Masonic

This is something more likely to be found in a Tibetan temple rather than a Masonic temple.

There is some artistic license taken: During his Masonic ceremony, the villain drinks out of a cup fashioned from a human skull.

The ancient constitutions repeatedly assert it, and it has received the subsequent sanction of innumerable Masonic authorities.

As it was, it took the strongest influence—Masonic, press and other—to save him from banishment.