The Lost Symbol, a view into Masonry and religion!!

So I just completed reading "The Lost Symbol", and while it did make me ponder about the existence of god and has improved my way of thinking about life, the story seemed biased to a certain agenda.

The Lost Symbol is a 2009 novel written by American writer Dan Brown. Set in the US capital of Washington DC, it follows Robert Langdon down another mysterious adventure, this one filled with him uncovering many Masonry secrets.

A book with the central theme being Masonry, it dives deep into telling us not only Masons work and operate, but also showing us how they think. As shown in the book, Masons are people who believe that man can be elevated to the realms of god, but still it is mentioned that different Masons follow different religions. 

The book showed us how all the religions in the world, one way or another, follow the same thoughts and beliefs. Several references are also made showing us how most religious books also preach about the same things.

It also shows us that god is not someone who lives above us, but instead is within us. How every human in this world has the ability to gain godlike power.

We may not think so, but if thought deeply, we'll realise that the things people right now have achieved or created, these things were thought impossible by our ancestors. If they knew that we have done things they thought impossible, they would consider us gods. The same way, we right now think that a lot of things are impossible and so we are nothing ordinary, but we all have the skill in us to do all of it. The human mind is seriously a wonderful thing and if it thought that something is achievable, it can lead us there.

While I did love the book tremendously, I found the ending to be disappointing and contradictory. (Spoiler ahead) As mentioned earlier, the Masons were not of a particular religion, yet the ancient word of the Masons was a copy of the Bible. The clues on the pyramid and to find the ancient word, contained all the religions, yet the mystery ends with the Bible. This shows clear bias to Christianity and debunks the idea that Masonary is secular.

Other than the ending I found the book to be very thrilling and I had a lot of fun reading it. I would say that if you have time you should definitely read it.

"The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine."