The United States is the most powerful country on Earth. Since its founding, a secret society, Freemasonry, has seduced its most illustrious politicians, thinkers and economists. Washington, Monroe, Roosevelt or Reagan... It is estimated that at least 18 of the 44 presidents have been Freemasons; but so were many vice presidents, members of the Supreme Court and Secretaries of State.
The founding of the federal capital was marked by Masonic rites; the architects of several of the most important buildings were also Masons. Writers, musicians, philosophers, founders of sects such as Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses or Seventh-Day Adventism, were also Masonic brothers. And today it is thought that more than three million Americans belong to a lodge.

This work briefly analyses the historical background of the book The Lost Symbol, by the controversial Dan Brown. It covers the influences of Freemasonry in the arts, literature and cinema, and describes lodges of a Catholic nature, such as the Knights of Columbus. The topic of sects founded or inspired by Freemasonry will bring us closer to the influence of this organization on a religious and spiritual level, as well as its relationship with the New Age, Occultism and some of the neopagan movements. With an extensive bibliography, this book shows the influence of Freemasonry on the world's largest power. Was the American Constitution, the oldest in the world, inspired by Masonry? What is the influence of Freemasonry today?