![]() ![]() The mastery of the spiritual and physical world represents complete religious enlightenment. It embodies everything in the universe, not unlike God himself. It has breasts to symbolize femininity and the caduceus of Hermes to symbolize masculinity.īaphomet represents the perfect and ideal human. It's often portrayed as controlling the sun and moon, night and day, good and bad, up and down, and male and female. Owing to Lévi's drawing and these associations, the figure, in a similar manner to Beelzebub and Moloch, has (mistakenly) become virtually synonymous with Satan in popular consciousness.īaphomet represents all opposites and equalities in the universe, similarly to the Yin and Yang. The Freemasons were thereafter accused of worshipping it, after which it was incorporated into the theology of Thelema, and in turn into the iconography of LaVeyan Satanism. ![]() In the 19th century, French occultist Eliphas Lévi formulated the modern conception of the figure via an illustration portraying it with wings, a horned goat's head and an emblazoned pentagram and breasts. Medieval European folklore did not recognize that Islam was a monotheistic faith, and imagined instead that Muslims prayed and sacrificed to a number of terrifying and evil imaginary deities. Claims that the Templars were worshipping "Baphomet" meant, in fact, that they were secret Muslims. The name "Baphomet" originally was a deformation of the name of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. ![]() In those accounts, Baphomet was described as an inscribed head or human skull. Baphomet is a deity, demon and/or symbolic icon which originated in the 14th century as a supposed figure of worship of the Knights Templar. ![]()
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