Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jean-Louis de Biasi, author of Secrets and Practices of the Freemasons and the forthcoming The Divine Arcana of Aurum Solis. Many months ago, Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol revealed a strange story to its readers regarding the quest for a hidden pyramid in Washington, DC. The hero of the novel progressively attempts to solve this mystery, as he looks for a symbolic representation of the inner soul: a cornerstone used as a map. You may believe this is fiction, but if you study the Hermetic symbols in Washington, DC more carefully, you will be very surprised. There is no doubt that the city planners and architects who worked for the