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1 The Browning of Masonry & The Symbolism of the Lost The Scottish Rite And The Cerneau Wrong Revisited By Barry J. Lipson PROLUSION1 Dan Brown, the author of The Lost Symbol, is a Master Craftsman, a master at crafting mystery novels. He is skilled in engendering suspense and creating intrigue, necessary elements in successful “whodunits/where- is-its.” Though Dan is not a Mason, he is a good friend of the Masonic Fraternity! Of what value to him would the world’s greatest fraternity be as his key plot element if his readers perceived it as being just plain vanilla, of having no mysterious past, no deep dark secrets, no occult aspects, no cloak-and-dagger intrigues and/or no felonious facets? Why would his mystery fans be interested in a book solely about a fraternal organization that in North America alone gave 2.6 million dollars a day to charity2 and whose aspirations were to take good men and make them better3? Whose greatest secret was that it had no real secrets? Whose even “hush-hush” dramaturgical elements could be retrieved without “password” by the curious from the stacks of the New York Public Library or the electrons of the Internet?4 Would they not more readily cleave to the construct of an organization that is reputed in world literature and on the World Wide Web to have ancient roots, mysterious secrets, mystical machinations, blasphemous intrigues and a clandestine nature? Indeed, in The Lost Symbol Dan Brown even turns charitableness against the Fraternity by having his anti-superhero make “a multimillion-dollar donation to charity in the name of the Masonic Grand Lodge. This unsolicited act of selflessness,” as he “anticipated, was enough to earn him a quick invitation into the elite thirty-third degree.” 5 In reality, Masonry does aspire to make good men better and does so without resorting to concealing any real deep dark secrets. While the imparting of passwords, grips and handshakes may require membership, or the ability to Google, the real deep dark secret is that there are no real secrets. Contrariwise, world literature and the web are replete with allusions to the alleged ancient roots, mysterious secrets, clandestine nature, mystical machinations and even blasphemous contrivances of Masonry. Dan Brown in The Lost Symbol glowingly highlights the positive aspects of Masonry and just excerpting these parts would most certainly make a laudable Masonic recruitment brochure. However, much of Brown’s plot elements seem to be allegedly drawn from the apparently fictitious, reputedly darker aspects of Masonry, which is a focus of this exploration. 2 As in your author’s earlier presentation to the Pennsylvania Lodge of Research6, a first person exploration of the truth and fable of the Royal Reigns of Kings Cyrus and Darius over 25 centuries ago, encompassed by the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Degrees of Scottish Rite Masonry, here too will be explored the truth and fable of The Lost Symbol as it relates to that book’s depiction generally of Masonry and most specifically the conferral of the Scottish Rite’s Thirty-third Degree. Thus, while it will be left to others to explore the literary and spiritual merits and symbolism of The Lost Symbol, and its alleged exposé of Blue Lodge ritual, the focus here will be on the historical and “real world” bases for Brown’s explicit representations as “FACT" that the Scottish Rite organization he depicts, and its rituals as disclosed and utilized by him in this novel, actually "exist" and are "real." These explorations will also include exploring the truth and extent of his depictions and impressions of Masonry as ancient and immutable, and as being “in conformity with uniformity.” This scrutiny of The Lost Symbol will also be utilized to provide jumping-off points for the examination of the “Browning of Masonry,” by assessing and plotting the development, growth, present status and future in the United States of Scottish Rite Masonry in particular, and Masonry in general, including revisiting and re- examining the rightness and/or wrongness of the “Cerneau Wrong.” Thus, in addition to delving into the veracity of The Lost Symbol, the query is, therefore, what is the present state of the “Browning of Masonry,” and what potential affects, if any, will Brown’s “Lost Symbol”, the book and not what is sought in the plotline of the book, have on the future “Browning of Masonry”, remembering, of course, as will be explained, that there are a variety of “shades,” metaphorically, of browning? Will such browning be withering to Masonry; will such browning, indeed, enhanced the World's Oldest Fraternity; or will something in-between be occurring? And on the way will be exposed certain serious challenges to Masonry, including by a Reverend, by a Pulitzer Prize Winner and even by a U.S. President, though I presume Masonic Presidents George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, James Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Taft. Warren Harding, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, and our premiere American Statesman and a Masonic Grand Master, Benjamin Franklin, would refute such challenges. Thus, Anti-Masonic Era sixth U.S. President John Quincy Adams is reported to have stated: "Freemasonry is deceptive and fraudulent... Its promise is light -- its performance is darkness."7 Our sixth President will reappear later when we examine Brown’s serving to his readers the misplaced “non sequitur,” vis-à-vis the Scottish Rite, of Adam’s alleged York Rite exposé.8 Then too, in revisiting the Cerneau Wrong, we will look to see what, if anything, it has to do with the rightness or wrongness of Dan and his “browning” of Masonry. We will view the “regularities” and “irregularities” of the Cerneau, the Parallel and the “Mainstream” Movements, and essay whether history got the rightness and wrongness of last century’s Cerneau censures right. Lastly, we will inquire into the current 3 American Scottish Rite landscape with an eye towards discerning the “regularness,” uniformity, non- uniformity and, oh yes, the “rightness” of the Scottish Rite and of Masonry in America generally today. And, in doing so we may just take a side trip southward to climb Pike’s Peak, or at least take a peek at Pike. Chapter I, Browning “Look not thou down but UP!’’9 From “heaven’s consummate10 cup,” perfect and complete in every respect, drink in with “lips aglow … new wine’s foaming flow.” Browning’s cue to “upping” humankind, or in Masonic forespeak, making “good men better”11 --- English poet Robert Browning, that is, not The Lost Symbol author Dan Brown. But, as will be seen, Dan Brown too makes reference to a “winey cup,” but downwardly unconsecrated. The Lost Symbol’s all pervasive Masonic themes seem to be power, antiquity, immutability, and uniformity, evoking the impression of Masonry being an omnipotent, all-powerful Fraternity, guarding the “Ancient Mysteries ... Secrets that transcend your wildest imagination.”12 Reportedly, by their “Ancient Charge,” Masons are to “act in conformity to our precepts ... of being a respectable, regular and uniform Fraternity,”13 and to “maintain and support the Landmarks and ‘Ancient Usages and Customs of the Fraternity’,”14 thereby according to The Lost Symbol requiring Masons to perpetuate “Masonic teachings … meant to be universal … creating a unified ‘worldwide consciousness’ of brotherly love.”15 “According to some accounts,” Brown briefs us, “by the Sixteenth Century in Europe, ... Freemasons, it is said, became the last surviving custodians of the Ancient Mysteries.... [T]he Masons transported their secret wisdom from the Old World to the New World ...--- the ancient wisdom capable of empowering mankind to his full human potential. Apotheosis,”16 which Brown defines as the “transformation of man into God.”17 From there, Dan Brown takes us on a mostly fast-paced, complexly textured “Where-Is-It?,” searching for a mysteriously hidden, said to be Masonic, world-altering all-powerful “Lost Symbol.” It is a race between “Mal’akh,” the self-proclaimed “Messenger of God,” a mentally tormented, malevolently-skewed, fully tattooed, intellectual super-antihero, assertedly well-versed in all things Masonic except what and where is the 4 “Lost Symbol;” and Brown’s perennial intellectual superhero Robert Langdon, assisted this time by a super- intellectual sensuous mature chick, slightly his senior. What, then, is the present state of the “Browning of Masonry,” and what potential affects, if any, will Brown’s “Lost Symbol,” the book not what is sought in the plotline of the book, have on the future “Browning of Masonry”? But before proceeding here it must be noted there are a variety of “shades,” metaphorically, of browning. Downwardly, browning occurs when fine wines, regardless of the chalice from which they are drunk, age from purple to medium ruby, then to amber-edged ruby, and finally to ruby with an edge of brown, as they reach the ultimate outer edges of full flavors and enter into a spiral of decline. Browning also occurs when there is bruising, or when vegetation withers and dies. On the upward side, browning occurs to bring out complexities, improvements, enhancements and enrichments. The heighten appeals of gourmet cuisines, coffees, teas and cocoas are all contributed to by browning. And remember in proceeding, as Browning advocated, ‘’Look not thou down but UP!’’ Browning & The Golden Bullseye Award18 Masonically, looking upward, many recognize Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, as positively contributing to Masonic browning by raising public awareness to the richness and full flavor of the Masonic experience. Thus, for example, Brown gratuitously, with no malice of forethought, inserts in the heat of the action (emphasis not added): “The guys who build hospitals for kids?...They’re an appendant body of the Masons ..
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