The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

by Dan Brown

Einstein had famously declared: Coincidence is God’s way of staying anonymous.

Morgan Robertson—an American author who published the 1898 novel Futility,

Timor mortis est pater religionis, Langdon mused, recalling the ancient saying made famous by Upton Sinclair. Fear of death is the father of religion.

Each religion had its own eschatology, its own architecture of the life beyond this one, and its own meticulously cataloged hierarchy of attending spirits.

“The Vel spear is a Hindu symbol of power. The point of the spear represents enlightenment, a sharply tuned mind, the superior insight used to cut through the darkness of ignorance and conquer your enemies.