The secrets of Freemasonry - everyone is always talking about them. Novelists weave tales about them. Mystics and occultists dream them up. Conspiracy theorists endlessly stir paranoid fantasies. The Freemasons think of them as them as degrees, signs and passwords. They are all mistaken. The true Masonic secrets are hidden in plain view, as allegories, but to reveal them we need a trip back in time and a need to ask.