Some of this material has sat in continuous public print for over two and a half centuries. So why does a password still mean anything at all? The real answer isn't what most people assume.

This episode explains why Masonic recognition was never built on secrecy of the word alone — and what actually does the security work that a memorized password by itself never could.

An excerpt from The Lodge Officer's Companion — book five in the King Solomon's Passport Study & Leadership series.📖 Get the book — ebook, paperback, or hardcover — at Amazon and King Solomon's Passport.⭐ Follow for a new chapter every Thursday, and save this episode if you want to find it again.

Hiram Abiff is missing. The search that follows is about to implicate twelve men who never should have been anywhere near this. Part Two of the Hiramic Legend.

An excerpt from *What the Lodge Actually Says: The Cowan's Guide to Freemasonry*, drawn from *Duly and Truly: Master Mason* — book three in the King Solomon's Passport Trestleboard series.

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After Yorktown, Washington’s officers are unpaid, furious, and seriously discussing a military takeover of the government they just fought to create.

This is the Newburgh Conspiracy — the closest the early United States came to a coup.

Washington walks into a room of five hundred armed men and talks them out of it with a pair of borrowed reading glasses and a quiet admission that he’s going blind.

Then he resigns his commission and goes home.

Episode 4 of Brothers of the Convention.Available on ⁠Amazon⁠ and ⁠other retailers⁠.