Temples and Tattooed men

As promised this morning I woke, got dressed and took a stroll down to my local paper shop, (actually I drove) and picked up a copy of the Mail On Sunday......

“The initiate raised the skull to his mouth and his lips touched dry bone.”

...today the Mail On Sunday printed the Prologue and first two chapters of the much anticipated continuing adventures of Harvard Professor Robert Langdon.

The article and novel opens with the FACT.

In 1991, a document was locked in the safe of the director of the CIA. The document is still there today. Its cryptic text includes references to an ancient portal and an unknown location underground. The document also contains the phrase: ‘it’s out there somewhere.’

All organisations in this novel exist, including the Freemasons, the Invisible College, the Office of Security, the SMSC, and the Institute of Nordic Sciences.

All rituals, science, artwork, and monuments in this novel are real.

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The Prologue takes us into an opening scene of an initiation in the House of the Temple. Describing the room as looking like ‘..a holy sanctuary from the ancient world.’ Brown goes into a dramatic description of a familiar ritual, ‘around his neck hung a heavy rope noose – ‘a cable-tow’ as the brethren called it’

You can tell that Brown has researched his ‘facts’ as he goes into great detail of the architectural speciation’s of the huge room and ‘colossal edifice’ found at 1733 Sixteenth ST NW, Washington D.C.

The initiate is conducted by the ‘white robed’ ‘Supreme Worshipful Master’ who instructs him as he lays a hand on his shoulder to ‘Take the Oath……complete your journey’ who is later described as an unsuspecting grey eyed man who had foolishly admitted him [the initiate] into the brotherhood; the short prologue finishes with the single line…..

‘Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.’

Chapter Two sees the introduction of the familiar character garbed in his tweed jacket of the protagonist of the story Robert Langdon, seated aboard a Falcon 200EX (which means nothing to me) he wakes from a nightmare as he comes into land at Dallas airport and also introduces the character of Billionaire life long friend (don’t believe he has ever been mentioned before) Peter Solomon who no doubt will play an important in Langdon’s adventure.

The final chapter shared introduces who must be the BAD GUY Mal’akh a 6’3” naked tattooed man who strolls through his home plotting in his mind against brotherhood inside brotherhood who himself had ascended to the ‘…33rd degree, the highest echelon of the world’s oldest surviving brotherhood.’

In his own mind he is a ‘masterpiece…..an artefact…an evolving icon…..an intricate tapestry of ancient symbols and sigils’ who is waiting to be completed by a final tattoo on the crown of his head the only piece of his ‘saved and smooth’, body that is not adorned.

The opening prologue and two chapters set us up for an adventure that will ‘shake the capitol building’ introducing characters which require little imagination or appreciation of depth but it does promise to be a fun read … an un-mind stretching afternoons entertainment and judging by the opening a book which will require members of our craft to have a lot of correct answers and good resources with which to point enquiring minds in the right direction.

For some possible assistance with these resources and answers see my previous post New Website check it out

http://www.freemasonlostsymbol.com/