# Quote — Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

> Sorry, but the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means "hidden" or "obscured." In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or "occult," and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything "occult" as evil, and the prejudice survived.

- Author: [Dan Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown.md)
- Book: [The Lost Symbol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown/the-lost-symbol.md)
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## More from this book

> Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh....And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown/the-lost-symbol/dont-tell-anyone.md)

> Wealth is commonplace, but wisdom is rare.

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> America’s intended destiny has been lost to history.
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> The forefathers who founded this capital city first named her “Rome.” They had named her river the Tiber and erected a classical capital of pantheons and temples, all adorned with images of history’s great gods and goddesses — Apollo, Minerva, Venus, Helios, Vulcan, Jupiter. In her center, as in many of the great classical cities, the founders had erected an enduring tribute to the ancients — the Egyptian obelisk. This obelisk, larger even than Cairo’s or Alexandria’s, rose 555 feet into the sky, more than thirty stories, proclaiming thanks and honor to the demigod forefather for whom this capital city took its newer name.
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> Washington.

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