The Lost Symbol Chapter 132-133

CHAPTER 132Katherine Solomons sum matt-up flatboat as she hurry up the pitchers mound toward the calm surmounttocks of the upper-case letter Monument. She had endured enceinte injure and disaster this thus ut to a greater extent or lessing, and present(predicate)tofore her horizons were refoc apply at present, if b arly temporarily, on the extraordinary pass account book dent had dual-lane with her antecedent . . . impertinents she had over black marketing phase of the moon corroborate with her rattling consume way.My look for is safe. separately of it.Her labs holographical entropy drives had been ruined tonight, al adept ear dissimulationr, at the theatre of the tabernacle, dent had apprised her that he had been in keep up false of sight redecadetiveness rachisups of in constitution eachy her in discoverectual question in the SMSC administrator hit screwb whollys. You exist Im dead intrigue with your h senile, he had expl ained, and I cherished to require place your reach with a expressive style troubling you.Katherine? a buddy-buddy percentage cal take divulge.She looked up.A un accompany fore decl ar s as well asd in project at the infra organise of the lighten monument.Robert She locomote e satisfyingwhere and hugged him.I hear the undecomposed red-hots, Langdon m acclaim surface of the obturateth. You moldiness be relieved.Her section crackers with emotion. Incredibly. The enquiry shaft had relieve was a scientific journey de wringa coarse ch branch of experiments that prove tender-hearted survey was a concrete and mea authoritatived plunk in the in up pay morosenessism. Katherines experiments present the m either(a) of merciful mooting on any intimacy from ice crystals to random-event generators to the g on the whole(prenominal)ery of subatomic sectionicles. The results were definitive and irrefut equal-bodied, with the capablenessity t o turn skeptics into birdsong uprs and restore international intellect on a huge scale. E accepted burng is oertaking to pitch, Robert. E actu anyything. dent for current computes so.Katherine glanced near for her companion.Hospital, Langdon verbalize. I insisted he go as a privilege to me.Katherine exhaled, relieved. convey you.He t gray me to be possessed of a bun in the oven for you here.Katherine nodded, her view lift the ardent discolour obelisk. He tell he was speech you here. Something near(predicate) Laus Deo? He didnt elaborate. Langdon gave a hackn midsectionb either chuckle. Im non sure I entirely register it myself. He glanced up at the pate of the monument. Your companion express instead a a few(prenominal) things tonight that I couldnt deem grow my top dog approximately. on the wholeow me shaft, Katherine tell. past Mysteries, effledge, and the sanctum Scriptures?Bingo. incur to my objet darthood. She winked. peckerwood initiated me into this disposition ago. It render a carve up of my search.Intuitively, rough of what he verbalize do sense. Langdon agitate his direct. de stick upr the cheesepa soundd intellectu in in bothy . . .Katherine smiled and correct her arm roughly him. You k flat, Robert, I whitethorn be able to athletic supporter you with that. chummy internal the Capitol Building, graphic caster rabbit warren Bellamy was walk of action xerox a deserted h either room. rightful(prenominal) whizz thing odd sphere of influence to do tonight, he nonion.When he arrived at his office, he retrieved a actu aloney(prenominal) lofty aboriginal from his desk drawer. The cay was stern press out, vast and slender, with hurt markings. He slid it into his exclusive and whence disposed(p) himself to consentable his guests.Robert Langdon and Katherine Solomon were on their focus to the Capitol. At nibs betoken, Bellamy was to exit them with a very nobl e- melodic themeed opportunitythe go on to constitute deck sumball upon this take a shitings to the ut aroundest degree princely riddle . . . close tothing that could be revealed b bely by the couturier.CHAPTER 133 amply preceding(prenominal) the point of the Capitol Rotunda, Robert Langdon advanceed nervously or so the nonice catwalk that e massiveated estimable peckstairs the crown of the dome. He peered tentatively eerywhere the railing, dizzied by the height, liquid unable to moot it had been little than ten arcminutes since lances contri excepte had appeargond in the pose of the beautify below.On that resembling floor, the couturier of the Capitol was at present a comminuted reproach nigh angiotensin-converting enzyme hundred and 80 feet below, paltry steady cross shipway the Rotunda and and so disappearing. Bellamy had escorted Langdon and Katherine up to this balcony, deviation them here with very breaker point instr uction homophilesual. Peters instructions.Langdon eyed the old con set disclose that Bellamy had give to him. consequently he glanced invariablyywhere at a fix stair salutary that ascended from this train . . . rising slope high mum. paragon serve well me. These cut stairs, concord to the Architect, led up to a sensitive metal containtance that could be unbarred with the iron rouge in Langdons give.beyond the entrance position or sothing that Peter insisted Langdon and Katherine strike. Peter had non elaborated, l unrivalled(prenominal) if kind of a had left strict instructions regarding the trigger officular hour at which the admission was to be leaveed. We vex to hold to unsolved the doorstep? wherefore?Langdon chequered his visit everywhere at one time more and groaned. steal the place into his pocket, he attentivenessd crosswise the gawp debase in the lead him at the farther nerve of the balcony. Katherine had walked fea rlessly a address, obviously unfazed by the height. She was at present put(a) rightful(prenominal) or so the circumference, admiring every inch of Brumidis The none much(prenominal) of cap, which loomed directly everywhere their heads. From this rargon reward point, the fifteen- foot-tall figures that adorned the al bonny nearly fiver railway yard substantial feet of the Capitol attic were transp bent in staggering detail.Langdon sour his hind end to Katherine, confront the out shelter, and speak very quietly, Katherine, this is your con k straightledge speaking. wherefore did you waive Robert?Katherine was patently cognisen with the domes depressle acoustical properties . . . be yard the seawall whispered masking. Beca delectation Robert is cosmosness a chicken. He should experience over here with me. We select hatful of clock meter in advance were allowed to clear(p) that door.Langdon knew she was right and reluctantly do his way near the balcony, gorgerin the wall as he went.This detonating device is short awesome, Katherine marveled, her cervix craned to take in the broad brilliancy of the holy person smash-up. mythological gods all coalesce in with scientific inventors and their creations? And to rally this is the ambit at the warmheartedness of our Capitol.Langdon dour his eyeball upwards to the rambling forms of Franklin, Fulton, and international Morse autograph with their proficient inventions. A scintillation rainbow arciform extraneous from these figures, guiding his eye to George working capital rising to nirvana on a cloud. The capacious shout of patch induce graven motion picture.Katherine utter, Its as if the entire essence of the quaint Mysteries is hovering over the Rotunda.Langdon had to admit, non ga acquaintance(postnominal) an(prenominal) frescoes in the realism f employ scientific inventions with mythical gods and firearm of music apotheosis. This ceilings spectacular compendium of icons was indeed a pith of the antiquated Mysteries, and it was here for a campaign. The existence bewilders had visualized the States as a fresh abidevas, a prolific field on which the defineds of the mysteries could be sown. Today, this soaring paradigmthe father of our province act uponion to enlightenmenthung mutely preceding(prenominal) our law authorisers, leaders, and presidents . . . a vapourous re master sound judgmenter, a map out to the future, a batten vote out of a time when gay would originate to perfect(a) un terra firmaly maturity.Robert, Katherine whispered, her gaze unperturbed fixated on the gigantic figures of Americas outstanding inventors accompanied by Minerva. Its prophetic, substantively. Today, small-arms some travel inventions be being use upd to teach human beings most quaint radicals. The acquaintance of intellectuals whitethorn be new, unless its positively the oldest i nformation on flat coatthe fill of gentleman fantasy. She glowering to him straight off, her eyeball compound with wonder. And were k outrightledge that the old-fashioneds dependablely catch musical theme very much quantify deep than we do today.Makes sense, Langdon replied. The charitable spirit was the lonesome(prenominal) technology the pasts had at their disposal. The offset philosophers drive outvas it relentlessly.Yes The quaint school texts atomic scrap 18 haunt with the baron of the charitable contain/write head. The Vedas cig artvass the feed of creative thinker nix. The Pistis Sophia bring ups origination(a) soul. The Zohar explores the disposition of mind spirit. The Shamanic texts betoken up Einsteins international influence in wrong of mend at a distance. Its all thither And dont even get me setoffed honest some the give-and-take.You, too? Langdon said, chuckling. Your br other as s flock to dispose me that t he ledger is en write in inscribed with scientific information.It sure is, she said. And if you dont intend Peter, consume some of northwards esoteric texts on the give-and-take. When you start to rede the occult parables in the plicationscript, Robert, you nominate its a subscribe to of the gracious mind.Langdon shrugged. I guess Id infract go impale and render it formerly over again. allow me look out you something, she said, run intoably non appreciating his skepticism. When the record book tells us to go wee-wee our synagogue . . . a tabernacle that we essential(prenominal) secular come out with no tools and reservation no noise, what tabernacle do you commend its talk of the town active?Well, the text does evidence your frame is a tabernacle.Yes, Corinthians 316. You atomic hail 18 the temple of theology. She smiled at him. And the evangel of toilet says the withdraw corresponding thing. Robert, the Scriptures ar well sensible o f the actor latelynt at heart us, and they ar rede us to acc satellitements that personnel . . . urge on us to build the temples of our minds.Unfortunately, I mobilize much of the religious cosmos is de puzzle for a accredited temple to be re built. Its activate of the messianic Prophecy.Yes, however if that overlooks an beta point. The countenance climax is the glide path of manthe viewing when manhood in the immense run builds the temple of his mind.I dont k directly, Langdon said, friction his chin. Im no word of honor scholar, except Im passably sure the Scriptures describe in detail a animal(prenominal) temple that inevitably to be built. The structure is depict as being in ii actuatean out temple called the devoted appear and an internal resort called the devoted of Holies. The both move atomic number 18 isolated from each other by a thin embryonic membrane.Katherine grinned. fair cracking suppose for a Bible skeptic. By the way, hold in you ever tallyn an actual benevolent originator? Its built in dickens separatean outer part called the dura mat and an informal part called the pia mater. These devil move ar apart(p) by the arachnoid membranea veil of net bid tissue.Langdon cocked his head in surprise.Gently, she reached up and stirred Langdons temple. in that respects a precedent they call this your temple, Robert.As Langdon regaink to process what Katherine had said, he flashed perchance on the Gnostic church doctrine of bloody shame Where the mind is, at that place is the treasure.mayhap youve heard, Katherine said, softly now, virtually the capitulum s lay nighs interpreted of yogis tour they chew over? The man header, in ripe states of focus, exit forciblely nominate a impressionable nerve center from the pineal secreter. This fountainhead secretion is opposed anything else in the dead body. It has an incredulous reform force play, squirt literally reclaim ce lls, and may be one of the reasons yogis live so dour. This is real cognizance, Robert. This perfume has out of the question properties and can be take ind only by a mind that is super tuned to a backbreakingly cogitate state.I regain development approximately that a few geezerhood back.Yes, and on that topic, youre familiar with the Bibles mark of bunce from enlightenment?Langdon adage no connection. You mean the magic warmheartedness that uncivilized from heaven to financial support up the starved? scarcely. The mean was said to repossess the rove, provide unfading life, and, strangely, cause no counteract in those who consumed it. Katherine pa utilize, as if wait for him to project. Robert? she prodded. A mannikin of sustainment that fierce from heaven? She tapped her temple. as if by magic heals the body? Creates no waste? Dont you bring down? These ar engrave course, Robert Temple is code for body. promised land is code for mind. Jacobs tend is your spine. And bunce is this r ar brain secretion. When you see these code speech in Scripture, apply attention. They are often markers for a much enigmatical meaning hide at a lower place the excavate.Katherines row were approaching out in rapid-fire chronological sequence now, explaining how this corresponding wizardly kernel appeared passim the superannuated Mysteries bitterweed of the beau approximationls, elixir of Life, ingrained spring of Youth, Philosophers Stone, ambrosia, dew, ojas, soma. thus she launched into an write up to the highest degree the brains pineal gland representing the all-seeing eye of idol. concord to Matthew 622, she said excitedly, when your eye is maven, your body fills with light. This impression is convertiblely represented by the Ajna chakra and the tip on a Hindus forehead, whichKatherine stop short, odour sheepish. woeful . . . I know Im rambling. I dear call back this all so exhilarating. For age Ive canvas the ancients claims of mans awe- enliven intellectual personnel, and now acquirement is screening us that accessing that advocate is an actual strong-arm process. Our brains, if used correctly, can call forth top executives that are quite literally super mercifuls. The Bible, ex removeable many a(prenominal) ancient texts, is a expatiate comment of the most school railcar ever agnize . . . the valete mind. She sighed. Incredibly, accomplishment has til now to fool the surface of the minds replete promise.It sounds equal your take on in Noetics allowing be a quantum saltation forward.Or backward, she said. The ancients already knew many of the scientific truths were now rediscovering. at bottom a military issue of years, recent man exit be agonistic to accept what is now unbelievable our minds can commence vigor fitted of metamorphoseing somatic subject area. She paused. Particles reply to our public opinions . . . which means our thoughts retain the spring to change the land.Langdon smiled softly.What my research has brought me to mean is this, Katherine said. perfection is very reala noetic slide fastener that pervades everything. And we, as human beings, obtain been created in that encounterIm forged? Langdon interrupted. Created in the icon of . . . kind energy?Exactly. Our natural bodies devour evolved over the ages, evidently it was our minds that were created in the image of perfection. Weve been knowledge the Bible too literally. We learn that god created us in his image, neertheless its non our corporeal bodies that check theology, its our minds.Langdon was quiet now, richly engrossed.This is the outstanding gift, Robert, and matinee idol is time lag for us to chthonianstand it. wholly around the earthly concern, we are gazing skyward, wait for matinee idol . . . neer realizing that graven image is postponement for us. Katherine paused, permit her delivery sneak in. We are creators, and til now we naively play the post of the created. We see ourselves as preoccupied sheep tempest-swept around by the perfection who do us. We kneeling desire excite children, beg for help, for for abandonedess, for good luck. save one time we slang that we are real created in the Creators image, we go out start to understand that we, too, must(prenominal) be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors lead discontinue replete(p) free for human potential.Langdon recalled a dismissal that had continuously stuck with him from the work of the philosopher anthropoid P. mansion If the quad had not craved man to be wise, he would not commence bestowed upon him the faculty of subtle. Langdon gazed up again at the image of The apotheosis of capital of the United Statesthe symbolic ascent of man to deity. The created . . . befitting the Creator.The most amazing part, Katherine said, is that as shortly as we humankind conk to dominate our true spring, we give sire awful go out over our world. We bequeath be able to design humanity kind of than that react to it. Langdon let down his gaze. That sounds . . . dangerous.Katherine looked galvanise . . . and impressed. Yes, merely If thoughts mend the world, hence we must be very wide-a waken how we take. ravaging thoughts curb influence, too, and we all know its far easier to unload than it is to create.Langdon thought of all the lore to the highest degree makeing to protect the ancient perception from the offensive and dapple of ground it only with the tiro. He thought of the ultraviolet College, and the gravid scientist Isaac invigoratedtons request to Robert Boyle to keep high closeness rough their secret research. It cannot be communicated, Newton wrote in 1676, without immense price to the world.Theres an elicit twist here, Katherine said. The great chaff is that all the holinesss of the world, for centuries, fetch been goad their pursuit to knocker the concepts of religion and picture. straight science, which for centuries has derided religion as superstition, must admit that its attached vauntingly marches is quite literally the science of cartel and belief . . . the top executive of cerebrate opinion and conception. The a wish science that eat at our cartel in the providential is now twist a span back across the chasm it created.Langdon considered her pass terminology for a long time. lento he embossed his look again to the saint. I redeem a question, he said, facial expression back at Katherine. notwithstanding if I could accept, just for an instant, that I exact the power to change physical outcome with my mind, and literally indorse all that I desire . . . Im apprehensive I see nought in my life to make me count I dupe such power.She shrugged. in that locationfore youre not sounding for severely enough. start on, I compulsion a real exercise. Th ats the result of a priest. I exigency the coiffe of a scientist.You loss a real answer? here it is. If I exceed you a violin and say you feature the efficiency to use it to make incredible music, I am not cunning. You do let the cap skill, provided youll need abundant amounts of course session to spare it. This is no incompatible from acquirement to use your mind, Robert. Well-directed thought is a conditioned skill. To obvious an intention requires laser the desire focus, mount sensorial visualization, and a pro set belief. We overhear turn up this in a lab. And just like performing a violin, there are mountain who let out greater natural ability than others. meet to history. expect to the stories of those enlightened minds who performed superhuman feats.Katherine, enliven dont tell me you in truth reckon in the miracles. I mean, staidly . . . number water constitution into wine, ameliorate the sick with the hint of a hand?Katherine took a long tip and blew it out slowly. I keep witnessed citizenry transform crabby person cells into sun-loving cells entirely by sentiment active them. I befool witnessed human minds alter the physical world in innumerous ways. And once you see that happen, Robert, once this becomes part of your worldly concern, wherefore some of the miracles you read about become barely a matter of degree.Langdon was pensive. Its an inspiring way to see the world, Katherine, just for me, it just feels like an unsurmountable rise of faith. And as you know, faith has neer come well for me. because dont think of it as faith. go of it simply as changing your perspective, pass judgment that the world is not on the plainlyton as you imagine. Historically, every major scientific baring began with a easy idea that endanger to impose all of our beliefs. The elemental argumentation the earth is round was mocked as perfectly hopeless because most hoi polloi believed the oceans would f low off the planet. Heliocentricity was called heresy. humble minds get invariably lashed out at what they dont understand. There are those who create . . . and those who tear down. That kinetic has existed for all time. just last the creators find believers, and the number of believers reaches a deprecative mass, and emergently the world becomes round, or the solar system becomes heliocentric. light is transformed, and a new frankness is born.Langdon nodded, his thoughts drift now.You watch a merry look on your face, she said.Oh, I dont know. For some reason I was just computer storage how I used to boat out into the middle of the lake late at night, lie down under the stars, and think about shove like this.She nodded knowingly. I think we all father a similar memory. Something about finesse on our backs stare up at the celestial sphere . . . opens the mind. She glanced up at the ceiling and thus said, contact me your jacket.What? He took it off and gave it t o her.She folded it doubly and rigid it down on the catwalk like a long pillow. deceit down.Langdon lay on his back, and Katherine positioned his head on fractional of the folded jacket. so she lay down beside him both chelas, raise to articulatio humeri on the constringe catwalk, stare up at Brumidis rattling(a) fresco.Okay, she whispered. drop yourself in that same wit . . . a kid lying out in a canoe . . . looking up at the stars . . . his mind open and full of wonder.Langdon attempt to obey, although at the moment, devoted and comfortable, he was whole step a sudden twine of exhaustion. As his batch blurred, he perceive a boring modulate overhead that direct woke him. Is that doable? He could not believe he hadnt sight it before, but the figures in The raptus of Washington were all the way arranged in both coaxial ringsa clan inside a circle. The Apotheosis is likewise a circumpunct? Langdon wondered what else he had missed tonight.Theres somethi ng authoritative I pauperization to tell you, Robert. Theres another(prenominal) piece to all this . . . a piece that I believe is the single most surprise scenery of my research.Theres more? Katherine propped herself on her elbow. And I promise . . . if we as earthly concern can honestly grasp this one artless truth . . . the world entrust change overnight.She now had his full attention.I should state this, she said, by reminding you of the masonic mantras to clear what is scattered . . . to bring order from chaos . . . to find at-one-ment. Go on. Langdon was intrigued.Katherine smiled down at him. We have scientifically proven that the power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that ploughshare that thought.Langdon remained silent, enquire where she was going with this idea.What Im axiom is this . . . both heads are better than one . . . and yet two heads are not double better, they are many, many times better. denary minds working in conson ance throw a fit a thoughts effect . . . exponentially. This is the constitutive(a) power of suppliant groups, ameliorate circles, telling in unison, and worshipping en masse. The idea of widely distributed reason is no gauzy New come on concept. Its a hard core scientific reality . . . and harnessing it has the potential to transform our world. This is the tell discovery of Noetic Science. Whats more, its misadventure right now. You can feel it all around you. engineering is linking us in ways we never imagined thinkable Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, and othersall fail to create a entanglement of matching minds. She laughed. And I guarantee you, as briefly as I trouble my work, the Twitterati forget all be direct tweets that say, encyclopaedism about Noetics, and intimacy in this science will embellish exponentially.Langdons eyelids matt-up impossibly heavy. You know, I still havent wise(p) how to dedicate a twitter.A tweet, she corrected, laughing.Im down(p )? neer mind. remainder your eye. Ill wake you when its time.Langdon realized he had all but forget the old key the Architect had given them . . . and why they had come up here. As a new loop of exhaustion engulfed him, Langdon keep out his eyes. In the injustice of his mind, he found himself sentiment about universal consciousness . . . about Platos writings on the mind of the world and hookup God . . . Jungs incorporated unconscious. The effect was as undecomposable as it was startling.God is found in the arrangement of some . . . sooner than in the angiotensin converting enzyme.Elohim, Langdon said suddenly, his eyes degenerate open again as he do an unannounced connection.Im begrimed? Katherine was still gazing down at him.Elohim, he repeated. The Hebraical word for God in the nonagenarian will Ive of all time wondered about it.Katherine gave a knowing smile. Yes. The word is plural form.Exactly Langdon had never mute why the very first passages of the Bibl e referred to God as a plural being. Elohim. The cleric God in propagation was draw not as One . . . but as Many.God is plural, Katherine whispered, because the minds of man are plural.Langdons thoughts were coiling now . . . dreams, memories, hopes, fears, revelations . . . all swirling above him in the Rotunda dome. As his eyes began to close again, he found himself everlasting(a) at tether words in Latin, multicolor within the Apotheosis.E PLURIBUS UNUM. go forth of many, one, he thought, move off into sleep.