
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when entering
Reflection in the House ...
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is invited to
writing a will ...
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order to contemplate
his own mortality.
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Disturbing?
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Perhaps for the uninitiated.
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But the Masons view all
differently.
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The goal is not to scare
the candidate with the skull ...
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but show
the theme of mortality ...
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their time on Earth will end,
his time on earth is short.
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So while you're here, focus
on what's important in your life.
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The way the Chamber of Reflection
is described in the book by Dan Brown ...
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presented as a Freemason
had one in his office ...
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or maybe even in your home.
And this is not true.
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And these cameras are Reflection
hidden in the basement of the Capitol ...
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as described in the book?
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There are several levels of the attic
to the basement.
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These are actual pictures of the basement
as described in the book.
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It no longer exists.
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Were demolished for the construction
the Capitol visitors' center ...
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which opened in 2008.
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And someone used it for their own purposes,
Masonic or not?
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There are rooms in the basement of the Capitol
I do not know if they were used by Masons.
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Thus, the existence
Chamber of Reflection is real ...
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but the location of Brown
inside the Capitol is fiction.
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In the book, a student describes
Masons as a religion ...
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but Professor Langdon disagrees.
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He argues
would never try to convert ...
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and are prohibited
to talk about religion.
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"Go to the lobby. You can find
something interesting there. "
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Because the Masons do not recruit.
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It depends on other
of invitation.
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We are gathered here in this chamber ...
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Furthermore, contrary
Brown says that the ...
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money does not influence
in positions within Freemasonry.
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The way it works is that
one becomes a regular Freemason ...
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three degrees. It then passes
other degrees of the Scottish Rite ...
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grade 4 to grade 32.
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But you can not buy
33 degree ...
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especially as the expressway
which is mentioned in the book.
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It is unfortunate Dan Brown
say that.
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In "The Lost Symbol," Dan Brown
describes various Masonic rituals.
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While some elements
are based on reality ...
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the actual ceremonies
are kept secret.
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I will not talk about the methods
recognition ...
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a Freemason to another.
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I will not give details of the ritual,
not because there is something bad in it ...
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but why not talk
about it.
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This had better be
of discretion.
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It better be done
of confidential and private.
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This reenactment was staged
with the help of another Master Mason ...
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to better understand the method
their apparent madness.
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The candidate is brought into the store,
without knowing how the experience.
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The candidate, in the beginning,
can not see the store ...
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because the applicant
is blindfolded.
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The candidate is led to walk
the store in a particular pattern.
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Freemasonry is built
around the initiation rites.
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Initiation rituals that are built
around the use of symbols.
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Rituals are a tribute
the Masonic origins.
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The meaning of Masonic ritual
of course ...
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but you must understand that the ritual
Masonic Masons came from real ...
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who built the place,
who were architects of his time.
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This is the purpose of the ritual.
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Keep us connected to the past
and our beliefs.
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Secrets and symbols of death.
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Scary
or simply misunderstood?
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In the book, the villain of Brown
drink wine in a skull.
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The Masons have done it?
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If candidates drink
in a skull?
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Say this happens.
Right?
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My response: "So what?"
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The ceremony described
in "The Lost Symbol" ...
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was made by a renegade organization
Scottish Rite, in the nineteenth century ...
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Ritual is the Cerneau.
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There is a report published
this ritual ...
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existed for nearly two centuries.
And that's what Dan Brown is based.
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There is the ritual used today
in the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction.
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The only thing scary ritual
is out of context.
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"What my throat
is cut ...
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if I break this oath.
That start and open my heart. "
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That's just drama.
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In the book, a student talks about rumors
bizarre about the Masons.
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This is definitely
true.
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These people should have the power
and influence ...
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and we can not see its influence
what they are doing ...
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because they are very good
to keep secret.
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They are accused
being reptilian aliens.
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They are accused of more things
than any other group.
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And I think part of the problem
is that the ritual is kept secret.
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Part of the problem is that
until recently ...
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the Freemasons do not respond
this kind of thing ...
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then saw large targets.
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In the book, a Mason talks about the importance
to keep its secrets ...
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even under the threat of death.
This is true.
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In the twenty--first century, keep their word
is something special.
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Right?
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We have reality shows
showing that the success ...
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depends not keep the word,
to attack the other in the back ...
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of not keeping their coalitions.
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But it is not so advanced
as a society.
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It's not like building
a civilization.
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Then one of the points
Masonic secrecy ...
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the person is to learn
to keep his word ...
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even in small things ...
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with the idea that
to help keep the word ...
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on more important things.
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And as the book portrays ...
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although the freemasons keep
a large number of secrets ...
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are far from
a secret society.
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If Freemasonry
is a secret society ...
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we're doing a job
very bad.
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We publish schedules of our
meetings on the doors of buildings ...
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that have large signs saying:
"Masons are here."
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Many of us wear rings,
brooches ...
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and other things that we designate
as Masons.
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If you are a secret society,
we are doing a lousy job.
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As we have seen,
the book took some liberties ...
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with the origins
and Masonic rituals.
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His portrait of the city landscape
reveals an even darker.
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Washington DC,
planned according to the stars?
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Pagan images found
on city streets.
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The truth behind the fiction
will be revealed.
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"The Lost Symbol,"
Dan Brown ...
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is rooted within the framework
Washington DC Area.
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Botanical Garden
in front of the Capitol ...
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where a major character
was taken against her will.
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BOTANICAL GARDEN
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INITIALIZING GPS
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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The conveyor belt systems
within the Library of Congress.
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And the historic mansions
of Kalorama Heights ...
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where the villain
draws attention.
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Perhaps Brown has established
the story here ...
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to take advantage of the characteristics
enigmatic city.
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The Washington Monument ...
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is like Cleopatra's Needle ...
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Egypt is a well--
that appears in the middle of Washington DC.
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The monument is an obelisk,
which is an ancient symbol ...
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and dates back to Egyptian times.
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Basically,
is a giant phallic symbol ...
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which also refers
the sun, the masculine.
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The book claims that
the Washington Monument ...
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is a cornerstone
aluminum, engraved with "Laus Deo" ...
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Latin for "praise God.
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This is true,
but nobody can see.
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The top is a piece
special aluminum.
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Aluminum was very valuable
when they concluded the monument in 1886.
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I assume now
or at other times ...
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would probably be gold.
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Brown also writes
that many of the founders ...
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practiced the ancient art
of astrology.
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This is another fact.
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Benjamin Franklin was astr�Iogo.
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In copies of the book
"Poor Richard's Almanack" ...
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we can see their various predictions
weather or the people ...
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this kind of thing.
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Thomas Jefferson,
in your library ...
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originally had books
of astrology.
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00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,500
The story is correct.
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The American founders
saw astrology as a link ...
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between the earthly and the heavenly.
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It is also correct when he says
the placement of the cornerstones ...
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the Washington Monument,
White House and Capitol Hill ...
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was scheduled to take place
the same astrological sign Virgo ...
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though they happen
in different years.
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In astrology, it is considered
an auspicious moment ...
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to start
new ventures.
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People wonder why Virgin
have something to do with Washington DC.
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It is a constellation.
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Well, actually, has to do
with the mythology of the "sacred feminine" ...
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war and religion,
can say.
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Can be described as pagan
dating back to the Isis of the Egyptians ...
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the Persian goddess of femininity,
sexuality, birth.
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What the book does not mention
is the sign of Virgo ...
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also played an important role
the U.S. Constitution.
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It's further proof that
America's founders ...
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used astrology
for important decisions.
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Virgin has a great influence
with respect to the U.S..
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Our Constitution:
September 17th, right?
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If you look very important dates,
we see that the Virgin was present.
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If the stars align in the sky
with what is on earth ...
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have spiritual harmony
and we can accomplish great things.
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Under the guidance of Master Masons,
George Washington and Benjamin Franklin ...
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the surveyor Frenchman Pierre L'Enfant
designed the capital city of ...
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As the book says.
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In the book, Brown shows the founders
creating Washington ...
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as a realization of enlightenment,
Atlantis a new ...
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where reason, science and freedom can
triumph over ignorance and darkness.
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This is a fact.
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Although not mentioned in the book,
George Washington, in particular ...
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believed that the capital should be as
large as any in the world.
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Washington firmly believed
it should be a monumental city.
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Needed to be a city
that people would respect ...
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as the European capitals.
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And although the U.S. were
a country struggling young ...
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he was looking to the future.
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Washington designed the city to
reflect the glory of Athens and Rome ...
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here in the New World.
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We are on the banks of the Potomac River
in Alexandria, Virginia ...
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where the bedrock
the city of Washington DC ...
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it was planted in April 1791,
by George Washington and others ...
448
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who came here to designate this
as the background of what was then ...
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a tilted square
to one side, so ...
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and this is the most southerly point.
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The novel says that the architect
the city, Pierre L'Enfant ...
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designed the streets in a pattern
suggests that Masonic symbols.
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00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,800
The L'Enfant plan can be seen
as a map in Liberty Square ...
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a central location
the plot of the book.
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Here, the character
Katherine Solomon ...
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00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,100
states that the one dollar bill contains
a Star of Solomon hidden ...
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a Masonic symbol
important.
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This is true ...
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if we draw a line connecting
the letters A--M--S--O--N ...
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and combine with the pyramid.
461
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Since L'Enfant
planned the city ...
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people search
symbols and meanings.
463
00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:43,400
New interpretations arise
and controversial ...
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00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,500
all this is related
the book by Dan Brown.
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When we look at the layout, signs
seem to arise as a pentagram.
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Some of the supposed symbols, including
the Seal of Solomon 6 Tips ...
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were identified.
468
00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:00,600
And the cross
the Knights Templar.
469
00:27:00,700 --> 00:27:04,100
But many, including some
students in "The Lost Symbol" ...
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see a more somber.
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00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:11,500
There is a great theory that
the design of streets, Capitol, etc ...
472
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when viewed from above, say ...
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form Satanic symbols ...
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as an inverted pentagram.
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00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,400
Some would say that is connected
paganism.
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00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:26,700
Some go so far as to accuse
all this to be satanic.
477
00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:33,400
The idea that there are satanic symbols
built on the streets of Washington DC ...
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the orders of Masons
is a complete nonsense.
479
00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:43,400
Freemasonry does not practice magic
in any sense.
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00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:48,600
Freemasonry was created by men who
tried to destroy the concept of magic.
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00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:51,600
The book also describes
conspiracy theorists ...
482
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who saw sinister pictures
Great Seal of the United States.
483
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On the back there is a pyramid
13--story unfinished.
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The front shows 13 stars
in the form of the hexagram.
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For some, are Masonic symbols
satanic significance.
486
00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:11,300
13 arises again. And I want to repeat
it is not satanic ...
487
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:18,000
not bad, but it symbolizes
the 13 states that founded this nation.
488
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,600
The founders wanted to give us symbols
who told us that this nation would last.
489
00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:27,100
The pyramid signifies strength and duration,
something that lasts forever.
490
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,800
Another alleged suspect symbol
is the all--seeing eye ...
491
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:34,500
Iocalizado up the pyramid.
492
00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:36,500
It is characterized as an icon
sinister in an attempt ...
493
00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:39,700
to expose the secrets
the fraternity.
494
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,400
For Masons, however,
it represents the eye of God ...
495
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,300
a reminder that he is always watching
our thoughts and actions.
496
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:49,800
There is nothing satanic.
497
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:54,500
There is nothing we can call
Pagan in the all--seeing eye.
498
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:59,300
It is a universal archetype symbol
the sun ...
499
00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:03,000
or the sun and the moon for centuries.
500
00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:05,200
It was really
a positive statement ...
501
00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:07,300
and the eye in a triangle
basically says ...
502
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,800
who founded the country
under the protection of God.
503
00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:13,600
This is a statement and both.
504
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,200
Conspiracy theorists contend
these ideas on the Great Seal.
505
00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:21,100
The truth is that the Masons are not
behind the eye or the Pyramid ...
506
00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:22,000
the Great Seal.
507
00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:26,200
Three congressional committees
and 14 people were involved ...
508
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,500
in designing the Great Seal ...
509
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,400
and only one was a Freemason.
510
00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:32,500
It was Benjamin Franklin.
511
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,800
And they hated their ideas,
said they were stupid.
512
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,700
As a symbologist Brown
correctly notes ...
513
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,400
these images are universal symbols
found in many cultures ...
514
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,100
and are not part of Freemasonry.
515
00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:48,700
There is nothing demonic symbols in
or in the temples ...
516
00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:51,200
they just want freedom.
517
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,400
They want the separation
of church and state.
518
00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:56,600
They want the freedom to worship,
anyway.
519
00:29:56,900 --> 00:30:00,700
The book has taken some liberties
with Masonic symbols and rituals.
520
00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:05,500
But it goes even further with the picture
of a controversial new science.
521
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,300
In the novel by Dan Brown,
"The Lost Symbol" ...
522
00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:12,400
scientist Katherine Solomon
have a laboratory �Itima generation ...
523
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,600
here at the Museum Support Center
Smithsonian in Silver Hill, Maryland.
524
00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:21,800
The installation of 46 square meters
home to millions of specimens and artifacts.
525
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,200
But there
Department of Noetic here.
526
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,900
This part of the book
scientist and Brown are both fiction.
527
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,500
But an actual installation is located
across the country ...
528
00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:33,600
in the hills of northern California.
529
00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:36,100
Inside the Institute
of Noetic Sciences ...
530
00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:39,900
researchers carry out studies
about the possibilities of the human mind.
531
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,200
And the equivalent in the real world
Brown's fictional ...
532
00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:44,600
Marilyn Schlitz is.
533
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,300
Throughout history
and in all cultures ...
534
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,800
people have reported the ability
using the mind or consciousness ...
535
00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:55,400
to influence the physical world.
536
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,800
What we did was to create
an experimental paradigm ...
537
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,300
that allows us to study
this kind of statement ...
538
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,000
in a laboratory under conditions
scientific and controlled.
539
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,900
Even though Dan Brown
never visited the Institute ...
540
00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:10,900
his fictional
perform similar experiments.
541
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,000
In the experiment "intention,"
for example, the goal is to determine ...
542
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,400
if a person looks at another
in a separate location ...
543
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,000
can affect
the physical health of another.
544
00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:24,900
The volunteer is connected to a machine
electrocardiogram ...
545
00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:27,400
in a room specially
coated and insulated.
546
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,900
Used alone as the cube
in the laboratory of Dan Brown ...
547
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,500
this room is soundproof
and any radio waves ...
548
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,100
then there is no "trick".
549
00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:39,900
The image on the monitor changes randomly
between live broadcasts ...
550
00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:41,800
volunteer and spectator.
551
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,200
When the face
the volunteer appears ...
552
00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:47,500
the viewer tries to send
thoughts of love and healing.
553
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,100
It's how the experiment works ...
554
00:31:49,300 --> 00:31:53,700
and what we want to determine is whether, when
attention is focused on the person ...
555
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,900
their physiology is altered.
556
00:31:56,300 --> 00:32:00,800
He acts the same way you hear
whispered his name, for example?
557
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,300
And when they are not being seen,
stay calm?
558
00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:04,800
This is the essence of the experiment.
559
00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:09,000
The volunteer does not know when
His image appears on the monitor ...
560
00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:12,200
then there is no way he
pretend a physical reaction.
561
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,300
As the fictional scientist Brown
562
00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:16,500
the researchers found
... a significant link
563
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:18,000
between healing thoughts
the viewer ...
564
00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:19,800
and the physical reaction of the volunteers.
565
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,600
We see these effects repeatedly
in different laboratories ...
566
00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:25,600
then something is happening.
567
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,600
Now the question is: "So what?"
568
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,300
Does that have implications
healing?
569
00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:35,500
What is surprising is that this effect occurs
without any physical connection.
570
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,500
If there is a sign
there was nothing here ...
571
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:39,800
must be something else.
572
00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:42,700
So the only thing
we can think of now is that ...
573
00:32:42,700 --> 00:32:46,500
our perception of the connection space
between two people ...
574
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,200
is not quite right.
575
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,500
Although not addressed
in the book ...
576
00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:54,200
this concept exists in
Western science since the seventeenth century ...
577
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,900
when the French philosopher and mathematician,
Rene Descartes ...
578
00:32:56,900 --> 00:32:59,800
made a covenant with the church
to avoid persecution.
579
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,300
The Church says:
"We have to do science.
580
00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:07,600
Not be considered a heretic,
but we will do a deal with you.
581
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,900
You study
the physical ...
582
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,800
and we were the soul
and the inner consciousness.
583
00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:19,200
And we're still living the legacy
this political agreement ...
584
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:24,800
in which science believes that the only
relevant area to be searched ...
585
00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:27,100
depends on the material aspects
and physical.
586
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:32,300
An experience not mentioned in the book
suggests that we can see the future.
587
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,800
The volunteer is on
to an electrocardiogram machine ...
588
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,900
while wearing a pair of special glasses
LED and headphones.
589
00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:44,500
The LED flashes and an audio tone
is played in a random pattern ...
590
00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:46,700
triggering
a physiological reaction.
591
00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:50,100
They will see a flash
or hear a tone at random.
592
00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:52,700
They do not know when,
I do not know ...
593
00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:55,500
a computer decides randomly
when it will happen.
594
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,900
According to Dr. Radin, the tests
showed that the body reacts ...
595
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,100
before the flashes of light
audio tones and occur ...
596
00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:07,800
as if the body "predicted" the future
for a few fractions of a second.
597
00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:10,800
I use the term "gut feeling"
What does pre--sense ...
598
00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:12,800
Unlike pre--cognition
or pre--knowledge.
599
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,500
In the book, Brown suggests that
although this may seem impossible ...
600
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,000
many of today's scientific advances
would also be unimaginable ...
601
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,700
for the founders of the country.
602
00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:25,200
Until recently,
about 100 years ago, science ...
603
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:26,600
it would be folly.
604
00:34:26,700 --> 00:34:30,200
As the adage that says
there is no action at a distance.
605
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:35,300
The only way to both interact
if there is some proximity.
606
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,100
Quantum mechanics changed this,
and relativity.
607
00:34:38,900 --> 00:34:42,100
In the world of "The Lost Symbol,"
the more we know ...
608
00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:44,300
most want to keep hidden.
609
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,500
At a critical point
in "The Lost Symbol" ...
610
00:34:50,700 --> 00:34:53,600
the life of an important character
in danger.
611
00:34:53,700 --> 00:34:56,100
To save himself he asks
to a stranger ...
612
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,800
if there is help
to the widow's son?
613
00:35:00,700 --> 00:35:04,200
The phrase is actually
a Masonic distress call.
614
00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:09,200
The book makes reference
to a ceremonial ...
615
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,200
performed only by Freemasons
senior ...
616
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,800
rooted
Masonic tradition ...
617
00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:18,000
and is considered
most sacred Masonic ritual.
618
00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:22,200
The play presents Hiram Abiff ...
619
00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:24,600
the chief architect
The Temple of King Solomon ...
620
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,600
he was confronted
by a group of thieves.
621
00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:30,400
These men threatened to kill Hiram,
if they do not reveal the secret password.
622
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,200
Hiram refuses and, while the kill,
he asks ...
623
00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:36,500
"No help
to the widow's son? "
624
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,300
Today, the courage and fidelity of Hiram
to keep his word ...
625
00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:45,200
without revealing the secret,
is a central tenet for every Mason.
626
00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:50,900
Another group whose existence depends
of codes and ciphers ...
627
00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:53,100
is the Central Agency
Intelligence.
628
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,000
In "The Lost Symbol,"
a security director of the CIA ...
629
00:35:55,900 --> 00:35:58,600
enters the Capitol
and takes over.
630
00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:04,400
The book is right to portray the CIA
as having the authority ...
631
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,700
to take charge, claiming that it is
a national security issue?
632
00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:13,700
The FBI traditionally read
with national surveys.
633
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,100
The security director of the CIA
has no such authority.
634
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,100
Has no more authority
than you or I ...
635
00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:22,200
to arrest a citizen.
636
00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:27,100
Peter Earnest
spent 35 years at the CIA ...
637
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,500
conducting covert operations
the world.
638
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:30,800
CIA Operations Center
639
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,900
The fact that he does not consider
the book by Dan Brown ...
640
00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:36,200
is the use of coded messages
the characters.
641
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,500
Codes and ciphers were very important
for the CIA.
642
00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:45,900
All messages sent and received
the headquarters in the field ...
643
00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:49,200
were coded.
When agents were recruited ...
644
00:36:49,300 --> 00:36:51,900
and sent to somewhere and not
Ios person could find ...
645
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,000
we had to use the call
impersonal communication.
646
00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:59,900
All this was written, coded
and then sent to the agent.
647
00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:06,000
Agents and officers also real
communicated via phone insurance.
648
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,200
Are mobile in the conversation
is encrypted.
649
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,300
Of course it was a form
Automated encryption.
650
00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:16,100
Not write the codes.
651
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,800
The Lost Symbol
652
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,900
Another mystery about
the book by Dan Brown is the Kryptos.
653
00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:24,700
The book says that this work of art
exists in CIA ...
654
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,700
and that has not been fully deciphered
by an army of crackers.
655
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,900
Such a thing exists and who could
have misled the spies?
656
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:36,400
"Kryptos" is a Greek word
which means "hidden" ...
657
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,000
and is the work
artist James Sanborn.
658
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:43,900
In a rare television interview,
Sanborn discusses its creation.
659
00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:49,100
It seemed the best way
to create an artwork ...
660
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,900
as a spy agency ...
661
00:37:52,300 --> 00:37:58,600
that slowly unfolds
and maintain a level of interest.
662
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:06,200
In 1991, Sanborn made Kryptos
to a skeptical audience of spies.
663
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:10,900
What they saw was a large sculpture
S--shaped, copper ...
664
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,900
out of what appeared to be
a computer screen.
665
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,100
Covering the scroll,
had a complex text ...
666
00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:23,300
with about 1800 characters
divided into four sections.
667
00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:27,700
I studied archeology for years ...
668
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,800
and was fascinated
for what was hidden behind ...
669
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,900
and was found to be laborious,
but it was fascinating when understood.
670
00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:38,900
So, this whole process
was the way I wanted ...
671
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,500
that Kryptos, a sculpture,
to unfold.
672
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,900
Kryptos puzzle contains a
inside an enigma ...
673
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,200
will be resolved only after
the four encrypted passages ...
674
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:48,600
are deciphered.
675
00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:53,200
So far, only three people
answered correctly.
676
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:59,200
I thought the first segments
would be deciphered in a few days ...
677
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:00,300
at most, weeks.
678
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000
In fact, it took nine years.
679
00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:04,300
The exact location WHO KNOWS?
680
00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:08,100
When I was in the Agency
talked with other employees ...
681
00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:15,100
and one said: "I knew they
come here with a georadar neutron ...
682
00:39:15,100 --> 00:39:17,100
after work?
683
00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:22,400
Bring this radioactive equipment
to search the local soil. "
684
00:39:23,100 --> 00:39:27,600
If the course was referring to something
buried in the ground, nobody knows ...
685
00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:30,100
Sanborn and says nothing.
686
00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:33,800
"The Lost Symbol" also speaks
an address and a puzzle ...
687
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,800
called Franklin Square.
688
00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:39,000
There really is one of Franklin Square
in Washington DC ...
689
00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:43,100
and there is a puzzle
created by Benjamin Franklin ...
690
00:39:43,100 --> 00:39:45,700
also called
the "Magic Square".
691
00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:48,900
This ancestor of Sudoku ...
692
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,200
the numbers in the diagonal lines,
horizontal and vertical ...
693
00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:54,100
add the same number.
694
00:39:56,100 --> 00:40:00,500
But the codes and ciphers have
functions other than espionage.
695
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,000
Secret handshakes
to identify strangers as friends.
696
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,300
Combination lock
to protect values ??of the thieves.
697
00:40:07,700 --> 00:40:11,000
And as the book describes
codes and ciphers also serve ...
698
00:40:11,100 --> 00:40:13,900
to keep knowledge secret
the mystics.
699
00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:18,500
In fact,
the title "The Lost Symbol" ...
700
00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:22,900
text refers to an ancient and enigmatic
known as the Key of Solomon.
701
00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:29,200
The Solomon Key is the name
a medieval manual.
702
00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:33,400
And these are the keys
in that manual are ...
703
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,000
magic ritual.
704
00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:39,700
Over the years, many say
have deciphered codes ...
705
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,500
and learned the secrets
Black Magic of Solomon.
706
00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:48,200
In the book, the villain of Dan Brown
is inspired by Aleister Crowley ...
707
00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:52,000
a man who claimed to have deciphered
the secrets of Solomon Key.
708
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,600
This man really existed.
709
00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:01,000
Aleister Crowley, one of the most
famous of the magical ritual of the twentieth century ...
710
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,700
is very accurately portrayed.
711
00:41:02,700 --> 00:41:05,900
The purpose is basically
gain strength.
712
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:12,100
Is your desire and goal
become a dark god ...
713
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:13,500
over the demons.
714
00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:16,800
It was what he wanted to do
with the power they hoped to ...
715
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,600
through ritual observance.
716
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,800
In late 1800,
Crowley gained notoriety ...
717
00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:27,000
using the influence of charms
and talismans of Solomon ...
718
00:41:26,900 --> 00:41:29,600
rituals in full
sex and drugs.
719
00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:32,700
Crowley also traveled the world
lecturing ...
720
00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:36,600
and writing books detailing
his astrological and mystical secrets.
721
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,600
Church officials considered
Crowley a heretic ...
722
00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:43,600
and the labeled
"The wickedest man in the world."
723
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,000
Black magic rituals are just
a dark passages ...
724
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,000
in "The Lost Symbol,"
Dan Brown.
725
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,500
Secret conspiracies played
Another critical function ...
726
00:41:56,500 --> 00:42:01,100
including the threat of ending
with the base of the nation.
727
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,800
In "The Lost Symbol,"
Dan Brown ...
728
00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:08,500
the villain believes that when it
the highest level of Masonry ...
729
00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,000
all the secrets
will be revealed to him.
730
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,900
One could be the belief
that Masons become gods ...
731
00:42:14,900 --> 00:42:18,100
as the image of George Washington
the ceiling of the rotunda.
732
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:24,200
I was completely shocked to see
all material on the deification ...
733
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,300
the idea of ??people
become gods.
734
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,800
It's not something we teach
in Freemasonry.
735
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,400
It is not against
Masonic teachings ...
736
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,600
but it is not something we say.
737
00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:41,100
Dan Brown seems to have borrowed
the idea of ??the Mormon religion.
738
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,000
It is u ma central aspect of the doctrine
of Latter--day Saints ...
739
00:42:45,300 --> 00:42:48,900
that individuals,
if they make a pact with God ...
740
00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:52,100
of some kind, somewhere,
by some authority ...
741
00:42:52,100 --> 00:42:56,100
and meet them,
sometime after the death ...
742
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,000
can be high
the status of divinity.
743
00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:01,800
And that's part
of human inheritance.
744
00:43:01,900 --> 00:43:06,600
It is what God says when he says
that we are "joint heirs with Christ."
745
00:43:06,900 --> 00:43:10,200
This controversial doctrine
raised some doubts ...
746
00:43:10,500 --> 00:43:13,100
but the belief goes back
the first Christians.
747
00:43:13,700 --> 00:43:19,700
In the early days of the Christian Church
prominent leaders said ...
748
00:43:19,900 --> 00:43:24,200
God became man
that man is made God.
749
00:43:24,900 --> 00:43:27,100
And there are several ways
to understand this.
750
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:32,100
Then the old doctrine of deification
says, "happen again."
751
00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:35,200
And of course Dan Brown
put their point of view.
752
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:40,000
Another central theme in the book is the belief
in a Masonic conspiracy.
753
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,400
Several students of Professor Langdon
speak of rumors that the Freemasons ...
754
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,200
secretly rule the world.
755
00:43:45,300 --> 00:43:47,400
These suspicions
are not surprising ...
756
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,400
for conspiracy theories
are as American as apple pie.
757
00:43:51,500 --> 00:43:54,500
There are many conspiracy theories
because by nature ...
758
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,300
humans are suspected.
759
00:43:56,900 --> 00:44:02,600
Some people are more likely
to wonder ...
760
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,300
and want to explain, solve ...
761
00:44:05,700 --> 00:44:07,500
something that does not make sense
for them.
762
00:44:07,700 --> 00:44:13,600
Conspiracy is a form
to reduce the gap.
763
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,000
Some conspiracy theories
became so widespread ...
764
00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:19,000
people
do not know what to believe.
765
00:44:19,100 --> 00:44:23,400
And at this point, anyone who believes
that Oswald acted alone ...
766
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,700
is considered the crazy
than the conspirators.
767
00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:29,600
The conspirators
have the real story.
768
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:34,300
In "The Lost Symbol," the theory
the plot focuses on the Masons.
769
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:40,400
Masons probably
are the favorite target ...
770
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:41,700
the world of conspiracies.
771
00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:47,800
I do not think there is a group
who has suffered more attacks.
772
00:44:47,700 --> 00:44:53,200
If we survey the Masons on Google
and visit the sites ...
773
00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:55,900
we find that defendants were
of being behind the Holocaust ...
774
00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:01,500
were accused of being a force
Jewish plot to ...
775
00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:04,000
and a force
money for the conspiracy.
776
00:45:04,100 --> 00:45:08,400
That Freemasons and Jews command
banks and therefore the world.
777
00:45:08,500 --> 00:45:11,000
The Masons have been targeted
in large part ...
778
00:45:11,100 --> 00:45:13,200
for refusing
to answer the criticism.
779
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:19,200
It is easy to say that
an evil secret society ...
780
00:45:19,100 --> 00:45:21,300
if no one will say
what is the truth.
781
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:25,900
They are above it,
then, some people take advantage.
782
00:45:25,900 --> 00:45:29,400
I think it comes
our need to know.
783
00:45:29,300 --> 00:45:31,200
If something is kept
secret from us ...
784
00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:34,500
and combine this
with our inclination ...
785
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,800
to see the negative
instead of the positive ...
786
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:41,100
then develop a story
negative about something we do not understand.
787
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,800
And if we hear something negative
on a Mason ...
788
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:45,800
it was!
789
00:45:45,900 --> 00:45:48,900
We increased the story
and a Mason is the devil incarnate.
790
00:45:49,700 --> 00:45:52,300
In "The Lost Symbol,"
Professor Langdon recalls his years ...
791
00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:54,900
writing about
the rich traditions of the Freemasons.
792
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,200
He also recognizes that
they were accused of worshiping the devil ...
793
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,100
and planning a world government.
794
00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:04,900
An Internet search reveals
quickly that the book is right.
795
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,300
President Bush and President Clinton
were members of "Skull and Bones" ...
796
00:46:08,300 --> 00:46:10,800
a secret society
with Masonic roots.
797
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:15,400
Reagan was adopted as an honorary Mason,
and Truman.
798
00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:17,900
And the list goes on.
799
00:46:17,900 --> 00:46:20,100
So yes, it perpetuates.
800
00:46:20,300 --> 00:46:23,000
Conspiracy theorists point
for the All--Seeing Eye ...
801
00:46:23,100 --> 00:46:26,400
found in a dollar bill as
a symbol of this "New World Order."
802
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,100
He was placed there by a Freemason,
President Franklin Roosevelt.
803
00:46:30,100 --> 00:46:33,100
The truth is that
New World Order is not new.
804
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,300
As the book portrays
the founding fathers created a.
805
00:46:36,500 --> 00:46:39,000
The proof is right there
the Great Seal ...
806
00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:44,100
below the all--seeing eye and pyramid
are the words "Novus Ordo Seclorum."
807
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,300
It means:
"New Order of the Ages" ...
808
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,300
and it is very important because the New
Order of the Ages is a Republic ...
809
00:46:51,300 --> 00:46:54,900
a representative form of government
and not a monarchy ...
810
00:46:54,900 --> 00:46:57,500
it was the Old Order
the centuries.
811
00:46:57,700 --> 00:47:00,600
They wanted a New World Order
a new Atlantis ...
812
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:01,800
where freedom prevails.
813
00:47:02,300 --> 00:47:05,300
Brown also describes how
this New World Order, however ...
814
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,400
represents a threat
the religious leaders ...
815
00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:09,500
who feared
loss of power and influence.
816
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:15,300
Brown shows in "Angels & Demons"
the struggle between light and darkness ...
817
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:20,600
and he called light and darkness was
reason, logic and scientific endeavor ...
818
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,100
as salvation
of humanity.
819
00:47:23,300 --> 00:47:26,700
No superstition
and spirituality.
820
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,800
Since then, religious groups fought back
claiming that Masons ...
821
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,200
only looking for a new way
of global domination.
822
00:47:34,300 --> 00:47:37,000
Communism would be a perfect example
in modern times.
823
00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:38,400
Religion is abolished.
824
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:42,200
Spirituality is seen only
as a superstition.
825
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,100
Big Brother and the government
take care of us ...
826
00:47:45,100 --> 00:47:46,900
from cradle to grave.
827
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,700
The joke is that the Brotherhood ...
828
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,800
execute the plan for domination
New World Order ...
829
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:57,500
so schedule the plan
PF domination of the New World Order.
830
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:00,800
No, we will not rule the world.
831
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,800
The belief in these and other conspiracies
is deeper in the U.S. ...
832
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,300
because sometimes
they are true.
833
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,500
In Dan Brown's book,
CIA employees ...
834
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,800
monitor conversations on mobile phones
and e--mail.
835
00:48:13,900 --> 00:48:15,500
How realistic is that?
836
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,200
We are being watched as
the characters of "The Lost Symbol"?
837
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:21,900
Nearly everyone has
a cell phone.
838
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,100
Of course when we talk
in a cell ...
839
00:48:24,300 --> 00:48:26,500
what we say goes into the ether.
840
00:48:26,700 --> 00:48:30,200
And if you're out there, someone may take
and try to understand ...
841
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,400
even if you're talking
in another language ...
842
00:48:32,500 --> 00:48:35,200
there are code words
to hide things.
843
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:36,700
Can someone look at it.
844
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,100
And one can understand
what you're saying.
845
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,800
And this is true
for any type of communication.
846
00:48:41,900 --> 00:48:46,800
Once that goes into the ether
and can be picked up by someone ...
847
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:48,300
can probably be understood.
848
00:48:48,500 --> 00:48:52,900
The CIA use Brown
a secret global surveillance network ...
849
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,300
called Echelon.
850
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,600
In �Itimos 30 years, has been used
to spy on other countries ...
851
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:00,800
terrorist groups
and drug cartels.
852
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,500
In the process,
Echelon's computers ...
853
00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:08,200
capture almost
every electronic conversation around the world.
854
00:49:08,700 --> 00:49:13,500
Echelon intercepts allegedly
satellite communications ...
855
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,800
communications
using satellites.
856
00:49:15,900 --> 00:49:21,600
Therefore, whether governmental,
corporate, encrypted or not ...
857
00:49:21,500 --> 00:49:27,100
the claim is that Americans,
the Defense Agency ...
858
00:49:26,900 --> 00:49:30,300
accompanies all types
of conversations.
859
00:49:30,900 --> 00:49:35,900
Over the years the Echelon system was
accused of attacking not only the criminals.
860
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:41,500
During the Vietnam War, the system
Echelon spying on antiwar protests.
861
00:49:41,900 --> 00:49:45,700
In 1990, several European governments
claimed that Echelon ...
862
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,100
was used
for economic espionage.
863
00:49:48,300 --> 00:49:50,900
It is a claim refuted by the CIA.
864
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:55,200
I say that for my birthday
at the intelligence ...
865
00:49:55,500 --> 00:49:59,300
never received orders
nor would accept ...
866
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:04,800
to collect information
on a foreign private company ...
867
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,500
to deliver
to a private company here.
868
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,700
Conspiracies arise
of secrecy and suspicion ...
869
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:16,200
and no one was at the center of the controversy
controversies such as the Freemasons.
870
00:50:18,900 --> 00:50:22,000
In "The Lost Symbol,"
Dan Brown portrays the Freemasons ...
871
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,200
as some of the men
most powerful country.
872
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:26,500
Is that true?
873
00:50:26,700 --> 00:50:31,400
The fact is that 14 former presidents
Americans were known Masons ...
874
00:50:31,500 --> 00:50:33,800
almost a third of the total.
875
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,700
In addition, at least 35 ministers
the Supreme Court ...
876
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,900
as well as numerous parliamentary
Masonic vows sworn to follow.
877
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:44,900
Some members of Masonic
in Congress ...
878
00:50:44,900 --> 00:50:47,500
included Senator
Trent Lott of Mississippi ...
879
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:49,800
Congressman Eric Cantor,
Virginia ...
880
00:50:49,900 --> 00:50:52,400
and Congressman Joe Wilson
of South Carolina
881
00:50:52,500 --> 00:50:56,500
It's amazing how the story
Freemasonry has been driven by ...
882
00:50:56,500 --> 00:50:58,500
and big names
we recognize ...
883
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,400
have been considered
members of the fraternity.
884
00:51:01,500 --> 00:51:05,800
In the book, Brown describes Freemasonry
which is also called "Office" ...
885
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:10,300
goes back to the Masons who built
the great cathedrals of Europe.
886
00:51:11,500 --> 00:51:16,200
What the book does not address is that for
these architectural building ...
887
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:19,700
Masons needed to understand
scientific methods of the time ...
888
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,700
including physical,
geometry and mathematics.
889
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,600
This intimate connection
with the power of religious and secular ...
890
00:51:26,700 --> 00:51:30,900
allowed the Masons to develop
a unique perspective as a group.
891
00:51:31,300 --> 00:51:33,400
Freemasonry is not interested
on dogma ...
892
00:51:33,500 --> 00:51:35,400
because it is not
a religious organization.
893
00:51:35,500 --> 00:51:37,300
Do not have a creed of faith.
894
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,900
It is a way for those who have
dogmas and creeds of faith ...
895
00:51:41,900 --> 00:51:44,400
can meet
as human beings and brothers.
896
00:51:44,500 --> 00:51:46,200
The group adopted as symbols ...
897
00:51:46,300 --> 00:51:48,300
instruments
and terminology of his trade.
898
00:51:48,300 --> 00:51:51,700
His universal signal includes
a square and compass.
899
00:51:51,700 --> 00:51:55,100
States are described as apprentices
or Master Masons.
900
00:51:56,300 --> 00:51:58,600
Meetings are held
in a "store" ...
901
00:51:58,700 --> 00:52:00,800
word derived
of the temporary buildings ...
902
00:52:00,700 --> 00:52:03,200
the builders created
in place that would work.
903
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:07,900
The teacher of the book is taken to
George Washington Masonic Memorial.
904
00:52:08,700 --> 00:52:11,100
Such a place exists?
Yes.
905
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:15,300
It is a 100m tall building
in Alexandria, Virginia.
906
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,500
It was built in the 20s
to honor George Washington ...
907
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,800
who was the Master Mason
the local store.
908
00:52:22,500 --> 00:52:26,600
In the book, Professor Langdon compares
Masons to a modern ...
909
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:30,100
in which both keep
their methods and secret rituals.
910
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,700
The Masons are not
a secret society.
911
00:52:32,700 --> 00:52:34,100
They are a society with secrets.
912
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:38,900
If everyone knew the handshakes
or the secret words ...
913
00:52:38,900 --> 00:52:41,600
everyone would take advantage
Brotherhood of ...
914
00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:44,100
and it pursues the Fraternity
for over 200 years.
915
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,700
In "The Lost Symbol,"
Brown claims that Freemasonry ...
916
00:52:47,700 --> 00:52:50,000
was popular to take many
founders of the United States.
917
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:52,000
Brown is correct.
918
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,800
These men and their ancestors
came from Europe ...
919
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,700
where society was torn apart
by religious war.
920
00:52:58,100 --> 00:53:02,200
They were determined not to commit
the same mistake in this new country.
921
00:53:02,500 --> 00:53:05,800
For many of the founders,
Freemasonry was ...
922
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:07,500
an important part
of their lives.
923
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,800
I think it was an extension
ideas of the Enlightenment.
924
00:53:10,900 --> 00:53:12,200
The age of reason.
925
00:53:12,300 --> 00:53:16,500
Basically, trying to take
society of the old methods ...
926
00:53:16,500 --> 00:53:20,800
and put it in what they thought was
a better way for the future.
927
00:53:21,500 --> 00:53:23,600
Today we consider
freedom of expression ...
928
00:53:23,700 --> 00:53:25,700
the cornerstone
of the Constitution ...
929
00:53:25,900 --> 00:53:29,600
but in the eighteenth century,
speak so could result in death.
930
00:53:29,700 --> 00:53:33,300
This forced the Masons to meet
secretly in cellars and taverns.
931
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,100
The Masons speak
in democracy, freedom ...
932
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,000
self--determination
or free expression.
933
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,100
This could be considered a threat
the aristocracy ...
934
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,700
a king, an emperor,
a church that had power.
935
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:47,700
The book describes what the founders
wanted to establish a new country ...
936
00:53:47,700 --> 00:53:51,500
on the scientific principles of
progress, not on religious dogma.
937
00:53:51,900 --> 00:53:53,700
This is also true.
938
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,700
But most of them were Deist
as the book describes?
939
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:03,200
The religious beliefs of the founders
was generally deist.
940
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,300
They believed
there was a god ...
941
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:10,300
but not necessarily supported
any particular religion.
942
00:54:10,900 --> 00:54:13,200
That is why,
as the book portrays ...
943
00:54:13,100 --> 00:54:17,300
this intention turned out to be
one of the basic principles of American ...
944
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,000
the separation of church
and the state.
945
00:54:20,100 --> 00:54:23,000
What is also mentioned in the book
is the pursuit of Masons ...
946
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:24,900
to build
a new enlightened society ...
947
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:26,400
was not a simple task.
948
00:54:26,500 --> 00:54:29,400
Other groups, like the Templars
Rosicrucians and ...
949
00:54:29,500 --> 00:54:31,300
had similar ideas ...
950
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,100
but were crushed
by powerful groups in the Church.
951
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,000
The book also describes how
for centuries in Europe ...
952
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,200
church leaders with powerful connections
claimed to speak for God ...
953
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,100
and demanded loyalty
their beliefs and dogmas.
954
00:54:44,700 --> 00:54:48,800
Advanced scientific thinkers
as Isaac Newton and Leonardo da Vinci ...
955
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:50,700
were forced to hide
much of his work ...
956
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,900
otherwise they would be labeled as heretics.
This is true.
957
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:59,100
Anyone who argued
various theories in the sciences ...
958
00:54:59,100 --> 00:55:02,100
like what happened
beyond our planet ...
959
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,100
many lost their lives.
Some were burned at the stake.
960
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:10,400
The book is also right when he describes
Masons reject religious dogma.
961
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,400
All they needed to do was to believe
in a higher power ...
962
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,300
not a specific god.
963
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:19,800
The purpose of Freemasonry
is to encourage a man and his faith ...
964
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,200
not encourage a man
to impose their faith on others.
965
00:55:23,300 --> 00:55:26,700
What they're saying basically
and that is what the fundamentalists hate ...
966
00:55:26,700 --> 00:55:30,200
is that all paths are different
for the same thing.
967
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,400
This threat
became a reality ...
968
00:55:32,500 --> 00:55:36,500
with the signing of the Declaration
Independence in 1776.
969
00:55:37,100 --> 00:55:40,800
But by declaring its independence,
These men risked everything ...
970
00:55:40,900 --> 00:55:43,100
by a new concept
called freedom.
971
00:55:43,700 --> 00:55:46,400
This time,
the dream became reality ...
972
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:50,000
and, in 1787, many of
Masonic principles ...
973
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,300
became an integral part
the American Constitution.
974
00:55:53,700 --> 00:55:58,000
Brown says that half of the signatories
of the U.S. Constitution were Masons.
975
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,100
However, estimates Masonic
put this number ...
976
00:56:00,100 --> 00:56:02,100
closer to a third.
977
00:56:03,300 --> 00:56:08,000
"The Lost Symbol" connects the role of
Freemasons in the founding of the American dream.
978
00:56:08,900 --> 00:56:12,100
But we do not know
is that the Masonic influence ...
979
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:14,900
had a profound effect
beyond politics.
980
00:56:15,900 --> 00:56:17,500
The owner of a baseball team,
Branch Rickey ...
981
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,100
hired the first player
african--american ...
982
00:56:19,100 --> 00:56:21,800
professional baseball,
Jackie Robinson.
983
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,000
The literary icon Mark Twain ...
984
00:56:24,100 --> 00:56:27,100
introduced us to Tom Sawyer
and Huckleberry Finn.
985
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:30,500
And John Glenn was the first American
to orbit Earth.
986
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,700
Unfortunately, the Masons were also
its share of black sheep ...
987
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:36,800
including the traitor
Benedict Arnold ...
988
00:56:36,900 --> 00:56:39,700
the controversial FBI director
J. Edgar Hoover ...
989
00:56:39,700 --> 00:56:42,700
and even the relentless
Communist dictator Joseph Stalin ...
990
00:56:42,700 --> 00:56:44,400
supposedly were Masons.
991
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,400
His connection with the corridors of power
made many wonder ...
992
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:50,300
if Masons have actually
sinister secrets.
993
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:53,400
The fact that Masons seek
something higher and a belief system ...
994
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,400
did nothing
to prevent their enemies.
995
00:56:55,500 --> 00:56:59,100
The battle between light and darkness
was about to begin.
996
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:07,300
The villain in "The Lost Symbol"
attacks the Masons ...
997
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:10,200
which include some of the men
most powerful country.
998
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:15,600
It is possible to drop
a society so powerful?
999
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:22,000
The secrecy associated with Freemasonry fills
mistrust and fear of non--members ...
1000
00:57:21,900 --> 00:57:23,800
since the founding of the United States.
1001
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:30,100
It is believed that the Masons have some
influence over its members ...
1002
00:57:30,100 --> 00:57:35,200
that transcends the obligation of the member
your family or the state.
1003
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:38,500
Therefore, the Masons are
a dark and subversive group ...
1004
00:57:38,500 --> 00:57:40,300
you're doing something bad.
1005
00:57:40,900 --> 00:57:42,700
It was not always so.
1006
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:47,100
After the American Revolution,
increased the number of Masons.
1007
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:52,300
The fact that Washington has made it
such an important part of your life ...
1008
00:57:52,300 --> 00:57:57,200
and the fact that he stuck the stone
critical of the Capitol, as a Mason ...
1009
00:57:57,300 --> 00:58:01,400
important to a lot of attention
for Freemasonry ...
1010
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,000
which became very popular.
1011
00:58:04,700 --> 00:58:07,900
Its popularity, however,
was a threat to religious leaders ...
1012
00:58:07,900 --> 00:58:10,200
suspicious of
Masonic Deists beliefs.
1013
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:11,300
The Lost Symbol
1014
00:58:11,500 --> 00:58:14,400
In the book, Dan Brown writes about
how people have developed ...
1015
00:58:14,300 --> 00:58:17,600
a distorted perception
Masons. This is true.
1016
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:21,200
Over time
a barrage of accusations ...
1017
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:23,100
fueled fears
many non--Masons ...
1018
00:58:23,100 --> 00:58:26,200
who wanted to know what really
was going on in Masonic temples.
1019
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,800
The villain of the book is driven
on suspicion like that.
1020
00:58:33,500 --> 00:58:35,600
Everything is secret
distrust ...
1021
00:58:35,700 --> 00:58:38,600
especially in a Republic,
which argue that all are equal ...
1022
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:42,300
and as Americans have always believed
some degree of transparency.
1023
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:45,500
Then there was a lot of suspicion
about the Masons.
1024
00:58:46,300 --> 00:58:51,100
What the book does not include
these suspicions increased in 1826 ...
1025
00:58:51,100 --> 00:58:54,000
with the disappearance of a Mason
wisely unhappy ...
1026
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:55,500
named William Morgan.
1027
00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:01,500
It is one of the passages in which Brown
used a historical incident ...
1028
00:59:01,500 --> 00:59:04,700
as inspiration for something
in today's world.
1029
00:59:05,100 --> 00:59:09,000
When Morgan announced that he wrote
a book exposing Masonic secrets ...
1030
00:59:09,100 --> 00:59:11,800
Freemasons supposedly different
organized a kidnapping.
1031
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,300
He disappeared. Supposedly
was murdered. It is most likely.
1032
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:18,700
Nobody ever heard of him
again.
1033
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:24,000
Three masons were convicted
but received minimum sentences.
1034
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:29,500
There was something like a national panic
the anti--Masonic.
1035
00:59:30,500 --> 00:59:33,800
Shops were burned.
The Masons were ridiculed.
1036
00:59:33,900 --> 00:59:35,700
Some were even beaten
on the street.
1037
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:39,900
And the Masonic membership has reached zero
in some places.
1038
00:59:40,900 --> 00:59:44,300
In the year 1830, the Anti--Masons Party
was formed ...
1039
00:59:44,300 --> 00:59:47,200
and former Attorney General William Wirt,
was nominated as a candidate.
1040
00:59:47,500 --> 00:59:51,100
Wirt ran against the Mason
Andrew Jackson and lost.
1041
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:54,000
He soon became
a footnote in history.
1042
00:59:55,800 --> 01:00:00,800
More than a century and a half later,
William Wirt made headlines again.
1043
01:00:02,300 --> 01:00:05,500
Someone broke into the grave
William Wirt ...
1044
01:00:05,900 --> 01:00:09,400
cut off his head
and took the skull.
1045
01:00:10,900 --> 01:00:14,400
The theft was detected
almost 30 years later ...
1046
01:00:14,500 --> 01:00:18,200
when an anonymous source said
be in possession of the skull.
1047
01:00:18,300 --> 01:00:22,000
The author of the anonymous caller hung up
not contacted us for a year.
1048
01:00:22,500 --> 01:00:25,100
The following link about
William Wirt ...
1049
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:27,800
was the city councilman, Jim Graham,
here in Washington DC ...
1050
01:00:27,900 --> 01:00:31,300
who informed us that the skull
had been handed to him ...
1051
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:34,800
to ensure that he would return
the place where they belonged.
1052
01:00:35,900 --> 01:00:38,600
You never knew why
Wirt's skull was stolen.
1053
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:41,600
Perhaps it was used
in strange rituals.
1054
01:00:41,700 --> 01:00:43,600
Maybe it was just
a joke in college.
1055
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:47,500
William Wirt was a symbol
the anti--Masonic sentiment ...
1056
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:50,000
continues to pursue
the secret society.
1057
01:00:50,500 --> 01:00:54,200
But during this time,
another Masonic group came to power ...
1058
01:00:54,300 --> 01:00:58,600
the Scottish Rite, the same group
that appears in the book by Dan Brown.
1059
01:00:59,100 --> 01:01:01,800
According to some,
they had a dark side ...
1060
01:01:01,900 --> 01:01:03,700
feeding deep suspicions ...
1061
01:01:03,900 --> 01:01:06,800
that are suspected
the core of the book.
1062
01:01:09,100 --> 01:01:12,100
"The Lost Symbol"
opens her first scene here ...
1063
01:01:12,300 --> 01:01:16,000
House of the Masonic Temple,
in Washington DC.
1064
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:19,200
The book describes this massive structure
as a replica ...
1065
01:01:19,300 --> 01:01:23,100
the temple of the Greek king Mausolus,
the original mausoleum.
1066
01:01:23,700 --> 01:01:26,400
The book also states
which is a mausoleum ...
1067
01:01:26,500 --> 01:01:29,300
with the remains
Two Masonic leaders.
1068
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:31,400
And this is true.
1069
01:01:31,700 --> 01:01:36,000
The story depicts the building
with two 17--ton sphinxes ...
1070
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:40,200
massive columns of 100m
and a huge bronze door.
1071
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:46,000
The book also states that there
a huge skylight above an altar.
1072
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:49,900
In fact,
these descriptions are accurate.
1073
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:55,200
This is the home of the largest and most powerful
Masonic group in the country ...
1074
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:58,200
the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction.
1075
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,800
In "The Lost Symbol,"
Professor Langdon is face to face ...
1076
01:02:01,900 --> 01:02:05,400
with the statue of Albert Pike,
a man who many consider ...
1077
01:02:05,500 --> 01:02:08,500
the most famous person
who never heard of.
1078
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:15,100
Pike is a man of letters
less known but most influential ...
1079
01:02:15,500 --> 01:02:18,100
that this country has ever known.
1080
01:02:19,300 --> 01:02:23,100
Albert Pike was the Howard Stern
the "Shock Jock" of Freemasonry.
1081
01:02:23,500 --> 01:02:29,100
Pike is probably one of the
Masons most misunderstood in the world.
1082
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:33,200
He was vilified
over and over again ...
1083
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,400
by individuals
they are fundamentalists.
1084
01:02:37,300 --> 01:02:40,100
What the book does not mention
Albert Pike is that ...
1085
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:42,800
is one of the men buried
inside the temple.
1086
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:43,700
But why?
1087
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:46,600
Why put your body Masons
someone much maligned ...
1088
01:02:46,700 --> 01:02:48,200
into your temple?
1089
01:02:48,300 --> 01:02:50,900
It is certainly
a shadowy figure.
1090
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,700
I usually call Io
Francis Bacon darker.
1091
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:57,300
He was a huge man,
had more than 1.83 m tall.
1092
01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:58,700
He had more than 90 pounds.
1093
01:02:58,900 --> 01:03:04,200
It was a brilliant mathematician, linguist,
lawyer, orator, poet ...
1094
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:09,900
quite exotic rituals and prepared
advanced to Freemasonry.
1095
01:03:10,900 --> 01:03:12,400
After George Washington ...
1096
01:03:12,500 --> 01:03:17,000
Albert Pike is considered one of the Masons
most influential of all time.
1097
01:03:19,100 --> 01:03:23,500
After the anti--Masonic movement
in the years 1820 and 1830 ...
1098
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:27,200
Albert revitalized Masons
almost alone.
1099
01:03:27,500 --> 01:03:30,700
He revised and reorganized
Masonic rituals ...
1100
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:33,400
and established an overview
of its fundamental principles ...
1101
01:03:33,300 --> 01:03:36,300
in his 1871 book,
"Morals and Dogma".
1102
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,400
As head of the Scottish Rite
in Washington ...
1103
01:03:39,500 --> 01:03:42,500
Pike's influence extended
the federal government.
1104
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:49,000
He had an incredible network
people ready to serve Io.
1105
01:03:49,300 --> 01:03:51,300
He had good relations
on Capitol Hill.
1106
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:54,800
He was loved and feared
by many at the same time.
1107
01:03:55,700 --> 01:04:00,400
These links Masonic been useful
the ensuing scandal.
1108
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,100
During the Civil War, Pike was accused
of war crimes ...
1109
01:04:05,100 --> 01:04:08,200
to serve as brigadier general
Confederate Army.
1110
01:04:08,300 --> 01:04:10,600
But after the war,
he was pardoned.
1111
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:18,100
President Andrew Johnson
pardoned him in Washington DC ...
1112
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,900
during a ceremony
Masonic ritual.
1113
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:25,500
Pike became a Freemason Andrew Johnson
high level in the Scottish Rite.
1114
01:04:25,500 --> 01:04:31,900
The recurring charge is that he was
subservient to the Grand Commander ...
1115
01:04:32,100 --> 01:04:35,000
and granted pardon to Pike.
1116
01:04:35,300 --> 01:04:36,500
There were other rumors.
1117
01:04:36,700 --> 01:04:38,500
As Brown mentions in the book ...
1118
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:42,300
Masons were charged
many conspiracies ...
1119
01:04:42,700 --> 01:04:47,100
Pike as a leader involved
of a southern separatist group ...
1120
01:04:47,100 --> 01:04:49,600
known as
"Knights of the Golden Circle."
1121
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:52,500
The idea was to oppose ...
1122
01:04:52,900 --> 01:04:54,200
to power ...
1123
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:56,200
American ...
1124
01:04:56,300 --> 01:04:58,500
and its influence
in North America ...
1125
01:04:58,700 --> 01:05:00,700
by any means necessary ...
1126
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:05,400
overthrowing the government in 1860,
dividing the country into civil war.
1127
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:08,800
After the Civil War,
other rumors linking Pike ...
1128
01:05:08,700 --> 01:05:12,200
to an even more controversial
the KKK.
1129
01:05:12,300 --> 01:05:14,900
These individuals basically
in my opinion ...
1130
01:05:15,700 --> 01:05:18,900
were the largest frauds
I've seen ...
1131
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:20,700
and I am very disturbed
to think of them ...
1132
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:25,800
because they claim Pike
as a founding member ...
1133
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:27,900
as creator of the KKK.
1134
01:05:28,500 --> 01:05:29,400
Nonsense!
1135
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,400
Pike continued attacks on
even after his death.
1136
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:36,700
The author Dan Brown talks about it
when one of his characters ...
1137
01:05:36,700 --> 01:05:39,800
describes the Masons
as devil worshipers.
1138
01:05:40,100 --> 01:05:43,400
What the book does not count
is that in 1894 ...
1139
01:05:43,500 --> 01:05:47,400
a disgruntled former Mason wrote
under the pseudonym of Leo Taxil ...
1140
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:50,200
depicting Pike
and the Scottish Rite Masons ...
1141
01:05:50,300 --> 01:05:52,700
as allies of the devil.
1142
01:05:53,300 --> 01:05:58,900
He found a young
who said it was the prostitute ...
1143
01:05:59,100 --> 01:06:02,800
Masonic lodges that used
in their diabolical orgies ...
1144
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:06,000
Masses of black magic
behind closed doors.
1145
01:06:06,900 --> 01:06:08,900
The Vatican believed ...
1146
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:14,000
and paid for it to be preached
p�Ipito in all churches.
1147
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:17,400
Taxil went so far as to say
Albert Pike believed that ...
1148
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:19,400
Lucifer was God.
1149
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:23,200
This was inspired by a quote
Pike's book, "Morals and Dogma" ...
1150
01:06:23,300 --> 01:06:25,200
in which Pike refers to Lucifer.
1151
01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:28,500
Anti--Masonic groups immediately
saw it as evidence ...
1152
01:06:28,500 --> 01:06:30,800
that Albert Pike
was a Satanist.
1153
01:06:30,900 --> 01:06:34,100
They said,
when he mentioned Lucifer ...
1154
01:06:34,100 --> 01:06:38,400
was a devil worshiper,
a satanic worshiper ...
1155
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:39,900
the greatest of all.
1156
01:06:40,100 --> 01:06:43,400
There was written decrees
Pope of the time ...
1157
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:46,000
specifically said that
he was a dangerous man.
1158
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:50,000
Masons, however, claim
Pike who used the name "Lucifer" ...
1159
01:06:50,100 --> 01:06:53,700
in its original Latin,
which means "light bearer".
1160
01:06:53,700 --> 01:06:57,300
He did not refer to Satan,
but the one star ...
1161
01:06:57,400 --> 01:06:59,900
the star of Venus.
1162
01:06:59,900 --> 01:07:02,700
This is not devil worship
or worshiping Satan.
1163
01:07:02,700 --> 01:07:06,700
What they meant was the light,
lighting ...
1164
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:10,300
enlightenment through logic,
reason and science.
1165
01:07:10,300 --> 01:07:14,500
Leo Taxil ended up portraying,
saying that made up the story ...
1166
01:07:14,500 --> 01:07:16,400
but damage
had already been done.
1167
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:20,000
To date, televangelists
Pat Robinson as ...
1168
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:24,000
Pike takes his display
evidence ...
1169
01:07:23,900 --> 01:07:27,400
to show that Freemasonry
is part of a conspiracy ...
1170
01:07:27,300 --> 01:07:28,800
and really worship the devil.
1171
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:32,300
Since Pike was accused
Freemasons to control ...
1172
01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:36,400
the U.S. government may be involved
mind control.
1173
01:07:37,500 --> 01:07:39,100
INITIALIZING GPS
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
1174
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:41,600
In "The Lost Symbol,"
Brown's fictional scientist ...
1175
01:07:41,500 --> 01:07:44,400
speaks as military researchers
long explore the techniques ...
1176
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:46,600
to harness the powers
the mind.
1177
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:50,300
She mentions government programs
involving ESP ...
1178
01:07:50,200 --> 01:07:53,700
Remote Viewing and a kind
Travel telepathic.
1179
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:57,600
This is based
in a real military experience ...
1180
01:07:57,700 --> 01:08:00,400
in which a volunteer is invited
to describe a place ...
1181
01:08:00,300 --> 01:08:02,300
within the Soviet Union.
1182
01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:05,200
He receives only
the geographical coordinates ...
1183
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:10,000
but produces a drawing with
striking similarities to the site ...
1184
01:08:10,100 --> 01:08:12,200
across the world.
1185
01:08:13,300 --> 01:08:15,900
It was all part of
a secret military operation ...
1186
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:18,900
to use paranormal
to spy on the Soviets.
1187
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:22,800
This type of research
is still ongoing ...
1188
01:08:22,900 --> 01:08:25,100
and plays an important role
in "The Lost Symbol."
1189
01:08:25,500 --> 01:08:29,900
One of the characters of the book is a
scientist who does research in Noetic.
1190
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:35,100
As the book portrays
Noetic deals with the experiences ...
1191
01:08:34,900 --> 01:08:37,200
that many of us
have all day.
1192
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:41,900
That feeling
that something is not right ...
1193
01:08:41,900 --> 01:08:43,800
what we call intuition.
1194
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:48,000
This psychic connection that mothers
seem to have with their children.
1195
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:51,900
The power of prayer, which seems to help
to heal a person.
1196
01:08:52,200 --> 01:08:55,000
All this is in the domain
of Noetic Sciences.
1197
01:08:55,500 --> 01:08:59,000
And the truth of Noetic Sciences
is as strange as any fiction ...
1198
01:08:58,900 --> 01:09:00,300
found in
"The Lost Symbol."
1199
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:04,800
A serious scientific study
called Phenomenon Paranormal ...
1200
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:06,600
began in the 30 ...
1201
01:09:06,700 --> 01:09:09,100
when an American parapsic�Iogo
named JB Rhine ...
1202
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,200
began experimenting
with ESP ...
1203
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:12,500
in the laboratory.
1204
01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:17,800
Rhine called for volunteers to try to
guess which of the five cards ...
1205
01:09:17,700 --> 01:09:20,500
arise when it was pulled
a pack of cards.
1206
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,100
Each set had 25 letters ...
1207
01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:25,000
so anything better
than one in five attempts ...
1208
01:09:25,100 --> 01:09:27,800
would show
extrasensory capacity.
1209
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:30,400
Rhine reported
significant results ...
1210
01:09:30,700 --> 01:09:34,100
but scientists and traditional psic�Iogos
dismiss his work ...
1211
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:36,400
saying that his methods
were flawed.
1212
01:09:36,500 --> 01:09:38,300
Rhine and other parapsic�Iogos ...
1213
01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:40,600
continued to work
in relative obscurity ...
1214
01:09:40,700 --> 01:09:42,400
to the Cold War.
1215
01:09:42,900 --> 01:09:45,800
In 1971, two British writers
revealed ...
1216
01:09:45,900 --> 01:09:49,100
scientists of the Soviet Union
researching ...
1217
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:51,400
the use of ESP
as a weapon.
1218
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:53,500
As one of the characters
Brown mentions ...
1219
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:56,600
those who are in power
always looking for more power.
1220
01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,100
One area in which they were
particularly interested ...
1221
01:09:59,100 --> 01:10:03,900
was the "remote viewing", the ability
to see a distant target or invisible ...
1222
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,100
using ESP.
1223
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:09,400
The Soviets also worked
the "intent" ...
1224
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:12,400
the ability to affect a person,
so good or bad ...
1225
01:10:12,500 --> 01:10:15,700
just looking
for a photograph of the person.
1226
01:10:15,900 --> 01:10:18,500
When I heard
what the Soviets used to ...
1227
01:10:18,500 --> 01:10:21,700
the U.S. government created
your own program.
1228
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:26,600
Began to accelerate a kind
Cold War psychic ...
1229
01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:29,100
actually, on one level ...
1230
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:32,700
people spoke of missiles
and missile silos ...
1231
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:36,600
and in another, there was a team
mediums ...
1232
01:10:36,700 --> 01:10:40,800
they were asked to use
these potential capabilities ...
1233
01:10:40,900 --> 01:10:44,000
to get
reliable intelligence information.
1234
01:10:44,300 --> 01:10:47,400
The American project was dubbed
"Stargate" ...
1235
01:10:47,500 --> 01:10:51,400
and was funded by the CIA and
the Defense Intelligence Agency.
1236
01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:55,200
The book reveals the noetic scientist
the connection between your work ...
1237
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,100
Stargate and the CIA.
1238
01:10:57,200 --> 01:11:01,100
Soviet and American
were very interested ...
1239
01:11:01,100 --> 01:11:04,300
the notion of mind
on the matter ...
1240
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:06,900
the idea that consciousness can
somehow influence the matter.
1241
01:11:06,900 --> 01:11:09,800
The program lasted
for over 20 years.
1242
01:11:09,900 --> 01:11:13,900
At its peak, the Stargate project
laboratories was 14 ...
1243
01:11:13,900 --> 01:11:15,400
researching remote viewing ...
1244
01:11:15,300 --> 01:11:19,900
and with results that seemed to indicate
that remote viewing was not a myth.
1245
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:23,400
And we know that there were cases where
these remote viewers ...
1246
01:11:23,500 --> 01:11:26,100
were able to make drawings
very accurate ...
1247
01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:29,400
of secret military installations
across the planet.
1248
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:33,900
Despite the promising results,
some politicians and military ...
1249
01:11:33,900 --> 01:11:35,400
did not want the money
the taxpayer ...
1250
01:11:35,500 --> 01:11:37,200
fund this type
of research.
1251
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:42,000
In 1995, the CIA shut down Project
20 million dollars ...
1252
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:45,800
but the military continued to use
mediums to gather information.
1253
01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:48,500
During Desert Storm,
mediums with remote viewing ...
1254
01:11:48,500 --> 01:11:50,800
were used to help locate
Scud missiles hidden ...
1255
01:11:50,700 --> 01:11:53,900
and gun shops
chemical and biological weapons.
1256
01:11:54,500 --> 01:11:59,000
Today, the government claims that it is more
involved with psychic research.
1257
01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:03,800
But the study of psychic phenomena
still in research institutes ...
1258
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:06,400
as the Institute
of Noetic Sciences.
1259
01:12:09,100 --> 01:12:13,400
The institute was the idea of ??astronaut
Mason Mitchell ...
1260
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:18,100
who went to the moon
with Apollo 14 in 1971.
1261
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:24,500
In space, Mitchell led
experiments unofficial ...
1262
01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:26,800
extrasensory perception
with some friends on earth.
1263
01:12:26,900 --> 01:12:30,700
Upon returning home,
he had a transformative experience.
1264
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:34,400
Edgar had an epiphany
back to the moon ...
1265
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:38,200
he looked at the planet Earth
and acknowledged that much of the conflict ...
1266
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:41,900
was a construction of consciousness
and our world view.
1267
01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:44,200
He had a deep
sense of unity ...
1268
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:48,400
as if the molecules of your body
latch onto the solar system ...
1269
01:12:48,500 --> 01:12:51,700
and that all were part
of a tangle.
1270
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:56,300
The experience inspired Mitchell to create
the Institute of Noetic Sciences ...
1271
01:12:56,300 --> 01:12:59,500
dedicated to the study of the human mind
and its potential.
1272
01:12:59,900 --> 01:13:02,200
In "The Lost Symbol," the scientist
noetic ...
1273
01:13:02,300 --> 01:13:06,900
attempts to determine the weight of the soul
to confirm your physical reality.
1274
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:10,300
This is actually based
on actual experiences.
1275
01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:16,800
At first, when scientists tried to
measure the consciousness or the soul ...
1276
01:13:16,500 --> 01:13:18,800
set up an experiment ...
1277
01:13:18,900 --> 01:13:23,800
measured and weighed when the body
before and after death ...
1278
01:13:23,700 --> 01:13:27,100
with the notion that somehow
were weighing on the soul.
1279
01:13:27,100 --> 01:13:32,900
Trying to weigh the soul is something that is not
considered a reliable result ...
1280
01:13:32,700 --> 01:13:37,600
but people try to develop
a kind of case ...
1281
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:41,300
to the notion that consciousness
can be more than something physical.
1282
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,600
The scientist believes Brown
his research ...
1283
01:13:44,500 --> 01:13:48,100
shows that psychic phenomena such as
telepathy, clairvoyance ...
1284
01:13:48,100 --> 01:13:51,400
precognition and mind over matter
are real.
1285
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:55,000
As the researchers
Institute of Noetic Sciences.
1286
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:58,600
When analyzing the data
this kind of experiments ...
1287
01:13:58,500 --> 01:14:01,800
find statistical evidence
very strong ...
1288
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:04,500
that not only is a real effect,
but it is repeatable ...
1289
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:06,300
and that is what matters in science ...
1290
01:14:06,300 --> 01:14:08,200
be repeatable
by independent laboratories.
1291
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:11,200
The noetic scientist Dan Brown
argues that groupthink ...
1292
01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:13,600
as in prayer groups
or healing circles ...
1293
01:14:13,700 --> 01:14:15,100
can have profound effects.
1294
01:14:15,300 --> 01:14:18,700
In the real world, the noetic science studies
the power of prayer ...
1295
01:14:18,700 --> 01:14:21,300
and group consciousness
to generate change.
1296
01:14:21,400 --> 01:14:26,000
Unlike the book, in the real world
the results are inconclusive.
1297
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:29,200
I think at this point
we need more research ...
1298
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:32,200
because it is something
widely practiced.
1299
01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:34,600
And simply discard
because it does not fit ...
1300
01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:36,600
in our scientific model
Conventional ...
1301
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:40,900
is doing an injustice to
a quality experience ...
1302
01:14:40,900 --> 01:14:43,900
with which people live
for millennia.
1303
01:14:44,100 --> 01:14:47,500
Science in the book by Dan Brown
may be light years ahead ...
1304
01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:48,900
noetic science real.
1305
01:14:49,700 --> 01:14:52,600
In reality more
lags behind the fiction?
1306
01:14:55,500 --> 01:14:58,300
As we saw, Dan Brown
established his thriller ...
1307
01:14:58,300 --> 01:15:00,800
in a world of fact
and possibility.
1308
01:15:01,100 --> 01:15:06,000
Chambers of reflection exist,
but not in the basement of the Capitol.
1309
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:09,500
The government funded the research
about the power of the mind ...
1310
01:15:09,400 --> 01:15:11,300
but not at the Smithsonian.
1311
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,900
The severed hand was based
in a real legend.
1312
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:21,100
And it is true that the Capitol
has a wall ...
1313
01:15:21,100 --> 01:15:24,800
George Washington
portrayed as a god.
1314
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:28,400
We have also seen that the aspects
description of Dan Brown ...
1315
01:15:28,500 --> 01:15:33,600
a Washington based hidden
in people, places and real events.
1316
01:15:34,100 --> 01:15:37,500
The city has references
the ancient civilizations.
1317
01:15:38,500 --> 01:15:41,300
The Scottish Rite Temple there ...
1318
01:15:41,400 --> 01:15:44,500
and has two sphinxes
17 tonnes ...
1319
01:15:44,500 --> 01:15:46,900
and an unfinished pyramid
on the facade.
1320
01:15:47,300 --> 01:15:50,500
The interior is really
a huge temple with a skylight ...
1321
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:52,800
that simulates the All--Seeing Eye
on the dollar bill ...
1322
01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:55,600
with two bodies buried there.
1323
01:15:56,700 --> 01:16:00,100
The description of the book of symbols
Secret found in the city ...
1324
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:04,100
fascinated by symbols and theoretical
worldwide conspiracy.
1325
01:16:05,100 --> 01:16:07,400
The cornerstone
the Washington Monument ...
1326
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:11,200
contains a Bible and the words
Latin "deo laus" ...
1327
01:16:11,300 --> 01:16:14,200
which means "praise God"
written in its cornerstone.
1328
01:16:15,100 --> 01:16:17,200
The claim that the book
the founders of the country ...
1329
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:19,700
believed in astrology
is true.
1330
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:22,600
The White House, the Capitol
and the Washington Monument ...
1331
01:16:22,700 --> 01:16:25,100
are aligned
according to the stars.
1332
01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:30,700
And their pillars were erected all
under the same astrological sign, Virgo.
1333
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:35,500
And the National Cathedral
contains ten rocks of Mount Sinai ...
1334
01:16:35,500 --> 01:16:39,800
a small moonstone
and a gargoyle in the shape of Darth Vader.
1335
01:16:41,300 --> 01:16:45,100
We also saw that Masons are
a real organization ...
1336
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:48,900
and that their secret nature
has generated controversy.
1337
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:51,200
It is also true
obscured the book ...
1338
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:52,800
many of its rituals
and symbols.
1339
01:16:53,300 --> 01:16:57,400
An example is the use of the Phoenix
two heads on the facade ...
1340
01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:00,600
the true Masonic symbol
is a double--headed eagle.
1341
01:17:03,100 --> 01:17:06,800
Another secret Masonic mentioned,
but not in the book ...
1342
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:08,600
is the "Chain of Union."
1343
01:17:08,700 --> 01:17:14,100
This ritual symbolizes the union of mind,
body and spirit through the universe ...
1344
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:17,900
the transformation of "a"
in "all".
1345
01:17:19,300 --> 01:17:24,100
This ceremony uses the power of
group consciousness to create change.
1346
01:17:24,500 --> 01:17:29,200
When you have a number of people
concentrated in a specific ritual ...
1347
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:33,500
saw a ritual that has to be done
perhaps hundreds of times before ...
1348
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:37,000
is to be expected from the perspective
Noetic Science ...
1349
01:17:36,900 --> 01:17:40,400
we witness
some kind of change.
1350
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:45,500
And that's the great subtext
religious this book ...
1351
01:17:45,500 --> 01:17:49,800
the idea that the deification
it is possible.
1352
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:56,500
Because Dan Brown captivates its readers
with stories about codes and ciphers?
1353
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:01,400
Maybe it's because throughout history,
world events occurred ...
1354
01:18:01,300 --> 01:18:03,000
because of secret messages.
1355
01:18:03,700 --> 01:18:07,200
Secrets that have been stored
and secrets that do not.
1356
01:18:09,400 --> 01:18:13,200
A clue in the book speaks of a Puzzle
created by Benjamin Franklin ...
1357
01:18:13,300 --> 01:18:17,800
one of the founders of the most innovative
and Mason.
1358
01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:20,800
Benjamin Franklin was unique.
1359
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:25,800
It is the man who invented
major social institutions ...
1360
01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:30,800
as public libraries
and postal services in the colonies.
1361
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:35,100
Who wrote convincingly
on political philosophy ...
1362
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:40,100
editor and it was published
very important documents ...
1363
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:47,100
and he also was a scientist in
a time when science was crawling.
1364
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:54,700
I would not be surprised that he also
get involved in recreational mathematics ...
1365
01:18:54,500 --> 01:18:58,100
as the Order Eight
of Franklin Square.
1366
01:18:58,200 --> 01:19:01,200
Creating magic squares
is not easy.
1367
01:19:01,300 --> 01:19:03,600
And he set up a small
cottage industry of it.
1368
01:19:03,700 --> 01:19:05,700
We can find the Order Eight
the Franklin Square ...
1369
01:19:05,700 --> 01:19:07,200
in one of his almanacs.
1370
01:19:07,300 --> 01:19:11,700
We are talking about someone
which is a multi--faceted genius ...
1371
01:19:11,700 --> 01:19:12,600
and a statesman.
1372
01:19:14,100 --> 01:19:18,100
Although not mentioned in the book,
George Washington was nearly destroyed ...
1373
01:19:18,100 --> 01:19:19,500
by a secret cabal.
1374
01:19:20,400 --> 01:19:23,300
During the war, General
American Benedict Arnold ...
1375
01:19:23,300 --> 01:19:27,300
almost lost the war alone
working with British agents.
1376
01:19:28,900 --> 01:19:31,500
His scheme was exposed
only when U.S. forces ...
1377
01:19:31,500 --> 01:19:34,400
a British officer who captured
carried an encrypted message ...
1378
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:36,300
in invisible ink.
1379
01:19:38,900 --> 01:19:42,700
In the book, Dan Brown writes about
the legend of the Masonic pyramid ...
1380
01:19:42,700 --> 01:19:45,700
and its role in protecting
of ancient mysteries.
1381
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:49,700
Brown says in "The Lost Symbol," which
Masons are the keepers �Itimos ...
1382
01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:54,100
of the ancient mysteries.
And that's partially true.
1383
01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:58,500
The traditions of Freemasonry
come from many different sources.
1384
01:20:01,400 --> 01:20:04,900
These sources include influential texts
of great thinkers ...
1385
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:07,200
As Isaac Newton
and Francis Bacon ...
1386
01:20:07,100 --> 01:20:12,200
and holy books, including
the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita.
1387
01:20:13,300 --> 01:20:18,000
That's where Dan Brown
is historically accurate.
1388
01:20:18,300 --> 01:20:23,900
There were countless mystery religions
Greece, Rome, Egypt.
1389
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:27,200
And what these mystery religions
preached?
1390
01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:29,800
I do not want to joke,
but it is a mystery.
1391
01:20:30,900 --> 01:20:34,300
In "The Lost Symbol," Brown writes
on the immense power of the Bible ...
1392
01:20:34,300 --> 01:20:36,100
to turn for the better ...
1393
01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:39,100
but also warns
against the literal interpretation ...
1394
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:40,400
of his prose enigmatic.
1395
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:47,600
The founders insisted on the separation
between church and state.
1396
01:20:48,300 --> 01:20:50,600
It is also why the Masons
go to such extremes ...
1397
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:54,300
to remove any religious dogma
their rituals and beliefs.
1398
01:20:54,300 --> 01:20:58,400
The book states that Thomas Jefferson
came to edit the Bible ...
1399
01:20:58,300 --> 01:21:03,000
to eliminate any interpretation.
And that's an accurate portrayal.
1400
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:04,100
It took 16 years.
1401
01:21:04,300 --> 01:21:10,600
He took the Bible and cut
row after row of all ...
1402
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:11,500
Jesus said ...
1403
01:21:11,700 --> 01:21:14,700
and he said he wanted to focus on that,
what Jesus said ...
1404
01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:16,300
not the performers.
1405
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:21,200
But "The Lost Symbol" misses
to say that Jefferson's Bible ...
1406
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:23,200
was given to each new member
Congress ...
1407
01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:25,300
during the first half
the nineteenth century.
1408
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:27,800
This happened in the twentieth century.
1409
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:33,300
An important theme in the book
is the idea of ??transformation.
1410
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:37,000
The villain uses tattoos Brown
as a statement of power.
1411
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:40,100
In the Chamber of Reflection ...
1412
01:21:40,200 --> 01:21:43,500
an hourglass symbolizes
the transformative effects of time.
1413
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:47,200
And a scientist discusses noetic
the ability of the mind ...
1414
01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:50,400
to transform cancer cells
in healthy subjects.
1415
01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:53,100
In "The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown ...
1416
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,300
they talk about transformation
in two ways.
1417
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:59,000
One is a type
of fanaticism ...
1418
01:21:58,900 --> 01:22:00,400
which is very ...
1419
01:22:00,900 --> 01:22:01,900
unique.
1420
01:22:02,100 --> 01:22:04,900
And finally leads
a negative result.
1421
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:08,700
We can consider Nazi Germany
a transformative movement ...
1422
01:22:08,700 --> 01:22:12,400
we can also analyze the traditions
and spiritual wisdom of the world ...
1423
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:16,400
and see that these types of transformations
can lead ...
1424
01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:18,500
to an blossoming
of our human potential.
1425
01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:21,900
Like "The Lost Symbol" clarifies
the founders of the country ...
1426
01:22:21,800 --> 01:22:24,200
understand this connection
with the past.
1427
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:29,300
Together they created a nation,
a new Rome on these beliefs.
1428
01:22:30,500 --> 01:22:35,100
There is one thing that unites all Freemasons.
They are seeking the light.
1429
01:22:35,300 --> 01:22:38,300
They are in search of wisdom,
the truth.
1430
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Try to become better people
this quest for light.
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As we have seen, the book uses
some facts ...
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the creation of a large
work of fiction.
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But sometimes the real world
is as fascinating as the imaginary.
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