Is there no help for the widow’s son?
“The Solomon Key” is Dan Brown’s sequel to “The Da Vinci Code” and because the author has revealed little of its content, speculation has been raging. The author has confirmed that the backdrop of the forthcoming novel is the world’s oldest secret society - the mysterious Freemasons. In addition, the publisher Doubleday, has revealed that there are clues to the subject matter of the sequel on the dust jacket of bestseller “The Da Vinci Code”. Aside from a reference to the sculpture called Kryptos, displayed on the grounds of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there is one more visible clue, the message ‘is there no help for the widow’s son?’
This strange coded phrase has been linked to Masonry and also to the founder of the Mormon faith, the Prophet Joseph Smith. When a mob broke into the Illinois jail where Smith and his brother were confined, and murdered them, witnesses related that they heard the Prophet Joseph utter as his final earthly words, the Masonic call for help, ‘is there no help for the widow’s son?’. Adding even more mystery to historical truth, the murderers of the prophet were themselves believed to be Masons, as were both Joseph Smith and his brother Hiram.
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