Grim Reaper

Dąbrowski has an image that can supposedly be found in the National Museum of Scotland. On that chart you see a Grim Reaper. I don’t know in what rite or degree the pilgrim is significant. Perhaps in some third degrees. Is this image perhaps also an explanation for the down-pointing arrow?

Christina Voss in The ‘Universal Language’ of Freemasonry (2003) describes a man with a scythe as “time”, which is an interesting interpretation.

I found another Grim Reaper. There is a Dublin edition of Three Distinct Knocks from 1760. It does have an interesting drawing all the way at the end though.


Yet another one (or actually two) can be found on this first degree adoption tracing board.

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