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You are here: Home / Masonic Traveler / Devil Gets His Due

Devil Gets His Due

October 5, 2013 by Masonic Traveler

Remember back at the beginning of 2013 when Mercedes-Benz ran an ad featuring Willem Dafoe as the devil seductively attempting to buy the soul of a young man for the price of a car?  In the ad, you may recall, the devilish antagonist (Dafoe) attempts to seduce a young man to trade his soul for a life of glitz, celebrity and excess that comes from owning a spiffy new Benz.

If you haven’t seen the new commercial yet, have a look for yourself of what change looks like.

(The video has since been taken offline)

Just in case you missed it in the spot, you can clearly see the devil’s new ring at the bottom of this post.

The devil, however, was no red pajama wearing horned jape with a pitchfork and pointy tail.  Rather, Mercedes portrayed him as a suave, well coiffed debonair gentleman (albeit with pointy fingernails) who also happens to be wearing an easily recognizable Masonic ring.

Right as the commercial starts, the Square and Compass was almost immediately noticeable (albeit in a quick flash on the screen).  Seeing it used this way took more than a few by surprise.  The original video published on YouTube has been taken down but you can still find it with a quick search.

Recently, the ad, featuring Kate Upton, Usher and of course Willem Dafoe, from February’s big football game, made its way back on the air waves this time, noticeably, without the use of the Freemason symbolism.  It appears that Mercedes-Benz has removed the square and compass from the original commercial.

How, or why the square and compass came off is a bit of a mystery.  After a brief search, I couldn’t turn up any press release or announcement saying it was being revised.  Maybe this kind of change isn’t the sort of thing you state publicly?

Perhaps the change came from a deluge of comments and messages to Mercedes-Benz on Facebook the day the ad appeared.

Or, perhaps it was the post that went up about it on Mark Koltko-Rivera’s blog Freemasonry: Reality, Myth, and Legend, reposted here alerting those watching the day the commercial aired.

Maybe it was the petition that was started on Change.org (Mercedes-benz: Remove the Masonic Ring shot in your Super Bowl commercial titled, “Soul”. ) asking the iconic world wide brand Mercedes-Benz to, respectfully, remove the sacred symbol and stop a vicious cycle of linking Freemasonry with Satanism.  With more than 2,800 signatures on the petition to date, whose to say if the auto manufacturer and  felt the pressure to remove the tell tale symbol of Freemasonry.

But, change it they have.

Now the commercial, in both its long and short form, no longer bears the distinctive emblem of the fraternity prompting us to say:

Thanks Mercedes-Benz for breaking the cycle of linking Freemasonry and Satanism.

Now who can say that the Freemasons still dosen’t  hold some sway…

Old Ad, New Ring, at 00:12

And, from later on in the extended cut commercial at 01:19

And, the before and afters:

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A devoted student of the Western Mystery Traditions, Greg is a firm believer in the Masonic connections to the Hermetic traditions of antiquity, its evolution through the ages and into its present configuration as the antecedent to all contemporary esoteric and occult traditions. He is a self-called searcher for that which was lost, a Hermetic Hermit and a believer in “that which is above is so too below.” Read more about Greg Stewart.

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  1. Kenneth L. Miles says

    October 6, 2013 at 11:57 am

    Wow I am right now watching the game and that Mercedes-Benz commercial just cam on wow you know what the ring looks better than the car they should not have had him take it off nice commercial though. Moving Forward

  2. Ernest Kotoka says

    October 8, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    Are friends and family used as blood sacrifice? And, does joining the freemasonry mean selling ones soul to satan? ( PLEASE BE SINCERE )

  3. Aphrodite – United States – A woman learning about love in all its many forms...and how to express it through body, mind, and soul.
    Aphrodite says

    October 21, 2013 at 1:49 pm

    Wow! Fascinating. No…they wouldn’t want to make their public bumble…well, public! 🙂

  4. Jedidiah S says

    July 21, 2016 at 11:58 pm

    That is not a Master Mason (3rd degree and above) symbol. The square is clearly over the compass if anything that is the symbol an Entered Apprentice (1st degree) you people need to get your facts straight. One who is ignorant and untelligent is misguided and is foolish in trying convey supposed knowledge to others. That only results in the blind leading the blind. Seek the truth and you will see the light. By the way I’m proud to be a servant to the Lord and an Entered Apprentice Mason. ” Seek the truth and the truth shall set you free”- a quote from Jesus Christ.

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