King Solomon's Passport

Congress approved the Declaration on July 4, but only two men signed it that day. The iconic parchment came weeks later, with signatures spread across months.

This episode is an excerpt from the book "Independence Masons: The Freemasons Who Signed the Declaration of Independence."

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Three ruffians flee to a port city, hoping to book passage on a ship. The captain refuses them — not for lack of money, but for lack of one specific document. That single refusal names every book in this series.

This episode tells the full manhunt: a search in four directions, three craftsmen wavering under real fear, a discovery beneath an acacia shrub, and Solomon's own sentence, quoting real scripture rather than inventing authority.

An excerpt from Study Companion: Master Mason — book three 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.

Brotherly love, relief, and truth. Three words a Fellow Craft is charged to live by. This episode gives the full Fellow Craft Charge — the obligations laid on a man at the close of his second degree, and the literature and fine arts he's now charged to pursue.

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

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Over three hot days in July 1776, Congress slashes a quarter of Jefferson’s original draft — most notably removing the slavery paragraph. Franklin’s hatter story offers the only moment of levity.

This episode is an excerpt from the book "Independence Masons: The Freemasons Who Signed the Declaration of Independence."

Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9CFP8NL

New episodes drop regularly.

One sentence from the Book of Kings. No number of steps, no symbolism, no orders of architecture. Everything else you know about the Winding Staircase, Freemasonry built itself over three centuries.This episode climbs all three stages — three steps, five, then seven — through the Five Orders of Architecture, the Seven Liberal Arts, and a genuine architectural echo in a Roman engineer writing 2,000 years before any lodge existed.An excerpt from Study Companion: Fellow Craft — book two 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.

Before the winding staircase even begins, the lecture stops at two pillars — and one promise carved into their names. This episode opens the real Fellow Craft monitor lecture: Jachin and Boaz, the winding staircase, the five orders of architecture, and the seven liberal arts.

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

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With Delaware deadlocked, Caesar Rodney makes a grueling overnight ride through a storm to deliver the decisive vote for American independence on July 2, 1776. This episode is an excerpt from the book "Independence Masons: The Freemasons Who Signed the Declaration of Independence."

Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9CFP8NL

New episodes drop regularly.

A blindfold and a rope around the neck — the single image most outsiders already associate with Masonic initiation. Here's what a French folklorist studying rituals worldwide discovered about exactly why it works.

This episode uses Arnold van Gennep's rites-of-passage framework and Victor Turner's concept of liminality to explain what actually happens to a candidate in the dark — and why cultures with zero contact independently built the same structure.

An excerpt from Study Companion: Entered Apprentice — book one in the King Solomon's Passport Study & Leadership series.

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What actually makes a room a Masonic lodge? It isn't the building.

This episode opens the real Entered Apprentice monitor lecture: what a lodge legally and symbolically is, the three pillars of Wisdom, Strength, and Beauty, and how Jacob's Ladder's three rungs got their names from a different book of the Bible entirely.

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

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Congress gets Jefferson’s draft but holds it while the final colonies catch up before the big July 1 vote. This episode reveals the deliberate, slow-roll pacing and brutal editing process behind America’s founding document.

This episode is an excerpt from the book "Independence Masons: The Freemasons Who Signed the Declaration of Independence."

Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9CFP8NL

New episodes drop regularly.