To place a skull or skull and cross-bones within the square and compasses further demeans and twists the masonic lessons contained within this masonic emblem. Neither are suitable or appropriate to identify with Freemasonry. Flames either harken back to that motorcycle club culture 3 or those counter cultures of self-identified outsiders and rebels, which in recent years has become increasingly mainstream, or reference the inferno of Hell. To add flames to the emblem only reinforces the negative implications.
Ghost Rider gives his soul to Satan (1971). Pink Pirate Cupcake Decorating Rings (2020). To children it is a symbol of autonomy and disobeying their parents, to teenagers it is a symbol of loud and discordant music or resistance to perceived oppression, to anarchists it is a symbol of "breaking all the rules" and to anyone with a passing awareness of motorcycle club culture, it is a symbol of the supremacy of the ego and an identification with nihilistic destruction. The symbol has become so ubiquitous in contemporary popular culture that it can be found in the children's animated cartoon, My Little Pony, as a "cutie mark", and sold as children's hair barrettes and baking decorations. This identification with piracy has led to a popular identification of the emblem with outlawry and anti-social behaviour in general. There is no documentation of any ship, boat, or encampment of Knights Templar flying a skull and cross-bones flag. Other Freemasons believe that the Knights Templar flew a skull and cross-bones flag, basing this belief on an imaginative legend created in the eighteenth century to connect Freemasonry with the Crusades. There is no evidence that he was a Freemason. The first reported use of the skull displayed on a flag is by Barbary pirates, while in 1700 Emanuel Wynn, a French pirate of the late seventeenth century, is the first European reported to fly what was later called the Jolly Roger. English privateers, in the main, flew a variant of the Union Jack. Some Freemasons believe that the skull and cross-bones were borrowed from Freemasonry by early privateers who were Freemasons. "Home Taping Is Killing Music" (1981), later adopted by the filesharing website, Pirate Bay. His tomb in the Church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán in La Laguna displays the square and cross-bones. Spanish corsair, and non-mason, Amaro Rodriguez-Felipe y Tejera Machado (1678-1747), was a privateer who obtained certification of nobility and royal arms in 1727 for his rôle in attacking ships belonging to enemies of the Spanish Crown. While European and North African pirates of the seventeenth and eighteenth century flew flags depicting skeletons, winged hourglasses, sword-pierced hearts, skulls, and skull and bones, it is the skull and cross-bones image that is most closely identified with pirates. Taken out of context, this emblem has many meanings that are not compatible with Freemasonry, like piracy. 1 The skull, and other emblems of mortality, play a key rôle in a significant moment of the drama of the Master Mason initiationand in certain concordant body ritualsbut it is only in context with the lectures and ritual that this memento mori, or reminder of mortality, has masonic significance. Use our Search Engine to locate topics of interest, or email requests for specific information to our Grand Lodge Librarian.Īlthough a long-standing emblem of mortality depicted on the Master Mason tracing board, the skull and cross-bones alone is not appropriate as an emblem of Freemasonry. "There is nothing so indestructible as a symbol but nothing is capable of so many interpretations."
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