Posted by:
cludgie
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Date: January 20, 2012 07:21PM
The last time I went to the endowment, Scratch was wearing a black velvet apron. Since Satan was only supposed to think he had powers, the color or kind of apron didn't matter. Some old biddy apparently stitched one up and they'd use it. I remember ones that were black or red with gold piping and stuff.
The strangest case was in the Salt Lake temple where Satan would wear a Freemasonry apron. I never could understand why that was supposed to make him seem satanic. You'd look around and see all the same symbols of Freemasonry on and in the temple that you'd see on the Masonic apron that Satan wore.
(You can see a Mason's apron here:
http://www.pagrandlodge.org/mlam/apron/ )
(And if for a seemingly trivial but actually useless fact, I play American old-time music, and play a tune called "Mason's Apron.)
The weirdest apron story was in the very old temple endowment movie. Eve would eat the apple and say, "What is that apron you are wearing?" You'd look and he wasn't actually wearing an apron, so you thought, "What the hell...?" (That was also the one where Satan would pluck plastic tomatoes from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and you could see the seams and everything. Very dorky.)