The Freemasons: WHo Are They?

Cover of 'The Lost Symbol."

The book The Lost Symbol is the third in the critical and commercially successful Robert Langdon series of books. In the story, the protagonist, Robert Langdon, a professor of symbology at Harvard, gets a  call from his friend, Peter Solomon, a scientist and a high-ranking member of the Freemasons, asking him to speak in his place at an event in Washington DC. Langdon travels there, where he finds out an impostor, who had kidnapped Solomon, wants  him to find "the portal", a way to seemingly look back into the past.

     Who are the Freemason's. When someone bring up the term, you probably conjure up images of a Satanic cult, or the Illuminati. However, the Freemason's are a society with a worldwide presence. Founded by a group of actual mason's (People who woked with stone), past members included several Founding Fathers, including George Washington, Ben Franklin and Samuel Adams. Current famous members include anyone from politicians to celebrities to teachers, businessmen and everyone in between. The group, which only allows women to join, is very secretive. New members must vow to never spill the secrets of Freemason rituals, ehich the antagonist of the book wishes to do.