Pages 200-400
A Brief summary of the major plot points in the middle of the novel
- Sato and Langdon explore the basement of the U.S Capitol building
- They found Peter Solomon's private room, where they found skulls for performing demonic rituals. More importantly they found a capstone for a pyramid, not in the room, but in Langdon's bag. Many years ago, Peter had given Langdon a package to hold on to, making him promise he would not open it. Langdon had not opened it, but he brought it thinking it might be relevant to Peter Solomon calling him earlier. The x-ray detector at the entrance to the U.S. Capitol building showed his package and Sato was not pleased with Langdon.
- Meanwhile, in the Smithsonian Institute a disguised Mal'akh has already murdered Trish, and is on his way to capture Katherine Solomon.
- Mal'akh is playing everyone by acting like different people. He will soon trap Robert Langdon and Katherine Solomon together.
- Sato tries to hold Robert Langdon captive, but Warren Bellamy, one of Peter Solomon's friend's saves Langdon and they escape.
- Katherine discovers something is wrong and flees from the Smithsonian Institute. She then sees it blowing up behind her. Mal'akh had destroyed all of Katherine and Peter's work.
- The CIA is desperately searching for Langdon and Mal'akh
- Langdon, Katherine and Bellamy go find help from Dean Colin Galloway and Masonic leader. He helps decode the symbols on the pyramid.
- Sato, the CIA and FBI find Galloway's study centre and Langdon, Katherine and Bellamy flee.
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| Robert Langdon outside the U.S Capitol Building |
Pages 400 - End
-Mal'akh captures Langdon and seriously injures Katherine Solomon. He places Langdon in a tank of breathable oxygenated liquid from where Langdon unlocks the code at the Pyramid's base for Mal'akh, who then flees with Peter Solomon to the Temple Room of the Scottish Rite's House of Temple.
-Langdon and Katherine are eventually rescued by Sato and her staff who race to the House of the Temple where Mal'akh threatens to release a heavily edited video showing government officials performing secret Masonic rituals. Mal'akh, who turns out to be Peter's long-believed dead son, Zachary Solomon, forces the Word—the circumpunt—out of his father and tattoos it on his head on the last portion of unmarked skin on his body. Mal'akh then orders Peter to sacrifice him, as he believes that it is his destiny to become a demonic spirit and lead the forces of evil. Director Sato, however, arrives at the Temple in a helicopter, which smashes the Temple's overhead glass panel, the shards of which fatally impale Mal'akh.
- The CIA then thwart Mal'akh's plan to transmit the video to several leading media channels using an EMP blast, disabling a cell tower in the network path leading from Mal'akh's laptop computer.
- Peter informs Langdon that the circumpunct Zachary tattooed on his head is not the Word. Deciding to take Langdon to the true secret behind the Word, Peter leads him to the room atop the Washington Monument and tells him that the Word—a common Christian Bible, the "Word of God"—lies in the Monument's cornerstone, buried in the ground beneath the Monument's staircase. Langdon realizes that the symbols on the pyramid's base spelled out the words Laus Deowhich translate to Praise God.
- Peter informs Langdon that the circumpunct Zachary tattooed on his head is not the Word. Deciding to take Langdon to the true secret behind the Word, Peter leads him to the room atop the Washington Monument and tells him that the Word—a common Christian Bible, the "Word of God"—lies in the Monument's cornerstone, buried in the ground beneath the Monument's staircase. Langdon realizes that the symbols on the pyramid's base spelled out the words Laus Deowhich translate to Praise God.
-These words are inscribed upon the small aluminum capstone atop the Monument, which is the true Masonic Pyramid.
-Peter tells Langdon that the Masons believe that the Bible is an esoteric allegory written by mankind, and that, like most religious texts around the globe, it contains veiled instructions for harnessing man's natural God-like qualities and is not meant to be interpreted as the commands of an all-powerful deity. This interpretation has been lost amid centuries of scientific skepticism and fundamentalist "zealotry". The Masons have buried it, believing that, when the time is right, its rediscovering will usher in a new era of human enlightenment.
-Peter tells Langdon that the Masons believe that the Bible is an esoteric allegory written by mankind, and that, like most religious texts around the globe, it contains veiled instructions for harnessing man's natural God-like qualities and is not meant to be interpreted as the commands of an all-powerful deity. This interpretation has been lost amid centuries of scientific skepticism and fundamentalist "zealotry". The Masons have buried it, believing that, when the time is right, its rediscovering will usher in a new era of human enlightenment.
<Brown, Dan.The Lost Symbol. 1. New York: Anchor, 2007. 621. Print.>
Some of the wording above is directly taken from the novel, hence the citation.
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