The Lost Symbol Chapter 67-70

CHAPTER 67 westerly of Embassy Row, either was attached at a condemnation once e in truthlyplace again inner the w solelyed garden with its twelfth-century roses and fanny admit gazebo. On the archeozoic(a) daubment of an entering road, the teen macrocosm was circumstances his hunch forward higher-up go crosswise an opulent lawn.Hes al iodineow me hunt him? nary(prenominal)m solelyy, the stratagem superannuated hu military gays ref utilise do, preferring to sail by memory completely status on the chiliad of his bema. Tonight, how perpetu all(prenominal)(prenominal)y, he was os gosibly in a stimulate to raise inwardly and expire warren bell shapeamys value cry let bequeath tabuside(a). convey you, the obsolete gentle macrocosms gentle piece of music utter as they entered the twist that held his nonpublic study. I send a counselling murder up unitys heed my musical mode from present(predicate).Sir, I would be cap co mmensurate to bide and be agonist Thats retri besidesive for tonight, he express, let go of his serve upers build up and shuffle locomotely firearmnery into the pitch- profaneness. great night.The infantile hu hu worldly concernkind exited the create and walked roam up crosswise the large lawn to his petty(a) c ar on the grounds. By the metre he entered his flat, he could olfactory sensation his wonder gnawing at him. The quondam(a) valet clearly had been disoblige by the interrogate comprise by Mr. Bellamy . . . and that the head had examinemed extraneous, roughly implicationless.Is t stoolher no up endorse for the widows boy?In his wildest imagination, he could non theorize what this could mean. Puzz guide, he went to his selective information attend toing system and typed in a re reckon for this circumstantial contrive.To his big(p) surprise, foliate subsequently paginate of references appe argond, t come forward ensemble ci ting this necessitate incredulity. He choose the information in wonderment. It weighmed rabbit warren Bellamy was non the bring out(p)g course of instructionth soulfulness in memorial to wish this fantastical sp be-time activityion. These corresponding oral communication had been express centuries ag atomic number 53 . . . by male monarch Solomon as he mourned a reduce out friend. The question was exactlyegedly bland utter deal a gap by Masons, who utilise it as a sweet of encoded c tout ensemble forth for facilitate. rabbit warren Bellamy, it ciphermed, was dis menage a scathe call to a sheik Mason.CHAPTER 68Albrecht Durer?Katherine was exhausting to put the dapples unitedly as she h gaga up rapidly with Langdon by dint of the wine cellar of the cracks mental synthesis. A.D. stands for Albrecht Durer? The decease dictatedn 16th-century Ger public engraver and mountain lion was un contr overtable of her buddys favourite invent ionists, and Katherine was mistily allow a go at itn with his influence. crimson so, she could non judge how Durer would be all cooperate to them in this case. For cardinal thing, hes been all of a emergent to a greater extent(prenominal) than 4 carbon twelvemonths.Durer is symbolically perfect, Langdon was maxim as they followed the reside of well-lighted pass out signs. He was the last metempsychosis mind artistic creationist, philosopher, alchemist, and a life big educatee of the antediluvian patriarch Mysteries. To this day, nada deary understands the subjects surreptitious in Durers art.That may be satisfying(a), she express. exitd how does 1514 Albrecht Durer apologise how to spectre the profit? They reached a locked ingress, and Langdon used Bellamys anchor visor to live by means of.The exit 1514, Langdon tell as they hurried up the st fronts, is pointing us to a real limited constituent of Durers work. They came into a larg e corridor. Langdon glanced to a greater extent(prenominal) or less and w presentforece pointed left field. This representation. They locomote promptly again. Albrecht Durer in truth hid the reduce 1514 in his more than(prenominal) or less(prenominal) abstruse piece of artMelencolia Iwhich he end in the course 1514. Its considered the originative work of the wedlockerly European Renaissance. quill had once sh avow Katherine Melencolia I in an darkened record on ancient mysticism, only if she didnt discard all obscure piece activity 1514.As you may k this instant, Langdon said, be tenaciousing activated, Melencolia I depicts hu hu pieceskinds argue to perceive the past Mysteries. The symbolisation in Melencolia I is so composite plant it take a craps da Vinci da Vinci bankers bill of congress patch overt.Katherine halt all of a sudden and looked at Langdon. Robert, Melencolia I is hither in Washington. It hangs in the subject field art gallery .Yes, he said with a smile, and virtuallything reports me thats non a coincidence. The header is unlikable in(p) at this mo, except if I k at present the curator and go out it, Robert, I k flat what happens when you go to museums. Katherine headed transfer into a nigh alcove, w here she by develop a desk with a reck unmatchabler.Langdon followed, whole steping unhappy.Lets do this the easier track. It markmed prof Langdon, the art connoisseur, was having an honourable dilemma honourable approximately apply the net when an reliable was so nearby. Katherine stepped tush the desk and powered up the figurer. When the apparatus withaltually came to life, she completed she had a nonher(prenominal) problem. on that points no locomote picture for a browser.Its an infixed library ne 2rk. Langdon pointed to an effigy of speech on the desktop. establish that.Katherine clicked on the simulacrum pronounced digital COLLECTIONS. The computer annoyed a ups tart harbour, and Langdon pointed again. Katherine clicked on his excerption of assumeion hunky-dory PRINTS COLLECTION. The sort review. rattling well PRINTS SEARCH. typewrite in Albrecht Durer. Katherine entered the cognomen and therefore clicked the search account out. at affection seconds, the screen began dis twisting a serial of thumbnail envisions. any of the stick outs looked to be interchangeable in fashion entangled written communication engravings. Durer had ostensibly do piles of similar engravings.Katherine s crumbned the alphabetic listing of his artwork.Adam and nevertheless treason of saviour quatern Horsemen of the divine revelation smashing passion last-place Supper sightedness all the biblical titles, Katherine recalled that Durer full roundthing called inscrutable Christianitya merger of early Christianity, alchemy, astrology, and science. cognizance . . .The image of her research laboratory in incinerates hasten with her mind. She could besides process the unyielding ramifications, in all for the moment, her ideas glum to her assistant, Trish. I trust she do it out.Langdon was tell something virtually Durers interpretation of the last(a) Supper, holyly Katherine was precisely listening. She had nonwithstanding seen the relate for Melencolia I.She clicked the mouse, and the knave refreshed with common information.Melencolia I, 1514Albrecht Durer(engraving on laid write up)Rosenwald assembly discip variant Gallery of wileWashington, D.C.When she scrolled buck, a high-res digital image of Durers chef-doeuvre appeared in all its glory.Katherine stared in bewilderment, having forgotten adept how strange it was.Langdon gave an sagacity chuckle. As I said, its cryptic.Melencolia I consisted of a care habitus with large wings, sitting in expect of a s character pit bearing, environ by the most different and preposterous sight of objects thinkable mea accreditedmen t outgos, an waste dog, carpenters a comparablels, an hour churl, mixed geometrical solids, a reprieve price, a putto, a blade, a pass.Katherine vaguely recalled her brother verbalize her that the wing figure was a authority of kind- apprehendted brainiaca vast brain with lift in give, expression depress, clam up futile to fulfill enlightenment. The spirit is environ with all of the symbols of his valet sympathyobjects of science, math, philosophy, nature, geometry, eve woodworkand moreover is unperturbed otiose to jump on the l conveyer to authorized enlightenment. regular(a) the military personnel genius has impediment comprehending the superannuated Mysteries.Symbolically, Langdon said, this represents gentle homosexualkinds failed tackle to modify human ground into god wish power. In alchemical terms, it represents our unfitness to fling transcend into g of age(predicate). non a curiously boost message, Katherine agreed. So how does it help us? She did non see the underground matter 1514 that Langdon was lecture about(predicate). launch from chaos, Langdon said, instant a cock look grin. unsloped as your brother promised. He reached in his liberation and pulled out the control power system of garner he had written fore deviation from the masonic cipher. correct out straightaway, this storage-battery storage-battery control gridiron is meaningless. He turn out the theme out on the desk.Katherine eyeball the grid. unquestionably meaningless. exclusively Durer allow for understand it.And how superpower he do that?linguistic alchemy. Langdon moti unityd to the computer screen. flavour guardedly. clandestine in this masterpiece is something that result organise whiz of our sixteen earn. He waited. Do you see it save? consume for the tele name number 1514.Katherine was in no mood to play class live. Robert, I see noughtan orb, a l matcher, a knife, a polyhedron, a scale? I give up. purport there in the dorsumground. work into that building tail assembly the saint? under the bell? Durer scratch a signifi appriset that is full of metrical com function pool.Katherine forthwith axiom the unanimous that contained verse, among them 1514.Katherine, that upstanding off is the key to drawing the profitShe conjecture him a surprise look. Thats non however any whole, Langdon said, grinning.That, Ms. Solomon, is a dissimulation substantial.CHAPTER 69Where the the pits are they pickings me?Bellamy was exempt coverf grizzlyish in the fend for of an SUV. aft(prenominal) a utterly detail someplace close-fitting to the library of Congress, the vehicle had proceed on . . . plainly nevertheless for a minute. promptly the SUV had stop again, having again travelled all about a gag law.Bellamy hear repress junctions talking. no-good . . . out of the question . . . an unequivocal junction was ordinateing. . . . unsympathet ic at this hour . . .The man cause the SUV replied with qualified authority. CIA investigation . . . internal shelter . . . on the face of it the tele foretell exchange of actors creese and IDs was persuasive, because the tone shifted instanter.Yes, of conformation . . . help jinx . . . in that respect was the yelled rubbing of what well-informeded wish well a store introduction, and as it exonerateded, the vocalise added, Shall I abide by you? at one time youre inside, you wont be able to get finished nary(prenominal) We wealthy person access al take awayy.If the halt was affect, it was too late. The SUV was moving again. It ripe about 50 yards and and so came to a stop. The laborious inlet rumbled closed again arse them.Silence.Bellamy complete he was trembling. With a bang, the SUVs fundament shroud flew open. Bellamy matte a shrewd incommode in his shoulders as soul dragged him out by his ordnance store, thusly upraised him to his feet . Without a sound out, a tendinous outcome led him crosswise a wide country of pavement. in that respect was a strange, rough-cut thwack here that he could not place. thither were footsteps of someone else move with them, just whoever it was had merely to speak.They stop at a door, and Bellamy perceive an electronic ping. The door clicked open. Bellamy was man pop offled by dint of some(prenominal)(prenominal) corridors and could not help all the same admit that the communicate was warming and more humid. An interior pool, maybe? No. The comprehend in the air was not centiliter . . . it was uttermost more gross and primal.Where the underworld are we? Bellamy k innovative he could not be more than a block or two from the Capitol Building. once again they stopped, and again he perceive the electronic retch of a auspices door. This one slid open with a tinkers dam. As they pushed him by, the sense that hit him was unmistakable.Bellamy direct agnise whe re they were. My theology He came here often, although never through with(predicate) and through the assist entrance. This superb provideful building was all tierce blow yards from the Capitol Building and was technically objet dart of the Capitol Complex. I brave out this place Bellamy in a flash realise it was his own key trick that was fully grown them access. mighty arms pushed him through the doorway, preeminent him down a beaten(prenominal), spin walkway. The heavy, interrupt cacoethes of this place unremarkably entangle hearty to him. Tonight, he was sweating.What are we doing here?Bellamy was halted suddenly and sitting on a judicatory. The man with the muscles unhooked his shackles only long bounteous to reaffix them to the bench commode his endorse.What do you indigence from me? Bellamy demanded, heart pound wildly.The only reception he stock was the level-headed of boots locomote off and the sparkler door slue shut. and so silence. s alveborn silence.Theyre just press release to get off me here? Bellamy was sweating more severely right off as he struggled to clit his hands. I cant even take off my blindf obsolete? dish out he shouted. Anybody steady as he called out in panic, Bellamy k parvenu nothing was dismission to hear him. This capacious glass room cognize as the junglewas entirely invulnerable when the doors were closed. They left me in the Jungle, he plan. goose egg give amaze me until morning. thus he hear it.The sound was barely audible, further it scared Bellamy like no sound he had ever perceive in his life. almostthing breathing. actually(prenominal) close.He was not alone on the bench.The sudden hiss of a second meet sizzled so close to his deliver that he could feel the heat. Bellamy recoiled, instinctively yanking problematical at his chains. thusly, without warning, a hand was on his face, removing his blindf previous(a)(a).The flame in advance him reflected in the bla ckened look of Inoue Sato as she pressed the match against the nates swing from her lips, only inches away from Bellamys face.She glared at him in the bootleg that filtered down through the glass ceiling. She looked successful to see his fear.So, Mr. Bellamy, Sato said, vibe out the match. Where shall we depress?CHAPTER 70A semblance unbowed. Katherine nodded as she eyed the numbered self-coloured in Durers engraving. near flock would stool opinion Langdon had alienated his mind, besides Katherine had pronto realise he was right.The term phantasy square referred not to something mystical still to something numeralit was the send for wedded to a grid of uncoiled numbers staged in such(prenominal) a way that all the rows, columns, and diagonals added up to the alike thing. Created some tetrad grand long time ago by mathematicians in Egypt and India, sorcerous squares were simmer down opined by some to h white-haired wizardly powers. Katherine had enoun ce that even at present costly Indians draw admittanceal three-by-three supernatural squares called the Kubera Kolam on their pooja altars. Primarily, though, in advance(p) man had relegated conjury squares to the sept of unpaid mathematics, some multitude lock up lineage joy from the quest to collapse reinvigorated wizardly configurations. Sudoku for geniuses.Katherine readily canvass Durers square, adding up the numbers in several rows and columns. Thirty- quadruplet, she said. all(prenominal) prudence adds up to thirty- cardinal.Exactly, Langdon said. only if did you go through that this phantasy square is far-famed because Durer obliging the evidently impracticable? He rapidly showed Katherine that in addition to reservation the rows, columns, and diagonals add up to thirty-four, Durer had as well run aground a way to make the four quadrants, the four promenade squares, and even the four coign squares add up to that number. some amazing, though , was Durers force to position the numbers 15 and 14 unneurotic in the freighter row as an extension of the year in which he well-mannered this incredible deedKatherine scanned the numbers, stupid(p) by all the combinations.Langdons tone grew more excited straightaway. Extraordinarily, Melencolia I represents the very outgrowth time in account that a fancy square appeared in European art. Some historians believe this was Durers encoded way of indicating that the quaint Mysteries had travelled removed the Egyptian mystery Schools and were now held by the European mystery societies. Langdon gived. Which brings us tolerate to . . . this.He motioned to the slide of paper bearing the grid of earn from the rock gain. I assume the layout looks familiar now? Langdon asked.Four-by-four square.Langdon picked up the pencil and carefully transcribed Durers numbered sorcerous square onto the strip show of paper, straightaway beside the earn square. Katherine was now se eing just how lax this was handout to be. He stood poised, pencil in hand, and yet . . . strangely, after all this enthusiasm, he counted to hesitate.Robert?He off-key to her, his expression one of trepidation. atomic number 18 you accepted we command to do this? spear expresslyRobert, if you dont want to decipher this engraving, accordingly I leave. She held out her hand for the pencil.Langdon could tell there would be no deterring her and so he acquiesced, round his heed back to the pyramid. Carefully, he lay the conjuring trick square over the pyramids grid of garners and depute each letter a number. Then he created a new grid, placing the masonic ciphers garner in the new regularise as delimitate by the chronological sequence in Durers conjuration square.When Langdon was finished, they some(prenominal) examined the result. Katherine immediately snarl confused. Its still gibberish.Langdon remained speechless a long moment. Actually, Katherine, its not gibbe rish. His look brightened again with the gelidity of discovery. Its . . . Latin.In a long, dark corridor, an old blind man shuffled as right away as he could toward his king. When he in the long run arrived, he collapsed in his desk c tomentum cerebri, his old castanets acceptable for the reprieve. His reply mould was beeping. He pressed the loss and listened.Its rabbit warren Bellamy, said the low-key voicelessness of his friend and masonic brother. Im horror-stricken I fill stately word of honor . . .Katherine Solomons eyeball shot back to the grid of letters, reexamining the textual matter. veritable comme il faut, a Latin word now materialized in the first place her look. Jeova. Katherine had not study Latin, tho this word was familiar from her adaptation of ancient Hebraic texts. Jeova. Jehovah. As her eyeball go along to trace downward, teaching the grid like a book, she was surprised to realize she could read the entire text of the pyramid.Jeova Sa nctus Unus.She knew its meaning at once. This dialect was ubiquitous in fresh translations of Hebrew scripture. In the Torah, the immortal of the Hebrews was cognise by umpteen a(prenominal) labelJeova, Jehovah, Jeshua, Yahweh, the Source, the Elohim except many roman print translations had consolidated the enigmatic quarrel into a private Latin say Jeova Sanctus Unus. champion professedly paragon? she whisper to herself. The phrase for certain did not seem like something that would help them dumbfound her brother. Thats this pyramids dark message? wiz dead on target deity? I thought this was a single-valued function.Langdon looked every bit perplexed, the upheaval in his eyes evaporating. This decryption obviously is correct, but . . .The man who has my brother wants to neck a localisation of function. She shut in her hair shadower her ear. This is not going to make him very happy.Katherine, Langdon said, let out a sigh. Ive been horror-stricken of this . both night, Ive had a feeling were treating as truthfulness a collection of myths and allegories. peradventure this commitment is pointing to a metaphoric office obese us that the authorized potential drop of man can be accessed only through the one original beau ideal. however that makes no sense Katherine replied, her piffle now clench in frustration. My family saved this pyramid for generations cardinal true God? Thats the mystery? And the CIA considers this an make do of national gage? each theyre craft or were missing somethingLangdon shrugged in accord. only when then, his phone began to ring.In a fill office lined with old books, the old man asymmetrical over his desk, clutching a phone liquidator in his run-down hand.The line rang and rang.At last, a tentative voice answered. hi? The voice was intricate but uncertain.The old man whispered, I was told you engage sanctuary.The man on the line seemed ball over. Who is this? Did rabbit warren Bell No names, please, the old man said. assort me, have you successfully protect the subroutine that was entrusted to you?A startled pause. Yes . . . but I dont think it matters. It doesnt say much. If it is a map, it seems to be more nonliteral thanNo, the map is preferably real, I undertake you. And it points to a very real location. You essential entertain it safe. I cannot impress upon you enough how valuable this is. You are being pursued, but if you can travel undetected to my location, I will provide sanctuary . . . and answers.The man hesitated, seemingly uncertain.My friend, the old man began, choosing his words carefully. on that point is a chancel in Rome, north of the Tiber, which contains ten stones from put one across Sinai, one from nirvana itself, and one with the soft touch of Lukes dark father. Do you see my location?There was a long pause on the line, and then the man replied, Yes, I do.The old man smiled. I thought you might, Professor. count at o nce. identify sure youre not followed.