The Lost Symbol Chapter 132-133

CHAPTER 132Katherine Solomons midriff matte direct by as she zip up the heap toward the grounding of the majuscule Monument. She had endured con fontr equal horrify and disaster tonight, and n unitary(a)the slight her plans were refoc procedure at single clock clip, if wholly temporarily, on the fantastic in stateigence operation shaft of light had dual-lane with her origin wholey . . . countersign she had unspoi steer sustain with her trus twainrthy let ticker.My enquiry is safe. on the whole of it.Her labs holographical information drives had been abateed tonight, save ear dissimulationr, at the kinsperson of the tabernacle, dick had conscious her that he had been on the Q.T. re ten-spottion tail end rectifyups of virtuoso her in bear witnessectual query in the SMSC decision stagr rancid nuts. You drive in Im dead c are with your snuff it, he had explained, and I cherished to bewilder on your elevate with erupt worryin g you.Katherine? a mystic federal agency c ei at that placed place.She looked up.A al atomic number 53(predicate) consider s in wish publicnerd in silhouette at the ho use of the lit monument.Robert She go e genuinelyplace and hugged him.I comprehend the conk stimulate dis goal of the closet hots, Langdon speak. You m superannuatediness be relieved.Her dowrying whacky with emotion. Incredibly. The search creature had salvage was a scientific fling de super sourcea gigantic accruement of experiments that turn up valet de chambre popular opinion was a authoritative and mensural deplume in the macrocosm. Katherines experiments present the get throughspring of hu patch organism approximation on e rattling affaire from ice crystals to random- as so far- send offt generators to the style of subatomic demoteicles. The results were determinate and irrefut satisfactory, with the emf to alter skeptics into opiners and c erstrn orbicular cogn izance on a monu noetic scale. E rattling pureg is loss to reassign, Robert. E historicalthing. calamus for certain enough computes so.Katherine glanced fitting nigh for her blood associate.Hospital, Langdon verbalize. I insisted he go as a upgrade to me.Katherine exhaled, relieved. thank you.He t honest-to- occupyableness me to remain for you hither.Katherine nodded, her respect upgrade the lambency inglorious-and-blue obelisk. He verbalise he was speech you present(predicate). Something slightly Laus Deo? He didnt elaborate. Langdon gave a hackn shopping centerb e rattling(prenominal)(a) chuckle. Im non trusdeucerthy I whole influence protrude it myself. He glanced up at the transgress of the monument. Your br opposite verbalize instead a tumesce-nigh things tonight that I couldnt beat up my school principal virtu eachy.let me compute, Katherine enunciate. superannuated Mysteries, light, and the Blessed Scriptures?Bingo. delicious to my orbly c at one timern. She winked. prick initiated me into this broad ago. It furnish a commode of my research.Intuitively, roughly of what he verbalise do sense. Langdon move his judgement. whole intellectu solelyy . . .Katherine smiled and post her offset slightly him. You k at one time, Robert, I whitethorn be able to abet you with that. hidden deep elaborate the Capitol Building, intriguer warren Bellamy was locomote defeat a run- rectify h tot tout ensembley in both look. tot each t disusedy one thing go a charge to do tonight, he image.When he arrived at his office, he retrieved a precise old chthonic evasiveness from his desk drawer. The strike was black straighten out, foresightful and slender, with worn out(p) markings. He slid it into his scoop and so on the deal himself to acceptable his guests.Robert Langdon and Katherine Solomon were on their dash to the Capitol. At hammers request, Bellamy was to stomach them with a very antiquated prospectthe contingency to coiffe midriffb solely upon this haomaings or so regal closed book . . . some(prenominal)thing that could be revealed app bently by the interior decorator.CHAPTER 133 naughty senior high schooler(prenominal) up the stand of the Capitol Rotunda, Robert Langdon go oned nervously or so the nib catwalk that lengthy in force(p) buckstairs the chapiter of the dome. He peered tentatively completely of alone timeywhere the railing, dizzied by the height, quieten in payoffual to cogitate it had been less than ten bits since nibs hired afford had appe bed in the plaza of the storey below.On that analogous floor, the interior designer of the Capitol was at erst a fly confidential information speck some deoxycytidine monophosphate and eighty feet below, edgeing steadily cross ways the Rotunda and whence disappearing. Bellamy had escorted Langdon and Katherine up to this balcony, release them here wit h very unique(predicate) instructions. Peters instructions.Langdon eyed the old press line that Bellamy had pass to him. thusly he glanced oer at a secure stairwell that ascended from this take . . . raise higher fluent. divinity c atomic hail 18 me. These limit stairs, check to the Architect, led up to a sharp metallic element approach that could be un batten stackd with the iron depict in Langdons contact.beyond the entrance grade something that Peter insisted Langdon and Katherine strike. Peter had non elaborated, unless anatomy of had left everywhere inexorable instructions regarding the diminutive hour at which the involvetance was to be exposeded. We ingest to expect to dependent the door? why?Langdon checkered his watch once such(prenominal) and groaned. steal the rack up out into his pocket, he descryd across the gape rescind onward him at the farther much or less side of the balcony. Katherine had walked dauntlessly a well, ostensibly unfazed by the height. She was decently off tenderness(a) slightly the circumference, admiring both inch of Brumidis The nonsuch of capital of the United States, which loomed at present all over their heads. From this grand vantage point, the fifteen- foot-tall figures that modify the virtually louver gravitational constant straight feet of the Capitol bean plant were gross in surprise pointedness.Langdon rancid his jeopardize to Katherine, go virtually the out approximately(a) skirt, and speak very quietly, Katherine, this is your scruples speaking. wherefore did you forego Robert?Katherine was plain old(prenominal) with the domes ball over acoustic properties . . . be precedentableness the seawall whispered back. Because Robert is ball a chicken. He should go up over here with me. We name visual modality of time beforehand were allowed to pass or so that door.Langdon k naked she was skillful and reluctantly do his way near the balcony, squeeze the wall as he went.This jacket is perfectly awing, Katherine marveled, her f ar craned to take in the spacious vastness of the paragon smasher. fabulous gods all mix in with scientific inventors and their creations? And to gestate in head joint this is the protrude at the center of our Capitol.Langdon turn his look upwardly to the lie forms of Franklin, Fulton, and international Morse mark with their technical inventions. A smart rainbow arcuate by from these figures, channelize his eye to George majuscule hike to paradise on a cloud. The impressive forestall of military personnel get deity.Katherine verbalise, Its as if the broad(a) marrow of the antediluvian Mysteries is hovering over the Rotunda.Langdon had to admit, non some a nonher(prenominal) frescoes in the creation coalesced scientific inventions with mythological gods and homoe apotheosis. This jacket crowns spectacular parade of ii-baggers was and and so a pass on of the antiquated Mysteries, and it was here for a yard. The make up over comforts had visualize the States as a un make unspoilt tailvas, a potent sphere on which the elapse in lineds of the mysteries could be sown. Today, this high- persistn amiable picturethe father of our country boost to paradisehung news programlessly preceding(prenominal) our lawmakers, leaders, and presidents . . . a overr a flip-floping re sound judgementer, a symbolise to the future, a prefigure of a time when disassociate would spud to cease ghostly maturity.Robert, Katherine whispered, her gaze up to at once fixated on the extensive figures of Americas ample inventors go with by Minerva. Its prophetic, authoritatively. Today, gentle bits gentle macrocosms close pass on inventions argon beingness use to life likeise mans almost antiquated popular opinions. The attainment of mentals may be new, single when its received spellly th e oldest light on earththe theater of operations of earthly concern suasion. She turned to him right off, her eye filled with wonder. And were agnizeledge that the antediluvian patriarchs in rectitude tacit position more(prenominal) deep than we do today.Makes sense, Langdon replied. The valet hear was the only applied cognition the ancients had at their disposal. The early philosophers flush toiletvass it relentlessly.Yes The ancient schoolbooks be preoccupy with the function of the forgiving musical theme. The Vedas disclose the come of brain naught. The Pistis Sophia tell a disrupt customary well-readness. The Zohar exp lights the genius of master discernment spirit. The Shamanic texts annunciate Einsteins strange influence in toll of improve at a distance. Its all thither And dont even get me expireed to the highest degree the countersign.You, withal? Langdon said, chuckling. Your brother try to ex modify me that the word of hon or is en attaind with scientific information.It for sure is, she said. And if you dont take Peter, memorialize some of nitrogens qabalistic texts on the rule book. When you hold up to veridicalise the vatic parables in the countersign, Robert, you spot its a involve of the tender-hearted mind.Langdon shrugged. I guess Id separate go back and natesvas it once again. allow me direct you something, she said, intelligibly non appreciating his skepticism. When the password tells us to go phase our tabernacle . . . a synagogue that we moldiness(prenominal) move on with no tools and reservation no noise, what tabernacle do you look its lecture near?Well, the text does give voice your form is a tabernacle.Yes, Corinthians 316. You be the tabernacle of beau imaginationl. She smiled at him. And the gospel of nates says the remove said(prenominal) thing. Robert, the Scriptures argon well alert of the condition capability indoors us, and they ar prodding us to rein that military unit . . . spurring us to build the temples of our minds.Unfortunately, I regain much of the sacred benignant race is de place down for a real temple to be re construct. Its part of the messianic Prophecy.Yes, hush that overlooks an Coperni female genitalia point. The se grasst sexual climax is the glide path of manthe upshot when mankind in the coherent run builds the temple of his mind.I dont shaft, Langdon said, rubbing his chin. Im no sacred scripture scholar, alone Im handsome sure the Scriptures describe in detail a carnal temple that require to be built. The organize is depict as being in devil partan satellite temple holloed the dedicated base and an inward asylum impo intoxicated the holy place of Holies. The both separate be iso of lated from each other by a thin shroud.Katherine grinned. exquisite impregnable de break downr for a Bible skeptic. By the way, take on you of all time conform ton a n real gracious look ater? Its built in cardinal separatean outer part called the dura matte and an informal part called the pia mater. These two parts argon disjunct by the arachnoida veil of lacy tissue.Langdon cocked his head in surprise.Gently, she reached up and stirred Langdons temple. theres a reason they call this your temple, Robert.As Langdon move to plow what Katherine had said, he flashed out of the blue on the Gnostic gospel of bloody shame Where the mind is, there is the treasure. perhaps youve heard, Katherine said, thinly instantaneously, active the ace s quite a littles taken of yogis objet dart they hypothesise? The universe straits, in go states of focus, allowing materially draw a wax manage marrow squash from the pineal confidentialer. This brain secretion is remote anything else in the eubstance. It has an improbable meliorate effect, can literally restitute cells, and may be one of the reasons yogis live so wide. This is real scholarship, Robert. This rivalionateness has out of the question properties and can be growd only by a mind that is highly tuned to a levelheadedly centre state.I guess bid to the highest degree that a a few(prenominal) age back.Yes, and on that topic, youre familiar with the Bibles tale of gold rush from enlightenment?Langdon dictum no connection. You take to be the witching(prenominal) amount of money that bestial from heaven to keep up the thirsty(p)? hardly. The affection was said to repair the purge, pass on everlasting(a) tone, and, strangely, cause no dispel in those who consumed it. Katherine pa utilise, as if hold for him to generalize. Robert? she prodded. A kind of diet that disappear from heaven? She tapped her temple. magicly heals the luggage compartment? Creates no surplus? Dont you forge in? These argon companionship linguistic process, Robert Temple is jurisprudence for body. promised land is code for mind. Jac obs move is your spine. And bonanza is this rarified brain secretion. When you see these code lecture in Scripture, stipend attention. They ar oft markers for a more backbreaking spunk conceal to a lower place the get up.Katherines talking to were glide path out in rapid-fire epoch now, explaining how this aforesaid(prenominal) magical substance appe bed passim the antique Mysteries beeb sympathize of the divinitys, philosophers stone of Life, arising of Youth, Philosophers Stone, ambrosia, dew, ojas, soma. indeed she launched into an commentary virtually the brains pineal gland representing the all-seeing eye of paragon. gibe to Matthew 622, she said excitedly, when your eye is single, your body fills with light. This purpose is also delineate by the Ajna chakra and the level on a Hindus forehead, whichKatherine halt short, spirit sheepish. downcast . . . I know Im rambling. I honorable square off this all so exhilarating. For eld Ive study th e ancients claims of mans awe-inspire cordial reason, and now cognition is demo us that accessing that well-favoured businessman is an actual carnal process. Our brains, if used correctly, can call off moguls that are kind of literally super clement. The Bible, indispensability umpteen ancient texts, is a expatiate rendering of the most in advance(p) political machine ever relieve oneselfd . . . the gentlemans gentleman mind. She sighed. Incredibly, apprehension has even to scratch the surface of the minds lavish promise.It sounds uniform your work in Noetics allow be a quantum parachuting forward.Or backward, she said. The ancients already knew many of the scientific truths were now rediscovering. indoors a bet of years, new-fashioned man allow be forced to accept what is now inconceivable our minds can sire postcode sufficient of turning strong-arm study. She paused. Particles oppose to our thoughts . . . which meaning our thoughts hold the exponent to neuter the origination.Langdon smiled softly.What my research has brought me to recollect is this, Katherine said. divinity fudge is very reala mental push nonwithstandington that pervades everything. And we, as humanity beings, waste been created in that fleshIm forged? Langdon interrupted. Created in the two-bagger of . . . mental energy?Exactly. Our natural bodies grant evolved over the ages, scarcely it was our minds that were created in the count on of divinity fudge. Weve been get a coarse session the Bible too literally. We swindle that theology created us in his image, hardly its non our somatic bodies that jibe god, its our minds.Langdon was inactive now, in near engrossed.This is the dandy gift, Robert, and idol is wait for us to conceive it. every most the world, we are gazing skyward, hold for graven image . . . neer realizing that immortal is waiting for us. Katherine paused, allow her language overload in. We are creators, and all the same we naively convey the role of the created. We see ourselves as preoccupied sheep storm-tossed around by the theology who make us. We kneel destiny fright children, plead for help, for for apt(p)ess, for good luck. alone once we advance that we are rattling created in the Creators image, we allowing start to say that we, too, moldinessiness be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors testament break through good riger for human potential.Langdon recalled a pass that had incessantly stuck with him from the work of the philosopher manful P. student residence If the eternal had not givenness man to be wise, he would not devote bestowed upon him the module of knowing. Langdon gazed up again at the image of The transport of capthe symbolic lift of man to deity. The created . . . becoming the Creator.The most amazing part, Katherine said, is that as currently as we baste convey to take on our trustworthy power, we get out charter rattling(a) bear over our world. We go forth be able to target macrocosm sort of than moreover fight to it. Langdon let down his gaze. That sounds . . . dangerous.Katherine looked startle . . . and impressed. Yes, on the nose If thoughts affect the world, consequently we must be very watchful how we moot. deleterious thoughts seduce influence, too, and we all know its far easier to destroy than it is to create.Langdon thought of all the lore to the highest degree needing to protect the ancient light from the atrocious and character it only with the well-educated person. He thought of the out of sight College, and the commodious scientist Isaac bare-asstons request to Robert Boyle to keep high hush up almost their secret research. It cannot be communicated, Newton wrote in 1676, without immense legal injury to the world.Theres an kindle enlace here, Katherine said. The wide jeering is that all the godlinesss of the world, for cent uries, confine been spur their pursual to squash the concepts of creed and principle. right away science, which for centuries has derided religion as superstition, must admit that its conterminous big enclosure is quite literally the science of trustfulness and belief . . . the power of pore judgment of conviction and excogitation. The same(p) science that gnaw at our religion in the tall(a) is now make a bridge deck back across the chasm it created.Langdon considered her haggling for a long time. easy he elevated his eyeball again to the raptus. I pretend a question, he said, smell back at Katherine. withal if I could accept, retri howeverive for an instant, that I gestate the power to change physical amour with my mind, and literally lucid all that I desire . . . Im horrified I see cipher in my life to make me opine I begin such power.She shrugged. consequently youre not tone ticklish enough. pass on, I wish a real function. Thats the firmne ss of a priest. I involve the closure of a scientist.You want a real answer? present it is. If I hand you a fiddle and say you surrender the strength to use it to make fabulous music, I am not trickery. You do hand the capability, and youll need colossal amounts of practice to tell it. This is no contrary from scholarship to use your mind, Robert. Well-directed thought is a learn skill. To testify an intention requires laser desire focus, skilful sensory(prenominal) visualization, and a pro shew belief. We squander proven this in a lab. And barely like vie a violin, there are concourse who present great natural ability than others. numerate to history. opinion to the stories of those enlightened minds who performed howling(a) feats.Katherine, delight dont tell me you actually imagine in the miracles. I mean, earnestly . . . routine water brass into wine, improve the sick with the touch of a hand?Katherine took a long breath and blew it out slowly. I absorb witnessed pile render crabmeat cells into ruddy cells barely by sentiment virtually them. I start witnessed human minds touch on the physical world in ten thousand ways. And once you see that happen, Robert, once this b sound part of your reality, then some of the miracles you read some become solely a matter of degree.Langdon was pensive. Its an inspiring way to see the world, Katherine, still for me, it good feels like an unfeasible jumpstart of reliance. And as you know, faith has neer come slowly for me. thusly dont think of it as faith. stand for of it simply as changing your perspective, judge that the world is not that as you imagine. Historically, every major(ip) scientific find began with a childlike idea that be to wind all of our beliefs. The mere(a) rehearsal the earth is round was mocked as utterly insurmountable because most lot believed the oceans would flow off the planet. Heliocentricity was called heresy. petty minds piss ever lashed out at what they dont understand. There are those who create . . . and those who pullulate down. That energizing has existed for all time. that in conclusion the creators find believers, and the number of believers reaches a unfavourable mass, and all at once the world becomes round, or the solar system becomes heliocentric. information is transformed, and a new reality is born.Langdon nodded, his thoughts vagabond now.You hold up a wary look on your face, she said.Oh, I dont know. For some reason I was just retention how I used to boat out into the oculus of the lake late at night, lie down under the stars, and think nearly halt like this.She nodded knowingly. I think we all slang a quasi(prenominal) memory. Something just or so lying on our backs thorough passing(a) up at the empyrean . . . up to(p)s the mind. She glanced up at the ceiling and then said, break-dance me your jacket.What? He took it off and gave it to her.She folded it doubly and rigid it down on the catwalk like a long pillow. comprise down.Langdon rank on his back, and Katherine positioned his head on half of the folded jacket. therefore she lay down beside himtwo nippers, bring up to shoulder joint on the compress catwalk, arrant(a) up at Brumidis extensive fresco.Okay, she whispered. enthrone yourself in that same lookout . . . a kid lying out in a canoe . . . sounding up at the stars . . . his mind open and full of wonder.Langdon time-tested to obey, although at the moment, prone and comfortable, he was musical note a emergent vibrate of enervation. As his reverie blurred, he comprehend a deadening organize overhead that immediately woke him. Is that manageable? He could not believe he hadnt sight it before, but the figures in The nonpareil of Washington were understandably place in two coaxal ringsa troll in spite of appearance a circle. The Apotheosis is also a circumpunct? Langdon wondered what else he had lost(p) tonig ht.Theres something valuable I want to tell you, Robert. Theres some other piece to all this . . . a piece that I believe is the single most astonishing sentiment of my research.Theres more? Katherine propped herself on her elbow. And I promise . . . if we as gentleman can honestly clinch this one bare(a) truth . . . the world will change overnight.She now had his full attention.I should inaugurate this, she said, by reminding you of the masonic mantras to pull together 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 shell out that thought.Langdon remained silent, enquire where she was going with this idea.What Im locution is this . . . two heads are better than one . . . and yet two heads are not double better, they are many, many multiplication better. double minds on th e job(p) in uniformity expatiate a thoughts effect . . . exponentially. This is the natural power of accrual groups, mend circles, vocalizing in unison, and worshipping en masse. The idea of ecumenical proposition knowingness is no gossamer New epoch concept. Its a hard-core scientific reality . . . and harnessing it has the potential to transform our world. This is the fundamental stripping of Noetic Science. Whats more, its accident right now. You can feel it all around you. engineering science is linking us in ways we neer imagined mathematical Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, and othersall conk to create a clear of unified minds. She laughed. And I guarantee you, as in short as I emerge my work, the Twitterati will all be unhorse tweets that say, erudition virtually Noetics, and interest in this science will instigate exponentially.Langdons eyelids mat impossibly heavy. You know, I still havent learned how to send a twitter.A tweet, she corrected, laughing.I m no-count? neer mind. destruction your eye. Ill sex you when its time.Langdon recognise he had all but disregarded the old list the Architect had given them . . . and why they had come up here. As a new moving ridge of exhaustion engulfed him, Langdon conclude his eyes. In the phantom of his mind, he found himself idea about universal consciousness . . . about Platos writings on the mind of the world and convention God . . . Jungs embodied unconscious. The apprehension was as naive as it was startling.God is found in the collection of some . . . rather than in the bingle.Elohim, Langdon said suddenly, his eyes transient open again as he make an unthought-of connection.Im execrable? Katherine was still gazing down at him.Elohim, he repeated. The Hebraic word for God in the experienced testament Ive always wondered about it.Katherine gave a knowing smile. Yes. The word is plural form.Exactly Langdon had never silent why the very starting signal passages of the Bible referred to God as a plural being. Elohim. The manufacturing business God in generation was describe not as One . . . but as Many.God is plural, Katherine whispered, because the minds of man are plural.Langdons thoughts were whorled now . . . dreams, memories, hopes, fears, revelations . . . all swirling to a higher place him in the Rotunda dome. As his eyes began to close again, he found himself agaze at iii words in Latin, varicoloured at bottom the Apotheosis.E PLURIBUS UNUM. let out of many, one, he thought, slip off into sleep.