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.