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Baphomet according to eliphas levi is “the lord of the astral light” which is to say, the lord whose Will is the origin of the circulation of the planets, the unity of the Will of god with man, the origin of the ontological will of nature, at once the created and the creator, thus according to levi what Baphomet REALLY was, was Christ, was Jesus. The goat head representing the human flesh of Christ, the torch representing the divinity of Christ and also truth, the male and female parts and various animal portions representing him as the unity of all opposites, the reconciliation of nature in all of its multiplicity with the one. He also saw it as an idol, and above all else he also saw it as the mirror of the individual and his soul via a nondual argument that the Christ and the adept are reflections and in eternity are one thing. Thus the Baphomet is at once Christ, lord of all, but also a created idol, the ego and the lord of sorcery, thus he is also symbolically identified with the devil tarot card, the devil tarot card being the card which has rulership over the inverted pentagram, being the male and female bound into unity by the hermaphrodite (with phallus predominate) into unity, the devil which sits upon the cube/sphere, which is thus the capstone of the ashlar which is at once man and nature capped with the divinity of God, thus the devil card at once represents bondage into matter and then supremacy of the illusion world over god’s truth, but esoterically it is the union of God with man, the revelation of God in nature and the attaining of supreme spiritual knowledge. This is why the Baphomet is depicted with an upright pentagram placed upon his forehead, the forehead being symbolic of daat/knowledge as the redeemed tiphererh, which is to say, reason/ego exalted via samadhi to the pre-fallen state where it knows God in gnosis, in perfect marriage. Thus this is the pentagram (at once the formula of man and the Lucifer formula.) which is man, attained to perfect knowledge of God.

Thus the Baphomet is the core vamachara idol of the west concerning the wrathful worship of Christ, all further usages of Baphomet originate in this. An interesting connection to this is that the mandaeans consider Jesus an evil sorcerer, and yet worship the Christ as an angel known as mahazael, Agrippa in his studies with the mandaeans used their lore to tell us that mahazael is one of the four demon kings, in the work of Andrew chumbley these two streams are conjoint and Baphomet, mahazael and Jesus are unified into one image, mahazael as the slain Christ upon the cross, being the sun in winter, who holds the image of the normal Christ but also the power of cththonic initiation, this form is identical to the voodoo baron samedi, himself being lord Saturday” Christ while he was dead upon Saturday before the resurrection.

I will end this with a poem I wrote concerning Baphomet.

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