The skeleton of Death guides an initiate to a ceremony at a Masonic Lodge, 18th century. The initiate is blindfolded and enters a room with many men sitting around a table with candles. The Masonic lodge. Signature in mirror writing. Die Loge der Verschwiegenheit. Copperplate engraving by drawn and engraved by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg from Johan Karl Musaus’s Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier, (Apparitions of Death in the manner of Holbein), Heinrich Steiner, Winterthur, 1785.

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