Baphomet

 

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The word Baphomet is a little confusing, because it usually refers to the circular symbol with the goat head, pentagram, and word “Leviathan.”  However, I am referring here to the Eliphas Levi rendition of the seated Goat-Headed God.

 

I remember back in the late 1980’s, I ran across an add for a shirt in the “Magickal Childe” catalog for a shirt depicting the Baphomet, with the words “This is not Satan.”  The Temple of Lylyth agrees – this is not the anti-god of Christianity.  However, when we say “Satan,” we are talking about that which is represented in Levi’s picture.

 

What was Levi striving to represent?  In his own words: the Absolute.  Many authors have elaborated in length about this symbol.  Rather than go over this again, I would point you to the monograph, “Sigil of Baphomet,” which explains the symbolism of both the seated icon and the circular sigil.  This monograph is available from Satan2000.