ALL ABOUT BAPHOMET

Quick Facts

• Baphomet has had a long, steady history spanning from the Middle Ages!
• Since 1856, the name has been linked to the Sabbatic Goat image that Éliphas Lévi made, as misinterpreted by Arthur Edward Waite, the creator of the ever-popular Rider-Waite deck of Tarot cards.
• Lévi meant for Baphomet to symbolize equal balance - good and evil, light and dark, right and left, etc.
• His talk of Baphomet can be found in one of his books, called "Transcendental Magic", which is cut up into halves actually, Doctrine and Ritual.
• Baphomet was first worshiped by the Knights Templar, who interpreted Them as a figure of Satan.
• Their "penis" is actually a caduceus - a staff carried by Hermes in Hellenism.
• Their Dukante enn is this: "Ave Baphomet - Oli Omnium Hominium Pacis Abbas - Solve Et Coagula"

Symbolism

• Equality - Refer to the third quick fact
• Goats - From their half goat, half human appearance
• Upside down pentagram - Sigil of Baphomet, usually associated with the Hebrew word for "Leviathan"
• As above, so below / As within, as without - Links to "solve et coagula"
• Ouroboros - Means infinity and wholeness, something very present in alchemy and Gnosticism, which is a collection of ideas from old Judaism and early Christianity
• Lady Justice - Equality and morals, fairness
• Equinoxes - Balance
• Fractals - Infinity

Dukante Information

Unfortunately, there was no information from Dukante within The Complete Book of Demonolatry Magic by J. Thorp about Baphomet.